What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- We try the chloride salts of all the alkali metals, and some alkaline earth metals in order to try and increase our salt portfolio. It goes better than expected.
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Any reason to use the word Zesty is a win in my books.
Did the taste test do any damage to our bodies? No. Did my drinking on Australia do damage to my body? Almost certainly.
I mean my motto about health is 'my body is a temple' but my other motto is 'what would Jesus do' and in the last episode of the Bible I saw, Jesus went into the temple and got really angry and flipped over the gambling tables and told all the traders to leave, so that's what i'm doing, but instead of gambling tables its white blood cells, instead of traders it is bone density and instead of holy anger its breakdown products like acetaldehyde and oxidative free radicals. I should write a diet book.
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I should make one of the reward tiers exclusive access to my diet tips and early access to my book. 'Cooking with Cesium' ...maybe that's a working title. How about 'Remaining fat throughout your teens and also forever'. or maybe 'making negative comment about yourself at strangers on the internet for attention'
nudes at 1mil
KCl
Other uses:
- Lethal injections
- Healthy injections
Medicine and Toxins are same. It is a dose that really matters.
So, THAT makes sense
@@mgkim0518 drugs
Depends on the dose. Too much and too little K can kill ya
formula for toxicity = dose * duration * frequency
it doesn't only depends on dosage, but speed of administration. a relatively small dose injected in a vein will kill ou, bt in a few moments will disperse in the (freshly dead) body and be barely detectable, while the same dose, diluted in a Intravenous sugar solution and administered for an hour, won't make a difference.
This feels like old UA-cam, and I love it.
Exactly why I clicked, I'm happy
This is a good take
@@SnakPak Thats a swift pun if i have ever seen one
Yeah, same. Happy.
woah you're right
When aliens find our transmissions:
"Social gatherings for mineral tasting parties- fascinating."
That makes it sound a lot smarter XD
@CogitoErgoCogitoSum He explained at the beginning that he looked them up and made sure they were all non-toxic.
Xezlec
Low in toxicity. The estimated fatal dose of sodium chloride is approximately 0.75 to 3.00 g/kg.
That means someone with cardiovascular problems who weighs 100kg could die of 75 grams of tablesalt!
@@JohnSmith-ox3gy 75 grams of salt is a fucking lot, 75,000mg! The average is like 1000mg a day right?
@@dominicdoherty7208 Maybe for you mere mortals it is...
I remember pestering my chemistry teacher to let me eat some of the potassium chloride that he had to show the class, yet he said no, and I continued pestering until he finally said yes. The best way I can honestly describe potassium chloride is the taste of a 9v battery.
Here in spain you can buy KCl at rhe supermarket because some people have hypertension and want to reduce Na intake (like my dad). It tastes exactly like you say (own experience). My father said he'd rather die young and happy than to salt his food with that.
It feels kinda acid and tangy, like unripe crab apples.
Btw your teacher shouldn't have given you random chemicals from jars in a lab to taste them.
In the US is available as well
My prescription KCl has a sweet coating now. Old one had rough coating, tasted awful. Amused by crime drama when victim had heart attack after killer put KCl in his sports drink. CSI stated KCl is flavorless, victim never suspected until it was too late! I enjoy artistic license.
@@angelcosta4383 well, here in Scandinavia, they sell a salt substitute that are 50/40 NaCl/KCl, and 10% magnesium-something. Now, maintaining a balance between Na/K is important for hydration, and magnesium is important, too, but it does not taste as good as NaCl does. But when they first sold this substitute, it was 70/30 NaCl/KCl, which did taste pretty much the same as regular NaCl. So what I do, is mix the substitute half and half with regular (iodined) salt to achieve approximately 75/20/5 Na/K/Mg, and get the taste of regular NaCl/tablesalt, just a little healthier. But eating a lot of vegetables, too, are a good source of KCl, as well as other nutrients...
@@mb8787 msg can also be used to boost the saltiness with less salt being used.
