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How to Perform the Ketchup Trick watch!

5min.com — Watch and learn how to perform a very cool bottle trick with ketchup!

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  • rothmanloren, on 01/29/2008, -22/+6Which ketchup works better for this trick? McDonalds? Burger King? Wendys?
  • rickticktick, on 01/29/2008, -21/+7This is so cool! Those stupid ketchup packs are finally useful for something.
    • StatusQuoRules, on 01/29/2008, -2/+10How about eating the ketchup? Thats useful
      • ArmandoM, on 01/29/2008, -0/+3Only if they start making it without corn syrup.
      • 80hd, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Go eat some mustard packets
    • po43292, on 01/29/2008, -0/+13I'm gonna score so many babes now.
  • Osmondy, on 01/29/2008, -14/+5Anyone know of any other products this can work with?
    • peaceninja, on 01/29/2008, -0/+5soy sauce packets, mayonnaise packets, mustard packets. i suppose anything flexible with a tiny bit of air in it will work because that tiny bit of air inside the packet must compress.
    • sgtbutterscotch, on 01/29/2008, -0/+11Your cat.
    • BESTenemy, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1My father showed me this when I was little. He used a pen cap, adding some chewing gum to make it heavier. Any kind of open-ended container would do. Not everyone has eye-droppers or ketchup packets lying around. Instead of a plastic bottle you can use any kind of glass container. Pull a piece of plastic bag over the opening and push on it. The effect is exactly the same. The container itself doesn't have to deform that way.
  • dtd00d, on 01/29/2008, -7/+53I love how this is from the news.
    • fiftyeggs, on 01/29/2008, -3/+39 News NBC Denver. When I turn on the TV, this ***** plagues my TV everyday, every hour.

      But the weather girl is hot. Kathy Saben FTW.
      • seandoof, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1That "news story" took place literally 4 blocks from my house, I live on S. Logan. And yes, the weather girl is a fox.
        • fiftyeggs, on 01/30/2008, -1/+1*****' Penn7 at Pennsylvania and 7th. Right next to Benny's and Govn'rs Park.
    • AllanX, on 01/29/2008, -3/+2Well, to be fair, this is American news.
      • MCCULLAH, on 01/30/2008, -2/+2and American news 5/6 times is about food.
    • DMCer, on 01/30/2008, -1/+1Memo to submitter: A brief explanation in the summary of what, exactly, the "trick" is, would be much less annoying.
  • drunkenirish, on 01/29/2008, -18/+123Slow news day...nothing else going on in the world...mass corruption, war in Iraq, voting fraud, scientology...sinking ketchup packets!
    • bubashelili, on 01/29/2008, -4/+14Whatever, all that other stuff is depressing this is fun!
    • ddiggs, on 01/29/2008, -1/+8Sinking ketchup packets could kill us all!
    • porch88, on 01/29/2008, -9/+2And that's the kind of hard-hitting news coverage the Democrats can expect from the Denver news when they have their National Convention here!
    • CosmicJustice, on 01/29/2008, -4/+14You're an idiot.
    • makkaveli19, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2but i have a snow day!!! yay for universities being on top of hills!
    • kajoob, on 01/29/2008, -0/+4Yes, but it is impossible to talk about two different topics in one day.
    • stormado, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Lighten up. If you know about those events, then chances are they may have been doing part of their job all along.
  • kurupttek, on 01/29/2008, -32/+7Why is this on digg?
    oh I know why because this is stupid and 14 year old's only submit stupid *****!
    • rayraym0fucka, on 01/29/2008, -1/+8You sound like a stupid whining 14 year old... why don't YOU submit some ***** that is more appropriate and let the diggs sort it out ;p
    • jeremynicolas, on 01/29/2008, -1/+17While your submissions have included 'Penis drawings LOL NSFW but funny s hell' and 'Beyonce falls and gets owned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
      • ophello, on 01/29/2008, -0/+3pwnd
      • DarkSamus, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1submitted beyonce falling video?
        and i thought i submitted some dumb *****


