What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more

[@samuelmason8370]

When aliens find our transmissions: "Social gatherings for mineral tasting parties- fascinating."

[@gabrielgan369]

That makes it sound a lot smarter XD

[@Xezlec]

@CogitoErgoCogitoSum He explained at the beginning that he looked them up and made sure they were all non-toxic.

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Xezlec Low in toxicity. The estimated fatal dose of sodium chloride is approximately 0.75 to 3.00 g/kg. That means someone with cardiovascular problems who weighs 100kg could die of 75 grams of tablesalt!

[@dominicdoherty7208]

@@JohnSmith-ox3gy 75 grams of salt is a fucking lot, 75,000mg! The average is like 1000mg a day right?

[@YEAHKINDA]

@@dominicdoherty7208 Maybe for you mere mortals it is...

[@firelow]

KCl Other uses: - Lethal injections - Healthy injections

[@mgkim0518]

Medicine and Toxins are same. It is a dose that really matters. So, THAT makes sense

[@reptileguy1124]

@@mgkim0518 drugs

[@solounwapodemuchos]

Depends on the dose. Too much and too little K can kill ya

[@colto2312]

formula for toxicity = dose * duration * frequency

[@noname_atall]

it doesn't only depends on dosage, but speed of administration. a relatively small dose injected in a vein will kill ou, bt in a few moments will disperse in the (freshly dead) body and be barely detectable, while the same dose, diluted in a Intravenous sugar solution and administered for an hour, won't make a difference.

[@4.0.4]

This feels like old KZbin, and I love it.

[@inseut]

Exactly why I clicked, I'm happy

[@SnakPak]

This is a good take

[@vitorklock2118]

​@@SnakPak Thats a swift pun if i have ever seen one

[@gene7511]

Yeah, same. Happy.

[@oulero]

woah you're right

[@blue_leader_5756]

"It tastes like you shouldn't be eating it" The hallmark of good chemistry

[@-.Oz.-]

Idk, lead is supposed to taste good. But it’s not something anyone should consume

[@__shiyo__22]

@@-.Oz.- I heard that's why they put them in plates

[@vikmanphotography7984]

@@-.Oz.- lead salt is quite sweet

[@-.Oz.-]

@@vikmanphotography7984 that’s what I said when I said it tastes good. Are you telling me you’re going to eat it just because it’s sweet? That’s not the hallmark of good chemistry

[@SportySnake]

@@-.Oz.- i would, lead poisoning here we go

[@levirhodes6450]

I remember pestering my chemistry teacher to let me eat some of the potassium chloride that he had to show the class, yet he said no, and I continued pestering until he finally said yes. The best way I can honestly describe potassium chloride is the taste of a 9v battery.

[@angelcosta4383]

Here in spain you can buy KCl at rhe supermarket because some people have hypertension and want to reduce Na intake (like my dad). It tastes exactly like you say (own experience). My father said he'd rather die young and happy than to salt his food with that. It feels kinda acid and tangy, like unripe crab apples. Btw your teacher shouldn't have given you random chemicals from jars in a lab to taste them.

[@drinkmoresoda]

In the US is available as well

[@aqdrobert]

My prescription KCl has a sweet coating now. Old one had rough coating, tasted awful. Amused by crime drama when victim had heart attack after killer put KCl in his sports drink. CSI stated KCl is flavorless, victim never suspected until it was too late! I enjoy artistic license.

[@mb8787]

@@angelcosta4383 well, here in Scandinavia, they sell a salt substitute that are 50/40 NaCl/KCl, and 10% magnesium-something. Now, maintaining a balance between Na/K is important for hydration, and magnesium is important, too, but it does not taste as good as NaCl does. But when they first sold this substitute, it was 70/30 NaCl/KCl, which did taste pretty much the same as regular NaCl. So what I do, is mix the substitute half and half with regular (iodined) salt to achieve approximately 75/20/5 Na/K/Mg, and get the taste of regular NaCl/tablesalt, just a little healthier. But eating a lot of vegetables, too, are a good source of KCl, as well as other nutrients...

[@rileywebb4178]

@@mb8787 msg can also be used to boost the saltiness with less salt being used.

[@Field_Marshal_Emu]

Tried lithium chloride, "not too bad". People with bipolar, "I know, right!"

[@ThunderChunky101]

I used to use lithium metaborate and lithium tetraborate crystals in a 70/30 mix to fuse into glass with added cement to analyse the cement in an XRF. I'll give you one guess as to what we called the mix? Come on, it's obvious! Diliyhium crystals! 😂 Haha.

[@Field_Marshal_Emu]

@@ThunderChunky101 too bad it wasn't a replacement for Viagra. Than you could have called it Mydixadrill.

[@StreuB1]

@@Field_Marshal_Emu HAHAHAHAH!!!!! Thats fucking hilarious!

[@Field_Marshal_Emu]

@@asjenmensink2740 when I want your opinion, I'll instruct you on what it is Until then, be silent.

[@dizzious]

New form of administering medications: "apply to fried food"

[@davidhansson7041]

As a scaninavian I can explain the ammonium chloride. In sweden its commonly reffered to as salmiak and is used in salty licorice. Famous licorice like salmiakki (finland) and djungelvrål

[@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen]

Djungelvrål for the win! And salte fisk!

[@pianosidechat]

thanks for the explanation since I know exactly what salmiakki and djungelvrål is like!

[@MrNuubstar]

Dutchy here. I love salmiak liqourice

[@SoulsInsanity]

Damn Finland do you guys have anything there?

[@Joomi77]

In elementary school we made ammonium chloride in chemistry class and ate it afterwards :D Edit: This happened in Finland.

