Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and
this is another episode of debunking where we look at viral videos from around the internet
and figure out what's true and what is fake. First of all before we get into it I must say
a huge thank you to all of you who helped with the fractal wood burning video ... if you missed
it i did a previous episode exposing the extreme dangers of fractal wood burning and YouTube in
its crazy wisdom decided that that video was dangerous and took it down while leaving up the
videos showing how to do fractal wood burning! We of course challenged it and the decision
got reversed the video got put back up but that essentially made that video dead in the water
no one was ever going to see it but you guys got onto that you commented on the video you shared
it you liked it you got it moving again and now it is back on the front page when you search for
fractal wood burning and it is having an effect. Here are some of the comments just from since it's
been reinstated ... my dad was very insistent on wanting to do this and he wouldn't listen until
i showed him this video. I am so glad you just saved my life i was already making my device to
try it but changed my mind thanks to your video i just threw everything away. I rewatched the
video and had just decided to send it to my family member unbeknown to me they already had the
transformer and were planning on attempting it. And there are so many more comments just like that
of these people saying they were going to try it and now that they've seen the video and they
realise how dangerous it is they are not going to do it and that is all because of you so well
done, great job and thank you for your help with getting that warning out there. Now let's have
a look at what Five Minute Crafts has been up to this video is called granny's kitchen hacks
you should save for the future hmmm... speaking of the future though can you imagine
someone watching this video in a hundred years time saying back in 2022 it appears they used to
decorate their fridge with food instead of eating the food 😂 To be fair though I have decorated the
fridge with food before but I didn't smear it on, I made a chocolate tree so that the kids could
see it when they came home from school. It was a completely different idea but still decorating
the fridge with food. Okay let's look at this next one we have some raspberry jam spread it on a
paper towel add soil, roll it up and plant it and you grow a raspberry plant. To get jam to
set when you're making it you have to heat it all the way up to 105 degrees celsius or 220
Fahrenheit now there's a variation for different seeds as to what temperature will kill them but
generally anything above 60 degrees centigrade your seed is gonna be dead so it's not
going to be viable anymore it's not going to grow into a raspberry plant so that one was
completely fake. Let's check out this next one they appear to have an onion in some soil and
they're cutting off the top scoring it across and then adding toothpicks and now they're growing
and they seem to have miraculously been cut all the way through into quarters and we can watch
them grow and now it's flowering with tulips. Okay so I apparently got that wrong that was not
supposed to be an onion it was supposed to be a tulip bulb but what they showed in this video
the time lapse of this video everything about this video was faked ... if you have a look at the
time lapse bit of it you can see where they poured on the water if we go frame by frame you can see
the water is soaking in as the frames go by so no time has passed just a few seconds and in that
time they've stretched up or photoshopped in some leaves growing i'm not quite sure why they didn't
make the biggest one of those grow there because that would be more believable. Despite the fact
that this is fake and it's the wrong methodology you can actually propagate some bulbs like tulips
and daffodils by cutting them all the way through as long as you have some of that basil plate on
the bottom of each bit that you've cut. There's a great youtube channel that i want you to check out
where he does some amazingly beautiful time lapses of daffodils opening and all of that sort of stuff
i'm not going to show you because i want you to go to his channel and watch them but one of the
time lapses that he has recorded is of slicing the bulbs and you can see here as they grow they look
very very different to what five minute crafts showed you. It doesn't make sense to me that
beautifully filmed channels like this one that are factually correct and actually help educate you
hardly get any views or subscribers and yet Five Minute Crafts continues to get millions of views
and be promoted. This one i thought that they were debunking the video for me they'd already
debunked it but when i read the description and the comments underneath i realised that they were
genuinely posting up a video asking what they did wrong and why it didn't work. So let me show you
the video on the left is the original and on the right is the person trying it at home they're
blending sugar and food coloring to make cotton candy and of course they just get powdered sugar
mixed with some chunks of food colouring in there. If you're a regular to how to cook that then
you already know that to make cotton candy it is indeed just sugar and food colouring but it has
to be heated up until the sugar is melted and then a cotton candy machine has a round central section
with small little holes so that when it's spun you get these tiny little threads of sugar coming out
rather than the sugar just splattering everywhere when it's melted which would not make cotton candy
at all. But if we read down in the comments some people are suggesting perhaps they've got the
wrong blender or you need to blend for longer or maybe a different speed my suggestion would
perhaps be to put the cotton candy in the blender and then reverse the footage and you've magically
got it making fairy floss 🤯 There shouldn't be fake hacks and there shouldn't be fake how-to's,
it's not a matter of trying to prank people with recipes that's just gonna waste food and waste
their time and make them think that they've done something wrong and that they can't cook. That's
not a good outcome ... perhaps there needs to be a trust rating on videos that can be trusted so that
you know if i try their stuff they're not trying to prank me i don't know you let me know what you
think a good solution would be to this problem. Next topic we have is highly controversial
... vaping, vaping, vaping, vaping, vaping, vaping nobody knows too much about it.
