This man has pretty much every type of equipment he needs for chemistry but has to cut pizza with a spoon.

he’s getting closer and closer to becoming a real life flint lockwood

I like how his solution to food chains no longer selling his favorite food was not to learn how to make them, but to freeze a finite amount indefinitely.

This guy's commitment to recipes in labs and shear avoidance of recipes in kitchens is commendable.

NileRed is calm and collected, NileBlue is flash freezing a hole in your floor.

Because of how Nile reacts to horrible smells, I don't trust him at all when he says, "It actually tastes fine".

absolute favorite bit of this video is nile saying "hey guys, you guys want some... food?" with a distinct pause before saying 'food' (25:56 ish)

Love the way you watered and sprayed the General Tso like a plant lol.

I like to think that Nile's weak sense of taste and smell come from his childhood chemistry experiments in his parents' garage

Nigel: Disappears to build his fancy new lab. Also Nigel: Proceeds to ruin his lab with liquid N2.

Seeing Nigel teleport to grab the Liquid Nitrogen is genuinely one of the greatest frights I've experienced in a while 6:15

"That was my fortune" Bro was so sad

as informative and polished as the content on NileRed is, i genuinely enjoy the unhinged, fuck around and find out direction NileBlue has taken. NileRed is what you publish to a scientific paper, and NileBlue is what you actually did in the lab screwing around while you waited on reactions and instruments to finish running 😂

I sort of feel like the cracked and broken pizza is a pretty nice visual metaphor for Nigel trying so desperately to preserve his memories of childhood.

NileRed: That would be EXTREMELY DANGEROUS... NileBlue: *casually walks through liquid nitrogen*

A chemist who can’t cook is the most cartoon character trait out there

Reggie serves a critical function not only as the cameraman, but as the man who goes outside regularly enough to recognize a sin against nature while it is in progress.

"Pizza time" he whispers to himself as he puts a freeze dried, crumbled mess that once resembled a pizza in a steamer to rehydrate it, like its not the most unhinged and insane thing someone ever did. Love it

18:18 it’s called steaming the food Nile lol bless your heart 😂

Poor Nile, truly devastating. That ‘I understand’ came from the heart.

Nile is the only person who can say, ‘that’s the worst thing I’ve ever tasted’ with a straight face and continuing to chew.

NileRed: Takes all precautions to make sure there are no accidents NileBlue: Directly pours liquid nitrogen into a plastic bin

It's amazing how much the food looks like it's being deep fried

If you microwave food (especially ones prone to getting dry and chewy) use a small dish of warm water NEXT to the dish containing food in the microwave. The steam in the air helps a huge amount. Secret for cooking great and moist cakes, cookies and muffins/cupcakes in the oven; do the same thing putting the small hot water dish in a low level tray of the oven way below the food tray level, the steam makes a perfect and moist result (taught to me by a passionate, big name donut consultant).

Nigel: "Putting food in the freezer gives it freezer burn and I think that's bad" Also Nigel: *busts out liquid nitrogen*

nigel is deffinitely the guy that would do all this instead of just learning how to cook the food yourself

I would love to see another attempt at doing this, except the next time around you do all the food separately and measure the before and after weights to be able to determine how much water was lost in the process

I love both channels, keep it up man. You're doing great

nigel: makes grape soda from gloves also nigel: cuts pizza with a spoon smh

Nile literally had a Heinz Doofenshmirtzin moment explaining the sad problems he is facing and used the power of science to solve it

What a brilliantly, delightfully absurd premise, simultaneously fun and instantly accessible by the audience. Wonderful video!

I love that he did all this work just to reinvent the MRE

NileRed is the chemistry channel while NileBlue is the alchemy channel

There's something horrifying about Nile pouring water onto the chicken and commenting, *"It's so thirsty"*

Typically people keep recipes alive by learning how to cook it. Lol love y'all

Every video I've seen on this channel has made me question existence. keep up the good work :)

NileBlue leaving food reviews like "This is 100% edible"

NileBlue in the future: "I don't want to lose anymore of my friends, so I found a way to preserve them."

