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“How to dissolve body in lye” FBI: 😠 “How NOT to dissolve body in lye” FBI: 😴

I’m concerned as to why this was recommended to me

Ah good old modern rogue where you can learn to: Dissolve bodies Pick locks and escape things Makes weapons Learn servailence Explode things Learn codes AND MORE

Short version: Really, just don't do this, ever. Lye can permanently blind you VERY easily. I'm a chemist. I'm glad to see them using lots of safety equipment and I'm sure they did their research, but the average viewer might not take sufficient precautions. LONG Version Follows: Here are some dangers/safety procedures for NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide or lye). Lye takes a lot of rinsing to get off. It has a soapy feel to it. You know how hard it is to rinse off bleach completely? Lye is almost as bad. Don't mess around with lye while alone. In the event of an accident, you might not be able to do what needs to be done in order to save yourself from serious harm, especially if the lye gets in your eyes and blinds you, preventing you from being able to find and use your safety equipment. Make sure the other person knows what to do besides just calling 911 because if you have to wait for an ambulance, you might suffer horrific damage while you wait. EYE PROTECTION: Of course lye can damage you anywhere it touches you, but the BIGGEST danger is eye damage. Wear goggles or a full face shield to protect your eyes. In my opinion, goggles are superior eye protection to a full face shield. Safety glasses are NOT good enough! With safety glasses, lye solution can EASILY get around the edges of the glasses and get in your eyes. If lye gets in your eyes, the pain will force your eyes to squint shut. You will NOT be able to open your eyes without prying them open with your fingers. It's an uncontrollable physical reaction. An eye rinsing method that requires you to use both hands to operate while somehow opening your eye with willpower alone will NOT work. Do NOT wear contacts (even under goggles or a face shield). If you get concentrated lye solution in your eyes while wearing contacts, you're probably going to need a cornea transplant at the very least. The lye will get under the contact and dissolve your corneas. The contacts will be almost impossible to remove with your eye squinting shut from the pain. At the very worst, no doctor in the world will be able to repair the damage and you will be permanently blind in that eye. Wear regular glasses under your goggles or face shield, NOT contact lenses. You don't have regular glasses? STAY AWAY FROM LYE THEN. If lye solution gets in your eyes, you have seconds (at most) to get it rinsed out before taking damage . With hot lye solution, damage may be instant. You need to have a way of rinsing out your eyes with lots of water QUICKLY while blind. If you're using a garden hose, go ahead beforehand and adjust it to a safe setting to use on your eyes so you don't hose your eyeball out of its socket. Don't think, "Oh, the sink is right over there. I'll use it if I get anything in my eye." Can you find the sink while blind? Can you find it in a few seconds? Are you going to have to cup your hand with a little water at a time and splash your eye while trying to hold it open with the fingers of the other hand? The same goes for the hose. Will you have to find it blind with your hands and go hand over hand to the spigot to turn it on? You'll be permanently blind long before then. You need a LOT of water FAST, but in a gentle stream. Buy something like this and practice using it ahead of time: www.amazon.com/Eye-Wash-Bottle-16-Each/dp/B0002DLB3U Or better yet, have a permanent eye-wash station like this: www.eyewashdirect.com/acorn-s0430-eye-wash-station-c2610302 With the permanent station, when you hit the paddle, the water starts flowing, the lids pop off, and you put your face down into the stream. The water keeps flowing so you have both hands free to pry open a contaminated eye. Again, practice using it. Of course you should also be using rubber gloves and a rubber apron or lab coat or protective suit. If you get lye solution (especially hot solution) on your body in an area not protected by a rubber apron or suit, remove that piece of clothing immediately. Is the clothing below that soaked? Remove it as well. Get naked if you have to. It's better to get naked fast and get washed off quickly than to suffer permanent damage even if 50 people are watching you get naked. Of course you should have some means of rinsing yourself off VERY well and VERY quickly. Dabs of water from the sink are not good enough. You need a shower - ideally a safety shower - which compared to a regular shower is like comparing a fire hose to a garden hose. Jumping in a pool with your clothes on would actually be a pretty good method if you have a pool. Then get undressed underwater. Lab coats are designed to slow down and minimize penetration by harmful substances, but they are not waterproof. If you get lye solution on your lab coat, take that coat off! Make sure it didn't go through the coat! If it did go through, keep removing clothing until you find dry clothing or you're naked! And if it went all the way through to your skin, rinse it off fast! If you get lye on your lye-proof rubber apron or gloves or suit or whatever, rinse that off too, being careful not to spread it somewhere less protected. If you leave the lye on your gloves or apron, it may end up getting transferred from there to somewhere else more vulnerable like your face or to a countertop that you'll touch later while not protected. After your lye experiment, clean your work area thoroughly while wearing proper protective gear. HOT LYE: Lye heats up when it dissolves in water. It can get hot enough to boil VIOLENTLY. When it boils, it can spatter and splash even if you're being very careful not to spill it. If you think, "I don't have to wear goggles because I'm being really careful not to spill any lye!" and you mix it with water and it boils, it can splash hot lye solution several feet away. Hot lye solution dissolves flesh better than room temperature lye solution. Boiling lye solution releases fumes you shouldn't be breathing. It's better not to boil the lye at all, but you should still be in a VERY well ventilated area. Work under a fume hood (not an oven hood) or do your experiment outside with a strong fan blowing away from you. A breathing mask might be a good idea as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fume_hood Boiling lye solution can shatter glassware, especially glassware not intended for laboratory use. When this happens, hot lye solution can splatter all over the place. As noted in the video, lye reacts with aluminum. Use stainless steel or lab-grade glassware or ceramic containers. Really, lye reacts to a certain extent even with stainless steel, but the reaction is minimal.

