Butter Cutters

[jq747]

Chuck Norris uses a 2000 mph water jet to cut the cheese.

[F2L4Life]

Time to make some toast! You get the laser started while I fetch the plutonium.

[samhell4]

use pure oxygen liquid on butter and see what happen

[cjoemex]

now use butter to cut butter

[sooguru]

so he cuts hes butter by turning it into soap XD

[mickenoss]

A 2000mph water jet!!! holy crap!`

[dblitroot]

It's incredible how such a tiny stream of water excites the pool beneath like a boat engine.

[JohnxWaynexGacy]

But will it blend?

[fritspas]

@JohnxWaynexGacy

You have inspired me to do some serious tests, and now I have the results and some lovely apple pie.

[zillionz]

I'll have that butter near the end... the one that was cut with NaOH... starving here

[blanknot]

Notice the benefit of a water jet over a laser.

[yevonator88]

It's like the Will It Blend, except with water jets and lasers...and butter.

[1Deejay7]

This could be a NEW channel... "Ways to cut butter" lol

[CertifiedBad4ss]

2000W laser?

If that thing was 2000W it would be the size of a shed and it would vaporize the butter in a second.

[djteac]

@CertifiedBad4ss dude... the laser head is not the laser itself. It wouldn't be the size of a shed, and it DID vaporize the butter. Thats actually how laser cutting works. But it only vaporized the butter that was hit by the laser, the butter around it got melted

[CertifiedBad4ss]

@djteac Do you have any clue as to how much 2000W is? how much cooling it requires?

The most powerful hand held laser is like 2W and costs thousands of dollars.

That laser is powerful, but it can barely penetrate the butter. Regular hand held lasers (~0.5w) can cut thick plastic. Don't tell me a laser that is 4000 times more powerful can't instantly vaporize butter.

[stalkersas]

i can cut it faster with a pice of string :D

[5mnz7fg]

The chain saw butter massacre... But if everything fails you can still use margarine.

[00shippou00]

Headset users beware: LOWER YOUR COMPUTER VOLUME.

[hydrus77]

But can it make waffles?

[KingOfTehJs]

IMMA FIRIN' MAH LAZ0R

[danthemanzizzle]

can i use the waterjet to wash my hands? or maybe get a portable version to replace my super soaker, perhaps make it shoot gasoline?

[Mojosbigstick]

Which was the easiest to clean up after?

[AlexBesogonov]

Heh. Sodium hydroxide is a wonderful household chemical.

I've once used it to clean a large pot with stale smelly fat clinging to it. I poured hydrogen hydroxide solution into it, covered with a lid and left the pot on a stove (not turned on). After 20-30 minutes I started to hear "ping-ping".

That was the lid of my pot being lifted by boiling sodium hydroxide solution! It turns out, this reaction is quite exothermic. So I had to wipe off several liters of smelly soapy liquid of my stove.

[quosmo1]

"goes through bone like butter"

[dylanlawless1]

Ya i think they use a water jet in my local butchers

[grazingkow]

Is that an Nd:YAG laser?

What is the wavelength of the beam?

[sammysignal]

Water jet - 1

Sodium Hudroxide - 0

[douro20]

What do they use the fibre laser for?

[YellowCakeKid]

lol i think the doc disapproves

[taylord1]

lol this is the best demonstration of cutting butter ive ever seen! so cool

[killernat]

i would lol if the watar jet didnt cut the butter

[Scrap5000]

I need to get me one of those water jets!!!!

[Bulldog22031]

Fire the "L-a-s-e-r"

[87bushwacker]

so this is how the government funding is spent?

[pingshiyu]

poor butter lol

[eyreland]

Just a minor complaint :

Why could you not have cut "cryogenic" frozen butter (liquid Nitrogen temp) with a heated rotating [stainless] steel band-saw at a temperature of about 500 C? This kind of band-saw has blades with no serrations, and versions of it are used to cut Cheese.

A cheese chemistry episode would be nice : EXPLAIN THE ENGLISH CHEDDARS! Also do processed cheese episode separately.

[Kelrash]

I laughed so hard when I saw "A 2000-WATT YTTERBIUM FIBRE LASER THROUGH BUTTER"

[hornetpalooza]

You guys are absolutely brilliant!

[JaiNobesIsARat]

Damn. No explosives.

[eewEinsteineew]

I think you can use a less powerfull laser.

[godliesforfun]

what a mess!!!!

[pepsibookcat]

This has such a Mythbusters feel to it. Very Adam Savage.

[JesusHChrist2000]

The laser fuckin pwnd it!

