Pushing A Cotton Candy Machine To Its Limit

hey little willies i just spent the past three weeks of my life living with the greatest youtube scientists of all time and i'm not talking about mark rover i'm talking about the science boys who pick up their phones when i call the backyard scientists peter streeple and alan pan do you know how much fun it is to spend three weeks with youtube scientists we blew stuff up we did science we harassed other youtubers and i took pictures of everybody with my old school hipster film camera that i bought on ebay it's a medium format film camera called the veronica ec tl2 from like the 1970s if you want to see some of the sexy pictures i've taken with this guy you can check out my instagram i love this thing because i can capture pictures that i don't get to see for two or three weeks until they're developed and scanned so i can relive all my memories instead of just having them happen again all at once like oh here's my digital camera let me take a thousand photos and see which one looks good and then post on instagram i just wanted to share my hobbies i feel like sometimes i have to get straight to the point in these videos and i'm never allowed to share any interesting details but i want to this video means more to me than you might initially think the backyard scientist is the first man who ever believed in me not my father it was kevin when i first started my youtube channel kevin was the first person who promoted me for no reason other than just because he liked my videos and that's what started my youtube channel kevin i feel like i owe you a lot and i'm very very grateful so let's put on our finest hawaiian shirt and our safety sandals because i don't think there's a better person we could collaborate with for trying to push a cotton candy machine to its absolute limit we're gonna pour molten salt into it at 1500 degrees fahrenheit it says it's a thousand something degrees i can feel it we're gonna pour molten lava real lava not youtube lava real lava that melts at 2000 degrees fahrenheit and pour it into a cotton candy machine i'm going i'm gone we are going to push this cotton candy machine to its absolute limits and probably break it there's one more thing i gotta do really quick the sponsor of today's video is bespoke post a membership club that delivers awesome products from under the radar brand here's the first box i picked it's a domestic steel knife and i'm really impressed with how organic and handmade it looks it's a nice short stubby little utility knife with textured domestic steel and brass rivets this looks like something that a craftsman made it's immaculate i almost feel bad using it it's so nice and a leather sheath so you don't accidentally stab yourself the other box i got is a utility bag check this bad boy out it opens up nice and big like this is fantastic it folds super flat i don't know how they normally measure the size of bags maybe volume or something but to give you an idea of how big this one and how much stuff you can store in it well jimmy's in it bespoke even has a quiz you can take to try and match you to boxes they think you'll like and even if you don't like the box you can change it for something different or skip the month entirely they even have a live oyster box which for whatever reason couldn't ship to me and i'm very upset because i really like oysters they show up live and so they can't be too far away and i am not in one of those places thank you to bespoke post for sponsoring this video if you want to check them out you can go to bespokepost.com and use the coupon code william to get 20 off your order here it is a brand new cotton candy machine this is what you get for 170 or 180 dollars i'm seeing a lot of metal already this is a pretty good deal the way the cotton candy machine works is you have a big box that has a motor in it and some electronics a heating element inside of this candy crucible it heats up it melts as it spins the candy kind of comes up to these thin openings and it sprays out into thin little strands those tiny little holes yeah tiny tiny tiny little holes the temporary piece rate of electric motor of is 80 you know if they spent half the time working on the design of this as they spent on the service manual this cotton candy machine is gonna tear it up dude this thing's gonna fly for our control test let's make some actual cotton candy right now when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amore when the world seems to shine like i got too much wine that's some alright do you want some cotton candy [Music] let's see if we can make cotton salt how funny would that be handing someone a big pile of cotton candy but it's actually three days worth of sodium the only problem is salt melts at nearly 1 500 degrees fahrenheit and the cotton candy machine is made out of aluminum which melts at 1200 degrees fahrenheit i think it's going to be a disaster you pick that thing up it spills on the floor it splashes on your pants no we're not going to do that it's been less than 10 minutes damn boy it's hot in there look at the salt fumes the whole crucible is so red that you can't see anything those fumes scare me yeah they do the salt is like water oh that's crazy pour it whoa look at that beads up too i'm pouring no it didn't work at all i'm gonna pour it on top and have it fling off whoa it's like snow all right kevin so it looks like what we've done is we took salt and turned it into salt take three we've heated the crucible really high whoa it's working well it it came out damn it there's a couple pieces where it almost looks like it wanted to do it like oh look at yeah like little fibers right there like little flakes i think we might just be kind of screwed i really wanted to see salt cotton candy but i don't think it's gonna happen when sugar melts it gets tacky when salt melts it just turns into water the entire process relies on stretching the fluid out so if the salt doesn't get tacky and it just beads up how are we ever supposed to create fibers as a man who believes in the great bill nye in the sky the most responsible thing we can do right now is consult an expert so i asked nile red who said yeah i think one issue though is getting it to be a fiber i think to do that you need friction between the molecules so longer chains is better salt is just a bunch of ions that could be totally wrong though all my cotton candy info is based