Using a cabbage to do chemistry 

Hydrangeas have different coloured flowers based upon the PH of their soil. I always thought it was cool when people confused them and put a mixture of PHs on their roots to end up with some blue and some pink flowers!

I remember doing this as a kid! One of the experiments in my chemistry kit was to make homemade litmus paper. The hardest part was convincing my mom to buy a cabbage.

Nile: CAREFULLY chop it/smash it Also Nile: *uses sledgehammer “cautiously” and chainsaw.

I discovered this back in high-school days by mistake. Cooking and chemistry class became double the fun after that experience

Every video whenever he says something like "I'm going to carefully...or now I will gently..." I always know what's coming next and it's always funny. Love the videos. Fun and informative!

My dad used to show me this as a kid. He’s a chemistry teacher. Whenever we have red cabbage for dinner, he’ll always insist on showing it to us again. : )

0:18 had to check if it was a NileGreen video..

1:14 and this is because *RED* cabbage Me: ITS PURPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-

In this video, NileRed teaches you how to “carefully” cut a cabbage. Yes. *CAREFULLY*

"Now I can carefully chop it up" **proceeds to howtobasic the shit out of it**

Yeah i think in german the cabbage is called "Rotkohl" (Red Cabbage) or "Blaukraut" (Blue Herb/Cabbage) in different regions because they were eaten in different dishes and went red/blue depending if the dish was more acid or basic. Thus its called by its colour, which is both red and blue funnily

In German this kind of cabbage has different names depending on where you are. These names are "Rotkohl" ("Red cabbage") or "Blaukraut" ("Blue herbs"). From those phrases you can figure out, which pH the soil in this region has.

My bf and I were cooking cabbage, and I mentioned the reactive properties to him. He hadn’t before known, so we added lime juice and baking soda to wherever the juices were. Chemistry is always fun with colors! Was nice to see him enjoy it as much as I did.

0:24 I always think it looks like HowToBasic

we had to do this at home for chemistry class, it was really fun to see it change colours so fast

One time in school a class did this in the science lab and for the next few weeks the hall near the lab (where my class was) smelt horrible. We even eventually went into the science lab and it was 3x worse.

“It’s been about 20 minutes, and the solution looks red-y” No, Mr. NileRed sir, that’s quite an obviously strong purple color.

"now i can *carefully* chop it" also him: **agressively chopping it** (0:14)

I can watch this endless amounts of times and still find it fascinating and cool xD

One of the few things I recall doing in Chemistry at School, things like this are why I loved the subject

Also works with most fruits, vegetables and grains with purple pigmentation from anthocyanins. This includes: Blueberries, black beans, red onion, blue corn among other things. I made pH paper by soaking and drying paper towels dipped in black bean water and it works pretty well. Not ideal if you're looking to pin down a pH but very practical when I was working with a strong acid to clean up some rocks. The acid is clear so it was pretty useful when looking for any small spills since the paper would turn bright pink, almost red anywhere it touched the strong acid.

“Carefully”

I did this in school a couple hundred years ago. Around the time I found your channel.

In Germany it's called either Rotkohl (red cabbage) or Blaukraut (blue cabbage) depending on where you live. Red cabbage people cook it with vinegar, blue cabbage people add natron to it, which explains the different colors XD

My heart started beating faster when he focused on the different vials of cabbage juice since I thought he would knock them over like always haha.

0:47 I LOVE LEAN 💜💜💜🤤

I had forgotten about this, so I took the chance to watch again since it showed up on my front page xD

WOW. thank you for this information

I remember seeing this in my online chemistry course, would've been nice to do it in person without COVID, but seeing and learning about it is still really cool

That cabbage chopping time-lapse has to be one of the most satisfying things ever.

My kids and I dye Easter eggs every year. I like to make my own dyes, cabbage for blue, beets for red, and turmeric for yellow. Every year my kids and I use vinegar and baking soda to change the color of the cabbage dye, it’s fun and educational.

I would like to proudly announce that I did this in my college’s lab today as a part of our project work. It was one of the most amazing things I did in my life. Thank you so much for inspiring me towards Chemistry ❤❤

Shoutout to everyone who had to this in highschool lol

Nigel- "Carefully chop it up" Me- Ok? Wait, WAIT THIS IS NILE RED SHORTS

The way NileRed summons a cabbage at the beginning is so cool

Why is the red cabbage purple? Because it gets its purple-reddish color from the flavonoid anthocyanin and the acidity level of the soil where it's grown. Like most colorful vegetables, it's highly nutritious, low in fat and calories, and has numerous health benefits. Fun fact: It has natural pH indicators.

One year ago my science teacher had my class to make this hing and it was surprisingly easy and fun. I really recommend you to do it too, because then you can eat the cabbage and it'sdelicious. We had to try different experiments, like blowing with a straw in it to see how would it change with the co2 in our breath, we had to mix in it different home products like bleach and juices. Then we had to balance acid and basic again to obtain the original colour. I learned a lot about the substances' ph.

I did this with my daughter a few months ago and it blew her mind. she thought it was amazing. she just told me her school hasn't done this yet, only some experiments with milk (making cottage cheese) and glitter so far. there's still time. better yet, it got her eating, and liking, cabbage. 👍

Did this experiment today, it was so cool.

