This man will turn you in to a pop tart if you call him a nerd

“Is this hot sauce organic?” “It’s handmade.”

I love the way he talks. At any point you have no idea if the sentence is gonna lead into ‘it didnt work at all” or “it worked flawlessly.” Idk how you manage to make chemistry tense.

I love to watch these videos while I sew, because sewing can sometimes be very frustrating but whenever I feel like giving up Nile Red says something like "Well I lost everything I spent a week working on but that's just how it is sometimes. Anyway"

For centuries, alchemists had been trying to turn lead into gold. Little did they know, it wasn't lead that could be turned into gold, it was plastic gloves.

Cashier: "What are you buying so much vanilla sugar for?" Nilered: "Hot Sauce."

I love how he gets so far into the rabbit hole, that the molecule doesn't even have a name, so he just calls it "molecule 1".

Watching these is fun, but watching these as a chemistry student is even more, because sometimes you'll be like "Hey, I know this reaction, I did it last week".

Friend: Damn what’s this sauce made of? Nile: gloves and vanilla…… Friend: …

This is actual fucking alchemy. Imagine a wizard coming to solve your kingdom's hot sauce shortage in exchange for a million pounds of plastic gloves.

As soon as I had seen the Potassium Permanganate, a big smile came across my face. I work in water treatment and we use it to remove iron and magnesium from the raw water. It's nice to see a familiar chemical for a change lol

This video really shows you how chemistry is just replacing one thing with another thing 30 different times until you can finally get the thing you want out

I love how chemistry is a nice mix of "this has to be exactly perfect or it won't work" and "just eyeball it dude it'll be fine"

Nile Red 5 years from now; "I was looking at a lizard, and it occurred to me that since most creatures are just mostly made of water and carbon, I could design my own sentient species"

Science is so beautiful. It's like "I don't know what to do, but this paper says 'do this' - so I did it, and it worked." I just love this.

After just two videos, I am thoroughly convinced that chemists are the most patient people in the world.

Imagine Nigel being interviewed at Hot Ones and bringing his own hot sauce from gloves and vanilla.

"If you could bring one food with you on a desert island, what would it be?" Nilered: "Plastic gloves"

Vanillin amine hydrochloride (C8H9NO2 · HCl) can be synthesized through the reaction of vanillin and ammonia, followed by treatment with hydrochloric acid (HCl). The process involves several steps, but overall it is a relatively safe and straightforward procedure. Here's a detailed recipe for producing vanillin amine hydrochloride: 1. Obtain necessary materials: - Vanillin (C8H8O3) - Ammonia solution (NH4OH, 25% w/w) - Hydrochloric acid (HCl, 37% w/w) - Methanol (CH3OH) - Ethyl acetate (C4H8O2) - Two strong, airtight containers with stoppers - Three beakers or round-bottomed flasks of appropriate size (e.g., 250 mL or larger) - Magnetic stirrer and stir bars - Distilled water - Ice - Filter paper and vacuum filtration apparatus - Rotary evaporator or other suitable method for solvent removal 2. Prepare a solution of vanillin in methanol: a. Measure out 50 grams of vanillin and place it in a beaker or round-bottomed flask. b. Add 150 mL of methanol to the beaker or flask, stirring until all the solid has dissolved. c. Attach a magnetic stir bar to the beaker or flask and stir the solution at moderate speed. 3. React vanillin with ammonia: a. Slowly add 50 mL of ammonia solution (25% w/w) to the vanillin-methanol solution while stirring. The mixture will become cloudy and start to release gas as it reacts. b. Continue stirring the mixture for several minutes, allowing the reaction to complete. c. Carefully pour the resulting solution into a second beaker or flask, using filter paper or a separatory funnel to remove any solid residues. 4. Convert vanillin amine to hydrochloride salt: a. Add 50 mL of hydrochloric acid (37% w/w) to the filtered solution, stirring until it has mixed thoroughly. The mixture will become cloudy and may release gas as it reacts. b. Continue stirring for several minutes, allowing the reaction to complete. c. Carefully pour the resulting solution into a third beaker or flask, using filter paper or a separatory funnel to remove any solid residues. 5. Purify vanillin amine hydrochloride: a. Wash the filtered solid with distilled water, stirring until it has dissolved and then filtering again. Repeat this process several times to ensure that all impurities have been removed. b. Carefully remove any residual solvent using a rotary evaporator or other suitable method. c. Dry the purified vanillin amine hydrochloride in an oven at approximately 60°C for several hours, until it has reached constant weight.