Basically they're a device that uses a battery to heat up a metal coil to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
or 200 degrees celsius in seconds in order to convert a liquid into tiny airborne droplets or an
aerosol and most of the liquids contain nicotine. Some of them contain THC or other cannabis or
marijuana products but we're not talking about those i'm just talking about the nicotine vapes
and nicotine e-cigarettes for the purpose of this video the first e-cigarettes looked very
much like normal cigarettes they were designed by a pharmacist who was addicted to smoking and
wanted a way to still get that nicotine hit but to try and get himself off smoking and hopefully
others too, so great starting intentions. Fast forward to today and as i said there's hundreds
of different designs many of which are more modern and sleek and colorful and 23% of adults who use
e-cigarettes never smoked in the first place they just took up e-cigarettes and vaping, so is it
good for you or are they not so good for you? Let's take a look at the first thing that hits
the news a lot which is exploding e-cigarettes: An e-cigarette exploded inside a New York
city man's pocket ... smoking an electronic cigarette it exploded in his face ... it's the
latest e-cigarette to explode in a long list of similar cases across the country. Do you remember
when the Samsung phone batteries were exploding in those cases 26 people got injured and then the
phones were recalled taken off the market millions of them so that no one else got hurt. In this case
we have 3369 injuries from e-cigarettes exploding a third of the cases of hospitalization the people
were using the e-cigarette when it exploded and then of course they're getting burns and injuries
to their face and to their hands because of the design of the e-cigarette when the batteries are
exploding it's forcing the top of the e-cigarette off into their face like a projectile. So if you
look at this CT scan of a 17 year old you can see his jaw is shattered and his teeth are knocked
in these are not minor injuries these are major unpleasant, nobody would wish that on anyone. So
why are they exploding? Well i've seen quite a few people say that it is because people are carrying
spare batteries in their pockets they have a wrap on the outside that needs to stay intact if that
battery gets torn and that starts to touch metal or something like loose change in your pocket or
something like that it can definitely short out the battery. In a world where youtube exists if
you tell people lithium-ion batteries are going to explode if you short-circuit them there's
going to be youtubers who try and short-circuit them and get them to explode now this is an
extremely dangerous thing to do and i do not at all suggest that you try it but when they did
try it this is what happened ... immediately drop the battery into the acrylic pipe
and guess what happened after 20 minutes nothing! Well it got pretty hot but nothing more
happened. And those results seemed consistent over all the channels that i watched of people
trying to short circuit the batteries they got hot but they didn't get hot enough for
them to explode so in order to try and make them get those fireworks what was required
to do that? Well on those dangerous youtube videos anything that basically pierced through the
battery making the layers that are wrapped up inside the battery come in contact with each other
so you're basically breaking the separation plates so that the layers come in contact with each
other and then you're getting the explosion... Now i'm pretty sure that that's not happening in
people's pockets so why would they be exploding? One of the explanations is possibly faulty
lithium-ion batteries so people getting cheap substandard batteries that actually have a fault
inside them already and then that just causes that separation layer that's inside the battery
to break down and boom you have an explosion. But then there's other ones as well where it seems
to be the fault of the device this vaping channel says: it's not the mods fault it is definitely the
user's fault whenever one of these things happens to explode. So he's saying that by using mech
mods and the wrong coil people are essentially over stressing the battery and allowing it to
overheat that way and then explode my question to that would be if mech mods are so dangerous that
they can explode like this surely there should be an awful lot of warnings that have to come with
them in order for the people not to get sued. This law firm that is in fact representing
different people who have been injured in explosions lists different devices that have been
involved in explosions obviously this is not all devices because it's only just what one law firm
is representing personally i just wouldn't risk putting anything that could explode that close to
my face. The next thing that hits the news a lot is evali. Evali which stands for e-cigarette or
vaping product use associated lung injury we're seeing it progress pretty rapidly from no problems
