Making a bouncy egg by dissolving its shell

For this one, I'm gonna be doing something weird with an egg. All I need is just a regular egg, some vinegar, and a beaker.
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[@duo496]

The cut to the lab floor after saying it was fragile immediately let me know what was about to happen

[@joanna00]

Hii Duo 🐥

[@wolf_is_awake]

Hey duo, who's your duo? 🐤

[@cheapcheese.]

No way No fucking way Duolingle?

[@joanna00]

@@wolf_is_awake your pfp seems so like beluga 😂

[@ashlyalasagas1121]

Hi Dua Lipa

[@dracorosso805]

Did this experiment when I was a kid, but didn't know how fragile it was until I slammed it on the floor

[@togden88]

Not the sharpest crayon in the carton, eh?

[@wild_guy8132]

I would do that too.

[@thewhatever993]

@@togden88 what does that mean ?

[@jammingpython8986]

@@thewhatever993 It means that they are saying that the commenter is not particularly the smartest when they were a kid. Basically the kid version of ‘not the sharpest knife in the drawer’.

[@dracorosso805]

@@togden88 they told me it would turn into a bouncy ball and I wanted to see how bouncy it was 🤷‍♂️

[@pink_leopard2464]

His mum: Honey!! Can you boil some eggs for lunch please!!!! NileRed:

[@alerondsilva5326]

How many times have you heard such comments me: affirmative. fine. good. okay. true. yea. all right. Certainly.

[@MC_DO0]

@Abdo Sebah Chicken sandwich

[@marissac.chavez2250]

It should be how to basic not nile red

[@thatonememerguy]

@@marissac.chavez2250 HowToBasic: Tutorial on how to shut up

[@earthisadonut7213]

I'm convinced that Nile is chucking random stuff onto the floor because the floor is an ancient demon with insatiable hunger that he must appease every day.

[@tronsrop]

With dangerous or quirky chemistry experiments

[@zkhdillard]

It's not often you demonstrate science project ideas that kids can actually try 👍👍

[@noahreachead9015]

why others cant? like luminol, extracting dna

[@idkanymore6897]

@kal aana why

[@DD-kc6hg]

@@idkanymore6897 I think because acetic acid is dangerous. But you can do this experiment with vinegar.

[@johnsmithe4656]

@@idkanymore6897 Has to be sarcasm.

[@tahsansahil9452]

@@DD-kc6hg vinegar is the mixture of 5-8% of ethanoic or acetic acid and 95-92% water...Adding this much water to such dilute acid makes it almost totally safe to use

[@-Akinari-]

"I've been wanting to do something weird with an egg" *Eyebrow Raise*

[@Longdick47]

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[@l.94947]

Vinegar

[@Longdick47]

@@l.94947 V1nce fan? Respect

[@l.94947]

Yeh I am

[@LavaSaver]

*Vine boom*

[@jocax188723]

This is a very VERY rare occasion where you CAN try what Nigel is doing at home.

[@SheikhZjemael]

1:17 That sound 😂

[@incandescentfennec6916]

The cool thing is, eggs without shells occasionally occur naturally! Every so often, when a bird is developing an egg, the shell simply doesn't form due to a variety of factors.

[@jamespotter1436]

That sounds cool!

[@sopwithhannah2401]

I’ve seen that at my friend’s house! He keeps chickens. It was really cool

[@saltyralts]

The last egg my last chicken ever laid was shelless. Funny, but also the neighbor's dog slaughtering your chickens isn't.

[@josebales3944]

I have chickens and i found an egg with a VERY weak shell. it was like it did not have a shell. but it did. just weak and squishy.

[@tf2fan919]

@The Salty Ralts Train your chickens to slaughter your neighbor's dogs.

[@00kidney]

*For a while now, I've been wanting to do something weird with an egg.* Ok, this is definitely the best intro to a KZbin video I've seen in my life. And I've been literally living on KZbin for 10 years.

[@DavidPlass]

I was thinking the same thing. Only Nigel would ever say this sentence.

[@Tim_593]

It doesnt hold a candle to "Today, I decided to dissolve my Weiner in acid"

[@DirtyNeuronXIII]

How can you literally live on youtube?

