How It's Made: Natural Baking Soda

[@vanillasmerk5742]

This guys voice takes me back. Nostalgic. Im 38 now and he was there throughout my teens n twenties. Love this show. And modern marvels also.

[@MOE13576]

Yup:)

[@OpenThrottle47]

And the food network equivalent, Unwrapped

[@seanj3667]

There are episodes with another narrator. Unwatchable.

[@huntermcclovio4517]

takes me to the late 80's

[@wyattgipson4607]

His name is Brooks More!

[@redbeard19833]

I work in the industrial field in the maintenance department. I, and my coworkers have always loved these videos. We always say "The worker places the..." and immediately know it's a "How its made" joke.

[@gschady]

my goal in life is to be "a worker" on a "How Its Made" episode

[@infallibleblue]

Thank you for all that you do.

[@stevetakacs654]

Then the worker places his butt in the chair keeping a close watch for the boss......

[@rockettony1014]

Me and my dad loves watching how it's made and have been watching it for many years. he used to watch these when he got home working night shift as a respiratory therapist and got up, turned on the tv, and watched how its made on the science channel.

[@AdamBechtol]

:)

[@chefjoesplaylists2565]

It's also used by the gallon in medical grade for things like dialysis. The dialyzer tube uses an osmotic membrane separating the patients blood and the bicarbonate and the pressure gradient causes waste products to get sucked into the bicarbonate.

[@adolphadillard3220]

I was wondering what is in that bath as well call it. Literally on dialysis right now watching this video as a am on the machine now. Been doing dialysis for 12 years now from the age of 18.

[@chadroeder]

Wow, sounds safe

[@elmastewart8677]

​@@adolphadillard3220oh my God

[@elmastewart8677]

Crouch grass, and celery is the best kidney herb.

[@Bob_Adkins]

My wife's a dialysis tech, and used to talk about her endless chore of making bicarb.

[@aland7236]

In this episode, baking soda. Well, we pump water into a natural deposit to dissolve the baking soda. Then we pump the mixture back up and dry it until the water is all evaporated. Then we put the stuff left over from drying into a bag and sell it.

[@Smurfman256]

hey, if it works.

[@HeadsUpTV]

Profit

[@Aloewells]

But when added water to underground , it's reacts and SODIUM HYDROXIDE + co2 is formed.

[@DWVoid0321]

@@Aloewells Sodium Hydroxide, aka NaOH is a much stronger base than Sodium Bicarbonate. You cannot make it by just adding water to the later, this is not how things work

[@VanillaHorror]

But then the evil genius switch the hot brine with vinegar an ka BLEWY

[@pandalady5964]

I use it in bathing and in cleaning. Also as a heartburn treatment. Baking soda is very versatile.

[@paulredinger5830]

It’s great for heartburn, but tastes awful! I’ve heard it’s good to use for brushing your teeth. But it’s a bit coarse on them. My dad used it when I was a kid. I don’t know I& he still does, but he has all his teeth still. Supposed to help with your breath also. I use it on my shoes. When they start getting a bit rank. I put 3/4 a cup in each shoe coat the whole inside let them sit for a few days, and it draws all the stink out. Works great too!

[@klaudii4446]

Helps decrease acidic ph in a coffee if you add a pinch, tasteless

[@archkull]

It's great for absorbing odors too, for the kitchen garbage bin and ashtrays and the like

[@klaudii4446]

@@archkull add white vinegar and the reaction will make a nice cleaning foam. Perfect for toilets sinks etc

[@archkull]

@@klaudii4446 no it won't, baking soda is alkaline and will quickly neutralize anything acidic*. It is a waste.

[@bradwilliams4921]

Amazes me what goes into making baking soda. Much respect to the engineers that dreamed up, designed and built this process.

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

Yep indeed 👍🇬🇧

[@Matityahu-the-God]

Yeah, I blows my mind when I realize that everything we see was engineered by someone. Like, where tf do they come up with some of these machines? 🤣

[@billjones3071]

Don’t worry the Chinese will reverse engineer usa technology

[@Fogaata]

@@Matityahu-the-God i missed something, it was brine then they removed all the water through multiple steps then it became pure, what am I missing?

