Congrats on 10 years Ben. Yours is one of the first channels that inspired me to make some videos of my own (not to mention the book deal). And I won't feign that my channel's generic-sounding name and orange insignia aren't just a little bit derivative. Here's to 10 more!

dude, your 10 years of youtube content are a credit to humanity. you demonstrate all the best qualities of a person: hard work, intelligence, creativity, curiosity, fearless action, humor, and humility. much thanks for all the amazement and inspiration! *respect.*

I can only imagine the reaction of his 2011 audience: " Next week we will diverge a little from our usual content, and instead of baking a new cake, I will show you how to build your very own electron scanning microscope!"

The honesty and effort in this channel is much appreciated!

"Doing a phase-change is one of the party tricks that I was known for" what an incredibly interesting sentence

What you put on this website in 10 years would take me 100. The amount of human knowledge on display is truly staggering, and your straightforward and candid presentation has doubtless inspired thousands to try their hand at seemingly impossible tasks. Thank you.

What drew me to you was the fact that you're a maker who didn't stop at LED's

2 years down already, 8 more to go til part 2. Can’t tell you how much we appreciate you and what you do. You’re one the only reasons I watch KZfaq. The rest are the likeminded creators who comment here occasionally

2:10 *let’s all take a moment to appreciate that Applied Science was one of the FIRST people on social media and internet video archives to share how to make a fondant cakes and etc* . And started the tiktok Snapchat and instagram bakery confectionary scene literally years before there were tens of millions of videos and millions upon millions of flashy colorful baked goods videos

Easily one of the most impressive efforts of a single person reproducing science AND we get to watch. Here’s to another 10 years!

Way to go on ten years!

The fact that you don't have 10 million subscribers is proof positive that this site's algorithm does not select for quality or information value. You're the best practical science videographer on the planet.

10 years of the best content on YT. Thanks Ben.

Congratulations on 10 years to one my my favorite KZfaqrs! Have you ever thought about doing any projects with Terahertz radiation emitters and detectors (like those in airport body scanners)? I feel like it's one of those things with very little information about online, and would be really cool if you can pull it off in a home shop. Industrial devices are really expensive and not easily accessible. Seems like the perfect formula for your channel!

10 years! There are several videos I need to go back and watch. I love the idea that you originally just wanted to show something on the internet doesn't really seem to be showcased. I try to keep track of those moments where I'm searching for inspiration for something, a project, etc. and there just doesn't seem to be any information on the subject. I know its something I should do, or build, myself.

Ben, your channel has long been one of my absolute favorites, not just for the content (which is amazing) but also your somewhat “no frills” approach to video post-production. You present information clearly, intelligently, and in a manner that doesn’t patronize or lecture your audience. It’s reminiscent of having a cool neighbor or cousin who’s always got a project going, and wants to show you something interesting in his garage shop-and I mean that in the most complimentary way. Also, I sincerely appreciate a channel that doesn’t overtly clickbait, and doesn’t need a minute-long, boilerplate, intro/extro sequence. I wish more creators would just abruptly end videos with “See ya next time, bye!” ...that makes me smile every time. Your methodology and projects drew me in of course, but the video style kept me coming back for more. Applied Science, Practical Engineering, and NileRed remain tied for my three favorite channels. Keep up the amazing work, and thanks for all you do!

10 years! Nice achievement! BTW, there WAS a video of someone pouring LOx onto a lit barbecue that I saw about 25 years ago. George Goble from Purdue University, the inventor of one of the first HFC's to replace CFC's in refrigeration, published a video of himself pouring a gallon of LOx onto a barbecue. He did it a couple of times the same year - until the local fire department asked him not to do it again.

every apprentice had to make a masterpiece to be accepted by his peers as a qualified craftsman. the microscope was your magnus opus announcing yourself to the world. Congratulations on some incredible content. And have another ten years of amazing machines.

A cool video would be discussing some of the most challenging things you've overcome to complete a project, or interesting solutions to problems.

Too bad the cookie individualizer wasn't all that well received. That video introduced me to Applied Science and is one of my favorites.

Either the "Pop rock" or the "Super critical CO2" is what got me onto this channel.

