Today we cure everything. Let's talk about that. <i> ( music playing )</i> Good mythical morning! I'm so glad
you're here today because today
we're gonna make
beautiful music from everyday objects, and I'm gonna get turned
into a human pizza. Of course you are.
But first, salt! It's basically the earliest form
of food preservation. Before there were fridges
there were salt pork. - Yep.
- I love me some salt pork. But what does salt do
to other stuff besides pork? Well, to find out
we took to our shelf that we leave things on
which we call... - Spooky looking shelf,
isn't it?
- Yeah. We've already left stuff
in Coke, bleach, open-air,
Guinness, and now salt! And this stuff was in there
for three months! It's time for... <i> ( woman screams )</i> All right, here's how
this is gonna work. We're gonna be presented
with an item and two options
for what happened when that item was left
in salt for three months. Your chair made a noise.
It screamed a little. ( mocking faint scream ) - Did you hear that?
- So tired of holding me up. Then we have to work
together to decide which option
we think is correct, what the salt did
to the object. And then we're gonna
uncover the jars, see if we were right, dissect
and inspect the objects. See what we can learn, man! - From the desiccation process.
- We're gonna learn
so many things. If we don't get
three correct, we have to eat cold,
unsalted fries
in Good Mythical More. If we do get three correct,
we get to enjoy delicious, hot, crispy,
fully salted fries. - Exciting.
- No, you'll love it. <i> ( woman screams )</i> Okay, we've got Jell-O
to start. This is not the Jell-O. This is a control
group Jell-O. What happens to Jell-O
when we leave it in salt
for three months? Under this black cloth
is the desiccated Jell-O. - Black cloth.
- All right, what are
the options they gave us? Did it
A, turn hard and brown life a cruise buffet BM? - Mmm.
- Or B, turn into liquid like a Vegas buffet BM? That is the difference. A little forensic fact there,
if you're identifying BMs. My mom used to use the term BM when she was trying
to sound a little more proper. Well, we are wearing lab coats. When we had guests over. "Do you need to take a BM?" She would ask all
your guests that? Yeah, if anybody looked like
they were rumbling a little bit. "We have a bathroom
in case you need to take a BM." There's no way this could turn
into liquid, Rhett. - That's interesting--
- It has to get hard and brown like a cruise buffet BM. You don't wanna go
on a cruise ship. - Your body knows that.
- But hold on. If you put a slug--
And I don't suggest doing this. But if you put salt on a slug
it dissolves the slug completely into nothing. And this is very slug like. But it doesn't say dissolve
into nothing. - It says turn into liquid.
- Turn into liquid. I mean, like--
And I think that means it would've gone away
and was just kinda like-- - You would just see stained--
- Stained salt. Man--
A slug does that? Don't try it. Yes. Okay. All right. I'll go for it. - Okay, dissolved it.
- Okay. Turn into liquid. Yep. - You nailed it, Rhett.
Look at--
- Look at that. It's just settled salt
and the liquid above it. Which-- That used to be Jell-O? Used to be Jell-O. Let's open it. That is absolutely amazing! I betcha it tastes good now,
too. - Oh.
- Do we have spoons? Ooh, it stinks! It doesn't stink,
it's weird smelling. It's just an odd,
artificial fruit flavor - taste-- Smell.
- Yeah. Let me get a closer
look at that. I was about to say,
"What tool are you
going to employ to investigate
this further?" I'm gonna put a magnifying glass
in it like a spoon. You learning so much? Not really.
I mean it's-- There's nothing--
Nothing to see here. - The Jell-O liquefied
and we got it correct.
- Yes! <i> ( woman screams )</i> Here's the control
group hot dog.
Look at it. It's just a hot dog
in a hot dog bun. But if you put it
in salt, the options that
they're giving us for what's
under here are... A, does it turn hard
in the wiener and soft in the buns? Like grandpa watching
"Grace and Frankie." ( laughing )
Oh, God! Ooh! Or B, turn hard in the buns
and soft in the wiener? Like me after a few laps
in the pool. I don't even know
what that means! - My buns--
- No, don't explain it! - Don't explain it!
