In today’s video, I’ll be testing up the newest life hacks posted on BuzzFeed
to find out how well they really work.
Along with few older ones that it looks like they just threw in with the new list.
Including how to peel potatoes with a toilet brush,
apple peeling with a power drill.
The best way to skin a mango and several others.
Plus, more things you guys dared me to do in the comment section.
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So for this first life hack from BuzzFeed,
it was something that I thought was definitely pretty crazy looking.
They were saying to take a toilet brush, hook it up to a power drill,
and use that to skin your potatoes.
It came with a gif that was pretty convincing
but I want to find out exactly how well this works.
Now although this definitely does seem like a very redneck way to do it.
But if it does work, it’s definitely worth all this
because peeling potatoes is probably like the most annoying chore
you can do in the kitchen.
It was kind of difficult finding a brush
that would actually have something that a drill could clamp on to.
I definitely didn’t want to make some sort of custom thing just for this.
If you have to put in a lot of work behind your life hack,
it’s not much of a life hack.
But according to the gif, it looked pretty simple.
Using a bucket with some water in it and you just add in several potatoes.
I don’t want to add in too many but they did suggest
that this is a life hack for peeling lots of potatoes.
And they also made the claim that this would work pretty quickly.
Okay, I don’t know what to expect.
I wasn’t expecting that though. Holy sh…
It started to become abundantly clear
that I need to give this a little bit more room.
So I just backed it up a little bit and we’ll continue on.
Well, other than flooding my apartment, this isn’t working out very well.
It just keeps on falling out.
Okay. Need to rethink this a little bit.
Maybe figure out a better way to connect this to my drill.
But I think it can work.
Okay. So, really, I think I was just kind of having a problem
with how this connected to the drill.
I put the extension back on it and...
I’m just going to give it a shot and we’ll see what happens.
You know, I got to say, that is probably the most
redneck way ever to peel a potato but it works, you know?
I mean that is like the perfect amount of skin that you want to leave
on a potato after you peeled it -- in my opinion.
I think that that’s pretty good though.
One thing: you definitely do want to go outside if you’re going to do this
because, as you can imagine, my apartment is now basically covered in potato water.
But it actually does work pretty good.
I don’t know how long it would have taken me to peel these by hand
but I’m sure I would have still been doing it.
And although this is probably the most redneck way ever to peel a potato,
it also might be the best.
And that being said, we’ll be on to the next life hack.
For this next life hack, what I’m going to be doing
is using dental floss to cut a muffin.
They suggest using cakes but I actually think that a muffin is even more crumbly.
Therefore, making it more difficult but we’ll see.
Either way, I was kind of hungry so I wanted to do this life hack now.
And it just splits apart on its own after that. That’s pretty awesome.
Perfect cut right down the middle.
Well, I thought that was pretty easy and it works so...
That been sold, on to the next life hack.
For the next life hack, I’m going to be using this drill.
But in order to do that, I have to get this thing opened first
which is a blister pack containing my drill bits.
So I decided to try another life hack while we’re doing that.
And according to BuzzFeed,
using a can opener is a great way to get open this blister pack.
So we’re going to put that to the test now.
That time it didn’t work. It just kind of crinkled it.
It’s not open.
Okay, I don’t know if maybe I just have a funky can opener
or if I’m doing it wrong.
But it just kind of like messes up the corner.
It doesn’t actually open it.
So I’m going to show you a trick that I usually do
whenever I’m opening these blister packs.
I just take the opening that’s usually right there where they hang the product.
Wedge my finger into it like that and rip it open.
That was easy.
It might not work with all blister packs
because it has to have that opening right there.
I've even opened these without that.
It all depends on your hand strength, I guess.
The can opener thing didn’t really work for me so...
So for this next life hack, I need a drill bit -- like I said.
So what we’re going to be doing is putting a drill bit through this apple
and spinning it around with the drill.
Meanwhile I’ll be holding this carrot peeler up to it
and hopefully that will make a way to take the peel off of the apple.
That’s what they suggested in the life hack.
Seems pretty complicated but we’re going to give it a shot.
It’s kind of similar to peeling potatoes -- nobody wants that job.
And if you have to peel a bunch of these,
you’re probably going to be looking for a pretty good way.
So I figure we give this a shot and see how it works.
I’m going to be using a kind of bigger drill bit.
Hopefully that works all the same.
Just going to drill it right through the top of the center.
It’s working. Yeah!
It works! That’s pretty awesome.
It definitely reminds me of the corn drill challenge.
Alright, let’s try this out.
The thing is you need kind of a round apple otherwise it doesn’t spin evenly.
Alright, let’s try this thing.
Hopefully I don’t drill into my table here but I might.
That’s pretty awesome. That is a super quick way to peel an apple.
Alright. Now, just because we have this here,
I’m going to have to try the apple drill challenge.
So I’m thinking the best way to do it is actually to just go
super fast rather than going slow into it.
Hell yes!
Well, it’s not a great way to get this job done
because, again, stuff goes everywhere.
Now you need to come up with a life hack
on how to clean your apartment of all these apple peels everywhere.
But it does work, to varying degrees,
and it was a lot of fun so I kind of liked it.
That being said, we’ll be on to the next life hack.
For this next life hack, what we’re going to be doing is peeling a mango
using an ordinary glass.
Now I’m not a big mango eater so I’m not exactly sure what I’m doing here.
I’m just going to cut it right down the center.
Oh, okay.
Okay. So here’s my half mango right here.
Now, apparently, all you have to do
is just kind of run it along the side of the glass
and it will completely be skinned. So let’s try that.
It’s working.
That works pretty well.
I should start eating mango more often.
But I think that the goal is actually to just kind of run it along the side
and then have the mango part plop into this.
So let’s try that.
Boom!
That’s pretty awesome.
That was definitely the easiest way to do that I can think of.
Although the skin was pretty loose. It made it pretty easy.
So I think other methods will work fine too but
this is also a good way to just keep all the juices in the glass
while you’re peeling it rather than having it go everywhere.
I mean it did make a little bit of a mess but nothing too crazy.
Yeah, that’s awesome. I guess now I’ve got some mango to eat.
I’ve got a lot of stuff to eat now: apples, muffins, mangoes.
That being said, we’ll be on to the next life hack.
So the people at BuzzFeed are saying that if you take cherry tomatoes
and you put them in between two plates,
it makes it really easy to cut them in half -- which I think is pretty cool.
I’m a little bit skeptical about how well this is going to work.
I have a feeling I might just end up smooshing all the tomatoes
but we’re going to give it a shot.
Look at that. Absolutely perfect.
That definitely exceeded my expectations.
That’s awesome that work that well.
I definitely thought that I was going to end up smooshing all of these things.
Some of these life hacks work out a lot better than expected.
It’s usually the ones that are less complicated.
The more stuff there is to go wrong, the more stuff will go wrong.
But this one definitely pass with flying colors.
It was really, really easy and all the tomatoes came out absolutely perfect.
Doing this any other way would have probably taken a lot longer.
With that being said, we’re on to the next life hack.
And I’m always up for a good challenge.
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