Can you cook a Potato with a Potato?

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  • @drpolus
    @drpolus 2 роки тому +5255

    My god people in 1970 thought there would be flying cars but here we are wondering if a potato can cook a potato

    • @CryingAutumn
      @CryingAutumn 2 роки тому +183

      Human’s have gotten smarter over time, that’s all!

    • @ej_tech
      @ej_tech 2 роки тому +88

      We first need to figure out self driving because humans still can't be fully trusted with a normal car.

    • @WorkshopGreg
      @WorkshopGreg 2 роки тому +61

      We’re only a short few millennia away from potato powered flying cars.

    • @Dishbsmeosisusujsjsjs
      @Dishbsmeosisusujsjsjs 2 роки тому +3

      😂

    • @benfuct5880
      @benfuct5880 2 роки тому +10

      Well when people’s goals are now to be influencers. It doesn’t exactly move mankind forward.

  • @cormac321
    @cormac321 2 роки тому +365

    The line “boil um, mash um, stick um IN A BATTERY” just got me too well.

    • @nulexica
      @nulexica 2 роки тому +2

      i read this as he said it lol

    • @2rbz_
      @2rbz_ 2 роки тому +3

      Lotr reference

  • @notreadyplayer2365
    @notreadyplayer2365 2 роки тому +4292

    You can probably get more energy by burning the potato, rather than using it as a battery.

    • @iankellogg
      @iankellogg 2 роки тому +936

      he isn't even using the potato as the battery, just as the electrolyte, the energy comes from the metals!

    • @JoelCreates
      @JoelCreates  2 роки тому +1297

      Probably

    • @virgurilla4084
      @virgurilla4084 2 роки тому +600

      @@JoelCreates Can you ignite a potato with potatoes? If you manage to use a spark of the potato battery to light up a potato on fire you might be able to cook a potato using burning potatoes

    • @33blue
      @33blue 2 роки тому +371

      He technically did that by burning the potatoes consumed earlier inside his body to produce the energy that went pedal-cooking the latter potatoes

    • @jeremymcadam7400
      @jeremymcadam7400 2 роки тому +80

      then you technically only need one potato! it cooks itself

  • @ListersHatsune
    @ListersHatsune 2 роки тому +216

    "where are the potatoes?"
    Thanos: "gone, reduced to mash... I used the potatoes to cook the potato. It nearly heated it"

  • @imanijones10
    @imanijones10 2 роки тому +1807

    To add an extra pinch of accuracy, you could just eat some potatoes before pedaling the potato oven. Therefor at that moment you would be powered by potato, and you would basically be a potato energy converter. Breaking down the potato energy to turn into kinetic energy, then into electrical energy, which is then converted into heat energy to cook another potato!

    • @RavenRains
      @RavenRains 2 роки тому +48

      Underrated

    • @randallmokjialung3592
      @randallmokjialung3592 2 роки тому +40

      But you'd still have your fat deposits and other reserves
      Something something nerd emoji something something

    • @imanijones10
      @imanijones10 2 роки тому +69

      @@randallmokjialung3592 I'm no diet expert, but I'm pretty sure you only really start burning your fat reserves once you enter starvation, something that wouldn't happen if ur stuffed up on taters o.o

    • @lucamagnani5243
      @lucamagnani5243 2 роки тому +83

      @@randallmokjialung3592 eat exlusively potatoes for the next 2 years to ensure only potato

    • @deathofallthingspotato9919
      @deathofallthingspotato9919 2 роки тому +13

      You should be able to power yourself off of potatos, although I'd guess you should eat a steady supply of them for like an hour beforehand, then do some light exercise, so that your digestive system is always processing them, and putting the glucose into your blood throughout the process. Then, as long as you didn't tire yourself at all, you should be running exclusively off of the extra glucose being put into your blood by digestion. (The exercise is to clear any none-potato derived energy from your muscles).

