Debunking viral TIK TOK videos | How To Cook That Ann Reardon

Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon  and in this episode I will be debunking videos   that you guys sent me on twitter. Let's start  with this one sent in by got beef, it says I   never knew this about the inside of oranges ...  they're in the store with an orange on a drill   then they pull out a blow torch and  heat the orange. Just not very long.   Then they turn off the blowtorch she tries to  blow it out and they keep spinning the orange   for a while why are they even doing this? The  centrifugal force is is pulling it down and   it's done something to the inside of this  orange and you're going to see what it is.   Wow they made orange jelly hmm pretty impressive,  let me just bring up the point about centrifugal   force she was saying that that was cooling the  orange down and changing the inside of the orange.   Centrifugal force is an apparent force that  appears to pull something away from the center   when it goes on a curved path. Really it's  actually just the inertia keeping the object   on the path that was going rather than pulling  away from the center but we call that apparent   force centrifugal force. We can demonstrate  that by getting James to spin a bucket of water   over his head ... and as you can see  he doesn't get wet because the force is   keeping the water on the path going round  the circle so that it doesn't come down   on top of him. So what if we spin an orange  well as you know oranges don't just have   juice inside as one bucket of water sort of thing  they have lots of little sacks of juice so that'd   be a bit more like spinning say a bucket full of  water balloons let's get james to do that as well.   He's such a good sport and as you can see the  water balloons are not falling out and if we have   a look in the bucket at the end they are also not  broken they've just stayed intact because they're   just lots of little sections. Now i think that if  you spun the orange super super super fast like   ridiculously fast you could damage all those  little membranes inside and maybe turn it into   juice but i don't think this is spinning fast  enough for one and even if you did make juice   there's no reason for that to gel into jelly  but as always let's test it out. I'm going   to hit it with a blowtorch for the same  length of time as they did i'm not going to   show you the whole long process because  they drew it out for as long as they could   obviously to get the long watch time and then  i'm going to keep it spinning for the same   amount of time as they did and now after all that  let's cut the orange in half and inside you have   a normal orange of course. But their video had  20 million views on facebook which means the   facebook algorithm is promoting that video and  paying them to do dumb stuff like that. Now if   we go to the actual page that they uploaded it  on and read the full description right down on   the fourth line it says this ... this was a  funny magic trick we did in store as a joke.   I don't know i must have different humor to them  but that information as i said was on the fourth   line which means it doesn't show anywhere that  the video is it doesn't even show on the page   the videos on unless you click see more and  most people don't even see that information.   This next video was sent in by morgan who says:  this video is stupid and dangerous I want to see   what actually happens because I know it isn't  factual. So she's picked up this is a fake   well done morgan, let's check it out. She puts  strawberries and razor blades into a container I   can understand why he said it was dangerous and  shakes them around for a minute and a half to   keep people watching for longer and then finally  reveals perfectly diced strawberries! Well I agree   morgan this is not going to work but just for you  I'm going to do it. Firstly hull the strawberries,   now I've got a knife and a chopping board out  I could of course dice the strawberries while   i'm here but let's not do that let's do the hack.  Add the razor blades to my strawberries put them   into a container add the lid start a timer  for a minute and a half and start shaking. The razor blades are so thin that most of them  are just sticking flat to the container's edge   as soon as there's any moisture they might as  well not even be in there but i'll keep shaking   for the full time. As you can see now most of  the razor blades are still stuck to the edges   and we have not diced the strawberries we've  basically just smashed them against the sides   of the container and mixed them with the razor  blades which we now need to find and take out.   There were eight of them so i just need to check  one two three four five six seven there's another   one in there somewhere let me find that. now once  again when you go to their actual facebook page so   you can see the full description and click see  more so you can see that invisible fourth line   it says this page publishes videos are intended  for entertainment purposes only this includes   scripted dramas satires parodies and magic tricks  and i assume they think this comes under magic   tricks, you know what i think about that already.  