How to Make Edible Glowing UV Reactive JELLO

Watch the vid to see exactly how to make UV Reactive Jello. This looks great, but needs sugar.

Step 1: Assemble Ingredients

You will need:
Jello packet (or no name gelatin dessert)
Tonic Water
Black Light (uv Light)
Pot (the kind you use to boil water)
Stove

Comments

[iwantacuracy]

this is going on my list of things to do at partys!!!

[ItsTheHobbs]

that is sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Staples]

I'm thinking a darker color jello may not work? I just tried 1 cup tonic water water boiled into strawberry jello, with one cup of vodka mixed very cold from the freezer. Poured into brain mold and have had is setting in the fridge for about 5 hours. It didn't react to my 6ft UV black light? Could be the red of the strawberry is too dark our could be I substituted too much vodka for tonic water. Either way I'll enjoy the jello tonight and try it with lime tomorrow. Has anyone made jello shots this way and still got the UV reaction? What flavors have you made this with hairy?

[CapinPorcupine]

cherry doesnt work either

[maeghi]

anything with red dye in it won't work, its at the beginning of the colour spectrum. if you notice, the colours at the other end (blue, green, violet) will work the best. the red dye blocks the UV [notice this stands for Ultra-Violet] from getting to the Quinine... it has to do with wavelengths and whatnot. think about what red and orange things look like under blacklight... they look almost black... while very light objects [like paper] look bluish-purple.

[jbusari]

What if you dye the solution before refrgrating it?

[maeghi]

Red and Orange will not work, regardless of what order you dye and refrigerate it.

[Staples]

Ya know I've had to study some of the color spectrum for work (fiber optics) and that makes perfect sense! I did make some with a light green lime and it worked perfectly, I'll have to do it again for the halloween party.

[maeghi]

i'm glad it made sense to you, i was trying to explain it to some other people and they just gave me a blank stare... :]

[ediecago]

Where do you get a brain mold? I made one out of beeswax to make "monkey brains" for my kids halloween party. I didn't see any molds around and I'd like to have one.

[Staples]

A local Wal-Mart store had brain molds and heart molds for around $3 each. Cheap compared to what I found online, only drawback they were kinda small 1 to 1.25 cups.

[ediecago]

That would have been perfect. That's almost exactly the size I made out of wax -- which took more time than it should have to prevent leaks etc. I'll keep an eye out for them. And hearts too!!!

[hairyconiption]

I tried strawberry as well, it was a no go.

[JAm13 7h3 3m0]

Oh no!!! Does that mean my baby is going to die?...Oh, wait a minute, im a 12 year old boy!!!lol gr8 halloween trick!!! P.S. my msn address is [e-mail] add me people!

[thisxisxstephanie]

This is awesome! Do you have any sugegstions for how to make this into Jell-O shots? Maybe just replace half of the tonic water with alcohol? Would it still glow okay?

[seanhexed]

I did exactly this over the weekend for a Halloween party I went to. Replaced the cold tonic water with refrigerated vodka. Sadly it didn't really "glow" so much as "look strange" under blacklights. When the conditions were just right, they looked cool. But any non-blacklight leakage totally ruined the effect.

[thisxisxstephanie]

DId it taste okay? Because I made a batch with only tonic water and it tasted horrible... Maybe I'll stick with regular Jell-O shots... At least the little cups I have glow in the blacklight.

[seanhexed]

Yeah, all three batches I did tasted great. You could definitely taste the vodka, but I find that's a nice safety for them because then people actually *know* that they're strong and don't slurp down 20 and go to the hospital. I forgot to mention that I did follow the suggestion of putting a some sugar in to help balance out the tonic water. If you didn't try that, it might help out your results. And since there was only half the amount of tonic in mine as in the Instructable, I suppose it masked the tonic even better.

[thisxisxstephanie]

Okay, I will try adding sugar... And I bet that having less tonic water will help out the flavor a lot... About how much sugar did you add, and what size package of Jell-O did you use?

[seanhexed]

For each batch, I was using one of the larger (6oz?) boxes of jello, 2 cups of boiling tonic water, three heaping teaspoons of sugar, and 2 cups of vodka. I found that the sugar was harder to get to dissolve than the gelatin mix. What worked for me on batches 2 and 3 was to stir the sugar into the hot water before adding the jello mix. It seemed to dissolve easier that way.

[thisxisxstephanie]

Awesome. I'll give it a go Tomorrow :) Thanks for your help!

[clydicus]

Is that a black light, or a UV light? I have a $10 black light, but I have also seem a much more expensive Ultra-violet light. My brother used to collect fluorescent rocks and minerals. The black light would reveal some fluorescents, but the UV light revealed many many more. The UV light could also damage your eyes if you looked into it....

[hairyconiption]

Black light, I have no idea about an actual uv light.

