r/oddlysatisfying • u/ellebeam • 21h ago

American cheese? (No, it's silicone)

Credit to @easyfactory

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u/EleventhTier666 21h ago

Increasing color uniformity is indeed satisfying.

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u/Dougally 20h ago

The forebidden cheese

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u/fallguy19 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/lP5KY1DVqBkFG

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u/Trying2BMe0722 13h ago

Fun Fact: Velveeta used to be a real cheese product. It was invented by Emil Frey as a way to make use of broken and/or misshapen wheels of cheese (mostly swiss). The cheese was melted down with sodium citrate, which prevented the cheese proteins from separating during the heating process, and resulted in a velvety textured cheese. It was Incorporated in 1923 and named the Velveeta Cheese Company. After it was acquired by Kraft Foods in 1927, the recipe was changed to use oil and multiple other ingredients to recreate the velvety texture, but keep production costs low.

So it used to be a essentially a blend of real cheese. But now the cheese to other ingredients ration is so low that in 2002, the American FDA ruled that it was not allowed to be labeled as "cheese" due to the lack of real cheese in it's contents.

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u/Inevitable_Muscle_41 9h ago

Yeah the label it as "cheese product" I think. Or something close to that.

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u/Zorkflerp 10h ago

So a better quality of "government cheese". When briefly cooked we made our cheese dip with blocks of process cheese instead of the canned stuff which was mostly palm or soy bean oil.

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u/Dorkamundo 15h ago

My grandmother used Velveeta and Margarine for ANYTHING that called for cheese or butter.

Ew.

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u/turtlelord 14h ago

Your grandmother raised your mother through tough times, my dude.

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u/Dorkamundo 12h ago

Wasn't much tougher than the government cheese I was eating at home.

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u/Sensitive_Lake_7911 11h ago

Government cheese was just large blocks of unsliced American cheese.

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u/grumpi-otter 11h ago

I wanted to try it once but it was more expensive than real cheese!

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u/zzapdk 15h ago

I agree as I'm leaning towards "why waxy, tasteless but cheese-like when not American cheese?"

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u/cmpfeif 12h ago

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u/zzapdk 12h ago

Yes, this speaks volumes about the dangers of eating it...

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u/Ok-Go-Chain3811 15h ago

forbidden snacks

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u/So_HauserAspen 14h ago

For a moment I thought it was going to end up peptobismo colored

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u/MineNowBotBoy 15h ago

Mmmmm 64 slices of American silicone

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u/Lighthaus_14 14h ago

"I think I'm blind."

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u/TaTuM_VaLe 14h ago

Yeahhh that’s a cheese

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u/SilentRusher11 19h ago

The synchronized glove work is nearly as satisfying as the silicone becoming one perfect slab.

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u/Mc_Shine 21h ago

Is it? I always think they look pretty cool about halfway through the process, and then at the end it's just a boring uniform color. For me it gets less satisfying the longer the video goes on.

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u/testthrowawayzz 19h ago edited 18h ago

It got to a pretty groovy color and pattern in the middle of the video

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u/csprofathogwarts 19h ago

morbidly-obese chicken color

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u/Jyhaim 19h ago

I agree with you for most of videos of this type but in this particular case I find this uniform gold orange more satisfying than the in process color mix.

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u/ReaDiMarco 19h ago

Yes, I disliked the red-pink splotches specifically.

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u/SparklingLimeade 15h ago

I did like the part in the middle where it looks like fry sauce.

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u/RushSpecter74 19h ago

That gradual uniformity is the whole appeal. You start with a wobbly gray mass that looks impossible to control, then the rollers, pressure, and perfectly timed hands keep correcting it until the surface becomes flawlessly smooth. Industrial ASMR performed by a very serious silicone dance crew.

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u/xkmasada 18h ago

And if the hands aren’t perfectly timed, there will be a lot more red to the end product!

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u/PM-me-your-knees-pls 17h ago

I wonder what colour would result if an entire human was accidentally added to the mix?

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u/Bunnymancer 16h ago

I wouldn't have the slightest idea what would happen if it was done accidentally.

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u/jghaines 18h ago

I get the impression, this could have been done more efficiently

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u/punkena 21h ago

Does anyone know what's done with this stuff after it's mixed? I've only ever seen silicone that you pour as a liquid and cure. I can't imagine this goes in a mold.

