Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and in this video we are looking at the most dangerous
hack I have seen on the internet! But before we get to that I wanted to start with something
interesting Morgan sent me a link to this video on facebook ... now we've covered cooking meat in
toasters in a previous video 🤯 Toasters are hot so if you keep putting it down repeatedly for about
20 minutes you can get it to cook a thin steak but you end up with a very tough piece of meat
and meat juice all through your toaster, which is not good for bacterial contamination. On top
of that because you've put it down repeatedly for 20 minutes the toaster itself gets very very hot
one guy even burnt his house down trying to use this hack. We have also done videos covering
the dangers of putting foil in your toaster ... there's a reason why every toaster manufacturer
says in their instructions 'do not put foil in the toaster'. It could give you an electric shock it
can cause fires it's just not a good idea. On top of all of that the video is clearly faked
because the sausages and the bacon took the same amount of time to cook as a piece of toast did and
we know that that's not true as bad as that video is that's not why Morgan sent it to me he sent it
to me because it was posted on YouTube's Facebook page and shared with their millions of followers.
As humans we are susceptible to a thing they call in psychology the illusionary truth effect
which is the more we see something even if it's implausible we are more likely to believe it to
be true. So it's important that YouTube doesn't promote these videos and doesn't keep getting
them seen by more and more people. I also found it curious because this video wasn't just shared from
youtube it was natively uploaded to facebook so they've taken the content, edited it to how they
want it and uploaded it to their facebook page. So I asked youtube to confirm whether this was their
official facebook page and if creators get paid for the use of their videos on youtube's facebook
page to which they responded saying 'yes that is youtube's official facebook page. no creators
are not generally paid for use of their videos youtube uses the page to spotlight our creators'.
Using anybody's content they want from the whole of youtube to be able to put videos up on their
facebook page certainly seems to be working for youtube they've got 86 million followers
on facebook! But is it working for the creators that they spotlight? Well let's have a look at a
different one because i don't want to show you the bad one again let's look at one by Wigglz' Art.
If we have a look here it was uploaded two weeks ago to youtube's official facebook page and it
has 1.3 million views there. If we click on the post you can see the logo pops up super quickly
and then there's a link over to the original ... all the comments are positive people like
it they're loving it but if we go to the actual youtube channel we can see here that this video
has 18,000 views which seems fairly typical on that channel at that time so while youtube got 1.3
million views on this video it didn't seem to be any advantage to the Wigglz' Art channel ... they
do have quite a lot of interesting videos so go check them out and give them some extra views.
But i didn't know if you would be aware as a YouTuber that when you upload a video to
their platform you're giving them permission to do this it's actually in the terms of service
if we read it it says: by providing content to the service or in other words uploading a video
you grant youtube a worldwide non-exclusive royalty-free sub-licensable and transferable
license to use that content in connection with the service and youtube's business ... so I guess the
facebook page is youtube's business ... including for the purpose of promoting and redistributing
part or all of the service. So they can use your videos however they like if you're a youtuber let
me know what you think of that in the comments in this next one they take a carton of milk and
add some tea bags and some sugar just a little bit more lots of sugar and then they put it in
the fridge for a few hours and then it says you'll notice it becomes milk tea jelly 🧐
It looks horrible it really does, I don't know why anyone would want to make it because it
doesn't look good, which would be the only thing that would make me go maybe it isn't fake because
surely if you're gonna fake it you would make it look appetizing and make it look yummy but
as always let's test it out. They had a pint bottle of milk we don't get that size here
so i'm measuring out a pint of milk into a bowl instead then they added two tea bags and this is
the exact same brand of tea as they used in their video and then they added some sugar,
they probably had a little bit more than that i'll put a bit more in then push them down and
i'm going to give a quick stir and then pop that in the fridge overnight ... and the next day you
have milk with tea bags in it and if you scoop right down to the bottom the sugar is just sitting
there. So that video is definitely faked if you wanted to make a jelly then you would need to
heat the milk and sugar so that the sugar can dissolve and then add some tea bags into the
hot milk and jiggle it around as much or as little as you want just to flavour it then you're going
to need to add some gelatin because that's what's going to make it set. I've just got some gelatin
sheets here that i've soaked in water and you squeeze the extra water out put them into the hot
milk and stir it until it dissolves then pop that into the fridge overnight. As you may know I don't
drink tea or coffee so I'm definitely not going to like this dessert but let's see what Dave
thinks of it ... Okay here we go, it is sand colored gelatinous mass with a nice wobble.
It's odd, it's sort of sweet, very milky.
Like almost a coke .... milk .... Jelly ... or tea?
Yeah 🤨
I'm not sure it's a winner! Don't bother making that it is not good if you
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first month. Now to the most dangerous hack that I have seen yet! This hack has already killed
34 people in the US and that is only counting the ones that have been reported in newspapers there
may well be a lot more than that and certainly there are many more around the world the hack is
called fractal wood burning or Lichtenberg wood burning. There are heaps of videos on
TikTok showing people doing it. Essentially it uses electricity to burn a lightning or a
tree-like pattern into wood that's been dampened. The results are unique every time and it does look
pretty impressive which is why people want to try it for themselves, then they head over to youtube
and find more videos showing people doing it including how-to videos that show you how to make
your own fractal wood burning device using parts from an old microwave. It is so dangerous that the
American Association of Woodturners has banned any demonstrations of it at their events and they will
not publish anything about it on their website except for articles saying how dangerous it is.
