- Dude, see, I can't even do it, 'cause it's so disgusting now.
- No, I messed up. - Oh yeah, there's a microwave.
- Were you going to manually melt the butter
with kinetic energy? - No, stop. Stop.
♪ (upbeat intro) ♪
- (FBE) We've compiled some viral TikTok cooking hacks,
and we're gonna have you give them a try.
The internet loves these delicious tips and tricks,
but the real question is what do you think about it?
- I'm probably gonna hate them. - I cannot cook. I'm very bad at it.
I don't like it. I hate everything about the process.
But I mean, if I learn some hacks... - From TikTokers no less.
- Yeah. - Then maybe you'll be
making me dinner in no time.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- (gasps) I did this the other day! - Ohhh. I think I've seen this one.
- Yeah, yeah. Gotta separate those egg whites from that yolk.
- This is, I think, something that's been used
for quite a while now. - Oh, that looks fun.
- I can do that. My friend did it,
but I was right there, so I'm gonna say I did it too.
- Cool, cool. Let's get it crackin'.
(chuckles) (crickets chirp)
- You're gonna wanna crack your egg. Please don't break.
All right, perfect. - I'm not good.
Oh my god! Dude, see, I can't even do it,
'cause it's so disgusting now. - I'm so skeptical.
- (James) Why? It makes sense? It's science.
- I'm gonna do it the fancy way. - (Steph laughs)
- Oh, no! I broke it. - I always end up getting
the shell in the yolk, which is not good.
- This is the one! Come on.
Yes! Yes. Okay, okay. Now I get the water bottle.
One fluid motion. (makes slurping noise)
Yes! I did it!
- I'm gonna stick that right down by the egg.
These are kind of thin water bottles. Oh, it works still.
Then you're gonna suck the yolk up. - They squeezed it, I'm guessing?
Wait. (gasps) What? It actually works. Okay, that's sick.
- (exclaims) Fire. That was amazing.
- What are we doing? - (Steph) Ohhh.
(gasps) Whoa. (chuckles) Plop.
- Get it. Get that yolk. - (Chelsea gasps)
- (James) Yeah! - Whoa! I did it!
- Look at the little yolky boy! - That's... (snorts)
Ooh! - That's what?
- (laughs) - That's awesome.
- That's how you do it. - That's how you do it.
Nice! That's a useful thing. - Wow!
- (FBE) Is this a hack that you needed to know?
- Oh, yeah. Definitely. You should definitely use this hack.
- I probably won't use it, but it's cool.
- It worked, so I give it a thumbs up. - Thumbs up.
- Yeah, I've always wanted to try it, so I'm glad I got to. (chuckles)
- I will keep this in mind for future situations for sure.
- Surprisingly, yes. - How else am I gonna be able
to drink yolks. - (chuckles) Oh!
- This is actually helpful. Thank you, TikTok.
You didn't come up with it I'm sure, but it's very helpful.
- (woman) Oh. You know what time it is.
- I already don't like this.
- Okay, Flaming Hot Cheetos. I like that.
- (woman) ...with the pickles. - Okay, you know what?
That's smart, actually. I thought they were gonna put
the juice in there-- NO!
- (woman) Roll. - (both gag)
- Oh, no. That's the thing? - These are the best Cheetos ever.
I dip mine in sour cream.
- Are these Flaming Hot Cheetos? - Of course they are.
I don't even think they make regular Cheetos anymore.
- As I get older, my butthole doesn't agree with me
when it comes to the Flaming Hot Cheetos.
You know what I'm saying? It's like flaming hot
on the exit as well. - Pour some in the ziplock bag,
because you know what time it is!
It's not even a hack. It's more of a recipe.
- Harder. You got it. - Good.
(crunching) - And if I make a mess,
I'ma just have to "dill" with it.
(chuckles) (crickets chirping)
- All right. - Okay, that's probably good.
Then do I pour it out on a plate? - ♪ Doing completely normal stuff ♪
- All right. - Yeah, you're gonna have
to do that one. (chuckles) - My muscle strength.
- Just get that out. (inhales shakily)
I'm glad I like pickles. - Should I just do this?
Is this an even better life hack?
- (John) It looks... - (Steph laughs)
- (John) We needed to crush it more, I think.
Push it in now. - Okay, so you gotta really
crush the Cheetos. - You gotta really crush it
and squish it in there. - I obviously failed at that.
- This is stupid. - Look at it. (laughs)
Okay. Now... (laughs)
I'm not a fan. I would never do this again.
