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We're going to be trying an experiment suggested by pierios hi grant
Can you try and see what happens if you put cake mix in a vacuum and get the bubbles out?
How would the baked cake look well pierios? That sounds like a great experiment to us so today? We're gonna try it
We've picked up this bright blue cake mix
Which we're gonna mix up according to the instructions
Put in the vacuum chamber to suck out all the air and then bake it before we start mixing ingredients
Let's get the oven warming up
The instructions also tell us that we need to grease and flour our pan before we pour in the batter
The ovens heating up and our pans are ready for the cake batter, so let's start mixing our ingredients. It's blue blue cake mix
Taste blue, it doesn't it just taste the cake batter water
All our ingredients are added now. Let's mix it
Vo tastes all mixed up
It's like cake just
Very very moist cake probably shouldn't eat things with raw egg in them but just tastes so good something
I noticed while mixing this up is this cake better is actually fairly stiff
I hope you've seen our previous video where we tried using a vacuum chamber on pancake batter before cooking them
This is much thicker than pancake batter. You can see it's like
Barely moving at all even when the bowl is turned completely sideways
We'll see what kind of effect and change that has when it goes in the vacuum chamber
It might have a harder time bubbling than pancake batter does now
I'll divide this cake batter in to put half of it in our vacuum chamber and half of it in one of our prepared pans
That's great. It's just like this blue boozy blob down there
Half of the cake batter is in the jar let's pull out the air and see what happens
Holy cow
That's amazing that immediately starts swelling up like a balloon oh my gosh
Thought it was gonna be too thick
Holy cow that's so freaking awesome oh
That's a thousand times better than what I thought was gonna happen oh
We're coming back for a second run it filled up it collapsed now. It's filling back up again
That's weird that almost looks like a baked cake already. Oh, it's alive
It's a boiling roiling sea of cake batter. Yeah, we're definitely doing another one just cuz I want to get that again I
Had a few different thoughts of how this was gonna go firstly. I thought it was so stiff that it wasn't really gonna
Do too much
I thought maybe a couple bubbles would just slowly build up and pop and it would maybe just sort of look like a
Swamp or something like that this immediately
Started ballooning up like as soon as the pressure was changed inside the chamber it just started expanding this giant
Blob of cake flavored foam and almost filled the whole chamber
So when I turn off the vacuum chamber and stop everything off it will actually start to grow back a little bit as well
the cake mix
Probably has baking soda and baking powder in it and when those get wet they start combining to form carbon dioxide so this is probably
Creating its own gases, and then if I turn the vacuum back on. I think it will suck all that built-up co2 out
Yeah, you pull it turn the vacuum back on and it starts pulling all that new gas back out it collapses back down all
Right we've been pulling air out of this cake batter for several minutes now, and we've let it rise its collapsed
It keeps bubbling a little bit, but one interesting thing is the whole tank is still at almost a vacuum pressure
So we haven't tried letting off the pressure to see if the cake collapses even more when we do that
So let's give that a try
Oh
Snap that turned
Dark-colored immediately, I think so much air has been pulled out that it's lost the light color given to it by the air
Well just feels like cake batter, I don't know because it has no air in it
It's it's like a lot slimy er looking like it's it's not full of bubbles like a batter should be
It's just like dense thick slimy
Still tastes like cake batter shocking. Now, let's use the spatula to scrape this out pour it into our pan and bake it up
I look at the difference in the color of the dude. This is our normal cake better, and this is our cake better
That's been vacuumed. It's
Like wildly different colors. That's what happens if you pull all the air out of this. Oh that is great
Those cakes are looking good and while they're cooking in the oven we're going to start mixing up a new batch
And we're gonna use those to make some poop emoji cupcakes using this mold from Rosanna pansino from the YouTube channel nerdy nummies
Our cake timer went off, so let's use these bamboo skewers to test if our cakes are ready
Those look very different from each other all right the skewer should come out clean if the cake is finished
That's looking pretty good and clean now
I'm just gonna test what happened with the one that we vacuumed Shanker feels more like brownies and cake
All right, I think that's finished they've both been in there for the same amount of time
Let's take them out and start to let them cool down
We have our second batch all mixed up, but there's one small change I want to do
I want to use some yellow food coloring and try and turn this blue cake green
There we go, it's not the most intense green color in the world
But it is greener than it was before and I'm interested to see how it changes when we decompress it in the vacuum chamber
First let's fill three of these cupcake molds with non vacuumed cake batter
The batter is in the jar let's turn on the Machine and suck out the air
woah
Well that's even more than last time and
It's collapsing ah I collapse collapse oh
that is great I
Love watching that I'm gonna try cycling some pressure in and closing it off again to see if that speeds up the process Oh
Too fast too fast I got splattered everywhere the air rushing in through the valve
Hit the cake batter and splattered it a little bit didn't mean to go that quickly
There you go decompressed slightly green cake batter, let's scoop a little bit of that out and put it into our cupcake mold
On one of these I'm gonna try filling it up all the way because our first cake didn't really seem to rise much
So I'm not too worried about it expanding out of the mold now. Let's throw these in the oven
All right
That's a thing. We've got our normal cake and we've got our cake that was made with the vacuum decompressed batter
Let's cut them open and see how they turned out
One feels pretty normal nice and light and fluffy cuts easily on a concave plate, which is not the best surface for it
It's collapsing a little bit
But that's just because of the shape of the plate not the cake itself very soft very airy all right
Let's try cutting open the cake made from our vacuumed batter
Still cuts pretty easily I think it does feel a little bit more dense not terribly bad
Wow that almost looks like gelatin more than it looks like cake
We have less than half of the height of the normal cake it's really squished down
Let's test out our dense cake I'm just gonna be a monster and cut a piece right out of the middle here goes
It's not bad, but if I took a bite of that not knowing ahead of time what it was
I'm not sure if I would guess that it was cake it's
It's obviously a dessert. It's sweet
It's got a cake flavor to it
but the texture is so different that it does it just doesn't feel like cake it feels like maybe some liquid has been added to
It or. It's some sort of gelatin base, but yeah very different
When I squish the fluffy cake they start to look the same
You kind of see tiny bits of liquid coming out of this cake at some point I'm wondering if it's just butter or
Water got trapped because there was no air bubbles anymore and a good way to make a mess though
Timer says our cupcakes are ready. Let's give one a test that
Came out nice and clean say we're ready to go, let's try D molding our poop emoji cupcakes and see how they turned out
Well that's a little bit of a poop emoji shape these actually come out more easily
That should be about the same amount of cupcake batter
You can see that pulling all the air out of it and the vacuum chamber really made a difference in how it turned out
And kind of afraid to D mold this one cuz I think it's still kind of liquid on the inside
But we'll see what happens
oh There we go
You know that probably has the best poop shape of all of them, but it is
Leaking liquid cake batter. I'm gonna squish it
Green cupcake poop your poop looks like this see a doctor immediately
He's interesting little tunnels and that's where the air was trying to rise up out
There you have it cake batter run through a vacuum chamber and then baked you don't get a very light or fluffy cake it's still
A dessert it's still edible some people may even prefer it that way I like the light fluffy cake that doesn't have the concentrated egg
Taste and all around I think it's a better idea if you don't include the vacuum chamber as part of your cake baking process
especially, thank you to Rosana from nerdy nummies for providing these poop emoji cupcake molds and a special shout-out to PIeRios for
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that looks really delicious, I kind of wish I could eat it while it was in a vacuum
Foaming up like a foam cake balloon.
oh My gosh it tastes toke, no I'm kidding it tastes exactly the same
just cake
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