The inconsistent use of respirators is giving me such mixed messages.

Ooooook.... soooo shows us how to dissolve flesh in hours and then promos a vpn..... what is going on here?

Imagine if Jason just stopped showing up after this episode

8:35... love how he yells "grab the fire extinguisher" as he grabs the torch

Hey the government I’m only here out of curiosity I’m not trying to kill someone

One thing I really love about Modern Rogue is how well the episodes fit into each other. You teach knife throwing which eventually irritated a person, then you teach weapon combat and archery, exactly what I needed then and now you teach us how to not dispose of a body! You're great guys! Next episode should cover how to socially disappear.

Awe it took me back a bit to hear “The King Of Random” in present tense... RIP bud

"they asked for my "lyecense", lmao that went over everyone's heads

Double, double, toil and trouble, lye and aluminum make hydrogen bubbles.

This is the video I was looking for. I keep dissolving bodies wrong - it was getting annoying. I kept having to go out every other day to get another body. Good thing I *had* a lot of annoying neighbors. I found this video very helpful. 10/10.

"How to make the most delicious Pork brown stock"

Next episode on the modren rouge: How to kidnap someone

NSA called, asked what I was doing... Said I was watching KZfaq, didn't really *lye* about it.

I dont always watch the modern rogue, but when i do i get on the FBI's watch list.

Normal Pooh: Mythbusters Classy Pooh: Legend Testers

Modern Rogue = Anarchist Cookbook: The Web Series

so is everyone here on the fbi watch list too

13:09 *wears full body hazmat suit; wipes faces with bone shadows

MR: how to dissolve a body in lye youtube: I'm gonna stop you right there

One of my favorite part of science is that hydrogen is EXTREMELY flammable and is even worse with oxygen but when mixed together it creates something that is used to put out fire!

Hey dear fbi agent. I just wanted you to know that i clicked on this Just because it was in my recommended, and i wanted to see wtf is this, don't send me to jail - with love Potatoe

Please post the failed episode

this was the first video i ever saw of their and i’m happy to say i’ve never gone back! rewatching for nostalgia purposes and loving it

Karen is going to pay for taking my kids

I flinched every time Brian wiped his face with his lye-covered glove.

