(hammer pounds) (Barry groans)
- Look at that smoke, what's going on?
Press the X.
Oh my gosh.
- Stop, my finger's stuck.
- What?
- [Mrs. B] Where (beep) did he put it (beeping)?
(dramatic music)
- Hello, everyone.
- Hi. - Hi, Mrs. B.
- Hello. - High five.
Welcome to another kitchen hack testing video,
the playlist, Mrs. B, where we--
- Find kitchen hacks that you've sent us on the internet,
and actually try them out and see if they work.
- Yes, this is part of a massive playlist,
so put on your marathon sweatband, have,
actually we should sell those, that would be amazing.
- Oh, what a good idea.
- Check out the rest of the playlist,
'cause we have found some very good hacks,
some very dangerous ones, and some very bad ones.
- Rubbish ones.
- And that is our role as trained hack professionals,
as always, to muddle our way through them for you.
And actually today, it's my choice.
- Oh, you have chosen them, and I'm a bit scared,
because you've got some things out in the garage.
- Yeah.
- They're always dangerous when you pick them.
- There are two dangerous ones today.
There's one that will definitely not work,
that's just random and you guys keep sending it to me.
- Okay. - There's another one
that's dangerous. - Right.
- But on brand. - Yeah.
- And there's some that's actually quite,
I think gonna be quite cool. - Okay.
- So I think we'll start with a nice, easy one, ready?
- Good, yep.
- Let's go.
Hacks away. Have you ever been in a situation
where you've wanted to chop up a cauliflower
and get the stalks off quickly and you've not actually
got an actual gadget that's dedicated for that?
- Yes, all the time.
- Well, you use one of these. - Oh!
- An apple corer.
Although the video doesn't show
the whole cauliflower being separated.
- Oh no.
- What if we become, I just moved the camera,
and Mrs. B just says
"Didn't know you could get extra large cauliflowers."
Now this is where this hack doesn't sort of do
what this other tool does, because we need to get in
and get these out, okay?
- Yeah. - So we can just do that
with a knife, 'cause you can't do it with that.
- Right, so what, what's the point of this, then?
- I'm getting onto that now.
This doesn't, very good actually.
Let's just see if we can do
what we just did there with the apple corer.
Okay, yeah, you could. - Yeah, you can.
- You can, but that is not the hack.
- Oh. - So you kind of,
the hack is that you need the apple corer,
but then you've also got to remove
the larger florets first, which once you do one,
I mean you can just snap them off.
So what you do, right? - Okay, yeah?
Just push it. - Just put that over there.
- Yeah. - Push down.
(cauliflower crunches)
- [Barry] And you've got little bits of cauliflower.
- Okay.
- Nice, diddy bits of cauliflower portions.
Is that all right?
- Yes, that's good, that's possible.
- I do like this little bit that you're left with there,
look at that.
- If you twist it, serrate it.
- Ah, it'll still work. - There, oh! (laughs)
(tool pops) There you go.
- This'll work. - Yeah, so I mean,
you have to put it apart.
- I like, I do. - Yeah?
- I'm-- - So you're gonna use that.
- No. (couple laughs)
- Hack number two.
Have you ever been in a situation
where you need to open a bottle--
- Yeah. - Or a jar,
and you, you can't do it but you luckily have a spanner
to hand and a glue gun.
- Ooh, okay.
- And some nuts. (Mrs. B giggles)
So I have been a situation quite recently
where I haven't been able to open a jar.
- Yeah, and that is quite a common thing
that people struggle with.
I don't think this is for those people.
- Okay.
- This is a spanner. - Okay.
- Glue gun. - Yeah.
So we just go like this and twist?
- Do you know what, you probably could.
Look, okay? - Okay.
- [Barry] So what we want you to do
is basically glue this on there.
- -Mm-hm, okay. - I'll leave it up to you.
- Okay. - I don't,
I'm not an expert at this, but it should work.
So the hope is that we glue this up.
Oh, is your gun ready?
- It's ready, it's leaking glue.
- [Barry] All right.
So yeah, just glue this on there, mate.
Yes.
- Okay. - There you go.
Building up some layers now.
- Okay, go like this, try it this way.
- Yeah, all I do know
is that we're gonna owe our daughter a glue gun stick.
- As long as you didn't do what I did the other day
and super glue my fingers together.
- Yes. - When I was trying
to super glue a bit of a shoe.
Oh dear. - Yes.
- That really, really hurt.
- It was great to watch.
- So I'm guessing, do I then put this around the--
- Well, yeah. - The nuts?
Is that what I do?
- [Barry] Yeah, well adjust it to make sure
that it fits there, that's it.
- Yeah. - Find the street edge
like that. - Like that?
Right, and then you tighten it?