[@Dishsoapdirt1976]

Lithium used to be the 7th ingredient in the soda-pop 7-Up, a citrus flavored medicated drink. It no longer contains lithium.... but it makes sense that its salt would taste like citrus

[@reinatr4848]

So it's now 6-Up? Sorry

[@dr.OgataSerizawa]

7-up is a medicated drink?

[@hammerth1421]

@@dr.OgataSerizawa Used to be. Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine.

[@dr.OgataSerizawa]

@@hammerth1421 I’m well aware of the presence of cocaine in Coca-Cola. It’s the “medicated” aspect of 7-Up that I was inquiring about.

[@trulyinfamous]

@@dr.OgataSerizawa many sodas were originally meant as a medicine.

[@ottovmp]

Ammonium Chloride; *Exists* Us Finns; "This is some serious gourmet shit."

[@pts_]

Dutchies too 💪

[@tora2150]

@@pts_ Germans too :D

[@magusperde365]

It sounds like it could have some culinary uses. But people needs to be jailed for the fact KCl can be bought as a salt alternative in supermarkets all over the world

[@moladiver6817]

It's called salmiak.

[@pihlajafox]

But it is! Very good way to make candy more sour

[@carl_smiley_face1396]

“Would you recommend to a friend?” “I’d recommend it to you” -An absolutely underrated, sick-nasty burn

[@FlavorLab]

Rubidium is extemely useful for atom optics. It's energy level structure makes it ideal for cooling and trapping. The first Bose-Einstein condensate was made of Rb.

[@luigivercotti6410]

also, rubidium crystals for lasers, right?

[@Volvith]

Yeah, i mean, atom-optics seems like a really mainstream and every-day household implementation of Rubidium, and definitely makes mining it on a per-metric-tonne scale an economically viable undertaking... :D (But hey, at least there's a use for it! ;)

[@StreakyBaconMan]

Useless commercially though because no industry uses it. It's not like there is an atom optics industry or anything.

[@watchableraven3517]

@@StreakyBaconMan Yet.

[@eklhaft4531]

@@luigivercotti6410 Did you mean ruby (Al2O3:Cr)? I mean I have found something about rubidium lasers. The article is quite interesting mainly because it says Air Force in the begining. However the rubidium is used mostly in gaseous form... scholar.afit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1087&context=etd

[@Felixkeeg]

Actually, German inorganic textbook has descriptions of taste of salts. I like the one for Tin (II) chloride: "Bitter, then burning"

[@lauchsuppedeluxelauchsuppe1803]

whats the book called?

[@SizzleCorndog]

Plz link the book this is essential information

[@pierreproudhon9008]

once again nagging for the book name

[@bruhzzer]

book

[@lachy6645]

Tag me once found?

[@chaemelion]

Calcium chloride actually evolves a fair bit of heat when dissolved in water, so the burning sensation is accurate...

[@thelolguy8668]

I believe hydrochloric acid is produced as well

[@StefanReich]

@@thelolguy8668 It's true

[@amadeus6987]

The burning sensation is more of a result of our tongues just not enjoying basic calcium salts

[@TimothyReeves]

Are you sure? NH4Cl dissolution is definitely endothermic i.e. it gets cold.

[@Nothing_but_a_Rookie]

@@Paonporteur Calcium chloride is used to increase the hardness of water in pools. One of the things that we warn customers about is to not premix the chemical in a bucket of water before adding it to the pool because it can heat up to a dangerous level

[@smergthedargon8974]

I'd be really interested in more vids like this - "Eating the relatives of common food compounds"

[@chaotickreg7024]

I would love to see them compare different sugars

[@wan2shuffle]

@@chaotickreg7024 Cody'sLab has a video on sugars

[@exMuteKid]

That is a very dangerous thing to do..

[@CMHE]

I want to see him eat some Disodium Monoxide

[@randompheidoleminor3011]

@@exMuteKid the pair ethanol and methanol comes into mind lol

[@IQzminus2]

As a Swede ammonium chloride does taste really great to me in sweets. It's the 'salt' part of salt licorice, which is a really popular type of candy here. Often paired with a anis flavour. Here it's like 40% of people who don't enjoy licorice at all. Then there are the types who do enjoy licorice but without any ammonium chloride but just has an anis flavour, we call that sweet licourice. But that is not as popular. Most people here have a preference for salt licorice (aka the kind with ammonium chloride) over sweet licorice. And it's pretty common to find people who only enjoy salt licorice. I wouldn't use ammonium chloride aka salmiakk as a normal salt or for savory things. It goes really well to balance out sweet things. So ice cream, candy, chocolate, a mousse, even to some extent pastries (cinnamon bun but with salt licorice instead of sugar and cinnamon filling is surprisingly nice). The only savourly application I had that I thought really worked with ammonium chloride was with thin roasted pumpkin slices (served as a side), and the ammonium chloride was used very sparingly. And pumpkin as far as savory things go is really sweet. In Sweden it's sort of used and considered in a really similar way like citric acid is used in sour candies, even down to it making you salivate a lot. So we have sour candies but we also have 'salty' candies with ammonium chloride. And just like with sour candies, some brands do the same type of branding of being extreme and strong, so super sour candies, we also have super salty candies (the salt being ammonium chloride). And then you have ones that use it more sparingly and more just trying to taste good. It can be used to create a really delicious, addictive and balanced experience. And I find that it helps enhance and bring up the other flavors when used in the right amount and combination (potato not sounding particularly eh... good). But it's mostly an acquired taste. I find that about 1/10 of non-Scandinavians are instantly hooked and love it. About half absolutely hate it. And the rest aren't completely sold, and don't really enjoy it that much, but also don't hate it, but many of them are able to grow to really enjoy it.

