My PhD Thesis is Due. We’re making ice cream 

Gotta keep being a slave to the shareholders to make you pay so you can generate IP for them. What a glorious system

This is the grim reality. My PhD were a chore for sure but I'm not sure if I'm able to do anything else...

I feel like most people don't hate doing their PhD, they hate the last segment (from the moment that you should have wrote up a good chunk) with such passion that they only remember pain, but deep down they still know that research is interesting.

@@GenosseRot Out of curiosity, was it worth it? I'm postponing mine for a decade

@@leflumph1509 I think the last leg feels more like a chore because the "fun part" of the research is long gone

Shockingly, he's getting a PhD in physics, not chemistry.

Making your own ice cream is an absolute treat. Never hit the freezer section again.

@@gamemeister27 I guess that's why he made a video about substances changing physical states instead of chemical reactions

Ive had an ice cream machine for a few years and i have to say its been a lot of fun. Until suddenly 6 months ago when i became lactose intolerant at the age of 30, long after I thought i reached the point in life where i didnt have to worry about becoming lactose intolerant 🙃

@@alexdrockhound9497 Use lactase. I was down to eating rice and lentils for 2 to 4 weeks, I am glad that I am no longer sure how long I was trying to go on so little food. When I finally got the money I should have gotten months before that, Social Security, I bought a variety of food and I knew that I needed to be careful. I was not careful enough. Anyway I seemed to have become lactose intolerant at the age of 70. So I carefully used lactase for while and sometimes not with cheese. I am very glad to say that I recovered by lactose tolerance over about 2 months.

As another historian, I agree. Lots of very funny niche words, new perspectives and such. Absolutely captivating.

Ditto. History teacher. I hated chemistry in high school, but lately I’ve been kind of obsessed by it. Learning about education now- I think my teacher was just really boring.

These types of comments are really encouraging for those who us who are still on the way to graduate school. Thanks

Meanwhile my dumb ass failed the first year four times in four different things. Guess I'll remain a wageslave for the rest of my life

@@Slouworker four times is nothing. Keep going. Keep trying, over and over.

@@marcelduplessis944 nah, im too old and too broke at this point

@@Slouworker For what it's worth, you can always come back later, y'know. Nothing stopping you from taking time to get into a better financial place and giving it another crack :D

I salute you too for writing a whole ass thesis in a month 😭

Does it still need to be at least 25,000 words?

perhaps I should give you all my brother's contacts, who pops out PhDs and papers like I do poop. (in my defense, I'm chronically constipated, but still get a normal poop once or twice a month, which indeed seems to correlate with my brother's publication frequency) Currently he's mostly in bio-engineering and biomedical fields, but I'm sure his methods would apply to chemistry/physics as well...

Relatable. I'm still fighting anxiety after completing my PhD almost 4 years ago.

​@@lukearts2954 I guess you should try to make him publish once every one or two days if you want a healthy digestive process

That's amazing

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the pure genius of this comment.

😂😂

I'd watch that!

Emulsion while frying

Maybe more like chaotic wat.

Rest in piece

Seeing "write down at least four pages a day for a month or two" as an encouraging sentiment is nightmarish. Just commit tax fraud and life gets cheaper

@uhoh7545 Yeah, i get that. It wasn't my favorite part of the process either. However, this is a bit difficult to explain as not everyone is passionate enough about this stuff to actually want to do it. I've seen people on RU-vid invest a similar level of effort into mastering a specific video game. I've met sports fans who know more facts about their favorite teams than i will probably ever know about the inner workings of the universe... so imagine spending 7 years of your life doing something... something that is actually very cool, tip of the tech spear cool...with lasers. Now imagine getting to spend all day, every day pouring over those memories, and trying to tie up loose ends that you said you'd get around to... some day ... well, now it's that day! It's daunting to sit down and write a book that's much harder to write than any regular book (because regular books, are written by writers not scientists who are rusty having spent the last few years in a lab, benefit from professional editors, don't require near perfect/ mathematical self consistency prior to publication, and will actually be read by another human being who's not being forced or paid to read it)... however, it's a luxury to get to spend so much time with an old friend before inevitably parting ways. At no point in your life will you ever have the opportunity to do one thing with as much focus intensity or care. If you chose your topic wisely, the process will be difficult to complete due to the temptation to keep exploring, not because it is overwhelming.

"Chicken menstruations" lol

I might have made ice cream more than 20 years ago in elementary school but we definitely didn't use egg.

@@buddyguy4723 some recipes use them, some don’t! In Europe quite a few bordering countries/regions have childish arguments about their ice creams sometimes for the reason of egg vs. no egg. My favorite argument is what occurred between Swedish and Norwegian ice cream companies, try to look it up!