        *hint hint*
      • kurupttek, on 01/29/2008, -6/+1wow someone had a bad day
  • LongShlong, on 01/29/2008, -4/+21Hobos are probably up in arms for this flagrant display of playing with their staple food source!
  • fofightmeto, on 01/29/2008, -11/+2That was awesome!!!
  • sig331, on 01/29/2008, -4/+21So amazing that it won my 4th grade science fair!
  • zrcochran, on 01/29/2008, -10/+120.
  • DarkSamus, on 01/29/2008, -12/+5looks like ketchups are giving head and turning tricks these days
    love those slutty packets!
  • GhandicapXRS, on 01/29/2008, -12/+1humm... Shouldn't we be talking about Scientology and Obama?
    • pintomp3, on 01/29/2008, -5/+1no, apple and ron paul.
    • georgetds, on 01/29/2008, -0/+6Time and place for everything. This particular time and place is about a neat trick you can do with ketchup.
      • GhandicapXRS, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2You're right... it was too early.
      • VanillaStarfish, on 01/29/2008, -2/+1Alright, back to Obama.
        As I was saying, we're all sheep and if Obama is what's hot today, then I guess we should rant and rave about him.
        OH LAWDY, PRAISE OBAMA

    • wbeavis, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Scientology AND Obama? I thought he was a Muslim? Wait, I have an email that proves it.
  • Pysk, on 01/29/2008, -7/+0If anyone has a brain they can do that
    • VanillaStarfish, on 01/29/2008, -2/+0Why are you dugg down? Any person that has a brain can certainly do it. They may not understand how or why it works. But simply applying pressure is easy enough for a toddler to do.

      Oh yeah,

      OBAMA
  • peaceninja, on 01/29/2008, -25/+16i mustard try this
    • wrillo, on 01/29/2008, -1/+28i signed in at work to digg you down
      • peaceninja, on 01/29/2008, -2/+10i dugg you up because you made me lol
    • IChazI, on 01/29/2008, -1/+2You fail at trying to make a bad pun funny.
  • joelotz, on 01/29/2008, -18/+5Fake! Photoshopped! ummm.... Apple did the same thing but better, it's called the iKetchup.
    Ok... I've done the obligatory comments so you don't have too. :-)
  • magnus3994, on 01/29/2008, -9/+1at the dinner table huh? and get thrown out of the restaurant? no thanks
    • uahgekido, on 01/29/2008, -0/+10I don't think you'll have to worry about getting thrown out of a place that uses ketchup *packets*.
    • georgetds, on 01/29/2008, -0/+4Yeah, McDonalds is so concerned about table behavior. Shirt and tie affair and all that. The teen that served me there the other day gave me such a disapproving look when I used the wrong fork to eat my fries.
  • Mr.Gone, on 01/29/2008, -5/+63I love how it is titled "The" ketchup trick. Like I was looking through digg and all of a sudden I was like:

    "Holy crap THE ketchup trick! I have been waiting literally minutes for someone to explain this paranormal phenomenon to me!"

    Also it's really not a "trick" it is water pressure.

    Slow news day indeed.
    • georgetds, on 01/29/2008, -1/+7All tricks can be explained one way or another, but until you do explain it, the watchers are "tricked" by what you do.
    • Katana314, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1I was actually anticipating an explanation of the ketchup trick from Hot Fuzz.
  • persecuted, on 01/29/2008, -5/+5ahh local news...
    • holybjork, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1it's days like these that make me sad I live in Denver...
  • SilenceGold, on 01/29/2008, -4/+10I'm deaf. I could not understand all the babblings. Could someone type at least a paragraph explaining. Only clue I got is related to Mr. Gone's comment about water pressure. What else was being poured other than water? Help me out a bit..and do the same for the other deaf lurkers.
    Quit the nonsense "I cannot hear you" comments...those got old.
    • mattyfatty182, on 01/29/2008, -18/+0I cannot hear you!

      Its just him squeezng the bottle. No tricks
    • peaceninja, on 01/29/2008, -0/+25I'm assuming you really are deaf and not joking so don't bury me into Hades for not getting your joke.

