- Life
is (bleep) changed.
(buzzer) (laughs)
- It works!
Hey I'm Lauren.
I'm the Food Director at Delish.
- I'm Makinze from the Delish test kitchen.
- Lena here, from the Delish test kitchen.
- It's June from the Delish test kitchen,
and today we are gonna testing out some TikTok hacks.
("The Hustle" by Van McCoy)
("Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion)
♪ Sassy, moody, nasty ♪
(upbeat music)
- This is just an organic breast tenderloin,
but do you guys see this nasty little chicken tendon
that's in there?
I don't know if maybe I'm just late to the game,
but I learned that if you take a fork,
you slip the tendon into the middle of the fork.
It's a little slick so I use a paper towel.
You grab the tendon, and you just push down.
You can pull the whole thing out!
Did anybody else know this?
- I literally thought this was like the coolest thing ever.
In case you don't know, I was born in the last millennia.
So, I'm basically a grandmother at this point.
TikTok is a brand new phenomenon to me.
I don't know how it works. I just know it's super crazy,
super addictive, and super hacky.
Okay.
Seems doable.
I have some chicken breasts.
Let's do this.
We got some nice chicken breasts with a little bit
of tendon in them.
I don't even know which tendon she's talking about here.
Am I a chicken noob, that I just don't know where
the tendon is?
Where are you?
Okay guys, so I think I found my mistake.
She used a chicken tenderloin, which has this
little tendon piece attached.
And I tried to find it in a whole chicken breast.
Slip it through the fork.
Take your paper towel.
Grab onto the tendon.
Pull.
There we go.
It works.
Thank you TikTok for this hack.
(ding)
Is it worth it?
Yes, if you're using chicken tenders and not breasts,
and you have those little bits of tendon in it,
and they taste nasty to you, and rubbery.
Absolutely, do this.
For people who use chicken tenders, probably this is
like an eight or a nine out of 10 hack.
But for people like me who just use chicken breasts,
and almost never run into tenders,
or break their breasts down into tender and breast,
Then, no, it's not really worth it.
It's like more of a five or a six out of 10.
So.
Average seven out of 10?
Does that sound fair?
(upbeat music)
♪ You're a bad thing ♪
♪ I know I f up ♪
♪ I'm just a loser ♪
♪ Shouldn't be with ya ♪
♪ Guess I'm a quitter ♪
♪ While you're out there drinking ♪
♪ I'm just here thinking ♪
♪ - Okay so I have this folded piece of parchment paper ♪
right here and I have a blue Jolly Rancher, obviously blue.
So I'm just gonna stick this in here.
All right, so the Jolly Rancher's in there
getting all melty.
This got melty super quick as you can see.
So, I'm just gonna let that dry and see how it turns out.
It's very hot right now.
Very hot and melty.
See look. I can even press it with my hand.
Oh that's kinda fun.
All right, so I let this cool.
Let's see how our masterpiece turned out.
It's not in one piece, but I'm sure we could make
this into some sort of abstract decoration.
I'll just put them both on.
Let's see. How about there?
And here.
Certainly something.
All right, so this is with my special
Jolly Rancher designs.
Custom made.
Kinda has sort of a broken glass, stained glass effect.
The Jolly Rancher hack.
Did it work?
Honestly, I can't decide.
(ding) Does this look cool to people?
I think it looks kinda cool.
I mean when like the light shines through it
you get kind of like this blue tone.
Overall, it's fine.
I would give this a five outta 10, because
I guess you could call this a design.
It could be cool to mix and match colors.
Ooh or melt colors together, that could be cool.
But overall, sprinkles are pretty great on their own.
I don't know if you need like these crunchy shards
of Jolly Rancher on your cupcake,
but y'all let me know what you think.
- So I heard this worked.
Nobody believed me.
♪ She gonna go ♪
♪ On the side of my whistle ♪ - I'm gonna try it.
♪ While she grippin' on my pants, oh ♪
(laughs)
And it works.
Holy (beep).
Tada!
- All right I got my boiling water.
Gonna salt it.
Adding the pasta.
This is angel hair so it'll only take three minutes
and then we'll see if this hack will work.
- Not gonna lie, I'm a little bit nervous.
Now that I'm actually thinking about it
I don't know if I added too much water to the pot,
so I don't know if when I add my strainer
it's gonna overflow.