"It tastes like you shouldn't be eating it"
The hallmark of good chemistry
Idk, lead is supposed to taste good. But it’s not something anyone should consume
@@-.Oz.- I heard that's why they put them in plates
@@-.Oz.- lead salt is quite sweet
@@vikmanphotography7984 that’s what I said when I said it tastes good. Are you telling me you’re going to eat it just because it’s sweet? That’s not the hallmark of good chemistry
@@-.Oz.- i would, lead poisoning here we go
As a scaninavian I can explain the ammonium chloride. In sweden its commonly reffered to as salmiak and is used in salty licorice. Famous licorice like salmiakki (finland) and djungelvrål
Djungelvrål for the win! And salte fisk!
thanks for the explanation since I know exactly what salmiakki and djungelvrål is like!
Dutchy here. I love salmiak liqourice
Damn Finland do you guys have anything there?
In elementary school we made ammonium chloride in chemistry class and ate it afterwards :D
Edit: This happened in Finland.
Rubidium is extemely useful for atom optics. It's energy level structure makes it ideal for cooling and trapping. The first Bose-Einstein condensate was made of Rb.
also, rubidium crystals for lasers, right?
Yeah, i mean, atom-optics seems like a really mainstream and every-day household implementation of Rubidium, and definitely makes mining it on a per-metric-tonne scale an economically viable undertaking... :D
(But hey, at least there's a use for it! ;)
Useless commercially though because no industry uses it. It's not like there is an atom optics industry or anything.
@@StreakyBaconMan Yet.
@@luigivercotti6410
Did you mean ruby (Al2O3:Cr)?
I mean I have found something about rubidium lasers. The article is quite interesting mainly because it says Air Force in the begining. However the rubidium is used mostly in gaseous form... scholar.afit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1087&context=etd
“Would you recommend to a friend?”
“I’d recommend it to you”
-An absolutely underrated, sick-nasty burn
I'd be really interested in more vids like this - "Eating the relatives of common food compounds"
I would love to see them compare different sugars
@@chaotickreg7024 Cody'sLab has a video on sugars
That is a very dangerous thing to do..
I want to see him eat some Disodium Monoxide
@@exMuteKid the pair ethanol and methanol comes into mind lol
Actually, German inorganic textbook has descriptions of taste of salts. I like the one for Tin (II) chloride: "Bitter, then burning"
whats the book called?
Plz link the book this is essential information
once again nagging for the book name
book
Tag me once found?
Calcium chloride actually evolves a fair bit of heat when dissolved in water, so the burning sensation is accurate...
I believe hydrochloric acid is produced as well
@@thelolguy8668 It's true
The burning sensation is more of a result of our tongues just not enjoying basic calcium salts
Are you sure? NH4Cl dissolution is definitely endothermic i.e. it gets cold.
@@Paonporteur Calcium chloride is used to increase the hardness of water in pools. One of the things that we warn customers about is to not premix the chemical in a bucket of water before adding it to the pool because it can heat up to a dangerous level
Absolutely in love with the feel oh this video, feels straight from 2006. Beautiful video guys, and I don’t even know why
Other uses: Lethal Injections
well alrighty then
ᴠᴧᴨᴛᴧᴃᴌᴧcᴋ yes but also healthy injections
@@aidenh1790 Yup, it's super hard for the government to legally get access to poisons, so they just overdose you on potassium instead
Glad someone else saw this 😂😂
Stops your heart...
@@tainicon4639 The RDI for potassium is like six grams though. How much do they have to shoot you with to kill you?
I like to believe this get-together is kind of how it went down when early humans were figuring out what is and isn't edible
Cave-McDonald's really sucked before then
During food scarcity it probably got a lot more lenient, just look at all the fermented food we eat. "What if we eat this rotten food we left out? Hmm, it's not inedible. Maybe we can rot it on purpose"
@Noone Cares damn, bitter incel?
