Hydrochloric Acid Lemonade

Weird lemonade recipe based on hydrochloric acid.

[styropyroshorts]

This recipe is found in the most recent edition of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, published in 2021. It's found in older editions as well. Why it exists, I have no idea.

[HeffeJeffe]

“I can feel it on my teeth” is always the sign of good lemomade.

[bowenjudd]

Isn’t this the guy that talked about how as a 13 year old, he was prohibited from buying airsoft bbs but was totally fine to buy HCl?

[primalinea]

It's nice seeing styropyro doing the "try no to get demonetized" challenge

[karlharvymarx]

My dentist wanted to know where my tooth enamel had gone. After making sure I wasn't a fan of binging and purging or other medical problems, I remembered my Summer of Lemon. My grandfather's lemon tree was crazy productive that year and for reasons I don't remember, I started eating them like apples as illustrated by Sir Styro of Pyro in the video. I quickly learned to like the overwhelming acidity and scent and ate several that way every day for a couple of weeks until I started noticing my teeth had become painfully sensitive. Later I even remember a section of enamel peeled off one of my front teeth. It looked sort of like a translucent very thin layer of onion, with glass-like stiffness. It is embarrassing to admit, but I think that I thought perhaps molting was a normal stage of development for my new adult teeth that no one had bothered to tell me about. Anyway, please use lemons responsibly and in moderation.

[ImaGonnar]

Hey Styro, long time fan, keep up the amazing content.
The Japanese Pharmacopoeia is a beast of a document, but it actually does have a definition for Dilute Hydrochloric Acid. On pg 300 of the JPXVIII: Hydrochloric acid, dilute - Dilute 23.6mL of hydrochloric acid with water to make 100 mL (10%). The JP calls for 37% HCl to be dilute 23.6 to 100 then take that and dilute 5 to 1000. This leaves you with a final concentration of about 0.044% HCl in the 'lemonade'. Running your numbers of 0.82mL of 37% HCl diluted to 1, 000mL yields a final concentration of 0.030%. This means the actual recipe calls for the 'lemonade' to contain ~150% of the HCl compared to your drink! <3

[thebossman]

"It feels more acidic than sour" man has the Lead Stomach perk from Fallout.

[chemdraw]

Just speaking from my experience with the Pharmacopoeia Europea. The dilute HCl might be defined in the reagents part. Its very common to do it this way because there are many instances that it is used and it would be a huge overlap if every monography would include how to make the reagents

[christinapalmer]

Decades ago, I tasted a wide variety of appropriately dilute acids, including hydrochloric, nitric, sulfuric, phosphoric, and a bunch of organic fruit acids. The fruit acids were all good, but HCL was by far the worst of the bunch, taste-wise.

[Araknisdeathicos]

"when life gives you hydrochloric acid, you make lemonade." Would have been an awesome senior quote

[ethanshufflebarger]

Looks great, going to tell all my younger relatives to make this instead of the boring powder stuff for their lemonade stand. Very educational

[ThisAintIt]

Food scientist here, it probably doesn't taste as acidic even though the pH is the same because pH isn't necessarily what makes things "taste" sour. Titratable acidity is really what affects the flavor and sourness of a food and is what food analysts look at. HCl fully dissociates so you need less of it to reach a specific pH compared to citric acid, which means citric acid should have a higher titratable acidity and thus taste more sour and affect flavor more. Kind of counterintuitive but the stronger acid will taste less sour at the same pH.

[ColonelPanic]

The most outrageous part of this video was eating the lemon rind.

[MaxWinterLeinweber]

I have never, in my whole time on this planet, seen someone eat a lemon like an apple. Thanks man

[icedlatter]

Guy in japan was really craving for some lemonade, but didn't have any lemons. Lucky for him, he had the next best thing to substitute it with.
"Good ol Hydrochloric Acid gotta somewhere in the back" Is this guy's thought process

[PandamaticBreakcore]

I've diluted down nitric and sulfuric acids too, to taste them. HCl is by far the least gross one, merely tasting sour. Sulfuric acid has a stinking mud sludge aftertaste and Nitric tastes like licking the bottom of a car

[gideon]

The most important part of any lemonade I drink is the acidic feeling

[Mandalorian_Man]

Wow, I've been wondering what the best way to prepare my hydrochloric acid into a delicious beverage is!

[exidy-yt]

Well, as you roundabout mention, your stomach already contains hydrochloric acid, and strong enough to dissolve metals as well! When you puke, your teeth get coated with much stronger Hcl then you are drinking, so it's not as big a deal as it sounds. If you could get it past your teeth and any mucous membranes and direct to your stomach, you could probably drink a much stronger solution of hydrochloric acid without problems.

[wiktorgliniecki]

“My teeth feel funny”



Whats the word im looking for, oh yeah its *dissolving your teeth.*