to severe lung injury and even death in just a week or so. Evali was very serious it killed a lot
of people 68 people to be exact it mainly occurred in the US back in 2019. If i show you the graph
here you can see that it really peaked and then it dropped right back down and the reason it dropped
back down is they started studying the lungs of people who came into the hospital with a valley
and found that the vast majority of them had not just been smoking the nicotine e-cigarettes but
they had been smoking the thc or the cannabinoid or the marijuana-based vapes basically and they
had been contaminated or deliberately added to the vitamin E acetate, which fine if you're
going to eat that not fine if you're going to inhale that it basically is an extreme irritant
to the lungs causing them to swell and that inflammation then meant that they basically
couldn't breathe properly. Before we move on to the next thing i just want to say a big
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speech from the u.s surgeon general back in 2018: we know that nicotine exposure during adolescence
can uniquely harm the developing adolescent brain impacting learning, memory and attention. We know
that exposure during this critical brain period can lead to further addictions. Youth e-cigarette
use has skyrocketed so much so today that i am officially declaring e-cigarette use among youth
and epidemic in the United States vaping companies many of which have full or part ownership by
tobacco companies basically had a free run in the US up to 2016 when the fda was given approval
to be able to regulate them under tobacco. So before that they could pretty much do what
they wanted there was no labelling requirements for nicotine there was seven thousand different
flavours they basically just did anything and loved the freedom because tobacco companies had
had a lot of restrictions on what they could do before that in terms of advertising now they've
got this new product and they can do whatever they want. Even once the regulations came in in
2016 in terms of the fda could regulate them it seemed to be very slow in actually knuckling down
on those regulations and requiring companies to actually have their products tested and approved
before they were allowed on the market. I'm not sure why that was so slow you'd have to look into
that if you were interested in that but certainly that allowed the numbers of youth who were using
e-cigarettes to continue to rise so by 2020, 20% of high schoolers in the u.s said that they had
used an e-cigarette within the last 30 days. 20% that is just high super high way too high and then
because of that there were some investigations particularly into one of the brands that was
a leading brand at the time to see had they in fact marketed towards youth and young people,
which they deny and say no our target audience was smokers we want to get smokers off smoking
and onto e-cigarettes, which is a great, noble thing to try and do. But when you look at
it the average age of smokers or the majority of smokers in the US are between the age of 25 and
65 and their adverts all seem to feature people who are quite a bit younger or definitely on the
very youngest end of that and it wasn't just the young people who were featured in this campaign
that was the issue it was where the ad was placed. So you had ads in teen magazines, you had ads on
children's cartoon websites it's no wonder this product appealed to young people so much. They
also paid many social media influences to promote their product it's interesting to note on this one
that was a paid promotion that she has updated her post to say: I became addicted to Juul vape and
it caused me lots of pain. But probably the nail in the coffin for Juul when they were trying to
convince everyone they hadn't promoted to kids was the testimony that they had actually gone
into schools! Did the presenter call Juul quote unquote 'totally safe' more than once. Yes.
What impact did those quote unquote totally safe comments have on your classmates some of whom may
have already started vaping? For my classmates who are already vaping it was a sigh of relief because
now they were able to vape without any concern. The national academies of sciences engineering and
medicine put out a 750 page review on e-cigarettes this is what they say: combustible tobacco
cigarettes pose serious risks to human health. We know that i think everyone would agree on that
if you smoke you have a 50% chance of dying of a smoking related illness that's not good odds.
Many of those health effects emerge only after decades of cigarette smoking e-cigarettes have
only been on the market in the u.s since 2006 making scientific comparisons between e-cigarettes
and combustible cigarettes about most health effects difficult. More and better research
on short-term and long-term health effects of e-cigarettes will bring clarity on whether
e-cigarettes will prove to reduce harm or induce harm at the individual and population levels.
