in today’s video we’re putting a popular
Internet myth to the test to see if you
can make a crystal out of a hot charcoal
and peanut butter
alright Kelly have you seen this video
going around it has like a hundred
ninety five million views so far and it
shows how you can turn a charcoal
briquette and some peanut butter into a
clear crystal there’s no way I don’t
know but we’ve had like dozens if not
hundreds of people we are gonna try this
out here’s the basic idea following the
video and the instructions as closely as
possible we’re going to see if we can
replicate the results of turning a piece
of charcoal into a crystal my goal is to
replicate is exactly as possible how
they show this being done in the other
video they also have some written
instructions which don’t really show
anything more than what the video does
but talk us through what equipment we’ve
got and what we’re gonna be doing it’s
really just a charcoal briquette some
peanut butter and some ice now we’ve
done everything we could to replicate as
closely as possible to what we saw in
the video so in the video I think we
were able to make out a K on the
briquettes so we’ve got a Kingsford
Charcoal briquette you couldn’t see what
brand of peanut butter they were using
but it was smooth peanut butter and a
fairly large jar so we’ve got that they
used a metal bowl we’ve got a metal bowl
they used small metal tongs we’ve got
small metal tongs I think we’ve got
everything about as close as we can get
so it’s time to get started
first step let’s get some charcoal
burning we’re gonna make a little pile
of charcoal we’re gonna get some burning
and then we’re gonna try and find a
briquette that looks like it’s just
exactly the same amount of burnt as the
[Music]
now we’re going to take a burning
charcoal inside the house which don’t
take burning charcoal inside the house
guys carbon monoxide is real thing the
entire house already smells like burning
charcoal you guys this is a terrible
idea if you don’t have good ventilation
well don’t do this anyways but
especially don’t do this in like a
closed room that’s not how you do it
not all the way but yeah mostly more
little more oh it’s good
charcoal into the peanut butter swirling
it around okay that looks pretty well
coated
get into ice okay more ice on top more
ice on top more MORE
a little bit more okay that’s good now
we put it in the freezer
okay now real quick we have to leave it
in here for 24 hours real quick okay
wait for it we’re gonna livestream next
24 hours
all right we’ve let the peanut butter
covered charcoal sit overnight now we
need to rinse this off in a bowl of warm
charcoal briquette but in the video
there’s like a layer of it you kind of
[Music]
guys there’s a crystal in there okay
we’ve got a couple more let’s try these
okay what it’s like a metallic crystal
has anybody else ever gotten as a result
before check that one what’s that yeah
what’s this what’s this whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa hang on guys oh my gosh I
think it’s a Pokemon it’s a Bulbasaur
I made a Bulbasaur look at the metal the
Bulbasaur and the crystal are all
equally real none of these worked in
fact that’s not even crystal that’s
isomalt it’s a sugar substitute this is
completely edible do you guys want to
know why this doesn’t work there’s about
a thousand reasons honestly well let’s
break it down for you so we did have
actual charcoal briquettes and put in
the freezer but what we showed pulling
out of the bowl and then putting in warm
water and you saw the reveal we rubbed
away some charcoal and like all there’s
crystal behind it we just took one of
these pieces of isomalt that was kind of
shaped like crystal we took some
charcoal powder we mixed it with some
water some corn syrup and some peanut
butter to give it a good consistency and
then we just stuck it to the outside of
our Bulbasaur R this is a small piece of
gallium and our isomalt crystal and we
just formed it into a sort of briquette
shaped froze it we had liquid nitrogen
so we used that but you could have just
as easily set it in the freezer for a
couple hours we just froze it then we
just spread peanut butter on it and we
put it in a bowl ice none of these were
even close to real let’s take a look at
the real ones and see how those are
different we’re doing a real test as
well we want to see what happens if we
don’t fake this and try and get some
real results so we’re gonna take three
more charcoal briquettes from a little
barbeque bonfire in the backyard we’re
gonna get those in peanut butter and try
and coat them but as you saw the peanut
butter doesn’t actually coat that well
so I think even in that part was faked
and then we’re also going to see if we
can microwave one calorie why are we
trying the microwave so I looked at
several videos online yes there is a
really really popular one but it doesn’t
actually show you how you’re heating up
that charcoal briquette
I saw multiple other videos that say
that you’re microwaving that briquette
so that’s what I’m trying do you think
90 minutes is enough okay sorry about
your house grant all right so what’s the
difference between this one and the last
