Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and you asked for some more
debunking of viral videos so here we go. Blossom put out a video where a lady
literally throws her dinner on the floor. I'm not quite buying into the storyline
here I don't understand why she did that doesn't make any sense anyway the
solution is according to Blossom to spray shaving cream all over the top,
wait for 15 minutes and then when you wipe away the shaving cream ... magically
you have clean carpet and so usually as you know I would try this out but in an
interesting turn of events 5 minute crafts has tried it out for me! They put
out a video that says "we tested viral internet hacks" and they tested this one
in particular and you can see it's shot by shot in a very similar style but
instead of showing the perfectly clean carpet at the end it says it doesn't
work! So I think we've actually had progress there we've made debunking
trend to the point that now we've got content farms debunking content farms
which I think it's progress 🤨 Cory B has a prank channel he obviously
didn't see the 5 minute crafts one he just saw the Blossom one and thought
that this would work so we pranked his girlfriend by pouring some tomato pasta
sauce on their new rug thinking he could then just put shaving cream on it and
it's all gonna come off all fine and as you can see the results were not as he expected.
What do you know, it didn't come out! It's not a prank!
I wonder if he can bill them for a new rug? Probably not. Blossom also
put up a video where they showed a lady ironing her shirt and then a guy came in
handed her a shirt to iron and she said she didn't have time. At this point I
don't know why he didn't just iron the shirt himself but anyway that's another
point she then takes both shirts and puts them in the bathroom while she's having
a shower so that they can steam and once it's finished having a shower
both shirts are miraculously crease free looking perfect and the shirt behind has
morphed into a completely different shirt which is pretty powerful steam! 🤣
that'd be great ... want a whole new wardrobe just have a shower hang your
clothes there you get a new shirt who knows what you'll get. Anyway five
minutes Crafts has again decided to debunk this not the different shirt bit
I don't think they noticed that when they watched it but the steam bit so
they have done a video as well showing a lady getting into the shower and saying
after nope it still has creases in it so it didn't work. The question is can we
now trust five-minute crafts? Well for someone to be trustworthy they have to
show the truth and they have to do that all the time so you know you can trust
them not just some of the time. So I'm hoping they've turned over a new leaf
we'll look at a few more of their videos and see how we go. Another one in this
debunking trend we've got Blossom showing adding soda to wilted flowers
and apparently the sugar in the soda is supposed to refresh the flowers and make
them look good again it revives them. Now 5-minute Crafts has tested this theory
they've got some roses and then they've added the soda to it and then added a
clock there so it looks like they've done a time-lapse and then said this
doesn't work. Now I'm not sure if I quite believe either of them here because I
don't think either of them are telling the full story. I'm not an expert in
flowers and roses so I can't predict what's gonna happen but I am actually
gonna do my own time-lapse. The reason I don't trust the five-minute crafts one
either is they've got the clock they're going
around but there's no change there's no movement to the flowers whatsoever and
in a time-lapse I'd expect something to happen like even if they wilted more
you'd expect some change in the flowers so we're going to test this one out
ourselves. firstly I'm gonna put some roses into a
couple of glasses with no water because that's the quickest way to get them to
wilt is not give them any liquid at all. Now eight hours later we have some
wilted ones some that still look okay and note that we are talking about
wilted flowers here not dead ones ... if they're dead
nothing's gonna fix them. I'm going to choose a couple of the more wilted ones
and put them into the water sprite coke and Powerade and now we can watch what
happens over the next four hours. They all wilted even more! Now at this point I
stopped the time-lapse and thought perhaps that the ends of the stems might
have dried out while they had no water and so now the liquid can't get into the
stems so I chopped off a good chunk off the bottom of each of the roses in all
of the different liquids and then put them on to film again ... the roses in water
were good again in just 20 minutes that was such a fast turnaround. Powerade was
not far behind, Sprite did eventually work but it took
10 hours to do what the water did in 10 minutes. So if you've got wilted roses
just chop some off the bottom of the stem and give them some fresh water and
leave them for about 20 minutes and they should revive don't bother with the
Sprite you're wasting your time and your money doing that. Now I did also add
another fresh rose to each one, one that hadn't been wilted and I'm going to
leave those for the next week or so so I can see what happens. So they last better
in any particular one and I'll put the results of that up on my Patreon page.