I don't know whether they'd decided to eat chips with forks for the video or they actually eat them like that, but I'm obsessed with both of the possibilities
dont want to get nasty salts stuck to their fingers?
never tried cheetos with chopsticks?
I eat chips with forks, since they're usually quite oily and I don't want to soak my keyboard/book/whatever in it, you get used to it eventually :)
Guys remember in Australia, as everything is upside down, even the taste buds location are inverted. So whatever these guys perceive as bitter is actually sweet. Trust me I'm a doctor
i can’t shake the feeling that this is exactly how cave men must’ve sat around figuring out what stuff is good to eat
Some of the die tasting things they shouldn't tho
@@yiannisch6851 They were probably smart enough to have figured out the universal edibility test by then, so not as many as you'd think
@@ServantofBaal What's the universal edibility test?
@@jackarmstrong8790 You start by smelling the item, then by exposing your skin to the item you plan to eat, making sure there's no irritation, then putting it to your lips to see if there's irritation there, then you hold it in your mouth for fifteen minutes to see if it has a bad taste that would indicate poison. After that, swallow a very small amount to see if there's a reaction. If nothing happens, it passes the test
@RHLP That's generally a pretty good rule. Our bodies are designed to be repulsed by things that are bad for us. In comparison to most everything, things that taste good but which are also dangerous are very rare
Damn, I was really hoping this would be the thing Rubidium needed...
Just like most amazing food discoveries, rubidium should have been discovered by people eating things without caution. Too bad it sucks, and causes mania.
Causes mania you say?
@@steampunkastronaut7081 so it begins... (probably not the good mania btw)
@@jacobp.2024 Yeah but lithium salts treat mania so as long as you try them all at once you should be good
There is more actual science in this one video than there are on entire "UA-cam Age Appropriate science channels"!
Please never change :)
codyslab
Jet Pack but he tasted dental mercury which “violates community guidelines”
@@carterferguson1076 oh shit
so you can show how to make very carcinogenic substances, but dental Mercury is where they draw the line
I tasted potassium nitrate. Salty and succ
NH4Cl tasting more salty than all the other ones makes sense, ammonium ions are known to mimic sodium ions in a lot of cases.
tastes like: salty (fuckin idk mate)
this is the most aussie thing ever ahaha
Mix that ammonium chloride with some sugar and you got delicious candy
-best from Scandinavia :)
*_Y E S_*
Best regards, Finland.
*NO!*
Best regards: still Sweden. I just don't like it .
Salmiakki, right?
Nope, it tastes awful.
not only in scandinavia, in the netherlands it's also common, you can find it everywhere
uses: non-surgical castration
dinner party: munch
to castrate it must be injected into the balls. pleasant dreams
@@Gay_Priest you will never be a woman
@@swagmankayearIQ huh? chemical castration just renders the testicles inoperable until you stop doing it, it doesnt cause any physical changes. Also who said I wanted to be a woman?
@@swagmankayearIQ and you will never be funny
@@neyoid is that your best shot? try again
That's why they call it sodi-yum.
Godfrey Poon MmM yummy corrosive and explosive sodium in my tummy!
Lithi-yum
Potassi-yum
Rubidi-yum
Caesi-yum
Ammoni-yum
Stronti-yum
Ah yes good old pOTASSIUM CHLORIDE, my favorite sodium free salt and execution method
Must be written as pOTASSIUM CHLORIDE. KCl that's written otherwise won't work well.
@@californium-2526 so, in other words, with capitalization reversed? I.e. Potassium chloride won’t cut it, but pOTASSIUM CHLORIDE will? 😂
@@129140163 jokes are always funnier when you painstakingly explain them
Its seriously the most disgusting shit I've ever taster in my life
@@magusperde365 So you have tasted other shit as well?
I remember being taught in chemistry class that Strontium tends to displace Calcium in your bones and teeth, thereby weakening them, so kinda surprised that you went for consuming any of it.