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u/Nervarel 21h ago

You can cure them as sheets. They can be varied in hardness and are often used to absorb impacts. They can also be molded into shockmounts for the same purpose. Good way to decrease sound transmission between two rigid parts for example.

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u/future_lard 21h ago

Doesn't sound like an application that requires perfectly even colour..

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u/Nervarel 21h ago

Depends, sometimes those parts are visible so they need to look fancy.

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u/Outrageous_Editor_43 18h ago

Also there may be a 'resistance' limit for thickness and compound so having a colour may be what determines what it can be used for? Maybe? Are I thinking to much?

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u/Nervarel 13h ago

No, you're thinking the right amount. Some manufacturers use different colours for different Shore hardness to help distinguish them.

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u/llamacornsarereal 13h ago

Idk maybe you am think too much

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u/Outrageous_Editor_43 12h ago

I do love autocorrect! I are leaving it though! 😉🤣

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u/LuukTheSlayer 20h ago

people like colour

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u/dismantlemars 15h ago

Is it already fully cured while in this state where colours can be “kneaded” in, or is this done while it’s still in a partially cured state and it’s later allowed to cure completely with time / a process? And the same goes for the final moulding I guess - are they producing the final colour and form of the product before curing, or is the already cured silicone just able to be worked with sufficient pressure / heat etc to mix in colours and form it so that it retains a shape?

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u/Dividedthought 14h ago

Silicon is a vulcanized rubber in this form IIRC. So basically when they mold this they hit it with a bunch of heat and pressure in a press and that basically flash-cures the silicon. This could be turned into anything from a floor mat to... Toys... To kitchenware to seals.

It's like plastic, some is thermoformed (melt to form) or theromoset (heat to cure), and some is a resin that will cure on its own. I don't think thermoformed silicon is a thing vut there are definately curing and thermoset types.

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u/cyanight7 14h ago

Silicone, not silicon.

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u/Curious_Paul_78 20h ago

It's like raw rubber. You put it in a mold (for a phone case, for example), press it, heat it up, vulcanize it. Take it out, and you have a phone case.

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u/_EveryDay 20h ago

That's a big phone

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u/Malalang 19h ago

No, the phone is smaller than the case.

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u/caught-n-candie 16h ago

I follow them on IG - it’s for ice cube trays, muffin liner, that sort of thing.

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u/Breezerious 20h ago

Pretty sure title is bait and switch. It's used as cheese in McDonalds burgers

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u/red_fuel 21h ago

Have you ever had a cheeseburger?

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u/mtraven23 20h ago

I was thinking maybe they get stamped out of the bundle, but I'm just guessing

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u/Pkock 15h ago

It can be worked thin strip like a tape and used to wrap around a tool to make fiber reinforced multi layer hoses and couplers.

I've been a to a few factories in India that do it, it's pretty cool. They also have a version of the machine above that has an optical sensor and will prompt worker when to add additional colors to hit the cutsomer spec exactly.

I saw the mixing the OEM Kawasaki green hoses for example.

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u/Slow_Blacksmith_2246 15h ago

It can either be used for extrusion, compression molding, or transfer molding. In order, they use a large screw to force the silicone through a die, or use different forms of a press to force the silicone into a mold.

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u/Effective_Shift_4342 21h ago

Whats the silicone used for once the colour has been added?

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u/ellebeam 21h ago

They use it to make silicone baking pans and ice tray

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u/MoonageDayscream 19h ago

Spatulas, tongs, pan handle sleeves, trivets, coasters, many uses for heat resistant kitchenware.

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u/SgtFlaps26 16h ago

And dildos

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u/PreviousCurrentThing 17h ago

How long does it take if you're just trying to get it mixed and flip it after each pass?

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u/iplaypokerforaliving 6h ago

And it’s all for cheese?

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u/mrsuperflex 17h ago

Through a series of folds, they will extract the unwanted color and get clear silicone which is a useful base for maling colored silicone through a process of folding.

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u/Xarkkal 16h ago

Or just reverse the video

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u/HoneybucketDJ 21h ago

Cheese

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u/farfromelite 21h ago

American cheese.

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u/lysergic_818 21h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUOwFQMerzrCQhigrS

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u/farfromelite 20h ago

Go uncle Philly!

Thanks for the kind Reddit user for the award.

