Bread, cereal and snacks under a microscope

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Things we put under the microscope camera this time: a kernel of wheat, a kernel of corn, whole wheat flour, whole wheat bread, white bread (Wonder Bread), real bakery bread with cornmeal dusting, mashed potatoes, regular pasta (linguine), bronze pasta, letter pasta, Thai rice noodles, brown rice, white rice, Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes, Fruit Loops, Frosted Mini-Wheats, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Chex Mix (including pretzels), Lay's Classic potato chips, Pringles, Doritos, Cheetos.

[@a.arredondo]

11:40 it's called a Hyperbolic paraboloid. fun fact: they don't shape them into hyperbolic paraboloids. The chips naturally adopt that shape while frying because it's the shape that minimizes stress distribution.

[@NearLife4life]

makes me think of the forging of a Katana.

[@kenmore01]

That IS a fun fact! 😃

[@caleb1031]

Thanks dude! I was looking for this comment.

[@JohnGliksberg]

funny fun fact, since Claire had so much trouble reproducing that shape in her Gourmet Makes video also, that shape is more generally referred to as a saddle shape!

[@jonathan.gasser]

Hmmmmm not sure about that one. Pretty sure the cup shape (elliptic parabloid) minimizes stress distribution. Just like pepperoni when cooked. Even makes sense intuitively: you gotta stretch out the sheet to get it to a saddle, whereas you compress it to get it into a cup shape. Hyperbolic vs Spherical geometry baby.

[@omidaliahmadi2514]

Adam’s New Obsessions: -Brownie Skin -Microscopes Will they overtake white wine and heterogeneity?

[@pirate6616]

lmao

[@TheSlavChef]

White wine under microscope, why not

[@maxwell2916]

dont forget ACID

[@scottyhaines4226]

Never. Its Adams new fad

[@lllIIIIIlIlIIllll]

Fond White wine

[@iarecow]

Adam: Grain looks like a seed, because it is. Me: Neat. Adam: The inside of corn looks like leaves, because it is. Me: Cool. Adam: This bread looks like a spider web... Me: pls no

[@virtualabc7847]

Egg sacs 🤣🤣

[@adams3616]

LOL

[@peternguyen9703]

fear of spiderweb gang?

[@BaconBurger1928]

@@virtualabc7847 secks😳

[@mamanyajessie5511]

@@BaconBurger1928 Sus😳

[@elliez.3561]

"Humans mostly eat seeds." Well, I feel like a bird now.

[@dananskidolf]

I feel like it would be fun to add a bird head filter on Adam in this video...

[@freezysyahz]

WE SPEAK OFTEN OF RETURN TO MONKE BUT ACTUALLY WE RETURN TO BIRB 😂😂😂

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I believe I can fly!

[@egaming1071]

The Heavy Weapon's Guy did the birb before it was cool

[@postbote331]

ok government drone

[@dylanwilliams7868]

This is the chillest episode of Adam Ragusea I've ever seen. Must be that "wheat" he has growing in his backyard.

[@blorblin]

Adam after buying a microscope: Why I look at my food, instead of eating it.

[@saeedsenpai5530]

Why do I season my microscope not my cutting board

[@camelopardalis84]

Adam after buying a microscope just for the heck of it: "Now how do I turn this into a tax-deductible expense?"

[@vinnytube1001]

I once knew this skeleton-thin guy who barely ate, said that whenever he eats he can't help but imagining what the food looks like in his mouth, he gets disgusted, and loses his appetite.

[@camelopardalis84]

@@vinnytube1001 That sounds like an eating disorder. There are more than the two or three famous ones people know of.

[@vinnytube1001]

@@camelopardalis84 Yeah that makes sense.

[@joshuasims5421]

"Humans primarily eat seeds." I have never felt so much like a bird.

[@withnail-and-i]

Me neither... Except for when I role-play as a bird by holding my hands in my back and peck the ground

[@keyu1290]

@@withnail-and-i lol, I’m not the only one I Guess now

[@baronblackdragon9078]

What if you ARE a bird

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@withnail-and-i I prefer velociraptor, but bird is good too.

[@hayapatel_]

"Hey bro can you pass me the chips?" "Here you are brother, s e e d p a s t e."

[@ShotgunLlama]

"These are all the seeds of grass plants" Potato chips: :(

[@coen8323]

Potatoes are used to make more potatoes

[@TheRedKnight101]

@@SchmooYummi Potatoes are not roots, they are tubers which are underground stems typically used for nutrient storage from which new shoots grow from.

