Extracting caffeine and making a potent energy drink to survive school

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  • In this video i show you how to extract caffeine from coffee and caffeine pills, and later make some redder bull.
    If you liked the video consider liking and subscribing to my channel :)
    If you want to support my work here's my patreon - / amateurchemistry
    Also sorry for my poor speaking, if you can't understand something there are always subtiles made by me.
    0:00 Intro
    0:55 Extracting caffeine from coffee
    10:30 Extracting caffeine from pills
    18:50 Making The Redder Bull
    #chemistry
    #experiment
    #diy
    #coffee

ความคิดเห็น • 134

  • @SwampMonster1
    @SwampMonster1 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    If you’re going to put that much caffeine to make the “redder bull” you need to get better scales. Good video.

    • @jedimasternoob
      @jedimasternoob 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Exactly... dudes gonna OD on it unless he's a HEAVY boi

    • @seniorchonkza997
      @seniorchonkza997 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yall are NOT caffeine addicts

    • @shinjiikari1021
      @shinjiikari1021 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You mean balance

  • @hegedusmarton8485
    @hegedusmarton8485 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    I gotta mention, you can be a bit more aggressive with the sep funnel. It does form an emulsion if it was done too vigorously, but if the layers doesn't come in contact with each other with the highest surface area possible, the yield will be decreased significantly.
    I'm talking from experience.

  • @chemistryofquestionablequa6252
    @chemistryofquestionablequa6252 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    That's about enough caffeine to kill 2 adult men, lol. 3000mg in a drink has actually happened before. An Australian energy drink company screwed up their math and a bartender died when she drank one of the first cans from that batch.

    • @Amateur.Chemistry
      @Amateur.Chemistry  ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Interesting, it turns out that i unintentionally created a death juice

    • @bigware9588
      @bigware9588 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It just depends on your weight and tolerance. 3000mg is around 2 cups of Devil Mountain Black Label, and while I didn't die, I definitely felt like I was going to lol

    • @unlockeduk
      @unlockeduk ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i regularly drink over a gram

    • @joshx01
      @joshx01 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@unlockeduk this cant be good

    • @frogz
      @frogz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joshx01 i daily consume ~500mg-1g

  • @experimental_chemistry
    @experimental_chemistry ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Well done extraction!👍
    Entertaining presentation, that's exactly my kind of humour. 😆
    Very appropriate safety precautions and warnings.
    It's a pleasure to watch such planful work and the attention you pay on each step (I especially loved it how gently you washed the tiny filter residue).
    Three little hints:
    - An electric grinder isn't very expensive, but facilitates shredding immensely.
    - Foodsafe substances can be dried very well in the kitchen oven.
    - Coffein sublimates rather than it melts. I guess it just gave off remaining moisture here.

    • @Amateur.Chemistry
      @Amateur.Chemistry  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks! I just brought a electric grinder along some other very cool stuff for future videos. Also thanks for all of the advice you are giving me, it is nice to learn from an experienced chemist :)

    • @experimental_chemistry
      @experimental_chemistry ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@Amateur.Chemistry
      That's no one way street - ideally we all learn from each other. For example, today I learned from your video how to deprotonate impurities with sodium bicarbonate to keep them less soluble in organic solvents like DCM. Thank you for providing insight! 👍

    • @experimental_chemistry
      @experimental_chemistry ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​​@@Amateur.Chemistry
      Btw.: Did you calculate your 101 % yield with anhydrous caffeine or with the hydrate which forms when crystallized from water?

    • @Amateur.Chemistry
      @Amateur.Chemistry  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@experimental_chemistry It was probably a mix of both, because i weighted it as soon as i scraped it off the pan which was pretty wet on one side.

    • @experimental_chemistry
      @experimental_chemistry ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Amateur.Chemistry Considering it's always the hydrate you get when you crystallize from water the yield will also be lower then - let's say: more normal...

  • @newgaming2355
    @newgaming2355 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The caffeine extraction is one of the best extractions I've ever made
    btw: very nice video and I'm Polish too

    • @Amateur.Chemistry
      @Amateur.Chemistry  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks! It is nice to see more Polish pepole in the chemistry community :)

    • @botondpalinkas
      @botondpalinkas ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Amateur.Chemistry you are Polish?

    • @Amateur.Chemistry
      @Amateur.Chemistry  ปีที่แล้ว

      @focused yes

    • @botondpalinkas
      @botondpalinkas ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Amateur.Chemistry love from hungary. 🇭🇺

    • @mr.cauliflower3536
      @mr.cauliflower3536 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Amateur.Chemistry Polska gurom!

  • @Kargoneth
    @Kargoneth 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Your Polish coffee tree is most efficient! It even bags the coffee seeds for you!