Nile: General Towel Everyone Else: General Tso

My understanding is that flash freezing the food very quickly keeps the ice crystals small so they don't grow much and puncture the cell walls like slower freezing does. This is supposedly very important to keep the food from rehydrating into mush. If trying this again, I would suggest weighing the food before going through the process, then weighing again before rehydrating in order to know exactly how much boiling water to add. It would also be interesting to see what happens with uncooked/unprocessed food.

My man is grieving this chicken chipotle wrap more than I've seen people grieve family members

Reggie: *genuinely concerned* “Why is it bending like that?” Nile: *laughs*

I knew you were in my province, now know my city! Love it. Love your vids !

I think you should give props to reggie cause his choice was really interesting and i though it would not work at all! The fact it stayed together in the freeze step was mind-blowing m

Finally... Nile has turned "uncooked" from an adjective into a past tense verb.

regular people: gets the recipes for their favorite foods neil: imortal food

This is a sad thing I've had to come to grips with as an American as I've gotten older. My favorite restraunts were local ethnic restraunts. My favorite was a chinese restaurant it turns out some friends of mines parents owned. You think it will be there forever but a time comes when it closes. My friends, son and daughter of the owners, obviously aren't going to keep it open as they are very well educated college graduates and their parents worked hard so they could have better lives. I've had this happen a few times with family owned restraunts, makes me appreciate them a bit more.

Great video! Would be awesome to see you revisit this concept with other techniques!

Nile makes being a mad scientist sound not that bad.

Picturing Nigel just watering his chicken and rice as part of his daily routine just cracks me up

my word this channel is prolific gold.

Thank you for these amazing videos they are great ideas

This is the most “man refuses to learn how to cook” moment I’ve seen in at least 3 weeks😂

Nigel can turn gloves into fruit juice but cuts pizza with a spoon. I am not believing that Nigel is a real human

Love the videos, Nile. Know this is an older upload and ya probably won't see the comment- along with how this project is far gone by now, but coming back to this video, re-watching it, and thinking about it, ya should have put the solid food back into a vacuum with water, forcing it to absorb up the water.

This just made me hungry. Nothing else to say other than this is SO AWSOME!!!

Man Nigel needs to hang out with US military food scientists. They've spent decades trying to get shelf stable pizza right and achieved "basically edible".

i genuinely thought he'd learn food chemistry. Not in a million years would I expect him to do this

This is one of my favorite videos of your, so funny haha

you just got a new sub!!!!!! love the channle btw

For the entire video, I genuinely thought that they'd just written NileBlue with a marker on top of some masking tape and just stuck it on a normal black shirt for the humor of it. That is beautiful. It fits this channel perfectly

Nile breaking his bucket AND his floor with liquid nitrogen, continuing the streak of NileBlue videos being the most haphazard science videos on KZfaq

Keep up the good work!

The man behind the camera knows what questions to ask and I love it

Nothing got me like Nile watering chicken and saying "but it's so thirsty"

"I'm worried the pizza is gonna explode" is how I'd summarize nileblue in one sentence

9:30 The most reassuring I think it's fine ever

Watching Nile loading his lunch into a lab grade freeze drier while wearing all the necessary safety equipment was the peak point of my day.

I feel like I'm gonna need to talk to my therapist about how uncomfortable the words 'the chicken looks a bit glassy' make me feel

Here is a thought. Measure the weight of each item before and after freeze drying, then you will be able to calculate how much water is needed to rehydrate. Smaller chunks rehydrate better. Separate the rice and other items so you can rehydrate separately. I am interested in freeze dried foods because of backpacking.

Thinking on this, there was definitely a better way to get it to work. A moisture % check beforehand would've been helpful to the end result

I really wish you would re visit this. You could potentially change how the world stores and eats food, also the cost of keeping the food stored would drastically be reduced. If you ever seen Back to the Future when the mom puts the tiny pizza in the micro wave and it comes out full sized, I am certain that following this path would eventually lead you to that or even a branched idea, relative to our time and technology. I'd like to know what happened to the nutrition content after the process. I understand this method is used, however there aren't any cheap ways to make it. Hoping with more work you could possibly come up with something conventional that could be sold to the general public. We know business like money, and because of that, it halts our progress and technology to keep people paying, I guess it would be nice to see a civilian bring it to life and essentially show the world were we should be at. Great Video, Very Entertaining.

