- This is a lot of effort to separate an egg.
- Mate that's actually working.
- We also need a hammer.
- A hammer?
Hey everyone. - Hi.
- Hi Mrs. B - Hello.
- Welcome to another kitchen hack testing video,
a series of which we basically test those
viral kitchen hacks that you see across the internet
and try and debunk them and see if they're any good-
- Yes - or any bad.
Mrs. B has picked these six, so I have no idea.
- Have you ever been in a situation where you've got
like a tin of beans or soup
and it's got one of those pull rings on it
but you just can't open it?
- Yes.
Or sometimes I've snapped it off
or actually there are a lot of people
that struggle with that task.
- Well you can't snap it off in this hack cause you need it.
- Oh right, okay.
I gotta say this.
You got out of the whole world of soup.
The most boring soups you could have got me.
Tomato soup is literally, in my opinion,
just bolanaise sauce.
I mean great.
- You can't beat a good tomato soup.
Got your spoon.
- Yeah. - Right.
So I'm gonna show you how to open it with the spoon,
if you struggled to pull the ring back.
- Yeah. Okay.
Cause it is sort of firmly pressed against the metal.
- So you put it in there and you get your,
put your spoon through, right?
And then you just use your spoon.
Hang on, I've forgotten how to open it without my hand.
(quiet laughter)
- Okay. - Open it with a spoon.
- Yeah, that that, that kind of works.
I, I'm with you there.
I think there is sort of like working the leverage out.
So what you could do with it being a spoon
is I think I don't know, is this part of the video?
I didn't see it. - No.
- Yeah, but do you not sort of like get it under there
just to get that initial lift, bend it a bit
and then you go like that in there and then like that?
- Yeah.
You made that looking really easy.
- Sorry.
- Just your muscles. - I've been working out.
That is good.
Hey mate, thank you.
- Good start Mrs. B, I don't know
there are some people that struggle with it.
I don't know if that would help
because it's still a fair bit needed
but there are many gadgets that will help with that.
- Thinking that like maybe like
cause it's your wrist movement.
- Yeah.
- Maybe some people might find it easier with the spoon
rather than that if they've got sore wrist.
- Yeah, I think hooking that under there just to get it off
because sometimes that first bit
where it's like manufactured straight on there,
that help too.
So that's maybe where a spoon can help
and anyone want soup for lunch?
- Yes please.
Tomato.
Have you ever been the situation
where you would like to separate an egg
using a kitchen utensil to separate an egg?
- A spoon? - No.
- A fork? - No.
I'll show you.
What?
(quiet laughter)
The heck, did you pick the wrong thing out?
Are you sure? - No, no.
We are gonna separate an egg with a zester.
- Randomly, look.
That's a fox in our garden last night, look at that.
- Did you see that?
- That's like an egg yolk slide.
Mrs. B, why have you got this out?
- That's what that is.
- It's a wire rack.
- No, no that's a different one.
- Oh right, showed me a different hack.
- Oh no!
- It's, it's a wire rack you plonker.
- Oh I thought that was a different hack.
(awkward laughter)
This is a lot of effort to separate an egg.
- Hey, do you want an easy hack to separate an egg?
Check this out.
Effectively you're gonna crack the egg about here
so the egg white should run off it
as it travels down with the yolk in the bowl.
- Well I was gonna try and aim for it, for this bow.
- Yeah.
- Right.
All right, is it cracked, the egg on there.
Go get low, right to the thing.
There we go.
Oh my gosh.
Most of that egg white is,
oh look at that. - Look.
- It is falling through.
Can we see it there?
Look at that.
But the egg yolk (laughs) is kind of,
you can put a room temperature one, right by it.
I also think we could always just raise the angle of the
thing.
Oh my gosh.
- Look, it used to be like that.
(howling laughter)
- But you still got egg white.
- Yeah, but you gonna be left with the cutest
little fried egg, aren't you?
- Yes. - Look at that.
Oh that's amazing.
- Right, I'm gonna try with this one then.
- [Guy] So this is room temperature egg.
Oh my gosh.
- Big egg, that cracked a lot easier.
- I gotta be honest, the white is coming out quicker.
- Yeah. - Maybe lift the,
Oh no no it's going.
- Look, look.
- Oh my gosh.
This is why we put the other bowl there.
- Go on.
You can do it.
Go on.
(dramatic music)
(hearty laughter)
- Yay, and look,
the egg white on its way down fell in there.
- Yeah, I think - That's funny.
- The video didn't have the second bowl did it?
- No.
