Welcome to How To Cook That i'm Ann Reardon and this is an episode of debunking where i take viral
hacks that you have sent me and I put them to the test to see if they are real. Today we have some
particularly dangerous ones but before we get to that this one was sent to me by so so many of you
the original post says avocados stay good forever if you put them in water in the fridge these have
been in here for two whole weeks while the control group on the counter rotted they're perfect i'm
speechless let's test it out i've bought a whole lot of avocados on the same day from the same
shop and i chose ones that are all still hard i'll put this row in the fridge let's put the top
row in water in the fridge a w for water and this bottom row is just going to be left on the counter
at room temperature pop those in the fridge there we go and four days later these are two
of the ones that were kept in water in the fridge they still look great they've got a nice texture
they can be sliced they look beautiful inside there's no discoloration on the outside they mash
beautifully and they look good they're fresh these are the ones that were just kept in the fridge not
in water and they look very much the same as the other ones they look really nice inside there's
no discoloration they look nice on the outside mash beautifully i can't tell any difference
now this one was the one that was on the counter and this is a different story
it's very discolored this one is not as discolored but it is still very very soft and you can see
even though these two avocados were stored in the exact same way this one looks quite a bit worse
and that's why i'm actually cutting open multiple avocados so that we can get an
accurate picture of what happens and then i left all of those for another 10 days to get us to day
14. here they all are the one that was stored in the water looks the best on the outside
but once you cut it open on the inside these two fridge ones are pretty indistinguishable to me
this fridge one is fairly soft but it's not crazy it's not really super soft it's good to use
and this is the fridge in water this particular avocado looks slightly
softer than the other one but once i opened multiple they're all very similar to each other
if i served these to you on a plate i just don't think you'd notice the difference between the two
can you tell which is which this is the one that was in water and this is the one that was just
in the fridge this one is obviously not the best way to store avocados don't just leave
them on your counter put them in the fridge but i wouldn't bother putting them in water
next lance sent me this video by met dan which shows how to make your own
power plug they take kinetic sand and push a plug into it to make a mold and then pour molten metal
into it add the usb cord and you have yourself a metal power plug wow that's dangerous i just
don't understand why people make these sort of videos well i do understand i understand they're
doing it for the outrage for the comments which increases engagement which increases views but
surely you'd have some level of moral conscience where do you go that's just wrong that's just
dangerous i just shouldn't do that like where's the line like there is no line obviously
well i'll make it so we can see what would happen i'm going to use tin because tin has a low melting
point so we can just melt it over the stove which looks like what they did because they just used
the coffee pot to melt it in when you're at a second hand store looking at weird things
if you happen to find something that's a dull silvery color flip it over and look for a stamp
that says pewter now modern pewter is 85 to 95 tin mixed with antimony and copper but be warned old
pewter contained lead especially before the 1970s and lead is highly toxic especially to your brain
so you don't want to melt anything with lead in it and breathe in those fumes especially if there's
children around with their developing brain just don't take any risks there so what you can do is
buy pure tin in a bag this cost me fifteen dollars or you can buy pewter this was four dollars and
just look for a stamp that says lead free or you can get a lead testing kit which will turn pink
or red if there's lead present so there's no lead in this one heat up a pan and add in the tin i got
this pan from the second hand store too because i don't want to ruin my fry pan and now while we
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Now let's check on our tin and see how that's going nothing's happened yet let me fast forward
a couple more minutes for you and now we have liquid tin this is not an activity for kids
tin melts at 232 celsius or 450 fahrenheit so much much much hotter than boiling water let me add the
tankard this is just amazing watching something so solid just melt down and disappear into a puddle
push the plug into the kinetic sand like they did now i'm not sure if glass is the best choice
for this because it is going to get pretty hot but anyway pull out the plug and now pour the
molten metal into the mold i'm not going to bother adding the usb cord because i know this won't work
then we're going to have to let that cool down while we're waiting let's melt some more things
now let me test if you can use a silicon mold for tin i know silicon can take high heat but
this would have to be at the maximum end pour it in is that smoke yes i'm not happy with that
smoke hopefully we don't get a hole and liquid tin running everywhere i decided to put the
whole thing into water just in case once it's cooled down tip it out and it actually worked
that's heaps better than i thought it would be give it a quick polish with a dremel and it looks
like this now that's pretty cool i'm going to have to give this away to one of my patrons so
if you're a patron head over to patreon.comh2ct and find out how to enter back to the plug
pull it out of the sand my sand is definitely not coming off as easily as theirs did and this is
still quite hot so let's drop it into some cold water and get that all off and look at that the
kinetic sand definitely casts really well it's a little bit bumpy or grainy looking on the edges
but that's understandable but even though this one is the right shape the proper one is completely
different on the inside you've got the plastic housing on the outside and then if i open it up
to show you what's inside you can see you have two separate wires coming from the two prongs so
wires are not joined together let me use batteries to illustrate what happens if the wires were to
cross so we've got our battery pack as the power source then we have our two wires coming out and
