Making food that lasts forever 

This man has pretty much every type of equipment he needs for chemistry but has to cut pizza with a spoon.

NileRed is calm and collected, NileBlue is flash freezing a hole in your floor.

I like how his solution to food chains no longer selling his favorite food was not to learn how to make them, but to freeze a finite amount indefinitely.

This guy's commitment to recipes in labs and shear avoidance of recipes in kitchens is commendable.

he’s getting closer and closer to becoming a real life flint lockwood

Because of how Nile reacts to horrible smells, I don't trust him at all when he says, "It actually tastes fine".

absolute favorite bit of this video is nile saying "hey guys, you guys want some... food?" with a distinct pause before saying 'food' (25:56 ish)

Seeing Nigel teleport to grab the Liquid Nitrogen is genuinely one of the greatest frights I've experienced in a while 6:15

I like to think that Nile's weak sense of taste and smell come from his childhood chemistry experiments in his parents' garage

Reggie serves a critical function not only as the cameraman, but as the man who goes outside regularly enough to recognize a sin against nature while it is in progress.

Love the way you watered and sprayed the General Tso like a plant lol.

"That was my fortune" Bro was so sad

NileRed: Takes all precautions to make sure there are no accidents NileBlue: Directly pours liquid nitrogen into a plastic bin

I sort of feel like the cracked and broken pizza is a pretty nice visual metaphor for Nigel trying so desperately to preserve his memories of childhood.

18:18 it’s called steaming the food Nile lol bless your heart 😂

Poor Nile, truly devastating. That ‘I understand’ came from the heart.

Nigel: Disappears to build his fancy new lab. Also Nigel: Proceeds to ruin his lab with liquid N2.

Nile is the only person who can say, ‘that’s the worst thing I’ve ever tasted’ with a straight face and continuing to chew.

I love his scientific method. Nile: “It’s doing something.” Cameraman: “How do you know?” Nile: “ I don’t know 🤷🏻 “ 😂

A chemist who can’t cook is the most cartoon character trait out there

as informative and polished as the content on NileRed is, i genuinely enjoy the unhinged, fuck around and find out direction NileBlue has taken. NileRed is what you publish to a scientific paper, and NileBlue is what you actually did in the lab screwing around while you waited on reactions and instruments to finish running 😂

nigel is deffinitely the guy that would do all this instead of just learning how to cook the food yourself

It's amazing how much the food looks like it's being deep fried

What a brilliantly, delightfully absurd premise, simultaneously fun and instantly accessible by the audience. Wonderful video!

Nigel: "Putting food in the freezer gives it freezer burn and I think that's bad" Also Nigel: *busts out liquid nitrogen*

NileRed is the chemistry channel while NileBlue is the alchemy channel

Typically people keep recipes alive by learning how to cook it. Lol love y'all

I would love to see another attempt at doing this, except the next time around you do all the food separately and measure the before and after weights to be able to determine how much water was lost in the process

My man is grieving this chicken chipotle wrap more than I've seen people grieve family members

NileBlue in the future: "I don't want to lose anymore of my friends, so I found a way to preserve them."

I love that he did all this work just to reinvent the MRE

I love both channels, keep it up man. You're doing great

Nile literally had a Heinz Doofenshmirtzin moment explaining the sad problems he is facing and used the power of science to solve it

nigel: makes grape soda from gloves also nigel: cuts pizza with a spoon smh

Every video I've seen on this channel has made me question existence. keep up the good work :)

NileRed: That would be EXTREMELY DANGEROUS... NileBlue: *casually walks through liquid nitrogen*

"Pizza time" he whispers to himself as he puts a freeze dried, crumbled mess that once resembled a pizza in a steamer to rehydrate it, like its not the most unhinged and insane thing someone ever did. Love it

regular people: gets the recipes for their favorite foods neil: imortal food

My understanding is that flash freezing the food very quickly keeps the ice crystals small so they don't grow much and puncture the cell walls like slower freezing does. This is supposedly very important to keep the food from rehydrating into mush. If trying this again, I would suggest weighing the food before going through the process, then weighing again before rehydrating in order to know exactly how much boiling water to add. It would also be interesting to see what happens with uncooked/unprocessed food.