- [Barry] Yeah, just tighten into it.
- [Mrs. B] Okay.
(tool cracks)
- Oh no!
- Uh, oh.
- Try the jar, try the jar.
I'm confident about this actually.
(tool cracks) Ah, no. (laughs)
Just as it comes off.
Right, let's get the strong stuff.
Well, before we go down that route,
Mrs. B's found some super glue.
- This is the dangerous stuff
that sticks your fingers together.
- [Barry] Actually, if that stuck your fingers,
it should do it right?
- I don't like it though.
Scares me, you know?
- Brings back memories. - Ooh.
- All right, here we go, super glue.
(Mrs. B gasps) Is it doing it?
- Yeah, that's worked.
- Hey! (laughs)
- Oh, I like that.
- Do you like it, I mean, is it useful?
- I do, yes.
- To be fair, there's some people
that might struggle with the, I mean,
there are opening jars and bottles is one
of the most common things I get from gadget videos,
if there's gadgets for that, and I have a lot for that.
Is it stuck to the spanner?
Oh, crikey. (Mrs. B gasps)
That that is the downside,
you are kind of left with this. (laughs)
- You don't need these nuts, do you?
- No.
- Oh, gosh, it's still sticky.
So now we've got bottle of elderflower with a nut.
- (laughs) Yeah, but you can tighten it.
Oh, is that little nut in tight?
- Oh yeah, you can tighten it.
Oh, I like, oh no! - Will you do this one?
- Stop, my finger's stuck.
- What?
(laughs) Is your finger stuck to the?
- I got me here, ow. (Barry laughs)
- Right, do you wanna do it again?
- You have a go. - Okay.
(tools clatter)
Let's try that one again.
It's gotta work, surely.
You just tried to--
- Oh no, Barry, you've got glue on there!
- What?
- You put glue on that, so my fingers.
- On what side? - Are stuck.
I'm really pulling. - Come on.
- No, 'cause you'll hurt me.
- I won't hurt you.
- You need some, um, what did I use?
I googled it, bicarbonate of soda.
Oh good.
- On this piece
we've got baking powder. (laughs)
- Barry (beep) where did he put it (beeping)?
Vaseline worked. - Great.
- That was so, look at, my finger's dented.
- No, that doesn't,
that's not actually like setting on there.
- Maybe we should leave it to the end of the video
and try it.
- Yes.
Have you ever been in a situation where
you struggle to peel boiled eggs?
- Yeah, quite a bit actually.
- Well, apparently if you boil eggs,
- Yeah. - In lemon juice.
- Yeah? - And the other option
is to actually brush lemon juice on, so we'll do both,
just to give us the best chance.
It helps make the shell come off much easier.
- Really, wow.
Okay. - Yeah.
- Let's give it go. - Safe one.
She's like, yeah, this, all right.
- Yeah, I like this one, we'll do this one.
- We've got two pans of water here
that we're gonna bring to the boil.
One is gonna be in standard water,
so we'll try and peel the eggs.
- Okay. - And the other one
will be in the lemon water with a lemon wedge
brushed lemon juice on stylee.
Shall we crack on?
So lemon wedge, straight in there, okay?
- Yeah. - So the acidity
is gonna be in that water all the time,
but we're gonna brush them as well, the eggs.
- Okay.
- In fact-- - How much juice do you?
- Yeah, don't really need much, 'cause--
- Yeah, pretty soon we're going to be boiling it
in lemon juice.
- I think it's 'cause I got confused, like they say,
we're gonna paint an egg.
Oh, I've gotta do the first coat or undercoat
and then some more. I think that's gonna be fine, isn't it?
- Oh yeah, I'd say.
- You don't have to do this.
I've thought we might as well just do both
just at the same time.
- And then put it in the water?
- Yeah. Do you think this is gonna work?
- I do, actually.
- You do? - I'm really intrigued
'cause I've been boiling eggs recently, and it's been,
the shells have been like sticking to them.
It's been really hard to get them off.
- That'd be the super glue on your fingers.
- Yeah. (Barry laughs)
- I feel like we're gonna be a little disappointed
that it's not gonna peel as good.
So it's good that we've got a bit of controversy,
a bit of drama, a bit of tension.
We'll see you once Elvis has left the building.
Just for our sanity, we'll put a lemon wedge there.
(timer beeping melodically)
- [Barry] Let's get the clean water out first.
- [Mrs. B] Okay.
- So that we don't infect it whatsoever.
- Oh yeah. - With any speck
of lemon juice. - Uh, oh.
- And into this one. - This one's got a crack.
- Has it? Oh yeah, I see that one, oh wow.
Look at that, yeah?
Proper crack down there.
- [Mrs. B] Let's get the lemon ones out.
