INDESTRUCTIBLE Bread... What's The Secret Ingredient?

today we're going to see if it's possible to stabilize toast cookies and a sponge using a special wood resin [Music] guys before we start today's video we have an amazing guest with us today her majesty her Highness the queen of random janae Thompson so another one of the projects that I want to highlight that our family had a lot of fun with is the marshmallow gun one of the things grant wanted to do is my kids I have all boys they love to take things and wad them up and like spit them out of their mouths or if they can get something to project them farther they'd like to find out what materials are available to do that so as parents we want to encourage this creativity in our children but we also want to keep it safe and keep it really fun and one of the things that was a really fun idea was making a marshmallow blaster out of PVC now marshmallows are soft they're edible and they're really fun and so grant just took to this idea immediately he created this really great recipe I guess for how to put the PVC together to increase not only the the range of the marshmallows but also the power so you could kind of control it with your breath and and make it a really powerful shot or you know less powerful for little kids right so so he made like 20 of these guns and we had the most fun marshmallow blasting shop party out in our backyard our backyard got covered with marshmallows and the funny thing was after all of this marshmallow shooting the kids would put their mouths all over the guns and so they started getting really gummy to the point where there was just marshmallow goo everywhere and the marshmallows wouldn't really shoot out anymore but then the kids went on a hunt and started picking up all the marshmallows off the ground and they had snacks and treats for days but we just laughed about it because it was one of those projects that we saw something that looked fun grant made this perfect dissimulation of how you can create a projectile weapon that was safe and we had a marshmallow war that was epic and provided treats and snacks and my children for days as an extra incentive to pre-order the book those who pre-order can get a signed numbered copy and the earlier you order the lower your order number will be so if you order now you could get a book number one in order to claim your signed copy head down to the description and submit your receipt using the link if you don't submit your receipt you won't receive a signed copy so to pre-order 52 random weekend projects now head down to the description below and click the link guys I'd like to do some woodworking some knife making stuff like that and wood is a really cool material but there are some downsides to it specifically that it likes to change over time and some applications that's actually a really good thing you want and you like that change but for some things you want to shape and make the wood into what you want and have it state exactly there forever Wood likes to dry out and then absorb more moisture back into it it likes to warp and twist and crack over time and sometimes that's not what you want here's the basic idea using a type of resin that's usually for stabilizing wood so it doesn't warp or crack over time we're going to see if we can stabilize some other things a piece of bread some steel wool a sponge and a couple others will it take to the resin the same way and will we be able to make these objects permanent but look normal so there are types of resin like this that are designed to fit down into the tiny microscopic cracks of the wood and then you cook it and it stabilizes it it basically turns into a hard plastic coating every tiny individual fiber of the wood so that it's no longer affected by humidity and age really it should just stay kind of the same forever and for a lot of applications that's really useful for example I have this piece here this is I believe a piece of the same wood that I made my resin river table out of let's just scrap this wood is not terribly durable it's very lightweight it's very porous and if I wanted to use this long term say for knife scales I would want to do what's called stabilizing it and to do that we use what's called a stabilizing resin now this particular brand is called cactus juice that's the most common one I know of there are other types this is just the one that I've used before so that's why reason is today and here's how you usually use it so I have this container here this is our vacuum jar and you do want to use a vacuum chamber for this so what you do is you put your wood in the chamber and then you pour the cactus juice over until it's enough to cover would it's going to float so you need to have some kind of weight to hold it down you then seal the vacuum chamber and pull all the air out and it starts pulling the air out of the wood all the bubbles get pulled out and you leave it in there for like a few hours just letting it pull and pull and pull until the bubbles have at least mostly stopped then you add the pressure back in and when you pulled all the bubbles out some of the liquid tried to take its place and then you add the pressure back in it gets squished all the way down so you squish it all in there and then you just let it soak like overnight and that helps ensure that the resin gets all the way into every part of the wood after that you take it out and you cook it about 200 degrees Fahrenheit for two hours that catalyzes the resin and stabilizes it so it's just basically plastic coating every single part of the wood today what we're gonna be doing is using this same stabilizing resin on other stuff so I've got several porous things here and I wanted to see what happens if you stabilize them and I've never done this before this is truly like I'm finding out at the same time but I thought it would be really funny to try and stabilize a piece of bread and then I thought it would be even better if we toasted the bread first because that way if it does stabilize it will look just like a regular piece of toast but it should be much more durable and long-lasting other things we've got we have a sponge got some fine grit steel wool and some peanut butter cookies I thought these would also be kind of funny coasters if they work so we're gonna see if we can do all these things we are going to try and fit it into this little toaster oven it's not really a good idea to use a normal household oven for this stuff because it does put off some fumes that you would not want mix in the food so this toaster oven I only use for stabilizing stuff this may be a fairly tight weave but compared to the grains of wood it's very very loose so I'm gonna dip this down in and you know all vacuum chamber it I don't think turning the vacuum on is gonna have any effect I think it's just gonna soak it all up and get completely coated and then when I take it out most of its gonna drain off so we'll see what this does remember how quickly the woods started absorbing the