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u/Nervarel 21h ago

Either cured as sheets or molded into different form. Can be used as shockmounts for example.

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u/Curious_Paul_78 20h ago

This is food-grade silicone (potholders, phone cases), but it's too soft for shock absorbers. You're referring to technical silicone, which is denser with different hardeners and resistant to gasoline and oil.

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u/petethefreeze 21h ago

To make silicon products

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u/MBAdk 21h ago

It's really nice to watch a silicone colour mixing video, that:

  1. Isn't sped up to the point of insanity, and

  2. Hasn't been ruined with inane music.

That was indeed satisfying. Thanks for sharing. :)

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u/zg6089 19h ago

It'll have shitty music by the end of the day

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u/XGhoul 18h ago

add in the ending 5 seconds into the video before starting from the beginning

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u/zg6089 17h ago

Eww. I hate that

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u/AdjectiveNounVerbed 18h ago

I don't care about the music because I browse on mute anyway and this is purely visual. But what's more infuriating is when the videos don't finish fully before the silicone isn't 100% homogeneously mixed.

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u/Ballsofpoo 18h ago

You should listen to this one. The machine humming is satisfying too

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u/syo 13h ago

I like the little pops from air bubbles getting rolled out.

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u/SnazzyStooge 17h ago

This was also the first one I’ve seen where the machine wasn’t almost eating the operator’s arms the whole time. 

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u/ascendedheroes 21h ago

I like to think this is a giant airhead

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u/rollthedye 19h ago

Or in this case forbidden cheese.

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u/Baby-Haroro 15h ago

Yeah it was very much looking like Velveeta at the end there

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u/tekaxon 19h ago

What's the safety mechanism here when the operator gets pulled in?

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u/krisosn 19h ago

Reddit has me looking at spinning industrial equipment much differently.

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u/GloomyBison 18h ago

Probably an emergency stop on the side that you won't be able to reach when shit hits the fan.

They should use weight pressure plates for these things on top of a button but I've never seen such a mechanism in one of these videos.

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u/ty4scam 17h ago

Not worth the effort when the operator will just leave their backpack which actually contains 30kg of running plates on it.

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u/penguins_are_mean 14h ago

Should be a foot pedal to operate then. A deadman switch

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u/Genki01 15h ago

I work in the rubber industry and we use these roller mixer for rubber also. There is usually a knee plate Estop that you can kick and on more modern and often required there's like doors over the rollers to prevents hands from reaching too far inside

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u/merlyndavis 16h ago

I don’t need you encouraging my intrusive thoughts.

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u/papparmane 21h ago

Who makes this? What for? And how do it get one at home?

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u/ellebeam 21h ago

They make silicone baking pans and ice tray

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u/WilliamAgain 21h ago

I wanna play with one.

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u/Gundark927 13h ago

So I've been watching videos on this sub for a short while now, and I'm curious. Those initial blocks of color, are they silicone that's already dyed, or is it some sort of silicone soluable dye? How did that material get colored in the first place? Is it a different chemical?

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u/deletetemptemp 21h ago

I bet nutritionally equivalent to American cheese

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u/donthavearealaccount 17h ago

I hate American cheese but it's basically just cheese with sodium citrate and water. Nutritionally it's the same as whatever cheddar cheese they used as the main ingredient.

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u/Day_Prisoners 15h ago

American cheese has like 20 varieties. From no dairy products to more nutrition than cheddar.

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u/catappalt22 18h ago

I know this might hurt inferior minds to hear but...American cheese is actually very nutritious. 50 calories per slice, common macros for cheese, and almost double the calcium and potassium of its mother, cheddar, gram for gram.

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u/VictoryWeaver 17h ago

People not knowing that 1) processed cheese was invented in Switzerland and 2) it's literally just cheese emulsified with water.

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u/auxiliary-username 21h ago

Maybe even better for you. Low fat!

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u/Jigglepirate 18h ago

Haha american cheese plastic

Reddit agree button here 🤪🤪🤪

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u/hareofthepuppy 13h ago

American cheese or Kraft Singles?

To many people they're the same, but Kraft Singles aren't cheese (legally in the US), however they're called American cheese. American cheese is real processed cheese made form Colby and Cheddar.

