Can you cook a Potato with a Potato?

[@imanijones10]

To add an extra pinch of accuracy, you could just eat some potatoes before pedaling the potato oven. Therefor at that moment you would be powered by potato, and you would basically be a potato energy converter. Breaking down the potato energy to turn into kinetic energy, then into electrical energy, which is then converted into heat energy to cook another potato!

[@RavenRains]

Underrated

[@randallmokjialung3592]

But you'd still have your fat deposits and other reserves Something something nerd emoji something something

[@imanijones10]

@@randallmokjialung3592 I'm no diet expert, but I'm pretty sure you only really start burning your fat reserves once you enter starvation, something that wouldn't happen if ur stuffed up on taters o.o

[@lucamagnani5243]

@@randallmokjialung3592 eat exlusively potatoes for the next 2 years to ensure only potato

[@deathofallthingspotato9919]

You should be able to power yourself off of potatos, although I'd guess you should eat a steady supply of them for like an hour beforehand, then do some light exercise, so that your digestive system is always processing them, and putting the glucose into your blood throughout the process. Then, as long as you didn't tire yourself at all, you should be running exclusively off of the extra glucose being put into your blood by digestion. (The exercise is to clear any none-potato derived energy from your muscles).

[@cormac321]

The line “boil um, mash um, stick um IN A BATTERY” just got me too well.

[@nulexica]

i read this as he said it lol

[@2rbz_]

Lotr reference

[@drpolus]

My god people in 1970 thought there would be flying cars but here we are wondering if a potato can cook a potato

[@CryingAutumn]

Human’s have gotten smarter over time, that’s all!

[@ej_tech]

We first need to figure out self driving because humans still can't be fully trusted with a normal car.

[@WorkshopGreg]

We’re only a short few millennia away from potato powered flying cars.

[@Dishbsmeosisusujsjsjs]

😂

[@benfuct5880]

Well when people’s goals are now to be influencers. It doesn’t exactly move mankind forward.

[@chronickat5453]

i was expecting this to go the direction of fermenting a potato into alcohol and burning that to cook a potato

[@notreadyplayer2365]

You can probably get more energy by burning the potato, rather than using it as a battery.

[@iankellogg]

he isn't even using the potato as the battery, just as the electrolyte, the energy comes from the metals!

[@JoelCreates]

Probably

[@virgurilla4084]

@@JoelCreates Can you ignite a potato with potatoes? If you manage to use a spark of the potato battery to light up a potato on fire you might be able to cook a potato using burning potatoes

[@33blue]

He technically did that by burning the potatoes consumed earlier inside his body to produce the energy that went pedal-cooking the latter potatoes

[@jeremymcadam7400]

then you technically only need one potato! it cooks itself

[@ListersHatsune]

"where are the potatoes?" Thanos: "gone, reduced to mash... I used the potatoes to cook the potato. It nearly heated it"

[@fgbhrl4907]

Pretty sure it's the acid in the potato that is essential in making the potato battery work. Think lemon battery. Powdered potato is probably really low in that acid.

[@outer_spacedgames5048]

As a guy that studies chemistry: you are correct :)

[@Praecantetia]

She sure is something else man.

[@ConvictedofarsonbytheUSgov]

​@@PraecantetiaUnrelated, my brain has rotted so much that any time I see the colors blue and purple/yellow, purple and brown, I immediately think "OH MY GAH FRISK/NIKO PFP"

[@ConvictedofarsonbytheUSgov]

Or just any indie game character tbf...

[@AlexJoneses]

I would love to see a revisit of this where you do a full in depth analysis of what makes a mashed potato battery more efficient, maybe you make the potatoes yourself, heat them up, add salt to the mixture, add citric acid to the mixture, that way you can actually revisit the oven and say you've done it

[@wesbrackmanthercenthusiast4695]

I would have just burnt the potatoes to cook another potato

[@minecrashinhard]

Gigabrain

[@shift-tren]

Potatoes probably contain water so they might stop burning

[@wesbrackmanthercenthusiast4695]

@@shift-tren use peeler to thinly slice into paper thin wafers dry in sun

[@beccasflyingrainbow7886]

How would you burn it using a potato

[@wesbrackmanthercenthusiast4695]

@@beccasflyingrainbow7886 dry potato flakes burn

[@soltgergelyhorvath6236]

Honestly, this just shows how impressive it is that GLaDOS could function after being turned into a potato, and being half-eaten too!

[@AdorablBirds]

When "it is definitely a potato" is thrillingly high praise, you know you've done something really special.