[@Matityahu-the-God]

@@Fogaata it's sad that someone would try so hard to downplay human ingenuity.

[@ziginox]

1:20 I love how the solution to that valve fouling up with dried brine splatter is to just wrap it in plastic wrap.

[@ericaguiar5543]

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[@geomodelrailroader]

My uncle just retired from the baking soda mines he worked at Church and Dwight in Green River Wyoming every train that I see on the rails headed to China of Asia comes from this mine. Baking Soda is used in everything from food, livestock feed, soap, mask, polymers, fertilizer, you name it it all begins as baking soda in a mine just like this one.

[@kenc2257]

Ha! That's "Arm & Hammer," right? Neat.

[@janami-dharmam]

Actually it (sodium bicarbonate) has few industrial uses; if you heat baking soda you get washing soda (sodium carbonate) and that has lots of industrial uses.

[@shadyganley8877]

Yo dats rill ya'll BALEEDAT forill doh

[@Kay12ization]

you forgot toothpaste and crack!

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

Thanks 👍🇬🇧

[@gizellesmith8763]

It's crazy how much of a process baking soda is and how cheap it is.

[@amvkarthik]

Economy of scale I guess.

[@HitomiMudo]

Actually, for a "refining" process, this is rather simple and has 1 basic step once it enters the factory: remove the water. That's one of the reasons it's so cheap

[@lindzeesouperocd7558]

@@HitomiMudo not true. What is exactly happening is still a mystery to scientist. We call it the scientigo effect.

[@tao8150]

@@lindzeesouperocd7558 where mystery?

[@Alsry1]

@@lindzeesouperocd7558 scientigo effect isn’t even a real thing. and hitomi is right, baking soda is such a basic compound its extraction and refining is incomparable to even the most basic of polymers.

[@palamonia1]

I now finally know why i would see just long lines of pipes leading to absolutely nowhere whenever i would travel in my home state.

[@Randomwyomingguy]

Let me guess, north central Colorado.....

[@tohopes]

do you live in Pipeland?

[@singhmaster4]

I swear I have seen them next to a highway on some farm land. It was driving me nuts because I didn't know what it was for. It was too small in diameter to transfer grains that far.

[@MeOwOgai]

Salute to everyone from 2040s when this video gets recommended again 😎

[@xploration1437]

Feet

[@Kozibaw]

😧🤣🇧🇼

[@KILLA219]

Or in a week

[@TravisTennies]

I was just in 2047 and this video was recommended to me.

[@the2pages62]

Ah yes, the great baking soda wars

[@ct6502c]

Sodium bicarbonate has to be one of the most useful compounds ever discovered. It really is amazing everything you can do with it, and it's completely harmless.

[@Mcfunface]

Odor remover, teeth cleaner, bread leveaner, antacid...

[@mycupofcocoa1125]

Cleans veggies

[@kosayno]

I just discovered it's an amazing meat tenderizer too. Using this with cheap, less desired tough cuts of meat has saved me lots of money on cooking. This stuff really is the ultimate life hack.

[@skeeterskoville9226]

I throw half a cup in my daughters bath. I don’t use bath bombs. Idk if it’s been scientifically proven, but it seems like it heals scrapes and cuts faster. Also, mosquito bites go away.

[@skeeterskoville9226]

@@McfunfaceBEST antacid ever.

[@YiTseng]

Containers and machines are so clean in the factory because they are always cleaned with baking soda (X

[@RockSimmer-gal4God]

That makes sense as it’s a natural cleaner

[@RockSimmer-gal4God]

@SKULLCRUSHER true

[@yellowbone5751]

@Astrid YOU WOULD THINK BUT THEY ARE SOME OF THE DANGEOUSCAYSE MIXING IT WRONG OR ANY OTHER MISTAKE MAY CAUSE PEOPLE THEIR LIVES CAUSE OF THE RISK OF BLOWING UP THE WHOLE FACTORY

[@makehasteBrandon]