[@derAtze]

It also helps against herpes

[@bugguyonline]

as a norwegian salmiakk is nasty to me but i get u

[@johnmanno2052]

I worked in a candy store in Duluth MN. We had a lot of tourists from Scandinavia, because that area of the US was populated by a lot of immigrants from Norway and Sweden. We also had a lot of local people who had a very strong Scandinavian heritage. We sold salt, and double salt, licorice at the store. Since it was so very popular with all the Scandinavian people, I decided to give it a taste. I thought I was going to die. I thought I was poisoned! I thought some terrible mistake had been made, and cleaning fluid had gotten into the licorice. And then I realized... IT'S SUPPOSED TO TASTE LIKE THAT!!!!! To the non-Scandinavian Americans, and even to a lot of the Scandinavian Americans, salt licorice is as incomprehensible as lutefisk. And I like lutefisk.

[@phyein4815]

I love it. I'm trying to imagine sodium salt licorice and that doesn't sound very good to me... I guess it's the unique flavor of Ammonium that goes so well with the licorice and I think it's a pretty good taste TBH. I could imagine trying it on other things really foe curiosity's sake

[@cleanerben9636]

I like licorice so may order some of the salty kind just to try it.

[@mechadrake]

"Expensive waste of money" is wrong. It should be "expensive taste of money" :)

[@medexamtoolscom]

Well expensive waste of money is redundant so it certainly shouldn't be called that.

[@Reth_Hard]

That's interesting... Do you think 100$ bills taste better than 1$ bills? Someone should do the test...

[@GRBtutorials]

medexamtoolsdotcom It’s not... a waste of money can be more or less expensive depending on how much money we’re talking about, and something being expensive doesn’t mean it was a waste of money.

[@sleepy_boi7552]

I want to leave a like but i don't want to ruin the 666 likes

[@OrangeC7]

@@GRBtutorials I feel like you could spend $1 on something and, depending on what it is, feel like you wouldn't buy it again if they offered you a million dollars alongside it

[@AudreysKitchen]

I like to believe this get-together is kind of how it went down when early humans were figuring out what is and isn't edible

[@Scanlaid]

Cave-McDonald's really sucked before then

[@OrchidAlloy]

During food scarcity it probably got a lot more lenient, just look at all the fermented food we eat. "What if we eat this rotten food we left out? Hmm, it's not inedible. Maybe we can rot it on purpose"

[@AudreysKitchen]

@Noone Cares damn, bitter incel?

[@SvenNap]

​@@OrchidAlloy and that's how we get cheese

[@origamigek]

Other uses: Lethal Injections well alrighty then

[@aidenh1790]

ᴠᴧᴨᴛᴧᴃᴌᴧcᴋ yes but also healthy injections

[@APSejuani]

@@aidenh1790 Yup, it's super hard for the government to legally get access to poisons, so they just overdose you on potassium instead

[@Viralsmells]

Glad someone else saw this 😂😂

[@tainicon4639]

Stops your heart...

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

@@tainicon4639 The RDI for potassium is like six grams though. How much do they have to shoot you with to kill you?

[@benjaminhackett8896]

Well the enthusiasm fell quite quickly on that one. Glad y'all stick through though! Lithium and potassium were the most helpfully interesting. Lithium chloride seems like it might actually be a useful seasoning if we could determine a safe daily value for it. Partially due to cost it would probably only be found in rare cuisine. Potassium chloride meanwhile is a salt substitute (as stated), but precisely because of its bad taste it's supposed to be used in conjunction with regular table salt. It enhances the salt flavor and reduces the overall amount of sodium, when used as a flavor enhancer. Meanwhile, MSG (slightly off-topic) is similar to KCl because it is also a flavor enhancer to reduce sodium content. (Except it tastes rather good on its own.) I think it's unfair to MSG that it gets a bad rap, considering we don't go after regular sodium content the same way.

[@mrrooter601]

msg is life changing if you can get over the stigma. its like 10 bucks for what might be a lifetime supply at the asian market too.

[@frankwilhoit]

MSG is nasty. I had some soup once at a restaurant that had been made with MSG in place of NaCl by mistake. I'll never forget it. "Salt-free" bouillon is sometimes made with ammonium glutamate -- that's not good either, but it doesn't swamp other flavors the way MSG does.

[@OnTheRiver66]

The bad things published about MSG have been disproven. It was all based on a person’s letter in the New England journal of medicine, printed without any review, and studies have shown what was in that letterit to be false. It it possible for someone to be allergic to it, but is very rare. MSG is in many foods anyway, like tomatoes.

[@ericeaton2386]

@@frankwilhoit well, okay, it’s not meant to be used in the same ratio as salt. Simply replacing salt for the same amount of MSG is using way too much.

[@frankwilhoit]

@@ericeaton2386 ...and that's what they did. It was not at all good.

[@ToriKo_]

Absolutely in love with the feel oh this video, feels straight from 2006. Beautiful video guys, and I don’t even know why

[@bruceluiz]

Uses: Non-surgical castration People: *alrighty lets eaty the thingy*

[@ettanasf]

Sheld Owned non surgical?

[@bruceluiz]

@@ettanasf yep got it the other way around lolol

[@mortlet5180]

There is more actual science in this one video than there are on entire "KZbin Age Appropriate science channels"! Please never change :)

[@jetpack0603]

codyslab

[@carterferguson1076]

Jet Pack but he tasted dental mercury which “violates community guidelines”

[@jetpack0603]

@@carterferguson1076 oh shit

[@mynigga730]

so you can show how to make very carcinogenic substances, but dental Mercury is where they draw the line

[@ataphelicopter5734]

I tasted potassium nitrate. Salty and succ

[@grendelum]

Damn, I was really hoping this would be the thing Rubidium needed...

[@jacobp.2024]

Just like most amazing food discoveries, rubidium should have been discovered by people eating things without caution. Too bad it sucks, and causes mania.

