- [Barry] Hey, that's not something you see every day.
- No.
I just don't get why you would do this.
- It ain't gonna work.
Hello everybody. How's it going?
Welcome to another kitchen hack testing.
Right, Mrs B?
- Yes, I'm good.
- The series in which Mrs B and I both
come up with a selection of hacks.
Some work. It has to be yours.
- Yep.
- Some don't.
- A lot of don'ts. (laughs)
- And today in the wheel of hacks,
(dramatic music)
I've selected them.
Which means?
- They're not going to work.
They're going to be fails.
No, they won't.
I believe in you.
- Okay, so our first hack.
Coffee, okay?
Let's go, let's go.
Don't go over there.
I know what you're doing.
You're going over towards the coffee machine, aren't you?
That's right there.
- Yeah?
- And you're right.
We do need that today, but we don't need
the coffee machine to make coffee today.
We're just, it doesn't have to
actually be coffee, actually.
- Get the coffee?
It could be hot chocolate.
Have we got any cocoa powder.
That might be a bit more authentic, bit more on brand.
- Yeah we've got hot chocolate.
- Yeah.
- Make a hot chocolate.
- Yeah, please.
- What? Okay.
- Did you just say, "this is posh stuff.
"We can't use this on the camera. I want it for me."
- No, this is expensive stuff.
- I mean, it would have been easier if
I'd just used cold gravy.
(both laughing)
What we're going to do is the world's easiest
gourmet topping for our hot chocolate, okay?
- Okay.
- It's really easy.
- Yeah?
- [Barry] We need marshmallows, all right?
- Right. Okay.
- [Barry] Chef's blowtorch.
- So far I've seen nothing to do with the coffee maker.
- [Barry] Forget about the coffee maker.
- Oh, we're not using the coffee maker?
- [Barry] Yes, but for something completely different.
- All right.
What?
I mean... (laughs)
- Forget about the coffee maker.
You've made hot chocolate, anyway.
- Well you... (laughs)
All right?
- [Barry] Literally load it with marshmallows, right?
Just cover it. Yeah.
But what about the coffee maker?
That's about as high as you can get it.
Right.
Chef's blowtorch.
- Yeah?
- [Barry] Toast the marshmallows, okay?
But they're gonna all melt together.
That's what you want.
You want them to all melt together as one big pile.
One big raft of marshmallow.
- Oh my gosh, this is quick.
Oh its burning.
- [Barry] It is burning mate.
Well done.
That's a flame.
- I was holding down that red button, I didn't need to.
- [Barry] Oh, no, no.
So get it nice and low, and hopefully you see
they're expanding a little bit.
- Ooh!
They're catching on fire.
- [Barry] They are catching on fire.
I don't know if this is working.
- What am I meant to be doing?
- [Barry] It's supposed to make one big
gooey marshmallow blob.
- Oh.
- [Barry] So make sure you get every little edge.
Every nook and cranny.
- Ooh!
(She blows air quick and fast at flame)
- [Barry] (Laughs) What are you doing?
Its not CPR.
- 'Cause they're catching on fire!
I've just got burnt marshmallows, Barry.
- [Barry] It's fine.
- You mean you were gonna do this on top of a coffee?
- [Barry] Well, I dunno, just a hot drink.
I mean you could microwave it.
Wow, it's actually on fire.
- I told you.
- [Barry] In fact, I think that we're burning it now.
- Yeah we are burning it now.
- For the record, this was supposed to be
one of my better ones.
This is what's supposed to happen.
We're going to turn this.
It's going to be one big scoop of marshmallow, apparently.
- Kind of?
- Kinda.
- I still don't know why you wanted to make it with coffee.
- You're going to find this hack strange.
This is a legitimate hack that I saw, right.
And it said, "have you ever been in a situation,
"where you've unfortunately got
"flour and rice in the same container?"
This is legitimate.
That's what it said.
- (laughs) Right?
- Right?
So this is the solution.
I've had to empty a bottle and dry it out fully.
Put some rice, okay?
So there's rice in there and flour in a bottle.
- Yeah. Right.
- So if you're ever in that situation,
luckily you can do this.
If it's a glass bottle,
it's going to be a bit harder.
- Can I guess what we're gonna do?
- Yeah.
- Do you pierce the bottle?
- Where's the coffee maker?
- Yeah. Do we pierce the bottle with a needle
and then the flour pours out.
- Yeah. We can just pour the flour out, yeah.
- Yeah. Is that it?
- The rice out.
- Pour the rice out?
Yeah, that's good size.
It's solid but fair.
You can't get it in? (laughs)
- I can't.
- (laughs)
Oh yeah we might wanna go--
- It's quite tough.
- Where'd my sewing box go?
- (laughs) Where'd my sewing box go?
We're going to knit a jumper.
- I make it sound like I can sew.