[@MyBoomStick1]

@Alexander Dewanto wrong! Potatoes are actually a type of heterogeneous white wine and that’s why I season my fork not my lunch

[@GTAandApplechannel]

@@TheRedKnight101 it's a part of the roots where the plant Store it energy like how human store fat

[@ChristianMarvellchannel]

@@MyBoomStick1 LOL

[@thememeestfilmbuff]

_“I guess I have plenty to enjoy myself.”_ *Son:* What about me? *Adam:* Make your own science video with food.

[@WanderTheNomad]

Adam: You still haven't finished all those brownies I made for you a few weeks ago.

[@DrRiq]

I like to imagine he made this video while slightly tipsy

[@fluffycritter]

The white wine had to go SOMEWHERE

[@christianordonez5704]

Adam sounds so different without an elegantly written script

[@09fungh]

Just like cgp grey

[@b34z47]

Love the low-key, conversational approach to this video, makes it super accessible and friendly to home cooks interested in food science who aren't prepared to be battered with tons of formal academic language

[@tobiassweeney4611]

Hearing Adam talk without a script is like looking into the upside-down

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Sometimes you forget that people like Adam are actual people.

[@mike_nobody8512]

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHAT THE EMOJI AT THE END IS! “Vinegar leg is on the right” Good job Adam

[@notanotherpyro]

I'm let down by him not saying "The taste you can see" when looking at the cinnamon toast crunch.

[@aragusea]

Holy crap I haven't thought about that commercial in about 30 years!

[@nothing.1240]

@@aragusea I'm in love with you 😍

[@juhailmarisalminen]

@@nothing.1240 that comment gets a creeped out yikes from me

[@nothing.1240]

@@juhailmarisalminen 🤪

[@acbeaumo]

Adam Ragusea looks at food under a microscope, but can he see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

[@eugenebebs7767]

This channel is downright experimental in how it stretches the definition of what a cooking channel is.

[@maxhoughtonmusic]

In the UK we call what you call "wheat bread", Brown bread - thought that might be worth knowing

[@NancyTiddles]

In the US, or at least in New England, brown bread refers to a steamed bread baked with molasses. You can still buy them packed in tin cans at any grocery store.

[@drfudgecookie5800]

@@NancyTiddles canned bread huh?

[@sofiatgarcia3970]

Here in Canada, we called it Brown Bread when I was young. (I'm 63) But I don't recall special designations for all the variations like whole wheat, whole grain and etc.

[@NancyTiddles]

@@drfudgecookie5800 wonderful isnt it

[@darleschickens7106]

@@sofiatgarcia3970 many of the variations exist largely for legal reasons. Basically food companies often try to play very loose with definitions to make their product appear healthy, creating the need for more specific descriptors.

[@coachsteve.]

Me: Wait, it's all seeds? Adam: Always has been.

[@ThePotThickens]

Very cool. As a chemist, one of the most amazing things to me is the process of crystallization and the shapes of crystals. Really neat to see the salt, sugar and MSG up close.

[@Libertylute]

The sugar he shows is granulated, not crystals. For sugar crystals, you have to buy rock candy.

[@ZonalJump97]

Honestly, I thought this was gonna be sponsored by Magic Spoon

[@thalleousscendaris4550]

Now u know if adam makes a menu website video... Its not gonna be squarespace sponsored

[@MarvinTurner]

Me too, I just commented the same but couldn't remember the name.

[@ZekeFreek]

That honestly would've been better because I'm assuming milk proteins look pretty different under a microscope compared to grain.

[@my_cellium]

Welcome to the david pakman show...

[@MarvinTurner]

@@ZekeFreek why milk when Magic Spoon is literally a hipster adult spin on some of the same cereals he was looking covering

[@francescog3959]

"They look like leaves because That's what they are" 😂😂😂

[@jasminekim2082]

i read this right when he said it

[@JustinRay-qi1zm]

@@jasminekim2082 same

[@hihi-pp6kj]

I think it would've been interesting to see the Magic Spoon cereal under the microscope to see how their protein cereal differs from the other ones (maybe an idea for the next sponsorship with them!), but still great vid.

[@CrazyJesus101]

Pringles are hyperbolic paraboloids that took 2 years to design! Their intersecting double curvature doesn't promote crack propagation, hence the extra crunch of pringles. They were also an optimal shape for stacking and strength within their tube, no need to inflate a bag 70% with air to keep the poatatos safe.

[@saims.2402]

Smart people can make anything look weird.