[@steampunkastronaut7081]

Causes mania you say?

[@schleybailey]

@@steampunkastronaut7081 so it begins... (probably not the good mania btw)

[@byron.]

@@jacobp.2024 Yeah but lithium salts treat mania so as long as you try them all at once you should be good

[@bayki3805]

The worst part from all of this is the fact that they are eating Maccas chips with cutlery

[@vikent8912]

I don't know whether they'd decided to eat chips with forks for the video or they actually eat them like that, but I'm obsessed with both of the possibilities

[@mrrooter601]

dont want to get nasty salts stuck to their fingers?

[@WelcomeBub]

never tried cheetos with chopsticks?

[@anonymizationoverload9831]

I eat chips with forks, since they're usually quite oily and I don't want to soak my keyboard/book/whatever in it, you get used to it eventually :)

[@muffinfleet3147]

tastes like: salty (fuckin idk mate) this is the most aussie thing ever ahaha

[@cnasper1]

Mix that ammonium chloride with some sugar and you got delicious candy -best from Scandinavia :)

[@Tunkkis]

*_Y E S_* Best regards, Finland.

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

*NO!* Best regards: still Sweden. I just don't like it .

[@LuisBorja1981]

Salmiakki, right?

[@akkudakkupl]

Nope, it tastes awful.

[@jrnvnjk]

not only in scandinavia, in the netherlands it's also common, you can find it everywhere

[@qualifiedcornstarch6859]

uses: non-surgical castration dinner party: munch

[@Gay_Priest]

to castrate it must be injected into the balls. pleasant dreams

[@swagmankayearIQ]

@@Gay_Priest you will never be a woman

[@Gay_Priest]

@@swagmankayearIQ huh? chemical castration just renders the testicles inoperable until you stop doing it, it doesnt cause any physical changes. Also who said I wanted to be a woman?

[@neyoid]

@@swagmankayearIQ and you will never be funny

[@swagmankayearIQ]

@@neyoid is that your best shot? try again

[@hammerth1421]

NH4Cl tasting more salty than all the other ones makes sense, ammonium ions are known to mimic sodium ions in a lot of cases.

[@nibblrrr7124]

i'm always keen to find a new salt to add to my ｓａｌｔ ｐｏｒｔｆｏｌｉｏ 7:29

[@HomemadeChemistry]

"an after-taste of deepthroating a coal mine" :D OMG! I had to laugh out loudly! Still have tears in my eyes. Who invents this?

[@respawn_101slab2]

Homemade I WAS ABOUT TO POST ABOUT THIS

[@haydenturner1]

Crazy Australian

[@notinsane4165]

Yeah tbh I don't know why we use deepthroating to describe things as much as we do....

[@medexamtoolscom]

How do you even deepthroat a coal mine though? It's literally a tunnel, not a protrusion. The only thing you could do with a coal mine is give it cunnilingus with a giant tongue.

[@reekeen8257]

Medexam must be fun at parties

[@spiderdude2099]

Lithium is the closest which you might wonder why no one has used it as a salt substitute? It's cuz although not terribly TOXIC, lithium ions alter behavior and was an olde time bipolar disorder medicine. So, you really should limit intake for other reasons. It also isn't eliminated from your body as quickly as sodium so it can bioaccumulate to dangerous levels and cause tremors

[@ettanasf]

spiderdude2099 it’s still used at least in the US if more modern treatments fail.

[@Liloldliz]

it's not just tremors, if you have too much it can make you very sick. lithium is still used in bipolar disorder, it's effective, it's just inconvenient because it requires regular blood testing and can cause problems with the results of thyroid function tests.

[@zeyface6366]

Lithium is one of the only drugs that when combined with psychedelics can result death

[@Liloldliz]

@@zeyface6366 bullshit. plenty of drugs can do that including other drugs for mood disorders such as MAOIs, blood pressure and heart disease drugs, and alcohol.

[@zeyface6366]

@@Liloldliz The things you mentioned don't make otherwise physically safe drugs like LSD or magic mushrooms suddenly become lethal. Certainly normal doses of both

[@DOUCH3AG]

Rubidium salts can give you hypomania/mania. Basically opposite of lithium salts.

[@spookywizard4980]

so thats why they were all fine! they cancelled out

[@monad_tcp]

but I already have it, so no effect on me

[@cube2fox]

@@monad_tcp So lithium for you

[@user-pi5xz5je4y]

Cool.

[@monhi64]

@@spookywizard4980 what if it just gave you high energy depression that sounds pretty rough lmao

[@KitsuneCentral]

Had to look it up, because Rubidium Chloride had to be useful for something. Turns out it does! It's good as sleep aid, antidepressant, Biomarker for DNA, and as an additive for petrol to increase octane.

[@TooShortPlancks]

I remember being taught in chemistry class that Strontium tends to displace Calcium in your bones and teeth, thereby weakening them, so kinda surprised that you went for consuming any of it.

[@coopergates9680]

When you read the public health statement on strontium, how did they obtain adverse health effects? By feeding rats absurdly high doses (500-2000 mg/kg of body weight every day). Strontium's median lethal dose is actually higher than calcium's. For perspective, 1200 mg of strontium/kg/day would be about 255 grams of strontium chloride hexahydrate per day for a 70 kg adult human. Literally orders of magnitude higher than acceptable seasoning amounts. You're not going to sprinkle more than ~400 mg (0.4 grams) in a food recipe. Strontium is used in toothpaste and bone supplements at actual reasonable amounts, not doses in which almost every substance is poisonous.

[@TooShortPlancks]

@@coopergates9680 fair enough. I did say this was in a chemistry class, so years and years ago. Long before I would have known to bother checking LD50s and the like! Just goes to show some things really stick with you unquestioned if no one gives you a reason to.