- I got a pin that works
and it makes it look like a Google Maps bottle.
The rice lives here.
Have I just gotta make lots of holes on one side?
- Yeah, make sure that all on the same side of the bottle,
Don't do it on both sides otherwise, well, if this works,
the flour will fall out, won't it?
- So we're kind of making like a sieve?
- Exactly.
In case you are ever in the situation where
you don't get flour and rice stuck in your sieve together,
which actually could be more...
No, no.
Why would you ever do this?
Day 123 of lockdown hobbies.
Why don't you pierce a plastic bottle with a pin.
- [Mrs B] Yeah?
- [Barry] Oh, look at that!
- [Mrs B] It's working!
That's cool.
- [Barry] Is it coming out?
- [Mrs B] Yeah, look!
- [Barry] Oh yeah.
It's hard to see from that angle, but... Oh yeah!
- [Mrs B] Why did you choose a silver bowl?
- [Barry] Why did I choose a silver bowl with as much
reflection as possible?
(both laughing)
Look, you can see the actual colour of the rice there.
That's worked really, really well.
- And you could do it as a game, like, yes.
- [Barry] You could, like a baby rattle.
- Couldn't you just pour this whole
thing in a sieve, anyway.
- Yeah, but I think it's if you haven't got a sieve.
- Well who doesn't have a sieve?
- So whilst you were doing your needle hunt thing,
I got some garlic here, okay?
- Yeah.
- Now, when you grate garlic, what happens to it?
- Sticks.
(both laughing)
- Yes.
You tend to, if you're going to grate garlic,
take it on that sort of, nice sort of fine one there.
And when you do grate garlic, it does
get stuck in the grate, doesn't it?
- Yeah.
- It's not great.
- I have to say, I've never grated garlic. (laughs)
- No, you get me to do it.
Or there's a Barry Lewis gadget for that.
Ooh, we could test this!
Hang on, right, any while.
This is what you do.
- Right, got the garlic.
- So, you get your garlic.
- Yeah?
- But no, you don't get your garlic.
- I don't have to touch the garlic, do I?
- Well, you basically get yourself a Ziploc bag, right?
- Yeah.
- And cloak it, cloak the grater.
There you go.
So it looks like it's been back at the shop again.
You take your garlic, and you go like that.
- [Mrs B] Right?
But then you getting all the plastic stuff onto the garlic.
You don't know where that plastic's been!
- (laughs) What are you on about?
You put food in them all the time!
"Oh, I'm not putting any packed lunch in that.
"I don't know where its been!"
- [Mrs B] (laughs) Oh, yeah.
That's so true.
- But look what's happening, right?
Look, you can just scrape that straight off.
- [Mrs B] (mumbles)
- Yeah?
And you've got your garlic.
That's good, right?
- [Mrs B] Yeah.
- That's good.
It's supposed to stop it getting stuck
inside your grater.
- [Mrs B] I see!
- [Barry] See?
So that is now off the grater, your grater is clean.
- [Mrs B] I understand now.
Yep. That's a good hack.
- [Barry] That is a good hack.
- Yeah!
- [Barry] It's now time for the coffee maker.
What do you think is going in there?
Well, there's either skittles?
(Voice is drowned out by Barry laughing)_
- [Barry] It's not Skittles.
- Skittles,, or popcorn kernels.
Is it popcorn?
- [Barry] No, neither of those.
- What?
We're not putting the garlic in there?
- [Barry] Yes.
- No. (laughs)
- [Barry] Yes, come on.
- No, no.
- [Barry] We are going to use this.
- Yeah?
- [Barry] To make some dinner.
- That's why you bought the salmon.
Oh, salmon in a coffee maker?
(groans)
- Yeah, so this coffee maker,
we haven't got any paper filters,
so we're gonna just have to go for this,
but the smelly stuff isn't going in that bit anyway.
We're going to fill it up with water
at the back, like standard, okay?
- Okay.
- So let's get it filled up with water.
Put the vegetables in there.
Don't know if they'll all fit.
- I'll just put a few in, yeah?
- [Barry] Yeah.
The salmon it's going to go in here,
with the main sort of canister thing, okay?
- Oh, it's going in there.
- [Barry] Yeah.
- Okay. I thought we were gonna put salmon in there.
- [Barry] (laughs) No, that would be disgusting.
I mean, not that this isn't, but...
- Oh!
- [Barry] Oh, that's fine.
- That's all right then.
- So what I was thinking was,
because we want to sort of flavour it,
you put a little bit of butter in there
with the salmon, okay?
And well we might as well put some
of that garlic in there as well.
Oh, look at that.
- Well, would you put two?
- [Barry] Yeah, put two in there.
Go on.
This is our dinner.
So the butter goes in with the salmon.
Look at that.
- [Mrs B] Right.
- [Barry] Eh?