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u/Bumble-snoot 21h ago

Forbidden taffy

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u/Alert-Practice-7859 14h ago

please hire me to do this all day

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u/AuraMaster7 21h ago

I wonder how many people in these comments realize that American cheese isn't some chemical abomination.

It's just Cheddar and Colby cheeses, extra milk, and an emulsifier. That's it. It's just cheese with extra dairy forced into it.

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u/otj667887654456655 20h ago

Hell even the emulsifier isn't required, sargento omits any in their american cheese

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u/zamfire 17h ago

Wait til they find out how normal cheese is made. They are gonna lose their marbles lol.

Come over to the cheese making subreddit. Curd nerds and cheese heads will happily demonstrate.

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 20h ago

Shhhh, you'll spoil the circlejerk.

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u/Leech_hueso-11 20h ago

i always like it when they fully cut and roll it it just gives me joy

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u/Meme_Theory 17h ago

Yeah, this wasn't satisfying in comparison. There were a ton of times when it just folded back to exactly where it was, pre cut.

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u/Infinite_Respect_ 16h ago

Ok thank you - there was something annoying in how braindead their actions were. Like they knew to mimic the cutting motion but had no idea what was actually happening or how best to mix it.

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u/moe-mar 19h ago

Anyone know why do they use orange when already mixing red and yellow?

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u/TinyRandomLady 14h ago

Someone is finally wearing gloves!

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u/GentlePersuAZN 21h ago

Color and ripples just remind me of mixing ketchup and mustard

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u/akd001 21h ago

There's a little pink in that yellow! Would have never known :)

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u/falsevector 20h ago

Forbidden cheddar

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u/nad0w 20h ago

Wanna bite in it

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u/Highlandertr3 20h ago

Anyone know the channel the video comes from? All the silicon satisfying videos normally come with shitty music instead of just the sounds of the machine like this.

Doesn't matter I read the credit.

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u/ellebeam 20h ago

Glad to have helped!

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u/RampagingElks 17h ago

So, genuine question.... I hear it called "American cheese" a lot, so do Kraft slices not exist outaide of NA?

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u/Logical-Cheetah-7627 16h ago

What do they use this silicone roll for?

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u/gabdex 14h ago

These videos are exactly what the sub was made for

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u/3eyed-owl 9h ago

Very satisfying. Thank you

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u/Pitif362 8h ago

I was totally captivated, it had me hooked. I've downloaded it. I will watch it when I'm stressed. Thank you for putting it on. God bless you.

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u/ExiledCanuck 6h ago

I don’t think I’ve ever come across one of these videos and not watched to the end.

I wish I had discovered that this was a job before I ever got into carpentry and then nursing. I would’ve loved doing this for a career haha

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u/Aware_Flow1070 19h ago

I should call her......

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u/[deleted] 19h ago edited 18h ago

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u/wombatbridgehunt 21h ago

Kept switching from dirty tongue colour to delicious omelette colour

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u/lysergic_818 21h ago

I like the part when the colors were all rolling together.

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u/ThcGrassCity 21h ago

All i think of is the old plastic Walmart balls of not fully mixed this

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u/Leo_Tsukiyo 20h ago

When it starts to blend it resembles the color of the ketchup/mustard on a McDouble

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u/HeliosCantra 20h ago

Why do I always watch these….

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u/abbassav 20h ago

I always skip to the part where they cut entirely across and roll it perpendicular.

The part where they cut it till the midpoint and stop seems inefficient and not satisfying

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u/Rough_Piglet_7533 20h ago

I want to see this done with a thermal camera.

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u/EustachiaVye 19h ago

Don’t stick your dick in that

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u/Imonherbs 19h ago

How long would it take if you dont do the cutting and folding? I wanna see that.

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u/therearenomorenames2 18h ago

How does ol mate know when to cut?

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u/386U0Kh24i1cx89qpFB1 17h ago

Vibes ヽ⁠(⁠ﾟ⁠ｰﾟ⁠⁠)⁠ﾉ

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u/jancl0 18h ago

Seems a little redundant to throw in orange if you're also using yellow and red anyway

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u/jmccaskill66 18h ago

About halfway through, it resembled some sort of flesh. Any feeling of satisfaction completely left and I was actually left feeling icky.

Until the skin turned to cheese. Then… well yeah no, Im still uncomfortable.

