Using 40,000 PSI to Compress Pure Salt into a Noodle Bowl

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In this food science adventure, we explore the limits of culinary creativity with the Hydraulic Press! Can we create edible cups made entirely from sugar and salt? These unconventional containers might change how you serve breakfast cereal or hot noodles. Watch as we put these cups to the ultimate test - including holding boiling water! Plus, hear from our "legal team" about the surprising risks of edible dishware.
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[@Hulk23222]

Moro

[@mickeyfilmer5551]

Use Icing Sugar, or just grind up regular sugar in a coffee grinder until fine dust, then it should work.

[@natemansur]

Use water as a binder and allow to sit under pressure over night. You should get a good solid cup from the sugar. Def only lightly wet the salt and sugar

[@user-TJ365]

Set the press into your die with about a 3-4cm gap, then fill it with sugar, then press. This should allow for a more uniform compression of the sugar.

[@davealdridge7608]

Will you be in the Tampa Bay area during your vacation?

[@markrush5013]

2 press 1 cup.......priceless !

[@iainball2023]

😂😂😂😂😂 💩

[@2rueblue]

You beat me to it lol 😂😂

[@Xantophia]

I actually LOLed my coffee all over my desk!!! :))))))))

[@myevilwife]

I'm on the ground salting my pants!!

[@JPDaigle]

😁😁

[@ivo215]

I have experience operating a rotary tablet press. Making solids out of powders used to be my job. We also made salt tablets. That was about the most difficult product to make. The pressure had to be high enough to break the salt crystals and compress them together. The tips of the punches were wearing really hard. And as soon as the surface of the tips became rough, the salt started to adhere to the punches. The salt that became "sticky" had a weird "old chewing gum"-like consistency. At one point we developed the theory that any moisture in the salt together with the pressure was producing small amounts of hydrochloric acid, which caused the salt to gum. We had to polish the tips of the punches after every batch. And we rarely produced a batch without problems. We broke many punches in those salt tablets. Salt aside, turning powder into a solid isn't as easy as it sounds. First the die goes under the feeder, and the bottom punch is pulled down, opening a cavity in the die while it's being filled by the feeder. Then, still under the feeder, the bottom punch is pushed up slightly. Pushing some powder out of the die again, to push closed any cavities in the powder. Then a wiper wipes the excess powder from the die and table, and the top punch is lowered into the die. Pinching the powder between the two punches. Then the punches reach the first set of pressure rollers. The punches are pulled between the rollers, compressing the powder. This is like hitting them with a hammer. But this is only the first set of rollers. This was the light strike. The powder is compressed only so much, so as it still has an open structure. So any air that is still trapped between the powder can escape. This is important. If the first stroke is too gentle, there will still be air in the powder. If it's too hard, the structure of the powder closes, and the air is trapped in the tablet under pressure.Which will cause the tablet to "cap". It'll split open. Then the punches go past the 2nd set of pressure rollers. This is the main pressure. This compresses the powder into a hard closed structure, the final tablet. If the first strike made the powder too hard, the 2nd strike requires much more power and will cause excessive wear on the punches. So it's crucial that the 2 sets of rollers are balanced precisely, and this balance is tweaked for every batch. The the top punch is pulled out of the die, and the bottom punch is pushed up, pushing the newly made tablet out of the die. A spring loaded aluminum wiper knocks the tablets from the table. And then the whole cycle begins again.

[@johnsch8634]

That's a whole lotta good info, I wouldn't be surprised with salts' ability to pull moisture from the air that it was nearly impossible to have a "dry" batch without heating everything.

[@MisterMisanthropeEsquire]

Maybe it needed to be done under vacuum or in nitrogen gas.

[@ausername7470]

How it's made Ft. Mr. Comments guy

[@guytech7310]

What were the salt tablets used for? I just cant think of an application. The only instance are salt tabs used for water softers, but that seeks like pressing them using a hydraulic press would be uneconomical.