then you usually have an appliance here so in this case i'm just going to add a light bulb across
and you can see that the light bulb lights up and that's because we have a circuit and that
electrical current can flow around and that's what makes the globe light up but what would happen if
instead of having two separate wires here we have a solid metal plug then we can get current to flow
across here so if i add that you'll see the light bulb goes out if i take it off the light goes
back on and that's because the electricity likes to go the path of least resistance
so instead of going around and through the light bulb it's now mainly going this way
and i don't know if you can see on the camera but there is still a tiny
amount of current going through the globe but it's mainly going around this short circuit
and apart from the light going out it looks okay but here's what's really happening in
this diagram we have zero current flowing at the moment because there is no circuit if i
complete the circuit we now have 0.9 amps flowing around nicely and the light globe is turned on
now let's get another wire and add that across the middle and see the difference is not just the
path of current that's changed there's now a huge amount of current flowing because there's nothing
stopping it there's no load there's no resistance and this will eventually cause heat and a fire
now i can feel already that this battery pack is getting hot but to show you i'll put some
chocolate on the batteries and now you can see for yourself those batteries are getting pretty hot
and if i left them we could get smoke and a fire and i don't want to do that so i'll take that off
now these batteries are only 1.5 volts each whereas the power supply in australia is 240 volts
so think about how hot that is going to get how quickly that's going to happen if you
had this situation with the mains power rather than just the battery i have an extension cord
here and it's not plugged into anything there is no power because i don't want any power to flow
through me when i touch the metal now if i plug in the other end and turn it on three two one
we instantly lost power the reason for that is our house is fitted with an over current
protection device it's picking up that huge surge in current and immediately flicking the
breaker as a safety measure so that we don't get a fire and i'm grateful for that we also have a
residual current detection system which detects if any current is leaking from the system and
for example going into a human so that would flick off straight away as well in order to save lives
but not all older houses have those protective measures in place
a friend of ours when he was just a kid found out the hard way what happens if you don't have
those in place and i'm going to let him tell you his story so that we can all learn from it
hi anne and hi to all your subscribers thank you so much for joining us i was hoping that you could
share with us the story of when you were only six years old when you tried to fix the christmas tree
lights yeah like i had my little pocket knife i thought you know what i think the contacts for
it was like a two-part plug for the christmas tree lights needed a bit of a clean out and after that
should be good to go what i didn't realize is that that part that was connecting to the lights
and then that other end was connected to the wall behind the cabinet and i didn't know that it was
still plugged in there as soon as i made contact to clean out the little contacts on that plug
there it was this instant paralysis when there's an electric current that goes through your muscles
um it actually tenses up so once i made contact there muscles in my hand just locked up and it
was just no way i could actually let go what were you feeling at that stage do you remember
kind of feels like pins and needles kind of sensation but you can't breathe you can't
move you can't see anything you're just kind of feeling this like surge of power
just going through your body there so you've got electricity flowing through you you're
locked on with your hand you wouldn't have even been out of speak you're struggling to breathe
what did you do just with my mind i just cried out to like anyone just cried out to god god help me
and i believed he saved me that day it's amazing that you're still alive what happened
next i can't remember what happened for for a little bit there we had some visitors over
um our house from overseas and it's actually the smell of my burning flesh they actually
told them that something's wrong and then they came looking and they turned off the power
it took a little while for me to come too right here is where i actually had the pocket knife
and basically the skin there was just charred black if you kind of think of like burning your
steak to charcoal that's basically what it was the doctors were amazed um they were still alive
we're trying to work out um how to repair my hand my uncle would just dub me the miracle boy he
just couldn't believe you just don't see people you know who have these kind of scars because
one they're all dead or they've got stumps for hands definitely guys stick to cooking don't
cook yourself it's not worth it you know go buy a secondhand plug or something if you want to save
some money or buy one online it's not worth your life you want to keep living many years to come
you know cooking extraordinary things awesome thanks rayna such great advice so don't follow
that hack at best your short your power at worst you'll get really really hurt or you could even
die don't muck around with electricity it's just way too dangerous next i have this hack that was
sent into me by ian and this is a clip by crafty panda where they are trying to cook meat on molten
metal and then when they serve it up it even says safe to eat now i'm not sure exactly what
metal they're using at the start of the video it talks about melted aluminium and they have
a forge that they're melting things in but by the time they get to this point of the video they're
melting things just on the stovetop which would suggest it's probably tin so let's give it a go
i've got my melted tin add a piece of meat flip it over and it's done now if we take a closer
look it is cooked but it has chunks of metal on it that's really going to hurt your teeth if you
try and chew on it and if you got past that and swallowed it any of these sharp edges could cut
your throat or your intestines and if the metal was not food grade and absolutely totally pure
it could contain other metals that may be toxic like lead that was a definite fail
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