- Stiff. - Yeah.
- My wiener. So did the bread get stiff? I think the bread gets-- This is a grandpa
"Grace and Frankie" situation. I would've thought that both
of them would've gotten hard. Right! Both:
That's not an option. So what's more likely
to get hard? The wiener? What they're saying is
the only moisture is in the wiener
and you're saying
it will pull the moisture outta the wiener and then the bread
would soak it up. Which I think is what happened. Let's use the analogy of grandpa
and you at the pool. It's-- It's difficult to get your buns firm.
You know what I'm saying? Like you gotta work out--
If you were an Instagram
butt person, that's a few years
of work. Whereas the wiener,
you know how that works. - Immediately.
- On and off all day. Yeah, it's like
a light switch. But I'm not seeing
how your analysis of the analogy is
actually helping. So I'm saying that it's more
likely that the wiener is hard. That's what I'm saying. - But for no logical reason.
- That'd be you-- - You're stretching the analogy.
- I would say B. No, I would say A.
Grandpa. The wiener-- You think
the wiener turns hard. - Yes, I agree with that.
- Okay, yeah. Yeah, that's
what I said before. - So, A, hard wiener, soft buns.
- Yes. Open it up.
Lotta salt there. Let's pull it out. - Is that a soft bun?
- Oh, yeah. - Yep.
- Hold on, hold on, hold on. Use this.
Let's be sciencey here. Here. - Use this.
- It's just not-- - I'm gonna--
- No, no. I think you're gonna - wanna shake it out.
- I'm gonna rip it. Oh, it's really-- - There it is.
- Okay. Oh! It does
not smell good. Yeah, that's a soft--
Oh, that's a soft bun. - Can I smell it?
- Oh, gosh! There's condiments
in there. Oh! It's very sour smelling. And that's a hard wiener. Ooh, that is a soft bun. Wow! - Way to go, grandpa!
- Yeah! Yep! <i> ( woman screams )</i> Okay, now we have a whole,
intact watermelon. After being left in salt
did it A, become leathery on the outside
and goopy on the inside like my Aunt Debbie
after a vacation in Mexico? Or B, shrink
to the size of a plum like that cheap T-shirt you
bought outside of a concert and put in the dryer once. That does happen. So, I think the watermelon that we have in this
salted box here is obviously a little smaller
than that, but still we're assuming
that it is unsliced. Right.
Now typically what-- So, if you put salt on meat
that you're like prepping
or whatever, it actually brings moisture
into the meat, right? 'Cause that's a way
to like-- When you brine
something in salt it actually brings
moisture into it. So you like you brine
a piece of meat, it doesn't make it drier. It brings moisture
from the environment. But this is sealed, so there's
no moisture to bring in. - True dat.
- There's also no way
the moisture's gonna escape. So it's just
a redistribution
of moisture. It's what we learned
from the Jell-O. If this thing has shrunk
to the size of a plum, then my hobby is going
to be shrinking watermelons and selling them. Selling them
at roadside stands. Plum sized
dried watermelon. - Why have I never heard
of a dried watermelon?
- Exactly. Because it gets leathery
on the outside-- Both:
And goopy on the inside. Can't sell that
on a roadside. Oh, gosh! - What?
- That is what happened. - Hold on. What happened?
- I see a black rind. Oh, my gosh, people! So that's not a plum. - It smells sweet.
- That's leathery. - Look at this.
- Oh, gosh! We're gonna have
to take this thing out. Yeah, we are.
Yes, we have to. We must in the name of science. Just-- I would just grab
the whole thing. You got gloves on, do it. I believe in you. - Look at it, it's just--
- It's like a deflated
basketball. Look at this. I don't know,
somebody might buy that. Need to get the-- Need to get this salt off
and then-- - Here's what we're
gonna do, guys.
- We gotta open this thing. We're gonna
crack it open. 'Cause we gotta see exactly
what happened here. Take a knife, start there. Cut it all the way. Just go all the way,
we'll pull it apart. Afterwards. Ooh, there's water
in there. Okay, I'm gonna
open this up. Oh, my goodness! - Looks--
- It's like dehydrated - Fruit Roll-Ups in there.