  • @TomorrowSalad
    @TomorrowSalad ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Infra-red bull

  • @whoever6458
    @whoever6458 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Awesome that you drank it! Confidence in your chemistry! I remember my lab partner and I in organic chemistry saw a whole jar of powdered caffeine on one of the shelves in the lab and so we joked about snorting some. The teacher overheard us and laughed with us but told us that it probably wasn't pure enough to safely snort. lmao Had it not been one of our earlier classes during our year of organic chemistry, I probably would have joked back at the teacher that maybe we should run an extra experiment and run a few distillations to sufficiently purify the caffeine. lol Bet it would have really hurt if we seriously tried to snort it though. Ouch!

    • @jhoughjr1
      @jhoughjr1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Idk in my youth I experimented with snorting caffeine. I found that generic tablets did hurt, but brand name no-doz did not burn at all. Never been a fan of suffloxation. I'd imagine pure caffeine would be simmilar to the no-doz.

    • @davidstocker2278
      @davidstocker2278 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I bought >99% pure caffeine offline for making "energy water". A few times I haven't had water to down it with it, the flavor is gnarly. As a result I take little key bumps now and then. It hurts but it works almost immediately.

    • @phantomforcesisdumbgame6964
      @phantomforcesisdumbgame6964 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      caffeine powder doesnt hurt to snort, not any more than hydrocodone does

  • @lordsqueak
    @lordsqueak ปีที่แล้ว +5

    @13:14 You managed to kill the snail... The Snail !!!
    (look it up , its a meme)

  • @lisosobantu
    @lisosobantu ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Rip snail 🐌 😢

  • @deltaMurdoch
    @deltaMurdoch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love this. You're like a middle ground between NileRed and Explosions&Fire. Keep up the good(?) work.

  • @misterfister6096
    @misterfister6096 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just found your channel, instantly subscribed and binged all your videos! Much love!

  • @arglebargle42
    @arglebargle42 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love that spot-washing of the caffeine crystals in the vacuum filter, and your ribbing of Nigel, both executed perfectly.

  • @mr.cauliflower3536
    @mr.cauliflower3536 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The ślimak in the beaker was actually a slug, not a snail, as it has no shell

  • @WandaDominiak-px4dn
    @WandaDominiak-px4dn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful !!!

  • @freeagent4lyfe
    @freeagent4lyfe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wallace hammering along with you had me in tears

  • @thoracis
    @thoracis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    After two videos, this being my third, I am completely obsessed ❤

  • @7hunderstorm242
    @7hunderstorm242 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good video 🐌

  • @Km4rt
    @Km4rt ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Keep making videos like this and you'll be rich enough to buy some big ol beakers in no time :)

  • @CoolAsFreya
    @CoolAsFreya 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a great chemistry channel, you deserve more subscribers (but all I can offer is one more)

  • @KevinATJumpWorks
    @KevinATJumpWorks 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    F in chat for that snail.

  • @james10739
    @james10739 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How funny would it have been if that snail started flying

  • @polyhistorphilomath
    @polyhistorphilomath 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "Isn't that beautiful?"
    To me it looks like a combination of lard, fiberglass and cotton balls.

  • @kansasboi8742
    @kansasboi8742 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    add any kind of powder to a drink with carbonated water will start foaming because powder has a big surface area there is a kids experiment called dancing raisins were the raisins are drop in to soda-pop the rinkles collect bubble and flote to the top they pop it sinks down and starts over

  • @godlugner5327
    @godlugner5327 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    10:50 that ethanol looks a lot lower than the first experiment 🥴 that little beaker washing the crystals = half a bottle
    Yup seems right to me 👍

  • @N.M.E.
    @N.M.E. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nice one! Greetings from Germany!

  • @Kuichio
    @Kuichio ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I wonder how difficult it would be to mass produce caffeine chemically to use as a pesticide.

    • @joshx01
      @joshx01 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😳

  • @vangildermichael1767
    @vangildermichael1767 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    when you were pounding those tablets in a bag, with a hammer. I'm thinking. Seems that that would be the perfect use for my coffee grinder. It grinds down to 00, for espresso . It would probably still benefit by going over to the (mortar, pestle). But it would be a really good first step.

  • @JohnDlugosz
    @JohnDlugosz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I found caffeine pills that are just pure caffeine in gelcaps. This is easier to measure out small quantities than bulk powder, as each capsule is 200mg. That makes it easy to use when making a batch of my own drink recipes.