You seem like a very fun guy to have as a friend. And not just because of the science experiments, those are just bonuses

Lab safety rules: "always use gloves when conducting experiments." Nile: "Oh, ok."

"It is possible for it to explode in a giant fireball" "So anyways...." Never change Nile, never change

I love when those silly little juices change color

Has the confidence in his chemistry to turn gloves into hot sauce but not in his cooking to roast his own peppers 😅

Served at NileRed's party: * chicken wings with plastic gloves hot sauce * toilet paper moonshine * grape soda also made from plastic gloves * diamonds infused soda water * cotton candy made from cotton balls * french fries fried in soap oil

“I’m usually bad at cooking, but I thought that this is so incredibly simple it can’t possibly be bad.” - NileRed, a Chemist, who works with mixing potentially dangerous chemicals in very specific sensitive amounts for a living.

40:02 when everything is going perfectly but you still have a 3rd of the video left

This man is immune to "touch grass", hed probably find a way to make it out of paper

if i had a nickel every time nilered made something edible out of gloves, i’d have 2 nickels, which is not a lot but it’s weird it happened twice

Ingredients 2 roast peppers 1/4 onion 1 garlic clove 1 teaspoon of salt 1 gram of nordihydrocapsaicin If your having trouble with that last ingredient here is a simple guide

"It's right on that threshhold.... of being completely inedible." LMFAO i love it

I personally love rewatching your videos. your presentation, personality, the honesty/humor that comes with mistakes and your concise way of explaining.. it revives the HS sophomore year chemist in me 🥹 always excited to see an upload from you!!

I can only imagine the interaction of buying that much vanilla sugar. "So... You own a bakery..?" "I'm making hotsauce." "With vanilla sugar?" "And gloves."

dang now i have a huge respect for hot sause companies, they must buy millions of gloves a year to make hot sauce, then they have to follow this guys instructions for hours on end just to make a few bottles, mad respect to them

When he tasted it, in my mind he was ACTUALLY eating vinyl glove and some vanilla sugar 😭

16:49 yes... Dry the liquid.

Just a cautious FYI for anyone making their own hot sauce: I didn't see Nile add any vinegar at the end (although there was some in the peppers). Botulonium toxin grows in anerobic environments greater than 4.7pH, and is commonly detected when people improperly preserving things like chopped garlic in oil. I don't imagine this sauce would be particularly safe to consume after a couple of weeks unless refrigerated. Also, be sure to sterilise whatever bottle you use!

Nature: "Look, I spend millions of years evolving chili peppers!" Nilered: "Hold my gloves."

Every time he says “and I turned on the hot plate” my brain says “that’s right, it goes in the square hole”

"I transferred it to a smaller beaker....then when all the methanol has evaporated, I transferred it to an even smaller one." The most normal sentence in this channel 😂😂

Nile: “It was a little cloudy” Me: “let me guess, separator funnel?” Nile: “so I put it in a flask” Me: “hmm, smart, wise move. That’s what I was thinking all along.”

