The science of macaroni salad: What's in a molecule? - Josh Kurz

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What do macaroni salad and gasoline have in common? They are made of exactly the same stuff -- specifically, the same atoms, just rearranged. So, while we put the former in our mouths and the latter in our cars, they are really just variations on the same atomic theme. Josh Kurz breaks macaroni salad down to its smallest chemical components.
Lesson and animation by Josh Kurz.

[@KeithDart]

Kids these days have such a great advantage having access to educational material like this for free.

[@ShawnRavenfire]

I'm going to start putting macaroni salad in my car's gas tank.

[@camilozuniga8921]

:o

[@5crackkids736]

Uh-

[@CR7-SiUUUbscribe]

How did This went sir

[@KMaiku]

Long time shorts, how's your car, sir..?

[@haliu]

Bruh ☠️☠️☠️

[@s.seongjun_5616]

**slams hand on table**
*CHONPS.*

[@DC-xh2ot]

this should have more upvotes

[@shadowyblobfish9981]

@@DC-xh2ot Reddit detected

[@allinavydal]

I can't believe I'm literally watching this video 7 years later...

[@andreasvloghi7779]

Same

[@bladekink]

Same- my teacher gave me this link for science work- and I was like bruh-

[@camilozuniga8921]

I am watching this for a science homework :o

[@PHZadeW]

I love this video! If only science teaching was like this at school or Uni, then I'm sure there would be a lot more people studying science and understanding the way the world works then there is now, and once students learned the basics this way then they could go into the more boring and complex methods of teaching! :)

[@robloxandotherstuff2614]

who else has this for there science assignment

[@haliu]

I love roblox

[@kioskthefunlovingpelican7821]

school sent you hear i already know

[@mr.happy1232]

lol

[@Gugi1000]

I love these kinds of videos, so well done animations, simple explained and funny :D

[@Dastweeper]

This was one of the best animated ones in awhile.

[@Patrick-cy2zh]

Wow that was so concise! Quality!

[@AakashKalaria]

and it looks so good visually!

[@GHhurrduurr]

It is surprisingly mild, with a lingering metallic aftertaste.

[@seaofmoon1757]

The end implies that they drank gasoline and with the possibility he likes the taste of gasoline

[@L00NGB00W]

*Drinks some gasoline*

[@Narsuaq]

Gotta love me a nice tasty glass of gasoline. Yum!

[@BonelessBen]

i love waking up to these videos

[@GTSA-eo6es]

1:45 and subatomic particles (protons etc) are the building blocks of the building blocks of the building blocks. and fundamental particles are the building blocks of the building blocks of the building blocks of the building blocks

[@StretchyMask]

...And of the building blocks. You forgot to say “OF THE BUILDING BLOCKS AND BUILIDNG BLOCKS DOUTHGRUGHTGUHITNTUIUUNGUUTGHUYTGNTUGHIU

[@GTSA-eo6es]

@@StretchyMask :/ sorry i lost track

[@krystalingram]

So in short, you really ARE what you eat... And apparently what you don’t eat

[@KillTheJester]

.. Wow. Very clear and fun animation. It's hard not to understand the matter when it's explained like this.

[@meganisturtlecameron]

Mind totally blown ... how complex can macaroni salad be!

[@AakashKalaria]

Josh Kurz... Amazing Work!

[@kylechristian97]

The macaroni salad looks yummy... but turns out I'm eating gasoline parts.

[@prgalois]

"The stuff that things are made of is always in flux..."
♥ Great video!

[@TheBlasS]

Thanks Josh Kurz!

[@bennyboi969]

Simple and beautiful animation. Great video!

[@Phloneme]

because enzymes have specific binding regions, meaning that we do not have enzymes to split up bonds in cellulose... or gasoline :)

[@domclegg1225]

So basically I can eat a wooden spoon?

[@domclegg1225]

And I can drink gasoline?

[@jayw2272]

YEH, please do that

[@MM-tn9cf]

LegitKing lol no

[@mintayza7784]

You can, but your body cannot turn them into neither energy nor protein., so why bother?

[@the_mlg_pizza2985]

Nice attempt at making a joke.. If you paid attention you would know that the molecules are formed in different ways. Some are harmful!

[@fourbabies1]

Go science. Thanks for making it easy to understand for non-scientists like me.

[@er1c3142010]

True. That is a deep, and true statement.

[@TheOnlyPixelPuncher]

Man I love the humour in this video!

[@markusschreiber853]

Ted Ed is getting me through this final

[@amanigh6897]

Awesome, I love you guys

[@meg3421starofworld]

What amount of energy is released when the bonds are broken down inside the body ?

[@Ryakki]

That's cool. Glad you learned some stuff.

[@rolfedrengen]

Well, basically this lesson says, that molecules are made of atoms. It doesen't tell you what atoms are made of, or how your taste buds break down things (one of the last lines is "they just taste better"), or even what powers your body. What you DO get to know is that plants are made of cellulose.
The animations and soundtracks is amazing, though!

[@samucrack3283]

i really love this youtube chanell

[@camilozuniga8921]

Me too

[@treestoneadventures2259]

I'm so glad my macaroni salad is not as flammable as gasoline. Oh wait, it is💨 I forgot about the methane byproduct after digestion 😂

[@twoamericangirl3715]

beautiful

[@penelopebellemare9584]

It's really help to understand what they teach you at school! thanks :)

[@mastersasori01]

Very cool. Very well done!