one this one’s real we’re not going to
take it out and put a crystal inside of
[Music]
also the microwave smoking this cannot
be healthy oh so the video I watched
this guy put his briquette in the
microwave took it out dumped it in the
peanut butter and then said must leave
for a hundred minutes I’m gonna take
this out and dunk it in there and I’m
gonna pull it out and like now we’re a
[Music]
microwave briquette
the briquette that we left in longer
that had most of the briquette was like
turning gray and it was on fire a little
bit like that’s been dunked in a lot of
peanut butter knits under the ice it’s
burning crate to the peanut there’s
still like smoke coming up out through
everything and I can hear it it’s like
boiling some of the ice away – I think
so I don’t know if that smoke from the
peanut butter or steam from the heat and
ice but our microwave looks like it
might be about to light on fire so I
think it’s time to take that charcoal
out the fire alarm it’s gonna be there
laughs okay so we have let the charcoal
from the microwave sit in the peanut
butter for 100 minutes
aha I’ll turn you to it how about is
that isn’t really I can get it I know I
can uh-huh yup seems right
[Music]
you know what I’m gonna call that good
enough all right that’s it for 24 hours
it’s now been 24 hours it’s time for the
reveal all right moment of truth this is
the real one an actual charcoal that was
hot when we put in peanut butter and
then we froze overnight
now we’re gonna see what’s really on the
inside there’s actually a crystal in
here I’m guys guys look at this it’s
still a briquette a slightly burnt piece
of charcoal can I break it
ant nope Nick get the hammer guys the
truth whole lot of charcoal inside that
charcoal nothing else are three
briquettes at different temperatures so
these were all on fire we let that fire
burn out one was a low heat one was a
medium one was high and then this is our
microwaved and then left in the peanut
butter for a hundred minutes just to see
oh look it’s a charcoal briquette uh you
better break it just to be safe there’s
the inside it’s charcoal here try your
medium one just in case oh look another
yeah more charcoal what about the one
that was like superheated most of it was
burning so first off you can see the
scorch marks from when we dropped it in
the peanut butter I got no crystal
inside all right my microwave one but I
followed all of the instructions
correctly what’s this oh hey hey is it
charcoal it’s charcoal no way oh look a
charcoal briquette guys you can’t make
crystals out of charcoal and peanut
butter crystals are formed from volcanic
activity different kinds of rocks are
slowly cooling down
often under massive amounts of pressure
and I say slow I mean like it usually
takes thousands of years for good
crystals to form you can get those kits
in the store that you can make chemical
crystals over a couple of weeks but
again that’s a couple of weeks with
chemicals that’s different
there are ways you can do it even faster
than that sometimes I think grant has
done some where he boiled off all the
water in a pot and you’re left with a
bunch of crystals growing in there that
looks pretty cool yeah but like this
doesn’t even have an evaporation of
water to leave behind a residue that’s
gonna form into a crystal and that’s
something else we’re talking about coal
and charcoal not the same thing
cally what is cold so cold is actually
the mineral anthracite and what that
basically is is it’s a mineral composed
of carbon it takes millions of years to
make a lot of pressure and it’s
basically the breakdown of plant remains
whereas what we’ve been using the
charcoal briquets charcoal is sometimes
called coal because it kind of resembles
it and is used in similar ways when you
burn it but charcoal is just wood or
other similar plant material that’s been
burned in the absence of oxygen it’s
something that you can make pretty
easily yourself and happens pretty much
every time you have a campfire you make
a fire and then there’s like the black
stuff at the bottom that is still just
in lump shape that’s just charcoal and
the briquettes are charcoal that’s been
made and then broken up into light dust
and then compress down into just the
right shape with maybe a little bit of
other chemicals in to make it burn a
little bit better at least with this
kind of we’re using not the same thing
as coal and doesn’t turn into crystals
under this situation or possibly any
situation so pretty much everything
about this is just 100% nonsense and I
think honestly the people making the
video knew that there was 100% on tests
I don’t think they are actually trying
to convince anyone well they were trying
to convince people was real I don’t
think they thought it was real when they
faked it because they definitely faked
it they made it crystal we made a
Bulbasaur we win can you make Pokemon
guys that’s not all we’ve always got
more for you to see if you hit this box
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Internet myth to the test to see if you
can make a crystal out of a hot charcoal
and peanut butter
alright Kelly have you seen this video