[@TheSlavChef]

But weird people cannot make anything looks smart ;/

[@songsoep2396]

@@TheSlavChef other than smart people

[@TheSlavChef]

@@songsoep2396 Thats deep. The funny thing is they do it witn zero effort. :D

[@songsoep2396]

@@TheSlavChef lmaoo

[@joecorbet8120]

Smart people don't post 2 videos about brownies skin and couple of more about looking at stuff with a microscope. While literally seeing these videos getting the least amount of views.

[@andrewlalis]

"endosperm" is gonna be a goldmine for the YTPs

[@TheSnakeboy83]

Hey Adam, easily one of your most enjoyable videos. You're clearly an academic who's just enjoying himself and it's caught so well here. Thanks for another 13 minutes of my life I'll look back on fondly.

[@dungeonsdungeonsandmoredun2177]

He was def high making this one. I love how just done with everything he is in this video, so refreshing to see him just reach across a table of chips and basically go "yeah im pretty sure that's right"

[@shizplayer9034]

"Whatever Cheetos are" I'm dying 💀💀💀

[@shizplayer9034]

@Lakshmi Abhiraj Seela yes

[@TheSlavChef]

Someone called for the doctor?

[@DrRiq]

Did someone call?

[@orangefish0297]

Then perish

[@lizcademy4809]

@@orangefish0297 or publish

[@adamhlj]

Adam's original thought: How can I get more tax write offs for my groceries?

[@bobber4160]

"Hey can you pass me some of the starchy Hyperbolic Paraboloids" said the mathematician to Mr. PRINGLE

[@LawkzBro]

paraboloid sounds like an insult.

[@titaniawallace4223]

This is a really fun little mini series type thing, I would be happy to see more episodes

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Adam will never have to run out of content because he can just plop stuff under a microscope whenever and we'll enjoy it.

[@jordandelosreyes5656]

Next vid: doing my 3 day lasagna with every step under a microscope

[@amayurubashaka3608]

(insert white wine meme)

[@TheSlavChef]

@@amayurubashaka3608 winemaster 9000.

[@ACogloc]

Following video on chubbyemu: Man ate lasagna that was out cooking for 3 days, this is what happened to his brain.

[@froschbart-verwirrt6712]

Not gonna lie... I actually would watch it.

[@sphansel3257]

@@ACogloc you watch chubbyemu?

[@TheEjEGUN]

I can't tell if Adam is tipsy in this or it's just how he speaks when he doesn't script things

[@swedneck]

All youtubers have the same change in their voice between scripted and unscripted honestly

[@darleschickens7106]

There's definitely something different about how he's talking in this video. He reminds me of a passionate scientist here.

[@A_Oda27]

the smoothness of that sponsor read was insane

[@LawkzBro]

It was so smooth that it comes back around to become jarring, since you get so stunned by how smooth it was.

[@iraholden3606]

Imagine being so pathetic that you fawn over advertisement transitions

[@Michael-uo8yv]

I got whiplash

[@Kitsu_Orano]

"Honey, where have all the Bread, cereal and snacks gone?"

[@ethanyalejaffe5234]

In fact in several Romance languages, whole wheat bread is indeed called "whole bread."

[@AelwynMr]

Italian, can confirm. "Pane integrale", which does not mean "integral", but rather "complete, whole".

[@paulanhalt3609]

I REALLY vibed with the lower energy mood in this video. I appreciate it was more of casual curiosity than like erupting a news story

[@anirudhviswanathan3986]

More microscope content. The world needs this!!

[@AMTunLimited]

I love the vibe of a guy looking over his glasses and going "huh. neat!" I actually appreciate that you don't dial the energy up for the camera as much as you could. It makes it feel like we're watching you *explore* as opposed to *present*

[@chancephillips5411]

Adam's definitely going to get his money's worth from this microscope!

[@camelopardalis84]

And by making these microscope videos, he makes the expense for the microscope tax-deductible.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

those microscopes are only like $40-50

[@rysenheimer]

This is the kind of content I expect from Adam's video log when he's floating adrift in space.

[@EyalBrown]

These are by far the nerdiest videos I've evere seen, and that SAYS something. I'm here for it!

[@RawBerserker]

My parents were right.... germs are everywhere :o

[@hailtothevic]

ba dum tss!

[@vincentgibbons5613]

Underrated comment

[@virtualabc7847]

👌🏽👌🏽😂

[@virtualabc7847]

Why you should wash your bread to get it clean. Especially brown bread

[@JonathanRiverafrickinnice555]

Aha.....

[@sonofalbi9801]

I bet Lauren is confused with your new microscope obsession, Adam.

[@javiator3007]

That was by far the smoothest ad segway yet. Adam is evolving.