liquid bubbles were coming out of it no bubbles with the steel wool it's not holding air in the same way so I think it's already absorbed as much as it's going to absorb so we'll see how much it holds on to we're gonna let it kind of rest on the plate I think a lot is gonna drip out and that's okay next up we have an actual sponge this I think is going to absorb the resin just the same way the steel wool did but I think it will hold on to a little bit more of it because it's a sponge that's kind of how they do [Music] the air that's inside or underneath the sponge is like expanding and there's less air above so it's giving it more lift that's kind of cool to see let the air back in and put a rock on it now oh it's lifting the rock oh that's funny it just it there's so little air in the chamber that what air is in the sponge is just powerful enough to lift it up out so that sponge should be well and truly soaked through however it's probably quite a bit more than we need and you can see that it's draining off so I kind of want to just squeeze this out not the most thorough squeezing I'm not trying to drain everything but I just want like a nice even coating covering everything without necessarily having like puddles and pools of it peanut butter cookies so much air is inside a peanut butter cookie [Music] quite a bit it turns out although you should remember that each one of those bubbles you're seeing is like 40 times larger than it would be normally so there's not really as much air as it looks like because every one of those bubbles is expanding due to the low pressure in our vacuum chamber I'm amazed that's still going honestly this is something interesting I was talking about it with my cameraman mark before I put us in we were wondering if it would disintegrate and it does absorb the liquid but it's not water there's no water in it and so it doesn't cause it to break down the same way that water would I think if we'd left this cookie in water for even that long it would have just fallen apart by now but it seems pretty much just as durable as it was when it went in I'm not sure how much your vacuum chamber this is gonna need either might just absorb it you can already see bubbles coming out but I'm gonna turn the vacuum chamber on chest [Music] all right bubbles had not 100% stopped but they had gotten to a point where I think we got almost all of it and it doesn't have to be 100% perfect I do believe that at this point wretches can have a resin flowing out of the piece of bread so this one I've vacuum chamber it obviously the other one I just want to soak it and see if there's any difference between the two if the vacuuming actually makes much difference in this case let it sit in there isn't until it seems like it's absorbing some amount so after this is done soaking we're going to put it in this toaster oven 200 degrees Fahrenheit for about two hours something that's interesting is as the resin heats up some of it does drain and then as it solidifies it often bubbles so it's very likely that a lot of these will have bubbles on the bottom of them possibly even slightly adhering them to this rack we may have to break that off but we'll see how it goes like I said I've never done this before whoo all right our oven is finished cooking and it's time to start looking at these things so this for example this is some of the resin that like poured off puddled down in the foil here and this is what is now imbued into every one of these things our cookie started breaking apart fairly early on I think just the heat made the cookie itself too so soft that with the added weight from the resin it just started falling apart definitely absorbs water still [Music] : just turns to mush or cookie is not very stable not so spongy see this part over here looks a little bit dry so I'm wondering it you know it was resting like this I'm wondering enough resident out of it but that part will still absorb water yeah it's still absorbing some I can't squeeze it back out though so now it absorbs water it just Cal holds it because there is enough frame inside that I can't squeeze it so parts of it are still like fluffy and flexible but then parts of it like it's definitely stiff inside at least partially doesn't absorb a whole lot of water anyway but yeah that's so weird it feels like steel wool wrapped around a hard piece of plastic it didn't quite hold enough resin to completely stabilize and solidify but there's some just in the middle that did stay and that stuff is rigid so there is some inflexibility to it this is the piece of toast that was in the vacuum chamber and this is the piece of toast that I just dunked into the water I let it sit in there for a few minutes but I didn't turn the vacuum on this is that is pretty solid toast right there I'm gonna soak a corner of this and see if it absorbs anything I actually do see some water being pulled up into it not a ton but some most of the time if you put toast in water it's just gonna go soggy immediately this is not it's still that's what was just soaking in the water was this corner this one that wasn't a vacuum chamber is probably twice as heavy as this one I think we have some pretty normal toast on the inside and the resin didn't get all the way through oh yeah so the water it's kind of like the cookie the water definitely still ruins the structural integrity of it parts of it errection yeah this is getting smushy it took time it took longer than normal toast wood but it definitely lost it however the piece that we put in the vacuum again that's the corner that was in the water stabilizing resin interesting stuff can get into pretty much anything that is not closed surface so if it's porous we can get the stabilizing resin in if there's anything else you'd like to see us try to stabilize go ahead and let us know down in the comments maybe we'll try it out that's it for today but you know we've always got more for you see go ahead and click that box up at the top to check out the most recent video and we'll see you the next one talk to you then [Music]

Channel: The King of Random

Views: 1,047,599

Rating: 4.8584223 out of 5

Keywords: thekingofrandom, tkor, grant thompson, nate, calli, random happens, stabilizing resin, epoxy resin, resin casting, epoxy resin art, wood resin, stabilizing food, stabilizing bread, stabilizing cookies, stabilizing steel wool, stabilizing sponges, cactus juice stabilizing resin, things you can do with stabilizing resin, stabilizing wood with epoxy resin

Id: V3kqaX9bDN4

Length: 13min 26sec (806 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 07 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/ILikeChocolateChips]

No, it's food.

^ish

[u/TeddyWar7321]

Wow, so you use cactus juice

4:13

[u/Arrin_Snyders]

I'm not 100% sure this is Rule 8 compliant, so Mods, if I messed up, please be gentle. I meant no harm.

So, long story short, when I saw this video my first thought was that this was exactly like the bread from TDP. Apparently you can make it IRL. :)