So I brought very dirty oven mitts that I'm going to use
while I'm doing this transaction.
About 45 more seconds, we'll see.
(beep)
I'm putting strainer over the pot.
It's overflowing a little bit.
And then I'm going to dump.
Everything appears to be okay.
Still got a little bit of a pasta facial.
Let's see.
It worked!
Strain pasta in pot.
Can you see it?
All right, I'm into this hack, it totally works!
It saves time, it saves a mess on the counter
from all the water that would have collected
under a colander.
I don't think it works for all recipes.
Sometimes you're not ready to use your pasta right away,
it needs to hang out and sit
while you do other things in the pot,
but for instances where you're just throwing in some sauce,
give this a go, I rate this a nine out of 10.
Okay, I have a followup to my raving review.
This really encourages the pasta to stick on the bottom
of the hot pot, because pasta is starchy
and this was not sauce, so, fun.
Seven out of 10.
(hiphop music)
♪ So you back ♪
♪ I'm a savage ♪
♪ Classic, bougie, ratchet ♪
♪ Sassy, moody, nasty ♪
♪ Acting stupid ♪
- All right here we have a jar with no lid
filled with some grains.
And put our balloon on.
And we just slowly deflate it.
Apparently this will seal.
Go go go.
Okay. (laughs)
Did not work, at all.
Let's try again, okay.
Little bit faster.
Ugh!
No!
All right, they just show the balloon like this,
nothing fancy, and I'm just gonna deflate it.
See if this works.
Now slowly.
(laughs)
It doesn't work, it just falls off!
I don't understand!
Fail! (buzzer)
(hiphop music)
♪ 'Cause I got these Louis AirPods ♪
♪ Uno dos tres cuatro, cuatro ♪
♪ Call my slimes, slime, call my vatos ♪
♪ Eat me up ♪
- So I have my egg.
I have my empty bottle.
I'm gonna give it a squeeze, and then...
Hm.
Okay.
I'd say that works.
Check it out!
Got my yolk in there, got my white in there.
Approved.
- So the egg hack totally worked.
Does it save time?
I wouldn't say so.
I mean we already have the tools to separate egg whites
and egg yolks on our person, A.K.A. our hands,
so I don't think this is totally necessary.
Maybe if you're really grossed out by touching eggs
this is a good call for you, but otherwise,
just kind of an extra step, and then what,
your yolk's in the bottle and you have to pour it out
into something else and this becomes just your egg bottle?
I give this yolk hack a three outta 10
because it works but it didn't really solve any problems.
It just kind of made an easy thing more complicated.
(hiphop music)
♪ Your girl so fine but her breath is like whoa ♪
♪ She say she wanna dance but she don't know how to whoa ♪
♪ I'm iced out, ooh, lookin' like a star, whoa ♪
♪ Her name is Jenny, ooh, don't ♪
- All right, I've got the top to the baby wipes.
I'm going to stick this on a bag of chips.
It's kinda sticky.
Stickier than I thought.
All right, it's nice and centered.
And now I'm supposed to cut the middle of this.
All right, I'm gonna make a little slit here
and then I'm gonna cut around--
Do I just rip this?
This is so much easier.
There we go!
Okay.
Wow!
It's kinda cute, it's like a little chip tissue box.
Does this work?
Yes.
Is it the easiest thing to do?
It's not hard but I wouldn't say
it's super easy or efficient.
Would I do it in real life?
No, I'm gonna eat this whole bag of chips in one sitting,
I mean, who am I kidding?
Except maybe I would wanna use this for a bigger bag
of chips where it is really annoying to store
and I have to roll it and then the chips get stale.
But it's also maybe a little weird
eating out of my baby's diaper wipe cap.
If I had to give it a score between one and 10,
I'm thinking a six.
It works, is it practical?
No.
Would I do it?
No.
I'm back.
I've been thinking a lot about the baby wipe hack
and I've concluded that it's dumb.
I give it a four.
Maybe even a three.
(light music)
("The Hustle" by Van McCoy)
- Okay, have my chocolate cake here
and some good old regular dental floss, unflavored.
So let's try cutting it with floss, see if this hack works.
Try to go center.
Right.
I can't tell if I've gone all the way down.