When you read the public health statement on strontium, how did they obtain adverse health effects? By feeding rats absurdly high doses (500-2000 mg/kg of body weight every day). Strontium's median lethal dose is actually higher than calcium's. For perspective, 1200 mg of strontium/kg/day would be about 255 grams of strontium chloride hexahydrate per day for a 70 kg adult human. Literally orders of magnitude higher than acceptable seasoning amounts. You're not going to sprinkle more than ~400 mg (0.4 grams) in a food recipe. Strontium is used in toothpaste and bone supplements at actual reasonable amounts, not doses in which almost every substance is poisonous.
@@coopergates9680 fair enough. I did say this was in a chemistry class, so years and years ago. Long before I would have known to bother checking LD50s and the like!
Just goes to show some things really stick with you unquestioned if no one gives you a reason to.
@@TooShortPlancks LD50s are sometimes misleading, like for sodium bromide, since bromide has cumulative effects and chronic exposure can be more damaging than expected given the median lethal dose. Strontium doesn't seem to have such. For some reason among the numerous chemistry courses I had there was little discussion of LD50s, just requests not to consume anything from the lab, wear gloves and goggles, etc. and well known cumulative poisons like barium, lead, thallium, and mercury.
Had to look it up, because Rubidium Chloride had to be useful for something. Turns out it does! It's good as sleep aid, antidepressant, Biomarker for DNA, and as an additive for petrol to increase octane.
Lithium is the closest which you might wonder why no one has used it as a salt substitute?
It's cuz although not terribly TOXIC, lithium ions alter behavior and was an olde time bipolar disorder medicine. So, you really should limit intake for other reasons. It also isn't eliminated from your body as quickly as sodium so it can bioaccumulate to dangerous levels and cause tremors
spiderdude2099 it’s still used at least in the US if more modern treatments fail.
it's not just tremors, if you have too much it can make you very sick. lithium is still used in bipolar disorder, it's effective, it's just inconvenient because it requires regular blood testing and can cause problems with the results of thyroid function tests.
Lithium is one of the only drugs that when combined with psychedelics can result death
@@zeyface6366 bullshit. plenty of drugs can do that including other drugs for mood disorders such as MAOIs, blood pressure and heart disease drugs, and alcohol.
@@Liloldliz The things you mentioned don't make otherwise physically safe drugs like LSD or magic mushrooms suddenly become lethal.
Certainly normal doses of both
Man, I thought it said PbCl on the thumbnail but still very interesting video
that would be fairly adventurous
Hakkı Oktay; Nah man, that would be too tame for this channel... I read it as PoCl2...
Well, lead chloride was actually used as a sugar substitute in ancient Egypt, with little known deaths by it... So more than likely not to bad or toxic(in small doses)
dank science boi maybe not many known deaths because we don’t know that much about them?
cum on man... is not the death or the balls numbing cancer 💩 that we’ll all should worry about. the concern should be is what will make us ugly, lol. seriously that’s interesting, but I think its cool with me if we stop tasting Pbcl until i confirmed it with my lab rats.
I once made the mistake of adding H2O to LiCl, rather than the other way round. It almost immediatly boiled. No idea what the temperature was, but I'd guess it was way over 100C. MgCl2 was the same
I really appreciate your doing this. The question has been nagging me for years, but I just never got around to taste testing, thanks for saving me the trouble, I guess there's a reason salt's salt. Always a learning experience!!
Meanwhile in Nordic schools: Hey kids, today we will be making ammonium chloride and eat it!
We did this once :D I liked it
The drying really is the worst part
😂
It's great. I had a chemist professor do a demonstration where he first talked about how on one side we have chlorine gas which is really bad news for most living things, humans included. And then on the other side you have ammoniac which you also shouldn't be eating.
He allowed them to react with each other. Made this quite cool and flashy reaction. And then without explaining what ammonium chloride was, he went right in and scraped his finger on the tubes to get the crystals and licked his finger.
The whole class was super shocked.