[@echonomix_]

I dunno, Arin swearing and nearly vomiting through a burp in the first 15 seconds of a Game Grumps video is pretty hard to top.

[@notmyname327]

"It's kind of just a firm, but squishy sack"

[@NEUTR0NDANCE]

I wonder if this method could be used to deep-fry an egg

[@Leokipo]

You’re a genius

[@niskala9574]

Now I don't know much about chemistry but I think the membrane would pop

[@Cropak_Napeik]

He's too dangerous to be left alive !

[@Yayo30007]

Wouldnt that explode

[@remnantofthefirstworld2930]

Why not deep-fry a boiled egg?

[@AnnoyingPenny]

I really love the fact that you pointed out that it's fragile and demonstrated how much of a mess it can do if you think of it as an actual bouncy ball Trust me, I tried it when I was a kid, and splatter egg on a society's main entrance and was scolded a lot xD because I thought we could use it to play catch

[@Otzkar]

I once watched a tv show where they did this and I was eager to try this out. In the video they used the egg as a bouncy ball throwing it on the ground from standing height. Needless to say I was pretty disappointed when the egg didn't bounce back up again and just splattered all over the kitchen floor...

[@wretlaw1203]

successfully trolled

[@Otzkar]

@@nalinimulagund93 it was some german tv show that aired on a kids channel

[@alternate5108]

@Don't read profile photo I didn’t read it don’t worry.

[@jonnnygaddar]

Backyard Science

[@MarcellDAvis1103]

@@Otzkar WOW Die Entdecker-Zone? That's where I know it from :D

[@danielbickford3458]

Your janitor must have such a fun time. "What am I going to clean up today?""biological waste? Toxic waste? Who knows, surely not me. "

[@roshnibritto4637]

I think he manually cleans it

[@galaktormaster6770]

@@roshnibritto4637 i think it was a joke

[@rafliavriza3651]

"Oh okay it's just the usual uranium-235, no big deal."

[@Geebinator]

@@rafliavriza3651 The janitor after seeing the egg and the membrane shell: "ok what happened here this does not look like uranium

[@nate_storm]

janitor?

[@casual_loser6733]

“It’s quite fragile” *Smashes the egg and immediately made a Pringles beard*

[@elhco]

I love this dude, he gets straight to the point 💪💪

[@based569]

"For a while now, I have been wanting to do something weird with an egg" Is something we don't hear everyday. And would not want to hear everyday.

[@ionic7777]

I don’t see why that sounds bad… unless there is some really weird stuff going through your mind

[@merileopardisaksassa7030]

I know quite some people who'd do exactly what you're thinking off if they knew about this experiment.

[@Shadowy_]

can you elaborate?

[@choris5481]

Me when you me when me when you me you when

[@Shadowy_]

@@choris5481 what

[@vanderkarl3927]

Chemists doing "something weird with an egg": heehee bouncy egg Alchemists doing "something weird with an egg": *homunculus time*

[@jaakkojarvela7571]

*golden egg

[@homerola2]

Homunculus doing "something weird with a circle": Oh shit! The whole country is dissolving!!

[@ExActa]

ngl when Nile says "I want to do something weird with an egg", it can really range from something as simple as this to nuclear fusion

[@Til_What]

I feel like everybody tried this experiment as a kid. Certified classic.

[@redwithblue]

Frfr

[@TheRealQuickSilver]

The chemistry department at my college recently had an open house where we did science demonstrations for the community, and this was one of the demonstrations that we did. If you add alcohol (we used isopropyl) to the calcium acetate solution it forms a gel that is highly flammable. From what I understand, the water molecules in the solution surround the calcium and acetate ions, preventing them from interacting with one another. When isopropanol is added the concentration of H2O is decreased to the point where the interactions between the two ions are favored and they begin to form a web-like system of interactions that forms a gel at the macroscopic scale. Just thought that was a fun part two of this experiment to share with anybody who might wanna try it for themselves

[@Nwhis]

The best part of this comment is that if you read it fast enough it sounds like someone just saying a bunch of scientific words to sound smart, but it does actually have meaning

[@gabrieljones272]

*Super Mario Bros. music kicks in*

[@queeny5613]

Awesome

[@Aditya-wb2uo]

I.... understood everything. Gotta try it.