[@aarondriscoll287]

10:13 "That's why it's good." So creepy 🤣

[@berky1976]

This was way more interesting than I expected. The brands make everything seem so different from each other but in the end they all come from basic seeds. Texture I think plays a large role in how different the end result is from one another. Pretty cool. Thanks Adam.

[@amarug]

Cool of you to reference HR Giger, I used to live next to him. His garden was full of fantastical, eerie creations, including a whole mini rideable "horror train" that went through his garden, touring around his exhibitions!

[@mayukh_nath]

Regarding the rice crispies: There are versions of this made directly from rice grains in Asian countries. One of them is "Puffed Rice", and the other would be "Flattened Rice". The second one is roughly an analog of corn flakes, which when fried, looks like the crispies you showed in this video. Then there is "Popped Rice", like pop corns!

[@christophertstone]

John Kellogg invented corn flakes to be a boring breakfast food because he believed boring breakfasts would cause people to "touch" themselves less. Also, CW Post was a patient at that sanitarium who like the idea of cereal; yes, that Post.

[@danielleanderson6371]

I love the informal nature of these microscope videos. Feels like my buddy is showing me something even he hasn't seen yet.

[@simonfrancis110]

Hey Adam! are you planning on a soap recipe video? I learned in chemistry that soap is just sodium hydroxide and fat plus whatever. I also like the casual style videos like this. Keep it up Adam!

[@twrs2928]

mm tasty soap

[@simonfrancis110]

@@twrs2928 You should wath NileRed then🗿. Madlad made soap and then tried to reverse the process to get oil out of soap. he made french fries.

[@yusufbanna]

my mom was my Biology teacher in Senior year of school. this episode reminded me of her teaching a botany class. and essentially it is a biology class which started from grains and ended with food and junk food made from these seeds and grains.

[@dawickedj]

This video has a real "I can't be bothered" feel to it. I'm enjoying it.

[@j7ndominica051]

We also call darker bread from a mix of materials "wheat" bread, and normal bread was pale yellow or gray without any hard chemical stuff but called "white". The official label was "bran bread", along with "alive" (tastes like mold) or "seed". Brans would also be found on the underside of regular bread, and that what I find modern wholegrain pasta tastes like. That was 30 years ago before modern health concerns. I'm enjoying six eggs and coffee with a stick of butter. Cut the carbs and swim in cholesterol.

[@ipso-kk3ft]

"Whhaaow" -Adam Ragusea, 2021

[@Tarodenaro]

Cant wait for the YTP bois to do their magic with these cuts.

[@nolanives7055]

You should do more plant biology videos.....totally because I think it’s cool, not that I have a test in 2 days

[@TheCCNetwork]

Loving the Rush shirt. A man of good taste, musically as well as culinary.

[@nicholasguarracino1677]

Fantastic shirt, Adam. My Peart's drums beat always in our hearts.

[@justarandomfalloutfanboy5821]

AD: No need to buy everything in large quantities and waste some of them. Adam: Yeah, I bought half of the supermarket to put them under a microscope.

[@desk-kun]

Someone is addicted to watching things through a microscope. Nice addiction

[@drfudgecookie5800]

I feel sympathy desk-kun from the pain you must endure.

[@toli7176]

@@drfudgecookie5800 desk kun -10 hp

[@Pton32]

"You can see them, the little square crystals of sugar. That's why it's good!" So you're telling me Adam CAN see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch!?!?

[@sth5033]

this video was so interesting, thank you. ps, there were some strange vibes from this video. just a little low energy/dry i guess. still excellent and educational, just different.

[@user-vi4sn9eh5l]

Adam seems so chill in this video. Like there really isn't any KZbinr over enthusiasm

[@wdyd_masterattwitch4956]

This video had a very relaxed feel to it.

[@asherstevens]

The way adam segways into ads is always so smooth it leaves me impressed every time

[@zatsgan7340]

I believe the “salt” on the Chex Mix is actually MSG

[@vincentgibbons5613]

Nah he points out the difference between salt and MSG, they form a very different crystalline structure. MSG doesn't look like that

[@danm.9045]

Adams enthusiasm makes this so much more fun to watch

[@fatshaggy2842]

"Network of egg sacks"- Adam Ragusea 2021

[@linkspatrick]

In France we call wheat bread whole bread, and the white one just bread (usually referred to as baguettes, because that's what we eat). And for us "wonder bread" is "Pain de mie" translates into bread of the ... (Insert the opposite of crust, aka the white fluffy stuff)

[@realkingofantarctica]

"Humans primarily eat seeds." So all those people who called me a chicken were just stating the obvious?

