- Today on You Can Do This Office Edition,
we're making chewing gum.
(hip hop music)
You know how you have those questionable lunches,
where it's really about value
over actually does it taste good?
And you come back, midday you get the grumbles,
maybe a little gum will help.
No one has any gum, maybe
a little bitters to settle the stomach,
but nobody has bitters in the office.
Today we're going to show you how to make chewing gum
in the microwave flavored with bitters.
We have gum base.
This sounds a little weird, but it's actually
very very easy to get.
You can Prime it to your house in two days or less
or you can buy it at some stores.
It's important to get all natural gum base.
The FDA doesn't really regulate what's called gum base
so it could be from a million different things.
This is our all natural super healthy friend, corn syrup
and here we have confectioner's sugar.
I also have this microwavable container.
If you notice, corn syrup
doesn't move at all.
How do you make it move?
Give it a little bit of heat.
Even like 30 seconds will totally do it.
You could probably get away with less.
Right now see how it's a little boiling a little bit?
That was about 20 seconds, 25 seconds
and then it becomes liquid so now it's malleable.
Now before that has time to actually set,
we're going to take our gum base.
Remember our microwavable container?
Gonna put the microwave container in.
We're gonna start at one minute.
Now with your gum base, what you want to do
is you want to give it a good solid minute
and then work in increments.
It's gonna get really gooey.
YouTube commenters, "Why don't you just go buy a pack of gum?"
'Cause it's not bitters gum, it's mint gum.
Bitters gum, it's kind of boozy.
You almost feel like you're having a cocktail.
That's so Brooklyn.
We're gonna take this out, okay.
Now we have our corn syrup, that's also about 60 grams.
We're going to fully incorporate the corn syrup
in the gum base, and this ladies and gents
is the beginning of chewing gum.
It doesn't look like it.
So this is the point we're going to add our flavorings,
and this is our bitters.
Super high proof.
Little boozy.
(upbeat music)
So we have confectioner's sugar right here, right?
75 grams, so 60, 60, 75.
That's an easy ratio to mention.
Let's take about half of this.
So pretend that this is a dough
and this sugar is going to act as bench flour.
And this is beginning when you begin to realize
what a terrible idea this all was.
We're going to start working this
and I'm going to use the spoon that we're mixing with
because as you saw it was a sticky mess.
I'm just doing it like this 'cause
you know we're in the office.
You don't want to get like unrecoverable sticky hands.
There's that, and now I'm going to
start working with just my hands.
So it's just like kneading dough.
Working this in because there's going
to be sticky parts on the inside.
So if I separate this out, there's a little bit of wetness
inside where it's still sticky,
but if you didn't notice it's starting to look like gum.
Just like childhood play dough.
Let's roll this.
It looks like a play dough snake made by a two year old
only using two fingers, but it'll work.
So now we're going to cut this
into little like gumball shapes.
It's bitters gum.
It's gonna settle your tummy.
So if you put a lot of bitters in this,
your breath could smell a little boozy
and it'll be really hard to explain to your boss
like why does your breath smell?
I'm chewing artisanal homemade office
bitters gum in the microwave.
Let's have a little fun with it you know?
Like maybe you want to make a little tray
for a party or just for yourself,
so on your desk so you can be
the guy with the artisanal gum.
I don't know if you want to be that guy,
but here we go.
We've got little pieces of wax paper.
All you're gonna do is take it, roll it,
and just like after work activities
always keep your roll tight.
You know what's up.
So you do a little roll here,
take some scissors at the end, at the end,
and look it's festive!
And there you have it, gum that you made in your microwave.
Calm your tummy after questionable food
that you got for four dollars or less, solved.
I am kind of a doctor as well.
(hip hop music)
For more things you can make in a microwave
or open flames, or using power tools, click here.
What do you reheat that always gets killed in the microwave?
Pizza, day old pizza.
Now I know some of you are like, "I love cold pizza!"
and you know we always get...