[@Zak-tk8wv]

@@Nwhis lol

[@eier5472]

"For a while now, I've been wanting to do something weird with an egg" That is just a sentence for life, regardless of context

[@happypika3]

"Man Hospitalized after putting 15 boiled eggs up his anus"

[@TheRealYDA]

😳

[@vivvpprof]

I noticed how you have eggs in your avatar and username (in German). May the force be with you, egg-guy ✊

[@rednazsky1417]

This is awesome, I had just learned about ocean acidification and this is a great example of the acid dissolving the calcium I'm show this to my teacher thanks

[@syedashorts4200]

I tried this in 6th grade like 4 years ago and I played with it so much it popped open. I loved doing this back then I use to think it was magic while here I am studying brief about it

[@floramew]

I did some experiments with dissolving eggshells a few months-- years?-- back! Specifically about eating them, hard boiled, and how/if the order of boiling & dissolving changed anything, how the flavor changed between vinegar or citric acid, etc. Control: normal egg, sat in water for the days the others sat in food safe acid solutions. Tasted & felt normal. Pre dissolved shell: intensely flavored with the acid used to dissolve the shell, never got the thick rubbery consistency of a typical hard boiled egg despite going way over the usual necessary time for it. Only difference between vinegar & citric acid was the flavor / presence or lack of undissolved crystals, bc my citric acid is stored dry. Both were slightly larger as you mention in this video. Boiled then dissolved: size remained the same as the control group/ before dissolving. The whole egg tasted of the dissolving acid agent, but unevenly-- the outside bit of the egg tasted more of it than the inside, iirc. Again, little different between the vinegar and citric acid. Conclusion: as a way to get around having to peel the shell off a boiled egg, dissolving it off isn't practical unless you want your eggs to taste pickled 😂

[@danielhale1]

Underrated comment. Thank you for sharing your experiment!

[@krishnapriya6551]

Lol🤣😅

[@pedroff_1]

I wonder what happens if you follow that with adding a food-safe base

[@simonltutor4769]

@@pedroff_1 Century egg

[@adrianvelmarktempra387]

First thing I thought of. Can you eat it? Glad I found this comment

[@TheMadDrD]

I remember as a kid seeing an episode of Beakman's World where they did something like this. Got some vinegar a jar with a lid and placed and egg in it. Over a week or so later, I got it out for it to be just like this. Blew my mind as a kid and got me in to science. It also stunk so bad.

[@pokehybridtrainer]

That show. Holy crap. Would buy a Blu Ray of it today.

[@abbieb8130]

Finally someone on the internet mentions Beakman. I saw an episode of it when I was a kid and never saw Bill Nye, but as an adult Bill Nye was the only science show people would reminisce about.

[@AlanTherby]

Third the mighty Beakman. He actually guested on one of Captain Dissolution's KZbin videos. Yeah and Bill Nye is a hack

[@angr3819]

I bet the Chinese love it. Saves them waiting 100 years for an egg to mature.

[@PappyP]

“For a while now, I have been wanting to do something weird with an egg” *immediately checks comments*

[@moothecow8029]

out of all the things i have seen nile do this is probably the most normal one

[@timg2727]

"It's kind of just a firm but squishy sac." Same, Nile. Same.

[@luckakacabova3124]

Lol 😆

[@gallium-gonzollium]

Nile.exe has been infected with OutOfContext.exe

[@YourLocalCafe]

He is slowly solidifying my (and everyone's) belief that he is becoming the HowToBasic of chemistry.

[@Untrustedlife]

That is nilegreen

[@physicsisawesome696]

HowToChemistry

[@davimelo9181]

... everyone's) belief*

[@YourLocalCafe]

@@davimelo9181 ah, thanks!

[@YourLocalCafe]

@@physicsisawesome696 lmao yes

[@McLennahan01]

The sound when the part holding it all together hit the ground was gold.