  • @chronickat5453
    @chronickat5453 2 роки тому +15

    i was expecting this to go the direction of fermenting a potato into alcohol and burning that to cook a potato

  • @wesbrackmanthercenthusiast4695
    @wesbrackmanthercenthusiast4695 2 роки тому +69

    I would have just burnt the potatoes to cook another potato

  • @AlexJoneses
    @AlexJoneses 2 роки тому +72

    I would love to see a revisit of this where you do a full in depth analysis of what makes a mashed potato battery more efficient, maybe you make the potatoes yourself, heat them up, add salt to the mixture, add citric acid to the mixture, that way you can actually revisit the oven and say you've done it

  • @fgbhrl4907
    @fgbhrl4907 2 роки тому +170

    Pretty sure it's the acid in the potato that is essential in making the potato battery work. Think lemon battery. Powdered potato is probably really low in that acid.

    • @outer_spacedgames5048
      @outer_spacedgames5048 2 роки тому +32

      As a guy that studies chemistry: you are correct :)

    • @Praecantetia
      @Praecantetia 7 місяців тому +2

      She sure is something else man.

    • @ConvictedofarsonbytheUSgov
      @ConvictedofarsonbytheUSgov 7 місяців тому

      ​@@PraecantetiaUnrelated, my brain has rotted so much that any time I see the colors blue and purple/yellow, purple and brown, I immediately think "OH MY GAH FRISK/NIKO PFP"

    • @ConvictedofarsonbytheUSgov
      @ConvictedofarsonbytheUSgov 7 місяців тому

      Or just any indie game character tbf...

  • @soltgergelyhorvath6236
    @soltgergelyhorvath6236 Рік тому +73

    Honestly, this just shows how impressive it is that GLaDOS could function after being turned into a potato, and being half-eaten too!

  • @jppotato17
    @jppotato17 2 роки тому +7

    Hey Joel, thanks for letting me be a part of the video! It was a pleasure meeting you.

  • @robo3644
    @robo3644 2 роки тому +15

    Well if you ate only potatoes, you would theoretically be powering it using potato energy

  • @AxelDayton
    @AxelDayton 2 роки тому +280

    Is it just me, or does anyone else's day just get better after watching a Joel Creates vid?

    • @2p1p86
      @2p1p86 2 роки тому +4

      mine dose to

    • @NoobSharkYT
      @NoobSharkYT 2 роки тому

      No

    • @NoobSharkYT
      @NoobSharkYT 2 роки тому +2

      @@2p1p86 does* unless u on some sort of white powder... MSG

    • @JoelCreates
      @JoelCreates  2 роки тому +32

      Thanks Axel!

    • @regulatorjohnson.
      @regulatorjohnson. 2 роки тому +2

      Ive been contemplating ending it all ever since pressing play

  • @AdorablBirds
    @AdorablBirds 7 місяців тому +3

    When "it is definitely a potato" is thrillingly high praise, you know you've done something really special.

  • @ami71609
    @ami71609 2 роки тому +546

    POTATO POWERR!!!!!!!!!!!
    🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
    Thank you so much for the effort put into this video, You seriously deserve more than a million subscribers, Happy Thanksgiving to anyone reading this!

    • @meemkade
      @meemkade 2 роки тому +3

      🥔🥔🥔

    • @firesoul453
      @firesoul453 2 роки тому +2

      @@likeabirdoffical but what if you eat only potatoes

    • @potatogod7417
      @potatogod7417 2 роки тому +1

      potato

  • @HuntingKingYT
    @HuntingKingYT 2 роки тому +19

    Your phone isn't a potato, although it's made of chips

  • @REDSTONENOOB.
    @REDSTONENOOB. 7 місяців тому +27

    The awnser: no, but your feet can

  • @linecraftman3907
    @linecraftman3907 2 роки тому +37

    While some may call this a failure, I found this absolutely fascinating. Really helped to grasp the scale necessary to pull off something like this.
    What if you used the potato battery power for a heat pump instead? Like an air conditioning unit, compressing and expanding gas to take away heat from an environment and put it into the potato

    • @JoelCreates
      @JoelCreates  2 роки тому +13

      Thank you! It would be cool to research various electric heat generation methods to find the most efficient

  • @Duraxia
    @Duraxia 2 роки тому +8

    Oh no, he's turning into William Osman, but with potatoes-not lemons

  • @RoxanneClimber
    @RoxanneClimber 2 роки тому +3

    finally we're asking the real question

  • @liamboulton2187
    @liamboulton2187 2 роки тому +30

    Now these are the questions that must be answered to progress humanity. Can potatoes cook a potato? Who knows. Great video idea as always Joel, always a treat when you upload.