Now let's look at a couple more 5-minute crafts videos they've got a recipe here
for Skittles popcorn so they take some oil and they pour it into the pan and
then they add Skittles and popcorn kernels and when they pop you get this
colorful skittle popcorn. Now this wouldn't work I can tell you what
wouldn't work just by looking at it because the Skittles are going to burn
before the popcorn pops so that's number one reason it's not going to work but
even beyond that you can tell that this is faked ... the reason being number one if
you look at it when the kernels are popping they're white you've got white
popcorn and then in the end you've got coloured and number two when you look at
the colors of popcorn they're very different to the colors of Skittles that
went in at the beginning! We've got yellow skittles and yellow popcorn which
is great and we've got pink and pink but what happened to the green and
dark purple?? Somehow did they combine to make blue? I don't know anyway I'm gonna
test this one for you to show you what would actually happen if you try and
make it using this method. Now it's popping and lots of them are still
popping but I can smell smoke already so I'm going to have to turn this off and
as expected the sugar in the Skittles has burnt to give us burnt Skittle
popcorn. Even one of the least black ones still tastes burnt and it certainly
doesn't look colourful so I think what's happened here is they've just missed a
couple of steps in the how-to tutorial which if you add them in it's gonna work
really well so let me show you what it should look like...
Seriously though if you did want Skittles popcorn and you're disappointed
that this won't work there are recipes on YouTube that have been uploaded more
than five years ago. Just add some butter into a pan with some corn syrup
or glucose syrup and then add skittles of all one color or colors that will go
together I don't have enough skittles to do all one color and then heat that up
until they're completely melted you'll need to stir that while it's heating and
then add in three cups of popcorn and stir that until that super hot sugary
syrup is completely coating all of the popcorn. Tip that onto a baking tray and
bake it in the oven for ten minutes to dry it out and then let that cool and
repeat that for every color that you want. Personally they seemed a bit greasy
to me and I'd rather eat the popcorn and the skittles separately. I did have this
bowl sitting on the bench all afternoon after the kids got home from school and
they all tried it but nobody finished off the bowl so to me that's evidence
this is not a great recipe they don't taste great if it hadn't been a bowl the
skittles and bowl of popcorn guaranteed both would have been finished. So give it
a try if you're desperate for Skittles popcorn otherwise eat them separately
they work better that way in my opinion. Moving on to the next one ... grate some
biscuits and put some baking paper across a slow cooker then press down the
biscuits and add cheesecake batter and the lit let it cook and then look at
that a perfect baked cheesecake with no cracks. Now they don't actually give their
recipe for baked cheesecake but it's not really an issue to me I have a
great recipe for a baked cheesecake which never cracks for me every time I
use it. Personally I think the key to it not cracking is using the right recipe
rather than the method they're using there in the slow cooker but anyway
what I'm gonna do is I'll use my recipe and I'll link to that
so if you want to make a baked Cheesecake you can but I'm gonna use
their method of cooking it in the slow cooker. Now I know you can cook
cheesecakes in the slow cooker but I just have never seen anyone do it in
the slow cooker, in the actual container usually it's done in a separate pan like
a cake pan that you slot in on top of a grill in the slow cooker.
the reason that I think this one needs debunking is because if you watch it
they put the batter in the Cheesecake batter and if we freeze frame on that
and then look at it once it's cooked it appears to have shrunk to a smaller size
cheesecake 🤨 now I know they shrink a little bit when you chill them but not
that much and that allows them just to lift it up easily and put it onto a
plate. I don't think that's going to happen I think it's gonna get stuck so
we're going to give it a go. Grate up some biscuits put some baking paper
across the slow cooker, tip those biscuits in and press them down to make
the base add the Cheesecake batter and smooth that out and then add the lid. Now
that should bake fine in my slow cooker. I'm gonna set it to 90 degrees
centigrade or 195 degrees F for two hours and while that's cooking I'm gonna
make another baked cheesecake in the traditional way with the exact same
recipe I made double the recipe so I've got the mixture there and just put that into
a springform tin in a water bath in the oven. You can see on the slow cooker
there's condensation forming on the top which will eventually drip down onto the
cheesecake which will make the top not look very nice so to stop that from
happening I'm gonna put a sheet of paper towel underneath just to catch the drips
now I know they didn't do this but I want to give the cheesecake the best
chance it has of working out. After two hours I'm just going to check the
temperature in the center of the cheesecake most recipes will tell you 65
degrees C or 150 F in the center is good but I like to make sure it's at 74
degrees C or 165 F to make sure the eggs in it are really well cooked. Okay now
that's done and in the video they just lifted it straight out of the slow
cooker after that took the lid off and the steam came out while it was hot but
bake cheesecakes are very very soft they're hot and this is not going to
come out like that so to give it its best chance I'm going to refrigerate it
for 24 hours so I can firm up. Now as you can see it's still very close to the
edges of the slow cooker it doesn't magically shrink when you cook up baked
cheesecake. Okay let me try again now if they'd actually lined to the base
with a circle of baking paper and put another one sort of these criss-crossed
so you've got another handle and get someone else to help you you might be
able to get it out but it's definitely not going to come out like this. It's
such a pity I'm just gonna have to go for it aren't I? Oh definitely not as
promised let me just get the rest out and I'll do the best I can to do a bit
of a repair job and push that back together. It's not pretty but it does
still taste good it's super soft and creamy the one baked in the oven has a
slightly firmer texture and a little bit of coloring on top and of course it has
no cracks and it looks much more beautiful. You can actually make a crack
free perfect baked cheesecake in the slow cooker just not using the method
they showed which is a pity because surely they must have had trouble
getting it out which is why they've swapped out for a different cheesecake
but they could have just corrected the method and then it actually would have
been a good hack that you could have done. Okay let's move on to something
savory now next we're moving on to noodles. So they say what we're gonna
need is some flour and an egg actually five eggs and then whisk that together
and tip it into a bag, poke holes into it let it pour into a pan of boiling water
I assume and you get egg noodles! Now before I test this let me know in the
poll and I'm gonna put on this video whether you think this would work or not?