That's not something you see every day.
- No.
- [Barry] Look, we can just scrape that off
and stick it in, in there.
I felt like Doc and Marty right now.
Like telling her, like, "when this hits 88 miles per hour,
"we're going to have some amazing dinner."
Honestly.
So the water, just like a normal coffee machine,
is going to warm up.
And what would be coffee granules is going to go through
and steam and work through the vegetables.
And then it's going to end up in here
with our buttery, salmon garlic, okay?
- Its saying there something wrong with it.
- [Barry] Oh it's on.
- Right.
- [Barry] There we go.
Dinner's going to be ready soon.
There we go.
That water is going to cook, it's going to
poach that salmon, it's going to melt the butter.
You see that already?
You see that?
We're making miracles happen.
- Yeah. I just don't get why you would do this.
- [Barry] Look at it.
It's all getting steamed up in there.
You actually can start to see
the bottom of the salmon changing as well.
Shall we return to this?
- Okay.
- [Barry] We're just getting ready for the next hack.
Boiling up a big pan of water, but it
looks like most of that hot water has
passed through there now.
- [Mrs B] Yeah?
- [Barry] (laughs) It looks like the world's
worst fish tank.
(both laughing)
We could have put, like, a stock cube in there.
Well that is fish stock, isn't it, in a way?
I don't even know what's going on in there,
but there's some serious steam coming out of it
so hopefully that'll work.
- Yes?
- [Barry] That was the most uncertain face ever.
So this other one for the pan being hot.
- Yeah?
- We want it simmering because we're going to make
some egg noodles.
- Right?
- Now the downside is, one, this could be messy.
I do think it could work.
But the other thing is the quantities
were not on the actual hack.
It just said a bit of flour.
- A bit of flour.
- And it was like four eggs
- Right, okay.
- And it became like a smooth--
You beat it together and put it in a Ziploc bag.
- Yeah. Right.
- So let's get to that stage.
All right, cool.
And now we'll add in the flour,
keep whisking it to try and get the consistency,
which was, I don't know. It was quite thin.
It was like a smooth, kind of runny look
and (laughs) I can't get the quantities.
We're just gonna have to try and do our best.
Alright.
Yep. Happy with that.
- Is that all right?
- [Barry] I think, yeah, it looks all right.
- Okay.
- [Barry] I don't really know.
- I dunno.
- [Barry] That's fairly runny actually,
but I think getting it smooth is quite critical.
What's going to happen is, the bag is going to be like this,
and you're going to pierce the bottom with a bamboo skewer.
- Right.
- [Barry] Right?
And threads of it is going to pour out
into the boiling water and it's going to
hopefully instantly make noodles.
- Okay.
- [Barry] (laughs) Like a fish at a fair.
- Oh, okay. Right.
- [Barry] Suddenly this bit feels really normal.
Right. You ready?
You've gotta properly jab it.
There we go.
And keep going.
That's it, keep going.
Look look look, its making noodles!
It's actually making--
Look, move it around.
Move it around, that's it.
That's it.
- [Mrs B] Oh my God.
- [Barry] Look at that.
- [Mrs B] This is the most disgusting thing in the world.
I'm looking at...
- [Barry] Yes, that's good.
- [Mrs B] But it looks like its merging together--
- [Barry] And now its...
Oh, it started really good.
But now it's gone really gloopy.
What's happened?
- [Mrs B] I don't know.
- [Barry] Right.
Quit while you're ahead.
- [Mrs B] Okay.
- [Barry] I can see some amazing noodles there.
- [Mrs B] Yeah!
- [Barry] And then there's like a weird island of custard.
Look at that!
- [Mrs B] Oh, wow!
- [Barry] That's actually pretty cool.
I just don't know how we're going to get..
Hey you've got a real mix.
- [Mrs B] That's really clever.
- [Barry] It's starting to boil over and it's gone
really, really gloopy.
- Oh my gosh.
What did you do?
- [Barry] I just left it for bit, that's all. You--
Oh! (laughs)
- [Mrs B] That looks like brains.
- [Barry] (laughs) Looks like brains?
So is that...
It's so mushy, look at that.
- [Mrs B] I thought it started so well!
- [Barry] It looked awesome, the first few.
- I thought I...
Maybe we should have stopped after the first few.
- Its not even cooked (laughs)
Oh, it's like...
It's like rubbery flour.
- Nice.
- Oh, it was looking so good at first.
It looked just like noodles, didn't it?
- It did.
- Oh. It's gonna be a bad one?
- Yes.
- Let's finish with a bang.
- Oh go-- Oh no.
- (laughs)
We've sort of done something similar before
and it failed massively.
- Right.
- We're going to make popcorn.
- Yeah?
- But Skittles are going in with it.
- (laughs) Oh god...
- And apparently it makes rainbow popcorn.
