We Defibrillated a Steak

a portion of this video was sponsored by lastpass clear ah i'm back hey guys backyardposition here today on this episode of i can't believe you can buy that on ebay the defibrillator so here's the thing guys i am bad at cooking steak like really bad and i can prove it instead of looking at recipes like a normal person i look up scientific articles and patents explosive meat tenderizers the canadian robo grill and a korean patent called meat cooking technique which i'm sure will work fine but i just can't cook in korean so after searching long and far for the perfect way to cook a steak i came across a little anecdote by benjamin franklin yes that benjamin franklin the same guy that flew a kite in a lightning storm to get it struck by lightning apparently he also enjoyed frying turkeys as a side hobby with electricity he electrocuted turkeys and he also remarked that they were uncommonly tender when prepared in this method so he used a bank of laden jars which were basically a primitive capacitor and he had a bunch of these all connected in series and one time he almost killed himself by grabbing both leaves at the same time and getting a horrible shock but those must have been some really good turkeys because he persisted on electrocuting those turkeys so today we're going to try defibrillating a steak and see if it tenderizes the meat and as a side quest i'm really curious to see if the stake will jump when we defibrillate it let's get started so have you ever wondered how a defibrillator works i mean we all know that it's used to restart your heart but i'm kind of curious what's going on on the inside of this thing inside there's a large capacitor that stores the energy and the operator can choose how much to charge the capacitor when you press charge on the unit or the paddles the capacitor charges through this switch then when you press both buttons on the paddles the switch flips from the charging position to the discharging position which goes to the paddles but there's a catch the pulse from the capacitor alone would be way too intense instead of just resetting your heart it would probably just explode it so an inductor is added to slow the pulse down you can imagine an inductor is kind of like a water wheel it takes a while for a big water wheel to spin up and when you take the water away from the water wheel it'll still spin around for a little bit so it turns a big spike into a kind of a more gradual hump which coincidentally is a lot better for patient survival too okay round of applause everybody now you know how it works you're pretty much doctors as far as i'm concerned now there's a couple more experiments i want to try with the defibrillator but first this portion of the video is sponsored by lastpass secure and simplify your life just in time for the holidays with lastpass lastpass autofills and organizes passwords for you so you don't have to write them down remember them or reset your account when you forget them lastpass 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of energy charging all right three two one wow i don't think it broke oh yeah yeah it did it toasted it i still thought it would explode more than yeah that's pretty cool oh wow yeah look at that the bottom of it just had a big like chunk taken out of it from the big spark that came through there so now we're going to try dumping 5000 volts through a 1.5 volt double a lithium battery so if this explodes it's going to be good yeah three two one i saw a spark i saw spark too hold on let's see this touch both ends i dare you uh i'm good i thought it would at least catch on fire yeah i figured all that voltage all at once it would catch on fire i think i know the problem here all right what's wrong remember we took this apart and we saw that there was that like inductor that slowed down the electrical pulse right i think that's the problem so i'm going to need to make my own defibrillator but it can dump the energy a whole lot faster fortunately i already built it all right so this right here is my home made defibrillator all right i'm going to plug this in i think it just takes a second to charge this up all right three two one one nice no that was more like it but the battery is still the battery is still intact so that was still a good explosion i'm happy with that i wonder if the battery still holds a charge still good perfect we can uh put that in the xbox controller that thing will probably power your controller for months now we're going to see if we can open a can of soda with a defibrillator do we want to put the foam under it just to make sure we don't electrocute ourselves i don't think that's going to help all right straight for 360 joules dude i don't like this like what if it sprays on us and it's like electrified soda i'm gonna jump when i do it all right all right three three two one whoa look at that that's cool so here i am i think i jumped up in the air right now i pressed the button i don't know i don't know if that would have saved me yeah i think my timing was off i love how it basically propelled itself off the table oh yeah it took off like a rocket there's the hole right there just a little bitty hole just blasted away the aluminum just blasted it open kind of want to try it again i know i want something more okay let's try it again but with the homemade one yes okay homemade defibrillator versus a can of soda oh yeah give it a charge all right charge it up for a second oh what the heck happened oh my gosh wow so my ears are ringing so it appears that we uh we broke the switch made a bunch of holes wow really fast too but two oh two at a time so it's going like two four six eight all right so now i've got this coil of wire right here and what we're going to do is turn it into a coil gun so we're just going to hold it on the end we want to hit it with full 360. yeah yeah yeah hopefully it doesn't just shoot backwards though all right three two one hey it worked a little bit so it shot a little bit yeah not very much but still cool i just don't think we're getting a good connection okay for the next experiment we're gonna go fishing but to go fishing we need some worms so so the plan is to use the defibrillator to shock the ground and coax the worms up to the surface where we can collect them now they made a product like this in the 80s meant to do exactly this and i don't remember what it's called but 30 people died using it and you can't buy it anymore yes so we're gonna try with a defibrillator and we're standing on foam pads so that we aren't one of those 30 people 100 jewels doctor yeah 100 jewels sounds good all right i got the sternum you got the i got the apex ready three two one all right let's try it again all right 150 jewels three two one boom oh yeah look at that look at that whoa whoa get him put him in the worm cup nice nice charging 100 oh i got one too another one came up hey two worms nice okay all right again yep charging three two one boom oh look at them wow look at them all come out one two three oh here's one too oh my gosh there are so many of them there's so many worms look at all these we got worms worms worms this works so good are running away so many worms oh my gosh oh there's some more over here all right so let's check this out in about two minutes we've got this many worms just in one little area this brought all these worms up to the surface okay we've got our cup of worms now let's see if we can catch anything spoiler alert we didn't catch anything but we're going to release the rest of the worm so now we're going to be doing the steak taste test so we've got some big old steaks right here we're going to defibrillate them and see if they taste better like benjamin franklin said back in the day tender turkeys uncommonly tender churches commonly tender and what i want to see right now is if it's going to jump like if there's enough if there's any chemical energy still in the muscle that it'll twitch i'm thinking we start out with like a hundred jewels for three nights go straight all right we're going all the way okay are you ready three two one oh nothing nothing nothing not a jump let's try it again let me charge it again all right all right three two one oh did you see something there is a big spark over on your side i see it let's try it again clear oh i saw nice yeah so now sandra is going to cook the steak or something okay so now steven's going to cook the steak because we've already established i can't cook sandra is then going to cut up the steaks and give each of us some pieces of steaks we're not going to know if it's the tenderized steak or the normal steak the dogs don't care the dogs will eat it from rose time to fire up the grill even though it didn't jump maybe we can still taste the difference sandra randomized the samples so we don't know which is which come here waiter waiter sandra come here thank you sandra so we tasted both of the steaks and i thought that the toothpick steak was tougher and steven thought i cannot tell the difference sandra which one was which one of the chains is the one you electrocuted the one with the toothpick the tenderizing the wrong one so truth be told i knew there wasn't going to be a difference i really just wanted to have a nice steak dinner and write it off as a business expense because the truth is they were both both already electrocuted before we got them that's true before they even came to the store the meat gets electrocuted to get tenderized and this is true for probably most processed meat that you eat oh yes it's true electrical stimulation increases the tenderness firmness color and quality of the meat and improves processing time so by the time it gets to you it'll still be fresh i wanted to try with fresh meat and since i live on the coast with plenty of access to fresh fish i went down to the fish market so let's see how fresh this fish really is so we've got it at 20 joules okay so what we're going to do is take these strips of tin foil and put the fish on top because there's not enough room on top of the fish for both of the paddles all right do you have a good view of it yeah i'm kind of scared all right three two one oh my gosh it's actually working oh man that's actually kind of weird i'm kind of grossed out too i don't like that it was moving like that so this is the fourth time i'm doing it and now it's probably the cells are completely out of energy let's try it oh no they're not yeah but still it didn't contract like it did before so i guess the science is right once the cells are out of energy they'll no longer contract like that that's why the beef was no longer moving the muscles because it sat for so long that there was just nothing left in the cells to make them move all right so let's test this out and see if it works so the first one is going to be the regular fish the non-defibrillated fish let's see how this tastes and we'll see tastes pretty good it's okay it's pretty good the next one hmm i like that i think that there's a difference there okay so i think there's a difference here it's very slight and i don't know if it has to do with the way i cooked it or if this just works but there's definitely a difference and i think that the defibrillated fish was definitely tender than the normal fish but i still wouldn't recommend everybody going out and buying their own defibrillators to try this for themselves because that's just probably it's gonna end bad and yeah that's it thanks for watching guys and i'll see you next time bye

