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Chemistry Life Hacks (Vol. 1)



This week Reactions is bringing you some chemistry life hacks! Science can help you cure bitter coffee, ripen your bananas quickly, breathe life back into stale cookies, and remove rust from cast iron.

0:16 – Cure bitter coffee
0:54 – Ripen your bananas overnight
1:30 – Bring life back into stale cookies
2:03 – Remove rust from cast iron

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Video directed and produced by Kirk Zamieroski
Co-directed by Adam Dylewski
Produced by the American Chemical Society

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42 responses to “Chemistry Life Hacks (Vol. 1)”

  1. Ginny Jolly Avatar
    Ginny Jolly

    You can ripen bananas in most any bag, and you can do it with any ripe fruit.

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  2. Ginny Jolly Avatar
    Ginny Jolly

    After you treat your cast – iron skillet with Coca – Cola (which you shouldn't because it erodes the iron and can cause more iron to be exposed to even more rust from being exposed to air), you better season your skillet with animal fat.

    Animal fat like lard or bacon grease creates a barrier to oxygen and prevents rust.

    Wipe the entire clean skillet down with a coat of animal fat and put in oven face down on the rack. Use a pan to catch any drips. Put oven on 250°F for a half hour, remove, and wipe down with a paper towel to remove excess fat.

    Don't use vegetable oil for this; it will make the skillet sticky.

    The blacker your skillet, the better it cooks, and the better seasoning is on it.

    I haven't used a cast – iron skillet in a long time. I prefer my steel – clad steel pots and pans. Great heat distribution; excellent cleanup; no seasoning necessary.

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  3. Frank Reading Avatar
    Frank Reading

    Another great trick is to not leave your skillet sitting in water for hours, and properly season (coat with a thin layer of oil, and heat til all the liquid smokes off, leaving a dry coating, repeat two or three times) before looking after that hard, glossy black coating by a) using enough oil when cooking, b) cleaning the skillet by adding a splash of water while still hot, blasting the remaining food off with steam, and c) smearing the pan with oil on a paper towel before putting away.

    As long as I don't fuck up any of those basic procedures, my pan has remained flawless, black and shiny. If the seasoning wears away in places, just heat the clean, oiled pan up again to cook on another layer of seasoning (polymerised triglycerides).

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  4. Hacker Wrench Avatar
    Hacker Wrench

    Thanks

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  5. Pamela H Avatar
    Pamela H

    Yeesh. Looking at the Coke compounds, it occurs to me many of us drink soda like it's water. Can't imagine that being good for your insides.

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  6. Jerel March Avatar
    Jerel March

    My mom told me cookie one lol

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  7. Kröger och crewet Avatar
    Kröger och crewet

    Am i the only who find this music very similar to the Pokémon games on nintendo?

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  8. Mr. Muscles Avatar
    Mr. Muscles

    Who else is here for a science project

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  9. ephoenix7 Avatar
    ephoenix7

    Where is the music from?

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  10. Castille Augustin Avatar
    Castille Augustin

    And that's why I don't drink pop. It's all bad for you.
    But other than that, cool video!! Very informative! 😀

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  11. Kabeer Jay Avatar
    Kabeer Jay

    Here in India, we hate soft or chewy cookies.

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  12. Nuhella Avatar
    Nuhella

    Thumb up for science 😉

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  13. Kenny Gates Avatar
    Kenny Gates

    Fine Bros are gonna copyright this whole channel!

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  14. Dale Avatar
    Dale

    Bless yous

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  15. Cognitively Advanced Zygote Avatar
    Cognitively Advanced Zygote

    Although, unripe bananas contain a high amount of tryptophan, so if you're depressed, try eating them on a regular basis.

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  16. anonymus anonymus Avatar
    anonymus anonymus

    amazing

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  17. AnCap Roboticist Avatar
    AnCap Roboticist

    I like my bitter coffee the way it is…but thanks.

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  18. Katarina Pavlić Avatar
    Katarina Pavlić

    I want to know which elements combine everything around me, the nature, everyday objects…Where can I ever get that information?