off anecdotal evidence okay i think we're screwed let's move on to something else it's string cheese i'm not eating it i don't see why it wouldn't work why not i think well will the cheese melt before it burns oh oh stuff's coming out oh my god oh my god oh my god something's happening oh yes it sounds like popcorn machine gun oh my god oh my god we did it [Music] all right let's test it out dude this stuff just does smell kind of bad it tastes like jeez oh look at that all the cheese is oozing down the walls oh look at it it's like it is stuck oh look at that so now we're zero for two and the worst part is the cheese was way more destructive than the 1500 degree salt we have invented a new glue an adhesive so strong it bends metal elmer is shaking in his grave what happened this milk-based glue is going to do for horses what cars did for horses wait do they still make glue out of horses it looks like a pizza holy crap this is the one of the grossest things i've ever seen i spent the next 30 minutes cleaning all the cheese glue off and was able to hammer the crucible back into shape check it out it works perfectly i fixed it the only problem is i've had too much sugar so we fed the cotton candy to the dogs i can't even see your face anymore [Music] so it works it works this is good so now let's put lava in it let's go to sleep okay here we have the prototype florida man he works outside with relatively heavy equipment with no shoes no shirt another day another experiment this morning it's putting flintstone vitamins into a cotton candy machine don't forget to crush them up first and uh let's throw in a few benadryl for good luck who needs an ipad when you can babysit your kids with medicated cotton candy someone at the bayer medication company is having a panic attack right now so the main ingredient of the flintstone vitamin is sorbidal which is a lower melting point than sugar i'm scared to put it in without a little bit of sugar in there yeah into the machine yes it's it's behaving really like poor like it's like really bad oh wow what a surprise it doesn't work i'm starting to notice a trend every time something goes into the cotton candy machine that isn't just sugar it doesn't work all the stuff that doesn't melt gets stuck and the molten sugar filters through it all right now do the same thing we've done like a thousand times and clean up the disaster that has unfolded oh look at that oh now we're cooking hey kevin what are you doing cleaning off you gotta work work smarter not harder wow we tried boric acid firstly because it has a similar melting point to sugar and second because it sold as roach killer and somehow peter's room has cockroaches and nobody else's does this sucks nothing works we tried rocket candy cotton candy using potassium nitrate and sugar but that didn't work but i'm really sure if we spent a couple days working on it we could probably get it to work but we all combined to have the attention span of a single squirrel high on crystal meth maybe you could dissolve the sugar and nitrate and water then cook it then grind it into a fine powder and then stick it through the cotton candy machine but even then it probably wouldn't work why does none of this work we have been skunked over and over and over but there is one last hope there's a few products you can buy industrially that are manufactured in a very similar way to cotton candy fiberglass and rock wool both are insulators they take glass or rocks melt them really hot and then spin them really fast and we happen to have a bag of lava rocks something to heat them up with and something to spin them really fast with god sometimes you just feel like a failure during these experiments the lava's been cooking for like i don't know close to two hours yeah has it been two hours by god is it no longer rock shaped in fact it's liquid it is completely turned into like this goop like this awful awful awful goop look at this oh like that's nutty how much hotter can we get it i don't know this has got to be like right at the edge of what we can do with with gas look how long those dragged out to the lava is easily over 2000 degrees fahrenheit at this point so let's suit up cover ourselves in aluminum foil and open the portal to hell we've created in kevin's backyard i got my safety trainees you got your safety hat we got homemade metalworking tools we oh my god oh god we ready i'm pouring oh my god we're making rockwool oh my god peter get it closer oh my glove dude my glove is so hot my face is so hot right now oh my god oh my god dude the only thing that turned into anything resembling cotton candy was molten rock the lava's been drawn so thin that it's flexible oops i can't believe this worked the cotton candy machine looks absolutely melted yeah well i think it got unbalanced oh my god i can't i don't even know what to say i didn't think this would work the lava was pulling chunks of aluminum with it as it was pouring so that might have been from inside the crucible you think so yeah like i think what surprised me the most is that it didn't seem to care about being forced out the gaps because you could just once you got it like ripping if you hit the disc it like it would rip the molten lava to the side and cast it out into a strand this is a success we fiberized lava in a cotton candy machine and simultaneously pretty much destroyed it i think it might still work the whole bowl is like warped look in the back it's all wave like the whole thing's sagged is it molten lava is this actually we made a volcanic glass formed with lava is extremely from a cotton candy machine oh yes so we made obsidian cotton candy you literally did we are youtube clickbait god science gods i clean the cotton candy machine up and good news is it still works if you would like to win a cotton candy machine and the leftover banana sugar we have leave a comment down below i'll send you the whole cotton candy machine well actually kevin's gonna send it to you because it's at his house and the winner for the tesla we exploded a couple months ago that i forgot to give away is on the screen right now so if this is you send me an email

Channel: William Osman

Views: 2,726,492

Rating: 4.9350395 out of 5

Keywords: laser cutter, william osman, crappy science, peter sripol, simone giertz, allen pan, colin furze, thehacksmith, michael reeves

Id: 3N0benwDTD4

Length: 13min 41sec (821 seconds)

Published: Wed May 05 2021