- I'm not as repulsed by it as I thought.
- I'm impressed. This is gonna be a Taco Bell item
within a month. - Yes. Give it a few weeks for sure.
It's a last resort snack. - Mm-mm.
That just tastes odd. - No, not good at all.
- That just tastes odd. - It's a weird combo.
- Yeah. - I don't even think a pregnant woman
would eat this. - I'm not mad. Man.
- Honestly, it's not bad. I actually like it.
I approve of this life hack. (chuckles)
- (FBE) Did you need to know this hack?
- No. - (both) No.
- No. - Nobody needs to know this hack.
- I mean, yeah. Why not? I might do this again.
- No. Why would you ask me that? Look at this thing.
- No, just eat your Cheetos on the side,
maybe pickles after. (laughs) - Agreed.
- I don't know if I needed to know it, but I'ma take this with me forever.
♪ (tranquil electronic music) ♪
- More eggs. All right. - Eggs. I love eggs.
I'm excited. - All right. Put oil in the pan.
- It's an omelet? I'm really bad at omelets.
- Okay. - It's just an egg sandwich.
- This one. Yeah. I've actually tried this before.
- This one looks so good. - It's just an omelet sandwich.
(laughs) I could do that. Maybe.
- I'll hand you the supplies. - Okay. Let's make some breakfast.
- So, the first step is to beat your eggs.
I'm gonna do two eggs, and then I'm gonna whisk 'em
with a fork. This would be a good time to put
a little bit of salt and pepper in your eggs.
- This is eggs-actly what I was in the mood for.
(chuckles) You know what I'm saying? (crickets chirping)
- Do I shake it? I usually just throw
some butter on there. (chuckles) Oh, god. All right.
I hope that's good.
(thud) Ow!
- You ready? - Yeah, this has gotta be quick,
or else it doesn't-- okay. So, dip and flip.
Soak it in and flip. (sizzling)
- (Caylus) Ooh. - I'ma just let that
do its thing a little bit. - And then let's throw our bread in,
and we're just gonna let it sit for a wee bit.
- Wait, I need to-- ah, what do I do now?
I forget. - Then we flip the whole thing,
and then you put the cheese in the-- okay.
- Did we even use this? I don't think we--
- No. - We didn't even use it.
We'll just put it here
for decoration. Use this if you don't want
your eggs to stick. - This is gonna be hard to flip.
- This is-- oh my god!
We're just gonna go one side at a time.
- Tch. I already messed it up. - This is hardest part: flipping it.
No! I messed up. - No, no, no.
- Here, I'll do it. - Oh, man. We massacred it.
This is when you start all over and say, "Oh, no. We messed up."
Oh! You got it? Kind of. - We're gonna do what my grandma calls
the egg sandwich flip. Who has to clean this place up?
- (FBE) Us. (laughs) - (chuckles) Yeah,
I'm sorry in advance.
Ah, I flipped it over just completely. You see that? It did a 360.
- The best way to do this... I'm thinking maybe go...
- I think maybe the pieces of bread aren't close together enough.
Yeah! - Hell yeah!
- Add some cheese. We cover the mistakes in cheese.
- Oh, wow. This is gonna be so bomb.
Uh! - I forgot the cheese.
Ah, I just com-- yeah, you know what? No cheese. You know, it's fine.
- Press it down. You know, get a little crispy, the bread.
- I'll tell you what guys, this is smelling great.
- Voila. Boom! Look at that!
- It's not bad. I'm gonna finish this.
- Good? Bread's a little soggy. I could tell.
- I think if we would've kept it on for maybe another minute,
it would've crunched up a little bit more,
but it's not bad. - That's fire. (chuckles)
I've been tryna eat less cheese, because it makes me break out,
but (censored) it. - (FBE) Was this a hack
you needed to know? - Mm-hmm.
- Definitely. I will be doing this one later.
- I don't know even know if this was necessarily a hack.
It was egg and cheese on bread. (scoffs)
- I mean, I feel like it's easier just to do the eggs separate
and then toast the toast, 'cause obviously we made a mess.
- I'll probably do this at home at least once. Yeah.
- Yeah, I think this seems like a quick little breakfast food.
- (woman) Take one tablespoon butter and melt it.
Two tablespoons of brown sugar. - She has such a soft voice.
- (woman) Eighth of a teaspoon of vanilla.
- Mm-hmm. And she's just gonna dip some bread in this?