@@yellowbone5751 in this case definitely not unless you showed up with a shitload of vinegar or something LOL definitely not flammable The boiler room in that particular facility is pretty impressive from personal experience if I remember right there are two 904 million btu boilers that are about 40 ft long and about 15 ft diameter

[@makehasteBrandon]

@Astrid well if you consider the fact that it etches all the Portland cement out from between the aggregate in the concrete floors in that facility ,most of the regular mild steel handrails are heavily pitted but are free of rust , once you work your way into the dry processing side of that building there is baking soda on literally all surfaces

[@DouglasConlin]

I waited for the pun, I wasn't disappointed, "It will no doubt rise to the occasion." Boom tisssssssss.

[@SarenthDricten]

Puns are some of my favorite moments from each episode.

[@DrGreerIsRight]

You're thinking of baking powder

[@nolashingout4940]

BDM TSSS

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

Someone give the man a cake.

[@nolashingout4940]

@SKULLCRUSHER CAN WE SCISSOR

[@ra.5197]

Where is the "No Vinegar Beyond This Point" sign

[@briantaulbee6452]

😂😂

[@YogurtSnipe]

I miss this guys voice, I grew up watching this tv show.

[@michaelnelson1128]

Did he die?

[@kf10147]

@@michaelnelson1128 no! Brooks Moore is still alive.

[@sbn1095]

I know this is nostalgic

[@daftzilla]

This has to be the cleanest factory in existence.

[@MrBoulala77]

Wait till u see blech factory

[@Jay42000]

Nope, the bleach factory would like to talk.

[@makehasteBrandon]

From personal experience absolutely not lol

[@jeanetteshawredden5643]

I wanted to see how they put baking soda in small yellow boxes at the grocery store for home baking 😊

[@armageddonready4071]

I’m in Colorado, I can confirm, we have this stuff everywhere. There are spots that look like unmelted snow it’s so white, and if you let a tub of water to dry, your left with white mineral residue. My well water is 7.6 or so and it’s awesome.

[@dark12ain]

I cant believe most of my childhood was spent watching how it works 😂 its sooo fascinating

[@ismaeldelgado6615]

The abrassion(¿?) resistance of the pipes and stuff has to be top level!!! This thing Is working with sandpaper..minus the paper...YES the baking soda is way softer than aluminio oxide , but still...its A LOT OF BAKING SODA!

[@RockyBoy12783]

0:18 and crack

[@1RandomMiss]

These guys have been entertaining me with their Dad Joke style puns for over 20 years 😂

[@nicotti]

Now I'm going to have to search for videos of how they do the dissolving in the mine.

[@allenbenjamin4997]

That makes two of us. HOW IT’S MADE is too darn general.

[@17hmr243]

its more of a underground well

[@richardhead8264]

@Nicotti _Non-stop urination_

[@dougaltolan3017]

There isn't a hole in the ground with digging machinery in it. They drill boreholes and pump/extract mineral loaded brine.

[@danielmcgrath9548]

That one guy with the beard evidently runs the whole operation by himself.

[@Groaznic]

Not to be rude to the effort put to make this video, but if you don't have 5 minutes to watch this, don't worry, TL;DR: we take underground deposits of baking soda as a slurry through a pipe, a technician looks at it, we take the water out of the slurry, then a technician looks at it. P.S. I fell to the ground laughing at the dad joke at the end of the video.

[@Zendukai]

I use this for indigestion, great stuff this is. Thank you to all who produce this wonder product.

[@kenc2257]

Sodium bicarbonate is an antacid, and one of the main ingredients in Alka-Seltzer.

[@Zendukai]

@@kenc2257 and its cheaper :)

[@janami-dharmam]

@@kenc2257 Too much of Na ions is bad for health; it upsets the Na/K balance and creates nervous problems (propagation of nerve signals in brain and heart)

[@mborder8428]

Same here, it’s better than any indigestion medicine.

[@Zendukai]

I normally use Gavison, but if I'm at someones place and in need of quick fix, baking soda is the go.

[@jhyland87]

Its like the mine and the plant combine into a big soxhlet extractor, extracting the NaHCO3 out of the mountains. How neat.