  • @redstonegenius2609
    @redstonegenius2609 2 роки тому +13

    Would love a sequel where you manage to make a better battery. Maybe you could collaborate with Nile red and have him concentrate the dielectric.

  • @chrisbecker4922
    @chrisbecker4922 2 роки тому +5

    Awesome video as usual 🏆 What a cool communal task!

  • @anomalous7470
    @anomalous7470 2 роки тому +1

    you didn't cook a potato with a potato but you made the worlds most efficient oven

    • @SebastianClips
      @SebastianClips 2 роки тому

      That’s so true😂 comments like this give me life. Keep being awesome, fellow youtube traveler 🫡

  • @RepeatedFailure
    @RepeatedFailure 2 роки тому +80

    Potato is love, potato is life. The path of the potato is not always easy for those who choose to walk it. The starchy tuber sees unlimited potential it its many eyes. All hail the spud.

  • @andrewharvey9023
    @andrewharvey9023 2 роки тому +10

    I would assume the air in the potato mixture was your biggest issue. Hence, when applying more pressure things improved. Drawing a vacuum for each cell before sealing up to remove the air would be a neat next step

  • @the-skrunkly
    @the-skrunkly 2 роки тому +3

    for the amount of effort that went into this, this needs to be more popular than it is

  • @rockonmyfriend
    @rockonmyfriend 2 роки тому +6

    You KNOW you’ll be invited to the next cookout if you bring a bike machine and a potato.

  • @1cuber3cubezz
    @1cuber3cubezz 2 роки тому +6

    Great video! 👍🏻

  • @the_ant_guy
    @the_ant_guy 2 роки тому +11

    Even discovering that potatoes can't practically power a heating element to cook a potato is interesting!

    • @Shadow-bk1im
      @Shadow-bk1im 2 роки тому +3

      I think he just went about it in the wrong way. What if he just used them in the place of firewood instead to fuel a fire to cook the potato. I bet he would have had much more success.

  • @ThingsIBuild
    @ThingsIBuild 2 роки тому +38

    That was one of the finest bike baked potatoes I have ever tasted! Complements to the chef

  • @four-en-tee
    @four-en-tee 2 роки тому +1

    Potatos can finally be charged with assisted man slaughter, this is very poggers.

  • @meemkade
    @meemkade 2 роки тому +6

    This is going to be interesting

  • @southernflatland
    @southernflatland 2 роки тому +14

    Haha, cool cool.
    As far as the potato battery, I think it's entirely possible to improve it by adding some salt into the mashed potato 'electrolyte'.
    Hey, I dunno for sure, but I'd love to see a follow-up comparison video when/if you get around to testing something like that.

    • @JoelCreates
      @JoelCreates  2 роки тому +5

      I didn't notice a significant difference in my salt tests

    • @southernflatland
      @southernflatland 2 роки тому

      @@JoelCreates Gotcha, didn't realize you had already tested with salt.
      Soak in vinegar maybe?

    • @JoelCreates
      @JoelCreates  2 роки тому +5

      @@southernflatland my concern with adding chemicals is that, at some point, it's no longer a potato battery

    • @southernflatland
      @southernflatland 2 роки тому +2

      @@JoelCreates Indeed. Neither is a pedal powered generator. What's ya point? It would still be an interesting video/research topic.