[@brokenrecord3523]

@@johnsch8634 In infrared spectroscopy, one sample prep method is to grind your sample with salt (normally KBr) and then press it into a little disc. The salt must be totally dry, kept in a desiccator and often under vacuum during the pressing, but in the end, the little disc is glass clear.

[@jdoesmath2065]

You didn’t add salt to your food, you added food to your salt.

[@sgthl]

Make a cup for noodles out of pressed noodles?

[@chabis]

Making a cup out of pasta dough should work. It could be used as a control.

[@Dreddy72]

noodle cup cup noodle

[@Ulthar_Cat]

Best idea ever XD

[@moonboogien8908]

Press a pair of chopsticks out of noodles! TO EAT THE NOODLES!

[@WoodworkerDon]

"Sub optimal health outcomes." 😂

[@prestonburton8504]

my grandchildren love salt. I don't know where that is coming from and constantly on their parents to curb their intake. Dang! salting everything. STOP!

[@putteification]

@@prestonburton8504 It is not dangerous unless they eat carbs

[@samio3907]

5:01 I don't think she understood that reference 😂😂 good for her

[@michaelchaney5909]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@CommunityGuidelines]

What if you made a cup out of loose-leaf tea, then filled it with hot water? A cup that makes its own tea could be handy for emergencies.

[@chabis]

Well, for English tea the pot should not be cleaned at the inside so you have a self-brewing teapot after a few year anyway 😀

[@el_ruifo_1003]

Donne moi l’adresse de ton dealer

[@undercoveragent9889]

That is a f'ck'n' brilliant idea. lol

[@Dazzwidd]

Nice thought, but it wouldn't infuse much tea to the water unfortunately. Too compressed and the water needs to permeate the tea leaves. It might be better with ground coffee though 🤔

[@ExaltedDuck]

I love this idea. When I was in college organic chemistry class we used to run our reaction products through infrared spectroscopy by suspending some in a potassium chloride salt window. We would grind the KCl and sample very finely in a mortar and pestle then put a few grams into a tablet form... at college, it was just a threaded sleeve with two bolts that would face each other (put one bolt in, the sample, then other bolt and turn it hard with a ratchet). At university, we had a bottle-jack hydraulic press so the tablet form was a simple cylinder with a tight fitting button to close the bottom and a tight fitting shaft to press the sample down into the button... way clearer windows with that setup. But the pressure would melt the salt and form a pretty clear window a few mm thick containing about 3-5% sample by weight. The KCl was invisible to IR light so all the instrument "saw" was almost like suspended dust of the sample material.

[@davidjernigan8161]

Maybe powdered sugar or brown sugar might work better

[@rapidrrobert4333]

Brown

[@guytech7310]

Corn starch might work to make for bowls.

[@awemowe2830]

why the fuck would molasses+sugar be any better? or powdered sugar... It'll just burn and stick.

[@toysforboysrc]

Maybe make a cup out of gun powder🤔

[@BammyQ]

10:44 It was so salty that it brought Hanna's voice down by 2 octaves

[@johnjay5143]

Hannah's face on that last bite ... Priceless . lol

[@ohaleceiffel]

Salt naturally forms cubic crystal structures very readily. These cubic crystals are stable and can be easily cut or shaped into blocks. The sodium and chloride ions arrange themselves in a very uniform, repeating three-dimensional lattice that makes solid blocks possible. Sugar, in contrast, has a more complex molecular structure. Sucrose molecules are larger and more irregularly shaped compared to salt ions. While sugar can form crystals, they tend to be more fragile and don't naturally bond together in the same tight, uniform way that makes salt blocks possible.

[@stephenkeeffe4940]

"Two Press, One Cup". That's gold. ;-)

[@basbastian2998]

Great I'm not the only weirdo.