Nile: General Towel Everyone Else: General Tso

NileBlue leaving food reviews like "This is 100% edible"

There's something horrifying about Nile pouring water onto the chicken and commenting, *"It's so thirsty"*

I knew you were in my province, now know my city! Love it. Love your vids !

my word this channel is prolific gold.

Man Nigel needs to hang out with US military food scientists. They've spent decades trying to get shelf stable pizza right and achieved "basically edible".

Reggie: *genuinely concerned* “Why is it bending like that?” Nile: *laughs*

you just got a new sub!!!!!! love the channle btw

I think you should give props to reggie cause his choice was really interesting and i though it would not work at all! The fact it stayed together in the freeze step was mind-blowing m

This is the most “man refuses to learn how to cook” moment I’ve seen in at least 3 weeks😂

Nile: Has almost every chemistry tool he will ever need Also Nile: uses spoon to cut the pizza

Great video! Would be awesome to see you revisit this concept with other techniques!

Thank you for these amazing videos they are great ideas

Finally... Nile has turned "uncooked" from an adjective into a past tense verb.

Nigel can turn gloves into fruit juice but cuts pizza with a spoon. I am not believing that Nigel is a real human

This is one of my favorite videos of your, so funny haha

If you microwave food (especially ones prone to getting dry and chewy) use a small dish of warm water NEXT to the dish containing food in the microwave. The steam in the air helps a huge amount. Secret for cooking great and moist cakes, cookies and muffins/cupcakes in the oven; do the same thing putting the small hot water dish in a low level tray of the oven way below the food tray level, the steam makes a perfect and moist result (taught to me by a passionate, big name donut consultant).

Picturing Nigel just watering his chicken and rice as part of his daily routine just cracks me up

For the entire video, I genuinely thought that they'd just written NileBlue with a marker on top of some masking tape and just stuck it on a normal black shirt for the humor of it. That is beautiful. It fits this channel perfectly

This is a sad thing I've had to come to grips with as an American as I've gotten older. My favorite restraunts were local ethnic restraunts. My favorite was a chinese restaurant it turns out some friends of mines parents owned. You think it will be there forever but a time comes when it closes. My friends, son and daughter of the owners, obviously aren't going to keep it open as they are very well educated college graduates and their parents worked hard so they could have better lives. I've had this happen a few times with family owned restraunts, makes me appreciate them a bit more.

New favorite cooking channel😂

Nile makes being a mad scientist sound not that bad.

Nile breaking his bucket AND his floor with liquid nitrogen, continuing the streak of NileBlue videos being the most haphazard science videos on RU-vid

this is why the kids from back to the future were so impressed with mom's pizza rehydrating skills

This just made me hungry. Nothing else to say other than this is SO AWSOME!!!

i genuinely thought he'd learn food chemistry. Not in a million years would I expect him to do this

Nigel and his cameraman's interactions are my favorite part, they have such good chemistry

The man behind the camera knows what questions to ask and I love it

I really like the way you opened this video it was hilarious 😂. "Un" half of my diet is gone..lmao.👍I really needed a good laugh today thank you..😊

Honestly I love how NileRed is the channel for very dry, tedious and meticulous general chemistry.. And then you have food chemistry with Nile Blue, which is just a non-stop slapstick tragicomedy of finding out

"I'm worried the pizza is gonna explode" is how I'd summarize nileblue in one sentence

I love seeing the ferrofluid art in the office background!

Watching Nile loading his lunch into a lab grade freeze drier while wearing all the necessary safety equipment was the peak point of my day.

I feel like I'm gonna need to talk to my therapist about how uncomfortable the words 'the chicken looks a bit glassy' make me feel

I feel like when Nigel walks into the office with a plate of food for you to test without any context, you have reason to be concerned

I think you need to give more time to re hydrating the food. 5 days to dehydrate it. Try a humidifier, no heat involved, maybe it will help. I see that pizza being the hardest. 😆 maybe dry freeze the base ingredients then making a pizza.