[@Einstein-wasnt-all-that-smart]

"For a while now, I've been wanting to do something weird with an egg" - NileRed *Makes egg grenade*

[@Gaurav-zt2fv]

1:04 i know that masculine urge

[@tf2spyclass09]

🤨

[@Nsodnoajdjksl]

@@tf2spyclass09 why are you spying like a virgin?

[@ag3nt_0n32]

💀

[@hamburgerballs]

Yeah it hurts

[@average_peanut_fan3059]

"do something weird with an egg" Ok Nile

[@tf2spyclass09]

🤨 mogus

[@MmntechCa]

"It has a firm but squishy sack"

[@alexpohnel8019]

I love this experiment. before I even watch this video, I made the bouncy egg and then, cooked it, ate it and it tasted disgusting.

[@TheQuark6789]

Well it was soaking in vinegar for two days

[@bubblegumbunny]

I like pickled eggs so now I'm genuinely curious if this tastes similar or just gross; I know a lot of people dislike regular pickled eggs. Goddamn, now I'm gonna have to try it...

[@nicholasbrown5572]

@@bubblegumbunny When people pickle eggs, they boil the eggs first. I cannot stress this enough: do NOT under any circumstances eat a raw unshelled egg that has been sitting out for two days. Even though it was in vinegar. Even if you cook it afterwards.

[@oxybrightdark8765]

@@nicholasbrown5572what if you keep it refrigerated?

[@nicholasbrown5572]

@@oxybrightdark8765 If refrigerated, it would be just as safe to eat as any other raw egg you keep in the fridge. Shelled or unshelled, IE a pretty minor health risk for most people.

[@brickworld3838]

Omg that looks soo satisfying

[@voltsiano116]

"...and it's quite fragile." No! No, Nile. N- _Squeesh_

[@phillipmoody710]

😂😂😂

[@benjcalderon]

I love how Neil always finishes his shorts by throwing something at the floor/wall!! 😂 He somehow knows that that's what we actually want to see!!

[@darthmaul197]

“Neil” lmfao

[@gabrielulibarri9950]

Lol, his name is actually Nigel

[@aurelia8028]

After a people commenting this a thousand times under every video, I'd be surprised if he didn't know yet

[@redwithblue]

​​​@@gabrielulibarri9950yeah, Nigel Braun

[@annextomb9270]

you make it so simple but yet it is so hard

[@Bloodcursed1991]

Love that sad slap of the thin egg membrane hitting the floor at the end.

[@therealfatfinch]

0:49 thats what she said

[@tf2spyclass09]

🤨

[@Nsodnoajdjksl]

Who's that she?

[@randallcarroll2151]

"For awhile now, I've been wanting to do something weird with an egg." -video goes off

[@tf2spyclass09]

@crita DAMN THAT'S CRAZY BRO but did i ask jokes aside please stop.

[@tf2spyclass09]

🤨

[@alexwalls1695]

I might try that at home and thanks for the idea and here's a gold star 🌟

[@MultiBigbird01]

The most mind-blowing video I've ever seen on youtube.... and it's about an egg. Who would have thought lol

[@thatgerm6117]

In our culture, we cook boiled eggs in highly concentrated vinegar with some other foods and the resulting stew is super high in calcium content and people always make these for people who have just given birth (to recover lost minerals). Tastes super good as well :)

[@christhebirb]

I'm not a woman, but I've already had those and I love them!

[@dictatorofcanada4238]

Ah yes, the Mutant Germ culture

[@katzea.a7880]

Give up that recipe homie

[@michaell.9204]

We have the same thing from where I come from.

[@Leto_0]

Many american chefs recommend putting some salt and vinegar in the water when boiling. Apparently it prevents cracking/leaking and makes it easier to remove the shell afterward

[@kristhedumbass6281]

NileRed: it’s quite fragile Me: he’s gonna destroy it, isn’t he? NileRed: *squishes egg and egg juice gets all over the floor* Me: Called it.

[@asdfghjkl-ug7xp]

idk he could get cancelled for wasting food so that was a big risk on his side

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

*egg juice*

[@WindyDelcarlo]

See, I assumed he was gonna drop it

[@legendary548]

@@asdfghjkl-ug7xp it was one egg lol

[@leafpaw1182]

"ambatublow" nilered's egg

[@ShinichiKudoQatnip]

The best part...the splat at the end 🤣🤣

[@MedAnimations]

It's so interesting that the membrane didn't dissolve like the shell did, that shows how such a thin thing could protect an entire egg.