As someone who works with lye on a semi regular basis to make soaps, when they lit the fire before adding the Sodium Hydroxide, I paused the video just to say: this is gonna be fun, glad they're wearing suits. When lye is added to water, it produces an exothermic reaction, the water will heat to a near boil *ON IT'S OWN*. Adding it to already boiling water is dangerous as hell. If it were me, I'd add the water first, then the lye, wait for the lye/water mix to cool down, gingerly add my "meat", and then begin warming it up. As far as the masks/no masks go. From what I've researched, the gas emitted from mixing the lye/water isn't lethal, but it is noxious as hell and will take your breath away. I wouldn't want to breath it regardless. @ 8:24 - Ahh, soaponification, whether they know it or not, they are making soap (awful and slimy with rotten meat smell, but soap nonetheless). It will go through several stages, the bubbling froth is one of the stages of making soap., then it will go to an applesauce stage, then look like mashed potatoes, then it will start burning if they continue to heat it. It's a bad enough smell with the oils I use, I couldn't imagine what it would be like with rotten meat.

I’m so curious how you guys wear the respirators completely wrong 😂😂

Brian and Jason: throws lye in the aluminum pot Aluminum left the chat

When my neighbour is boiling lye for 2 hours I should probably call police, right?

They asked for your lyecense?

ah, thanks guys, now I can dispose of the body in my basement. Thanks so much!

This was the first Modern Rogue video recommended to me and it's been one hell of a ride so far

When he asked Jason where he got the lye. He should have told a tall tale and then gone "I'm sorry... that was a Lye"

Welcome to the FBI watchlist!

Thanks now I dont have to hide my grandma anymore 10/10

Man, this will forever be one of my favorite episodes.

double double, toil and trouble, pork butt liquefy, monetization double

Better add this to my list of skills that look extremely suspicious when they're all on one list

Dear FBI agent, I’m only watching this for the science lesson, I swear.

Yo, i was searching for a music video and got something way more usefull. Thanks for the tipps, guys this will make my life a lot more easy.

You guys are the Legend Checkers. In this case, you got a "Legend Proven". Otherwise, you get a "Legend Disproven".

As a chemist this makes me very nervous...

I can't tell if clicking this put me on a list or having it recommended was a sign that I was already on a list

Don't mind me, just going to the store to buy a massive steel pot, a can of lye, a propane tank and cooker, and 2 chem suits with respirators.....

Aluminum will break down, Stainless will leach chrome into the solution and glass will very slowly erode. Alkaline fumes aren't choking and acrid like acids, they are progressively blinding instead.

do more legend testing please

"Didn't think about what it was made of" - Have you never seen Breaking Bad?!

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*working with lye* *rubs face with forearm (**13:09**)* Wat.

This channel doesn't get enough attention

the fact I keep coming back to this video has to look awful to whatever fbi agent stalks my phone but this video is too entertaining not to😭

"That was a moment" and "that's a thing that just happened" is now part of my daily vocabulary

"This is now dangerous, super dangerous" Brian then proceeds to dump more lye in. This is why I love you guys, please don't ever stop making these videos!

7:36 no thats just steam, steam from the steamed clams we're having

this video will live on as the first video i ever watched from the modern rogue. good memories

Thank you for the clarification, I needed the help.

Vpns, disolving bodies.... anything you want to talk about there modern rogue ?

This was in my recommendations so I’ve come to the conclusion that KZfaq obviouslyyyy wants me to dissolve a body 👀

"We should probably have eye protection." "What, with the boiling caustic soda?" this is why I love this channel

Thanks for telling us how not to do this so we can- I mean thanks for telling us I definitely am not going to use this to dispose of a body, no why would I do that?

Former Funeral Director here. If you hear of "Water Cremation" or "Resomation", this is what it is. Would love to talk more about it with you!

for the future if you guys work with acids or bases there is a general rule for what they dissolve. Bases are generally better are dissolving organic material (ie flesh) and acids are usually better at inorganic. Obviously both are still dangerous and there are exceptions to every rule but, if like in this, you are on site and want to put something in the mix this will generally tell you what won't melt/will melt.

