Food Theory: I Salted Popcorn With TEARS... And This Is How It Tasted!

Matpat holding Stephanie, his sobbing wife, while staring at the camera and saying "It's gonna be some tasty popcorn" is juxtaposition perfection

Teaching Ollie the periodic table this young is the most game theory thing possible

I am very concerned by the fact that Mat and Steph didn’t think at any point in the video about laughing to tears but were just like “welp more pain ahead!”

Of all of the episodes to recommend after Matpat leaving, this is the one I get.

There's no true love like collecting your partner's tears while they're crying.

I love how Mat just casually developed an addiction to human salt.

Steph's realization that what they did was something that Rhett and Link would do is hilarious, I love her

As someone who cries emotional stress tears at least 3 times a day that lasts for at least an hour, I see this as an absolute win

It feels like this channel is just matpat’s weekly therapy session.

Finally, a good use to people's tears instead of simply letting your pillow absorb it

I’m now curious to see Matpat make salt with bananas and toothpaste.

Steff: crying Mat: “this gonna be some tasty popcorn.”

Matt definitely thought about doing this when he was crying in to his pillow at night and his theorist side went, “Wait, how good would my tears taste on Popcorn?”

They got their 3 year old a periodic table. The most “Mat & Steph” thing possible. LoL

I am always wishing for Stephanie to talk more, and just be more part of it, rather than just staying in the sidelines because she’s always viewed as a side character and she really is icing on the cake when she does get featured in videos.

MatPat licking Steph’s cheek with no hesitation has made my day

"I'll be depressed." "..But you'll have salty popcorn." how can you be depressed with salty popcorn? I like Mat's thinking here.

The fact that Steph's tears were immediately dispersing across her cheeks may have been caused by her foundation. If her foundation is hydrophilic, then the tears would not bead up compared to MatPat's skin which is naturally hydrophobic. It honestly would be really interesting to have Steph use foundation on one side of her face only and then test to see if her tears bead up on the side without foundation. You also probably had more salt present in your tears than you thought too. As mentioned, our tears have mucus present in them, and mucus contains salts (~1%) to prevent aggregation from occurring so that should be taken into account as well when calculating the total salt concentration in tears.

9:42 I can’t be the only who laugh at the way it went from Matpat comforting Steph and collecting his tears to him saying this gonna be some tasty popcorn

Based on this episode I could salt an entire bowl of popcorn in a month from my passive self loathing.