Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today because you asked me
to ... I'm doing another debunking video, where we take viral videos of Facebook
and YouTube usually DIYs and recipe ones and see if
they're real or if they have just been faked! This first video we're going to
look at today this recipe is on both five-minute crafts and so yummy but the
similarity between them is uncanny. I'm not sure who is copying who but you can
see this is shot by shot it's not merely a coincidence. Did you notice something
funny about the So Yummy one there? If you didn't rewind back and watch it
again and see if you can pick it up ... for those of you who've already done that
let me go ahead and spoil it and show you what the difference was. This is the
carton before it goes in the microwave and after it's in the microwave 🤪
obviously there's nothing in that carton it's completely empty because they've cut the
bottom off it and then magic at the end of the video it's back to the full size
of the carton again! Let me actually make this one because just by watching it I
can tell this is not going to work. It's not the ingredients that are the issue
is the method that's the issue here. So Yummy said to use 475 milliliters and
5-Minute-Craft said to use 300 ... I'm gonna go with the smaller volume because I think
it's gonna boil over anyway so we'll give it the best chance of working. Add
the other ingredients, now these ingredients as I said technically could
make a dessert you've got gelatin and sugar in the marshmallows that should
set it and make it sweet and the protein in the egg should make it rich and also
hope it's set. There's just no way it's gonna work using this method. Now we're
supposed to shake it and then we're supposed to put it in the microwave for
10 minutes! 10 minutes is a long time for anything in the microwave ... this is what
happened after 30 seconds ... the marshmallows melted and expanded which
is what they do when you put them in the microwave. Oh no it fell out! I'll just
put them back in again and then after 1 minute the milk starts to bubble up and
boil over as expected and the eggs curdle in there and make it lumpy
because they're being cooked for too long. This is not how you make an egg
custard and after ten minutes hmm 🧐 why are these debunking videos always so messy?
I guess I'll let that chill ... yummy! Milk flan mm-hmm ... this looks like one for Dave to try.
It's bad! Is that like ... is that supposed to be good? Is that like something people
order at a restaurant? Oh excuse me waiter,
I didn't order the baby spew 🤮Next Troom Troom's gonna show us how to make
it easy. These bananas are so delicate they are so quick to turn spotty and go
bad to fix the situation take a piece of foil wrap the fruit in it. Wow so much
time has passed but the banana in the foil is still as yellow and appetizing.
So to test this one I've got two bananas from the same bunch so they're the same
age. I've tried to find ones without marks on but this one does have a bit of
a bruise on it here already so I'm going to make that one the one that we leave
and we'll put the better one in foil so that the one with less bruises is in the
foil straight away. I'm pressing it really gently because I don't want the
foil to market and then we'll set that apart for five days like they said and
we'll check that later on in the video. While we're on the topic of keeping it
fresh ... So Yummy says that to keep your bread fresh and to stop it from going
mouldy just add a stick of celery in with the bag of bread then when you come
back a week later there's no mold and it's done its job. Well let's test that
one out too. I've got two bags of bread that have the exact same use by date so
that the exact same batch same brand putting a stick of celery in with one
and nothing in with the other. I actually came back five days later on this one
and there was no mold on either of them so I'm actually going to have to leave
them another five days and then we'll see what happens then and I'll show you
that at the end. The next video is from 5 minute crafts for KIDS and this one
has six million views. The description below the video says: "cooking is such a
pleasure and it's even more fun to eat everything you cook afterwards". So let's
have a look at what we're going to be eating after we cook what's in their
video today ... we've got skittles and then we're adding VODKA because it's for KIDS!
and making sweet colorful alcoholic drinks for kids that they can have fun
consuming afterwards. If you see a video that you think shouldn't be on YouTube
screenshot the advert that's on it and send it to the advertiser send them a
message saying you're paying for this content you're paying for alcoholic
drinks to be promoted to children. 5-minute-crafts for teens puts butter and Whethers
into a pan and then they melt them over the stovetop now we know this must
be sped up otherwise it would just burn. And then they're adding corn kernels
into the pan that looks really really burnt! There's only a few kernels popping
then they flip it over and there's a full bowl of caramel popcorn and
magically it's not too hot to touch even though it's just come out of the pan. So
we're gonna try this one of course. I know I'm gonna regret this because it's
gonna be a pain to clean my pan but anyway let me fast-forward the melting
process for you give that a bit of a stir because their next shot looked
perfectly mixed in they didn't have the butter in the caramel separate then add
the corn kernels. Put a bowl over at the top it's a bit fogged so it's a little
bit hard to see but the caramel is starting to burn at the bottom and the
corn is not even popping yet. This pan is gonna be a pain to clean.
oh there it is the first pop ... now we're popping! It's
starting to smoke as well so I'm gonna stop it there and flip it over...
