 Hey guys, it's Elizabeth from the why do we have snot episode here to explain how I made the fake snot in the video and why it looks so real So you take half a cup of boiling water You can just use the microwave you take it off the heat So it's not scalding and you add about three packets of gelatin now You might have to play around with this amount I did But you gently stir it so that the gelatin powder can soften a bit in the water And this is really important because here the water molecules are actually binding to the gelatin now if it's super hot Let it sit and cool for just a minute and then add a quarter cup of light corn syrup Stir with a fork to watch the magic or the grossness happen Now in the other video I talked about how real snot is made up of proteins called musins Those are the guys in orange with a bunch of sugars branching off of it guys in black Now gelatin is also a protein. It's not musin But it is a protein and when you add water to it those water molecules end up cross-linking all Of the gelatin together like this now. You don't want the water scalding Otherwise, it'll break or denature the proteins, but that's why you want to stir the gelatin in very well Corn syrup is literally sugar. So when you add that to the mix, you're getting something That's pretty similar to me just both molecularly and visually If you decide to try this recipe out try tweaking some of the elements like how much of the ingredients you use or maybe try using Jello instead of plain gelatin and let me know how it goes in the comments below Leave your stories links pictures videos And if you have any questions about snot or the awesome related research that's happening at MIT Leave those in the comments as well