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  19. FeelingShred Avatar
    FeelingShred

    Where I live is too damn cold, coffee always gets cold before I finish drink it, but if I heat it too much it will taste like dogshit, any solution coffee addicts?

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  20. Mohamed elsherbieny Avatar
    Mohamed elsherbieny

    Yeah Science, Bitch

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  21. Horkfull Avatar
    Horkfull

    The saddest story is that bananas contain a little bit Pottasium-44 which is a little bit radioavtive :(.

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  22. violin Avatar
    violin

    Once I tried putting salt in coffee instead of sugar to see if it would taste yummy like sugar, except the opposite, BUT IT SUCKED mostly because i put too much in by accident 🙁 lol

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  23. Misterious Avatar
    Misterious

    My teacher will be proud

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  24. Chaz Madge Avatar
    Chaz Madge

    It not trying to ripe bananas it STOPPING them going ripe toooo Fast

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  25. Patti Fraser Avatar
    Patti Fraser

    as a kid I found grapefruit to bitter so I would put salt on it — I don't remember how I ever started

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  26. Michele W Avatar
    Michele W

    Cast iron:  I use a razor blade on mine, same type I use to clean my smooth top range.  If you put coke in your cast iron, spray it with Pam cooking spray before storing to keep it from rusting.  Before using again, put water in the skillet and bring it to a boil, then dump out the water and wipe with a paper towel — this keeps really old rancid Pam from gunking up the taste of your food.

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  27. Thilina Blyz Avatar
    Thilina Blyz

    nice (Y)

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  28. Luis Avila Avatar
    Luis Avila

    I love my cookies hard I even put my chocolate chip kookies in the freezer they taste better that way to me weird but that's my way of eating cookies

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  29. Emma Abdullah Avatar
    Emma Abdullah

    Nice,

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  30. Emilio Castellanos Avatar
    Emilio Castellanos

    Adding a pinch of Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) keeps my veggies looking green, specially when steaming or boiling them.

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  31. Shralla Avatar
    Shralla

    The salt thing has saved many a Denny's coffee in the wee hours of the morning.

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  32. Artifex 28 Avatar
    Artifex 28

    In Finland the issue with most of the cookies is that instead of staying hard, they mush and turn soft. I like my cookies crispy and cracking. So how to achieve the exact opposite reaction? 🙂

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  33. ItsThat01Guy Avatar
    ItsThat01Guy

    And here I had just been looking up ways to get rust off of a cast iron skillet

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  34. KelsaRavenlock Avatar
    KelsaRavenlock

    Using coke to clean rust and fruit in a bag seem a bit basic and common knowledge to call a life hack kinda like 7 up to clean a driveway or a chocolate to polish metal it's something everyone does already though I'll be sure to remember the salt if I ever get stuck with coffee from starbucks

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  35. Jesse Gilbride Avatar
    Jesse Gilbride

    I suspect most people who cook with cast iron do it for health, and likely don't drink much coke for the same reason.

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  36. SuperChopstiks Avatar
    SuperChopstiks

    Awesome. I found a rusty cast iron skillet under the stove.

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  37. alky7777 Avatar
    alky7777

    8 Lifehacks to Make Your Digital Life More Awesome https://coursmos.com/course/8-lifehacks-to-make-your-digital-life-more-awesome

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  38. Josh Deffenbaugh Avatar
    Josh Deffenbaugh

    Chemistry life hack, hmm let me think about this…. BREAKING BAD

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  39. n2ziastka Avatar
    n2ziastka

    oh, dear god, my k-cup coffee now taste like it's from starbucks, WOW!

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  40. Candice Blair Avatar
    Candice Blair

    chewing gum doesn't make you cry

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  41. michael malkowski Avatar
    michael malkowski

    You don't evdn need to put the Tomatoes in with the Bananas, just put them in a brown paper bag, but be warned they ripen really fast this way.

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  42. xja85mac Avatar
    xja85mac

    Funny how that salt tricks works the other way around for espresso/mocha as it gives it a lighter colour and an awful taste.

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