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I swear that once I get my own place, I'll tear up a portion of the yard and make a garden. The uselessness of grass is too unappealing. I want vegetables, dammit!
So much time and effort with owning a lawnmower and buying gas for it and using fertilizer and weed killer all just for grass. Meanwhile you could actually be putting that effort to something worthwhile like fresh food steps from your front door.
I remember hearing about an alternative to grass recently. Clover yards! Sure, not nearly as useful as a potato yard, but it grows slower, provides nice green coverage, and blocks a lot of sun from weeds. But apparently clovers are weeds because someone said so.
The definition of a weed is just an unwanted plant, so if you want clover, it's not a weed. I could say the boxwood shrubs in my front flowerbed are weeds if I didn't want them. If you make a clover yard, will you call it Cloverfield?
Clovers are delicious. My brother and his friends next door used to play these games when they were little kids where they were different animals and they would eat the clovers. I thought they were crazy but one day I tried one and I think they taste very good. They are a little bit bitter sweet sort of like tang or orange soda.
I used to be an engineer at a sugar beet factory. I don't know how much of the industrial process would carry over. The industrial process is pretty neat and involves coking limestone and bubbling with CO2. If you want to try that method I can try and explain it and point you in the right direction.
Aaron Currie I remember as a kid (which was close to 40 years ago) on Sesame Street they used to have a little clip of sugar being made from sugar beets. All I really remember of it though was what looked like front loaded washing machines they used to dry it I think. I wonder if they still play that clip.
There's a sugar factory in my city, and every autumn they process sugar beets which covers the whole city in a weird smell that really gets me into the autumn mood :D
I lived in a city with a sugar factory nearby until a few years ago. I stepped out of the door in the morning and the first thing I noticed was that sugar factory smell. I hated the smell back then. But now I really miss it, it feels like the first day of sugar factory smell was the first day of fall.
Makes you wonder what exactly people think, when this crap spills out for the public to see, forever... It's like they want the future to think we're all morons.
You do some of the most interesting things, seriously. It's like hey I grew these things, let's see if I can make sugar from them. It adds to it even more to see footage from the first time you tried it that didnt work and what you learned from that process.
"Deplantified" is such an awesome way to describe it! XD As for the lingering off-tastes; maybe you can use some ethanol, or even an acetone-ethanol mixture, to recrystallize from (obviously a proper liquid-liquid extraction and washing with various organic solvents would be even better, but that kind of seems like it would go against the spirit of making it from your own garden).
tech note: a gas oven is not the best at drying, as the products of combustion are CO2 and H2O, so a gas oven gives a moist heat. For this app, a toaster (or other electric) oven woulda been better. Try it again with the vacuum chamber just for giggles.
Cody, how's your avocado? My was the same as yours at the beginning. Now it has more than 9 leaves and 36cm height. I live in a temperate climate. Winter -25 to -2, summer 10 to 35 degrees C.
Might as well get used to converting when you’re online... Instead of kilos, they usually use pounds. One is 450 grams or 0.45 kilogram. Not very complicated, quite easy to get used to. They also use ounces, if I remember correctly, one ounce is about 30 grams (that I usually just convert with one of the online calculators.
Cody, I like how the end time lapse the second hand on the clock stays relatively still. It shows how accurately the time lapse camera takes a shot, which is likely once a minute. But over the time lapse the clock lost several seconds. Do you think the clock is more accurate or the time lapse camera is more accurate? I wonder if it could be measured over several days. I also wonder if it is temperature dependent. Could be an interesting video.
I would hazard a guess that the wall clock is more inaccurate vs. the camera; anything with image processing tends to have to have a fairly consistent and predictable clock.
yeah it was the clock messing up. I find that the camera is accurate to less than a second after over a week where this clock looses almost a second a day.
Hey Cody I recently saw your deep pots video experiment that you uploaded 2 years ago and I was wanted to know if you can make an update on the tree that grew.
Supersaturate warm water with the syrup over the stove and poor it through a coffee filter twice and let if cool. If you cool it fast youll get smaller crystals and if you do it slow you can grow bigger ones. Think rock candy or salt. Do you think the shape of the container helps? Maybe a V shaped glass instead of a spread out pan?
