How to Turn Plastic Gloves into Hot Sauce

TL;DR

You can turn plastic gloves into hot sauce by extracting the chemical DINP from vinyl gloves, converting it into isononanol, and then combining it with vanillylamine to make nordihydrocapsaicin. Finally, mix this compound with roasted red peppers to create the hot sauce.

Transcript

this video has been sponsored by micro center about a year ago i turned plastic gloves into grape soda and now i want to try turning them into hot sauce this is something i've been wanting to do almost since this channel started and in theory it should be possible this is because plastic gloves specifically vinyl ones can sometimes contain a chemic... Read More

Key Insights

• 🌶️ Plastic gloves can contain DINP, a chemical that can be extracted and used as a starting point for synthesizing the spicy molecule found in chili peppers.
• ❓ Extracting and synthesizing the desired compounds involve various chemical reactions, distillations, and purifications.
• ❓ Ethyl acetate is a more suitable solvent than hexanes for effective extraction and purification of nor dihydrocapsaicin.
• 🌶️ The chemist successfully creates a homemade hot sauce by combining roasted red peppers with the synthesized nor dihydrocapsaicin.

Summary & Key Takeaways

• The chemist extracts a chemical called DINP from vinyl gloves and converts it into a compound called isanoninol.

• After more chemical reactions and purifications, the chemist produces eisenoninol, which serves as a starting point for the spicy molecule.

• The chemist combines eisenoninol with vandalyl amine to create nor dihydrocapsaicin, the desired compound for the hot sauce.

• The chemist then blends roasted red peppers and adds nor dihydrocapsaicin to create the homemade hot sauce.