- But I think it's fair to say there is
some even coverage throughout.
So two bowls needed and a room temperature egg.
(bouncy piano music) - Go.
Yay - That is so fun.
I don't wanna put it away.
I just wanna keep doing it.
Hack number three.
Have you ever been in a situation
where you've got a new sauce bottle?
Right and you know they come with that thing.
- Oh yeah. (laughs loudly)
- And sometimes they're really hard to get off, aren't they?
- They are.
So I'm gonna show you a hack.
- Well,- - how to.
- they might be different in other countries
but sometimes we need to just show this,
this you get that little sort of flap there
which is sort of joined two thirds down and then one bit
and actually Tia, you do have to give it a bit of force
to lift it off to remove the by -ah.
Do you mind having a toy Seal in your own kitchen?
Just to get the comments going.
We have people over.
- Only certain brands have this seal.
- By-ya.
- And that is what's needed for this hack.
- All right I'm gonna do no more Seal jokes
- Anyway.
So, take the lid off. - I'm not gonna do it.
- And if you're really struggling to get the-
- Yeah. - off.
Get this bit, right?
- What, get what bit?
- This bit.
- Well there's a little bump.
- Yeah.
- Oh, so you peel back the actual bit that you'd lifted.
- Oh, well they just pushed it down and it made a hole.
So do this bit cause it's thinner.
- It's not flush enough to do that.
You need to, no mate if you look at it, the angle of it
that ain't gonna do it.
You could probably, go like this.
There you go.
I've just pierced it.
- Oh, well done, do that, yeah, pierce it.
Yeah. Yeah. (hearty laughter)
There you go, that's the hack.
- That's basically it.
- Yeah.
- I can see what you, so folks if you can see there
is a little round circle bit there with a bump.
But that is not actually like when we go flush like that
it's actually quite raised up.
So you would really need that to be a lot more protruding.
Oh, what about this actually, how about this?
See that it is got an indent on that side.
- Oh yeah. - Hang on a set,
Mrs. B, that wasn't the hack was it? (laughs)
Look, can you just hold that back for me
if I just get that on there,
right let go then.
- Mic drop. - Was that the hack?
Mrs. B, was that the hack? (laughs)
I was like, if only it had a more profound indent like
like here, like the other side of it.
You heard the pop, right?
- Which side did you use?
- Oh, you haven't got one?
Ah, that
see it's got this little teat,
I am gonna fail that one.
- Okay.
- Because it's, it's so variable on this.
Like, it doesn't work with that.
- No.
- It needs to be one that's got, yeah okay.
It's just too you know, I can see the convenience
of cracking an egg and separating it on a wire rack.
(boisterous laughter)
- Across three different forms.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Massive, that was a hit.
- Yeah, that's, that's convenient.
- Yeah, whereas that, Mrs. B,
- Yeah. - You know it's a
Barry level of hacks right now.
- Oh no.
- All right, hacks number four.
- Number four.
Got the world's biggest cucumber.
- Yeah.
- You started selling like half cucumbers now.
That is fricking.
- They've always sold half cucumbers.
- Oh, sorry.
Please allow me to still be involved in this hack.
I'm sorry for my lack of vegetable awareness.
- Have you never been in a situation
where you've got a cucumber
and you chop it up
and then you go to have some more the next day
and the end's all like-
- Mushy? - with a
little bit like, not very nice.
So you won't end up cutting it off.
No, I I, but that's because I hate cucumber.
But you like cucumber.
Does that happen to you?
- Yes. - It does.
This happens to me.
- That's right.
Okay.
- This is a hack to keep your cucumber fresh.
- Okay, cool.
- Cucumber, fresh.
- And all I see is the cucumber
and whatever you put in my eye, okay.
All right.
- Chop your end off.
- Okay, the end is removed from the cucumber.
- You slicing your cucumber.
I need that.
- Oh do you, I'm sorry.
- For the hack.
- Oh.
Oh so this wouldn't work with a half cucumber.
I think I know where you're going.
Ah no it wouldn't, that's why you bought a whole one.
- That is why I bought a whole one.
There you got your cucumber
and you're like, oh I'm done now I'm gonna
put this back in the fridge.
- Because in family life, that always happens.
- When I'm making a good slice.
(boisterous laughter)
- Oh my gosh, I think we all know where are we with that.
Right, that's it then kids,
the cucumbers sandwiches are ready.
Oh, plenty of time for the school run.
- Right, - So you pierce,
- you pierce this - the cap
of the thing that looks like a watermelon.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh. Yep.
- Put it in like that.