I don't think there's any crack.
(timer beeping melodically)
- There's nothing on that.
Oh, it feels slimy. - Does it?
- Yeah, that's weird.
- [Mrs. B] Oh, that one looks pretty good,
doesn't it, as well?
- Yeah, there are no cracks on these eggs.
So part one has worked, uh-huh.
Shall we try the standard eggs, no lemon?
It's not too bad, it's coming off all right.
And then if you get a bit of water on there as well,
that can help.
- It is a bit like bitty.
Oh, there we go.
- Oh yeah, yours is all right.
But I'm pulling off chunks of egg, here.
What do you think?
- It was just like peeling an egg.
(Barry laughs)
- Okay, so when I put them in there
and felt them a minute ago,
can you feel there's like a slime on the egg?
- I can actually.
- But actually, because you've not got that crack,
it is harder to, ooh.
- I didn't think it's making any difference.
- It was worse actually. - Oh yeah, look.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, this isn't, this is just the same.
- Yeah. - Oh,
I was really, really hopeful for this hack.
- Yeah, this is like almost taking off,
but it wants to take a layer off with it.
Like it's almost bonded it.
- Oh my gosh, look, I've just taken all of that off.
- Oh, oh gosh.
- Save your lemons, don't put them in with your eggs.
It makes no difference.
- Hey. - Hey.
- Hey, right.
You ever been a situation where you want to crack walnuts
but you do not have a nutcracker?
- Yes, every Christmas.
- Really? - No.
- Oh, this is a hack for that.
- Okay.
- You've got an excess, egg-cess, spare egg carton.
- Okay.
- Because you just boiled some eggs.
- Yep.
- You've got the walnuts that need bashing
'cause they're not ones that are sold already shelled.
- Okay.
- And you've got hammer.
- Okay.
- So I can't really demonstrate,
but when you try and break the walnuts
and you use them, it goes everywhere doesn't it?
The shell just scatters and it perishes.
But in an egg carton, yeah,
you have got yourself your very own little compartments.
- So now, do I put the lid on and bash?
- No. - No. (laughs)
I guess it would just reach. (laughs)
- All right. (hammer bangs)
Crikey, there you go! - Oh!
- And it didn't, it jumped out, but there you go.
(hammer bangs) (Barry grunts)
Yep, yes, yes.
(hammer banging)
- Ah, it just went in my face!
(Barry laughs)
(hammer banging)
(gasps) I like this.
Oh look, it just does, it just cracks open.
Can you just eat it like that?
- Yeah.
On the video, it showed it looking absolutely perfect
- You can't-- - You still gotta
separate the shell a bit,
but you could have your shell in there.
- [Mrs. B] Oh, good idea, rubbish tray.
I like this hack.
- Yeah? - That's a good one.
- Thanks, mate.
When I first saw it, I thought it was nuts.
(Mrs. B groans)
Oh, I hope I cashew doing that on Christmas Day.
- You just stole my joke.
Chestnut you wait.
- Chestnut you wait? - Chestnut you wait.
- For reference.
This is what we're doing.
See this?
- Yeah.
Oh my God. (Barry laughs)
It's the Skittles all over again.
- Yes, people have begged me to, look at that.
- (gasps) That is amazing.
If that works, that is gonna be, impressive.
- It's not gonna work. - I know.
- Come on, believe in it.
Believe in the hack. (Barry sighs)
- Twister lollies are very retro, aren't they?
What are they, pineapple, lime and strawberry?
And they're tiny.
I feel really bad for kids these days.
- They're twister minis. - You know a twister
used to be like that, didn't it?
It's half the size, aren't they, look at that!
Some popcorn kernels, might not use all of this.
Yeah, so you got some oil in there.
And they didn't put the lid on
until this had fully melted.
(stove clicking)
The colours of the lolly should dye the popcorn.
We did this with Skittles.
- It was Skittles. - Yeah.
On on a hacks video.
If you check the playlist out,
I hope if you're enjoying this video, folks,
don't forget to check out the playlist.
It is really fun over the years.
I think my favourite hack is still the wine bottle
with the-- - I was thinking that.
- With the heat thing where it hit the ceiling, the cork.
That was amazing.
- That was the first dangerous one.
- Yeah, and I can see slightly different shades of colour,
but folks, it's not gonna work.
This is-- - Oh,
I really want it to work.
It's like the egg one again.
- If it does anything, I think it's gonna be one colour,
consistent colour, of all of these melted together.
'Cause you can't keep them separate like that.
There's no way.
But you've got blue, red, and yellow,
and it is all dyed into like this red fluid.
But you don't want popcorn to be wet.
- No. - It'll be soggy.
See now if that water's gone, we should still get a pop.
There is a pop, there we go.