"I'm sweating, I'm covered in sauce, my mouth hurts... and... I- I think this was exactly how it was supposed to end." is a line that makes me laugh more than some phrases that are even *intended* to be jokes

I Just LOVE that his reasoning for this video was "Hmm... they look vaguely similar"

I know you won't see this Nile but this was the COOLEST thing I have ever seen. I was blowned to see how we can actually use organic chemistry like that, it was amazing 🤓

NileRed was so enthralled by the question of whether he _could,_ he never stopped to think if he _should..._

Nilered needs to start a cooking channel and keep the format exactly the same

This is very similar to the experiment I saw in high school. It is the closest I have found. The one I saw collected the gasses separately and tested with flame and glowing splint. Then the experiment was performed again to rejoin the gasses with electricity. The only dissapointment I had was that the pipette tip was put under water, so it isn't clear that water did not get forced back up from the petri dish.

it’s 1am and i just at a 250g bar of chocolate and i do feel like throwing up so im kinda dizzy and watching this feels like a acid trip

"Do we have hot sauce?" Nigel: **slowly holds up box of gloves**

Now for the final part of the trilogy: *“Turning grape soda into plastic gloves, then turning them into hot sauce”*

I love how you're phrasing the entire process like you're about to take an angle grinder and a welder and get to work on the molecule until it's kinda the shape you want.

24:17 “I wasn’t exactly sure how many to get, but I figured 18 was a descent amount.” Classic Nile

“Damn, this sauce tastes great! How’d you make it?” Nile, sweating: a chef never reveals his recipe

I love how Nile only talks in past tense hypothetical so you never know if an experiment worked until the very end.

I love the mixture of emotions going on in Nigel as he "confirmed" it was indeed spicy. lol You can see that moment in his eyes where he goes, "Oh, oh no.. it's.. it's not stopping.. is this going to be a problem?? *HIC* Oh fu---".

What's absolutely hilarious to me is the actual amount of switching stuff from one container to another and stirring that chemistry actually is. We had it right as kids

I find it fascinating that I can watch an 1 hour video without understanding anything and not be bored

Nigel: Is supposedly bad at cooking Also Nigel: Can make a full meal from plastic gloves, bars of soap, and toilet paper.

I fell asleep watching videos about drawing and a couple hours later this is a comprehensive guide on how to turn Plastic Gloves into Hot Sauce. While this shows how flawed the algorithm is, I fucking love it.

59:16 ... This is the moment where super villains or super heroes are created.

This man spent 2 years trying to make a single bottle of hot sauce out of gloves and vanilla. His dedication is incredible.

My favorite thing an this channel is that every episode feels like it’s going to be clickbait but he delivers *every. single. time.*

This was an amazing chemistry vid. Showing the true complexity of the steps necessary

Fun fact: pure capsaicin is used by doctors to kill nerves for various reasons. Nordihydrocapsaicin is only about half the pungency (spiciness) of capsaicin, but it still sits at 9,100,000 on the scoville scale (capsaicin sits at 16,000,000). This probably explains what happened in the stink bomb video immediately following this one.

"Yo, this is some killer Hot sauce! What's your recipe?" "Eh, just Gloves and vanilla. Nothing special"

It took me sooo long to realise this vid was over an hour long, I painted my gel nails, cooked and ate my dinner all to the soundtrack of Nile doing chemistry magic. Very nice, 10/10 would recommend.

bro's gonna make oxygen into a block someday

I’m an electronics tech myself. I’ve been doing it about 15 years now. I found myself in the marine electronics repair field. It’s weird. Electronics maintenance and repair. It’s like the one thing I have in my life that’s just perfectly the way I want it. The way that I do it. The attention I give to the items I work on. The little things we see in great detail that really no one is ever going to see, but we can’t let a potential cold joint go even if a unit turns on. We can’t let flux pool under a smd cap with a clear conscious. We do it with this prideful insanity that it’s perfect. Because it feels good when solder swims across a pad and flows perfectly even. It’s in a large way a legacy we leave behind on the world. The people who cared to make perfect of the pcb’s that hide in little plastic shrouds. People may not have gotten us how we would have liked them to, but the world has a little piece of us that we made perfect. Cancer is a horrible thing to endure. But you still want to keep adding to that little bit of perfect you put out in the world. Hoping it will make people happy. Your passion overstates your pain. We appreciate you being here. And sharing that intimate thing with us that is doing clean and flawless repairs. I have all the confidence in the world that you’ll be troubleshooting for many years to come. It’s like troubleshooting without a schematic. It’s a pain and there are times we will question should we continue going on following tiny leads on multilayer pcb’s with no starting point hoping to run in to an open resistor or a low resistance cap. But we push on and soon enough we know the run, we’ve found the component, and we do our art. This is a process you have endured and faced in different ways. You will prevail. Void every warranty my friend. Happy troubleshooting.