  • @reformlabs1050
    @reformlabs1050 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice video, but one thing.. you should probably get a glass plate or something to rest your equipment on top of... DCM and other solvents, even Acetone could just destroy the finish on the lovely wooden floorboard you got there

  • @akkudakkupl
    @akkudakkupl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    3g of coffeine? heart palpitations here we come :D

  • @UnknownPerson-cl9di
    @UnknownPerson-cl9di 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I thought I'll have smth like a nilered video but no, I realized it when you played music in the beginning, I don't remember I ever heard music in nilered

  • @hardcorefrostyy8038
    @hardcorefrostyy8038 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What concentration of dichloromethane and sodium carbonate should i use?

  • @thomasvanwyk
    @thomasvanwyk ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing job well done how are you love your work

    • @Amateur.Chemistry
      @Amateur.Chemistry  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you very much! I am great :)

    • @thomasvanwyk
      @thomasvanwyk ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Amateur.Chemistry You are a amazing chemist

  • @life3431
    @life3431 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Wreszcie polski chemik

  • @bubaks2
    @bubaks2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have the exact same scale you have. 😮

  • @pritemtaki358
    @pritemtaki358 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Any alkaloids can be extracted using this method though the alkaloid may be weak acid or weak base? BTW nice "The redder bull"😂

  • @RbIxBedwars
    @RbIxBedwars 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    19:40 my unintelligent self wouldve started drinking the foam so it doesn't overflow 💀

  • @KA54the
    @KA54the 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    forbidden cotton candy

  • @GreenuniverseEuro
    @GreenuniverseEuro 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where can I get your Redder Bull??? I am in EU

  • @Kaiju3301
    @Kaiju3301 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It has at least 100% of the LD 50 in every can, guaranteed.

    • @Bellezzasolo
      @Bellezzasolo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not quite, but remember they come in 4 packs 👀

  • @DasIllu
    @DasIllu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Infrared Bull?

  • @davidthomas1467
    @davidthomas1467 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is what the F1 racing team use to fuel it's cars. Also makes a good jet fuel for the F22

  • @MrYrodz
    @MrYrodz ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have heard that in industry caffeine could be extracted from tea production waste (tea dust). Frugal yield of your method suggests the existence of more efficient techniques. Am i wrong?

    • @Amateur.Chemistry
      @Amateur.Chemistry  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Extracting caffeine is pretty efficient and cheap on the industrial scale. I think that most of it comes from decaffeinating coffee ond other products.

    • @N.M.E.
      @N.M.E. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, industrially, caffeine is extracted using supercritical CO2, but you need pressure vessels for that sort of extraction.

  • @darincarvalho
    @darincarvalho ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yo that's the track dankpods uses

  • @goiterlanternbase
    @goiterlanternbase 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    13:37 Has it really to be a separate step? Why not ad a good amount of spirit and heat the mix to 45C until boiling stops? Then just add more spirit, if necessary.

  • @SashikaSandeepa
    @SashikaSandeepa ปีที่แล้ว

    Did you use caffeine before this video?

  • @NumbGeek
    @NumbGeek หลายเดือนก่อน

    Panera lemonade recipe

  • @Palmit_
    @Palmit_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    6 hours = 5 Lab minutes 😂👏

  • @maestro9765
    @maestro9765 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Caffeine tolerance level: Narcolepsy

  • @SeeNyuOG
    @SeeNyuOG 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude could you please do the experiments I cannot find any answers to?
    Can you dissolve sugar in salt-saturated + water solution?
    What happens if you throw salt through a stream of salt-saturated +water solution? Will it be dry after leaving the stream?

    • @frogz
      @frogz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      dryer salt will suck water out of the saturated solution, chemicals, heat etc tries to find it's lowest energy state and try to get to the lowest equalibrium(ie, everything becomes the same heat/saturation)

  • @Jesse78
    @Jesse78 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    And I thought the Panera Bread Charged Lemonade had a lot of caffeine

  • @Antron_Edition
    @Antron_Edition 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6 caffeine pills in one drink!

  • @hans429
    @hans429 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    19Minutes: Dude, it was nice to knowing you....hahhaha

  • @chanheosican6636
    @chanheosican6636 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yeah you can buy 5 g of pure caffeine crazy without a good scale u can easily overdose. U need a good scale that can measure accurately 50 to 100 mg. 1 g of caffeine could kill.

  • @james10739
    @james10739 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That chloroform clip was funny

  • @snoowbrigade
    @snoowbrigade 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not even snails are safe in the polish hood

  • @rarebeeph1783
    @rarebeeph1783 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    caffeine isn't "quite addictive" per se; it's not completely non-addictive, but its risk is fairly low compared to alcohol and nicotine, the other two most common legal recreational psychoactive substances.

