How Easy Is It ACTUALLY To Make 𝕄𝕖𝕥𝕙?? 

Hearing NileRed talk to non chemists and having them treat him like the local wizard is hilarious to me

TT: Can you make meth? Nile red: I'm legally obligated to say no.

"I think it depends on what chemistry you're doing." As a chemist, so much this. On one end, you have "I basically do physics with extra steps" physical chemists to "I know 79 different ways to kill a shit ton of people, 27 of which are incredibly painful" bioinorganic chemists.

He never said it by name, but anyone who's dealt with chemicals know that he just threw massive shade at Sigma Aldritchs pricing

LET HIM SPEAK.

I think what people forget is that Walter was desperate and making meth was easy for him. Assuming making meth is pretty basic, the reason I’d assume most chemists aren’t cooking meth is that they aren’t desperate.

Nile being disgusted at " blue meth " just somehow doesn't surprised me for some reason...

I like how the bois try to avoid saying the drugs name and Nile just name drops it like it's nothing

Nile held himself up well, while talking to these giggling school girls

I love listening to 3 dudes laugh into their mics with the gain cranked all the way up while I'm trying to listen to what NIle is saying.

The world of organic chem is a wonderful game dictated by seemingly simple rules but the possibilities are limitless, sometimes it even felt random

Nile is one of the best guest you can have on a podcast. He is really entertaining while also knowing his shit. Always nice to listen to him.

At my university, a practical class in Organic Chemistry I used to teach the process of extraction of secondary metabolites from plants by extracting cocaine from coca leaves and letting students leave with whatever they managed to extract in a little dark glass bottle. Unsurprisingly, it was later changed to extracting caffeine from grounded coffee beans (for obvious reasons) and you couldn’t take the final product home with you. However, an older colleague at my current lab still has her sealed bottle with the product as a memento. Fun times.

My favorite is all the interruptions while Nile is trying to talk

Painful when someone intelligent is trying to speak but friends are making comments/jokes to interrupt the conversation… 🤦🏼‍♂️

u had me at meth

Funny story: no bromine is not being phased out in spa/hot tubs. Bromine lasts longer than other chlorine stabilizers in the higher relative heat of a hot tub than other chemicals. It's more cost efficient to use bromine tabs as your water stabilizer than other options that exist. In pools it's very rare to see it ever used tho.

As a new viewer, it's very difficult to watch a guest be talked over time and time again.

I'm Not trying to be rude but I'd recommend that whenever you ask someone a question. You should let them reply and respond to your question without Interrupting them just to make a laugh or be sarcastic. I think your channel could benefit from it. I look forward to future videos and wish the best for everyone!

Bromine water treatment is HUGE in industrial water systems where you don't want algae and other crap in the water. It's uncommon in systems you swim in, but it's the norm for the big water cooling towers used for data centers, power plants and other things. In the large data center where I worked the cooling system was a water-spray type (heat from the air conditioners is transferred to water which heads outside to a giant tower and it's sprayed as droplets that cool down as they fall through a 20 foot tower) and we had a tank of Bromine salt solution that was periodically added to the water to keep a constant level of bromine. This was to stop bacteria and amoeba dangerous to human health (like Legionnaire's disease-causing Legionella bacteria, and the "brain eating amoeba" Nagleria Fowlerii) as well as plants that would clog up the system from growing. It was also hilarious that you could see he KNEW the names of the chemical he was calling "the first one down" and "the second one down" but he was trying not to get you demonetized so he was trying VERY hard to dance around the actual names

God damn I can relate way too hard when NR makes a super nerdy joke, the guys get it and chuckle, but NR's brain thinks "they must not have gotten that, they didn't laugh very hard, I best explain why it's funny."

My chemistry teacher from high school confirmed he could do it with the equipment in the school lab. (although to be fair he was a PHD very overqualified)

I want to stare intently at my chemistry teacher that made us memorize the periodic table like they weren't easily available by then

I remember a period about 10-12 years ago when some chemical involved in the production of MDMA (molly/ecstasy) went on the banned substance list in the UK and it caused chaos in the illicit party scene. It kind of had the opposite but highly predictable effect of what was probably intended where a relatively safe street pharmaceutical suddenly became super sketchy because all these labs were having to use all kinds of different methods/processes/chemicals to try and make the desired product and turning out stuff that was at best, not great and at worst, deadly. Like many of the approaches to the war on drugs it ends up doing a lot more harm than good

Nigel using every neuron in his brain to try to phrase those sentences in a way that doesn't send the feds flying through his front door

I think I remember my chem professor telling us Bromine can make us sterile...so yeah, slightly toxic is right.

