How It's Made: Natural Baking Soda

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[redbeard]

I work in the industrial field in the maintenance department. I, and my coworkers have always loved these videos. We always say "The worker places the..." and immediately know it's a "How its made" joke.

[ra.]

Where is the "No Vinegar Beyond This Point" sign

[aland]

In this episode, baking soda.

Well, we pump water into a natural deposit to dissolve the baking soda. Then we pump the mixture back up and dry it until the water is all evaporated. Then we put the stuff left over from drying into a bag and sell it.

[chefjoesplaylists]

It's also used by the gallon in medical grade for things like dialysis. The dialyzer tube uses an osmotic membrane separating the patients blood and the bicarbonate and the pressure gradient causes waste products to get sucked into the bicarbonate.

[geomodelrailroader]

My uncle just retired from the baking soda mines he worked at Church and Dwight in Green River Wyoming every train that I see on the rails headed to China of Asia comes from this mine. Baking Soda is used in everything from food, livestock feed, soap, mask, polymers, fertilizer, you name it it all begins as baking soda in a mine just like this one.

[MeOwOgai]

Salute to everyone from 2040s when this video gets recommended again 😎

[pandalady]

I use it in bathing and in cleaning. Also as a heartburn treatment. Baking soda is very versatile.

[gizellesmith]

It's crazy how much of a process baking soda is and how cheap it is.

[ct]

Sodium bicarbonate has to be one of the most useful compounds ever discovered. It really is amazing everything you can do with it, and it's completely harmless.

[bradwilliams]

Amazes me what goes into making baking soda. Much respect to the engineers that dreamed up, designed and built this process.

[YiTseng]

Containers and machines are so clean in the factory because they are always cleaned with baking soda (X

[palamonia]

I now finally know why i would see just long lines of pipes leading to absolutely nowhere whenever i would travel in my home state.

[ziginox]

1:20 I love how the solution to that valve fouling up with dried brine splatter is to just wrap it in plastic wrap.

[ismaeldelgado]

The abrassion(¿?) resistance of the pipes and stuff has to be top level!!! This thing Is working with sandpaper..minus the paper...YES the baking soda is way softer than aluminio oxide, but still...its A LOT OF BAKING SODA!

[YogurtSnipe]

I miss this guys voice, I grew up watching this tv show.

[DouglasConlin]

I waited for the pun, I wasn't disappointed, "It will no doubt rise to the occasion." Boom

[jeanetteshawredden]

I wanted to see how they put baking soda in small yellow boxes at the grocery store for home baking 😊

[danielmcgrath]

That one guy with the beard evidently runs the whole operation by himself.

[daftzilla]

This has to be the cleanest factory in existence.

[RandomMiss]

These guys have been entertaining me with their Dad Joke style puns for over 20 years 😂