[nokomarie1963]

Gee. And all these years I've just been using a sharp kitchen knife, no heating.

[1poptart36]

the water has yet to cut through a Japanese  sword found to the right of this video

[Samodrei]

why are they amazed that water can cut through butter?

[Nashy119]

Sarcasm.

[mrbenboy77]

Superb. I love how the last one is so subtle. To say, I like the last one the most

[jakexdk]

Awesome!

[activedentalfloss]

I'd use the water jet to slice a British secret agent in two, after I'd given away details of my secret plot.

[timcarlsondo]

man call my crazy, but i just got a thing for watching butter get cut in half. with anything in fact. even high velocity marbles. just the smacking sound get me going

[ell3en]

Cor, that waterjet was the best. Wonder if it can really cut through 'anything' ...

[carlosthecactus]

ell3en, I used to program ABB 6 axis waterjet robots to cut out parts for the automotive industry. Believe me, they can cut through anything.... eventually!. We used a plain water system with around 3000 - 3500bar water pressure and it would cut cleanly through 2mm plastic at around 150-200mm /s. These jets also cut into the stainless steel supports over a period of months. To cut metal properly companies add abrasives to the water.

[ell3en]

Cool. I did see a few more videos of waterjets in action, very impressive. I was wondering why the underlying metal plate had not been cut through so thanks for sharing. Regards

[culwin]

I'm going to buy a waterjet for my home so I don't have to cut butter manually anymore.

[techbri]

HA

a hot knife through butter -meh-

a 2k watt laser through butter -decimate-

[choco33333333]

XD

i thought u would use cookie cutters or sumthing,but THIS IS WAAAAY AWESOME[r]

[Donuts73]

God~! This just reminded me why I love Chemistry so much during my school days...

[eltotoX]

ROFL, that guy is awesome.

[KamiNoSabaki]

I feel very sorry for the poor butter it hasn't done anything bad...and by the way...in my opinion the laser didn't really "cut" the butter...it more splashed it.

[joouyang]

AWSOME!!!

[ROLL4EVER13]

MMMM Buttery

[rymeryme]

awesome!

:P

[shankvale]

"The water comes out at 2000mph...it can cut anything and believe me it can cut ANYTHING...as I will demonstrate on a block of butter..."

[Ampelios]

LOL...

[Vanevalence]

lol waterblade :D

[ludwigsongs]

@shankvale If you look at both the behaviour of the water underneath the steel plate, and the steel plate itself after the butter was moved it actually cut through it also!!

[Ananas85]

@shankvale did you see the clamped plate where the butter was standing on? it went straigth through that as well :p thats why it was clamped on 2 sides. we got one of those over here at uni too, i've seen it cut through bigger chunks of steel then you'd think water should be able too :p

[lordmetroid]

@shankvale and a piece of metal beneath.

[badbuddhist]

I bought my wife a waterjet to cut butter and now she hates me and it scares our dog.

[penitent2401]

can you use that laser to cut pizza? or a turkey?

[8bitlove2a03]

...why?

[Anonymouzor]

SCIENCE!!!!!!

[prfctday]

yep, I thought that too... but it went through the metal sheet. That's why the water was splashing underneath - and you can see the slit that it cut.

[periodicvideos]

the slit underneath was cut before we did the butter... and it was also cut with the waterjet also! we have more videos on our channel that show the waterjet cutting metal, which it does easilyl

[gummel82]

@ReductioAdAbsurdum i can't believe how dumb you are....you such a fucking idiot

[blinking801]

Why not try a uv laser no heat?

[nintendowns]

lol i get the soap thing. a base plus animal fat. now i can clean myself wita delicious stick of butter.

[jacraf]

This movie just gave me a serious craving for butter...

[MSI2k]

"I regard this as a complete failure as an experiment " lol

[e1doller]

fantastic idea...i must try the sodium hydroxide when im bored some day

[NewYorkCanWait]

When chemists get bored

[CMMarkH]

Excellent example of fun science, heat, abrasion, and chemical reactions. Interesting how water moving at 2000mph made such a fine cut!

[ridelo]

Pointless!

[maggimagus]

yeah...

they spend millions and billions supporting nerds like this to waste money and trash the planet...

why aren't they doing something useful, like proving scientifically [as they seem tot think it's so important to do so] that planting trees is good for everyone.

maybe that would be too easy and then they'd have no excuse for wasting.