My personal favorite : - How corrosion inhibitors protect metal - Electro-osmosis - DIY Raman Spectroscopy - DIY Mass Spectrometer measuring potassium in dietary salt substitute You mentioned tMS, but what about doing a project on tDCS?

"at home" gets me every time .. love your projects, you're a real world "Reodor Felgen" which is just the coolest character ever.

personally, the glass making video has always been my favorite

Dude you don't even know how much good you brought to the world by doing what you like :)

For what it's worth, I thought that your cookie machine was one of your best projects to date. I'm a hardcore engineer, so this one really hit home.

My favorite thing about this channel is what you said near the beginning of the video: every video you've posted has explored something I've never heard of before. My introduction to your channel was the electron microscope video. Before then, it hadn't even occurred to me that a person could build something like that solo, without hundreds of thousands of dollars in parts. And the detailed, meticulous, scientific way you go about things is just as much a pleasure to watch now as it was back then. Congratulations on 10 years, and many happy returns!

Food videos are always easier for the general public to relate and somewhat understand. The astronaut icecream one is probably my favorite to this day.

I'm happy there's an upload

Thanks for 10 years! The mention of Maker Faire brings back a lot of good memories. I very much miss Maker Faire and still hope one day they can bring it back.

We really stand on the shoulders of giants. It's incredible to see how your videos and your creations helped spawn so many other amazing videos and creators. It's almost poetic.

'The cake is NOT a lie' Finally. I had waited so long.

Your best project in my opinion are... all them. But that from sputtering are one that I watching about 100 times.

My favorite was the cryogenic treatment of drill hits personally

I actually really loved the cookie machine. Its such an interesting idea, and it really showed the development process that goes into a brand new piece of equipment.

other channels have tons of video. But in this channel, the content quality is the standard of engineering and creative work in KZfaq

I had no idea you worked at Valve. That’s pretty awesome! Congrats on 10 years!

My favourites: - vacuum chamber with sputtering. - the cold trap refrigerator thing. - the magneto-optical effect of oil - silicon wafer etching. -hologram on chocolate AND - the AM transmitter thing in the vintage truck.

I'm still waiting for you to turn the Delorean into an actual time machine. :p

The water jet is what brought me here years ago. Everything else kept me here.

At around 11:30 imagine Ben passing through customs with such a machine… LOL! Love you Ben!

I remember when I first found your channel, siting in my parents basement around 2014, probably a bit hungover. Watched every video you had at the time, and sent the channel to everyone I knew who might enjoy it. Still to this day while I get a ton of youtube notifications, when I see one from Applied Science, the next moment I have time I know that's the video to watch. Congratulations on the last ten years and here's to the next ten!

A cool idea would be to talk more about how you choose your projects, the difficulties that we as viewers might be not aware of and the channel in general. Are there any projects that you worked on, but didn’t finish that never ended up on KZfaq? What topics would you cover if you had unlimited time/resources/equipment?

Congratulations! You are a great inspiration. The aerogel experiments brought me to your channel

_"Doing a phase change in front of everyone became one of the party tricks that i was known for."_ *Hydro-Man confirmed*

I wasn't here ten year ago, neither five years ago but I am glad to watch you now and also to see what you have done in so many years

cake videos --> engineer videos --> mukbang videos?

It's a crime this man doesn't have 10 million subscribers yet. KZfaq's algorithm must be broken.

Imagine that viewer eagerly waiting for the next cake video and there's a SEM instead. And not one cake video (apart from some sweets) afterwards! Now we know where those 2 dislikes come from.

10:20 Claire is frequently overwhelmed and "aghast" at what she is being asked to do.

The first video I ever watched of yours was the Rubber Band Refrigerator. It was featured in some article like the Verge or something and it drew me in. Been subscribed ever since.

Congratulations. A true engineer finding out cool things and publishing then for free on the internet.

Your videos on sputtering and supercritical CO2 brought me here, and you've been one of my favorite channels ever since. I've been lucky enough to watch you as pure edu-tainment in high school, all the way to using you as a resource/inspiration in my professional engineering/R&D career. You provide an amazing service to the world by democratizing techniques and knowledge that would otherwise be inaccessible due to obscurity or obfuscation, and I for one can't thank you enough. Here's hoping for another 10 years!