      A guy comes on and demonstrates to the anchor how ketchup packets can move magically through a closed water bottle using only his mind. The anchor quips "yeah we used to do the same thing with the "cartesian diver", thus stealing the guy's thunder. The guy, arguably disappointed, finishes the segment and introduces the cartesian divers (which are the rubber-ended syringes) and shows how the same principle with the ketchup packet applies to the cartesian diver. This seems something that most other diggers have seen, so the video probably serves more of a purpose to us of showing that this can work with ketchup packets in addition to the cartesian divers that i personally remember doing in grade school. As the guy explains you have to find a ketchup packet that "barely floats" in order for it to work, in the same way that you have to fill the syringe with just enough water so that it barely floats.

      You can probably go on wikipedia to find cartesian divers to better understand the concept which wasn't exactly explained in the video anyway, but its just all about compressing the air in the packet so that the collective density of the packet becomes more dense than the fluid it is in.
      • teh_techie, on 01/29/2008, -0/+5When the larger container is squeezed, the air inside the diver is compressed, reducing the overall displacement or buoyancy of the diver, which then sinks. One reason for using an eye dropper is that air cannot readily escape the end of the dropper, due to surface tension, however a pen cap can also be used.

        Note that this experiment can also be done with a rigid bottle and a flexible cap (made of latex rubber or some other elastic or flexible material).
      • SilenceGold, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2Hey thanks! ..and yes..I'm deaf for real. Cartesian divers was exactly what I was looking for so I could do more readings on.
    • loquedesea, on 01/29/2008, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_diver
    • ophello, on 01/29/2008, -7/+3were you ever able to hear at a point in your life? can you appreciate music?
      • NotOptium, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2If you're joking around you're an *****. If you're not you shouldn't be getting buried, they're valid questions and I'd be interested in the answers.
        • ophello, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1im not joking. i really want to know...jebus...
  • trry96, on 01/29/2008, -7/+730 seconds of my life, GONE!
    • paulb0t, on 01/29/2008, -0/+4And that's just the page load time!
    • georgetds, on 01/29/2008, -0/+4Yeah, you might want to waste less of your time online if you are concerned about losing thirty seconds of your life. Just a little hint - Digg is a great place to waste, and thereby lose time.
      • Kyan, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2Unless you want to lay waste to Digg, you need another comma.

        Try this:

        "Digg is a great place to waste, and thereby lose, time."
  • kstar6, on 01/29/2008, -7/+3I'm glad I just wasted 3 minutes of my life scanning that video. I hoped it would get better, but it didn't...
    • georgetds, on 01/29/2008, -0/+4Did you time how long it took to return to this page and leave a comment, or was that included in the three minutes?
  • thetipster, on 01/29/2008, -1/+7So geniuses, can anyone please explain why an increased pressure on the ketchup would cause it to sink?
    • procopio, on 01/29/2008, -0/+12Because you can compress gasses, and the ketchup pack has air in it.

      So you compress it, the pack becomes smaller and displaces less water.
      Since the packet mass remain the same it sinks.
      • iancorey, on 01/29/2008, -4/+20WRONG! The dude pulls a hair out of his head and winds it around the ketchup and then pulls it down with the hair. Dumass.
        • teh_techie, on 01/29/2008, -0/+3THANK YOU. I'm glad someone else gets it!
      • 883XL, on 01/29/2008, -0/+5Magic, got it.
        • procopio, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2Yes ancient magic, by the great Greek magician Archimedes.
          So yes you can call it old news. :)
      • bsmang, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1It's not really the size of the packet that makes any difference... The air bubble inside the packet is what makes it float, and that air bubble gets smaller when you squeeze the bottle and raise the water pressure. The smaller bubble is no longer light enough to hold the packet up and it sinks.
        • jesusfresh, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1"It's not really the size of the packet that makes any difference..."

          "...and that air bubble gets smaller..."