  • @nathanieljames7462
    @nathanieljames7462 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Coffee plant became coffee post

  • @GillyTheGhillie
    @GillyTheGhillie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you drink this you will be able to taste music and hear colours

    • @rootbeer4888
      @rootbeer4888 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nope you will just hear you heart beating... and then maybe nothing lol

  • @marcosm6346
    @marcosm6346 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like your accent, where are you from?

    • @Amateur.Chemistry
      @Amateur.Chemistry  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I am from poland :)

    • @marcosm6346
      @marcosm6346 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Amateur.Chemistry oh, nice, i was thinking you were from Spain lmao

  • @quarantene3072
    @quarantene3072 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you drank that ... seek medical help .
    ALSO: you could have extracted the caffiene in the 95% ethanol by itself .. you didnt need to mess with the DCM at all.

  • @skts1238
    @skts1238 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    caffeine

  • @vseslavkazakov356
    @vseslavkazakov356 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    if you extract it from tea you are going to get a lot of theobromine contamination

  • @steingat
    @steingat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ohh boy, do i see a cross over episode with ChubbyEmu in the near future?! "A amateur chemist put 3 grams of caffeine into a redbull, this is what happened to his heart"th-cam.com/video/sylqJ0NEVJw/w-d-xo.html

  • @gabe_owner
    @gabe_owner 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If that pan is non-stick you gave yourself cancer. GG

  • @user-mn8lz7gf6d
    @user-mn8lz7gf6d 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you may wanna put the mic a little closer to your mouth and maybe try to talk a litlle slower.
    especially in the beginning of the video it was little hard to understand you.
    it might help if you used some kind of mic-passthrough so you can here yourself talk.
    great video

  • @MrChez.
    @MrChez. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    899th like, nice

  • @Jan-lq1ki
    @Jan-lq1ki 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    OMG POLSKA

  • @donaldhenke2750
    @donaldhenke2750 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    poor snail...

  • @TRIST4N69
    @TRIST4N69 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Couldn't you just throw the pills in water filter out the cellulose and then boil off the water?

  • @saintsdecay420
    @saintsdecay420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i wish red bull came to this comment section

  • @noprox1322
    @noprox1322 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a shame I can’t drink this bc it’s not edible

  • @tyklink
    @tyklink 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    An animal commited suicide in your beaker. Welcome to the TH-cam Chemistry Club! 😂

  • @danielboomers
    @danielboomers ปีที่แล้ว +1

    nice but where do u buy chloroform? lol

    • @Amateur.Chemistry
      @Amateur.Chemistry  ปีที่แล้ว

      You can actually buy it in a chem supply store

    • @danielboomers
      @danielboomers ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Amateur.Chemistry not in western countries..

  • @seanbuford987
    @seanbuford987 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There isn't an "x" in "espresso"

  • @jumusjumbuck
    @jumusjumbuck 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    that was a homeless snail aka a slug

  • @SetTheCurve
    @SetTheCurve ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amateur is apt for this channel. But I love to see the process of growth/discovery/experimentation. Even though I could perform this 100x better I still enjoyed watching lol.

  • @felicityc
    @felicityc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I overdosed caffeine accidentally once (I did something like 1.5-2g) (i am not a heavy caffeine user... and the pills had more than I expected and I didn't check), it was one of the worst experiences of my life, easily. And I have overdosed on other things when I had more problems in my life, (never lethal LD-50 overdose amounts, but severe overdoses nonetheless, that should have gone to the ER). It was the worst by far, I truly felt like I was dying, because I guess I was. Funny how American healthcare works where I didn't even go to the hospital or ER bc I would rather die than have the debt lmao
    hey! we have the same brand of kitchen pans!

    • @zairecallis554
      @zairecallis554 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You should check for state insurance where you live. Otherwise, just go to the hospital anyway, and when they send the bill, just don’t pay it. They don’t actually force people to pay anything.

  • @esquizofreniasobrenatural
    @esquizofreniasobrenatural 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    polish chemistry

  • @jhoughjr1
    @jhoughjr1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    twice in my life I took 1600 Mg of caffeine. You do NOT want to consume 3 grams in one sitting. It will not be fun.

  • @adaam1281
    @adaam1281 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    YOU DRANK THAT????

  • @maestro9765
    @maestro9765 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Ethanol is toxic"
    Ethanol has a higher LD50 than caffeine.

  • @simonlenhard1712
    @simonlenhard1712 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ahoj

  • @JustAnotherAlchemist
    @JustAnotherAlchemist ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I let my digestive tract extract my caffeine. Most efficient method, usually 100% yield. ... jokes aside, unironically get a coffee grinder.

  • @procactus9109
    @procactus9109 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lol... That's fucked up man

  • @Thick.Mothers64
    @Thick.Mothers64 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3000mg of caffeine is like LD99

  • @also5159
    @also5159 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you have discord? I would like to chat with you