The chemistry behind meth is highschool level at best, but it's very VERY temperamental. That's why you hear about meth labs blowing up all the time, especially if they use one of the more risky methods like the so called "Nazi suicide method" which really lives up to its name.

Snakes have shed their skin in a lesser time interval than connor has changed his shirt🙂

NR: so when people try to make illicit narcotics, like meth for examp- Guy: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHABABABA *slaps table* METH AHAHAHAHAHABHABABABABABABHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA HOLY SHT THAT'S SO FUNNY. NR: "...so anyways in the race against meth manufact-" Guy: HOLY SHT HE SAID METH AGAIN HAHAHAH THAT'S SO HILARIOUS AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA Like dude okay yes he's talking about meth please let him talk Jesus

NileRed nerding out about Bromine while surrounded by a bunch of anime girl figures is surreal

I love how Nile is trying to hide the fact that he makes meth

Am I the only one suffering for Neil that is continuously interrupted?

Wait hold up, never in a million years I would have thought that fucking *NILE RED* and Trash Taste was a combination that's even remotely possible. I literally watched him for chemistry homework and then switched to TT when I was done

1:28 Nigel looks at his table PERIODICALLY

Hahaha poor nile, they weren't letting him talk

I kinda wish they'd let him finish talking more

My chemistry teacher would use the molecule diagram for various illegal drugs whenever possible to make a point. Like, when explaining what a methyl group or whatever is, he'd start by drawing amphetamine (from memory!) and then show the difference to methamphetamine. I got him to endorse my "petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide" that I was having students sign. Dude woke up every morning and chose mischief.

If you played GTA 5, one of the missions with Trevor actually reminds you how easy it is to make meth. It's literally just doing chemical reactions and opening up of objects to get the items you want, or in this case, just buying stuff off wall mart and doing the correct things to it. Except, that when you DIY at home instead of in a professional environment using lab grade bases, the chances of you running into a gunfight, getting a door knock, and exploding your lab (due to the chemical reactions) is really high.

STOP INTERRUPTING TO MAKE BRO JOKES

These dudes will interrupt Nile's every sentence just to make essentially the same "recreational drugs are a taboo in our society haha " joke , and then burst into laughter .

Having to memorize the periodic table is why I almost failed chemistry. I could look at that shit all day long and try to test myself and be like “well at least I know where the noble gasses go.”

He's not wrong. If you got past even 2nd yr organic chem, you'd have no trouble making it at bench-scale assuming everything was available to you. People also might not realize that once you get to a certain scale, it becomes a process chemistry/chemical engineering challenge.

Part of the process reminds me of cooking when I’m reducing stuff into a sauce. Makes sense why people use the term “cooking” then for meth lol

My chemistry teacher told my friend if you manage to make meth and show me I let you pass the whole year without doing work

I took a foraging class and the instructor introduced a plant with the opening as “so how many of you have seen breaking bad?” And then explains that this specific plant has a precursor and can be used as a herbal supplement for stimulants. IIRC he also mentioned that it was outlawed in some states for a while because of that

Bromine is very useful imo, it can be put on as a substituent (very selective) and you can change it to literally whatever you want with the right reagent, substitution, coupling, you name it. And I think Meth is just a classic organic syn molecule, its not too hard to make, if you take organic chem anywhere you should be able to do it starting from literally any aromatic that resemble it even just a bit since its not a very complex molecule

Nile is so interesting to have on a podcast, I love hearing about chemistry from someone who messes around with it for fun. I took chem in school but was never interested in it, but Nile changed that for me

Saw the title and was thinking: "Is this the podcast I usually watch?"

1:48 Boy the periodic table has really grown since my school days.

6:21 The 2c family of hallucinogens was a big one. Wouldn't be at all surprised if Nile has copies of Alexander's Shulgin's books, and if he doesn't, would probably enjoy getting them as gifts.

I had a chem teacher in college and due to breaking bad me and a friend jokingly asked him if we could make meth. He said it wasn't that difficult. But sadly we never made any. Also, "Tell me what you want, I can get you anything" I had a friend who said that to me once. And he was completely honest about that too.