Well, you definitely had a good experience this time around, can't wait to see how much you harvest next year now that you know what works and what doesn't!
Oh, something i got my mum a long time ago and she has loved for gardening: Japanese transplant/potting knife. REALLY good for cutting around roots and versatile for gardening
I like how Cody is surprised by his success. Lol. It's like he doesn't entirely know what he's doing but he knows more than most of us and we get to learn with him.
Very cool! I just ordered some seeds. After I grow some... I think I'm going to try putting some cooked down liquid in a food dehydrator !?! I haven't seen anybody do a video on that yet. Definitely cool how clear you got yours! 👍
just give the sirup time to desiccate completely. it takes weeks when it's a sirup, but in the end you will end up with a perfectly cristalline mass which you can break up to have granulated sugar. you could've also just put the sirup into an oven at 50-80°C to speed up the process, although you might end up with a lot of bubbles inside of your mass in the end - which wouldn't matter in the end.
Hay Cody, is the sugar beet molasses like regular molasses? Because, and im asking for a friend ;) ;) who would really like to try and make some sugar beet rum. :D
They're not exactly the same, but you can definitely brew alcohol from both. Beet molasses contains certain bitter compounds, but these might be removed by distillation if you're making rum. Give it a try.
Cody, I am not sure about America, but in the Czech Republic we actually use a bit different way to extract the sugar from the beets. I would have to take a look through my old notes for the full process, however from what I do remember it involved slicing them to thin slices and using a weak solution of hydrochloric acid to extract the sugar juice. I am gonna dig through the papers to find out the whole way its done when I can get to it.
I saw on BBC earth a documentary how sugar beet was processed industrially but on a small scale. Pieces were heated up to 80 degrees Celcius not boiling avoiding breaking of plant cells to release the sugar. Filtered and treated with lime to remove the dark brown particles. It was boiled on a gas stove using a vacuum cleaner to reduce pressure and boiling point of water to prevent decomposition of the sucrose. Crystallized and centrifuged using a cylindrical sieve.
Hey cody, a bit off topic. But a few days ago i saw a mirror being made with silver nitrate, would you be able to do something like that? I think people would like it!
I think you crashed out your sugar too fast. Uncontrolled crystallization and moving through the supersaturation range too fast results in oiling out, in this case, sticky syrup. Alas, patience is a virtue, or so I hear.
cody, there is a better way to get the sugar out of the beets - ive done it before and it works well: instead of grinding up the beats, just chop them up and use diffusion to take the sugar out (soak them in water at about 70C) - you can use a countercurrent process to decrease the amount of water you have to boil off later (ie soak new beet slices in water thats already been soaked in to raise the sugar levels further) then once you have your sugar water, you add CaOH2 to it to destroy the non surcrose sugars, then you can let it all settle out and cook down the water into a super saturated syrup from which nice pure sugar will crystalize out.
Hey Cody i love ur videos ...I'm from india and my favourite subject is chemistry....Iv seen almost all your vids...I would like you to make a video on one of the road precious metal extraction...That'll be really fun ti watch and interesting to...
start using the hair dryer + air vent system in your mine ... you did put it in for a reason ( fresh air if trapped and clearing dust after an explosion )
The settlers processed the sugar out of the beets quite differently. I was not expecting cody's method, but it's fantastic. The settlers cut the beets into very tiny pieces, often shredded like through a cheese grater. Then they boil it for about an hour. They then poor off the liquid. This liquid is where all the sugar is, then boil off the extra water in that liquid till it's close to a syrup and then let it evaporate naturally from there
I love the pure fascination in Cody's voice when he finally tastes the sugar and confirms what it is. Makes me feel nice and fuzzy inside, hearing such cheerfulness.
Hey Cody, I didn't know you loved Gardening as much as I do!!! I was wondering if you've ever thought about testing your veggie content for arsenic & lead? Might make for a good video!
Cody stopped playing Minecraft to play Stardew Valley
I swear that once I get my own place, I'll tear up a portion of the yard and make a garden.
The uselessness of grass is too unappealing. I want vegetables, dammit!
So much time and effort with owning a lawnmower and buying gas for it and using fertilizer and weed killer all just for grass. Meanwhile you could actually be putting that effort to something worthwhile like fresh food steps from your front door.
