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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You can ripen bananas in most any bag, and you can do it with any ripe fruit.
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.
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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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.
My mom told me cookie one lol
Am i the only who find this music very similar to the Pokémon games on nintendo?
Who else is here for a science project
Where is the music from?
And that's why I don't drink pop. It's all bad for you.
But other than that, cool video!! Very informative! 😀
Here in India, we hate soft or chewy cookies.
Thumb up for science 😉
Fine Bros are gonna copyright this whole channel!
Bless yous
Although, unripe bananas contain a high amount of tryptophan, so if you're depressed, try eating them on a regular basis.
amazing
I like my bitter coffee the way it is…but thanks.
I want to know which elements combine everything around me, the nature, everyday objects…Where can I ever get that information?
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?
Yeah Science, Bitch
The saddest story is that bananas contain a little bit Pottasium-44 which is a little bit radioavtive :(.
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
My teacher will be proud
It not trying to ripe bananas it STOPPING them going ripe toooo Fast
as a kid I found grapefruit to bitter so I would put salt on it — I don't remember how I ever started
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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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
Nice,
Adding a pinch of Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) keeps my veggies looking green, specially when steaming or boiling them.
The salt thing has saved many a Denny's coffee in the wee hours of the morning.
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? 🙂
And here I had just been looking up ways to get rust off of a cast iron skillet
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
I suspect most people who cook with cast iron do it for health, and likely don't drink much coke for the same reason.
Awesome. I found a rusty cast iron skillet under the stove.
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Chemistry life hack, hmm let me think about this…. BREAKING BAD
oh, dear god, my k-cup coffee now taste like it's from starbucks, WOW!
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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.
Funny how that salt tricks works the other way around for espresso/mocha as it gives it a lighter colour and an awful taste.