I like your ethos of 'It's not always about the result, but about the journey there' - we try to teach that in our school to aspiring engineers.

ben we need your videos now more than ever. youtube is so dry, and people need science in their lives now more than ever

thanks for staying true to the cause, providing quality content and not turning to advertising in your videos!

The Apollo DSKY gets my vote. It was the first of Bens videos I watched and I would have thrown my toys out of the pram at escape velocity over that one. I am *so* glad we have more content on the way! Ben rocks. Well, pop rocks... :-)

I, for one, really liked the idea of the cookie machine. The recipe on the back of the chocolate chips isn't optimized for making the best possible cookie, but for making a good cookie that's easy to make. My favorite recipe uses browned butter and more egg yolks than whites. Neither of those things are going to show up on the chocolate chip package. If I were to design a cookie testing machine, I would have a separate feeder for egg whites and yolks, try different ratios of brown butter to regular butter, and I would use all white sugar and have a molasses feeder rather than messing with white sugar, light brown sugar and dark brown sugar. Another of my favorite projects was the water jet cutter. Interestingly, there's now a desktop water jet cutter commercially available. It's more expensive than your setup, but it has its own CNC gantry, so you don't have to own one to bolt it to. It's still out of reach for most hobbyists at $8k though. I have been hearing about people building laser water jets in their home shops. That would be an interesting project, not sure anyone's documented that on KZfaq yet.

Have no clue how this guy is still under a million subs. Nothing but pure gold here.

Sick at home and watching KZfaq videos. In all honesty, I had put this video at the bottom of the pile - I've been disappointed far too often by such remix videos - and now finally, after running out of things to watch, I got around to it and WOW! What a great surprise. Thanks Ben, and I'm sorry I treated your video with such disdain. I was very, very wrong!

The quality of your videos is not only about your skills and knowledge, but showing interesting things that you are passionate about. So what I like most is that you are not doing it for the views, but the content. Thank you!

I am also a Silicon Valley Engineer and this is my FAVORITE youtube channel!

Feels like yesterday when I watched Dave Jones' EEVBlog and something prompted me to search for Electrical Impedence explanation videos. Thankfully, some dude called Ben K. delivered. Boy, did he deliver. I came to learn about AC, stayed for the electron microscopes and food experiments. Never change, Ben.

5:33 😂😂😂😂😂 your face when you ran it was great man been chuckling to myself

five years ago the head of the robot team at work suggested you, not disappointed. You see the atomic world and explain it magnificently , The cavity mixing laser, and the double cycle fridge, I would be interested to see more cold experiments . I think these are not as popular as making plasma but maybe a more unexplored domain ?Love your work,

Congrats 10 years of Applied Science channel! It is one of the best science channels of all time. You made sophisticated science much lot simpler to understand. Warm thanks for your efforts Ben!

Your channel and AvE are two of my favourite channels on KZfaq. Cheers, Buddy B!!! Here's to another 10!

the most underrated science channel on youtube

One channel that is most awaited and most unexpected, both, in terms of timing and the subject matter. That's why I love it! I wish Jeri Ellsworth made guest appearances. She's the reason I'm here.

To think you could have followed the cake-making route instead of creating one of the most interesting applied science videos on KZfaq! Congrats on the milestone and the success of your Applied Science channel! ~

I have personally always liked your way of just throwing a new video at the channel with usually a random, but interesting topic. The rather wide arrangement of topics makes the channel somewhat interesting, and the fact that each video is having some proper time being spent on it, instead of rushed to meet some release schedule is honestly making things better. To a degree I partly do the same, but way worse... And my lack of video editing patience and that the camera is eating my footage isn't aiding things either. For better or worse I have found myself holding back the real large and interesting video ideas I have out of fear that they won't turn out sufficiently good, then there is the fact that talking to a camera makes one think in the moment, forgetting details, overlooking things, and generally making a fool of oneself. Usually when one works or explains something, one doesn't have the same time crunch as when one attempts to make a more or less concise video about the topic. I have recently figured that a lot of technical channels do voice overs for logical reasons.

Love ya man, love this channel! Glad I can be a part of it!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane Ben. You and Jeri were my favorites back then.

There is many videos I haven't seen, but need to see. Glad you had this retrospective. I always refer to this channel as "Ben over at Applied Science" as it's done so by other channels I watch. And it's really outstanding content

Great work, happy to be on this ride.