- (woman) Stir it together really well and add in
three tablespoons of... - Okay, this is gonna be
really difficult. - Oh, I'm not gonna be able
to remember all this. - (FBE) We have a recipe.
- Okay. (chuckles) - (woman) Spread it on a plate.
- What is this? - (woman) Not too thin, though.
And then you're gonna microwave for 30 seconds.
- Quiet! (chuckles) - (woman) Take it out.
And then you're gonna microwave for 30 seconds.
- That's crack. It's that crack stuff, isn't it?
- No, that's--
- Oh, it's a cookie. - (woman) For a second 30 seconds,
and there you go. - It looks like if cookies
could be diarrhea. - This is gonna be so good!
Well, I don't know, because I'm making it.
- That seems like a lot of work to make a chocolate chip cookie.
- This is one of those TikToks I'm gonna need to rewatch
like 35 times, because she's saying
exact measurements and order of things.
- I could totally see you doing this. - Yeah.
- You sometimes melt dark chocolate in a cup and eat it.
- Okay, this is actual cooking. This is hard.
- I don't know how to scoop that out. I feel like this is weird
to just scoop it out of a butter-- - (FBE) There's a knife there too
if you wanna use that. Just-- - Yeah. I don't wanna ruin the butter.
- That's honestly a lot of butter for one small little cookie.
- Well, that's why cookies are good. - And I have fake nails too.
There's butter under these already. - Mm, that's for later.
- Yeah, that's a little second snack. - You can just melt it.
It would be pretty-- - Oh, yeah. That's a microwave!
- Were you going to manually melt the butter
with kinetic energy? - No, stop. Stop.
(chuckles) - Now we do the tablespoons
of brown sugar. - (FBE) It might be easier
to scoop out of the bag. - You're so smart.
- I'm imagining the woman that made this lives in a trailer,
because I used to live in a trailer and this is exactly I would've done.
- Some vanilla, 1/8th a teaspoon. - Do 1/4th.
- Half of 1/4th. Okay. Vanilla.
- Okay. - This stuff smells so good.
- That's not gonna do anything. A little eighth.
What was even the point of that? "Stir in the vanilla and milk
until mixed." Oh, okay.
- Why not just bake an actual cookie? I mean, this feels like four
to five cookies' worth of fat and sugar.
- "Add three tablespoons of flour. Stir until you reach
a peanut butter consistency, then add chocolate chips.
Spread onto a plate." - All right.
So, then you just stir it up. Hopefully I did this right.
- Hmm. I don't know if I'm-- I don't know if this is looking
how it's supposed to, guys. - So, it says to get it
to a peanut butter consistency. - (James) I feel like
this is pretty... - (Chelsea) Hmmm...
- (James) ...peanut bu-- no. - So far, it looks like the video.
- Smells like oatmeal. - And then add some chocolate chips.
Okay, sweet. - The hole has been cut
in this bag so that I can't just
dump the whole thing in. - And I'm grateful for it.
- Okay. Just like that. We like that.
- It's not looking like a cookie. I'll tell you that.
- There you go. - Ugh. Got some leftover flour
on the plate. Okay. How long? - 30 seconds in the microwave.
(microwave dinging) - (chuckles) You see how big it is?
- I got a glimpse before the light went off.
- Oh my god. - Okay!
I see this part is cookie consistency. - Yeah.
- Okay, so we wait for 30 seconds. Kind of just wanna eat it now.
- What? - Why are you gonna do that?
It says rest it. - (Steph) I was just gonna flatten it.
- That's not leaving it resting, though.
- Okay. - Let it rest.
- I would say it hasn't been-- (microwave beeping)
I would say it's easy so far. - I definitely would just rather
buy a cookie. Yeah. For sure. (chuckles)
This is supposed to save me time?
- It's all bubbly, but not in a good way.
(microwave beeping) Ah, this is nightmares.
- Ooh. Okay, this looks amazing.
- All right. It's not looking too crazy.
- Oh, it's actually harder than I thought.
I thought it was gonna be really gooey.
It's not bad. - Here we go.
Ooh. That's so good. - That's straight. It's not bad.
- It's so soft. - It's weird.
- Yeah. - And I have low standards.
Like-- - (both laugh)
- (FBE) Was this a hack you needed to know?
- (both) No. - Yeah. I didn't know how
to do this at all, and now I can make cookies.
- No, this is trash. Don't do this.
Just make regular cookies. - No. (chuckles)
I don't cook really, so I don't need to know the hacks.
- I could see myself making this and regretting it.
- It's really crummy. (buzzer)
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