In grade 1 for one of my projects i had to make that and showed the class that experiment still remeber it to this day my dad coming with me and explaining it to my little friends

What are the pH values in the vials? I'm curious to see what sort of range this has as an indicator!

You know it's actually impressive when Nile don't smash it at the end

Hey, I remember this experiments from an old webgame based on the ZOOM show by PBS. It had something to do with bottle cork-launchers fueled by reacting baking soda with acid. They used cabbage extracts to determine if a common household liquid was either an acid or base. I feel OLD now.

I had a science teacher use boilded down red cabbage for multiple expirements because it was 90% cheaper than buying a vial of red catalyst premade.

I just love how he does everything so “CAREFULLY"😅

That feeling when you know the chemistry behind something before he explains it 😁

I learned this in my chem class like a week or two ago and thought it was super cool

I Fr did this in school it fascinated me only the experiment not the writing part

I knew this experiment and knew it was this one just from the thumbnail and title, but you still managed to make it look cooler than the other guys. This is why I love so much this channel.

After watching Nile Green, I am now expecting everything to be set on fire, and descend into chaos

That is amazing!

I did this in school, loved it

I love how you “carefully” chopped it up. And such precision, “I think it about ready!”

Lean💜💜

Said he’d “carefully” chop it up but didn’t have the patience to do so

The only nilered short video where everything goes right

Haha amazing. When I got a chemistry set as a wee lad back in the day, there was actually instructions (and a color reference sheet) for exactly this in case you ran out of the supplied PH indicator papers.

This was the experiment that ignited my love for chemistry, our class did it 5 years ago and here I am deciding to take something like chemical engineering for college

You are helping me with a project

we regularly used this as a pH indicator in high school chemistry :> love this

I literally just heard of the cabbage thing like a week ago (during comic drawing research, I wasn’t even trying to be sciencey) and have been waiting to get one to do it myself. It’s like you heard me!

0:51 it's actually LEAN

I did a long time ago this in my chemistry class, was really fun

Finally a chemistry experiment I've actually done before!

you should totally try this out with butterfly pea tea. It have a similar affect when you add lemon juice in it. Try it out, it's beautiful and you can even drink it and it'll taste AMAZING

I really thought he was either gonna mix those vials or break them in the end 😅

0:58 lean

We used to do this in school, there was a flower too which had ph indicators

0:37 this looks so cool

Not only is Nile a master chemist, he is also a master chef!

how does this man have SO much patience, like how?

I like how CAREFULLY he does this videos

And yes, I was really hoping he would tip the vials over😅 Also, great timing, Nigel! I was just finishing your second transparent wood video when you posted

Yes! I love the red cabbage, I used it to test solutions as a laboratory project when I was in high school! But I blended mine and strained it, this is a way better approach though…😂

“Now I can carefully chop it off” **stabs the cabbage brutally without any mercy**

Damn! Nice catch.

I LOVE LEAN 💜💜💜💜💜

“Now, I can carefully chop it up.” *Proceeds to aggressively stab cabbage*

This starts out every bit like a meme video, from the inflection to the silliness with the cabbage cutting. But then it turns into something actually fascinating. I feel baited but I don't feel unhappy about it, lol.

Did this exact thing in my science class a while back

I remember in elementary school I did an experiment for a science fair using red cabbage. I believe I was turning bars of soap green. I can't remember the details, but I won second place (after the kid who did electricity and water). Seeing this made me realize this must be how it worked (I got the idea from a book that explained what to do, but not much into the why, I believe)

AHH I did this experiment for my science exhibition and I got first place in chemistry 😭 those were some good memories

In particular, it seems useful at pH 11-12 where few other indicators are at hand!

I remember doing this in my high school biology class!

This is actually very fun to play with when using cabbage pigment as a dye for yarn and what not, you can achieve pretty amazing colours by playing with the pH of your dye pot ! :D

0:24, that wasn't sped up, he's just that talented, lol

that hand pose in the thunbnail and moderately concerning title have such good energy

I would have loved to see the ph level of each vial at the end

Did this when I was young and then left a mug of red cabbage juice under my bed for later and promptly forgot about it. Some time later my mother, wondering what the smell was, discovered a Mexican hat shaped growth had erupted from the mug and was slowly spreading across the carpet. It appears that this Ph indicator is also a nutritious growth medium. :-)

Funny how he said “I will cut it carefully” and ends up cutting it not so carefully is it😂😂

Omg i used to do these same procedures as a kid when I was learning about chemistry

I'm the only one who thought that after he put the cabbage in the beaker, he would break that beaker against the wall

Nile be enjoying with chemistry every now and then.. Lucky 😪

you know what's going to happen everytime he says "carefully" 😅

This video reminds me of an experiment from my school days :D

That’s so cool!!

him:*we need to carefully chop it up* also him: proceeds to basically smack the knife on the cabbage

I like to imagine NileRed is just holding the rest of the cabbage in one hand and taking bites out of it while he does science with the other

When I first saw that cabbage, I actually thought it was already chemically modified. In my country, India, cabbages are white and green

I saw this type of cabbage in a store and the cabbage looks cool when it's cut