[@nowdefunctchannel6874]

True

[@kokosmehl53]

4:30 in German we call it _Vollkornbrot_ which means Whole Corn Bread

[@MohamedSalahYouTube]

*Me taking a break of my essay writing and looking for a new video to watch on KZbin* Adam : Heeeey let's take a look at some carbs under the microscope

[@greenie2600]

Somehow, a Rush fan spending their free time looking at food under a microscope makes perfect sense.

[@JohnBodoni]

I paused the video immediately to check for comments about the Rush shirt.

[@lynee8945]

Imagine how the cashier reacted to the amount of unconventional products he bought

[@andrewmagdaleno5417]

Hi Adam, I like your more laid back conversational style on the one. Keep up the awesome work bro!

[@DatOneRadDad]

Hope everyone's having a great day!

[@noidea5106]

4:35 actually in french we say: “pain blanc” and “pain complet” which literally translates to “white bread” and “complete bread”.

[@aragusea]

Ah, that's better.

[@AelwynMr]

Also in Italian: "pane bianco" and "pane integrale", with "integrale" not meaning "integral" but rather a fancy word for complete/whole.

[@noidea5106]

@@AelwynMr so basically English is the exeption?

[@AelwynMr]

@@noidea5106 Probably, since "wheat bread" just makes no sense if you think about it

[@KVDom]

''Honey, why have you bought all these snacks?''

[@kenmore01]

"It's okay Dear, it's a tax write-off."

[@redoorn]

11:42 a Pringles chip shape is mathematically known as a hyperbolic paraboloid.

[@TheSlavChef]

We want to see a brownie under a microscope! In the name of the Empire!

[@BeardGainz]

hell yeah!

[@aleksanderaleksandrov1016]

Long live the empire!

[@sovietdoggo6735]

woof.

[@bleutitanium6513]

This was GREAT ... We usually don't think of our foods in such a simple way. "We are eating seeds. Seed Paste." Thanks for Sharing Adam!! As always informative and entertaining...

[@hailtothevic]

Alternate title: Adam plays with a microscope and gets paid to do it!

[@ostapvoy6133]

The subtle flex of the Damascus steel chef knife at 00:40 hahaha. I'm not jealous you're jealous.

[@_stephanie]

I'd be interested to see gluten free alternatives to some f these under a microscope! I wonder how different all the little air tunnels look without it!

[@BakouMOH]

Yes Adam, we noticed the Rush t-shirt and yes, we appreciate seeing that. :)

[@MattWinchell]

Dang, you look tired this time. Get some rest Adam :)

[@DrummerDaddio]

Happy 40th birthday, Moving Pictures! RIP Professor.

[@o0Avalon0o]

I may have been skeptical of a lot of what my hippie adoptive family said, but I'll always be grateful for their cooking; they showed me there was more to food than just salty or sugary.

[@mf-il4po]

10:07 now we can see why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch

[@JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

That's actually quite interesting

[@JessicaFisher80]

It's crazy how the structure of monosodium glutamate is so uniform in its crystallization compared to normal sodium chloride. I feel like table salt is so abstract in its crystals and the msg is so... just perfect lol.

[@chestersnap]

"Whatever Cheetos are" Aren't they corn product? I honestly have no idea

[@GuvernorDave]

yep

[@AelwynMr]

Yeah, not much different from a piece of fried corn tortilla.

[@whiteegg8603]

I learned alot more from Adam than our highschool cookery class where you only have to keep memorizing such as what is a knife for, and all other functions of basic equipments over and over.

[@xremming]

Was there no rye at all??? C'mon! Can we get a whole episode about rye, and why only us finns seem to eat it.

[@edcrichton9457]

Not enough Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, or Poles in his neighborhood is my guess. Rye bread is in every grocery store in NY.

[@xremming]

@@edcrichton9457 I knew we weren't the only ones eating rye, although it really does often feel like it.

[@killerbee.13]

@@xremming The hard brown bread thing in the chex mix is a type of rye bread, I'm surprised he didn't know that, but it'd have been nice to see ordinary rye bread too. Also flatbread would be cool, I think.

[@FishWash]

The best part of this is the underlying disgust for carbs in Adam's words

[@saims.2402]

I was early, but I took my time to think of a thoughtful comment instead of just “first”.

[@veerw]

No you didn’t, you wrote this

[@gieniek4706]

equally as effortless

[@saims.2402]

@@veerw I wrote another comment first.

[@saims.2402]

@attacker you do, that’s why you took the time to reply. 😉

[@saims.2402]

@attacker thanks for caring about whether or not I think people care about me. I had feeling, but wasn’t completely sure. Thanks man, love you too.

[@duckwerksofficial]

10:14 I guess we can now see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.