Dr. Corpse Bloom I presume....

RoR epic

Congrats. How's the Arby's drive-through treating you?

Hey congrats though mate!

Congrats!

From comp-sci to genetics and biology by way of bioinformatics.

@@barongerhardt We biologists solute your hard work, R alone is enough to make most of us cry

@@TheRedKnight101 but Rstudio is so nice ;-;

lmao I'm directing my master mostly in functional analysis, but I want to work in Mathematical Physics. I've got a teacher pushing me right into that direction as well because he thinks they aren't enough analysis members in the Modelling departements of the university lol

Non biologist here. R makes me cry also. Then I get surly and depressed. "R is not for me", I think.

Hes a funny little fella

legit baking is just as precise as chemistry if your really into it. i know that because i’m really into baking

@@RalseiGaming Yup, exactly. My wife and I used to own a bagel bakery here in the USA. Cereal Chemistry is a real field that people actually get degrees in. We hired a cereal chemist to help us develop our bagel recipes. The book, "Baking Science and Technology" is a (very) oldie but goodie for breaking into the chemistry involved in baking. Once you get a good understanding of what the ingredients actually *do* , developing your own recipes or modifying someone else's to improve them becomes (are you ready for this?) a piece of cake.

True. Just add some red pepper flakes to hot oil, then when the air fills with pepper spray and fire, dump water into the pan and you'll get *spicy air*

True tho if he doesn't finish it, he'll be "chemistry" at McDonald's. 😋

​@@majormelon8855 you've been to Thailand, I see 😆

He is a master of one-liners

@@Sniperboy5551 well of course, his brand of chemistry and “the ha ha’s” just feels too good to be real lol

Hey best of luck mate!! You’ve got this!!

BASF vielleicht?

Update: Life crushing defeat

​@@vulpax5915 never give up, you got it next time

I believe you need to call him Master from now on. He provided the gateway to the drug known as chemistry.

good on ya mate, I'd like the comment but I don't want to be the 70th like

@@benshapiroscrustyass1402 well ben shapiros crusty ass, now's your chance to like subscribe and hit the bell

Congrats mate!!!

he taught me the same.. to this day i can't get over hating lactones. or at least the trauma of opening one.

Did the clone turn Yellow?

@@Noxidsignorantia I mean the +200 E. coli colonies on the negative control plates were kinda off-white-pale-yellowish

@@Torteufel the smell

As a guy with no meaningful degree's. Take your rest, you've got this. And ofc let us know how it went❤️

Best of luck, Orbital can be tricky, but it'll definitely be easier than you fear

thanks guys. biggest issue is: we need to know all formulas by heart, only a non programmable calculator is allowed

​@@foersterjunior math where you have to memorize formulas is bullshit tbh

Hope it went well!

​@@user-ds6jv5jf5o asking the real questions

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!! My dream too :D

The Ending goes hard after reading this

Must be going well! He's making ice cream!

Man just pulled styropyro on us.

Ginger garlic and pepper together may not be terrible... I like all three. Hell, throw in the parsley as well!

My grandma used to make ginger ice cream often, it's very nice

Ginger mango icecream is tasty

@@Burning_Dwarf Ooh, yeah, that does sound good!

Ginger granita sorbet would definitely work, too

"I don't want to cure cancer. I just want to turn people into dinosaurs!"

Two aussie icons united at last

@@WukongTheMonkeyKing Ah yes, turning things into gold and turning people into dinosaurs. The fundamental goals of all chemistry.

Hey good luck with the PhD mate!! You’ve got this!

Let's expand that knowledge to their cousins: You can make any 2C-X from Anethole (anise camphor). So pepper and anise can be that start of a really good time.

​@@theapexsurvivor9538 can you dumb down the chemistry for us botanists so we can have fun too? Salvia and cannabis are starting to get boring. Oh, btw, I have about 800 kg of canary grass for DMT extractions if you need some!

@@randybugger3006 “what’s naphtha officer? I’ve never heard of it.”

Anything that "chemplayer" made seemed to be somewhat drug related

@@randybugger3006 I don't understand how one ends up with 800 kg of anything if I'm totally honest

My physics department had to put a sign on the liquid air compressor to say "This is not to be used for making icecream!" This naturally resulted in about a 500% increase in the making of icecream within the department. [ We supposedly use it for cryogenic traps and to cool cryogenic sensors.]

I know nitrogen infused beverages taste creamy for some reason and nitrogen doesn't curdle milk so I wonder if those are notable factors as well.