Awesome projects and videos. Boy, do I miss Maker Faire. We should try to revive that thing.

Honestly, this channel is far above great... As a scientist working of a huge pharmaceutical company I am amazed on how you build stuff that we buy for ridiculous prices... I use your videos to teach apprentices

I've been with you since the first SEM. The rubber band fridge is one of my all time favorite videos of yours.

Congrats, Ben. It´s my favorite KZfaq channel for almost 10 years.

WOW! The first video I watched of yours was the homebrew SEM! Your channel blew me away, and I told many of my friends and co-workers about your channel! I've been watching it ever since! Here's to the next 10 years sir!!

Sitting here, in one of the five 2gen teespring-shirts that I bought off your channel back in 2017 (the 2014 one was nearly falling apart at that time) - I'm still madly envious of your skill and your shop. But I'm slowly getting there, learning skill after skill, to some day be able to build my own crappy homemade SEM. Keep it up! I'm a patron of your channel and I would not have been mad to pay you for making this throwback. Thanks for sharing these amazing videos.

I really enjoyed the cookie making machine series. If I remember correctly, the issue you ran into was that the viewers who were bakers discussed that the order and method of operations (mixing, proofing, baking) could change a cookie in significant ways (texture, flavor, etc), and so while your machine was impressive (it was), it only considered the variable of ingredients. At least, that's what I inferred from the comments.

What I find nice about your videos is that you focus on the process of getting to the results and showing that most ideas don't work out right away. Looking at the ususal high-gloss project video it seems like everything is easy and straightforward, and that thinking sets you up for failure in doing an actual project yourself.

Curiosity unleashed! And I agree heartily with some of the previous comments that it's not just the ideas but the humanity with which you explore them that make your videos so worthwhile. Keep 'em coming!

Ben, ma man, congratulations and happy anniversary! But honestly, I was expecting significantly more background and behind-the-scene stories in this episode. Please, take a note of this small comment of mine when it comes to the 20 years of Applied Science.

EASILY the most sharply intelligent, deeply knowledgeable, and highly talented scientific content on this website. An instant favorite since I found it a decade ago and it remains at the top of the list today. My only criticism is the same one as I have with Tech Ingredients; I'd love to see longer follow up videos of some of the projects, eg. with the Raman scattering spectrometer and Zeeman effect stuff. All the same, I still always drop everything to watch every new video even if it's on a topic I'm not super into. Keep it up! .....still waiting for that homebrew MRI / NMR tho...😉

I remember when the channel was just Ben Krasnow. I think I was one of the first 1000 subs. So that means I've been watching you for 10 years? Crazy. Keep up the good work!

Only 250 videos? The information density of each video is crazy with how much I feel like I've learned from this channel.

Transcranial stimulation...Ben! don't mess with one of my most favorite brains on the planet.

Congrats on 12 years (late to the party, I know). I have long been a fan of your videos, and am putting together a list of the best youtube channels I have found, while including a video to showcase "typical" videos. I chose this one to show off. You really have quite an inspirational channel, Ben, and I'm glad that I could observe your journey!

Realizing this now was an entire decade made me feel older than i want to admit :D

I pick this one as the best channel on KZfaq, no question. Please keep going Ben.

Best channel in the history of KZfaq!

I started watching your videos in middle school. Now am a practicing aerospace engineer. Time flys

Congratulations on 10 years, Ben. A truly excellent channel, and content that will be relevant long into the future. 73, M1GEO.

Found your channel somewhere around the critical CO2 video and still to date is one of my favorite channels. You are excellent at walking through really complex subjects and extremely humble with your wealth of knowledge. I admire your ingenuity, curiosity and humility. Congratulations to 10 years and many more to come!

Glad you are still making videos, I've enjoyed every single one and some of my college classes have referenced your videos!

How many of you wish you had a friend like this guy to hang around with and just build anything ? I wonder what his forts and tree houses looked like as a kid lol.

I’m down for another one of these. I don’t have time to watch all of your videos so it’s great to see a lot of them in one pace. For the videos that I have seen it’s still fun to re-experience them.

What!? I hadn't seen any of the videos you mentioned in this video!?! How is this possible??? Going to watch your entire back catalogue now.