[@coopergates9680]

@@TooShortPlancks LD50s are sometimes misleading, like for sodium bromide, since bromide has cumulative effects and chronic exposure can be more damaging than expected given the median lethal dose. Strontium doesn't seem to have such. For some reason among the numerous chemistry courses I had there was little discussion of LD50s, just requests not to consume anything from the lab, wear gloves and goggles, etc. and well known cumulative poisons like barium, lead, thallium, and mercury.

[@TernicOfficial]

Meanwhile in Nordic schools: Hey kids, today we will be making ammonium chloride and eat it!

[@TM-ng2bz]

We did this once :D I liked it

[@sumsarsiranen]

The drying really is the worst part

[@129140163]

😂

[@IQzminus2]

It's great. I had a chemist professor do a demonstration where he first talked about how on one side we have chlorine gas which is really bad news for most living things, humans included. And then on the other side you have ammoniac which you also shouldn't be eating. He allowed them to react with each other. Made this quite cool and flashy reaction. And then without explaining what ammonium chloride was, he went right in and scraped his finger on the tubes to get the crystals and licked his finger. The whole class was super shocked. Then he said, you might also know ammonium chloride by another name... ...Salmiakk After that there were loads of people who also wanted to have a taste. Still one of the most memorable experiences I had in school.

[@cosmicwolf9228]

Someone: Makes Francium salt. These people: Dude they used the last alkali metal to make a salt let’s eat it! Also them: Gets stage 13 cancer.

[@californium-2526]

Stage 500 cancer with 6 molecules of FrCl

[@129140163]

Then we must synthesize and name Ununennium (I propose “illudium”) and make a chloride salt of it! Illudium chloride!

[@Tehom1]

And to think they could have avoided it if they'd just let the salt sit overnight. (Half-life of Francium < 20 minutes)

[@Great_Olaf5]

No no, it'll be fine, just hear me out, mix it with the strontium chloride, they said that's used to keep you from getting cancer from your TV, it should work with the francium, right?

[@dananskidolf]

@@Tehom1 Yes but then won't you wake up to a house full of polonium dust and radon gas?

[@godfreypoon5148]

That's why they call it sodi-yum.

[@monarchatto6095]

Godfrey Poon MmM yummy corrosive and explosive sodium in my tummy!

[@sanicmidgetking9393]

Lithi-yum Potassi-yum Rubidi-yum Caesi-yum Ammoni-yum Stronti-yum

[@nibblrrr7124]

8:48 Salmiak licorice & cough drops with ammonium chloride are definitely a thing in Germany (and apparently the Nordic countries & BeNeLux as well).

[@johnmcclain3887]

I really appreciate your doing this. The question has been nagging me for years, but I just never got around to taste testing, thanks for saving me the trouble, I guess there's a reason salt's salt. Always a learning experience!!

[@twoha7vds59]

Ah yes good old pOTASSIUM CHLORIDE, my favorite sodium free salt and execution method

[@californium-2526]

Must be written as pOTASSIUM CHLORIDE. KCl that's written otherwise won't work well.

[@129140163]

@@californium-2526 so, in other words, with capitalization reversed? I.e. Potassium chloride won’t cut it, but pOTASSIUM CHLORIDE will? 😂

[@cashnelson2306]

@@129140163 jokes are always funnier when you painstakingly explain them

[@magusperde365]

Its seriously the most disgusting shit I've ever taster in my life

[@j100j]

@@magusperde365 So you have tasted other shit as well?

[@mattetis]

Explanation from a swede: Ammonium chloride is called "Salmiak" and is commonly used in conjunction with Liquorice. It is also made into salmiak pastilles (with no liquorice, but may be a little sweet as well), which are awesome. I would never use this salt as a substitute in normal cooking, that would be madness.

[@j100j]

Before watching this video I would have agreed that it would be madness but now that I think about it it could work.

[@mattetis]

@@j100j I mean substituting normal salt would be madness in general, salmiak actually have a taste, so it is like substituting sugar in general with cola sauce or something. But cooking with salmiak however is awesome. Salmiak ice cream for example is delicious. And ofcourse previously mentioned salmiak pastilles.

[@j100j]

@@mattetis I am finnish and I love all things salmiak and I think a little bit of ammonium chloride could work in some normalish foods.

[@uremawifenowdave]

“Tastes like disappointment.” totally cracked me up.

[@bhu1334]

Guys remember in Australia, as everything is upside down, even the taste buds location are inverted. So whatever these guys perceive as bitter is actually sweet. Trust me I'm a doctor

[@nozrep]

i’ve bought a whole container of KCl in the past it was a “salt alternative”. Tony Chachere’s brand spices. It had a really weird “cooling” sensation to it and the crystals were more “powdery”. It wasn’t terrible but I am too accustomed to regular salt with my spices to switch for good.

[@magusperde365]

In my case it was the worst taste I ever tasted in my life and I think whoever idea it was to sell this should be jailed. And I bought and loved ammonium chloride

[@chnhakk]

Man, I thought it said PbCl on the thumbnail but still very interesting video

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

that would be fairly adventurous

[@mortlet5180]

Hakkı Oktay; Nah man, that would be too tame for this channel... I read it as PoCl2...

[@pleasehelpicanneverthinkof5026]

Well, lead chloride was actually used as a sugar substitute in ancient Egypt, with little known deaths by it... So more than likely not to bad or toxic(in small doses)

[@PyroXVuurwerk]

dank science boi maybe not many known deaths because we don’t know that much about them?

[@darellroasa6846]

cum on man... is not the death or the balls numbing cancer 💩 that we’ll all should worry about. the concern should be is what will make us ugly, lol. seriously that’s interesting, but I think its cool with me if we stop tasting Pbcl until i confirmed it with my lab rats.