Love the videos, Nile. Know this is an older upload and ya probably won't see the comment- along with how this project is far gone by now, but coming back to this video, re-watching it, and thinking about it, ya should have put the solid food back into a vacuum with water, forcing it to absorb up the water.

Nothing got me like Nile watering chicken and saying "but it's so thirsty"

Here is a thought. Measure the weight of each item before and after freeze drying, then you will be able to calculate how much water is needed to rehydrate. Smaller chunks rehydrate better. Separate the rice and other items so you can rehydrate separately. I am interested in freeze dried foods because of backpacking.

I like how he likens a lot of it to the instant versions when this is likely the same principles for how they’re made (probably lacking the liquid nitrogen). Theoretically, I wonder if liquid nitrogen introduces flavour into it.

9:30 The most reassuring I think it's fine ever

The part where the pizza got all gross and stuff reminded me about how military scientists struggled for years to try and make an MRE stable pizza, and all of them came out looking identical to what Nile had in the steamer lmao

The stabbing open of the boba, the chaotic liquid nitrogen incident, the slicing of the pizza with a spoon... I'm thinking we need a survival video of Nigel trying to brave the outdoors. By himself. It would be hilarious. Sorry😂😂

Keep up the good work!

This video reeks of "wow, i didn't use this freeze dryer nearly as much as I thought i would... tax break?" energy

Additional change that could help with the rehydration step: Since adding heat cooks the food, you could use a piezoelectric transducer to create a fog without any heat, allowing you to reintroduce moisture without cooking the food. Joelcreates made a video with that idea changing toast back to standard bread (the reverse toaster)

Seeing someone who is so good with chemistry have so little cooking intuition is hilarious.

23:34 I didnt know waist high microwaves were a thing people did😂

You can try to re-hydrate by cooling the hot steam and condensing it onto the food so it doesn't get accidentally cooked...

Generally, when reconstituting freeze dried food, you want to weigh the food before and after the drying process and add that much water back, usually by pouring hot water over the food and letting it stand for 10 to 15 minutes. Reconstitution also works better on smaller pieces or powderized food, as the water is able to penetrate faster and allows for more even hydration.

I thought something you might want to consider is weighing the food before and after to know the amount of moisture that was lost in the process. That way, when rehydrating it, you won't do so with too much or too little water. Sorry if someone has already suggested this.

I love the “do you want some….. food” the hesitation is telling

0:57 I feel you man. Im eating taco bell watching you😂💙

Regular people dealing with adulthood: that sucks, anyways. Nile: I WILL PRESERVE MY CHILDHOOD USING SCIENCE.

I love the “I want objective opinions” followed by an immediate “I did not like those opinions” XD

I really wish you would re visit this. You could potentially change how the world stores and eats food, also the cost of keeping the food stored would drastically be reduced. If you ever seen Back to the Future when the mom puts the tiny pizza in the micro wave and it comes out full sized, I am certain that following this path would eventually lead you to that or even a branched idea, relative to our time and technology. I'd like to know what happened to the nutrition content after the process. I understand this method is used, however there aren't any cheap ways to make it. Hoping with more work you could possibly come up with something conventional that could be sold to the general public. We know business like money, and because of that, it halts our progress and technology to keep people paying, I guess it would be nice to see a civilian bring it to life and essentially show the world were we should be at. Great Video, Very Entertaining.

God damn man 😂 every episode is a new piece of equipment 😆 🤣

you know... most houses nowadays come with their own special labs where you can perform chemistry experiments that you can eat!? they even come with their own kinds of lab aprons, gloves and glassware. you usually don't need protective eyeware, though. unless you're cutting onions.

I send my deepest condolences to you and everyone affected by this. No one should have to suffer a loss so dire as this. Great to see you persevering through this chickens wrap catastrophe

Just a funny thought about the NileBlue shirt (mentioned at the end of the video) It would be cool if parts of NileRed would be sticking from underneath the "masking tape"

Thinking on this, there was definitely a better way to get it to work. A moisture % check beforehand would've been helpful to the end result