do you think that this will make noodles yes or no and then I'll test it out and
we can see what happens. Okay let's start with some flour and an egg
I've never cracked eggs with a knife before this is really weird
doing it add four more and then whisk that all together really well so there
are no lumps in it and then tip that into a ziploc bag seal it up and now
let's poke some holes in this thing ... let it drip down into the boiling water and
you get soggy eggy stuff that looks nothing like
noodles. If you want to make noodles at home you can do that there are a couple
of options one's a bit easier than the other the first one is this way ... many of
you would be familiar with this way of making noodles and it gives you noodles
that have that really recognizable wavy kink in them. Which one would you rather
eat two-minute noodles or 5-minute craft noodles? Should I get Dave to taste these?
Yes I should! It certainly looks not very appetizing a little bit like baby food
and smells super eggy ... not excited!
It's just super weird it's like the consistency of mush but it tastes sort
of like pasta and I'm pretty sure I'd never want to have that again! Some of
you have said in the comments that Dave needs his own union so that he doesn't
have to taste bad food anymore. He did get to eat the baked cheesecake as
well I just didn't film that so I think he's doing okay. The second way you can make
noodles if you really want to make your own noodles at home and it's fairly easy
is get 2 cups of flour and then add in 2 eggs and mix that together and you'll
need to add enough water to make it able to form a dough so about a quarter of a
cup of water should do it there. Knead that until it's smooth and then roll it
out really really thin and run it through a pasta machine and you can get
great thin homemade noodles, if you don't have a pasta machine you can roll it
thin using a rolling pin and then use a knife to cut it and then instantly
unravel those noodles before they stick together they won't be as
even or as fine if you do it using a knife but they'll still taste the same.
Boil them up and you have some fresh homemade noodles and now we have a
totally different channel to look at ... this one has a video called 'Cool Food
Tricks and DIY Hacks' because there's not enough of those on the internet already.
we literally have a lady throwing her food on the floor again what is it with
these channels that seems to be a definite problem that doesn't happen at
our house we don't just throw our dinner on the floor but 'hack-ting' is
amazing. Let's fast forward and see what her ingenious solution is so she's got a
toilet lid and she's made it into a table that is more wobbly than the plate
was when it was on her knee. Who has an unused toilet lid in their house or two
of them. I actually showed this video to my youngest and he said that
would really hurt your neck I hadn't thought of that but I thought that was
true and then he said why didn't just put a book on your lap under your dinner?
you heard it. Now I don't think that one needs any testing I'm not actually gonna
do it if my Year 3 can figure that it's a bad idea I think I don't
need to test it. Let's have a look at this one which I am also telling you in
advance I am NOT testing this either ... so she's chopping onions and it makes her
eyes water we can all relate to that so her solution is to wrap three layers of
plastic wrap around her face now that's just dangerous and not a good idea at
all obviously and when they were editing they felt the need to add do not try
this at home. Perhaps when they were editing they
could have just gone let's cut that one out it's dangerous and not a good thing
to put on the Internet. Clearly it passed their standards and
they thought it was a good idea. Now some of you have also been sending me the
TikTok videos of people putting strawberries in salt water and then
being disgusted or amazed at the bugs that come out of their strawberries. I
didn't really think this one needed debunking rather it probably needed
confirming ... strawberries grow outside. All berries grow outside on plants and yes
there are bugs and little spiders and dirt you would expect that to be on your
fruit and veggies and that's why you wash them
before you eat them. So usually they're not inside and if they are inside you're
going to see some evidence of that it's going to look a bit rotten on the
outside usually you've just got some bugs on the very outside so I've got two
punnets of strawberries here ... you don't need to use salt water you can just use
normal water but for the purpose of cynics I'm gonna add salt to my water
and then tip in my two punnets of strawberries. Now you can see sitting on
the outside of the strawberry when it was tipped in you could already see this
before it went in the water there's a dead
slug on that strawberry. Slugs like to eat strawberries they think they're
yummy just like we do so it's strawberry farmers even organic growers use slug
baits to try and control them. Apart from that there was only one tiny spider
which would have washed off with the water anyway. Strawberries are good for
you so don't stop eating them just wash them
and eat them yes there might be some bugs or some dirt on all your fruit and
veg but it is the best food you should definitely eat as much of it as you
possibly can. If you see a video that you would like me to investigate further or
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