[@robo3644]

Well if you ate only potatoes, you would theoretically be powering it using potato energy

[@ami71609]

POTATO POWERR!!!!!!!!!!! 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 Thank you so much for the effort put into this video, You seriously deserve more than a million subscribers, Happy Thanksgiving to anyone reading this!

[@meemkade]

🥔🥔🥔

[@firesoul453]

@@dapperwolf465 but what if you eat only potatoes

[@potatogod7417]

potato

[@linecraftman3907]

While some may call this a failure, I found this absolutely fascinating. Really helped to grasp the scale necessary to pull off something like this. What if you used the potato battery power for a heat pump instead? Like an air conditioning unit, compressing and expanding gas to take away heat from an environment and put it into the potato

[@JoelCreates]

Thank you! It would be cool to research various electric heat generation methods to find the most efficient

[@AxelDayton]

Is it just me, or does anyone else's day just get better after watching a Joel Creates vid?

[@2p1p86]

mine dose to

[@NoobSharkYT]

No

[@NoobSharkYT]

@@2p1p86 does* unless u on some sort of white powder... MSG

[@JoelCreates]

Thanks Axel!

[@regulatorjohnson.]

Ive been contemplating ending it all ever since pressing play

[@HuntingKingYT]

Your phone isn't a potato, although it's made of chips

[@RoxanneClimber]

finally we're asking the real question

[@REDSTONENOOB.]

The awnser: no, but your feet can

[@jppotato17]

Hey Joel, thanks for letting me be a part of the video! It was a pleasure meeting you.

[@andrewharvey9023]

I would assume the air in the potato mixture was your biggest issue. Hence, when applying more pressure things improved. Drawing a vacuum for each cell before sealing up to remove the air would be a neat next step

[@Duraxia]

Oh no, he's turning into William Osman, but with potatoes-not lemons

[@redstonegenius2609]

Would love a sequel where you manage to make a better battery. Maybe you could collaborate with Nile red and have him concentrate the dielectric.

[@Zachaboom]

Maybe

[@anomalous7470]

you didn't cook a potato with a potato but you made the worlds most efficient oven

[@SebastianClips]

That’s so true😂 comments like this give me life. Keep being awesome, fellow youtube traveler 🫡

[@RepeatedFailure]

Potato is love, potato is life. The path of the potato is not always easy for those who choose to walk it. The starchy tuber sees unlimited potential it its many eyes. All hail the spud.

[@JoelCreates]

Shrek would like to know your location

[@yeahitsme4066]

@@JoelCreates better not be a reference to that one sfm

[@daneilgame123]

Potato is truly 🥔

[@ignaciosagone]

@@daneilgame123 potato moment

[@aarondavidson6409]

Amen

[@GUNUFofficial]

I heard both irish and russian music throughout this video

[@liamboulton2187]

Now these are the questions that must be answered to progress humanity. Can potatoes cook a potato? Who knows. Great video idea as always Joel, always a treat when you upload.

[@southernflatland]

Haha, cool cool. As far as the potato battery, I think it's entirely possible to improve it by adding some salt into the mashed potato 'electrolyte'. Hey, I dunno for sure, but I'd love to see a follow-up comparison video when/if you get around to testing something like that.

[@JoelCreates]

I didn't notice a significant difference in my salt tests

[@southernflatland]

@@JoelCreates Gotcha, didn't realize you had already tested with salt. Soak in vinegar maybe?

[@JoelCreates]

@@southernflatland my concern with adding chemicals is that, at some point, it's no longer a potato battery

[@southernflatland]

@@JoelCreates Indeed. Neither is a pedal powered generator. What's ya point? It would still be an interesting video/research topic.

[@nadacoms7560]

@@JoelCreatesi mean, you're using so many parts of technologie that, I'd say it's a potato(plus many other parts) batterie. If your main component is the potato I'd say it's a potato batterie, which yours is, so I'm guessing if you added some chemical ingredients it wouldn't be bad, but again that's a personal question. Bro I'm typing about a potato imma stop

[@snippykeegan]

ready!

[@the_ant_guy]

Even discovering that potatoes can't practically power a heating element to cook a potato is interesting!

[@Shadow-bk1im]

I think he just went about it in the wrong way. What if he just used them in the place of firewood instead to fuel a fire to cook the potato. I bet he would have had much more success.

[@1cuber3cubezz]

Great video! 👍🏻

[@Weisz]

9:26 it’s always the swedes bro… gotta keep your head on a swivel

[@frogtoad8692]

Genius

[@stuffthatgoesfast2259]

You should try again, but with a different chemical reaction. Use potassium nitrate to burn a potato and cook another potato.

[@raulundmuul]

You‘re probably wondering what my original comment was

[@bobbyflay4104]

Actually insane

[@Jdbye]

At what voltage though? Amps on their own don't say much.