"Then I poured it all into a separatory funnel" That should be on some new merch

"So I got out a beaker and added 50 mils of distilled water. And into this, I shot in all of my goopy liquid." ~Nile Red, 2022

For those wondering, the "Spicy Molecule" is Nordihydrocapsaicin, or C17H27NO3.

I just looked up the differences between capsaicin and nordihydrocapsaicin, and I was not expecting them to be so similar. One double bond in capsaicin is a single bond in ndhc, and capsaicin's functional group is one carbon shorter. And for that, ndhc is about half as spicy. Wild the way plants make so many similar compounds that do nearly the same things.

I feel like someday Niel is gonna straight up just go "As you can see, these two molecules have hydrogen in their structure, so they're basically the same thing" and reanimate a fucking corpse.

Random shopper: "do you need all that vanilla sugar?" Nile: "yes im making hot sauce!"

Hey man I just love your videos. You show how chemistry is actually done unlike any educational system does. As a chemist myself it is extremely satisfying and also helps me learn things outside of my area of expertise, which is not o chem. I worry about you ingesting solutions made using chromium and other toxic catalysts, but assume you know what you are doing.

This guy is the🐐 for putting the sponsors at the end of the video

NilesRed: “I’m feeling kinda hungry” *eyes box of PPE menacingly*

"Plastic Gloves + Vanilla = Hot Sauce" is something that perfectly describes NileRed's entire channel

You just took away an hour of my life and I was captivated every minute. Keep it up Nigel

I always shook my head whenever I knew something had gone wrong when he makes some chemistry or reactions

I will never again complain about moon logic recipes in video games when plastic gloves + vanilla = essence of spiciness is a real thing. nile, as ever, you're a man of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will.

imagine not being able to get vanilla sugar for your baking project because local chemist needed all of them for hot sauce 💀

That has to be trolling buying vanilla sugar instead of artificial vanilla extract right next to it great subtle work

He bought 18 packets of vanilla sugar... He's the person from our math problems

This man isn't a chemist, he's an alchemist.

NileRed: "Honestly, it's pretty good." Also NileRed: "It's like right on that threshold of being completely inedible"

I really like this one man. It shows your trust in your own ability to perform very detailed experiments.

His smile could move mountains ❤

Every NileRed video sounds like something I would just skip to the end to see the results, but somehow watching chemistry at work in the hands of Nigel becomes VERY entertaining.

*buying vanilla sugar* Cashier: "making ice cream huh" Nile: "no, it's for a hot sauce"

18:44 I love this part idk why 😭

I love how different fields of studies assess dangers differently: The chemist: Adding Mercury, lots of acids and stuff to something you want to consume? Fine! But 34:20 some high pressure Hydrogen? Nope! (To be fair: as a physicist I also try to avoid it ^^)

Nigel is a man of focus, commitment and sheer will. I once saw him make hot sauce in a lab… with gloves. With fuckin’ gloves.

59:44 this is nilered’s Oppenheimer moment. He realised it was possible to make spice artificially, but it was only when he finally tasted it that he realised what hell he had unleashed upon his palette

Idk why but I found it so funny to hear Nile describe the recipe for the hot sause the same way he explains his crazy experiments 😂

Love that he describes making hot sauce with the exact same careful precision he describes mixing volatile chemicals

The thing that gets me is. On its own, this title would be deemed clickbaity. But since it's Nile Red you KNOW he is going to deliver 🤣🤣

Nilered: "I wanna get away from organic chemistry." Also NileRed: "So now I'm gonna fuck with wood."

bro actually turned plastic gloves and vanilla into hot sauce. next thing you know, he is runnin' his own restaurant with his homemade foods. mad respect for doin' this and actually succeeding.

It was exactly how it was supposed to end! I love it - I love your experiments.