How do you do the died coke and mentos experiment?

Question

How do you drop the all the Mentos into the coke at once without ripping open the packaging (making the Mentos go flying all over the place)? Is there an easy way to do it? it's hard to tell in the videos. Also, does it matter what size bottle you use?

Answer 1

I would use a two liter of coke. Get some PVC Pipe about the same diameter of the opening of the soda bottle, but a little bigger. Cut a slit in the pipe near the opening of the bottle. Connect it to the bottle and secure it with duct tape. Insert a piece of cardboard there and attach a string to it. You should have prevented the mentos from falling in. Once you put in the cardboard, stack your mentos on top. Make sure the base of the soda bottle is stable. Pull the string and you have a chemical reaction of diet coke fizz going everywhere.

Answer 2

You dont ripp all the packaging off, you just rip the bottom of the package off then you drop the mentos in the diet coke (2 liters is the mininum)

Answer 3

we did it and it worked - we dropped a few menthos into a 2 liter bottle that was more than half full and stood back - looked like an eruption - it was pretty cool

Answer 4

u open it drop them in and watch the show and its diet not died