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Length: 12min 32sec (752 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 02 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Vectron383]

So that's why the shift supervisor wants everybody within their line of sight unless on a call

[u/Kim_Jong_Unsen]

That is one old ass defib, honestly looks pretty cool though

[u/dezzear]

I can definitely taste a difference after a code compared to a doa

[u/bearfootmedic]

Who’s about to get an SOP named after them?

[u/BallardPeopleKnowMe]

There was a long running CBC variety show called Vinyl Cafe that included storytelling about Dave and his humorous misadventures, think Prairie Home Companion but in Canada. Most people here would be amused by the story about the neighborhood defibrillator and the beef roasts.

[u/Kyragirl_1]

Makes me think of a story I was told in Paramedic school. The college had some old defibrillators for their little EMS museum. A year or two before my class came along, a couple of idiots wanted to see if “Old Sparky” really did still work like our instructor said it did. One student shocked another one. Yes, “Old Sparky” still worked. The students were cut from the program for being idiots. Same class, more students were cut for trying IV’s in boob veins. Lol.

[u/Crashtkd]

Defibrillated our thanksgiving turkey (a long time ago) at... 500J (ancient monitor even at the time).

Turns out electricity arcs when you cut out the middle of the bird for dinner.

Smoke and everything. It was fun.

Didn’t save the patient though. Typical code.

[u/eagle4123]

Kinda want to try this...

Technically the station is not my home....

[u/joshua8991]

I was surprised that he thought the steak would jump, but I guess that’s why he’s the “Backyard Scientist” and not just a scientist. A person jumps when you defibrillate them because their muscles all depolarize at once. As time passes after something dies, the ions diffuse throughout the tissues and the concentration gradients that were actively maintained in the living cell are no longer there. Not to mention that the enzymes that catalyze the activity of the sodium potassium pump, as well as others, are likely not functional at less-than-body temperatures.