Baking soda meets the knife block on Inventor 101

The channel's only new upload tests a wooden-block sharpening method, then puts the blade to a red bell pepper.

Channel: Inventor 101 Story of October 19, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Take Baking Soda and Sharpen Your Knives! An Unusual Trick to Try at Home

The oil has become a question of its own. Under Inventor 101's new knife-sharpening upload, several viewers ask which kind was used and whether cooking oil would work. The description specifies common cooking oil, but those questions sit alongside a broader request: explain how and why the method works, rather than leaving the demonstration silent.

"Take Baking Soda and Sharpen Your Knives! An Unusual Trick to Try at Home" was the channel's sole upload this week, reaching about 18,000 views. Inventor 101 describes preparing a wooden block with oil and baking soda, drawing the blade across it and testing the edge on a red bell pepper. Other commenters bring their own workshop preferences, suggesting whetstones or asking whether the process scratches the blade.

The kitchen experiment has the strongest daily momentum among the channel's active videos, followed by two older invention collections. "7 Genius DIY inventions" returns to plastic-bottle and toy recycling, while "6 Genius inventions " includes a homemade power bank, Bluetooth speaker and pencil-based soldering iron. That last project connects this week's viewing with the electronics tinkering featured in the channel's earlier note.

Across the catalog, Inventor 101 added roughly 1.1 million views over seven days, with its subscriber count unchanged. Daily viewing is currently above its usual level. It was a modest viewing week among nearby DIY channels, close to 5-MINUTE REPAIR's weekly gain, with the new upload bringing the focus back from homemade electronics to an everyday kitchen tool.

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The videos drawing views on Inventor 101 right now

7 Genius DIY inventions319,825 views 6 Genius inventions 188,826 views

The numbers

Here is Inventor 101's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Architectural Digest

8,046,812

Adam Savage’s Tested

5,099,222

SB Mowing - Shorts

3,110,635

Half-Asleep Chris

3,103,557

Living Big In A Tiny House

1,403,507

5-MINUTE REPAIR

1,327,561

Inventor 101

1,139,929

I did a thing

408,537

subscribers

6,050,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

2,012,963,150

views per day

223,293

typical day: 170,007

first-day views of each video posted this week

Take Baking Soda and Sharpen Your Knive…

10,141

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Architectural Digest

8,040,000

Adam Savage’s Tested

7,290,000

5-MINUTE REPAIR

6,780,000

Inventor 101

6,050,000

I did a thing

5,660,000

SB Mowing - Shorts

5,080,000

DIY Perks

4,950,000

Living Big In A Tiny House

4,790,000

Half-Asleep Chris

4,690,000

As of October 19, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.