So why is it so dangerous? Well to explain that, let me draw you a picture ... we'll start with
our piece of wood and then we'll wet that with a mixture of water and bicarb. Then over here we
have a power point that we will plug the machine into and in the middle here we have a box which in
most how-to videos is a transformer that has been taken out of a microwave. So they attach one side
of the transformer to the power supply and on the other side they have a couple of car jumper cables
and in these alligator clips they add long metal spikes that they touch the
wood with. Then you turn it on and the electric current starts to burn patterns into the wood.
One of the problems with this hack is that people don't understand what is happening
inside the microwave transformer on this side the wire does a few turns around but on the other side
it has lots and lots and lots of turns and what that effectively does is it takes the 120 volts
or 240 volts that are coming from the power outlet depending on where you live and it transforms that
into 2000 volts! Which means if you accidentally touch the metal on those alligator clips or you
touch the wood or you touch the table if it's not on a non-conductive surface you are going to
be delivered ten times the amount of power that's needed to stop your heartbeat and in seven out of
ten cases the person is dead before they even hit the floor! There is just no margin for error here
one little lapse in concentration one little error and you're dead. It's not a good hack for anyone
to try and you'll remember from a previous video that was talking about electricity and it had that
stupid metal electric plug which short circuits everything and it's dangerous in itself but you'll
remember in that that the residual current device on our house flicks the power off because it
notices there's something wrong and as a safety measure it flicks it off and most modern houses
have a device or some sort of safety device it's going to flick the power off if someone's
getting electrocuted. Well that doesn't happen with this machine and once again the problem is
what's happening inside that microwave transformer ... you may have noticed that there are no wires
connecting one side of the transformer to the other the charge actually passes from one winding
to the other using a pulsing magnetic field so in this half everything continues to operate as
normal. The safety switch doesn't kick in because it's not noticing anything abnormal happening in
one sad case in Wisconsin where a couple were both electrocuted ... if if someone is being
electrocuted it's important you turn off the power before you touch them or you also will be
electrocuted ... and then in their case after that because the power continued to go through, the
whole house burnt down. "We do know that the fire started in the garage before spreading to the home
we believe that the fractal wood burning equipment that caused the electrocutions likely started the
fire." Now that you know just how many volts of electricity are going through that and that there
is no safety off switch I want you to watch a couple of these clips again and tell me would you
walk this close to a fractal wood burning machine knowing if you just brush that wood with your leg
there's a 7 out of 10 chance that you're dead? Would you hold these alligator clips in your hand
as so many videos show people doing knowing that one little mishap you slightly touch that metal
and it's all over? Well sadly this guy learnt that the hard way and his widow
in an interview with the local newspaper said that he was not aware of the dangers.
She went on to say we knew he could get a shock but we had no idea it could kill you,
there were no warnings with the videos if he had of no one he never would have done
it. There is a small number of people who have managed to survive a fractal wood-burning injury
and that is usually due to the fact they've got someone watching who has managed to turn off the
power immediately start CPR because their heart stopped and by some miracle emergency services
managed to get to their house within a few minutes, which is pretty rare here in Australia,
I don't know about the rest of the world. But even those people aren't left unscathed, they
usually have very bad injuries to their hands and permanent injury to their hearts. Mary Calhoun was
walking with her fractal wood burning device she'd finished using it and she tripped as she went to
put it somewhere and turned it on accidentally this is what her hands looked like after the
surgeons had tried to rescue them so that she had some functionality for the rest of her life.
Trust me you don't want to see the before photos we're talking severe burns we're talking
2000 volts here we're not playing with tiny amounts of current this is just not worth
the risk people. And in case you're thinking oh well she should have been wearing
insulating gloves that would protect her from the electricity part of the problem is if you
do that the rest of your body could still brush up against the table or the wood or anywhere else
it's not just your hands but also people don't know how many volts they're dealing with so
the insulating gloves are often not enough. Listen to this from Brem from Utah: "I remember
just gasping for air looking down and seeing the smoke coming off of my gloves that were basically
welded to my hands". And just in case there are any electricians out there who are thinking well
of course it's dangerous it's electricity but if you know what you're doing and you're careful
you'll be fine i'll be fine to do this, two of the deaths that i flashed up before were men who were
experienced electricians and they left behind their wife and kids so don't do it it is just
not worth it! If i had my way youtube would make a policy against dangerous
hacks and dangerous how-to videos they've got one against dangerous pranks and dangerous challenges
why isn't there one for dangerous hacks? I don't know but i feel like we've been waiting a long
time for them to listen on this one so it's up to you ... if you know anyone who is thinking
about doing fractal wood burning please share this video with them because you might just
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