Then he said, you might also know ammonium chloride by another name...
...Salmiakk
After that there were loads of people who also wanted to have a taste.
Still one of the most memorable experiences I had in school.
Explanation from a swede: Ammonium chloride is called "Salmiak" and is commonly used in conjunction with Liquorice. It is also made into salmiak pastilles (with no liquorice, but may be a little sweet as well), which are awesome. I would never use this salt as a substitute in normal cooking, that would be madness.
Before watching this video I would have agreed that it would be madness but now that I think about it it could work.
@@j100j I mean substituting normal salt would be madness in general, salmiak actually have a taste, so it is like substituting sugar in general with cola sauce or something.
But cooking with salmiak however is awesome. Salmiak ice cream for example is delicious. And ofcourse previously mentioned salmiak pastilles.
@@mattetis I am finnish and I love all things salmiak and I think a little bit of ammonium chloride could work in some normalish foods.
“Tastes like disappointment.” totally cracked me up.
Potassium Chloride is often used as a salt substitute. Here in the US you can buy it in a shaker like you can salt, and it is labelled as a salt substitute.
The most scientific-like a non-science experiment can get. Someone had to do it, thanks M8.
Chemistry teachers *HATE* him!
Find out how this man did the impossible and lived to tell the tale!
Scandinavia has good taste dont @ us
The fun of Djungelvrål is the kick in the face of the super-soluble ammonium chloride that fades quickly into a mild sweet licorice.
The name literally means "jungle shout" probably for the reason of the kick in the face. It's very fun giving to people and then watching their reaction 0.2 seconds after they put one in their mouth.
Yeah, it really is a good complement to the licorice. I like the ones like you describe: brisk and punchy at first and then savory and sweet. Pretty much everyone i know hates all forms of salmiakki, but that's okay if it means more for me.
That said, some of the brown hard ones seem to be more salt than licorice and are just foul crumbly things with the great aenesthetising taste of ammonia and dirt. Giving those to unsuspecting people is just about as cruel as sharing rancid bacon mints.
I love the salt-monkeys aswell ❤️ Damn they are good.
Too bad i can only find them fresh rarely, only from like cruise ships and crusty candy aisles where they've been forgotten and dried up.
I gotta go look for some tomorrow.
I loved Finnish "salmiakki ruutu"
Just good old regular Salmiakki is quite nice too.. Or just head down over to Gang Wars City Malmö, Sweden, to buy the best Licorice that mankind can find.
Eric true, but i like hockey powder even better
>"fairly low toxicity"
>lithium chloride
>2 for toxicity on fire diamond
>phased out as both salt substitute and bipolar medication due to toxicity
I remember being in 11th grade chemistry and working with some potassium chloride in an experiment. After finishing the experiment and washing my hands, I snuck a tiny taste of the stuff. I regretted it almost immediately.
amonium chloride
aka salmiac
best tasting snack in the world
also its in all the liqurich here in holland
good engrlish you have
@@aarnijarvelainen8499 I am sorry but I am not gonna correct it, for english is my second language
@Comrad Sam could yyou explain this?
eating chips with forks and knives..... questionable judgement
eating "very low toxicity" salts... A+ Judgement
I already need to avoid "low-sodium" stuff that uses potassium chloride as a salt substitute (of which there is a surprising amount), so it's good to know that I'm not missing out.
Kidney conditions? I use strontium chloride, and unfortunately a number of "no salt added" thingies use calcium chloride despite the "that's the effing worst" lol
If you want a good salt alternative, use MSG (seriously). Just about every grocery store carries it under the Accent brand.
@@Psythik You know that's a sodium salt, right?
@@coopergates9680 But it's less sodium per 'amount of saltiness' so you can use way less on your food and have the same amount of 'saltiness' on your taste buds.