[@yt-user03561]

I like the techno music that adds to how scientific and technological the process is

[@waynewilliamson4212]

love these videos...everyone should know how "stuff" is made.....

[@BeBetterbeee]

I have a 1 month old first baby. And im terrified of time when she starts to ask questions like: but mama, where does soda come from... and I have no idea so I just say: from the shelf of a magazine obviously😂 Curiousity is best gift given to humans

[@dulceamadabakery]

The more you know! Baking soda is like magic when it come to my pastries jeje

[@depresso4565]

It took me 27 of these videos to go to sleep ty♥️

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

This was dry until the last pun. Bravo! 👏

[@123cutieputtie]

Wow the brine is what gives it its delicious flavor 😋

[@billmalec]

Goes in swimming pools also to raise the pH. I put about 50 lbs in my pool every spring. Hint, you can get it at feed stores much cheaper than big box stores.

[@jimpenny8771]

You’d have more success with sodium carbonate for that

[@papabadgers1555]

God I love how it’s made, it brings back memories.

[@Da-Sheek]

I wish they would go more in depth on the brine and extraction process.

[@constantinosschinas4503]

They actually left out the most important part. What is this brine and were it come from.

[@Kara_Kay_Eschel]

I work in an industrial battery plant, we have Sodium Bicarbonate on standby in case a battery full of acid breaks. Cleans right up.

[@jimpenny8771]

Usually soda ash (sodium carbonate) is used for that.

[@HillbillyTrucker91]

Being a truck driver, we come up to the plant all the time. For my part in the trucking industry, I deliver cattle feed so we get this stuff for cattle. It also helps them not bloat up just like us humans

[@thinkfloyd2594]

the music is soul crushing

[@GenJester]

Looks like its 3am again.

[@wingy200]

I must be lonely.

[@BeBetterbeee]

Yea i know that feeling. Watching the ceiling trying to sleep and suddenly wondering... but where does soda come from? Am i really that ignorant.. baking with it and cleaning with it and not even aware where it comes from.

[@teresemcnamara1105]

Watched a lot of how to video their is a huge process to make them all thx

[@HeyYouSA]

I love baking Soda. So many uses

[@ownSystem]

Been using This product all my life never knew where it came from :)

[@tlims1974a]

That’s pretty cool! Would like to see the mineral in its natural form before any processing is done. 😉

[@mikemarley2389]

Baking soda is an essential item in my home.

[@RigobertosTacoShop]

The ultimate heartburn killer. Stuff is gold in my house.

[@byronrichards3001]

Thanks alot for this informative upload. Keep informing the people...

[@t.dig.2040]

interesting, I have walked down the P&IDs of a major soda ash plant. The Arm and Hammer plant was the neighboring plant where they add the extra carbon atom. The trona ore is bicarb, but they calcine the ore, which drives a carbon atom away making sodium carbonate, then they dissolve it in water and then the process is similar to this video. The evaporator towers were amazing the way that they pull a vacuum to lower the boiling point.

[@maysurawski7772]

Goodness what a process!

[@mad71994]

after watching this I knew I had to go and get some baking soda I bought some off Amazon I knew there was something I had forgotten earlier

[@facitenonvictimarum]

Thanks, keep us posted.

[@mikefitzpatrick1213]

This was a great series.

[@UnitedCuisines]

I always wondered, thanks!

[@luciusirving5926]

Imagine if you could sublimate the Martian atmosphere into baking soda.

[@davidsuperdavelarson6174]

Bicarb is widely used to adjust the PH of water

[@judithmdza9500]

So much for me wanting to make it at home lol

[@bratticuss]

So pouring a large batch of vinegar into the dry mixture would be a bad thing?

[@syndrome5372]

This is a cracking episode

[@belledobson2007]

Bicarb is excellent for immediately releaving the symptoms of heart burn and bloating. One teaspoon on bicarb dissolved in a glass of warm water. It’s amazing.

[@Nikkuuu69]

It must be easy to keep all the equipment clean that handles the baking soda! :D

[@DavidRamos-sr8cx]

Can you show us how Organic Baking Soda is made?