[@dragonfireproductions790]

@@Jdbye a welding machine can weld using 30-60VDC on 50-200A A mig can go lower than 30V My small arc furnace uses 5V 100A

[@bobbyflay4104]

@@Jdbye it was shorted so near 0V. Still just impressive you can pull that current out of a potato, even if it's not much usable power

[@king_james_official]

@@bobbyflay4104 0V * infinityA is still 0W

[@the-skrunkly]

for the amount of effort that went into this, this needs to be more popular than it is

[@meemkade]

This is going to be interesting

[@HappyDucklingAndFriends]

this is genius

[@chrisbecker4922]

Awesome video as usual 🏆 What a cool communal task!

[@thewolfstu]

11:11 potato is potato

[@ThingsIBuild]

That was one of the finest bike baked potatoes I have ever tasted! Complements to the chef

[@rockonmyfriend]

You KNOW you’ll be invited to the next cookout if you bring a bike machine and a potato.

[@michaelmarrinan9981]

Missed a trick by not only eating potato while peddling, making it in a way potato powered

[@ImmortalLemon]

Combust potato starch and use the fire to cook potato like stove

[@calvinnguyen1870]

The best part of this is that if you fail to cook a potato, you can still eat it. It’s just a raw potato.

[@sitnamkrad]

Raw potatoes might be poisonous though, or at the very least wreak havoc on your digestive system. Would not recommend.

[@isaacbutler2424]

Thank you Calvin Nguyen

[@knurlgnar24]

I thought you were going to burn one potato to cook another. Seems more efficient.

[@awfulorb4190]

The real potatoes are the friends we made along the way.

[@Logiebear2310]

Curing cancer: ⛔️ Cooking a potato with a potato: ✅

[@inkycat7167]

Sir you didn’t just cook a potato with a potato, you cooked my potato brain that’s made of mashed potato compressed into potato by cooking a potato using a potato

[@quantuminfinity4260]

Potato Power, Glad0s would be proud!

[@mynamisis]

I would like to see a temp vs time graph of this oven to see how well it really is insulated

[@astrodax2753]

This video reminds me of when you go to a store to buy a specific item and its out of stock and the salesman tries to distract you to sell you something else!

[@reeldurn1834]

i was eating potato chips whilst waiting for my hashbrowns to cook in my oven whilst watching this (eating potatoes whilst cooking potatoes and watching a video about cooking potatoes with potatoes)

[@ivandenisovich6369]

who the fuck cooks hashbrowns in an oven

[@CyreneDuVent]

Since the oven is superinsulated, a lot of pedaling time could also be saved by getting the oven up to temperature, even a lower one, and then leaving it for a couple hours

[@JoelCreates]

I usually let it sit for longer than I pedaled before opening

[@MrQuickLine]

It's a Slapsgiving Day miracle!

[@ZigCade]

Himym

[@vaguedestruction]

ok now you have to make a potato cook itself

[@Darkness-ln7zy]

But can you cook a potato with the potato that you cooked with a potato?

[@herzogsbuick]

I thought for *sure*, to tie it all back together, you'd be eating potatoes while pedaling. That's the only thing that makes sense, right? Because then you would still be baking the potato with potato power. But that didn't even come up!

[@Srfingfreak]

Joel you never fail to impress. These things shouldn't work.

[@JoelCreates]

Thanks David!

[@trevorcarlisle5447]

Happy New Year!!! I'm just glad to see more content from you and hope to see a lot more in 2023!

[@gremlinman9724]

the funniest thing about the potatos being replaced with AA batteries in the beginning is that, even a single one of those batteries would produce like 20x the output of a potato. the massive battery he produces later on has the power of like, a 9 volt battery, and lasts significantly shorter.

[@Jbrimbelibap]

Only lights and clocks ? There is Basically Homelesss powering his PC with potatoes though edit fuck he invited him

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

What I love about Joel, Louis, and Basically Homeless is that they are like the newer version of William Osman, Peter Sripol, and BackyardScientist (and michael reeves). Its like a new generation of makers in a sense but not.

[@wellberightback5595]

I've always wanted to have a battery I could charge with unusual power sources that could power it up like a little water wheel on my sink and a exercise bike and so on so forth so I could collect power for atleast 18 hours.

[@sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh3360]

It is fun, but impractical. By the way, there will be a problem with energy storage. Storage elements like capacitors have leakage current. With tiny amount of incoming power, losses can become higher than energy input. I once made circuit which charges capacitor with waste electromagnetic waves. Without selecting best diodes for rectification and best capacitors for storage, leaks were huge.