My poor pan! I'll try and save these popped ones for Dave. It's ahhh... it's quite well done!
Mmmm ... you can really taste just a hint of charcoal in the caramel!
If you do want to know how to make the best caramel popcorn you'll have to watch the
gravity defying popcorn cake. This is the sort of food that Dave is used to me
serving up and now onto a Blossom video they're putting hot coal into peanut
butter and then freezing it for 24 hours and then magically you have a crystal.
Now quite a few of you sent me this one I'm not going to repeat an analysis with
this because number one there is no way in the world that can work and number
two The King of Random channel has done a great video dedicated to just this one
"so pretty much everything about this is just 100% nonsense they definitely faked
it". So I'll link you to that one underneath if you want to watch that.
back to baking take some melted candy melts and add straws and let it harden
then pull them out add a sunflower seed which looks cute to think that cute
little candles light them up and it's an edible candle. The thing that's strange
to me about this one is that candy melts don't melt like that ... they don't drip but
they're very thick when they're melted. So let's try and make it. Melt the candy
melts add the straws let it set and then struggle to pull them out. The candy melt
candles are broken because of the struggle to get them out so I'm going to
milk more candy melts and use a piping bag to fill a straw because that's heaps
easier and then run a knife down the straw and take that off add a sunflower
seed to the top and now to get that drip. Light the sunflower seed wait a minute I
can't get it to light let me hold the flame on it for a lot longer hmm how
am I gonna get a drip if I can't get it to light? Once more... we have smoke and a
little flame and now it's gone out with still no drip. Let's try another one
yes look at that I got one candle to light out of all of them whew
but no drip and it's gone out again. okay forget the sunflower seed I'm going to
add an actual candle wick so that we can see if we can replicate that drip. Light
it up and still no drip because candy melts don't drip like that. The flame is
burning the sugar in the candy melts and the candy melts are soft when they
heated up but they don't drip like wax does. So what did they do in their video
then? Well if we have a really close look you can see here there's a little bit on
the side that's there before it's started even heating up and then in the
next frame there's blue up the sunflower seed like
a wax drip has been dropped from above and then your eyes get distracted
watching would go down and yet another drop magically appears on top..
In case you were in any doubt this is not how you make a drip cake candy melts
are not going to drift down like that you need to make a ganache which is
cream and chocolate or you could use cream and candy melts and then you let
it cool to just the right thickness and then just pipe it around the edge
letting it drip down just a little bit. This next one
lots of you sent to me and asked me to review so I'm quickly going to run
through this one ... so first thing says to grab some grapes put them in pantyhose
pull them over a glass add water and the skin in purple grapes creates a pink
pigment. Now I don't know about that because I think a lot of you have
actually washed grapes before and would know that nothing comes off than when
you wash them you can actually make a die from grape skin but you need a lot
of skins and it's not gonna make that brighter color it's more a muted thing
as all natural dyes tend to give you not bright vivid colors but muted tones. But
let's try it anyway put the grapes in the glass add the water and no color is
coming off them. If I take the t-shirt out so we can just get some good footage
and add some gel food coloring then I can get some nice shots.
Let's get rid of the food color wash the glass and put t-shirt back in and add the
grapes on top and I'm gonna leave that overnight I'm gonna give it a long time
just to see what happens and 24 hours later ... surprise surprise the t-shirt is
still white! Now for Rosemarie I'm going to just copy what they do for each of
these ... add the rosemary and the t-shirt into a pot of water and I assume we heat
that up. Then this has yellow coming from the Rosemarie but there's no yellow
coming from my Rosemarie. I'm going to leave that for 24 hours and now we've
got some color that's leached into the water and the shirt is a very slight
creamy color. Now turmeric. Turmeric does stain things if you've ever got it on
your countertop you'll know it's hard to get off so if anything's gonna work it
should be this one. Add the hot water then the baking soda now we have two
reactions happening here number one the baking soda if you add that to hot water
is going to fizz and make carbon dioxide bubbles because that's what baking soda
does in a cake when you heat it up it starts to fizz and make bubbles so the
cake rises and number two the turmeric is acting as an indicator it shows you
if something is basic or neutral. If it's basic it will turn red if it's neutral
it will turn yellow. Now I've left this one overnight as well so we can see if
it colors it ... the shirt definitely looks red but the question is will it hold
that color. Interestingly when you rinse it in water which is neutral those shirt
turns yellow again and then if I add washing powder which is basic it turns
a reddy color again and that's because this is still acting as an indicator
the turmeric is still in the shirt. Once it's properly rinsed I wonder if
it'll still keep doing that I'll wash it and then we'll test it again. All right
so this has been washed and dried and it's a nice light lemony yellow not the
bright red but let's just get a little bit of soap which is basic on to
my finger and we'll put some on and see what happens...