I remember hearing about an alternative to grass recently. Clover yards! Sure, not nearly as useful as a potato yard, but it grows slower, provides nice green coverage, and blocks a lot of sun from weeds.
But apparently clovers are weeds because someone said so.
The definition of a weed is just an unwanted plant, so if you want clover, it's not a weed. I could say the boxwood shrubs in my front flowerbed are weeds if I didn't want them. If you make a clover yard, will you call it Cloverfield?
Clovers are delicious. My brother and his friends next door used to play these games when they were little kids where they were different animals and they would eat the clovers. I thought they were crazy but one day I tried one and I think they taste very good. They are a little bit bitter sweet sort of like tang or orange soda.
If you want to go the route of clover yards, you could have some happy bees
To soften up the beets steam them in a pressure cooker. They don't loose sugar this way.
Or microwave
see now I could have used this info last week. ;)
I used to be an engineer at a sugar beet factory. I don't know how much of the industrial process would carry over. The industrial process is pretty neat and involves coking limestone and bubbling with CO2. If you want to try that method I can try and explain it and point you in the right direction.
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Aaron Currie I remember as a kid (which was close to 40 years ago) on Sesame Street they used to have a little clip of sugar being made from sugar beets. All I really remember of it though was what looked like front loaded washing machines they used to dry it I think. I wonder if they still play that clip.
There's a sugar factory in my city, and every autumn they process sugar beets which covers the whole city in a weird smell that really gets me into the autumn mood :D
I lived in a city with a sugar factory nearby until a few years ago. I stepped out of the door in the morning and the first thing I noticed was that sugar factory smell. I hated the smell back then. But now I really miss it, it feels like the first day of sugar factory smell was the first day of fall.
First day of AUTUMN!
That sounds lovely :3
Maddin1313 same here in france.
I live near a corn processing plant....you don't want to know what corn syrup smells like in production
UA-cam algorithm be like: OMG HE SAID WEEDS!!! THIS VIDEO IS ABBOUT SMOKING WEED!!! DEMONITIZE!!!!
I love taking marijuana cigarettes.
right babe?
Potato rest in pich, riano
Rip rich piano, may you do all the 8 hour arm workouts in heaven's gym!
Potato your profile picture makes this even funnier
_This video was demonetized for having too much Cody goodness_
Came here to make a similar joke, but you BEAT me to it :D
Geoffrey Foster I see what you did there
lol me too
Geoffrey Foster no no no you just missed a great opportunity, you should have said that he beet you to it. Feelsbadman
what have UA-cam comments beatcome
Lets hope youtube doesn't find a reason to take down this video too. Great job keeping up the fight cody!
TheDrakenZ Wouldn't be too sure about this. After all, this video shows how to manufacture a drug.
Sugar can be used to make explosives. Basically a terrorist training video.
Good thing that good guy youtube is saving us from people like cody.
Teaching people how to live off the land. DEMONETIZED.
TheDrakenZ no, they'll take this down because he planted onions and onions have layers just like shrek and the illuminati, which controls youtube
Cody is making sugar, which is used in pies, and those pies are used for bombs! DEMONETIZED
Makes you wonder what exactly people think, when this crap spills out for the public to see, forever... It's like they want the future to think we're all morons.
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Hey Cody could you do a video on extracting mercury from a fish????!!! I think it would be super awesome!
big jim youtube probbaly won't find that awesome ...
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It's not about UA-cam
I don't think he'd get a measurable amount, not without specialized equipment
"WE SHOULD ALL ABANDON CAPITALISM AND GROW OUR OWN FOODS"
irl...
You do some of the most interesting things, seriously. It's like hey I grew these things, let's see if I can make sugar from them. It adds to it even more to see footage from the first time you tried it that didnt work and what you learned from that process.
Well, I mean. It helps that sugar beets are grown commercially to produce sugar.
One of the few channels I want to get ads on and I don't get any ads!
Me: I want to give my favorite creators the money they deserve!
UA-cam: NOPE!!!!
"Deplantified" is such an awesome way to describe it! XD
As for the lingering off-tastes; maybe you can use some ethanol, or even an acetone-ethanol mixture, to recrystallize from (obviously a proper liquid-liquid extraction and washing with various organic solvents would be even better, but that kind of seems like it would go against the spirit of making it from your own garden).