    • @nadacoms7560
      @nadacoms7560 2 роки тому

      @@JoelCreatesi mean, you're using so many parts of technologie that, I'd say it's a potato(plus many other parts) batterie.
      If your main component is the potato I'd say it's a potato batterie, which yours is, so I'm guessing if you added some chemical ingredients it wouldn't be bad, but again that's a personal question.
      Bro I'm typing about a potato imma stop

  • @raulundmuul
    @raulundmuul 2 роки тому +1196

    You‘re probably wondering what my original comment was

    • @bobbyflay4104
      @bobbyflay4104 2 роки тому +36

      Actually insane

    • @Jdbye
      @Jdbye 2 роки тому +37

      At what voltage though? Amps on their own don't say much.

    • @dragonfireproductions790
      @dragonfireproductions790 2 роки тому +23

      @@Jdbye a welding machine can weld using 30-60VDC on 50-200A
      A mig can go lower than 30V
      My small arc furnace uses 5V 100A

    • @bobbyflay4104
      @bobbyflay4104 2 роки тому +47

      @@Jdbye it was shorted so near 0V. Still just impressive you can pull that current out of a potato, even if it's not much usable power

    • @king_james_official
      @king_james_official 2 роки тому +10

      @@bobbyflay4104 0V * infinityA is still 0W

  • @astrodax2753
    @astrodax2753 6 місяців тому +1

    This video reminds me of when you go to a store to buy a specific item and its out of stock and the salesman tries to distract you to sell you something else!

  • @awfulorb4190
    @awfulorb4190 2 роки тому +4

    The real potatoes are the friends we made along the way.

  • @Weisz
    @Weisz 2 роки тому +2

    9:26 it’s always the swedes bro… gotta keep your head on a swivel

  • @michaelmarrinan9981
    @michaelmarrinan9981 2 роки тому +6

    Missed a trick by not only eating potato while peddling, making it in a way potato powered

  • @Kanding3000
    @Kanding3000 2 роки тому +1

    this channel should have 1 million subscribers for its quality

  • @inkycat7167
    @inkycat7167 2 роки тому +6

    Sir you didn’t just cook a potato with a potato, you cooked my potato brain that’s made of mashed potato compressed into potato by cooking a potato using a potato

  • @vaguedestruction
    @vaguedestruction 2 роки тому +1

    ok now you have to make a potato cook itself

  • @snippykeegan
    @snippykeegan 2 роки тому +4

    ready!

  • @nikhilgarg9618
    @nikhilgarg9618 2 роки тому +1

    *Me:* Can you cook a potato with potato?
    *My science test tomorrow:*

  • @Zachaboom
    @Zachaboom 2 роки тому +7

    Maybe

  • @djalexander968
    @djalexander968 2 роки тому

    worth the three seconds for a man who doesnt put 17 ads right in the middle or the end, also watched some of the guys in that house

  • @frogtoad8692
    @frogtoad8692 2 роки тому +5

    Genius

  • @trevorcarlisle5447
    @trevorcarlisle5447 2 роки тому

    Happy New Year!!! I'm just glad to see more content from you and hope to see a lot more in 2023!

  • @calvinnguyen1870
    @calvinnguyen1870 2 роки тому +21

    The best part of this is that if you fail to cook a potato, you can still eat it. It’s just a raw potato.

    • @sitnamkrad
      @sitnamkrad 2 роки тому +5

      Raw potatoes might be poisonous though, or at the very least wreak havoc on your digestive system. Would not recommend.

    • @isaacbutler2424
      @isaacbutler2424 2 роки тому

      Thank you Calvin Nguyen

  • @VesaKo
    @VesaKo 2 роки тому +1

    We should have a quiet moment for all those lost potatoes. Rip my uneaten friends.

  • @reeldurn1834
    @reeldurn1834 2 роки тому +4

    i was eating potato chips whilst waiting for my hashbrowns to cook in my oven whilst watching this (eating potatoes whilst cooking potatoes and watching a video about cooking potatoes with potatoes)

  • @xaius4348
    @xaius4348 2 роки тому

    Maybe the real potato was the friends who ride your bike at slapsgiving.