Personally, I favor dry ice ice cream, at least for vanilla. There's the subtlest suggestion of a root beer taste, and I like it. And the texture is still quite smooth.

BDG is the theater kid, this dude is in STEM

@@Saya-ng1sl ITS JUST A CROSSOVER EPISODE. it should happen

My guess would be toning down the fat and sugar content maybe

Pink peppercorns are the seeds from Aroeira Tree (Schinus terebinthifolia). It may be good to make an ice cream from it.

The alcohol actually helps with the freezing. Keeps the ice crystals small. I think my most successful one was strawberry and Bailey's.

Black pepper ice cream is actually pretty legit - there's a fun book "The Perfect Scoop" by David Lebovitz to grab hold of - the recipe for it is more a straight cream+egg+pepper thing though, no vanilla. The peppercorns infuse the milk too though, as you've mentioned - having *actual* bits of pepper might not be fun. Hmm.. now am wondering if i should use the last of my szechuan peppercorns up for something like this instead of making pepper cashews..

@@tanantish That would be an interesting sensation, particularly if you also added some Timut peppercorns for the citrus quality.

Imo it goes through all. As a machinist I can tell you all about the machine, the thing I need for it but can't remember the name of that specific nut

I'd think just straight ginger juice ice cream would be nice; probably even nicer as a sorbet. Don't need the citrus at all; it just distracts from the the delicious, burning piney flavour.

Yours sounds good. My idea was honey garlic peppercorn ice cream. Yours sounds good

That actually sounds good

@@thatoneperson9335 Oh no, mint and Ghost pepper!!

I’ve had mint and jalapeño, literally the best ice cream I’ve ever had. So funny that heat receptors and cold receptors can both be activated and don’t cancel out

Yes it seems useful to provide cooling to things, maybe maintain an ice bath for hours etc

There is?

@@timgooding2448 I guess so. In the USA, most people pronounce it "uh-re-guh-no", while British and Australians apparently pronounce it "or-re-gah-no". I looked it up after watching this video to make sure Tom wasn't mispronouncing it, lol!

or-reg-arn-oh is closer to how we say it in Australia

Benzene ice cream? So you want liver cancer? 😂

@@Sniperboy5551 Yes.😐

But did you make DMT because of this channel?

You may also be interested in Matt Gray's "will it soft serve?" series if you have not already seen it.

@@remuladgryta I follow Matt and for some reason this series flew under my radar, thanks for the recommendation!

I want to see the "It's a good Idea to microwave this" crew down here!

Solidarity! I'm debating if I want to go back for a PhD after I work for a few years (I want to be able to afford to eat and have furniture), working on my thesis in food science

really the vibes are so immaculate i had to reply to my own comment

...you've got my interest

How much illegal substances have you put in the Monster, blaze?

Cubane synthesis PhD. Let's goooooo!!!

good luck, and also.. rest in peace

started a biochem PhD today, great timing ahahaha

Thanks mate, glad I could help! Was really the reason I kept making videos during University, it reminded me of why I'm excited about chemistry even though the courses were a terrible grind sometimes!

One advice from personal experience. If you are burned out by your master courses and you don't absolutely need a PhD for your career you should really think hard about not doing one. A PhD can be absolute hell, especially if it turns out that your topic turns out to be something you are not passionate about. At that point it Just becomes a test of how much you are willing to suffer. Sacrificing 5 years of your live to produce a Thesis you're not proud of....

This resonates with my experience. Never really liked chem, but here I am, about to submit my masters thesis in a month :) although I'm not really sure if I should do a phd. Anyway, many thanks to these people for showing chemistry can still be fun.

Parsley and milk is also commonly used for stewed macaroni. You boil the macaroni in milk; the milk will become thickened from losing water to the macaroni (but I guess the milk solids stay), then you add parsely. If you let it sit and cool too long before you eat it, it soaks up more water and the milk congeals; sets like a slightly gelatinous concrete.

Bechamel with parsley is had on roast gammon in the UK!

My family has a recipe for chicken and wild rice with parsley and bechamel, makes it nice and creamy. Almonds recommended.

Absolutely! Although I'm biased as a food science grad student haha. It definitely helps troubleshoot baking

Sometimes you can add toxic things to it -sometimes-

Same, I have bachelors in both physics and computer science and a master in computer science. My supervisor ''manipulated'' me into doing a PhD. Turned out that his standards were way too high (the group hasn't published anything in the Last 3 years) and he doesn't really have a clue about his new direction of research. I escaped that hell after 2 years of producing a lot of ''unpublishable'' Research. At first it felt like failure but looking back at my still suffering colleagues it was one of my best decisions ever!