[@methamphetamememcmeth3422]

Nothing about being a weirdo. All about being born in that era. ​@@basbastian2998

[@pvc988]

In Poland we have a soup, żurek, which is sometimes served within hollowed bread. If you leave it for too long, the bread can get soggy. I wonder if it could be fixed with 300 tons of force compressing the bread into something more sturdy.

[@resurgam_b7]

For the popcorn cup, be sure to try to make one from both the un-popped kernels and the popped... puffs? I think kernels may be kind of boring, I expect that they'll just mash together and then crumble apart. I think the popped version will work much better since all the light petals and fluffy bits will crush into one another and compress to form a matrix of interlocked materials.

[@rockcat5000]

Thanks!

[@HydraulicPressChannel]

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[@JackFromLeivasy]

10:31 thats the saltiest face ive ever seen, Lauri 😂 But good job!

[@t33th4n]

Next time steam the sugar and salt a bit so they can form bigger crystals.

[@UncleManuel]

"Remember kids: in science there are no failures - just results!" -Adam Savage (Mythbusters) 😁😁🤘🤘😁😁

[@MrMudNugget]

Sugar and salt that is purified has anti caking agents added to it. Use Raw salt like Himalayan salt (Pink Salt).

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Sugar is 100% but table salt has things (cyanide)

[@tz8785]

Or the salt for the ion exchanger in a dishwasher.

[@wickedcabinboy]

@@XtreeM_FaiL - Do you have a source for that assertion?

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

@@wickedcabinboy You need to be more specific.

[@wickedcabinboy]

@@XtreeM_FaiL - I'll quote your own words. "Sugar is 100% but table salt has things (cyanide)" If what I'm asking isn't clear then I'll just presume you're blowing smoke.

[@Squeakerella]

I wonder if confectioners (powdered) sugar would work better

[@Kualinar]

Probably.

[@eitheroareitherroar7223]

brown sugar would definitely make a cup

[@HighOnTacos]

Confectioners sugar has lots of starch - A good binder when moisture is present, but very slippery without, it could almost act as a lubricant.

[@guytech7310]

need some sort of releasing agent to keep the sugar from sticking to the press mold. Sugar sticks to everything.

[@sapperlott]

Everyone knows that a cup meant to hold instant Ramen needs to be made out of MSG

[@jacobsteele2929]

I wonder if you add a little water to the sugar if it will hold together better? Maybe lightly mist with a spray bottle, layer by layer.

[@EvilModPixie]

oh my god that caught me off guard and I laughed way to hard "two press, one cup" 🤣

[@KimForsberg]

Feels like you need pressure from the top on the sides to get them properly compacted. So probably more precise volume volume estimates, and a reshaped upper press tool that has a part for the sides that goes into the lower form fully. Maybe with some smaller channels to let out overflow.

[@mark_hutch]

This is the closest comment to my thoughts on this, having upper and lower mould sections which overlap (prior to first impact) to contain the initial spillover would in my mind cause a more equal final material pressure bottom to top. I'm enjoying this series but always hoping for more success (as I'm sure we all are)... Unless the casing fails! but looking at the wall thickness on that thing that may be some time! Thank you.

[@willpuchalsky8900]

Freaking loved the 2 Press 1 Cup line 😂😂😂

[@u.e.u.e.]

I was sceptical as you used salt with a pooring agent (Cyanoferrat). That makes each corn round. If you had used regular salt (in the U.S. called "kosher salt") without this pooring agent, each grain had been irregularly shaped. How about making a tool for a bowl or a plate? The grains don't need to float up so much and you have more vertical downward force - maybe the bowl or plate hold up better! 😉👍

[@2coixos]

Heat the sugar in a pot on a stove until it is a boiling liquid. Then press it in the bowl shape, then let it cool down before you take it out of the press tool.

[@wickedcabinboy]

@2coixos - So, a bowl made of caramel.