Anyway let's check out this next one this is from   Ozzies Delight on instagram and it also says it's  a strawberry hack. When you get your strawberries   do not wash it just remove it from the pack that  it comes with and store in any glass airtight   jar will do. I've had the strawberries going to  two weeks and see how fresh they are. Let's test   that out and see if it works this one by the way  has 27 views not 20 million views, 27 views, so   i'm going to make this fair by taking half of the  strawberries from each punnett in case one punnett   was more fresh than the other they're both from  the same store on the same day but just in case   and then i'll put all these other ones into the  one punnet and put them both in the fridge. Nine   days later and the ones in the punnet look a bit  dry and old and the ones in the jar still look   brand new plump and perfect. Now i think that  that is the sort of hack that i'm looking for   hacks that actually work and are helpful to people  so go give OZZIES DELIGHT i'll put a link to her   instagram post below go give her some love on  instagram because you know the algorithm isn't   going to because it was helpful it wasn't rubbish.  Anyway moving on next we have one from tik tok   that was sent to me quite a few times by quite  a few of you and jen asks is there really enough   pectin in pears to make this work? basically  they're mixing sparkling lemonade pears salt   and red vinegar bringing it to a boil and once it  cools down they've got this jelly this pear jelly   thing going on. Now to answer your question jen  no there's not enough pectin in one pair to set   that amount of liquid i think this is probably a  matter of lost in translation i think they've got   one ingredient label wrong there but we'll make  it their way first just to show you what happens   and then I'm gonna swap something out. Put the  lemonade into a pan add a sliced pear some salt   red wine vinegar bring it to the boil and then  pour that into a glass. Dave's gonna love that!   While that cools let me make another one with the  same ingredients except as I said I'm going to   swap out one thing I'm going to take out the salt  and swap that for agar powder now you need to boil   any solution that you add agar to in order for it  to gel and I'm not adding vinegar to this one just   because i think it would taste nicer without  it and it's going to make no difference to the   recipe. Let them both cool and then dave can be  our taste tester 💕 Do I just drink it like this? No that was definitely an unexpected hit of  seawater! This one is the same recipe one   ingredient different. Okay all right let's  com-pear it. Yeah it's actually okay quite   nice quite fresh light pear flavored jelly good  one. Now before we move on i just want to say   a huge thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered  my dessert cookbook, I announced it in the last   episode and i was really nervous i said to Dave  what if nobody actually wants to buy my cookbook   that i've spent a year writing and then i put the  video up and all i could see was these comments of   going i've pre-ordered your book i've pre-ordered  your book and i was so blessed that was just   lovely it was the best thing and  then i went to bed and then in the   morning i woke up to this ... it was  sitting at number one best seller in   baking cookbooks in the US and number one in books  overall on amazon in Australia which was just   crazy! You guys you literally blew me away 💕 So  to say thank you I want to run a competition for   everyone who pre-orders the book if you haven't  already pre-ordered it's not too late you can do   that just go to your bookstore that you'd normally  order from online and type in Ann Reardon and   search for that. I've had lots of questions about  the quantities, it's in grams and ounces and cups   and centimeters and inches and Fahrenheit and  centigrade everyone is covered everything is   written both ways so that everybody knows what  they're doing and you don't have to convert   anything! So hopefully that's good for all of you  make sure you pre-order and then when you do I'll   put a link to the entry form just underneath this  video and you can go and enter to win yourself... one of these amazing Furi knife sets it's got  all these knives plus that one that's there   that's still in the box that i didn't take out  and this unbelievable knife block which i just   love. 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Okay next video this is another tik   tok one and this is showing us how to cook steak  in a toaster ... now i assume that this probably   should be possible i mean the toaster is a heat  source so it should work but the question is   why and also is it going to be food safe to then  use that toaster again for anything else so let's   check it out. Now i set a timer on my phone so i  could see how long it took and after 20 minutes of   repeatedly putting it down the stake was finally  hot enough for the rare setting on my thermometer   and the whole toaster was hot to touch i don't  think it's supposed to be on for that long.   Now i couldn't get it out using (silicon)  tongs so i had to unplug it and then use   a fork so never use a fork if it's plugged in  obviously and then let's see what it's like.   