[pattyricks18]

english and arts are the real waste here, think about it all that time people wasted studying stories and books of things that never happened and people that never existed , with all that time they could of made a new chemical, compound, weapon, or medicine

[Greeneyeskater93]

whats so amazing about that? im cunfused =[ its just butter

[Doogeedoo12]

"I regard this as a complete failure" Hahahaha. Yum, soap! Oh my goodness. Hilarious and extremely uncalled for, hahaha. I couldn't stop laughing once the title of sodium hydroxide came up. Crazy Professor.

[Superawesomer]

Lolz, can I put my finger in the 2000 pounds per hour water jet?plz? 0.0

[sarhael]

what is the point? do you really need to be educated to cut butter? I could get the drunk on the street to cut the butter for you with less effort and time. I could have cut the butter with a spoon or my toenail faster than the waterjet. very hilarious...that you would say the waterjet could cut through anything as it is cutting through a block of butter...OOOHHH. REALLY...I am in tears with laughter...I didn't know it was so difficult to cut.

[dr1ce]

They use waterjets to cut out huge steel parts for trains, doh.. use google.

[sarhael]

I know what it is used for. I bet it wasn't designed to cut BUTTER. My point was I wasted time watching this ridiculous video and it took 4-EVER for that waterjet to cut thru the butter it almost put me to sleep. Probably b/c it was programmed on that speed, but never the lest it was SLOW and I was BORED....thinking in the end they were going to show me something COOL or at least funny. Which when I come to think about it...it was funny. A waterjet to cut butter..overkill.

[samn100]

You sir, i s a primate without humor. (My formal way of insulting people)

[timtebowrox1]

stupid

[SodaLovingScaly]

Why only 3 ways? I'm not counting the hot knife. Yes you went though some work making this. As the viewer I am very entertained by the ways you came up with but there are only three here! Just three ways, that's it! It's so interesting and then the sudden stop. You could have come up with many more.

This video was neat but also too short.

[periodicvideos]

Well maybe we'll make another one then! :)

[ludwigsongs]

@periodicvideos I make the hot knife, the laser, the water jet and the sodium hydroxide to be 4 ways... not 3!

[kawana87]

@periodicvideos High explosives through butter? lol Or, freeze butter with liquid nitrogen, and use THAT to cut butter. Butter through butter :)

[periodicvideos]

for those who like our chem films, we're now doing physics videos too at a channel called sixtysymbols

[zloben9000]

LOL

[ReverantFaun]

I think the waterjet did the best job

[noper12345]

the titles funny "butter cutters" LOL i was watching a infomercial about knives and the guy demonstrating the knives said it was so sharp it would go through anything like a knife goes through "hot butter", and i was like isn't hot butter melted butter. LOL

[saintaureus]

I believe the actual expression is "a hot knife through butter."

[noper12345]

yea thats what i was thinking

[Reubenhubert]

That's just not right. You wouldn't really invite a couple of homeless children and cut them up, too, would you? Or did I misread the last post? I'm easily confused.

[MadamGul]

So wasteful. I had to click on the title, "Butter Cutters? What do they mean?" I said to myself. Well, go ahead and amuse yourselves and while you're at it, why don't you invite a couple of homeless children living on foodstamps to watch you waste food?

[bulletbarrage]

Haha, butter-scented soap! Not fail, WIN.

[ringobook]

nice video , back to the future granp

[CottonGummyJellyBean]

don't go through all of that. Just get a knife and cut. Come on people its BUTTER!!

[8poseur8]

whooooaaaaa heyyyy yeeeahh rightttt there is nnoooo way im havinnnggg a sodium hydroxiiide sandwiiiich. learn to have a conversation with the enemy youve made.

[imapiece]

but can it cut thou thc butter?

[arjs87]

muy Buen video...Saludos desde Argentina!!!

[bumpjumper99]

You'd think they would try to cut something that's normally pretty difficult to cut by conventional means. My 3 year old toddler can cut butter with a friggin shoe. Why not a human skull or a brick of Titanium or a concrete brick. I'm tearing my hair out.

[TheeGrandmaster]

Its for a laugh, because of the expression "like a hot knife through butter"

their obviously not trying to demonstrate their cutting prowess

[periodicvideos]

Thank you TheeGrandmaster - I was hoping someone realised that!

[TheeGrandmaster]

no problem lol, i love your videos.

Keep em coming!

[bundangbear]

The hot knife impresses me the most.

[Hornypuff]

it can cut anything!!! but lets try butter :P?? omg xD

[noman1904]

Hot breath would cut through butter. And the water-jet should have cut through to China.

[WhatsDatStench]

The waterjet iss sooooo cool!!!

DYMM!!!!!!