[@FullOfBradells]

I wonder if the sugar didn't bond because as it got pressed down it heated up. Salt doesn't really change under heat until it's molten, sugar turns to caramel. I wonder if while crushing it you generated enough heat to cause a bit of caramelization and that's what's causing it to stick to itself on the press, rather than as a cup.

[@guytech7310]

Pressing salt at high pressures causes it to be sintered.Probably with Sugar is that it does melt and stick to the press mold, breaking it apart when the mold halves seperate.

[@squidcaps4308]

Actually, if the base was able to heat up... I'm sure you can machine it so that it could be heated, either with gas or even electricity. With heat there are a ton of things to try to make cups from. The ability to boil water away while being pressed, that is one way to create all sorts of nice bonds between water soluble things.. Once the H is away, there are a lot of hydrogen bonds that is going to link molecules together, and then there is crystallization that can happen too, polymers can freeze in place. Heat + pressure is interesting combination when it comes to material sciences ;) And with the cup press, there is quite a lot of surface area that can be heated, and the "product" is easily tested, there are some possibilities here.

[@superilu]

Try pressing salt and sugar into a solid cylinder and machine out a cup later?

[@michael--a--sometimes]

'Now it's salty' 😂. And that's coming from someone whose country has more salty liquorice then my own :')

[@davidteague3849]

The brown shit is not shit. It's the brown from the coffee cup 😂😂 I love this channel

[@Herbybandit]

I wonder how well they will do in the dishwasher

[@zapfanzapfan]

No dirty dishes, in fact, no dishes at all 🙂

[@JeraldDelventhal]

Your faces tasting the salty noodles - 😂😂

[@michaelbobic7135]

You are getting so much better in content with each year! You are my favorite channel!

[@rootbrian4815]

This is how they make salt lamps! XD Definitely want to see the popcorn bowl! (un/popped versions!)

[@catkeys6911]

LOL- I LOVED that little "disclaimer" (especially warning about questionable life choices) in that Siri-like voice.😝

[@stefanklass6763]

for equal pressure inside the sugar cup you need a way to apply pressur all around on the cup. how about using a soft silicone cup-making tool inside the pressure chamber?

[@chuck34984]

Pressing the cup of soup with the worm making attachment as a video ending would have been funny

[@bernardfender5147]

Many Asians cried when you crushed the noodles!

[@Willeexd1337]

You should heat the tool and form sugar, would be interesting

[@bahamutbbob]

It's been a while since I've watched your channel. It's good to see the both of you, but when I used to watch you were rarely on camera, it's a big change!

[@bahamutbbob]

Also, there was nothing made out of clay or play-dough at the end that had to be dealt with, that's a negative thing IMO.

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

I'm sure plenty have said it... Popcorn cup will not work. Popcorn only pops because it has moisture inside and it boils, rupturing it, causing the starch to do whatever the hell it does, and turns into popcorn. However, pressing it will crack all the kernels, not allowing the water to blow it open when it boils; thus, no popcorn. 😞

[@guytech7310]

Press popped kernels may work, not the unpopped kernels. adding a editble binder would work as as long as there is release agent to keep it from sticking to the press mold.

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

@@guytech7310 Kinda like the various popcorn chips! Those are great, I just wish I remember the the good brand or local Walmart carried for a hot minute about 8 years ago, and then stopped. (folk here in TN don't seem to like lots of the popular brands, so Wallys stops carrying them 🙁)

[@FixingWithFriends]

2 press one cup is a reference that only us old people will understand in a few years.

[@nanaki-seto]

Take a bunch of sheets of aluminum foil and compress them together with the cup tool as well as copper. You should be able to get the individual sheets to bond from the heat generated making it a very solid ridgid cup that you could actually use. Also try plastic powder and cut bits of 3d printer filament. The 3d printer stuff should melt and flow from heat from the compression and flow let it cool in place and you should have a very solid plastic cup. Break up Styrofoam to get the little beads and compress them shoudl give you a very strong Styrofoam cup shockingly strong. Not forming plastic in this way can result in a shocking amount of static electricity no pun intended.