[@VintageToiletsRock]

Chemistry teachers *HATE* him! Find out how this man did the impossible and lived to tell the tale!

[@Eric-sy1xu]

Scandinavia has good taste dont @ us The fun of Djungelvrål is the kick in the face of the super-soluble ammonium chloride that fades quickly into a mild sweet licorice. The name literally means "jungle shout" probably for the reason of the kick in the face. It's very fun giving to people and then watching their reaction 0.2 seconds after they put one in their mouth.

[@PSUQDPICHQIEIWC]

Yeah, it really is a good complement to the licorice. I like the ones like you describe: brisk and punchy at first and then savory and sweet. Pretty much everyone i know hates all forms of salmiakki, but that's okay if it means more for me. That said, some of the brown hard ones seem to be more salt than licorice and are just foul crumbly things with the great aenesthetising taste of ammonia and dirt. Giving those to unsuspecting people is just about as cruel as sharing rancid bacon mints.

[@Litepaw]

I love the salt-monkeys aswell ❤️ Damn they are good. Too bad i can only find them fresh rarely, only from like cruise ships and crusty candy aisles where they've been forgotten and dried up. I gotta go look for some tomorrow.

[@midge_gender_solek3314]

I loved Finnish "salmiakki ruutu"

[@livedandletdie]

Just good old regular Salmiakki is quite nice too.. Or just head down over to Gang Wars City Malmö, Sweden, to buy the best Licorice that mankind can find.

[@Anna-pj8te]

Eric true, but i like hockey powder even better

[@DustyTheDog]

Potassium Chloride is often used as a salt substitute. Here in the US you can buy it in a shaker like you can salt, and it is labelled as a salt substitute.

[@twiexcursori]

I like that the only one that tastes passable is NOT the one used as a salt substitute

[@robot797]

amonium chloride aka salmiac best tasting snack in the world also its in all the liqurich here in holland

[@aarnijarvelainen8499]

good engrlish you have

[@robot797]

@@aarnijarvelainen8499 I am sorry but I am not gonna correct it, for english is my second language

[@robot797]

@Comrad Sam could yyou explain this?

[@htomerif]

I wonder if one of the hydrates of CaCl would have tasted better? I'm guessing if you were using desiccant grade CaCl, most of the "pain" taste was from its desiccant action on the tongue.

[@mattthegamerhongkong6948]

CaCl2

[@Heptkaidekaphiliac]

If they were putting anhydrous calcium chloride in their mouths they're actually stupid lmao

[@htomerif]

@@Paonporteur Suffice to say I've learned a uh... substantial amount about chemistry in the past 3 years. I'll have to try it myself, but I think your "No" while being a dull and useless answer is also a wrong answer. But I knew that even at the time. Magnesium sulfate in solution isn't particularly bad tasting, however, anhydrous magnesium sulfate is a bitter, burning nightmare. Its unlikely that calcium chloride will be different.

[@yodarusev]

@@htomerif No.

[@htomerif]

@@yodarusev Lol. Actually, "yes".

[@SpecialEDy]

I have some NaOH and KOH, can you taste test those? They should taste better since chlorine is yellow and shit?

[@ElBach1y]

If you taste that you are gonna have a bad time

[@heylookitsummer]

NaClO makes a tasty beverage

[@sciencoking]

I have licked a NaOH pellet. It causes a sharp electric tingle where it touches your tongue, followed by a bitter soapy taste. You are welcome.

[@AnotherDayattheDock]

@@heylookitsummer NaClO2 is the craze now

[@nosterpnosterp]

They wont poison you but it will burn. Hydroxides rip apart your cells by turning their lipid membranes into soap.

[@Xalgucennia]

Wow, I remember asking my high school chemistry teacher and she didn't even know if other salts tasted salty. I've wondered about this since high school and I have a graduate biology degree lol.

[@Luigicat11]

So what about replacing the chlorine instead of the sodium? Are there any technically-edible salts that could be tried out in that category?

[@catpoke9557]

There's loads! You even have some in your house, probably. Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. I also made a salt at home known as sodium citrate which is made of baking soda and citric acid. No chlorine involved, as far as I know. There are definitely edible salts with sodium but no chlorine.

[@angst_]

The most scientific-like a non-science experiment can get. Someone had to do it, thanks M8.

[@davidbarrass]

I once made the mistake of adding H2O to LiCl, rather than the other way round. It almost immediatly boiled. No idea what the temperature was, but I'd guess it was way over 100C. MgCl2 was the same

[@wingedcatgirl]

I already need to avoid "low-sodium" stuff that uses potassium chloride as a salt substitute (of which there is a surprising amount), so it's good to know that I'm not missing out.

[@coopergates9680]

Kidney conditions? I use strontium chloride, and unfortunately a number of "no salt added" thingies use calcium chloride despite the "that's the effing worst" lol

[@Psythik]

If you want a good salt alternative, use MSG (seriously). Just about every grocery store carries it under the Accent brand.

[@coopergates9680]

@@Psythik You know that's a sodium salt, right?

[@polygontower]

@@coopergates9680 But it's less sodium per 'amount of saltiness' so you can use way less on your food and have the same amount of 'saltiness' on your taste buds.

[@coopergates9680]

@@polygontower I already get enough protein. Haha

[@ying6726]

Bro just googled that it was safe and had all their friends eat it

[@ralp3649]

7:47 "puple-grey", nice, one of my favourite colours

[@isabelvassalus9688]

eating chips with forks and knives..... questionable judgement eating "very low toxicity" salts... A+ Judgement

[@Tyubirocks1]

"I would say that these are... Salty?" - on fries with table salt

[@flugelchannel237]

they were unsalted i believe

[@Spycyzygy]

Such insight Bless Australian salt parties

[@cameronjenkins6748]

I remember being in 11th grade chemistry and working with some potassium chloride in an experiment. After finishing the experiment and washing my hands, I snuck a tiny taste of the stuff. I regretted it almost immediately.