[4208jason]

i love butter on a grill cheese sandwich

[juggliac]

lol, water jet!

[Poodlepups]

Of course, you would choose a hot knife, which cuts just as well as the water jet.

Of course, chemical butter won't be eaten!

Sodium hydroxide is lye or soda ash!Noncombustible Solid, but when in contact with water may generate sufficient heat to ignite combustible materials.

[SGplayer08]

Love the Sodium Hydroxide demo; saponification. Good reaction.

[smileyme22]

cool

[xVampireKissx]

Proof people are bored.

[SnowPrincess67]

That Water Jet was amazing! I Luv these video's.

[CrazyJimKU]

I would love to see more videos like this :)

[periodicvideos]

for those who like our chem films, we're now physics videos too at a channel called sixtysymbols

[rubius0]

Thanks for the info.... and thanks for the entertaining and educational videos.

[bagoona]

the guy at the end looks a like a mad scientist. Think he was one putting exotic crap on butter.

What does that stuff do to flesh?

[AlmightScoop]

"What does that stuff do to flesh?"

It is caustic and will burn through flesh. In fact, some serial killers (such as Belle Gunness) and criminals (such as Santiago Meza) have used sodium hydroxide solution to dissolve their victims, leaving only small residues of bone which can easily be cruched and disposed of.

[likmahchoda]

thaaanks for the tip! ~^~  :-D

[boss351freak]

watch fight club he pours it on the dudes hand

[zanzan1010]

ill stick to the knife lol

but the waterjet

holy shit

[cochranexyz]

LOL. Just thinking that. A good old knife.

[blackbeast1998]

how?

[pin3appel]

next time cut it with a chain saw

[cc6809]

Now these experiments put at ease a childhood pursuit of mine :-)

[kdc43]

using a 2 kw laser, 2000 mph water jet, etc, to cut thru a little butter block is a bit of an over kill don't you think?

[justmikejdm]

dude that is the most stereotypical looking professor i have ever seen. EVER.

[szaki]

Well, he don't look like Rambo for sure.

But he can melt Da butter for sure!!!!

[shadycripenator]

hot knife works best.

[woodsracing]

Amazing, hope this want tax dollars spent to research this. I thought they could of just used a butter knife.

[4lafs]

why in the world was that guy "amazed" that a 55,000 lb per sq inch waterjet, firing water at 2,000 miles an hour would cut butter? lol

just proves that just cuz someone's wearing a white lab coat, don't assume they're bright.

[ashtooon]

lol

i think it was sarcasm

[sushicraver975]

hahahaha this is hilarious!

[adfgfds]

Too much fun :D

[SakutoNoSAI]

Really cool stuff

[theguycalledchris]

You'd think they could find a precise laser that didn't disintegrate the butter... But still, nice vid guys, keep it up!

[SakutoNoSAI]

I suppose if you used a wider block of butter it might work, no?

[theguycalledchris]

Most probably.

[JAPH42]

The problem is that the laser generated too much heat. It's not that it wasn't focused enough.

[andrewabbie]

I don' think it was the precision, it looked like the heat from the laser boiling the butter

[GamblerJustice]

I'm amazed you can do such precise cutting with water. Thanks for even another amazing video!

[JONthe13th]

hmm, my analysis is the laser beam is not efficient for regular use lol

[Randomologist1]

Wow, that guy really looked like a professor too.

[jlyl140993]

why not use a knife?

[SakutoNoSAI]

Because lasers are cool! lol. Actually your comment was my thoughts exactly, still entertaining though.

[Zirbie]

cutting butter in the name of science.. LOL

[ZorkFox]

At first I was thinking, . o O ( Well, duh: the waterjet isn't cutting through the plate the butter is sitting on. :P )

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Except, of course, it WAS: hence all the awful turbulence in the tank below. D: Not to mention the very fine line lanced through the plate after the butter is removed. :D

I love when high-tech science devices are put to fun non-science uses like these. Cheers!

[kisamethesamehada]

They use water to cut titanium too

[ElenGray]

this is so fake omg u cannot cut thru anything wit water it is a liquid it is phsycically and chemcally and bilogicaly imposible. also lasers?!? wtf they do not exist, this is not a sci fi special so go bak to ur star trek marathon ok its all about density.

[nathancolon]

stay in school...or do a little research before posting something so plain wrong.

[micahgee]

wow elen you do realize this is real

[FloraIsSoMe]

umm what? seriously, you just sound stupid saying that!

[UniverseM4N]

please tell me your not that stupid you really think this is fake. do some research first before u post a comment.