@@polygontower I already get enough protein. Haha
edible uses: treats bipolar. flammable.
other uses: batteries. lethal injections. nuclear medicine. fertilizer. non surgical castration.
flame color: blue-purple with grey haze
“tastes like how bleach smells.”
not what i want to hear about food lmao
You have GOT to try francium chloride next, and then synthesize and name Ununennium (element 119, the next alkali metal; if it were up to me to name it, I’d go with illudium, chemical symbol Il) and then try THAT chloride (UueCl/119Cl/IlCl)!
But if you use the illudium for chips, there won't be enough for my illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator!
Such insight
Bless Australian salt parties
I just want to take a moment to appreciate how much time Tom spent making the text fly across the frame.
What about francium chloride you lied it was not all the alkali melts
For some reason your name compared with your profile picture makes this comment alot better
Have fun getting Francium
@@drevil9554 I wonder what Francium Astatide tastes like...I personally think it would taste like a subtle blend of horrible cancer and "what a fine way to spend the last of your fortune, Mr. Gates"
francium decays too fast
@@edwinchamorro29 Would decay still be a factor if one were to promptly chemically merge francium with sodium?
Interesting trivia: one time at my university I tasted some anhydrous LiCl and was very spicy because the enthalpy of dissolution of LiCl is quite negative and in a pinch there are a lot of moles.
10:47
Something about the music blaring over you talking quietly was really funny
Don't know if it's still on the market, but there used to be a "salt substitute" that was KCL. I remember as a kid being given a nice ear of corn-on-the-cob fresh from the garden, and sprinkling what I thought was regular salt on it, only to find out it was my grandpa's salt substitute (high blood pressure). The aftertaste was horrible, especially to a little kid. When I complained, my mother shushed me and told me to eat it anyway, since we were at the grandparent's house. I have never forgotten that wretched taste, and the disappointment of a ruined ear of fresh sweet corn.
Wow I love the slo-mo at 7:53 :)
Tom's Lab oh no it's a render error, hope there's not too many more of them :/
Lol it's all good, nice video
Ammonium chloride on liquorice is amazing! (Yes I'm scandinavian :)
Cesium! The only element with a "Puple-grey" flame color!
Please don't change that, I love it
Rhodanide ah fuckin shitdicks
Can't change it now
Explosions&Fire2 _It's really not all that noticable, don't worry about it_
Rhodanide gonna delet the whole channel now
Explosions&Fire2 now you've done it
that’s why my stools is purple-grey.
7:47 "puple-grey", nice, one of my favourite colours
haha "This is the worst dinner party..."
seems like the higher the salt is on the table, the better it tastes?
Today i learned ausies eat fries with a damn fork..
What is less healthy? The chips or the various salts being tested?
From Wikipedia: "Ammonium chloride is used to spice up dark sweets called salty liquorice (popular in Scandinavia, Benelux and northern Germany), in baking to give cookies a very crisp texture, and in the liquor Salmiakki Koskenkorva for flavouring. In Iran, Tajikistan, India, Pakistan and Arab countries it is called "Noshader" and is used to improve the crispness of snacks such as samosas and jalebi."
One cool thing about sea salt is that it's a mixture of different salts, which is what makes it so GOOD!
I was waiting for the grim reaper to show up to their little dinner party.
I love how trusting your mates are
What happened to that explosive plant?
science_and_anonymous the explosive plant in the middle of the table got cut back because I harvested the leaves for the project!
Explosions&Fire2 ahhhh
Explosions&Fire2 hahahah I wad actually wondering when we would see the video on it, didn't know it was in the shot lol
science_and_anonymous oh I thought you spotted the Easter egg.
Well, I did it all and nothing exploded, so I have to think about why that is and what I can do about it I guess
Explosions&Fire2 hahahah yeah, maybe when the leaves grow again you can try a different solvent for extraction and just see how everything works out
Ammonium chloride is used in sweets. And not just in scandinavia, it is the basis for liquorice all over the world now(Why you call it "Salty liquorice"). And it can be damn healthy apparently
TFW you realize that table salt/sodium chloride is the healthiest thing being served here.