  • @GUNUFofficial
    @GUNUFofficial 2 роки тому +3

    I heard both irish and russian music throughout this video

  • @hamterfreak
    @hamterfreak 7 місяців тому

    getting shocked by potato gotta be a life achievement

  • @Darkness-ln7zy
    @Darkness-ln7zy 2 роки тому +6

    But can you cook a potato with the potato that you cooked with a potato?

  • @Thecooldudenoob
    @Thecooldudenoob 7 місяців тому

    “This robot farmer runs on potato’s, makes 2000 potato’s yearly, uses 500 potato’s yearly!” INFINITE POTATA

  • @Srfingfreak
    @Srfingfreak 2 роки тому +4

    Joel you never fail to impress. These things shouldn't work.

  • @LongingRhino
    @LongingRhino 10 місяців тому

    My potato computer runs hotter than an oven. So yes, you can cook a potato with a potato.

  • @MrQuickLine
    @MrQuickLine 2 роки тому +5

    It's a Slapsgiving Day miracle!

  • @HappyDucklingAndFriends
    @HappyDucklingAndFriends 6 місяців тому +1

    this is genius

  • @mynamisis
    @mynamisis 2 роки тому +3

    I would like to see a temp vs time graph of this oven to see how well it really is insulated

  • @Mustafa-et9mk
    @Mustafa-et9mk 2 роки тому +1

    Me: yeah one last video and i will sleep
    Also Me:

  • @fojcol
    @fojcol 2 роки тому +1

    Gosh! Even your failures are successes! Always entertaining... keep it up!

  • @x9x9x9x9x9
    @x9x9x9x9x9 2 роки тому +7

    What I love about Joel, Louis, and Basically Homeless is that they are like the newer version of William Osman, Peter Sripol, and BackyardScientist (and michael reeves). Its like a new generation of makers in a sense but not.

  • @marioglitchy64_original
    @marioglitchy64_original 2 роки тому

    It's like opening a beer without a bottle opener. The trick is to either take a table, some type of thin cutlery or idealy another beer if you have one.

  • @MarkusArkus5
    @MarkusArkus5 2 роки тому +10

    I wonder if eating a pedal cooked potato is positive or negative calories.

  • @harryjoe860
    @harryjoe860 7 місяців тому

    This is legit impressive and I could see it as a product

  • @gremlinman9724
    @gremlinman9724 2 роки тому +5

    the funniest thing about the potatos being replaced with AA batteries in the beginning is that, even a single one of those batteries would produce like 20x the output of a potato. the massive battery he produces later on has the power of like, a 9 volt battery, and lasts significantly shorter.

  • @Kowaldi
    @Kowaldi Рік тому

    I think you're really onto something here. Imagine creating a oven like this but a bit larger, and it uses like a water or windmill to generate the small amount of energy needed to cook.

  • @operatorfig
    @operatorfig 7 місяців тому

    A bigger potato battery could work, but peddling is so much more fun lol

  • @CytotoxinK
    @CytotoxinK 2 роки тому

    If you ate nothing but potatoes before using that pedal-powered oven, you technically would have been cooking potatoes with potatoes.

  • @lob-119
    @lob-119 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you almighty youtube algorithm. Another creator added to my collection

  • @kasserole738
    @kasserole738 Рік тому

    this gives me "building 10000 solar panels in mindustry" vibes

  • @Muho_is_me
    @Muho_is_me 7 місяців тому

    "do you know what this is?
    A POTATO"
    -wheatley

  • @ManGrowThing
    @ManGrowThing 2 роки тому

    "mum I want to become a engineer"
    "why?"
    "its hard to explain"

  • @Logiebear2310
    @Logiebear2310 2 роки тому +1

    Curing cancer: ⛔️
    Cooking a potato with a potato: ✅

  • @240pixel
    @240pixel 2 роки тому

    "some guy named Peter" I guess absolute legend needs no introduction

  • @GumbaverianX
    @GumbaverianX 2 роки тому

    You're going to taste your own medicine, the potato said

  • @Eyes0penNoFear
    @Eyes0penNoFear 2 роки тому +1

    "Boil em, mash em, stick em in a battery"
    😂😂😂 Take my like and sub!