Thanks dude now I know how to get rid of my enemy without anyone knowing

thank God this popped up today this is a way better choice than cutting it up and putting in different parts of the world and just ugh smh thx for this, saves a lot of time

This was under the Cooking tab on my recommendations.

These guys definitely would be the Dumb and Dumber of criminals hahaha

The ultimate glassware cleaner seems to be 3 parts conc sulfuric acid and 1 part 30% H2O2, also known as piranha solution. I think mythbusters actually used piranha solution in an episode, but blurred out the ingredients for some silly reason. Its commonly used to clean fritted glass or really anything you can only reach with a liquid, but need to "scrub." Its also the last resort of "i'm a chemist, i CAN CLEAN THIS"

In my country in early 1990s one very well known criminal group was killing people for money. They put one of the bodies into metal barrel with lye and water and they dropped it from bridge into dam. After almost 4 years police lifted those barrels and there were still parts of bodies but it was very hard to indetifie indentity of that murdered person. Just a note....that one barrel with lye almost exploded when they traveled on their way to dam, because chemical reaction heated and also inflated this barrel.

As a soap maker who uses lye on a regular basis, so much was done incorrectly. You didn't need fire or heat because Caustic Soda boils when it comes in contact with water. You also need distilled water because the chemicals used to purify water in our water systems can react with lye. NEVER treat a lye burn with vinegar. Use a steady rinse of cold water for 15-30 mins to rinse the lye out of the skin otherwise it will continue to eat through your skin and you will need to seek medical attention. You didn't even really need water to do this. You could have just applied the Caustic Soda onto the meat and it would've eaten through it. PLEASE BE CAREFUL WITH CAUSTIC SODA! Its not a toy.

Would like to see an episode of going off the grid. Would be a pretty good follow-up video if I do say so myself.

just throwing this out there for you. Legend Breakers

You, a simpleton: I wAtCh MyThBuStErS Me, the most intellectual of intellectuals: Legend Testers

Why is this in my recommended....And why do I love these two so much...

Hahaha, I love that testing for the presence of hydrogen = take a blowtorch to it.

I’m googled this.... I’m totally on a watch list now

Finally the 'how to hide a body' vid

Oh dear lord, stop wiping your nose!!!

how did you not die like twenty times?

This is so helpful guys thanks!🙂

Best of Brian’s ideas “Lets start the fire”

maybe this would help me in the future

Boneshadow sounds like the name of one of Gary Marzipan's horses.

Thank you this will be very handy

My mom used to make soap when I was a kid, and there was a bowl of lye on the counter. As a small child, I thought it'd be good to try and drink it, but also as a small child I didn't have the coordination or strength to actually hold it so I luckily didn't get any on my face. It went all over the front of my shirt

The initial treatment in the management of almost all topical chemical burns is extensive irrigation with water. What they are telling you about "neutralizing with vinegar" is completely wrong. Do not play chemist. The only exceptions which you do not use water at first is dry lime, which should be brushed off first, elemental metals that react with water, and phenols.

This is a legitimate means of corpse disposal and is commonly referred to as water cremation or aquamation. It's a really environmentally responsible way to have your corpse disposed of as you aren't putting any casket, vault, embalming fluid from the corpse, etc into the ground and you aren't incinerating the flesh with excessive amounts of heat, and the sludge formed from the flesh is generally safe to flush down a drain into the sewer system. Granted, the actual machine used to do this is a little more complex than cooking a body in a pot of hot lye solution and pouring it down a sink, but the principle is the same. The bone remains are then dried out and pulverized into "ashes" similar to traditional cremation.

Hydroflouric acid entered the chat: I'm not gonna lye, I'm upset you're moving in on my turf...

At 13:10 when he wipes his face I was screaming like my Grandma screams at The Price Is Right.

Now that really is _bone hurting juice_

KZfaq recommendations are never wrong

Heads over the pan breathing in all those lovely Fumes💀

Well, we're all on a list now

I'm getting anxiety just watching how the protective equipment is used here

thank you! now i can finally get rid of the corpse that was rotting in my attic for 2 months!

Yes. I shall use this information to *NOT* commit heinous crimes against humanity, and get away with it! Very cool.