7:54 When your ping shoots up to 500 while trying to eat
Laggy eating, next up is freezing (due to lost packets) while eating.
10:50 - my immediate, out-loud reaction: "why've you written it in wingdings you absolute cock 'ed?" *laughs*
10/10
Humongous father? Is that you?
@@Amoeba_Podre wot rings u got bithc?
“Yeah I like the unsalted fries” is an actual certified British moment
As someone who was on lithium, I love imagining a scenario where someone who had bipolar was sucking on a battery like a pacifier and was like “hey life’s not too bad” and marketed it
"no medicine tastes good, it just feels good"
I have some NaOH and KOH, can you taste test those? They should taste better since chlorine is yellow and shit?
If you taste that you are gonna have a bad time
NaClO makes a tasty beverage
I have licked a NaOH pellet. It causes a sharp electric tingle where it touches your tongue, followed by a bitter soapy taste. You are welcome.
@@heylookitsummer NaClO2 is the craze now
They wont poison you but it will burn. Hydroxides rip apart your cells by turning their lipid membranes into soap.
“No explosions or fire in this video.”
*Editing comes to the rescue.*
Anyone else with misphonia dying from the sound of him smacking his lips but also staying through it to figure out which salt is the best?
Disappointed you didn't eat FrCl but as someone from the north... nice of you to include NH4Cl. :D lovely stuff, but definitely an acquired taste (usually from childhood) and most often enjoyed as a flavor of licorice though we (the Finns) also have vodka that tastes like it as well. Killer stuff, maybe I should send some of it your way.
Now explain Vegemite to the world you Australian monster.
Salmiakki Koskenkorva is heavenly. Kippis.
FrCl would vapourize itself instantly
ammonium chloride = salmiak = a big like from this Dutchie
But yeah, don't eat it with chips, It's used for some sweets
Tried some salmiak chewing gum the other day, quite nice actually. Now to get my hands on UFO Shot.
You should try lead salts, it’s what the Roman’s used to flavor stuff because it was sweet
Lead compounds are deadly
@@jailee6764 shhhhh
I would really like to see a part 2 with bromide and iodide, in particularly interested in Lithium Bromide taste and Lithium Iodide, i guess calcium idodie could taste not that bad as well.
Despite 'chips=fries' being like the first thing an American child learns about our English friends from across the ponds, hearing them called chips always makes my brain shutdown for a second.
Thank you for a healthy laugh. I did this too. The worst was ionic zinc drops with copper sulfate because it was bitter but great because it noticeably boosts your immune system/lungs. I also tried some brands of lite salt and Redmond's sea salt plus the taste winner Trace Minerals' Utah Sea Salt solution which tastes really salty but good like a super strong soy sauce. Good times. You have great friends.
NaF is the best salt
Uliemm151 need some of that good good fluoride in me
Go drink NaOH solution
Na mate
_T H E F O R B I D D E N S A L T_
It kills.
OMG - non surgical castration....and you fed it to your mates!!! FKN LOL
Wow actually super interesting! Glad NaCl was the best or else I'd have to go find some other salts to see what I'm missing out on.
A company in the Netherlands was developing a sodium free salt replacement in the early 2000. A mixture of potassium, magnesium and I don’t remember what else, but it almost tasted like salt… turns out there is no market for something “almost” as good as the actual thing, if the actual thing is still available. People stick to what they know! 😂
"no real use for rubidium"
Oh yeah what about clocks
Disrespectful
A) what about magnesium?
B) was your calcium chloride anhydrous? If so, you might have sensed the heat of hydration.
Seriously. They didn't even test the second most common sodium salt alternative. Come on guys. Apparently lead salt is the closest in taste and aftertaste to real salt, but it's also poison.
Yeah, KCl tastes quite metallic. That's why they usually add some additives to it. And there are uses for Rb, in rubidium atomic clocks. That being said, cesium clocks are more precise. Also, cesium chloride can be used to make cesium.
