This Device Can Actually Make Oil and Water Mix!

I show you how a vacuum can help oil and water make a stable emulsion.

[Bozemanjustin]

I love how he puts his hand on top of the blender lid

Because 14.7 lb per square inch of atmosphere isn't enough

[barackobama]

*I didn't know my dad knew how to mix oil and water all along!! He has like 10 of those jars!!!*

[AChi__]

There's so much I want to try out with this vacuum blender setup.
Vacuum Blender vs Regular Blender:
- Taste test of blended foods and drinks.
- Is there a difference in cooking time, taste and texture for blended things like tomatoes?
- Does one blender clean up easier than the other after use?
- Which one blends faster, quieter and yields better overall texture smoothness, or crunchiness for the blended items?
- Does either one result in more nutritious blended output?
- Is there any difference in how either blended output form either blender is digested by the human body?
- Is there a difference in the acidic level of blended output of things such as tomatoes?
- Does simply putting drinking water by itself in the Vacuum Blender and blending it under pressure change it's alkalinity at all?
- Does egg fry differently if blended in the vacuum blender?
- What happens if you blend honey and molasses in the vacuum blender?

I could go and on and on lol.

[konoveldorada]

Teacher: *Oil doesn't mix with with water.*
Kid: *Shows Oil mixed with water.*
Teacher: *It's Milk.*

[silvabullet]

The whole time he's talking about science, I'm watching him swirl the glass and mentally shouting... "DRINK THE OIL MILK!! WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IT TASTES LIKE!!!"

[CyberBorg]

Learning about the surface tension driving force for the mixing or lack there of in my soft matter module. Very cool to see it pop up at the end and actually made me appreciate the module more!

[abcabcq]

My engine worked just like this device when I dumped it in a pond

[batlrar]

I really like the origin of that blender, given the history of YouTube! Just think about it, without "Will it blend? That is the question" there might not have been a hydraulic press channel, and thus this channel likely wouldn't have featured crushing things with a hydraulic press when it first started out, or the audience might not have grown as much as it did. Your channel is definitely its own unique thing and stands on the shoulders of giants, and it's interesting to see the path that everything took to lead us here!

[OrenTirosh]

You can make an even finer emulsion by phase inversion. Find the ratio at which this becomes a water-in-oil rather than an oil-in-water emulsion. It is readily detectable by a rapid drop in electric conductivity. If you add just a bit of water to this emulsion and mix it will change phase, and in the process break down the droplets to much smaller size. You can then add some O/W emulsion and change phase again, etc.

This way should be possible to achieve a translucent emulsion or even a transparent nano-emulsion.

[jeanbonnefoy]

Another perk of this technique is it allows reducing the lipid content in any dressing, mix or sauce and make "light" ones without any additive.

[glenddfujjsbsyhenry]

Okay. Now you know this is what we needed  everytime I see these notifications, I automatically press on them. The videos you make get greater and greater! I honestly could never do stuff like you do, and you just posting made my day! 💕👍

[davidanderson]

I find it interesting that James* reflexively puts his hand on the lid of the blender to keep it from flying off. However, because of the vacuum, there's already over 500 lb of force pushing the lid down.

*I had to look up his name, because I realized I had no idea who the "Action Lab guy" was, despite watching his videos for a few years.

[peterknoppers]

What happens if you blend the emulsion again, but now under normal atmosphere?
Will the oxygen that you mix in "destroy" the emulsion (causing the oil and water to separate soon after remixing)?

[Minuano]

"But first, let me take a drink of this milk. Only, it's not milk."
*Oh. Oh no.*

[Tsxtasy]

That’s a really cool device, and I would love to have one. My max price was about half what retail is though. I’ll keep my eyes on it and hopefully it will go down some day

[nmatavka]

This is fairly well-known on the alternative-fuels scene (particularly with jet-engine hobbyists). There is something called HydroDiesel or WIDE (Water-in-Diesel Emulsion) which is essentially regular diesel oil emulsified with water; of course, a jet engine will also run on any other oil, so WIFE (Water-in-Food Oil Emulsion) is possible and, for some applications, preferable. Get the balance right and you have an excellent engine coolant and a fuel which burns more efficiently. The downside is that WIDE has an expiration date and mustn't be stored for long periods.

[Ninth_Penumbra]

I know of artists which use two-part clear *Epoxy Resins* in their artworks.
• These products need significant mixing between the resin & hardener components, which unfortunately may introduce bubbles into the liquid (which, if you want the final product to be crystal clear, really sucks).
• The ideal way to remove the bubbles is to put the beaker into a vacuum chamber, causing the high-pressure air bubbles to foam out (as the pressure drops), until the liquid resin becomes utterly clear.
• This device combines both blender & vacuum chamber in an elegant way - though you'd obviously need to test it with Epoxy Resin to confirm that it's effective.
• To prevent the resin from adhering to the blender walls, you could perhaps coat them with a release agent.
• This may also work with two-part Silicones.

[alittlestepmeanssomuch]

Hi there. how long can this mixture last in stable emulsion? Will the oil and water eventually separate after awhile?

[Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

From the comments of another poster in one of the sub-threads, it seems like after a few days enough air gets back into the water that the oil separates out. Probably would happen quicker if you re-blended under air -- should try this out in a follow-up video. Also wonder if all gases are equal for catalyzing re-separation, or if some would be better than others (for instance, air vs pure nitrogen vs pure oxygen vs helium vs carbon dioxide)?

[terrypussypower]

3:55 The sound of the vacuum working is like a set of dying bagpipes!! 😂