The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

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About The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments
This is the video that started it all: a backyard experiment became a cultural phenomenon. This is what happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints! Click here to read more of the amazing Coke & Mentos story.

How Does This Work?
What makes the soda fly out of the bottle? Will you explode if you drink Coke and eat Mentos? Click here to find out!

Try This at Home!
Yes, you can try this at home! You can get your own Coke & Mentos Kit, which includes nozzles just like the ones we use, or you can click here to learn how you can do it with stuff from around your house.

Credits
The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments by Fritz Grobe (the short one) and Stephen Voltz (the tall one). Music by AudioBody. Filmed in Buckfield, Maine, home of the Oddfellow Theater. Production assistance from Mike & Kim Miclon. Thanks to Brian & Nancy Bennett.

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  • Anonymous

    What a sticky mess!!!!! What a waste!!!!

  • Snappy P. Fish

    What an incredible work of ingenuity and creativity. Congratulations.

  • http://larryfire.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/the-oil-crisis-might-be-solved-with-mentos-and-diet-coke/ The Oil Crisis Might Be Solved With Mentos and Diet Coke « THE FIRE WIRE

    [...] to the day after Stephen Voltz and Fritz Grobe posted the (literally) explosive video featuring the Vegas-worthy fountains that they created from nothing more than Mentos dropped into two-liter bottles of Diet Coke, the [...]

  • http://olala.us/rocket-car-runs-on-mentos-and-coke.html Rocket Car Runs on Mentos and Coke | Technology Website

    [...] Grobe and Stephen Voltz are the guys behind the famous video of a Mentos-and-Diet Coke, Bellagio-style fountain, which they estimate has been seen by more than 120 million people. Four years later, they’re [...]

  • http://www.triflex.my/?p=1006 Triflex Enterprise | How to Build a Rocket Car Powered by Mentos and Coke

    [...] Grobe and Stephen Voltz are the guys behind the famous video of a Mentos-and-Diet Coke, Bellagio-style fountain, which they estimate has been seen by more than 120 million people. Four years later, they’re [...]

  • robert martinez

    i hope are tax dollars ,is not paying for this.

  • http://cellphonemobiles.com/how-to-build-a-rocket-car-powered-by-mentos-and-coke/ How to Build a Rocket Car Powered by Mentos and Coke | Cellphone And Mobile Blog

    [...] Grobe and Stephen Voltz are the guys behind the famous video of a Mentos-and-Diet Coke, Bellagio-style fountain, which they estimate has been seen by more than 120 million people. Four years later, they’re [...]

  • http://nokiareport.com/how-to-build-a-rocket-car-powered-by-mentos-and-coke/ How to Build a Rocket Car Powered by Mentos and Coke | Nokia Phone Blog

    [...] Grobe and Stephen Voltz are the guys behind the famous video of a Mentos-and-Diet Coke, Bellagio-style fountain, which they estimate has been seen by more than 120 million people. Four years later, they’re [...]

  • http://pastorleoacosta.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/car-powered-by-mentos-coke-zero/ Car Powered by Mentos & Coke Zero «

    [...] to the day after Stephen Voltz and Fritz Grobe posted the (literally) explosive video featuring the Vegas-worthy fountains that they created from nothing more than Mentos dropped into two-liter bottles of Diet Coke, the [...]

  • http://www.pastymuncher.co.uk/boom-boom-drench-the-room/ Boom Boom Drench The Room | The Pasty Muncher

    [...] reading listent to the wonderfully hypnotic sound track from the eppy peeps that accompanies their classic diet fizzy brand drink and mentos [...]

  • Lexie

    I soo wanna do that :D

  • http://akeaton1.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/1-viral-campaign-of-the-past-decade-was-an-accident/ #1 Viral Campaign of the Past Decade was an Accident « The Keaton Chronicles

    [...] video went online at EepyBird.com on Saturday, June 3, 2006. Within hours, thousands of people had watched the video. Just two days [...]

  • dexter

    i am a teacher, and i been doing this. i use coke to clean the chalkboards (greenboard/blackboard). it cleans the surface without destroying the paint yet maintaining coarseness of surface.very nice to write.

  • Mannomann

    Good Track, anyway!

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    I LOve this article…. bookmard first

  • maddawg

    Awesome!!:)

  • http://blog.crowdspring.com/2010/09/5-great-viral-marketing-campaigns-and-what-small-businesses-can-learn-from-them/ 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) « crowdSPRING Blog

    [...] and never sponsored by wither Coca Cola or Perfetti Van Melle (parent company of Mentos), the original video, and the hundreds of others inspired by it, collectively accrued well over 60 million views! The [...]

