Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and this is an episode of debunking where we take a
look at viral videos from around the internet to see if they are real or fake. This first
one was sent in by JJ Chen, pouring in batter baking paper in the air fryer oh pancakes a
whole stack of pancakes all at once. If we rewind back and have a look there that pattern that's on
top of the pancakes you get that from pouring it into a fry pan and it bubbling up that's
not the pattern you'd expect in an air fryer but let's give it a go and see what really happens...
Well it's obvious that that video was fake despite having baking powder in them they
didn't rise they've just flattened out under the weight of the ones on
top and the bottom one even has the pattern from the air fryer basket on it. They are
edible but I would not recommend making pancakes using this method what's next?
If you don't want your baked goods to lose their colour bake at 325 Fahrenheit.
Normally when you bake a cake in the oven you want it to go golden brown on top.
How many recipes have you seen that say bake until golden brown? But if you have coloured
cakes that is going to make that colour a lot duller on the top. But if you don't want them
to go brown then I guess we should test out this theory. I'll bake one of these trays at 325 F and
after 18 minutes of baking they're done through to the middle and they still have their color.
Now let's increase the oven temperature to 360f or 180c and after it's preheated we'll add that
other tray of cupcakes in, these ones of course bake faster because the oven's hotter and after
14 minutes they are cooked all the way through. Now if we look at these side by side these ones
were baked at 325 and these ones at 360. And I can't see a difference in colour. The key is not
the oven temperature it's just to pull it out of the oven before they go brown. If you have a
larger cake you might need to put an empty tray on the shelf above just to shield it from that
extra heat and stop it going brown. While we're talking about colour, Bianca wants to know if this
works here is how I make my buttercream colors more saturated without any extra dye and only
one additional tool I'm going to add three drops to about a cup of buttercream and mix it what you
usually see is something like this now I'm going to take my immersion blender and mix this at high
speed gel-based food coloring is water-based and when you whip up your buttercream your
making a stable emulsion of fat and water the gel has a difficult time moving past all that fat
in the butter to reach the water in the meringue and a little bit in the butter. Let's test it out
I have here some Swiss buttercream and I'm going to fold in a little bit of gel food
colouring which gives us a very pale orange. Now if I use the immersion blender and blend
it up then I do indeed get a darker colour but you may not want to try this hack because it's
not working due to the reasons given in the video it is working because you're just knocking all
the air out of the frosting. Before I use the immersion blender I actually put the frosting
into a measuring jug so we could see how much we had and we've got about 700 mls there but after
blending it we have substantially less. When you whip air into things it makes them lighter think
about creaming the butter and sugar together it goes from that buttery yellow colour to a
pale colour. If I show you using some American buttercream with this one I've used the blender
to make it darker and then I have whipped this one again using an electric mixer and you can see
it goes lighter again once we add the air back into it. So if you want aerated fluffy frosting
that's bright in colour you're going to have to add more food colouring sorry about that one.
Next five minute crafts and TikTok continue to promote cooking eggs in the microwave ...
And just in case you're new to this channel here's a reminder
why you should not cook eggs in the microwave ...
TikTok hack doing poached eggs in the microwave well this is what's happened to me. I've literally
burnt my full face. Eggs can explode when they're cooked or reheated in the microwave and that's
especially dangerous for poached eggs because it can shoot that hot water all over you. Is
it going to happen every time you put an egg in the microwave? No it's not can you predict when
it is or isn't going to happen? No you can't. Is cooking it in a bowl instead of a cup or putting
a hole in the egg yolk going to prevent it from happening? No it's not. So the best advice is:
don't poach eggs in the microwave. That's right, just don't cook eggs in the microwave.
Next a thousand books says the comments on this video can't seem to agree what's happening here
and frankly I'm also confused. Let's watch it. Watch to the end to see the greatest fail ever...
Oh that poor lady she's just got boiling water all over her. Water can explode like that if
it is super heated it is rare a lot more rare than heating an egg in a microwave but it can
happen. As you know normally when you heat water once it gets up to boiling point it will bubble
it will boil and the water will change from being water into being steam but if your water
has no impurities in it like if you're using filtered water or distilled water and you put
it in a container that is highly glazed it has no scratches in it like a glass or a new cup then it
is possible to heat it above boiling point without it boiling! According to my thermometer this water
is at Boiling Point already but we can't see any bubbles. Now if I was to move it or to
add anything to it the water instantly starts bubbling and spurts boiling water everywhere.
The FDA has warnings about this on their website and they say if you add some sugar
or some coffee granules or something to the water before you heat it it will greatly
reduce the risk of this happening and while theoretically that is true I don't want you
to think that guarantees your safety there are stories like Charles who reheated a cup
of coffee in the microwave and then when he went to take a sip it exploded in his
face. So just be careful with that one. Next, Dave sent in this one: pasta inside a blender
just break it up a little bit make sure it all fits in there I'm going to turn it on.
Wow look at that yeah dump this out on our table we're making fresh pasta out of pasta. We're gonna
take an egg are you serious you could have just made pasta out of flour and an egg what was the
point of blending up the pasta not to mention that they put a fork in the blender and they
could have just used the pasta that they already had who cares if it's a different shape than the
one they had at the end. I'm really hoping that this was supposed to be a joke. 🙄 Moving on:
I feel like I've been cutting cakes wrong my whole life instead of cutting down into a cake
if you cut in from the side you won't have any of those cake crumbs dragging through the frosting
so you'll have a cleaner slice and you're going to look like a total baking rock star.
Unless you're cutting a cake for food photography it really doesn't matter if you have a few crumbs
in your frosting so for most people this wouldn't matter but let's test it out anyway. I'll cut this
one the normal way going down and you can see when I pull it out that there are indeed crumbs
in the frosting and frosting on the cake and now if I try and cut from the edge in towards
the centre it is harder to cut without pushing the cake over and this is only going to get worse as
you've taken more slices out of the cake but when I pull this one out it is a much cleaner looking
slice. Apart from the chocolate drip that has been dragged in as we went across the cake we've also
dragged this whole swirl and kind of ruined that on top there but overall this is not a bad hack
if you're just trying to cut one slice for food photography and you don't have any decorations
piped on top of your cake. Alright time for one more this one was sent in by Rhiannon:
don't throw the lemon seed after eating pick it and put it into the eggshell then plant
it in the flower pot of uncle's house quietly after a period of time you will have delicious
apple juice. Three, put a handful of fresh mung beans in bottle, pour a little water on it cover
it with gauze and let it stand for a while then you will have delicious potatoes to eat.
What can I say to that really it looked like stolen footage with AI auto-generated spoken
words over the top it was complete rubbish. To think that the internet was originally developed
so that researchers at different universities could communicate and collaborate important
information with each other. Look how far we've come, seriously. If you find anything you want me
to debunk send it to me on the email listed below this video with thanks to my amazing patrons for
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