How do I take the floss out?
Do I just pull it?
That's what we're gonna do?
Ugh.
Maybe this would work better on a single layer.
I got a two layer cake.
It feels like it works at least, through the first layer.
But my second layer I have no idea if I'm going
all the way through to the between.
Maybe that's why they didn't show bringing a slice out.
See, they're all cheaters.
If it does work, this is a fantastic way
of getting small slices of cake.
But I don't think it cut through to the bottom.
How do I get it to the bottom?
Okay, let's see if I can get a slice out,
if it cut through or not.
Oh I don't think it cut through.
If I cut through is that now cheating?
Yeah, it did not cut through to the bottom.
Let me cheat a little and just cut the very edges.
Okay, no.
I'm so sad.
I still kinda think it coulda worked.
I had a two-layer cake, it looked like the video
they had a layered cake as well,
but I just couldn't get it to go through
all the way to the bottom.
Ugh, I'm really sad that I have to say it didn't work for me
and it wouldn't be my party hack.
I'm gonna rate it a six our of 10.
One I'm bad at rating, but two I think this could work,
I just couldn't get it to work.
(upbeat music)
♪ When you're spending every day ♪
♪ On your own ♪ - Wow!
♪ And here it goes ♪
♪ I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare ♪
♪ I'm just a kid, I know that it's not fair ♪
- All right guys I got my popcorn kernel in here.
Just waitin' around.
No idea how long this is gonna take.
Usually when I popcorn at home it takes, I don't know,
at least like three or four minutes
until the oil is heated up
and they're hot enough to pop, so.
Oh my god it's actually starting to smell
a little bit like popcorn.
(light music)
Still waitin'.
Come on little guy.
I don't know about this one, guys.
I don't know about this one.
All right, y'all, it's been about four minutes
and no popping as far as I can tell.
So I think we're gonna call this one.
(buzzer) Whomp whomp.
It did get a little bit, well, burnt.
But sadly, no popping.
(upbeat music)
♪ Okay I'm bored in the house and I'm in the house bored ♪
♪ Bored in the house and I'm in the house bored ♪
♪ Bored in the (beep) in the house bored ♪
♪ And I'm bored in the (beep) in the house bored ♪
♪ Bored in the house, bored in the house, bored ♪
♪ I'm bored in the (beep) in the house ♪
- Lemon hack, I'm ready to have my life changed.
From this day forward I will never be cutting a lemon
in half again.
Or will I?
These smell super good, they feel super ripe, super juicy.
I'm very optimistic about this.
She used a metal skewer in her video, which I don't have,
but I do have this nice chopstick
that's quite skinny at the tip.
I feel like I could puncture a nice hole.
Okay.
I don't really know how deep she went into this.
I just poked it all the way through the other hole.
All right, you ready?
Okay.
It works!
Oh my god.
Life-changing.
Life is (beep) changed.
I bet it would work even better
if I didn't poke the hole all the way to the other side.
So I weighed three lemons beforehand.
These lemons are all within two or there grams of each other
and I figured I would test the efficiency and yield
of this trick
by squeezing it this method
and by squeezing it through a strainer like I normally do
after cutting it open to see which one yields more.
There's our hacked lemon.
Now I'm going to cut open this lemon.
And let's just juice it the normal way
and see which one yields more.
I think these are pretty spent.
Okay I think the traditional method definitely yields
a little bit more, I have a scale here.
So really, not that big of a difference.
Just about 11 grams or so, 12 grams?
This trick works!
10 outta 10, life-changing!
Yes!
I will be doing this for pretty much ever,
and also, another good thing about this
is the lemon is still kinda intact
which means I can probably still zest this
whereas these halves, they're harder to handle
and I probably won't be able
to get as much zest out of them.
Am I surprised by how many of these worked?
Yeah, kinda!
I mean, it's TikTok, it's the internet,
who woulda thought there's actual nuggets of wisdom here?
But my life is forever changed.
Maybe I'll just drink this straight, I don't know.
If you have any more hacks for us to try,
I would love to have my life changed, have my world shook,
have my knowledge set ablaze by the wisdom
of fellow TikTokers.
Thanks for tuning in, guys, and we'll see ya next time.
And ladies, I miss you.
Kitchen team love forever.
(sighs)
(disco music)