[@bigunone]

If this is the Nahcolite plant in Peance Creek CO, It was my first job as an electrician back started there in Dec 1990

[@oversizedshipping]

Is anyone else amazed that this product doesn't cost a lot more?

[@jaysmith1408]

Factors of scale. They’re shipping this stuff by the rail car. Strike that, by the train. And with the brine injection, a worker doesn’t have to go digging.

[@bmay8818]

It does if you buy it in little boxes. I get 13 pounds of it at Costco for about a buck a pound. I imagine it's half that price in 50+ pound bags. Considering that all they're doing is pumping brine out of the ground and drying it, it shouldn't be that expensive.

[@dennispickard7743]

B May look at the vid again ! Firstly they have to pump in ‘ hot brine ‘ so that it gets saturated with the mineral element . I hope you’re not in the education business ?

[@bmay8818]

@@dennispickard7743 All this is is pumping brine underground, pulling it out, and drying and purifying the mixture. Nobody is bringing in train cars of raw materials, there are no parts, there is relatively little energy consumption, no significant chemical usage, etc. Compared to most How It's Made videos, the production process here is quite simple.

[@dennispickard7743]

B May Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, comes from soda ash obtained either through the Solvay process or from trona ore, a hard, crystalline material. Trona dates back 50 million years, to when the land surrounding Green River, Wyoming, was covered by a 600-square-mile (1,554-square-kilometer) lake. As it evaporated over time, this lake left a 200-billion-ton deposit of pure trona between layers of sandstone and shale. The deposit at the Green River Basin is large enough to meet the entire world's needs for soda ash and sodium bicarbonate for thousands of years. Because the synthetic process used in the Solvay method presented some pollution problems, Church & Dwight Co. Inc. is basing more and more of its manufacturing on trona mining. Another large producer of soda ash, the FMC Corporation, also relies on trona to manufacture soda ash and sodium bicarbonate. Trona is mined at 1,500 feet (457.2 meters) below the surface. FMC's mine shafts contain nearly 2,500 (4,022.5 kilometers) miles of tunnels and cover 24 square miles (62 square kilometers). Fifteen feet (4.57 meters) wide and nine feet (2.74 meters) tall, 1 Soda ash can be manufactured chemically using the Solvay process, or it can be made from trona ore. If trona ore is used, it must first be mined. After it has been brought to the surface, the trona ore is transported to a variety of processing plants. There, the ore is refined into a slurry of sodium sesquicarbonate, an intermediate soda ash product that actually contains both soda ash (sodium carbonate) and baking soda (sodium LOOK UP SESQUICARBONATE ,

[@Ogaitnas900]

crazy how relatively easily they get it to food grade purity

[@mikemarley2389]

Do not give them ideas man.

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

Never knew how much went into it.

[@AlexanderLakidon]

at 3:00 they add dry soda to wet cake to bring moisture content to 3%. But where did the dry soda come from in the first place???

[@Joe-bm4wx]

THIS is the correct narrator.

[@daydreaminginventor-k8957]

Desolve in water , crystallize. Move the water back to get more …… what a business ❤

[@handycreationsfrompossible8080]

It's very interesting to watch how the crystals turn into a slurry.

[@chipsammich2078]

This beat hits hard

[@nguyendang6178]

My first thought when looking at the thumbnail: *the title must be how cocaine is made*

[@ericshmuely5245]

“Baking soda, I got baking soda”

[@Lex-of2wo]

this is grossly underappreciated.

[@jbazanblog]

Why is the processing plant so far away from the mine? What are the three grades of baking soda, and what is each used for? So many unanswered questions.

[@Thorloar]

The grades are just sizes of crystals. Different grades are used because of their properties, mainly surface area. Very fine product goes into stuff like fire extinguishers while coarser grades can be used for baking or cleaning products. Different sizes of crystals will give slightly different results for baking or other processes. Non food grades will be used for industrial processes or to mix with cartel feed as an acid reducer.

