I love the contrast where NileRed takes something inedible and makes it edible and Cody takes edible stuff and turns it inedible.

Next Episode : "Extracting Pure Mercury From Tuna"

One thing I love about chemistry UKpostsrs is that while NileRed has a very clean and professional looking setup, everyone else like Cody'sLab and Explosions and Fire make their vids in what look like actual methlabs lmao. Doesn't take away from the vids of course, love them as always!

10kgs of banana just turned with a lot of hardwork into 9gm potassium just to throw it in water Respect x 100

Imagine finding a jar full of ash labeled "flesh" out of context.....

Ahh yes, a mason jar full of black liquid labeled “flesh” in messy handwriting

theirs such a difference between you and Nile Red. Nile Red: *uses lab grade equipment in an actual lab* Cody: *uses fire in his shed* I love it. ig goes to show that no matter your budget you can always find a way to do chemistry

this is such good science. i am very appreciative of the attention to detail with reporting measurements. so many times you see stuff like this excluded because it's so cumbersome to report all of it in a video just made for fun, it means a lot that you went the extra mile.

"Honey where did all of the bananas for Banana Bread go?" " *Gone, Reduced to Atoms* "

"Banana Flesh Ash Water" Yes, a perfectly normal series of words.

it's amazing how the human body just does this on it's own, converting the banana meat to useful metabolites

The fun thing about this is that the potassium he managed to extract is worth about 5 times 10kg of bananas (or at least this is what I found out searching on Google) . He could start a business out of this😂

While doing research for a nutrition class, I found out that papayas and red potatoes have more potassium than bananas. You should compare those.

NileRed : nice laboratory with nice glassware Cody : rusty cans and pipes and still managing to do awesome chemistry

I was good at high school chemistry so in the chem lab, my teacher allowed me to experiment with substances that were off limits to most of the other students. For me that meant elemental sodium, lithium and potassium. One day the teacher had a small jar of elemental sodium under some non-reactive oil and offered me a tiny piece to see how it would react. Since we didn't have a river to toss it into like Cody, I had to do it under the hood. I put a few drops of water on a tray and under the hood added the bit of sodium. It danced around like a grasshopper, breaking down the H20 and giving off hydrogen gas. Being highly flammable, (think of the Hindenburg) the heat of the reaction ignited the H2 gas. Note that H2O can be written HOH, which emphasizes the fact that water is a hydroxide of hydrogen: H+ -OH. 2Na + 2HOH → 2NaOH +H2 - [Sodium + water creates lye and hydrogen] In Cody's case, using potassium, the reaction would be: 2K + 2HOH → 2KOH +H2 The lesson was the activity of metals. Sodium and its cousins, including potassium, are highly active and are never found in their elemental state in nature.

"Kris, get the banana" ... "Potassium!"

he literally did ALL of that just to throw the result into a lake so it could explode............ GENIUS

Cody: "Cat is making a mess." Cat: "Says the guy who just dumped dozens of bananas on the table."

10:58 Kitty clearly impressed by it's hooman making white cloud in solution

i love your channel, shows chemistry does not take fancy equipment, only knowledge.

Bananas: *completely fucking obliterated* Cody: eh there is still a bit of carbon in there

You know you're in Cody's house when you find a mason jar filled with unidentifiable black grime labeled "flesh."

Probably to do with the water ratio of the peel vs the fruit itself. The peel probably contains much less water overall compared to the fruit itself. So when dried, the mass of the peel becomes nearly the same to that of the fruit.

This is the type of Organic Chemistry I can actually watch without falling asleep.

"If you ate 40,000 bananas in ten minutes, you'd die from radiation poisoning" "Ah yes, the *radiation* would kill you!"

Imagine finding a jar called "flesh" with black liquid in it

7:30 lol imagine you're a friend or police officer and you come into cody's house to see a jar of ash labelled "flesh"

Great work. I enjoyed your explanations about converting to perchlorates, solubilty, getting rid of oxygen and finally getting metallic Potassium. Your touch of class about explosion was so great. I will use your presentation to encourage my students in doing this experiment as a final project for their final year of High school. Here in Paraguay we do not have resources but your approach will make them willing to adapt and think. Thank you for your time .

The cashier seeing Cody arriving with 10Kg of banana in a cart : "Seems like math guy again is having a problem again..."

Imagine coming into this guy's room and there is a jar with a sign " Flesh ash water"

So the Banana Grenade from Worms is actually real

A home shed experiment is just as fascinating as a production lab. Love the content and chemistry.

"So no monetization?" *slams banana on the ground*

Imagine finding a strange jar labeled "flesh" filled with black ash🤣

Great video. I love the step by step of how you did it. Really satisfying to see the actual metal.

I don’t usually watch these kind of videos but for some reason found this fascinating. Good work!

"Let's go put this in the freezer" *walks outside*

Cody's the guy your math textbook warned you about.

for a long time i've known that everyday foods can contain trace amounts of things like metals but it still feels incredibly strange

4:10 at this stage, i recommend adding salt

There isn't another channel like Cody's Lab. His lab contains garbage cans, homemade lab equipment, snow freezers, cooking pans, and a hand vacuum pump. Don't ever change a thing. Please.

The well known scientific measurement of distilled water: “About yay much.”

Thanks for randomly popping up in my recommended videos. This just made my day in so many ways. I was pleasantly distracted from my current grief, learned some cool sciency stuff, and deepened my appreciation for the bad ass banana!

Great video man. This looked like a fun process. And yes, I was hoping you would explode the metal at the end. You didn't disappoint.