- [Mrs. B] Another one!
(popcorn popping)
I smell burning.
- Gosh, yeah, I can see burning.
I think we better get that off the heat
before there is--
- Burnt popcorn in there, whew!
- Honestly, we've just opened our back door
'cause that stinks like it is burning
and we haven't even opened a pan yet.
- [Mrs. B] Oh, it's the burned lollipop stick.
- [Barry] It's the lolly stick.
Oh, I, I tell you what, mate.
- Oh no! - No!
I think it was the rest of the popcorn as well, mate.
That's got burnt sugar all over it.
- [Mrs. B] Oh!
- [Barry] Oh my gosh, look at that.
- Where was the rainbow popcorn?
- There's your rainbow.
That folks, you really wanted to see it.
That does not work. - Oh.
(popcorn crunching)
- Oh, that is disgusting.
That is horrendous.
That tastes like smoke.
That's a fail. - A fail.
- Do you like toasters?
- Oh no. (Barry laughs)
Oh, I don't like these toaster ones.
- A toaster is a dangerous appliance.
- Yes!
- It really is, so please be careful.
A lot of you sent this to me, and I figured let's do this.
You ever been in a situation
where you've got some leftover cold pizza
and you wanna reheat it?
- No.
- Apparently, you can do it in a toaster.
And this is where I'm worried
because the slices don't go in covered at all.
- Do you think that we're gonna catch the cheese on fire?
- Yeah.
Oh by the way, it's gotta be upturned as well.
That's why it's on a board.
- Oh my gosh.
This is getting worse.
Oh my gosh.
- [Barry] And maybe we'll do,
should we just do, no, let's do two.
- Yeah, no more than two.
- So my fear is
that it's these grabbers that obviously the toaster
it pulls it down or across, as the case may be.
We'll probably tip it a little bit to let it fall in.
My fear is that they're gonna squish it together
and if it gets too hot,
cheese could bubble into the heating elements.
- So push it down?
- [Barry] If I tilt it at an angle like this, slightly.
There we go.
And then, there we go, and then you push it down.
There you go.
It has gone in there.
- Can't believe I'm doing this.
- [Barry] Oh my gosh, I can hear it.
- [Mrs. B] I can smell burning already.
- [Barry] There is burning--
- There's burning coming out of here.
- Where? - There's like smoke
coming out the bottom.
- Oh, why?
Oh, actually eject it, Mrs. B.
Press the X. - Oh!
- Oh my gosh.
Okay, I think it was right at the bottom.
There we go, right, now, can you clamp it?
There we go.
See that's much higher up the toaster, now.
That is the face of confidence.
- [Mrs. B] That's okay 'cause it just looks like a grill.
- Should we get the other two slices in?
Oh there, oh my gosh, there is smoke.
Should we eject it out?
- Eject, eject. - Quickly, eject it.
(Barry sighs) - Oh my gosh, yes.
- Look at that smoke, what's going on?
Oh!
That-- - Oh, that's hot!
- Is hot pizza.
Mm.
- Burnt pizza.
- That's hot! - Yeah.
- I wouldn't recommend this, though.
And I'm not doing it again.
- That is red hot.
Oh, can we do it one more time?
(Mrs. B grunts)
- I think a toaster's just designed to put bread in.
- But this is actually the picture there that originated.
This is Jimmy Taylor on Twitter that requested that.
So there you go, Jimmy.
Actually a lot of other people have tagged me in that
over the last year or so, but that kind of worked.
- Yeah, but I don't wanna do a toaster hack
ever again, please. (Barry laughs)
(gasps) It's done it.
- Oh, that's amazing! - Yes!
- Did you hear that the seal.
- By yeah.
- Didn't actually do a proper poppage,
'cause it had a nut on it.
- Oh yeah, it can't pop.
How's it, oh no.
Ah, oh no! (Barry laughs)
I'm stuck!
- Are you generally stuck again?
- Yes!
- Quick, get the bicarbonate of soda.
Mrs. B, thank for watching, folks.
What's your favourite hack today?
- Walnuts! - Yes.
(laughs) I think we,
although we started with the cauliflower one, that was okay.
- Oh yeah. - Things have gone
a bit downhill, actually.
The popcorn?
Er, no. - No.
- The pizza, no. - No.
- The eggs? - No.
- The cauliflower? - Yes.
- This? - Yes.
- But I think the walnuts is the winner.
- Definitely. - All right folks,
thanks so much for watching.
Do put on your marathon sweatband now,
check out the rest of the videos
here on the channel entirely.
Nearly 2,000 videos now.
Nuts. - That's crazy!
(bag slams)
- Walnuts.
Cheers, guys, see you later.
- Bye! - Bye.
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- Are your fingers all right?
- No.