- And that's it because it's not exposed.
- Yeah.
- So as an avid cucumber fan,
would you use that hack generally?
- I would. - You would?
- I would, yeah.
The only, problem.
- This looks really sinister, doesn't it?
Like bamboo skewer sticking out of a cucumber.
- This, this cucumber as it goes down
gets- - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Thicker.
- So the bit on the end is not gonna fit
the bit in the middle.
- So that won't work.
So you need to make sure you get a cucumber
that is equal size.
(laughs awkwardly)
- I swear you can just (laughs)
like measuring it.
I do think you could put clean film on the end.
That's just my opinion.
Cling film with elastic band.
How about that?
(quiet laughter)
Shaking head like, no, this is the way,
this is the future.
Hack number five.
- Hack number five.
Have you ever been in a situation where you would
really fancy a nice glass of rainbow milk?
Well this is, I'm gonna show you how.
- Okay, I see two bowls.
- Yeah.
- We got white melted chocolate
- White melted chocolate, the rainbow sprinkles.
Dip it in,
like dip it in there. - Nice.
- Then you dip it in the sprinkles pouring your milk.
- Yeah.
- Right?
- So it's just touching those.
- Well now the sprinkles are gonna fall into the milk
and it's meant to get rainbow.
- Oh, the sprinkles should fall in.
- Like, unless it's meant to be.
Oh, was it meant to be warm milk?
They never said that on the video-.
- I don't think so.
I think it should break it down anyway.
- Yes. Yes.
It's doing, it's doing it.
It's doing it.
- Where? - on this side.
Yes it is, look's.
- It is doing it.
That is, - that's cool.
Is it cool?
Yeah.
My inner child says it's cool.
Yes, it is cool.
- We might be here a while.
- The suspense is killing me.
- Just taste some milk.
- It does just taste of milk.
- That was how it was meant to look.
- That looks amazing.
- Exactly.
- Well the colours there, look.
- Yeah.
- I reckon. - Spit that up.
They, they have put food dye in that, 100%.
There is no way it would look that perfect.
There's so many of them.
Although sprinkles so many different colours.
You wouldn't get clear, blue, yellow, red, like that.
Cheeky.
Be honest in terms of a hack
I don't think I would want to use that anyway.
- No.
- It's quite, I know where he was going with that
but I would much rather pierce a cucumber.
- So last hack, have you ever been in a situation
where you would like some mashed potato
but you don't have a potato masher?
- Why the heck have we got tubs of Pringles then?
- Well, we also need a hammer please.
- A hammer?
- And a nail.
- Right.
(loud hammering)
Oh, you got the hang of it now.
Giving it some welly, well done.
- Yeah.
- Yes. - Look at this.
The height,
what's going on with that? - Oh my gosh.
- Did we just discover inflation?
So what you do
I've got some potatoes that are boiled earlier.
- Yeah. - Right.
Ready, one.
- So So you got your potatoes in there.
- Yeah.
- They're so low down in there.
Potatoes in there.
- Yeah.
- Get your bottle and you're meant to just push.
Ah, it's coming, look.
- Oh my gosh.
(laughs heartily)
That is so helpful.
I am partially disappointed
because when I saw the balsamic vinegar
and that on flavoured potatoes.
- Did you think that was the hack?
- I did think it was gonna be involved, but.
- Sorry.
- Do you know what, I mean we have here
mashed potato strings.
- Yeah.
And a layer of mashed potato where I didn't quite get to it.
- Okay.
Hey well, after today that is up there
with a very simple one.
(hearty laughter)
I think we'll take that as a slight pat.
It did mash.
- Don't we get with yours?
- I'm alright.
- Oh, okay.
You have potato in your ear.
- Have I?
- How you manage that?
- I had a chip on my shoulder.
- Way. - Way.
All right.
It's time to stop.
Hammer time.
Favourite hack today?
- I think the cucumber for the one that I will use.
- Yes.
- But the fun, funnest was the egg separating it.
- And it's all about being the funnest hack.
My favourite.
It's actually the tin can.
I thought that was pretty useful.
I like that.
Ah, yeah, I didn't do too bad.
They weren't the best today.
- No, just won't be having any rainbow milk anytime soon.
The ramp thing with the egg was fun though.
I'll give it that, so.
- Thank you.
- Thank you so much.
- Thank you for your help with that one.
- Oh, you're welcome.
Appreciate it.
Would've been funny or would agree to it.
- We should probably just do that
as a scene just to see what happens.
But I think you'll just get stuck
on one of the actual greater ridges.
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