[MCUman]

! ! ! MEDICAL WARNING ! ! ! If you or someone you know has had Rhumatic Fever as a child, or has Wolfe-Parkinsons-White Disorder (WPW) DO NOT serve them this desert. Quinine is DEADLY ! ! ! !

[burningsuntech]

Wow! Something new here everyday. Great post hairy. thanks!

[msspurlock]

I wouldn't worry about the health effects, even if you are pregnant, but it's still good advice, I suppose. However, the concentration of quinine required to make it an abortofacient is almost enough to kill you and had to be prepared directly from the bark at extreme cost. That powdered version of the dihydrochloride version was banned in the US decades ago.

[tmiv]

awesome. I can see working this into the plot of CSI.

[At Liberty]

Do not do this if you are pregnant. Quinine used to be used to induce abortions. Can't be good for the baby.

[hairyconiption]

Similarily green mangoes, (peel) seperate the fetus from the uterus...

[Robyntheslug]

It would depend on the quantity wouldn't it? I mean, vitiman C is also a potential abortificant (and poisonous) in significant quantities. Tonic Water has no warning for pregnant women that I know of (except, don't mix it with gin).

[At Liberty]

If a lot of quinine could kill, a bit of it could harm. At least I wouldn't take the chance.

Vitamin C has no known contraindications.

It is not a potential abortion inducer, nor is it ever - at any time, in any amount - poisonous to a human being. A human can take vitamin C until bowel tolerance is reached. Then diarrhea takes place, eliminating the excess vitamin C. That is not to say that one should take umpteen thousand mg's of it while gestating. I would be careful with - a n y t h i n g - while preggers.

[Robyntheslug]

Interesting about taking large doses of quinine to induce abortion. Learn something new every day.

I would (politely) disagree that megadosing on vitamin C has no known contraindications (there are several here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C_megadosage#Possible_adverse_effects )

Vitamin C megadosing is a fairly well-known technique that was used when abortion was illegal, both in the USA and in New Zealand among others. Historically, it was used more like the morning after pill than RU-486. Not particularly effective, and certainly not safe, it shows what women chose over the alternative...

[At Liberty]

1. Wikipedia in an illegitimate source. At least as far as I am concerned. 2. Try Googling Bernard Rimland Vitamin C. You will find factual information there. A lot of the information may be in regards to the treatment of autism, but there should be additional information of the work he did with vitC in other areas. 3. I believe I stated that one should be extraordinarily cautious with whatever substance one is considering putting into one's body when said body contains a fetus. 4. I am sure women tried all sorts of horrendous methods of erasing the consequences of their actions before it became legal to pay someone else to murder the child in their womb. I doubt, with polite sincerity and the understanding that I could very well be mistaken in a few odd instances, that this was ever accomplished via vitamin C. 5. I should clarify something - If one is going to ingest "mega" doses of vitamin C, you will also need to implement ... I can't recall all of them - I believe E and magnesium... and possibly D, as the C will deplete those in the body. That could be seen as a 'contraindication'.

[zachninme]

Just because you don't trust Wikipedia doesn't mean you shouldn't look at it at all.
Just read the references instead ;-)
27-46 apply -- and certainly these are reliable ;-)

[smokehill]

This is hardly the place to be promoting a fringe researcher like Rimland, whose wierd theories about vaccines & autism, for only one example, have been disproved by hundreds of researchers. Anyone considering following his strange ideas should Google up the opinions of the other 99% of the scientific world as well, to make an informed choice.

[At Liberty]

Balderdash. The scientific community usually riles against new ideas and theories that come against the already believed-to-be-true... until it gets off its arrogant horse and realizes that it could possibly (gasp) be mistaken. Those ideas usually come from what you refer to as "the fringe". God bless the fringe. Speaking from experience, Rimland's "wierd theories" are not as weird as you have chosen to believe. They have not been "disproven" by anyone. While, perhaps, mercury on its own does not spontaneously induce a spectrum disorder, if there is already a genetic propensity for autism, the mercury pushes the agenda significantly, if not over the edge. As for the rise in "ADHD" and the like - there ya go.

[maeghi]

i love how a recipe for glowing jello (with clarification of which kind of pot to use and several comments about making glowing jelloshots) has turned into an all-out debate including Rimland, WikiPedia, and, as in all good debates, abortion. wow.

[ARVash]

Wikipedia is as or more accurate than britannica; a popular and very notable encyclopedia.

http://www.news.com/Study-Wikipedia-as-accurate-as-Britannica/2100-1038_3-5997332.html

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Although, I'm gonna have to go wtih At Liberty on the quinine thing, I suggest avoid it all together if you're pregnant.

[bruce86]

Some people are deathly allergic to quinine, We are not allowed to use it in psychological research because of that.

[At Liberty]

Now that I did not know.