- Okay.
- Look, skittles.
- Yeah.
- In oil.
- Yeah.
- Add the popcorn kernels.
- Right.
- Give it a little mix.
Lid on, boom.
Ready? (laughs)
- Wow.
They make that look so easy.
- They always do, always do.
- Let's see how easy it really is.
- It ain't gonna work.
So we're going to just push it around,
get it covered in the oil.
Lid goes on.
And apparently that--
- [Mrs B] We just wait.
- [Barry] --is going to turn into delicious rainbow popcorn.
The other time we did something like this,
it was with Werthers's originals and
we put it all in and it was supposed to, like,
make toffee popcorn.
And that failed massively.
I gotta be honest its doing something.
Uh...
- [Mrs B] Kinda?
- [Barry] It's green,
- [Mrs B] There's some green bits.
Oh my gosh.
It smells horrible.
- [Barry] Oh look.
- [Mrs B] Oh, phwoar!
- [Barry] No, all the colours are down there.
Oh no, it was bur... (laughs)
- Oh, look. The sugar's burnt!
- [Barry] Its burnt!
Oh no!
- Lets have a look.
- [Barry] That's such a shame.
- Oh gosh. Oh yeah. I can smell the burnt stuff now.
- [Barry] Burnt sugar?
- Oh!
- [Barry] Oh dear.
But we're forgetting.
- We've still got the salmon!
- [Barry] Hey, we've got some dinner.
Pour the majority of that away,
although I'm sure it is like a fish stock.
Try and get that lid off.
Oh!
That is poached salmon, isn't it?
- Wow!
Yeah, should I get a plate?
- [Barry] And the butter flavour in it as well.
That we just washed away.
Lets have a look at this.
- [Mrs B] Should I open this?
- [Barry] Yeah.
- [Mrs B] Ooh.
- [Barry] It looks steamed. Looks all right.
- Steamed vegetables.
- [Barry] We might finish on a high here.
- I think we might!
(both laughing)
- We're just like, what has this morning been?
- Oh dear.
- Look at the state of this.
We were saying, "do we put more oil in?"
But that would've made it even crazier.
More skittles, that would have created more sugar,
which would've burnt it quicker.
More popcorn, it just would have exploded out the bowl.
You can see it's trying, can't you?
Now this one looks all right.
- Disgusting.
- No, that is disgusting.
Yep.
(both laughing)
Yep. That's, that's horrible.
Yeah, that's right up there with
one of the worst things I've ever tasted.
For sure.
I think you've even got a little bit of the pan on there.
- Ooh, nice. It's a little bit last night's dinner?
- Yeah.
Bleh!
We've done some good hacks on the playlist.
There's a full playlist of this.
So if you fancy having a barathon now, put on your sweatband
and check out the rest in the playlist.
And do let us know any cool hacks you've seen
on your social media platform of choice.
What was your favourite one today, Mrs B?
You can pick next time.
- Okay. I will pick next time.
I did like the noodles, until it didn't...
- Yeah.
- Work (laughs)
- They looked amazing.
The marshmallow one works, but...
- Yeah?
- But I think the garlic one is actually fairly strong.
- Yeah, they were all quite...
They were all unique.
- They were unique.
But the one we haven't finished actually is the salmon one.
- The salmon.
- [Barry] Oh my gosh. That smells like the ocean.
Please can I have some vegetables with my salmon?
- Wow, I'm really impressed that's cooked!
- [Barry] It has worked, hasn't it?
- Some vegetables, sir.
- [Barry] Yes please.
- Yes, comes in your own personal little basket.
- [Barry] (laughs) Brilliant, thank you.
Alright. Now, have they cooked.
Let's get back onto the tripod and we'll have a look.
Oh, just finish it off.
- (words are drowned out)
- That is medium rare.
- It's all right, it's vegetables.
- Yeah.
I've never had an al dente carrot before.
The fish, though.
- An al dente carrot?
- That is super tender.
- Is it?
- The fish is phenomenal.
- It's good!
- Do you know what?
I think you should put the vegetables in with the fish.
- Yeah, that would work.
- Just let it cook all in there together.
And that would work.
- Yeah!
- Like this broccoli.
Oh...
- I can hear you crunching. (laughs)
- I'm just eating a tree.
- That was a good one.
I think with a few tweaks, like say,
putting the veg in with the salmon,
that would be phenomenal.
- Yep.
- Or you could just make coffee in it.
- (laughs)
- [Barry] Its got a bone in this!
- Oh!
Got it?
- There's a bone in that, it's supposed to be boneless.
- They do put a little thing in small print.
"Although every effort has been taken to remove the bones,
"we can't guarantee this".
Blah-di-blah-di-blah
- Oh.
Were they talking about salmon or bodies?
(Both laughing)
- They may be evidence.
Good bye
Bye-bye.
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