  • @TaughtSimply
    @TaughtSimply 2 роки тому

    I love all the effort you put into this!

  • @Slingming
    @Slingming 2 роки тому +1

    If you eat enough potatoes before peddling, then the potato is technically giving you the power to cook the potato

  • @stuffthatgoesfast2259
    @stuffthatgoesfast2259 2 роки тому +2

    You should try again, but with a different chemical reaction. Use potassium nitrate to burn a potato and cook another potato.

  • @Kaazmaz
    @Kaazmaz 2 роки тому

    1985 people: In 2022 there will be flying cars!
    2022:

  • @elizabethn5861
    @elizabethn5861 7 місяців тому

    Joel: can you cook a potato with a potato?
    me: yes, if you put them both in the oven in the same time.

  • @lukedoesntupload
    @lukedoesntupload Рік тому

    this seems like the type of thing to be in youtube recommendations at 3am

  • @cookiesyruplover
    @cookiesyruplover 2 роки тому

    The title. The thumbnail. The concept! It's so brilliant and simple that I had to click but the entire video is well edited and so galaxy brained. What a wild video! Amazing haha

  • @Casualercultist
    @Casualercultist 6 місяців тому

    Now this, THIS is the content we need

  • @JasonLihani
    @JasonLihani 2 роки тому +1

    My body literally wouldn't let me scroll past this. I just froze up.

  • @KekTekDe
    @KekTekDe 2 роки тому +1

    Next potato idea: potatos to biogas and then directly heating an oven?

  • @toastytea6253
    @toastytea6253 7 місяців тому

    At first you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention

  • @Bigfluffydragongaming
    @Bigfluffydragongaming 2 роки тому

    World hunger: gone.
    World energy crisis: solved.

  • @The2wanderers
    @The2wanderers 2 роки тому

    Bike pedals are reverse threaded (lefty tighty, righty loosy) so they don't come lose while pedalling. Whoever assembled the bike put them in the wrong sides.

  • @CyreneDuVent
    @CyreneDuVent 2 роки тому +1

    Since the oven is superinsulated, a lot of pedaling time could also be saved by getting the oven up to temperature, even a lower one, and then leaving it for a couple hours

    • @JoelCreates
      @JoelCreates  2 роки тому +1

      I usually let it sit for longer than I pedaled before opening

  • @hedgeearthridge6807
    @hedgeearthridge6807 Місяць тому

    It's astounding that eating a potato and pedalling a bicycle is immensely more efficient than a giant battery of potato electrolyte, copper, and zinc.
    If a gram of TNT equates to one Calorie (kilocalorie),
    and a hand grenade is around 57 grams of TNT,
    and medium potato is around 110 Calories,
    then a medium potato has the energy of approximately two grenades. Except released much slower-your mitochondria has protections in place to keep metabolism from becoming combustion, lol.
    Memorizing the metabolism cycle was one of the hardest parts of college biology (as if the entire thing wasn't hard), but gosh it was amazing to learn.

  • @Jbrimbelibap
    @Jbrimbelibap 2 роки тому +1

    Only lights and clocks ? There is Basically Homelesss powering his PC with potatoes though
    edit fuck he invited him

  • @Mr_Mandolorain
    @Mr_Mandolorain 2 роки тому

    bro mans struggling with heating a potato and my potato pc is WATCHING this video

  • @Survivalguy
    @Survivalguy 7 місяців тому

    So I could save a couple bucks if I use my entire harvest to make a battery to cook a tiny one. Genius.

  • @flamedelf_real
    @flamedelf_real 6 місяців тому

    now we need a motor with an arm to slap chicken which is powered by a mix of pedaling + potatoes

  • @dodlepoodle4673
    @dodlepoodle4673 2 роки тому

    Amazing as always

  • @FlamingoDust
    @FlamingoDust Рік тому

    Now this is the content I’ve been waiting for