going around it has like a hundred
ninety five million views so far and it
shows how you can turn a charcoal
briquette and some peanut butter into a
clear crystal there’s no way I don’t
know but we’ve had like dozens if not
hundreds of people we are gonna try this
out here’s the basic idea following the
video and the instructions as closely as
possible we’re going to see if we can
replicate the results of turning a piece
of charcoal into a crystal my goal is to
replicate is exactly as possible how
they show this being done in the other
video they also have some written
instructions which don’t really show
anything more than what the video does
but talk us through what equipment we’ve
got and what we’re gonna be doing it’s
really just a charcoal briquette some
peanut butter and some ice now we’ve
done everything we could to replicate as
closely as possible to what we saw in
the video so in the video I think we
were able to make out a K on the
briquettes so we’ve got a Kingsford
Charcoal briquette you couldn’t see what
brand of peanut butter they were using
but it was smooth peanut butter and a
fairly large jar so we’ve got that they
used a metal bowl we’ve got a metal bowl
they used small metal tongs we’ve got
small metal tongs I think we’ve got
everything about as close as we can get
so it’s time to get started
first step let’s get some charcoal
burning we’re gonna make a little pile
of charcoal we’re gonna get some burning
and then we’re gonna try and find a
briquette that looks like it’s just
exactly the same amount of burnt as the
[Music]
now we’re going to take a burning
charcoal inside the house which don’t
take burning charcoal inside the house
guys carbon monoxide is real thing the
entire house already smells like burning
charcoal you guys this is a terrible
idea if you don’t have good ventilation
well don’t do this anyways but
especially don’t do this in like a
closed room that’s not how you do it
not all the way but yeah mostly more
little more oh it’s good
charcoal into the peanut butter swirling
it around okay that looks pretty well
coated
get into ice okay more ice on top more
ice on top more MORE
a little bit more okay that’s good now
we put it in the freezer
okay now real quick we have to leave it
in here for 24 hours real quick okay
wait for it we’re gonna livestream next
24 hours
all right we’ve let the peanut butter
covered charcoal sit overnight now we
need to rinse this off in a bowl of warm
charcoal briquette but in the video
there’s like a layer of it you kind of
[Music]
guys there’s a crystal in there okay
we’ve got a couple more let’s try these
okay what it’s like a metallic crystal
has anybody else ever gotten as a result
before check that one what’s that yeah
what’s this what’s this whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa hang on guys oh my gosh I
think it’s a Pokemon it’s a Bulbasaur
I made a Bulbasaur look at the metal the
Bulbasaur and the crystal are all
equally real none of these worked in
fact that’s not even crystal that’s
isomalt it’s a sugar substitute this is
completely edible do you guys want to
know why this doesn’t work there’s about
a thousand reasons honestly well let’s
break it down for you so we did have
actual charcoal briquettes and put in
the freezer but what we showed pulling
out of the bowl and then putting in warm
water and you saw the reveal we rubbed
away some charcoal and like all there’s
crystal behind it we just took one of
these pieces of isomalt that was kind of
shaped like crystal we took some
charcoal powder we mixed it with some
water some corn syrup and some peanut
butter to give it a good consistency and
then we just stuck it to the outside of
our Bulbasaur R this is a small piece of
gallium and our isomalt crystal and we
just formed it into a sort of briquette
shaped froze it we had liquid nitrogen
so we used that but you could have just
as easily set it in the freezer for a
couple hours we just froze it then we
just spread peanut butter on it and we
put it in a bowl ice none of these were
even close to real let’s take a look at
the real ones and see how those are
different we’re doing a real test as
well we want to see what happens if we
don’t fake this and try and get some
real results so we’re gonna take three
more charcoal briquettes from a little
barbeque bonfire in the backyard we’re
gonna get those in peanut butter and try
and coat them but as you saw the peanut
butter doesn’t actually coat that well
so I think even in that part was faked
and then we’re also going to see if we
can microwave one calorie why are we
trying the microwave so I looked at
several videos online yes there is a
really really popular one but it doesn’t
actually show you how you’re heating up
that charcoal briquette
I saw multiple other videos that say
that you’re microwaving that briquette
so that’s what I’m trying do you think
90 minutes is enough okay sorry about
your house grant all right so what’s the
difference between this one and the last
one this one’s real we’re not going to
take it out and put a crystal inside of
[Music]
also the microwave smoking this cannot
be healthy oh so the video I watched