A side effect of me not reading the script. And yes I'm pretty sure if I wanted I could make something MORE pure than what you get in the store. ;)
Cody'sLab really cool video Cody you always amaze me
+Cody'sLab I wonder, HOW PURE could you get it? Would it taste different than the stuff you normally can get?
Nothing more irritating than trying to film a video with traffic zooming by, lawn mowers running, and barking dogs.
Yes Cody made another video!!
Probably been de-monetized already ...well at least until everyone has seen it, don't want youtube paying him any money now eh.
Alowishus Devadander Abercrombie read the description
mickenoss lol what the hell?? Im not sure if your comment is towards me or youtube:)))
tech note: a gas oven is not the best at drying, as the products of combustion are CO2 and H2O, so a gas oven gives a moist heat. For this app, a toaster (or other electric) oven woulda been better. Try it again with the vacuum chamber just for giggles.
Cody, how's your avocado? My was the same as yours at the beginning. Now it has more than 9 leaves and 36cm height. I live in a temperate climate. Winter -25 to -2, summer 10 to 35 degrees C.
"a lot of work to make 5 grams of sugar" total cost $8.00 LOL cost per pound oh about $716.83. :)
Many would gladly pay that for Cody sugar
But it wouldn’t be much more expensive had he made a lot more... ☺️
Next video: making alcohol from (natural) sugar
Next next video: getting drunk with diy alcohol made from beet and honey sugar
Making some legit savage rum from that sugar!
Aaaannnnnddddd demonitized and banned.
Well, he's already fermenting his honey (making mead)
Shamie Ramsamuj lol
i'm so happy he used kilograms. I actually understand how much it is.
Might as well get used to converting when you’re online... Instead of kilos, they usually use pounds. One is 450 grams or 0.45 kilogram. Not very complicated, quite easy to get used to. They also use ounces, if I remember correctly, one ounce is about 30 grams (that I usually just convert with one of the online calculators.
Idk bro, I feel like the Americans should just get used to the rest of the world
Cody,
I like how the end time lapse the second hand on the clock stays relatively still. It shows how accurately the time lapse camera takes a shot, which is likely once a minute. But over the time lapse the clock lost several seconds. Do you think the clock is more accurate or the time lapse camera is more accurate? I wonder if it could be measured over several days. I also wonder if it is temperature dependent. Could be an interesting video.
good question "Jaden Peterson".
I would hazard a guess that the wall clock is more inaccurate vs. the camera; anything with image processing tends to have to have a fairly consistent and predictable clock.
yeah it was the clock messing up. I find that the camera is accurate to less than a second after over a week where this clock looses almost a second a day.
Ya can't beat sugar beet sugar, Sugar!
Craig Mooring - Sure you cane...
I was kind of surprised he didn't have a nuclear home made juicer. :)
Hey Cody I recently saw your deep pots video experiment that you uploaded 2 years ago and I was wanted to know if you can make an update on the tree that grew.
Good I got here before UA-cam did
CRINGE. CODY what you doing with metal utensils on fresh teflon baking sheets.
The shot of me doing it with a green plastic spoon was just for you.
How about the knife to stir the beets? lol
For people wondering raw sugar beats taste like sweet raw carrots suprised cody didnt taste them
Nothing beats taste like sweet raw carrots.
I tasted them at least twice in this video series.
Supersaturate warm water with the syrup over the stove and poor it through a coffee filter twice and let if cool. If you cool it fast youll get smaller crystals and if you do it slow you can grow bigger ones. Think rock candy or salt. Do you think the shape of the container helps? Maybe a V shaped glass instead of a spread out pan?
:D
My exact thoughts!
You may like to try to create gas (gasoline) out of plastic and old tires :) It works, BTW. All kind of plastic and not only may bear lots of it!
Cody have you got a final total for all the things you've grown this year? i know you've been weighing it all. I'm intrigued.
zanderboy it must weigh a fair bit, he's grown loads!
Laura Sanchez
all the numbers are in videos. ;)
That song is "Carrot Juice Is Murder" by The Arrogant Worms, if anyone's wondering.