[@pauldjdundas]

Baking soda is my new best friend 😊

[@RovingPunster]

TIP: To convert sodium bicarbonate into sodium carbonate (a much stronger alkalai), spread to 1/2" deep in a foil lined lipped baking sheet, and bake 2 hrs at 350F ... that liberates the excess water and CO2 that sodium carbonate naturally absorbs from ambient air and humidity over time. Cool fully and store in an airtight container. Rebake every 6 months.

[@SixOhFive]

Thanks I'll try that

[@RovingPunster]

@@Fraud_Flintstone A good cost saving tip, thx. However, I'm a DiY kinda guy, and making your own saves a round trip to the store.

[@kosycat1]

Wow I noticed this plant on my google maps because its so big, and now im watching how they mine. it so cool

[@sciencedocumentarychannel4273]

Great, very helpful video

[@marichiarra8495]

I’m watching this because there is a question becoming more public now as to the pureness of Arm&Hammer’s baking soda vs Bob’s Red Mill’s.

[@SixOhFive]

Arm and hammer is better and has finer size crystals

[@iLoveBoysandBerries]

Add three table spoons to your coffee every morning for the best cup of brew you'll ever have

[@noob19087]

Three *tablespoons*? Wouldn't that just make it taste like soap? I'm genuinely curious, could you elaborate on that? What kind of coffee do you use?

[@mcb187]

Great stuff. Use it to make water alkaline for a step during the development of film.

[@Pavme]

This reminds me of the types of videos your middle school science teacher gives you

[@j-sizzler5897]

I was just asked by one of my kids the other day how they made this and I didn't have a good answer lol

[@blackwhite1620]

lol

[@gizellesmith8763]

Just to prove to you your devices are listening to your conversations. Lol

[@j-sizzler5897]

@@gizellesmith8763 lol right? Same thing happened the week before last after a conversation with coworkers about General Tsao's Chicken -- not two days later another KZbinr I follow posted a video on it. I have my phone set up to not listen to my conversations, but somehow the KZbinrs are getting the vibes lol

[@aristogatos1o1]

Congrats on having inquisitive kids!

[@alisardo1119]

Make sure you warn or sensitize your kids about health ptoblems if (chemical) consumed without moderation 😎

[@z2kk]

I assume that this video omitted steps to filter out impurities? There are lots of other compounds that are soluble in hot water and will precipitate out when the temperature is lowered.

[@KurniawanRamadhan213]

How do you use baking soda on insurgence?

[@faunsce3022]

The recommendations continue!

[@animalpeeps]

Perhaps it's because I'm a bit super stoned, but I laughed at the joke so much lmao

[@pheurbelvls3710]

Fascinating. 💚💚

[@railworksamerica]

If you need baking soda to make baking soda how did they make the first

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

2:08 When Frosty has diarrhea. Merry Christmas everyone

[@racheledwards2352]

Love this show

[@axvarela]

I had a stomachache but it stopped while watching this video.

[@OALM]

Vamos alianza!!

[@rideshotgunstrapforsafety6339]

Good on ya

[@Mctrippzy]

Stomachache?

[@BigRandomEyebagWaggerYo]

In short baking soda are came from stone then made it crystallized to a some sort of machine as they come into brine to become powderized? 😱👏👏

[@martinhodge921]

Any way to get Brooks Moore to narrate my life? I'm thinking Brooks would be less expensive than Morgan Freeman, but just as good.

[@edwardhuang1502]

I think the most important part is finding a place where you can get baking soda solution just by pumping water into the ground. The rest parts are trivial.

[@uberchipmonk2568]

So you have to have baking soda to make baking soda. Which came first, the baking soda or the baking soda?

[@Wanda6308]

Wow that was very interesting.

[@mamalannightshyaman]

I'm glad there are other comments in this video. I'm not the only one who randomly wonders how random crap is made

[@kinngrimm]

How is that initial brian being produced? Do you need to pump water down first?

[@SixOhFive]

Ya

[@SaidAlSeveres]

Love me some white crystalline powders

[@CrooningRevival365]

It's important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all of the fleeb juice.

[@louiseatkins7067]

now you owe me a washerndryerna house to wrap around it