Nile: Has almost every chemistry tool he will ever need Also Nile: uses spoon to cut the pizza

I thought something you might want to consider is weighing the food before and after to know the amount of moisture that was lost in the process. That way, when rehydrating it, you won't do so with too much or too little water. Sorry if someone has already suggested this.

"i'm afraid the pizza is going to explode" me too man... me too.

23:34 I didnt know waist high microwaves were a thing people did😂

Generally, when reconstituting freeze dried food, you want to weigh the food before and after the drying process and add that much water back, usually by pouring hot water over the food and letting it stand for 10 to 15 minutes. Reconstitution also works better on smaller pieces or powderized food, as the water is able to penetrate faster and allows for more even hydration.

Honestly I love how NileRed is the channel for very dry, tedious and meticulous general chemistry.. And then you have food chemistry with Nile Blue, which is just a non-stop slapstick tragicomedy of finding out

love your videos 👍👍

I like how he likens a lot of it to the instant versions when this is likely the same principles for how they’re made (probably lacking the liquid nitrogen). Theoretically, I wonder if liquid nitrogen introduces flavour into it.

I feel like when Nigel walks into the office with a plate of food for you to test without any context, you have reason to be concerned

The stabbing open of the boba, the chaotic liquid nitrogen incident, the slicing of the pizza with a spoon... I'm thinking we need a survival video of Nigel trying to brave the outdoors. By himself. It would be hilarious. Sorry😂😂

I love seeing the ferrofluid art in the office background!

this is why the kids from back to the future were so impressed with mom's pizza rehydrating skills

Additional change that could help with the rehydration step: Since adding heat cooks the food, you could use a piezoelectric transducer to create a fog without any heat, allowing you to reintroduce moisture without cooking the food. Joelcreates made a video with that idea changing toast back to standard bread (the reverse toaster)

Nigel and his cameraman's interactions are my favorite part, they have such good chemistry

New favorite cooking channel😂

There's an easier way to have food from places that have shut down. Learn how to cook and make your own :). However, I give you points for trying the hard way :) I do enjoy these videos, informative and fun. Keep up the good work young man :)

The part where the pizza got all gross and stuff reminded me about how military scientists struggled for years to try and make an MRE stable pizza, and all of them came out looking identical to what Nile had in the steamer lmao

I love the “I want objective opinions” followed by an immediate “I did not like those opinions” XD

Here's an idaa for a solution: in order to reincorporate the moisture back into the food, you could use a humidifier but the process would likely be too slow and requires that water penetrate through the surface, causing that unpleasant texture you're experiencing. As an alternative, I would suggest something that in principle, lies between the concept of exciting water molecules using microwaves which normally heats food and either using a different wavelength or type of frequency, to utilize principles of acoustic resonance where something like vibrations of the food allow the reintroduced water molecules to pass eventhly as it rehydrates the food. It's kind hard to explain without spending more time looking up the exact sciences behind it, but hopefully you get the idea, where it's a type of osmotic treatment.

You can try to re-hydrate by cooling the hot steam and condensing it onto the food so it doesn't get accidentally cooked...

Regular people dealing with adulthood: that sucks, anyways. Nile: I WILL PRESERVE MY CHILDHOOD USING SCIENCE.

Seeing someone who is so good with chemistry have so little cooking intuition is hilarious.

I really like the way you opened this video it was hilarious 😂. "Un" half of my diet is gone..lmao.👍I really needed a good laugh today thank you..😊

3:10 Glorious edit!

you know... most houses nowadays come with their own special labs where you can perform chemistry experiments that you can eat!? they even come with their own kinds of lab aprons, gloves and glassware. you usually don't need protective eyeware, though. unless you're cutting onions.

Imagine just dealing with discontinued food menus by just learning how to cook them

this whole time i thought it was some kind of bit where he put masking tape over his nilered shirt but the ending had me amazed!

3:09 That transition deserves extra love.