[@redhero6377]

I guess you can say Nile decided to...egg it on.

[@CreeseDF]

oh

[@gallium-gonzollium]

my

[@Sunny-il7zr]

The splat at the end *chef's kiss*

[@myt4080]

We need a Chemistry teacher like you😀😀😀😀😀😀

[@FTotox]

Lol you can clearly see how the yolk said, "nope, I'm outta here bitch" and got out instantly, unscathed, falling into its demise...

[@scorpiathepro]

I love your experiments!

[@SteffenMiethke]

You mean ... EGGsperiments?:')

[@ninabidina8294]

The last splat sound was for some reason funny

[@Shillabritish]

I got jumpscared by that egg exploding I legitimely blinked got a bit away from the screen bc of that

[@cirkulx]

lol cool 😎 i always asked my parents to do this and they always said no this pleases me

[@PotionsMaster666]

You need to get out of your house as soon as possible and live your life

[@notins]

@@PotionsMaster666 just cus they denied an experiment? Bruh

[@felipudding2177]

@@notins if they deny an experiment that is not even expensive, they must deny a lot of things too

[@PotionsMaster666]

@@notins They denied dipping a f*cking egg into some vinegar.... Like seriously !!? Contemplate that...

[@olbluelips]

@@notins it's just the kind of mindset to deny a simple and harmless experiment

[@Fempath]

I anticipated it being satisfyingly smooshed but the slap of the membrane hitting the floor absolutely got me 😂

[@Roze_aye]

i feel like we did this in the grade school I went to. Mans is bringing back some DEEP forgotten memories I didnt even know I still had!

[@nbrugger2]

I love this video because this something we can all do at home!

[@SleepNeed]

I remember doing this in science class as part of learning about osmosis when I was a kid. After the eggs lost their shells in the vinger we measured their mass and circumference, we put them into distilled water, corn syrup, and brine for a day or two afterward and did the same.

[@SerenadeURA]

The exact same for me. I'm surprised to see these comments that seem to suggest people have never done this, school budgets have been tight since I was 10 years old but this is probably the cheapest classroom experiment you can do.

[@jimmy-two-times]

@@SerenadeURA Yet they put a million excuses to why kids cannot do these types of things at school: "it's going to cause a mess", "it could be dangerous", "we have to follow the district curricular objectives", "kids are going to throw them at each other", "teachers are overloaded with work", "teachers don't like this". No, you OUGHT to make kids sit for six-eight hours straight, staring at each others napes and a harridan teacher dictating what they should write on their notebooks.

[@thedarkdragon1437]

@@jimmy-two-times because our education system is based on the industrial worker robot of the yestercenturies

[@cannibalbananas]

Lol! Love the "adding insult to injury" moment when Nigel shakes off the skin to plop onto the floor next to the rest of the egg 😂😂😂

[@Sawneyy]

"For a while now, I've been wanting to do something weird with an egg" That's a stranger combination of words😂

[@zeemeraldzed7721]

Whenever you see that classic camera angle of Nile holding something in his hand u know-something bad is gonna happen

[@adrianvr2837]

You know it will be good when Nile sais: For a while now...

[@marpthecarp1537]

anyone felt that pain at 0:56?

[@SubscriberStats]

No, it's just you. We don't have mirror touched pain like you.

[@rafatheawesome2455]

I had to do this in class one time and we literally did the exact same things you did without me even knowing you made this

[@DarrelTheDumb]

I was waiting for him to do that. Very satisfied.

[@-Name-here-]

I remember my brother chasing a chicken at a friends house and it - in its panic - laid this exact type of egg. It was weird and squishy.

[@sofija1996]

This is because a bird egg only gets the hard shell if it's allowed to slowly pass through the bird's body - the shell is formed by adding layers of mineral salts over the soft membrane. If a bird lays a soft, partially or fully shell-less egg, it's either stressed out, didn't get enough minerals with its food or is ill/old and its body no longer forms the shell properly.