So I guess it's kind of like watch this space if you're someone who never smoked and you are
now vaping welcome to the human experiment you volunteered to pay money to vape and get
paid nothing to be the research subject in this great human experiment! Personally i would
rather be in the control group that gets to have healthy fresh air and i think you should swap into
my group i think you got a bad deal. Nicotine is highly addictive. It was so addicting i brought it
with me everywhere i went. At first it started out as a pot of day but then progressively got to more
and more at the height of my addiction it was $150 a week. So i'm constantly puffing away on it when
i'm in bed about to go to sleep i'm smoking on it until my eyes are closed and i'm in a deep sleep,
i wake up the first thing in the morning i do is reach for this. Now previously back when they
were trying to show that normal tobacco cigarettes caused lung cancer they developed a study where
they would get 300 mice put them in an enclosed pen and pump in cigarette smoke for i think it
was five or six hours a day and they did that five days a week and then did it for two and a half
years and they also had a control group of mice who got nice fresh filtered air. At the end of the
study 10% of the control group had neoplastic lung lesions now that compared with 45% of the mice
that were exposed to the cigarette smoke. Now this testing method has been useful because whenever
the tobacco companies come up with a new cigarette that they think is going to be healthier instead
of waiting decades you could do this study and show whether it was going to have a better effect
compared to the previous model of cigarettes. Now obviously this is mice this is not humans so it's
not a hundred percent but it at least gives an indication you don't have to wait 30, 40 years
before you get that sort of indication of what's happening. So this professor wanted to do that
study essentially with nicotine vapes but he hit opposition because it's widely believed that
nicotine is not carcinogenic it's not going to cause cancer but he was looking at what about when
it's inhaled this is a whole new delivery method. So eventually he got some funding but not big
funding so he didn't have 300 mice he had 40 mice and he exposed them to e-cigarette vapor
containing nicotine for four hours a day five days a week for just over a year and then 18 mice
were exposed to e-cigarette vapor without nicotine and 18 were given filtered air. One of the mice
in the control group got cancer and nine of the mice that were exposed to the nicotine containing
vapor developed one or more visible lung tumors. Here is the professor who did that study: vaping
is definitely not safe. Nicotine once you get into the cell they become DNA damaging. Of course
nicotine is not the only chemical that has been raised of concern in vapes either, there are
issues with some of the flavorings particularly the cinnamon, the butterscotch, the buttery,
the cherry ones, some of those are approved fda flavorings that you can use in food and they're
fine to eat but when you're heating them up to 200 degrees centigrade they're changing into a
different chemical often one which is then an irritant to your lungs when you breathe it in.
There are also some reports saying that there are some heavy metals that are being inhaled from
some of the vapes perhaps from the coils in the actual devices. 30 countries have totally banned
e-cigarettes, here in Australia they decided to do a study they went out and bought 214 different
vapes that were available from all different brands and instead of just trusting what they said
was in them they tested the liquid that was in each vape and then had a look at what was actually
in it. 88% of them were not correctly labeled for nicotine some of them didn't even mention they
had any nicotine in them but they in fact had very high levels of nicotine. Of course that's
not useful if you're trying to wean off and you don't even know how much is in it and a third
of them had prohibited substances in like those flavorings that i was just talking about. So that
told them that basically they can't trust the vape manufacturers to do the right thing for people's
health so they then made the decision to make it illegal to have nicotine vapes in Australia it's
illegal to possess one it's illegal to use one unless you have a prescription from your doctor.
If you are vaping and you want to quit which would be 60% of you according to studies then make
sure you do reach out and get help because you are dealing with a nicotine addiction coming
straight off at cold turkey can be pretty this rough.
So hard. I feel like i'm at war in my body my throat
hurts my head hurts i'm craving it. Weaning off with a plan from a health professional
can make that journey a little bit easier it is going to be hard it's not going to be
an easy thing to do but it is so worth it. If you have never vaped before and you've
never smoked before if someone offers you one just be kind to your future self and say no
thanks I don't want to do that that's not for me. Simple. If you don't start I can 100% guarantee it
won't affect you, you won't get addicted and you will not have any long-term health consequences
from it. With thanks to my patrons for your amazing support make it a great week by being
kind to others and i'll see you on Friday 😁