  • BIG Bird

    it rock big

  • stupid

    OH MY GAMMITT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • stupid

    OOOOO SWEET NUGGETS THATS AHHHHHHH-MAZING!!!!!! I WOVE THAT!! HAHAHA LOL YOU MADE A MESS

  • http://adsffa.com zoeee

    BEASTTTT YO!! :)

  • http://adsffa.com sesteyy

    siyince iz a verey kool subjik and i want a phd in it verey much so but my teecher sez i cant

  • 7542lol

    i saw this video on the computer and it looks awsome. how did you get the caps off so fast? and how did you ues the string to take the cap off?

  • Garret

    I got an ELP progect on dis lol its suuuuuuuuupppppppppppppeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr fun!!!!

  • http://livesock.com/2010/10/05/thomas-kalil-white-house-office-of-science-and-technology-policy-talks-maker-movement.html Thomas Kalil, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, talks Maker Movement | Live Sock

    [...] metal working, DNA, medieval weapons, wood, arts and crafts, robots, rockets, quadrocopters, Diet Coke and Mentos, and fire and other dangerous [...]

  • idk

    cooool !

  • http://eepybird.com cloud

    tat was off the hook!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://eepybird.com dang digaty

    yall this is all you have to now yall you now wat i meen kasha was her yall

  • http://eepybird lalallalalalala

    heyyyyyyyy yalllllllllthis is offfff the to to

  • http://none manny

    hola ppl…i did this at skool….i wanted to drink it afterwards….it looked good..i liked how the eruption was big.

  • http://eepybird.com jojo

    that is cool

  • lilly

    Wowie! What stiky mess!! And a terribley waste of mentos and soda lol

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    [...] for at uploade og dele videoer, billeder og meninger, som de selv producerer. Et eksempel er the Mentos-Diet Coke-experiment, hvor forbrugerne kombinerer to virksomheders produkter til et output, som hverken Coca Cola eller [...]

  • d rizzle

    Did this my freshman year it was so much fun if you get diffrent types of soda and not just one it was sooooo much fun.. It wasnt a waist i learned alot from it.

  • http://www.youthadventuresclub.org/?p=11 Youth Adventures Club » Blog Archive » 2011 Ideas

    [...] Diet Coke and Mentos experiments. [...]

  • Bubbles

    Who pays for all of the equipment? :-O

  • eepy

    Mostly us, but depending on the experiment we have been sponsored by companies too. The original experiment was just us! :)

  • sara

    That was so cool! You guys are so creative.

  • kristina

    1) what happens if you put one mento in? and how high does it go?
    2) what happens when you put two in? and how high does it go?
    3) what happens when you put three in? and how high does it go?

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    (^^^)

  • http://brandpersonalization.com/5-steps-to-achieving-success-with-video-marketing/ 5 Steps to Achieving Success With Video Marketing | Brand Personalization

    [...] Experiments: Diet Coke + Mentos. This is one of the earliest records where a backyard experiment from an entertainment science show [...]

  • eepy

    Test it! We have found that 6 work best. Even when you put more in after 6 it has about the same height.

  • dilsia gonzalez

    about how high does a explosion with mentos mixed with coca cola go

  • maria

    that was awsome

  • Nikiel

    All these other guys suck with their comments.I think u awesome.I thought about doing this project at school and wondered what causes the reaction.

  • Daniel

    Im doing this as my school prject. wich pop works the best that my project

  • Jalil R

    That was awesome

  • Jalil R

    I rule

  • Jalil R

    yo

  • hhtttgvg

    diet coke

  • Datsocutetracie10

    this is so cool

  • Nathan Simoni

    i like it…alot

  • Mariahcaudillo

    Swag(;

  • Faith Garrett

    That was amazing!! These guys are super smart!!

  • Mickwald

    What’s this song called?

  • Anonymous

    It’s called You Gotta Tap by Audiobody – find it on Audiobody.com or on iTunes :)

  • Sophilaybee

    very helpful i got an a+

  • Egratz

    what gave you the idea to do this?

  • Egratz

    Why didn’t you post the other attempts?

  • Egratz

    I am doing a school project on you guys

  • Egratz

    My dad interviewed you guys, Irwin Gratz :D

  • Egratz2016

    …Why didn’t you give up?…

  • Egratz2016

    …I mean, all those tries….

  • B3895905

    How did you get them to go off at the right time
    I’m doing a project and I want to use 2 coke/mentos to propell my rocket, how do I get them to go off at the same time?

  • Spottedstar10

    I used this as a science experiment for school with my friends. When we tested it out, it sprayed all over the bath tub! My mom got pissed but it was so much fun!

  • Spottedstar10

    Well then you just don’t know how to have fun.

  • Rachelbabe71

    you should have like a list and how to do it type up to dont be lazy lolz

  • Imroln2

    my dauter is doing this for her experiment!!! (So excited!!)

  • Beety Mercredi

    That was amazing !!! any tips ? im doing this as my science project