Nilered: * doesnt like how impure a solution is * * goes through a complex purification process to fix it * Cody: * doesnt like how impure a solution is * "meh" * continues *

Cody: "Now for the part of the video you've all been waiting for" Me: "This isn't Cody eating banana char"

Putting it all together. Nice work!

I could also argue a lot of your loss came from the fluids during the dehydration step(s). Fantastic video!!

You're telling me big banana has been lying to us about potassium content?

NileRed with: "Turning platic gloves into grape soda" and now this. What a crazy week!

First time here, and I've just loved your content. Thank you!

Loved the effort and taught so many reactions.

This is the most thorough destruction of a banana I've ever seen.

This is the weirdest cooking show I’ve ever seen.

I have to say, you know how to make science very interesting! I enjoyed this video a lot!

Thank you I found your work fascinating and you do speak plainly so you are easy to follow. Good UKpostsn

"Banana flesh ash water" is a sequence of words I never expected to see.

Cody: "I'll hang these banana peels up on a drying rack." Cody's Cat: "And I shall be knocking over said rack, as is tradition!"

I'm an artist painter, so I'm into paint chemistry. I admire your set ups. I miss chemistry since undergrad school. New Subscriber. Nice skills.

When I was just starting the video I was thinking about how cool it would be to get the Geiger counter reading on it, you never disappoint!

This is a wholesome version of Breaking Bad.

Next: Extracting Banana from Potassium Metal.

Love this guy's channel.

Great job. Real hard work.

You extracted potassium. From potash. Which you made, true to its etymology, from ash in a pot. You've done exactly what gave potassium its name. Beautiful.

So if you want potassium you gotta eat bananas with the shell on, okay

@9:44 I dont like how contaminated my solution is ..... from the worlds dirtiest lab/garage set up. And how much cheap kitchen equipment gets broken or mistreated (saucepans/ovens etc.). But it adds to the charm, love it! (PS Remind me not to go over to Codys house for dinner)

I loved the last part too much ,it tells us that we carry nothing at the end of the day,all the effort to get potassium with the spirit to find out what and how much nature stored in little food we relish and finally effortlessly giving back to nature with cheer is really worth saluting !

"cooling it down by popping it in the freezer" *goes outside and puts it in snow*

my chemistry teacher in high school told a story once about how she was doing a lab with potassium one day, and she gave each table one slice of the potassium trapped in wax to use (as cody demonstrated, potassium is highly reactive to water). one kid just kinda pocketed the potassium, and since it was new orleans, the heat of their ass melted the wax, and the potassium reacted with their sweat, making it pop in their pocket

I've heard of the hotseat, but that's just bananas! What a wonderful way to edutain! Had no idea about bananas actually being radioactive from potassium, albeit in minute quantities. I could do with a few bananas. My potassium is a tad low. Thanks for the video. :)

This is what my science teacher exceptes me to do everytime there’s a project

Yes! The peels do contain the most potassium. I tested the radioactivity of bananas earlier this year, and the peels were clearly the most radioactive part. Probably due to the higher potassium content. Maybe higher concentrations of other NORMs too.

Adult: "What's your favorite element little timmy?" Little Timmy: "I quite like radioactive metals" A: "Oh, really? Which one?" LT: "Banana"

Hat against my heart. Thank you Cody

Some people are soooo smart. All I know about bananas is to eat them. How people figure out extraction processes and mixing elements is just amazing to me. And perplexing.

Cody:“Let’s go put this in the freezer” The “freezer”: *S N O W*

Not even a minute in and i already know this will be a future classic

Im impressed how Cody did chemistry without any expensive equipment like especially when messing with uranium, radium and other radioactive stuff. Cody's some sort of god bro Im saying it

Absolutely crazy!! How you got pottassium from bananas and even showed the reactivity with water.

Next episode: "Extract baby oil from babies"

Everyone else's conclusion: You can extract potassium from the waste peels and not have to burn the delicious meat. Cody's conclusion: Eat the peels

Thank you so much, content i didn't know i needed to watch.

Did I just watch a video of some guy extracting potassium from bananas, me not having any idea about chemistry? Yes, i did. AND LOVED IT!!! Great video!

NileRed: "making grape soda out of plastic gloves" CodysLab:

Imagine you're just chilling one day walking along a river while eating a banana and then it falls from your hand into the river and fucking explodes.

You are the person that all people would need in a true emergency situation Your sort of like the professor on Gillian’s island who would short wave radios from coconuts. Lol

Fascinating video and just love your cat!!!

big brain play: potassium from worthless banana husk tasty chips from decadent banana flesh

That Japanese guy be like: "Sharpest potassium knife from bananas"

I friggin love you Cody. Too cool brother!

Interesting video. Enjoy watching the process of extraction potassium out of bananas. Thanks

That was an extremely large amount of work. I want to say “THANK YOU” that was amazing and very educational and enjoyable to watch.

You shuold put this video in the "metal refining and recovery" playlist

Ok. I was great at chemistry at school. But this has blown my mind. It’s fantastic knowledge

Love this channel

"Bananas don't burn very well." Quite possibly one of the rarest combination of words I've ever heard.

Back to your roots, I see! Thanks for this video. Great!

Looking at words 'banana' and 'potassium' together always reminded me of 9th Doctor from Doctor Who, haha. "I like bananas. Bananas are good." "Don't drop the banana. It's a good source of potassium." Ah, miss that guy. Anyway, great video!

I love this video! It makes me really appreciate chemistry immensely 🔥