- Oh, my gosh! Here, cut the top right there. Let's flay this thing open. It's got
an interesting smell. It doesn't smell rotten.
It smells... like a candy almost. I know!
And then we're gonna-- We're gonna open that.
Look at that. It-- This looks like something
that a special effects
artist would use - in like a horror movie.
- Mm-hmm. To like simulate
nasty alien guts! Okay, for this scene
I'm gonna need three months
and a watermelon. - Oh!
- It'll be worth it. Okay. Look at that!
This is fascinating! I almost feel like
we should try to eat it. It looks-- I mean,
this basically all that a watermelon is
besides water. Is just this--
this stuff. That looks like flesh. It looks like rotten
freaking flesh. - It smells like fruit leather.
- Taste it. My body is telling me no. So is mine
when you do it that way. - Just--
- Mmm. It's not bad.
You should lick some, too. Don't lick it,
just bite it. I don't wanna digest it,
'cause it might be toxic. Really salty. <i> ( woman screams )</i> This is what an egg roll looks
like when it's not been left in salt for three months,
but if it has been our options are--
Does it become brittle like my ego after reading
your YouTube comments? Very fragile. Or does it
become a rubbery noodle like my knees
when I met Merle Haggard? - Ah, I remember that.
- Yeah. That was awesome time, man. Awesome time. Good times. - Okay.
- What have we learned so far? There's not a lot
of liquid in there. The best evidence we have so far
to base this on is what happened
to the hot dog bun, which was soft--
It softened it up. So I'm going
with rubbery noodle on this. I don't think it
made it brittle. 'Cause it's also
a bread product. Okay, I'll go with that. Rubbery noodle.
Let's find out. - Ooh!
- Oh! I think
it might be brittle. - I don't know.
- It's kinda hard to tell. - Sorta hard to tell.
- You're gonna use your hand? - Oh gosh, it stinks!
- Let me smell. If it stinks I wanna smell it. It doesn't stink.
It smells-- Smells like
a rancid egg roll, - which I think is
pretty awesome.
- Yeah, it doesn't. Oh, well, it's coming out
in a lot of pieces. So I think we're gonna say
this is brittle. No - Nope.
- No. It's not brittle.
It's just falling apart. Brittle is when something
gets hard and falls apart. This is rubbery
and noodle like. Look at that. It's rubbery, man.
We were right! That does not smell good, man.
That smells bad! - In a good way.
- Something's wrong
with you, man. You ever cut
your toenails? <i> ( woman screams )</i> Liver. We always like to see
what happens with liver for some reason. Yes. We're sick. The liver turn to jerky like that slab of beef I forgot
about in my attic for a year. Or B, melt into goo
like the giant tub
of ice cream I forgot about in my attic
for a year. You're keeping food
in your attic? - I keep a food.
- Here's the thing, if it wasn't sealed I would think that
it would turn into jerky because it would suck
the liquid out - and then it would start
to evaporate.
- Evaporate. But when it's sealed it just distributes
amongst the salt. So I think the whole thing's
gonna become goo. I think what happens initially
is it draws moisture in, but then after an extended
period of time the moisture redistributes
into the salt. The salt is asking
for the moisture. - Right? And so then
now we're just left
- Sure. with just the fiber
of the muscle. - So I'm saying jerky.
- So we're disagreeing. This is a split decision,
my friend. Okay, let's see
who's right. - ( groans )
- Goo. Oh, gosh! I don't--
Don't open it, man. Don't do it!
Don't do it! ( groans ) Can't get the lid off. Ooh! Gosh! There's-- It smells pretty good.
It's kinda like gravy. Goo! Goo! Salt! What's happening
right now? Ugh! ( groans ) Ew! The water has nowhere to go. Oh, gosh! - Get rid of it!
- Ugh! Well, you know what, Link?
I was wrong, but you know what? Collectively we were right.
Four out of five. We get to eat hot fries
you can have more if you want. I don't care.
But you know what? We also left Link's glasses
in salt for three months. Huh. That's where
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