[@Kino280]

10:47 Something about the music blaring over you talking quietly was really funny

[@mercury6800]

What about francium chloride you lied it was not all the alkali melts

[@pleasehelpicanneverthinkof5026]

For some reason your name compared with your profile picture makes this comment alot better

[@drevil9554]

Have fun getting Francium

[@HaydenX]

@@drevil9554 I wonder what Francium Astatide tastes like...I personally think it would taste like a subtle blend of horrible cancer and "what a fine way to spend the last of your fortune, Mr. Gates"

[@edwinchamorro29]

francium decays too fast

[@DarkNia64]

@@edwinchamorro29 Would decay still be a factor if one were to promptly chemically merge francium with sodium?

[@Jaffer1214]

Ive always wondered about this, so thanks for being the guinea pigs lol. Pretty good video and cool idea, please do more in the future. Subscribed!

[@orlandodattoma6678]

Interesting trivia: one time at my university I tasted some anhydrous LiCl and was very spicy because the enthalpy of dissolution of LiCl is quite negative and in a pinch there are a lot of moles.

[@tsavin2]

This is great exposure therapy for the wet chewing sounds.

[@DaniilHomyak]

RbCl was actually used as an antidepressant & mood stabiliser for some time in Soviet Union

[@sarowie]

What is less healthy? The chips or the various salts being tested?

[@TomsLab]

Wow I love the slo-mo at 7:53 :)

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Tom's Lab oh no it's a render error, hope there's not too many more of them :/

[@TomsLab]

Lol it's all good, nice video

[@jayyyzeee6409]

I was waiting for the grim reaper to show up to their little dinner party.

[@gregoryschmidt1233]

Don't know if it's still on the market, but there used to be a "salt substitute" that was KCL. I remember as a kid being given a nice ear of corn-on-the-cob fresh from the garden, and sprinkling what I thought was regular salt on it, only to find out it was my grandpa's salt substitute (high blood pressure). The aftertaste was horrible, especially to a little kid. When I complained, my mother shushed me and told me to eat it anyway, since we were at the grandparent's house. I have never forgotten that wretched taste, and the disappointment of a ruined ear of fresh sweet corn.

[@129140163]

You have GOT to try francium chloride next, and then synthesize and name Ununennium (element 119, the next alkali metal; if it were up to me to name it, I’d go with illudium, chemical symbol Il) and then try THAT chloride (UueCl/119Cl/IlCl)!

[@rhonafenwick5643]

But if you use the illudium for chips, there won't be enough for my illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator!

[@jhyland87]

Today i learned ausies eat fries with a damn fork..

[@FXGreggan.]

Ammonium chloride on liquorice is amazing! (Yes I'm scandinavian :)

[@justaguy4311]

No HCl? Scam.

[@DaveTexas]

Back in the early ‘80s, my dad was diagnosed with high blood pressure. In an attempt to lower it, his doctor told him to cut salt out of his diet. The doctor recommended trying some of the "salt-free" seasonings as an alternative. For context, my mother didn’t believe in seasoning food. She used no seasoning at all - no spices, no herbs, and definitely no salt - in her cooking. (I grew up hating home-cooked food because of this, thinking only restaurant food could taste good.) when we sat down to eat dinner, my father, my brother, and I would immediately salt and pepper our food. Before tasting. It became a habit. The food always needed salt to make it palatable. Well, when my dad cut out salt, we all had to cut out salt. My mother bought a little jar of potassium chloride at the grocery store. It was called "non-salt salt" or "salt-free salt," something like that. We all used it for about a week. It was AWFUL! Everything tasted bad. We switched to something like Mrs. Dash or some other salt-free seasoning blend, but that didn’t help, either. We went back to table salt after that. High blood pressure be damned. As an adult, I’ve come to understand that our bodies need a certain amount of sodium each day and so we’ve evolved to love the flavor of NaCl so that we get enough in our diet to stay healthy. I’ve also come to understand that salt doesn’t have that great an effect on blood pressure, so it’s OK to use it in moderation. Weirdly, I sometimes suffer from sodium deficiency and need to increase my intake. My mother also has the same issue, my doctor told me to just go a little heavier on the salt when I cook; my mother’s doctor prescribed a snack-sized bag of pretzels or chips/crisps each day for her. Yes, she was ordered by her doctor to eat junk food on a daily basis. We don’t know why we both have this deficiency, though. I suspect there might be a link between a long-term lack of sodium in the diet and later problems in the body with absorbing or processing sodium. Or maybe we just have a strange genetic thing that causes us to need more sodium than other people. I have to eat way more salt than anyone else I know in order to keep my sodium levels in the normal range...

[@GenericAnimeBoy]

I just want to take a moment to appreciate how much time Tom spent making the text fly across the frame.

[@RYNOCIRATOR_V5]

10:50 - my immediate, out-loud reaction: "why've you written it in wingdings you absolute cock 'ed?" *laughs* 10/10

[@Amoeba_Podre]

Humongous father? Is that you?

[@RYNOCIRATOR_V5]

@@Amoeba_Podre wot rings u got bithc?

[@paulbashford3444]

I love how trusting your mates are

[@anthonypistocchi60]

Lol eats lithium... “not bad”😂🤣 Most level commentary after eating bipolar medicine😂

[@58mph48]

>"fairly low toxicity" >lithium chloride >2 for toxicity on fire diamond >phased out as both salt substitute and bipolar medication due to toxicity

[@LuisBorja1981]

Metal ions I have tasted: . Li+, Na+, K+, Cs+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Co2+, Zn2+, AlO+ (the closest to Al3+), and sweet Saturnian Pb2+. . Don't remember if I tasted Hg2+, though...