In the US you can still legally buy pretty much any drug online as a “research chemical” if you know the right places to look lol

I'd be scared if this become the most viewed clip in this channel.

Bromine is extremely useful in O chem, especially griganard coupling. Particularly making organics with R-Br plus a xR-MgBr to xR-R plus MgBr2. 🤓

The talk about the periodic table is kind of funny, because one of the things we were tested on in my inorganic chemistry class was, in fact, whether we could remember the periodic table. Like, prof just gave us a blank table with the atomic numbers written all out, and listed off a bunch of numbers for us to fill in the element. So I'm not a chemist now, but back when I was studying chemistry (the only major chem classes I managed to avoid were biochem and physical chemistry - I'm an environmental chemistry major, so those fields were deemed less essential to my knowledge...instead, I took organic, inorganic, a crapton of analytical chem, plus some geochemistry and biogeochemistry...which is actually, technically a sub-discipline of microbiology), I knew the periodic table really well. It helped a lot though, because I could estimate molar masses and do back-of-the-envelop calculations when I had no periodic table available to me (you get to remember a few common elements' molecular masses - oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, iron, sulphur....those guys).

Nile is so unefortlessly funny. It just comes off as shit he says in passing that kills me lmao.

The race between the 'chemists' and the government is quite literally the exact same as the race between hackers/modders and devs.

Bruh this episode was fantastic Nile needs to come on again with Micheal this shit would be wild

He can’t finish a statement without them interrupting with fake laughter and trying to make a joke out of every little thing he says.

9:58 My friends dad described it like this: "Chemistry is like shoveling sand day in and day out for a year. Organic Chemistry is like shoveling shit."

I love how Nile just forgets to communicate half of the time

A lot of your reactions to what he's talking about are so over the top and intense. When it comes to how you are all engaging with what he's saying, it feels like your levels of enthusiasm are stuck at no lower than a 9 out of 10. It almost feels like the laughter, shock and other emotional reactions have been in-authentically drummed up to a wild level, or nearly has the same "vibe" as prank youtubers c. 2016.

"Jesse, it's time to cook."

Industrial use of bromine includes fire resistance of plastics. Bromination of vegetable oil used to be used for stabilization of citrus oil in certain soft drinks..the limonene is dissolved in treated vegetable oil which forms stabile suspension. Bromine adds density.

Chemist: *teaching* Trash Taste: "aha", "yeah", "right right", "cool"

Nile: Tries to say anything These guys: rjhfeeaxcHAHAHA

bromine is used at Disney theme parks which is why their water rides smell the way they do.

I love how this video is the only reason I've referenced organic chem since taking it lol

As I understand it Bromine cannot be stabilized from sunlight (and chlorine can be), so it would gas off too fast in direct sunlight. But I think bromine is considered a better sanitizer (maybe for higher temps, or it is less smelly? IDK), so it is used in hot tubs more commonly than chlorine as hot tubs usually have covers on them.

i could hear nileRed talk about chemicals for hours and not get bored, hes very entertaining

I wish Nile had had this conversation with less annoying people let him explain

Nigle shitting on sigma aldrich for a solid 3 minutes without mentioning them is so hilarious

3:17 never clean urine with cleaner that contains bleach because urine contains ammonia and ammonia + bleach = Mustard Gas,I accidentally did that because I was cleaning my bathtub with cleaner that contained bleach in it and it just so happened that my cat just so happened to have peed in their without my knowledge,it was not a fun time when I inhaled it but I immediately noticed what happened and I successfully dealt with the situation myself.

Nilered is a G. I know nothing about chemistry but watch his videos every time they drop he is just a cool dude

"Research chemicals" is what Nile is talking about, where they make an analog to a drug that has one functional group difference and has similar effects.

i looooove watching one person get interrupted endlessly while trying to spit out one sentence mmm yes 4 dudes talking over each other

I thought the thumbnail said cooking mama is shockingly easy

The whole of Disney's water used for swimming was bromine instead of chlorine, not sure if it still is but it smells very distinct

Jesus.....listening to these bros is like hanging out with a bunch of stoners who are each trying to talk louder than the other and then someone will say something that a 12 year old boy would laugh at and then you have to sit through 30 seconds of immature snickering.

It's so annoying that we can't hear NileRed talk as those dummies keep interrupting him and cracking stupid jokes.