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Well, you definitely had a good experience this time around, can't wait to see how much you harvest next year now that you know what works and what doesn't!
the fun is again trying something that might not work, its a bit boring when you know what does
Nicklas Baran I was waiting for the bit where Cody finished paperbagging a short pallet of sugar for the bees. Maybe a season or 2 out.
Uuh Cody, you need to practice your peeling skills. Peel towards your right thumb (if you hold the peeler in your right hand), not away from you.
Oh, something i got my mum a long time ago and she has loved for gardening: Japanese transplant/potting knife. REALLY good for cutting around roots and versatile for gardening
"gluctose" lol
I like how Cody is surprised by his success. Lol. It's like he doesn't entirely know what he's doing but he knows more than most of us and we get to learn with him.
Didn't know there was a CodysLab subreddit.. woo!
Pat Y How is your comment from 12 hours ago when the video has been up for 5 minutes.
Edwin Lebel he has patreon and I think patrons get early access
geotella oh yeah I forgot about that.
Ever heard of Patreon? ...
Edwin Lebel
He has patreon access to cody's time machine.
I think you meant to say "glucose" not "gluctose."
He said fructose...
bob bob No, he said “...separate into fructose and gluctose.”
He said galactose
Looking forward to that garlic bread baking episode Cody.
Arrogant Worms!!!
Very cool! I just ordered some seeds. After I grow some... I think I'm going to try putting some cooked down liquid in a food dehydrator !?!
I haven't seen anybody do a video on that yet.
Definitely cool how clear you got yours! 👍
How about drying it in the vacuum chamber? Have fun!
I wanted to make a desiccator!
just give the sirup time to desiccate completely. it takes weeks when it's a sirup, but in the end you will end up with a perfectly cristalline mass which you can break up to have granulated sugar.
you could've also just put the sirup into an oven at 50-80°C to speed up the process, although you might end up with a lot of bubbles inside of your mass in the end - which wouldn't matter in the end.
Shout out to the Arrogant Worms!
We will always support you cody. Love from Bangladesh. You are a genius.. I always loved your videos.... so many information in a single video..
Hay Cody, is the sugar beet molasses like regular molasses? Because, and im asking for a friend ;) ;) who would really like to try and make some sugar beet rum. :D
They're not exactly the same, but you can definitely brew alcohol from both. Beet molasses contains certain bitter compounds, but these might be removed by distillation if you're making rum. Give it a try.
Sugar beet molasses tastes nasty but besides they they are basically the same
Mind you i'm not making it myself ;) ;). But good suggestion.
Collin Bruce Ah the winky faces. Who you trying to trick mate?
Just teasing. Good luck to you(r friend).
i dunno man its kind of hard for my friend to distill without people noticing
“I hear the screams of the vegetables” awesome song to play
Great video as usual!
Cody, I am not sure about America, but in the Czech Republic we actually use a bit different way to extract the sugar from the beets. I would have to take a look through my old notes for the full process, however from what I do remember it involved slicing them to thin slices and using a weak solution of hydrochloric acid to extract the sugar juice. I am gonna dig through the papers to find out the whole way its done when I can get to it.
It's not a tuber!
Brastius
Itsa you-tuber
I saw on BBC earth a documentary how sugar beet was processed industrially but on a small scale. Pieces were heated up to 80 degrees Celcius not boiling avoiding breaking of plant cells to release the sugar.
Filtered and treated with lime to remove the dark brown particles. It was boiled on a gas stove using a vacuum cleaner to reduce pressure and boiling point of water to prevent decomposition of the sucrose. Crystallized and centrifuged using a cylindrical sieve.
Hey random person!
Cody is the best
you have insulted me
Hey cody, a bit off topic. But a few days ago i saw a mirror being made with silver nitrate, would you be able to do something like that? I think people would like it!
... next year project: accelerating climate change by eating 50 pounds of onions...
I think you crashed out your sugar too fast. Uncontrolled crystallization and moving through the supersaturation range too fast results in oiling out, in this case, sticky syrup. Alas, patience is a virtue, or so I hear.
#12017
gardening 12017 looks a lot like gardening in 2017 some things never change
Uugh 😥
Metal utensils on non-stick cookware..
you *Savage*
From all the sugar you made in your videos lately you will get diabetes.