this guy put his briquette in the
microwave took it out dumped it in the
peanut butter and then said must leave
for a hundred minutes I’m gonna take
this out and dunk it in there and I’m
gonna pull it out and like now we’re a
[Music]
microwave briquette
the briquette that we left in longer
that had most of the briquette was like
turning gray and it was on fire a little
bit like that’s been dunked in a lot of
peanut butter knits under the ice it’s
burning crate to the peanut there’s
still like smoke coming up out through
everything and I can hear it it’s like
boiling some of the ice away – I think
so I don’t know if that smoke from the
peanut butter or steam from the heat and
ice but our microwave looks like it
might be about to light on fire so I
think it’s time to take that charcoal
out the fire alarm it’s gonna be there
laughs okay so we have let the charcoal
from the microwave sit in the peanut
butter for 100 minutes
aha I’ll turn you to it how about is
that isn’t really I can get it I know I
can uh-huh yup seems right
[Music]
you know what I’m gonna call that good
enough all right that’s it for 24 hours
it’s now been 24 hours it’s time for the
reveal all right moment of truth this is
the real one an actual charcoal that was
hot when we put in peanut butter and
then we froze overnight
now we’re gonna see what’s really on the
inside there’s actually a crystal in
here I’m guys guys look at this it’s
still a briquette a slightly burnt piece
of charcoal can I break it
ant nope Nick get the hammer guys the
truth whole lot of charcoal inside that
charcoal nothing else are three
briquettes at different temperatures so
these were all on fire we let that fire
burn out one was a low heat one was a
medium one was high and then this is our
microwaved and then left in the peanut
butter for a hundred minutes just to see
oh look it’s a charcoal briquette uh you
better break it just to be safe there’s
the inside it’s charcoal here try your
medium one just in case oh look another
yeah more charcoal what about the one
that was like superheated most of it was
burning so first off you can see the
scorch marks from when we dropped it in
the peanut butter I got no crystal
inside all right my microwave one but I
followed all of the instructions
correctly what’s this oh hey hey is it
charcoal it’s charcoal no way oh look a
charcoal briquette guys you can’t make
crystals out of charcoal and peanut
butter crystals are formed from volcanic
activity different kinds of rocks are
slowly cooling down
often under massive amounts of pressure
and I say slow I mean like it usually
takes thousands of years for good
crystals to form you can get those kits
in the store that you can make chemical
crystals over a couple of weeks but
again that’s a couple of weeks with
chemicals that’s different
there are ways you can do it even faster
than that sometimes I think grant has
done some where he boiled off all the
water in a pot and you’re left with a
bunch of crystals growing in there that
looks pretty cool yeah but like this
doesn’t even have an evaporation of
water to leave behind a residue that’s
gonna form into a crystal and that’s
something else we’re talking about coal
and charcoal not the same thing
cally what is cold so cold is actually
the mineral anthracite and what that
basically is is it’s a mineral composed
of carbon it takes millions of years to
make a lot of pressure and it’s
basically the breakdown of plant remains
whereas what we’ve been using the
charcoal briquets charcoal is sometimes
called coal because it kind of resembles
it and is used in similar ways when you
burn it but charcoal is just wood or
other similar plant material that’s been
burned in the absence of oxygen it’s
something that you can make pretty
easily yourself and happens pretty much
every time you have a campfire you make
a fire and then there’s like the black
stuff at the bottom that is still just
in lump shape that’s just charcoal and
the briquettes are charcoal that’s been
made and then broken up into light dust
and then compress down into just the
right shape with maybe a little bit of
other chemicals in to make it burn a
little bit better at least with this
kind of we’re using not the same thing
as coal and doesn’t turn into crystals
under this situation or possibly any
situation so pretty much everything
about this is just 100% nonsense and I
think honestly the people making the
video knew that there was 100% on tests
I don’t think they are actually trying
to convince anyone well they were trying
to convince people was real I don’t
think they thought it was real when they
faked it because they definitely faked
it they made it crystal we made a
Bulbasaur we win can you make Pokemon
guys that’s not all we’ve always got
more for you to see if you hit this box
up at the top it will take you to our
latest video the box at the bottom will
take you to what YouTube thinks you
should be watching next go ahead and hit
this bottom in the middle it’ll
subscribe you to the channel so you
never miss out on the fun don’t forget
to ring that Bell and we’ll see you in the next one talk to you then
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