Maybe Breaking Bad was on to something

I was just watching this video because it sounded interesting and it has been, I however had no clue Garnt was on this. I couldn’t be happier to see one of my favorite people 😊

As soon as he brought up price his voice played in my head “Unfortunately, I had to order from Sigma-Alberich”

One of the first things my chemistry teacher in Oberstufe at Gymnasium (which is kinda the german equivalent to high school, i guess) was that every student who took chemistry classes on that "highschool" level would easiliy be able to make Crystal Meth after they graduate. The guy was in his late sixties and one of the most boring teachers I ever had but he had his moments xD

As much as I love Nilered’s videos, I think he might be one of the cutest chemist I’ve ever seen.

I’ve never been so terrified when watching trash taste 6:36

Nile you don’t happen to have an old RV right now do ya?

“Now students, in todays lab we are making meth.” Students: “Yay!” Teacher: “and you get to try it”

My sister is a chemist and tends to go on obscure tangents when I ask her about work. For this reason I have the "Jesse what the fuck are you talking about" image saved on my phone in favorites.

Wish they would stop interrupting Nile so much.

My chemistry students ask me this CONSTANTLY. My response is always, "Meth-heads make meth all the time, do you think that I'm a worse chemist than a meth-head?"

Minor error: While technically cocaine can probably be cooked (I don't have any idea how) it's far easier to simply grow coca plants and to extract it. Even that is a pain because unlike weed or even opium, coca can only be grown in very specific conditions and have a low yield. This is why meth is so popular, it's a stimulant like cocaine but you can make it cheaply

*Nigel barely remembers the period table* Meanwhile my teacher telling me to remember all of it even though I won't use it for anything else.

Bromine, as an element, is potentially really useful for a lot of chemical applications. Just look up industrial uses of it and you'll find several completely unrelated avenues of use for it. It was huge when leaded gasolines were around because a bromo-organic compound was used to prevent lead buildup in engines. With gas being unleaded now though, bromine's relevance is more obscure, but it's still there. It pops up every now and again in any pharmaceutical/chemical research lab, and the most common place in the biotech industry is in the form of bromophenol blue, which is both a common pH indicator as well as a potent blue dye to analyze macromolecules (DNA and proteins). But bromine kind of sits in a weird spot in terms of pure chemistry, because there's a lot of situations where chlorine, which is much less toxic, can be used instead. It often means using a lot of chlorine to make up for it, but that's a tradeoff people don't question. That's kind of the purpose of bromine now, the textbook example in every organic chemistry class of "we could do that, but we wouldn't want to"

Bromine is very useful in preparation of organic compounds contains hydorxyl, haldie, carboxy group because the bond dissociation of HBr is low compared to HCl and more than HI which is perfect for room temp reactions or slightly elevated conditions

Always heard that Disney uses bromine on water rides so you don’t smell chlorine.

Next Trash Taste Special is the boys trying to see who can cook the best m*th

At the oil refinery I work at, we use bromine to test for olefin in our field grade butane. Bromine will turn clear if olefin is present.

Alright. Step one: Gather the necessary ingredients - pseudoephedrine, iodine, lithium and a beaker. Heat it up - slowly and carefully - until it turns yellow-red. After the solution is completely mixed, you need to place the beaker on a burner and slowly boil the contents until it becomes pink. When the mixture has turned pink, you need to stop the flame and let it cool down to room temperature. Be really careful when taking it off the heat source because it will be very hot. Once cooled, you can filter the pink mixture through a coffee filter to separate any solid particles. Gather another beaker and fill it with distilled water. Transfer your filtered solution into this one, stirring it while adding drops of hydrochloric acid gradually. After the acid has been added, stir the solution for some time - until a white, crystalline substance appears at the bottom of the beaker. You will notice some liquid left over. This is water, so it just needs to be evaporated. You can simply do this by placing the beaker in a warm place until it dries up. When the solution has completely dried, you need to scrape out the crystals that were in the bottom of the beaker. Be careful to get all of the water residue off. You are not done yet. You need to crush the pink crystals into a fine power using a mortar and pestle or a grinder. After the crystals are crushed into a powder, you can use a scale to measure it and package it accordingly.

if I had a nickel for every time a comment thought the thumbnail said "cooking mama is shockingly easy" I'd have two. Which isn't a lot. but it's actually weird it happened twice.