[@BigBoxDodge2020]

Cup made of Salt= Heartache. Holiday gift for someone you don't like. Haha

[@nrk9857]

I think you need to vibrate the mold while pressing to allow it to compact more evenly

[@HighOnTacos]

You should make another salt bowl and film a timelapse of it deteriorating - Fill it with hot water, then set it up to slowly drip more water in to replace what leaks as it falls apart.

[@Resonanttheme]

Maybe after pressing you could glaze the surface with a torch or sinter the salt for something a little less porous. There's a video of tequila salt shooter glasses where the glass leaks/poorly made or cracked perhaps when lathed and it is advised to drink quickly on the ones that do hold up. As an aside, salt will vibrate in an interesting way if heated. The clip Tequila Salt Glass Wobble shows this.

[@koshkingdedamage]

the 2 press one cup joke was out of this world :DDDD

[@gibbbon]

you should try with powdered sugar instead of grain sugar, it should flow better with smaller particles

[@dadsfriendlyrobotcompany]

Maybe a smaller draft angle will help with packing, less horizontal movement

[@busscherrick]

Make the bottom mould out of 2 pieces with a vertical division in the center. And find a way to bolt them together in a strong enough way. This way it is easier to get fragile materials out. Added benefit is that the bottom mould is now weaker and you might be able to explode it (it is in the bunker anyway)

[@danielallen7384]

Spray down the inside of the mold cavity with water and the suger bowl would work out great.

[@Pulverrostmannen]

you should moist the salt or sugar before pressing it and then dry it. should make for a much stronger cup than dry pressing

[@e-racer4673]

If the bottom were the same thickness as the sides when you pressed it, it would all be the same hardness, but because the bottom is thicker, it will not compress all of it together the same. You might make you a funnel of some type and go ahead and put the insert in and leave it about an inch off of the bottom that way it would be an inch off of the sides as well and you could fill it all up to the top with your funnel. I believe it would press just fine and be hard as a rock.

[@Slam-g9s]

The genuine “ta daaa” got me haha

[@paulhoffman4712]

you should try to make beef jerky by taking a piece of raw fresh beef and using the press to squeeze all the moisture out of the meat. you can add seasoning of course.

[@veranet99]

"Questionable life choices." Oh boy, I'm in trouble now.

[@TheProspectStudios]

wow nearly 10 mil subs. thanks for your contribution.

[@TheAneova]

You might want to try making a super thick simple syrup, and silicon coated press molds to get a sugar cup probably even freeze them before hand so you'd need to work quickly.

[@alexandersimpson3638]

Just had a thought, have you tried compressing thermite? It doesn't require oxygen so if you can get the heat up enough when compressing, it should make for a lively video. Just make sure you have a hole at the bottom to release any pressure.

[@s3bk]

Water. You need a solvent to allow the crystals to fuse together. Just a little bit should be enough and allow for fast drying.

[@ShroomDay0117]

I think if you add cold water little bits at a time (possibly up to enough to make a slurry), you might get different results. Try making it slightly moist first and keep adding cold water (or vegetable oil) so the sugar and salt will flow differently.

[@knightjocke]

you should add some food grade oil to the mold to make it easier for release

[@tammyhollandaise]

I wonder if a small bit of moisture would help with the sugar? My thinking would be a fine mist of water on the bottom tool's surface, then a dusting of sugar, followed by a fine mist, then sugar again (repeating until there's enough sugar). The press should be able to redistribute the water throughout the sugar mass so it's a single homogeneous sugar lump.

[@d.jensen5153]

The legal disclaimer was fabulous! 🤣

[@BakedAndAfraid]

HPC are KZbin OG Gods!! Love it all...

[@andrewpike2924]

I would suggest using caster shuger. It would compress better.