[@MarkusArkus5]

I wonder if eating a pedal cooked potato is positive or negative calories.

[@JoelCreates]

Good question

[@Kanding3000]

this channel should have 1 million subscribers for its quality

[@rallekralle11]

dehydrating and burning them would be way easier, but way less cool

[@VesaKo]

We should have a quiet moment for all those lost potatoes. Rip my uneaten friends.

[@Slingming]

If you eat enough potatoes before peddling, then the potato is technically giving you the power to cook the potato

[@The2wanderers]

Bike pedals are reverse threaded (lefty tighty, righty loosy) so they don't come lose while pedalling. Whoever assembled the bike put them in the wrong sides.

[@four-en-tee]

Potatos can finally be charged with assisted man slaughter, this is very poggers.

[@TaughtSimply]

I love all the effort you put into this!

[@Dark-6678]

I just realised he spoiled the end a bit when he called himself a potato with the fact that in the end he himself cooked a potato therefore technically a potato cooked a potato in the most potato way possible

[@JoelCreates]

Shhh...

[@djalexander968]

worth the three seconds for a man who doesnt put 17 ads right in the middle or the end, also watched some of the guys in that house

[@wayfarerzen]

Better potato battery: Thin layer of hydrated potato powder with metal mesh grid to distribute surface area contact, put on foil layers, and ROLL it like a capacitor.

[@boomer150]

I still remember when I learned just how much electricity a electric stove consumes, the resistance heating elements we have used for like a hundred years are just insane power hogs. I got a induction hot plate and its much better, boils water faster with less energy and you get no hot spots, it makes perfect pancakes and grilled cheese. Precise temp control too. Downside is not all cookware works, no aluminum allowed and most cookware is aluminum.

[@nikhilgarg9618]

*Me:* Can you cook a potato with potato? *My science test tomorrow:*

[@marioglitchy64_original]

It's like opening a beer without a bottle opener. The trick is to either take a table, some type of thin cutlery or idealy another beer if you have one.

[@Mustafa-et9mk]

Me: yeah one last video and i will sleep Also Me:

[@dagttv]

I mean you could slice a potato in half, hollow some out so it’s shaped like a canoe. Pour potato oil into the cavity and light it, making a sort of potato stove. Then cover that with a whole potato slice poked with holes and a place another potato on top to cook it.

[@annoyedmusic]

this video is sponsored by potato

[@narvi5779]

This video is impossible not to click on

[@lob-119]

Thank you almighty youtube algorithm. Another creator added to my collection

[@harryjoe860]

This is legit impressive and I could see it as a product

[@JasonLihani]

My body literally wouldn't let me scroll past this. I just froze up.

[@JoelCreates]

.......good

[@spamuel98]

If you want to get technical, you could cook a potato with a potato by eating a potato and using the energy from that potato to pedal power that oven to cook another potato.

[@XL003]

cook a potato using that same potato.

[@operatorfig]

A bigger potato battery could work, but peddling is so much more fun lol

[@xaius4348]

Maybe the real potato was the friends who ride your bike at slapsgiving.

[@hamterfreak]

getting shocked by potato gotta be a life achievement

[@CytotoxinK]

If you ate nothing but potatoes before using that pedal-powered oven, you technically would have been cooking potatoes with potatoes.

[@flamedelf_real]

now we need a motor with an arm to slap chicken which is powered by a mix of pedaling + potatoes

[@lukedoesntupload]

this seems like the type of thing to be in youtube recommendations at 3am

[@phillhart2990]

Technically, E=MC2 (small 2, I know). So there should be enough energy in one average potato to stat a small thermo-nuclear reaction - potentially baking quite a lot of forest. Sigh... we'll get there one day.

[@fojcol]

Gosh! Even your failures are successes! Always entertaining... keep it up!

[@ChristmasTvGames]

could probably make a deep fryer in it, like oil, and heating element at bottom if that works

[@Thecooldudenoob]

“This robot farmer runs on potato’s, makes 2000 potato’s yearly, uses 500 potato’s yearly!” INFINITE POTATA

[@isaaclinn2954]

If there's a way to rig one of those peltier thermoelectric element thingies instead of a heating coil, you can get more heat using the same amount of electricity since it'll pump in some heat from outside. Happy engineering!

[@ryaquaza3offical]

If a potato is terrible as a battery then I have an idea. how about you use a potato to power said potato with a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a potato powered by a car battery. I feel like that would work a lot better

[@outsider344]

You could have switched to a diet consisting only of the mashed potatoes in the battery the day before pedaling, thereby turning yourself into a matrix style bioreactor and using the potato energy to cook the potato..