More like demonetised.
That isn't how diabetes works.
Nom Nom bitches be eating pounds of that shieet every day, if they don't die than I'm unstoppable. Let's jump down the building doing a 360
cody, there is a better way to get the sugar out of the beets - ive done it before and it works well: instead of grinding up the beats, just chop them up and use diffusion to take the sugar out (soak them in water at about 70C) - you can use a countercurrent process to decrease the amount of water you have to boil off later (ie soak new beet slices in water thats already been soaked in to raise the sugar levels further) then once you have your sugar water, you add CaOH2 to it to destroy the non surcrose sugars, then you can let it all settle out and cook down the water into a super saturated syrup from which nice pure sugar will crystalize out.
12 sugar beets disliked this video :)
Anyone else wondering how the shrimp in a box are doing?
James Swain IIRC they died
Hey Cody i love ur videos ...I'm from india and my favourite subject is chemistry....Iv seen almost all your vids...I would like you to make a video on one of the road precious metal extraction...That'll be really fun ti watch and interesting to...
Started out juggling fireballs now extracting sugar from sugar beets.......juggle sum more
Hey Cody, great work! I had two requests for you to consider! A nitroglycerin-fueled cannon, or making hard apple cider!
Hello and welcome back to cooking with Etho! Er, I mean, Cody!
Omg. Sugar costs like nothing in the supermarket. Never thought that its so hard to get some :-)
start using the hair dryer + air vent system in your mine ... you did put it in for a reason ( fresh air if trapped and clearing dust after an explosion )
Hey Cody! Can you make a homemade mirror? What with the silver nitrate and such?
I was expecting Dwight Schrute jokes here, but what I got was even better.
The settlers processed the sugar out of the beets quite differently. I was not expecting cody's method, but it's fantastic. The settlers cut the beets into very tiny pieces, often shredded like through a cheese grater. Then they boil it for about an hour. They then poor off the liquid. This liquid is where all the sugar is, then boil off the extra water in that liquid till it's close to a syrup and then let it evaporate naturally from there
Awesome job Cody!! I think I was more excited than you!
Wouldn't the acorbic acid cause the sucrose to hydrolyse? This might be the reason, why it didn't crystalize completely. Still nice video as usual! :)
I love your trophy at the end. It only reminds me of the show Dexter a little bit. You kept proof of your hard work.
Instead of the desiccate, what about using the vacuum chamber to boil off the water without the heat that comes along with boiling?
Desiccant.* Desiccate is a verb, meaning to dry. :)
Water fucks with the vacuum pump
Too much sweet. This video is inappropriate for people with diabetes.
cody i dont think you understand how much i look forward to watch these vids
Biggest dabbed ever. Go Cody! What’s next concentrates from flower?
Ah you plant your potatoes with garlic and onion. Is that okay? I always separate my stinky plants. Never tried to mix them
i Hope someone does not flag this for ramming your hands in dirt :v
Wow. Home made sugar. You cant BEAT that 😂
Thank you for convincing me to not grow sugar beets
I died laughing when you played arrogant worms
With as much as you do with produce I'd suggest investing in a better peeler. Those cheap ones are maddening to use in comparison
so nikki and i rinsed some pintos and got a lot of "dirt". we are not gonna eat that dirt. then she washed them again...
well that was more interesting than it should have been
I think you need some better knives
get a slow juicer. Omega 8006
invest in a good potato peeler, you won't regret it.
Demonetized: you're killing innocent beets!
I love the pure fascination in Cody's voice when he finally tastes the sugar and confirms what it is. Makes me feel nice and fuzzy inside, hearing such cheerfulness.
Hey Cody, I didn't know you loved Gardening as much as I do!!! I was wondering if you've ever thought about testing your veggie content for arsenic & lead? Might make for a good video!
Did you taste the cooking water?
Wow, you pretty much grew sugar.
"Well here's my juice"
"And it's pretty sweet"
Oh my.
Lol that song about cutting the vegetals
still waiting for a new episode....
Sugar is made from two plants:
Sugar Beets and
Sugar Canes
Red Spy and sugar palms, dates, agave, ...
Would you notice the beety flavor if you used the sugar in something like tea or coffee?
probably not nless you are looking for it.