PS: Ammonia is not an alkali metal! It's not even an element! Ammonium chloride is an intruder!
He used ammonium chloride because the ammonium (NH4+) ion is similar to that of an alkali metal ion (they have a charge of +1)
Oit Thegroit GRBTutorials I think ammonium chloride was added because it's a salt actually made to be eaten in some places. For example in Finland we have this salty liquorice called salmiakki. The NH4Cl is either added on top to give a nice quick sting of strong flavour or then blended into the liquorice for a more lasting experience. We make salmiakki ice cream, chocolate, booze etc... basically it's a big thing here.
@@jussimakarussi I'm interested. What does the food taste like?
Also how come the ammonium ion tastes salty? Do we have specific taste receptors for it?
@@oitthegroit1297 Ammonium is in fact so similar in behaviour to alkali metals it's often just lumped in with them. Metallic ammonium is even a thing.
@@Quintinohthree ammonium (or ammonia, I forget) under extremely high pressures is metallic. It's suspected to be in the interiors of gas giants, along with metallic hydrogen.
My gut reaction to this is that the experimenters were taking risks. Lithium, for example, was removed from 7-Up for a reason. The logical follow-up to this experiment would be to compare the four halide ( Fluoride, Chloride, Bromide, and Iodide) salts of each of the five Alkali Metals ( Lithium, Potassium, Sodium, Rubidium, and Cesium), giving a total of 20 salts. The sane course is to abandon this line of experiment. The risk is simply too great and unnecessary. Don’t do it, not even for a zillion dollars.
i study chemistry. i want to do this a lot
I can imagine the next video has people with extra heads covered in purple fibers saying, "today we will be tasting..."
"Salt is the only rock we eat"
A handful of other salts: am I a joke to you?
I've never seen so many people eating fkn chips with forks wtf
It's called civilization, also hygiene.
From school 30 years ago. The biology teacher said that only lithium and sodium could trigger the sodium channel on the tongue, and lithium was a minor poison.
Will be interesting to see if this is true. And bye the bye. The discovery of the 5th sense of taste unami or delicious and or meaty/mushroom was only just going around in research papers from Japan. It took another decade before this hit public awareness via chefs, and I learned of it.
100 years of the only tastes are salt, sweet, bitter and sour.
Aroma is different it taps into smell from the inside, and most aroma molecules are much heavier then smell compounds, and needs the heat/moisture of the mouth to trigger. But perceived as part of taste.
"It's not really that salty" Yes it is, you just have the wrong definition of salty.
Did the lithium chloride dull everyones mood to neutral?
Rubidium unleveled then out though
What about magnesium chloride?
Magnesium chloride is quite bitter and chlorinated-pool-ish. I think more so than calcium chloride but I haven't eaten them side by side. If you have sodium reduced salt, the stuff with sodium + potassium will taste a little less brothy/umami and a little more bitter; and the stuff that also has some added magnesium sulfate will taste even more bitter and like a chlorinated pool.
Bro just googled that it was safe and had all their friends eat it
Light saltI is a one to one mixture of sodium and potassium chloride. It is sold by Morton salt company as a way of decreasing the sodium intake for people who which to minimize their sodium level.
The ammonium chloride is called “Salmiak” in danish and we use it in taste liqurish
Ammonium chloride, or Salmiak, in my country is a very popular replacement for licorice. We do love our salt licorice here, and I know that no-one else in the world, relatively speaking, likes it. xD Its' flavour is pretty much the same as the licorice root, but amped up a few levels. I think it started like way back in time when the licorice root became a rare herb and cost way too much for the average person. It became exclusive and eventually someone found out that ammonium chloride is a great replacement for it. And thus it was gaining popularity. I'd say it is a very aquired taste, but a lot of people likes it. :P Greetings from Sweden. :)
"Deepthroating a coal mine" HAHAAAHAAAHA 😂👍 best description ever!
Next, please taste Francium Chloride :)