[@ChocolateAppleSplit]

i love those chemestry videos =)

[@keathlyeguia9572]

So can we use macaroni salad as a gasoline?

[@giaptee]

I like the narrator hahaha.... funny and clear.

[@rajatbansal512]

animation is awesome

[@3002321542]

Thought this was a repost, then I watched the video to make sure. I was wrong. Great success!

[@hmanback2]

Great... now I want to eat macaroni salad...

[@MarcianusImperator]

Where are the quarks?! I WANT QUARKS!!!

[@lopiklop]

The Eggs are pulling a lot of the weight in macaroni salad. Even the name "macaroni salad" itself is pretty vague.

[@mihaleben6051]

There are only these building blocks
CH4
NH3
H2O
PH3
SH2
I mean probaly, but its more like
Carbon in the form of coal
N2
O2
H2
P4
S8

[@lucyb8802]

This was very helpful but it would be great if compounds and lattices where explained in this way as well.

[@shark6tangoo]

there will be a day where biology text books would have the word STUFF instead of substance

[@bubba7519]

Thanks

[@fisbal5574]

I just came back to this randomly.. CHONPS

[@bencheveryday]

I wish my professors would at least recommend links like this to us to make things more fun

[@bng_ultra646]

‘Gasoline and macaroni are the same stuff’

[@SrmthfgRockLee]

If I hadn't eaten already(spaghetti & some other stuff) & going to bed right now, I'm sure I'd want to eat some macaroni xD

[@carterpfaff4643]

Gasoline and macaroni salad are similiar...

[@NighteeeeeY]

So would I be able to digest a wooden spoon? And get the same benefits as from pasta?

[@theholotrope]

Nice vid!

[@macomputersuck]

Now I'm hungry.

[@DubstepEnjoyr]

We will never run out of gasoline

[@er1c3142010]

No. We lack the enzyme cellulase, which is needed to break down cellulose. We have plenty of amylase though, which is for the break down of amylose.

[@juanamariedon9981]

So I can drink some gasoline

[@bng_ultra646]

Viet DAU everything

[@souldia930]

I really love biology a lot

[@alphaskittle3337]

Cool!!

[@Narsuaq]

You've been watching too much breaking bad.

[@FaithDeLeo-n1o]

science is so cool

[@DaffaBun]

It costs allot of energy to remake molecules, easier to just suck up the stuff that's already being rearranged/arranged by nature.
Yay for oil and gas...

[@timothyclarke857]

Fuckin' seriously THE GAME is Hydrogen a few fuckin' circles.

[@timothyclarke857]

So gasoline is like macaroni salad yes sir.

[@nogashalev1214]

2:42 self note

[@jaydon.2833]

Using this for school 🙄

[@objectionableconform]

So if i eat a wooden spoon i will get the same nutrition if i were to eat a bowl of macaroni?

[@huyked]

Some people (Gasoline drinkers. I'm not kidding.) would probably disagree with that last statement.

[@sorryjimingottauseuremailf7077]

ahh biomed honors. what have you brought me this time.

[@SaraKhan-zi6be]

thnxxxx

[@objectionableconform]

Damnit@! why did i eat that spoon>?

[@zone07]

so if I drink the "correct" dosage of gasoline, it won't do any harm to my body because it would absorb the needed amino acids and discard the rest? Is this why we are allowed to add ammonium hydroxide into fast food and sell it to consumers?

[@eliasabrahamsson]

just like last time this mostly just makes me in the mood for macaroni sallad
im a food guy what can i say.

[@maninthestand3779]

i need help in science about it

[@TToastedG]

wait... which one tastes better? gasoline or macaroni salad?

[@santi137]

GUYS AT 2:04 A GREEN POPS UP IN THE NITROGEN.

[@13dtully]

and Phosphorus

[@er1c3142010]

CHONPS, not CHOMPS. The "N" is for nitrogen.

[@meganisturtlecameron]

theoretically i guess you could ... if we could get to those molecules

[@cookiejar1424]

the animation is really cool...

[@grantzolldan]

But why wouldn't these things have the same nutritional value?

[@jiminbang5822]

2:05 MACARONI SALAD IS MADE OUT OF SULFUR?

[@jw569]

Is that why I can eat plants?

[@akhileshpandey123]

josh kurz ... you are SEXY.. love you ... this video was flowing all over my head.. loved all of it.. i don't know when would i be able to make such interactive fun videos.. cheers!!!

[@Cory-xu1rk]

Bruh, what?

[@learkcat9201]

Why macaroni salad?

[@mediocreyoutuber784]

👍

[@bipinsamsohang]

not another breaking bad reference.

[@haliu]

Do you know macaroni salad was the ancestor of olives

[@haliu]

Oil

[@haliu]

Sorry I misspelled it

[@2442MTS]

Although other animals can, humans can't digest wood.

[@sazalking]

very high quality video

[@DefenestrateWindows]

So I should put more gas on my macaroni salad?

[@benshmia9696]

So I should drink sulfuric acid?

[@IzzyIkigai]

okay.. will use gasoline next time.

[@litojonny]

i wonder what gasoline tastes like

[@MildMinimalist]

Okay there Walter White!

[@vittershins5430]

Mmmm....Gasoline Salad