[@doogandoggin2571]

I spit out my lunch with the " two press, one cup" comment. 😂😂😂

[@xXLeoXxOne]

I love the ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode Cameo 😂

[@Hulk23222]

🤨

[@HydraulicPressChannel]

But it's not a joke, it is doing a LOT of legal counsiling here :D

[@Tophatjones358]

Bot

[@WoodworkerDon]

I now have an uncontrollable urge to experiment with edible dishware. 🤔🚑

[@KeanueAnakoni-Aukai]

lawyers tried that. didnt work out so well 😂. im not taking legal advice from A.I. ​@@HydraulicPressChannel

[@paulbriggs3072]

I worked in salt mine in New York State. It came pre-compressed as dense rock salt. We had to crush it into granules.

[@lyndon4010]

I live in Austin Texas... the drive from Florida to Texas is long and sometimes boring... BUT MAKE SURE YOU STOP AT A BUCEE'S GAS STATION!!! Especially in Texas!!

[@JackFromLeivasy]

Worlds Biggest Gas Station!

[@ThatGuy-fi9bm]

What if you make it damp first so it kind of does a solvent weld

[@SuperRousku]

Add a little bit of water and let the press squeeze it out. I think you would get some pretty solid results.

[@puremaledark8305]

The use of water and heat would make a lot of these more viable

[@mihalydozsa2254]

For sugar cup you would need an extra shoulder on the tool to compress the sides too

[@killerbunny7206]

If grandma wrote 1 cup of sugar, but cup-maker is better at salt cups.

[@putteslaintxtbks5166]

The trick to get a sugar cup might be to mix in a teaspoon of water first with the sugar, then press a cup out of it.

[@dennisford2000]

For sugar heat the press tools, 200-220 f 95-105 c

[@suaveslob]

Awesome video! I wonder how dry gelatin mix (like Jello) would do as a cup.

[@Caberbalschnit]

So I've done something similar to this for an idea for a new candy. Turns out you need to mix/aerate 1 teaspoon of water per cup of salt/sugar mix to compress properly. So you need a commercial food processor to fully mix the salt/sugar and water together. Way more of a pain in the ass than I thought lol.

[@Indie9999]

I wonder if wetting the salt or sugar would somehow help it stick together?

[@samuelcolvin4994]

"subscribe for stupidity!" Made me laugh lots.

[@johgranger1304]

Brown sugar may work better. Also maybe try using a gasket between the two meta parts to prevent all the salt and sugar exiting right away

[@JohnLRice]

Fun! 🙂 Have you tried heating up your cup tool first? Maybe with a torch or a forge or kiln etc.? I think the salt and especially sugar might stick together better with some heat?

[@swatson9042]

i think the cups would hold together better with a lip around the rim, also try powdered sugar that will actually work I think

[@FirstLast-gw5mg]

I'm pretty sure the heat from the pressure was melting the sugar and causing problems. It melts at a much lower temperature than salt does.

[@justlooking267]

That was fun I thought the sugar would stick tighter 😊

[@Kingcookie2020]

If you are not starting your Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and the press channel, you might need to start. Science!

[@NICEFINENEWROBOT]

You had the Sugar Cup Challenge. Now how about making a Honey Cup? Might be an interesting outcome seeing your press and you both dealing with that.

[@zapfanzapfan]

"Questionable life choices" 🙂 Wow, only 10 000 subscriber left to hit the big 10M! We need a live stream 10 million!

[@aeonturnip2]

10:29 onwards - some of the best facial expressions on the internet!

[@scoobtoober2975]

add a bit of moisture to the dried things.

[@michaelbobic7135]

I didn't think salt would compress that well.

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

That was extremely entertaining. I'll be back for the popcorn cup.

[@larryscott3982]

I’m curious. How strong is the salt cup before pouring water in? Is like a ceramic? Could it be put in a kiln a hardened?

[@rapidrrobert4333]

You guys have a great connection to each other.