[@Rebirth._]

@@sofija1996 thats actually really cool

[@-Name-here-]

@@sofija1996 oh I can guarantee this chicken was stressed out of its mind for like 5 minutes Despite what it sounds like, we weren’t torturing it. He wanted to hold it, it was okay afterwards.

[@PuneetMhajan]

I'm not even gonna say what sort of weird vibes, does this gives me.

[@Linkachus17]

Really waited for him to burst that egg😂😂😂

[@yakka1278]

Me: NOW THROW IT AT YOUR FRIENDS LIKE A WATER BALLOON

[@bruh-vr6xl]

You know something's gonna be crazy when the floor becomes visible

[@sxddmusic]

I LOVE YOUR CONTENT

[@UncausedGrunt]

I remember doing this in my freshman biology class, actually it’s one of the very few things I remember from that class.

[@just-a-gaming-person1590]

The date on the egg immediately let me know smth was about to go down

[@ashlyalasagas1121]

I tried this experiment in 7th grade. I was so amazed by how soft it was and slammed it on my desk like it was a squishy...

[@kogmaw97]

You can actually do this with bones and they become really squishy.

[@clementpoon120]

that'll be the most cursed thing ever

[@bobbob-lm9vv]

If leave the egg in for a like a week, the whole egg becomes almost like rubber ball. But maybe my egg just dried out more because i left the vinegar open on top instead of sealing it

[@cloudytheconqueror6180]

Finally, an experiment I did at home when I was young.

[@Dollaran]

I work at an egg farm, and it's actually not uncommon for chickens to lay eggs like this.

[@sofija1996]

My mom keeps a small (~20) flock of hens for eggs and on that scale it usually happens if the birds are sick, old or not supplemented with enough calcium - same with thinned or fragile shells.

[@gcr1082]

Can the chicks survive to be born if the membrane stays in tact?

[@Frostflower-tn1ne]

I've done this before. It's really cool!

[@kesaranpasaran2630]

Finally something that I can recreate to introduce my kids to science

[@saitama5151]

@Xena Iska definately not for kids 💀

[@sleepyhungryboi]

​@@saitama5151 why tho

[@adorimable9690]

I remember doing this in 7th grade science class, leaving an egg overnight in vinegar, our teacher had one that he left in for a week and it was brown and almost solid

[@desmondschneider5397]

We did this in 4th Grade. Mrs. Lund said try not to break it. The salt water ones were mostly fine, but SO MANY PEOPLE broke the vinegar ones. Just goes to show how thin they are. I’m a sophomore now.

[@mccorade5941]

I literally flinched when you squished the egg

[@Gunbudder]

0:39 i listened to the sound you make here about 30 times and i don't know why

[@MrMatthias]

I remember doing this in high school! It always said it felt like a water balloon. Never had the guts to squish it like you did here, though 😅

[@GamingWithP47ul_11]

Best part bout this dude no parts 2

[@goldegreen]

I remember doing this in middle school! It was really fun. We also colored them with food dye.

[@KekusMagnus]

ok it's confirmed, he's become the chemistry how-to-basic

[@emanmunawar4705]

I love the subtle chaotic energy his videos radiate

[@kiiboidabashi6497]

Nile to the egg: peace was never an option

[@SH-ef9hw]

Reminded me of that egg slime they used to play with in middle school

[@diamondsx87]

I like to think that whoever discovered this just really wanted a vinegar-flavoured egg, but then they forgot about it, and then they tried to eat it a couple days later and accidentally dropped it.

[@drunkprobly5906]

Oh wow! I’ve seen plenty of those exploded egg membranes in my mom’s car! So cool how much she loves science.

[@sarahjeanwinkler2540]

hey buddy, that’s great. why don’t you take a seat over here and let’s talk 😊

[@vixencaw7551]

"For a while now, I've been wanting to do something weird with an egg." Maybe not the best opener for a first date.

[@mochi.puffball6588]

I need to try this

[@Realjimbob77]

00:30 caught in 4k

[@louisquartersson4555]

The normal man will wonder how the leftovers of an egg formed a condom in his hand, however the true strategist will immediately use it.