ah look it's still changing color as you can see it's clear on my finger but it
is still changing color when I put anything basic on it. I don't know about
you but I don't really want to wear clothes that if I get something basic on
it it's going to indicate the color on it I don't want to wear a basic
indicator. But it's quite fun if you want to do that experiment with kids
I just wouldn't die my clothes that way. Onto another indicator red cabbage now
this is another fun experiment you can do but you don't need to do it with
clothes if you put red cabbage into a container with hot water leave it
overnight then you can strain out the cabbage and just use that bright purple
liquid that it gives you if you add an acid it's going to turn pink so some
lemon juice and vinegar if you add a base like baking soda it's going to turn
blue and it's a good indicator and it's a fun reaction to do with kids whether
it or dye clothes or not I don't know and then if it's going to keep having
this reaction if it does that's probably not ideal but let's test it out and have
a look. Here's the cabbage that's been soaking overnight and as I said that
gave off a great purple color it looks good so far but I don't know if this
will hold when it's washed. I'll test that in a minute add some vinegar in and
it will go pink and now for some baking powder that's fizzing because of the
vinegar and it's reacting with the acid in the vinegar if you didn't have the
vinegar in there it wouldn't fizz and that's turning blue. I'm gonna label these
so we know which one was which when they're washed ... so C is for cabbage and
then P for purple not that that looks super purple is a bit bluish. Now because
these haven't been washed they are of course still soaked in the cabbage water
so they're still gonna be acting as an indicator so even if you didn't wash
them and you just dried them so you had this colour they're still gonna be
reacting like you saw a yellow shirt so the issue with that is if you add
something acidic like lemon juice it's going to turn it pink.
Now sweat is acidic ... so I want you to imagine someone wearing this shirt and
sweating in it this is not going to be the best look!
anyway let me wash those so we can see if the color holds. So after washing
here is the cabbage blue and the cabbage purple and they're cabbage pink! If you
want to dye the stick to fabric you actually need to add a chemical called a
mordant to your dye so that the color sticks and doesn't just wash out or you
could just buy the clothes in the color you want them to be. Eucalyptus leaves we
have plenty of these in Australia. I hated this for a long time and then left
them overnight to soak and managed to get a little bit of color out of them and
we've got a nice creamy color actually quite like that color.
Moving on to spinach wilted spinach releases a turquoise dye apparently but
if we rewind back this and it isn't wilted at all. Here's the spinach in my pot
if I just freeze frame it then isolate the background from the leaves and use
color correction to make it whatever color I want to make it. Next if avocado
and I think you know by now how this is going to work out... 24 hours later ... gross!
it stinks and it's not pink. I'm gonna wash all of these after dyeing and
washing here we've got the three cabbages spinach grapes turmeric avocado
gum leaf and rosemary. Next they have faded black jeans plus coffee makes your
jeans really dark black like they're brand new.
now I've soaked one leg of these jeans in coffee and the other one I didn't ... can
you tell which one? hmm me neither but look I can't change the exposure on
my camera and now I can do it before and after shot. I was speaking to Jeff
Horowitz from The Wall Street Journal the other week ... he has written a great
article about fake DIY videos and I'll link you to that one below as well. In
the article he said that in response to this video that got more than 34 million
views toaster manufacturers came out in a statement and said you
should never put foil in a toaster because it can cause fires and electric
shocks. Smeg which is the toaster that's
featured in the video says they do not under any circumstances suggest that you
do this. The co-founder of First Media called that video regrettable describing
the company's decision to take them down as evidence of its industry-leading
standards. Well I just went over to the so yummy channel and I just found that
exact same video has just been re-uploaded to the channel and it's still there!
Anyway let's check up on the bananas they look pretty much the same whether
they were wrapped in foil or not so wrapping them in foil is an absolute
waste of time and money. Next for the bread after five days as I said there
was no mold so I left them for another 5 days and if we have a look at the one
without celery first ... it has a circle of white mold here and a couple of little
dots of mold growing there and that's about it.
now for the one with celery and we've got some mold here and there a little
bit there and here and then the disgusting bit ... the celery itself is
moldy and gross which has made the bread down this end very moldy 🤢 Hacks are
supposed to be helpful they're not supposed to be destructive! That's just
disgusting. I'm gonna leave you with another clip from blossom and you can
tell me in the comments what you think is wrong with this particular clip
rather than me telling you because I think you guys are pretty intelligent
and you figured this stuff out by now. With thanks to my patrons for supporting
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