          "light enough" isnt the whole issue, it's density, which is very much about size, as you note in your own explanation.
  • Dan11023, on 01/29/2008, -3/+4Lame, but if it gets me some action I might as well digg it.
    • VanillaStarfish, on 01/29/2008, -7/+0OBAMA 2008
    • jayobear, on 01/29/2008, -0/+3Mmmmhmm, because women find ketchup bobbing up and down a true sign of virility. Ahoy.
  • dhartmei, on 01/29/2008, -0/+3SilenceGold: nothing else but water was poured in, they mention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_diver , you have to pick a ketchup packet that just barely floats, you want one that has a pocket of air inside which can be compressed (changing the packet's density).
  • adraft, on 01/29/2008, -1/+3This was like a real life Dr. Steve Brule.
  • ryan899, on 01/29/2008, -0/+3Do you have to use Fancy Ketchup? or will any old ketchup do?
    • ArmandoM, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1I'm sure you could use stuff out of a glass bottle if you could figure out how to get it sealed in the little packet with just a tiny bit of air.
  • Kronos6948, on 01/29/2008, -1/+2Robert Krampf did it better.
    • iancorey, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Robert Krampftw.
      PS: That was mainpaged 2 weeks before this chuckleheaded nonsense.
  • zomfg, on 01/29/2008, -2/+10front page...really?
  • rotorius.kool, on 01/29/2008, -4/+14This is sooo old. It's over 400 years old. seriously. bury.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_diver
    • teh_techie, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1NO! The ketchup packet is NOT mentioned on Wikipedia, nor were there ketchup packets over 400 years ago. If there were, vids or it didn't happen.!
  • ALink2ThePast, on 01/29/2008, -3/+7lame

    how did this make the front page, unless the intent was to make fun of the news and not actually show us how to do the ketchup trick
    • Pelapp, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2It's from 5min.com.
      They're experts on gaming the Digg engine, and getting (*****, random) stories on the front page regulary.
  • proteon, on 01/29/2008, -0/+6Couldn't it just have been "A" ketchup trick? I did amateur magic as a kid - studied some growing up; never heard of "THE" ketchup trick.

    Thank you for reading 'THE" Comment.
  • rodted2, on 01/29/2008, -5/+1but does it blend? Cool though.
    • teh_techie, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Yes, readily. Even easier than YOU would blend, which, BTW, I'd LOVE to see based on your immature OLD comment.
      • Kyan, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1No problem. Happy to read it. Even added the bookmark to be able to find it again.
  • ObeseSnake, on 01/29/2008, -0/+3I love how the news talks about this as a science they never actually explains the science behind it.
  • Philbert, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2I remember doing this with raisins when I was little.
    • rikwakefield, on 01/29/2008, -1/+2I don't remember. Sorry.
    • teh_techie, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Not the same. The thing you did with raisins was in soda. Carbon Dioxide forms around the raisins and they float up. Then once they reach the top (air), the bubbles pop and they sink. Raisins don't usually contain an air bubble enough to float.
  • Coolmatt49, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1Wow, must have been a really slow news day.
  • coachmcguirk, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1I'm sorry, but that was pretty lame.
    They might as well have made a baking soda volcano...

    Then again, if Bill Nye had done it, I would have been enthralled.
  • impactdni, on 01/29/2008, -0/+0I don't care if its a slow news day... Slaps to all 400 of you who somehow thought this was interesting and deserved to be shown to everyone using digg for news. Go take a 3rd grade science class.
  • omgsideburns, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1buried because i did this ***** in the 4th grade.
  • CaptainRant, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Devil magic.
  • ZincSaucier, on 01/29/2008, -1/+0i came here to learn a ketchup trick and im not leaving till someone posts how to perform a ketchup trick
  • meretricis, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1I'm sorry, how did this get past digg 1? this is pretty lame.
  • GI56, on 01/29/2008, -0/+0I'm originally from Colorado- this is from 9 news Denver. Saddest thing is that 9 News is by far the best and most watched news in Colorado.
  • borez, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1My life is now complete
  • MoeBlaksBrother, on 01/29/2008, -2/+1That fvcking sucked.
    • Kyan, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1fvck, fvck. I need Latin words to make this work.
      French Connection UK, was good while it lasted.
  • videographer, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1I'm not sure this really qualifies as "educational." These thigs are an early-morning news staple.

  • tmc1, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1beat trick; saw it on Metcalf already.
  • mongushu, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1Dumb. really dumb, guys...

  • merripen, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Spoiler: Squeeze, then act sanctimonious.
  • ginowhitaker, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1You've been Trick-Rolled.
  • etx313, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1If I showed this to my friends they would kick my ass. And I would expect them to.
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