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

What's the best and worse tasting one lol

[@LuisBorja1981]

@@ExplosionsAndFire I'll try to make categories from what I remember: - Typically salty: you already did those here. Li+, Na+ and somehow NH4+ (I forgot to mention that). Bitter/Salty: Again, like your video, sorta... K+, Cs+ and maybe Sr2+ (I'm forgettin' that one, time to retaste) Bitter/Sour: Ca2+, Mg2+ (try Epsom's salt). NH4+ would also fit here From now on things get more interesting, leaving the comfort of groups 1 and 2: Bitter/Rusty: Fe2+ (kinda sweeter), Fe3+ (more rusty), Ni2+ (strongly bitter, metallictasting) Directly acidic: Zn2+ in ZnCl2. This and HCl give little difference Co2+: Wow, I just realized I COMPLETELY forgot this one!!! AlO+: Well, basically it's old deodorant . Finally the best and the worst: Pb2+: SWEET LORD SATURN!!! Now I know why Romans used it. Unbelievably sweet, how such a poison deceives our taste that way? Of course I am aware of its toxicity, so I tried only a couple of miligrams (salt grain size) - Cu2+: By far the worst one. And I'm talking that all the other cations were sufficiently weird, acidic, bitter, sour and salty. Well, copper sulfate is like all combined, and add the small detail that it is EMETIC AS HELL, not only for its horrible übermetallic taste, but also triggers a physiological vomiting reflex. And the coup-de-grace: its unending aftertaste prompting you to vomit your guts out of you.

[@RaExpIn]

Lithium would also treat you depression if you might have one :D Strong licorice in germany contains ammonium chloride, which I really like and that's why I found it to be tasting quite good. Nevertheless, I would only put it in licorice and nowhere else.

[@spookywizard4980]

Supposedly, although theres growing evidence that lithium doesn't do all that much for bipolar disorder and is more harm than good

[@spencerleava2502]

Salted licorice is evil. Inventing that stuff was the worst crime the Netherlands ever committed, and I am sad to see that it's evil is spreading.

[@eemeli224]

7:54 When your ping shoots up to 500 while trying to eat

[@californium-2526]

Laggy eating, next up is freezing (due to lost packets) while eating.

[@vozdelibrepensante]

Interesting and funny video. It seems there is a transition from salty flavour in the upper table alkaline metals to bitter flavour in the bottom ones. Chemically, ammonium is considered to be between potassium and cesium. Regarding the itching of Calcium Chloride, very likely is because it's highly hygroscopic and it is sucking water out of your tastebuds ;)

[@The_Youtube_Winner]

edible uses: treats bipolar. flammable. other uses: batteries. lethal injections. nuclear medicine. fertilizer. non surgical castration. flame color: blue-purple with grey haze “tastes like how bleach smells.” not what i want to hear about food lmao

[@spencerleava2502]

Now, call me crazy but I actually use potassium chloride in a lot of my cooking. It tastes awful by itself, but its a completely different story when you mix it with sodium chloride. It can make the difference between a good dish and a great one. In guacamole, it works especially well. They balance out the negative flavor aspects of eachother, and highlight the positive aspects. My general rule is 1 part potassium chloride for 4 parts sodium chloride. IE: if a recipe calls for 1 tsp of salt, add that as well as 1/4 tsp potassium chloride. Also, it tastes especially crap on potato for some reason.

[@tinobassi59]

Should have used cesium-137 chloride, unsubbed.

[@xdeler]

I was disappointed they didn't use strontium-90 Chloride... :(

[@monad_tcp]

disappointed because there was no uranium-III chloride

[@evandrochaves9596]

It has been used here in Brasil some time ago

[@franchufranchu119]

No arsenic chloride??? Dislike.

[@Asher_E99]

Why no plutonium chloride? It made a Delorean go back in time, so it must be able to reverse the aging process!

[@LostieTrekieTechie]

"no medicine tastes good, it just feels good"

[@BromTeque]

Salmiak, amonium chloride or «salt licorice» as it’s called apparently is quite good actually.

[@josepmcomajoncoses5118]

What an enjoyable video!!! It's priceless and truly informative to see their reactions

[@Miltiades178]

10:50 Bro pulled out the Gaster Salt

[@quokofumi5653]

I would really like to see a part 2 with bromide and iodide, in particularly interested in Lithium Bromide taste and Lithium Iodide, i guess calcium idodie could taste not that bad as well.

[@science_and_anonymous]

What happened to that explosive plant?

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

science_and_anonymous the explosive plant in the middle of the table got cut back because I harvested the leaves for the project!

[@science_and_anonymous]

Explosions&Fire2 ahhhh

[@science_and_anonymous]

Explosions&Fire2 hahahah I wad actually wondering when we would see the video on it, didn't know it was in the shot lol

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

science_and_anonymous oh I thought you spotted the Easter egg. Well, I did it all and nothing exploded, so I have to think about why that is and what I can do about it I guess

[@science_and_anonymous]

Explosions&Fire2 hahahah yeah, maybe when the leaves grow again you can try a different solvent for extraction and just see how everything works out

[@ElementalAer]

Where's my Francium boy?!!

[@BierBart12]

Ammonium chloride is used in sweets. And not just in scandinavia, it is the basis for liquorice all over the world now(Why you call it "Salty liquorice"). And it can be damn healthy apparently

[@stephenjacks8196]

Taste related. Oatmeal foams up (decarboxylates) when cooked with, salt. But Oatmeal cooked with KCl or no salt don't foam up on cooking but release more "gas" in the eater.