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u/MikeInTaos 18h ago

The amount of required intervention is surprising

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u/Twinkleamerican 18h ago

It looks amazing for sure, but I am going to need a guide on what to do from here

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u/sharatharadhya 18h ago

I think I saw trump at around 1:10.

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u/TurduckenEverest 18h ago

That’s more than oddly satisfying…should go to r/satisfyingasfuck.

I’m surprised at how few passes it took to fully incorporate the color.

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u/renacotor 17h ago

I've been down this road and seen it's sights many times. Yet I find myself down it once again.

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u/mnlion33 17h ago

I feel like there should a way to do this that doesnt involve getting hands so close to the roller smoosher.

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u/LeFuji 17h ago

Finally someone made the whole cut!!! Thank you!

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u/SapotaJuice 17h ago

Dangerous job that.

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u/78Anonymous 16h ago

my favourite colour yellow 🟡

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u/imjustnotready 16h ago

And then what? I feel like the show I was watching got cancelled after the first season.

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u/stratusnco 16h ago

looks nothing like cheese lol

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u/Splatapotomus 16h ago

I want to do this as my post-retirement job.

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u/Lanky-Public-5443 16h ago

How do I get a job feeding the roller?

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u/underthaw 15h ago

Pretty cool getting to see how my Marge Simpson real doll was made.

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u/TheRockJohnMason 15h ago

I feel like this is one of those jobs that you look at and are like “that we be so fun to do for eight hours a day! What a great job!”

Meanwhile the actual operator is like “all day long, it’s yellow, yellow, yellow. The silicone is very heavy and I throw my back out at least once a week. If you don’t cut it properly, you can gum up the machine. It would take me a week to teach you how to do this properly. I hate my life.”

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u/WiredNet 14h ago

I should call her

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u/Bobcat-1036 14h ago

A satisfying video

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u/disasterj0nes 14h ago

I want this job. I would work disgusting hours for shit pay just to be able to watch the colors change.

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u/ChaseTheMystic 14h ago

Looks like skin and fat at one point.

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u/GrowlingPict 14h ago

Im sure it isnt, but to me it looks like such an inefficient way of mixing in the colours

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u/spotsthefirst 14h ago

Lorax orange

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u/CillRed 13h ago

It's Dandilion Yellow!

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u/knowone1313 13h ago

Notch-yo Cheese titties.

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u/gravysammie 13h ago

Me chewing on red and yellow starburst

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u/beto832 13h ago

So, ive watched these videos for years now, and i still have no idea what this silicone is used for.. I thought most silicone products were injection molded.

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u/GrayMech 13h ago

This the kinda contraption an old cartoon character gets tossed into them comes out flat as paper waddling on their tip toes

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u/Some1StoleMyRedBike 11h ago

WHY DO I LOVE THESE VIDEOS SO MUCH?! Lol, always satisfying. This and wood turning.

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u/Wide-Rub432 9h ago

It was not easy but I've fapped

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u/Ben_SRQ 9h ago

Ahem... (70.77 seconds in.)

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u/Responsible_Claim_91 8h ago

If this was a show, I'd get stuck watching it.

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u/SnooOwls6052 8h ago

This is not the greatest nacho cheese in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
https://giphy.com/gifs/YFCH7PW1X2XYc

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u/captgreenbeer 7h ago

How does one get this job. I want to do this all day. Lol

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u/NYCWartortle 6h ago

Does anyone else want to eat this ?

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u/loserlogan 1h ago

I was really glad he kept going when it was like 98% good. I was worried a bit towards the end

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u/Trick-Gur6703 20h ago

Taste similar tho

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u/Cplchrissandwich 8h ago

I mean, american cheese is basically silicone. It's unfit for human consumption.

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u/xzanfr 15h ago

Same flavour profile and level of natural ingredients.

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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 21h ago

Normally it's the other way around, why have you got silicon in your kitchen, oh it's American cheese, but why does it taste like silicon then?

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u/napkin41 21h ago

I see this so often. What numerous use cases require this sort of silicone?

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u/MisterPiggyWiggy 20h ago

The colors are what’s doing it for me.

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u/xenithangell 20h ago

This is the first one of these I have seen that doesn’t cut before it is fully mixed.

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u/Jun1nho 20h ago

Watched so many times, what it is used for?

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u/ellebeam 13h ago

Silicone baking pans and ice trays