It's a bit tough the knife makes this  look tender but trust me it's not,   the knife is just super sharp. Now my main  concern is not for the steak it's for the toaster   the tray has uncooked meat juice on it which  can have a bacteria and i can wash that tray   but i can't wash the inside of the toaster itself  which also has meat juice in it. Now instead of   going down the path that most tik tokers seem  to do when they're criticized about a food video   they make they just say this was for entertainment  purposes only and they add that somewhere in the   fourth line or below of their description  juliette chose not to do that apparently   in an interview with insider she said this: I  recommend more people cook with their toaster   my toaster did survive i just cooked shrimp  yesterday in my toaster and it grilled it   perfectly. Well i would suggest you don't do that  people and i don't have a stove or an oven only a   coffee maker toaster and hair straightener  my boyfriend wanted steak for dinner so i   popped the steak in the toaster. I find that very  interesting that insider didn't follow that up by   watching her other videos because in this video it  appears like she has a stovetop and an oven. Now   fair enough she could be in a different kitchen  but if we look at the benchtop in this one it   looks surprisingly similar to the benchtop in the  toaster with the steak video. Okay moving on this   is called parasites in pork don't like pepsi. They  basically get pepsi and pour it onto their pork   and then they say these are little  worms and if we fast forward.   Oh gross! Let me try putting pepsi on pork  the things we do and let's see what happens   pour on the pepsi and then let's zoom in and  see if anything comes out. Oh look at that   wow so there's another one ... why is this  happening let me zoom out and show you why that's   happening. I have a needle going through the paper  plate and into the pork sitting just under the   surface so i can press out the fat on top and it  can look a little bit like a worm but it's not a   worm it's just white fat. Personally i think that  this prank is one of the more dangerous ones to   be shared around the internet and the reason for  that is because pork parasites are a real thing,   the most commonly known one would be trichonella  which can cause trichonellosis. what happens if   you eat meat that is infected with the triconella  larvae is when you eat it and the meat gets   digested the larvae gets released from the meat  it sits in your intestine for a couple of days and   grows to full size in that time you can get nausea  and vomiting and diarrhea and feel quite unwell   but then that larvae travels in your bloodstream  and gets into your muscle tissues where it can   cause an immune response and swelling particularly  around the eye area and depending where they go to   it can cause very serious illnesses and muscle  pain and can make you sick for months so they're   showing how to test if your pork has this parasite  but it's the wrong test! This is not going to   work you could have trichonella larvae in your  meat pour pepsi on it and you will not see it,   if you want to know if it's in your meat what you  need to do which is what they do here in Australia   and they do in the US before the meat gets to  the market so they know if you're buying pork   at the shops it's very very unlikely in the US or  australia to have this in it they have to puree   the meat up then they digest it using stomach acid  which is a lot stronger than your pepsi or your   coke and then they keep it warm and agitate it for  about 20 minutes to digest that meat. They then   pour it into different beakers just to concentrate  it down and now that fluid there you can see you   can't see any worms in it with the naked eye  because the larvae are tiny they put it under   a microscope and there you go now you can see the  little trickinella larvae that were there in that   meat but you would not be able to see it with your  naked eye even if the pepsi could digest the meat   you will not see it just looking at it, so by  saying to someone you can test your meat this way   that's not a good thing. There are countries  where this is a big issue and also for people   if you're in the US the number one cause of  people getting it there is people hunting their   own meat particularly bears or wild boar and then  eating it. So if you think you can test your meat   this is not going to work for you. So what you  need to do is cook it really really well because   heat is going to kill it there's no rare steaks!  What's next? Five minute craft says if we put   potatoes into a tube with bottle caps attached to  the top and then spin it with a drill the potato   will be peeled okay let's try that out put the lid  on spin it around and dip it out and of course our   potatoes are not peeled at all. Bottle caps are  sharp enough that they could scrape off the potato   peel perhaps if they were all around the inside  of the tube rather than just on the lid but they'd   be tiny little scrapings not big peelings you get  when you peel it with a potato peeler. I was also   sent this five minute crafts video as well where  they get a plate and they cut a zigzag pattern out   of the plate and they use it to put a pattern on  the side of the cake and on the top two but then   all of a sudden the pattern goes from the really  small zigzags that were on our paper to these huge   zags that are now on the cake and they add  sprinkles on top. Now i'm not sure why they   faked this because technically it should work it's  just icing and it's just a piece of cardboard it   wouldn't be my first choice for what to use  if you didn't have a proper cake scraper   but let's try it and see if we can get it to work  ... it's not great the first time around but if   i repeat it at the same spot a few times we can  make it smoother. A better hack would be to cut an   ice cream container lid because it's much firmer  it's not as flimsy as the plate and it gives you   a much sharper pattern on the cake. You will need  to go across it several times so here is the side   done with the paper plate and here is the side  done with the ice cream lid, i'll just quickly   run the ice cream lid the whole way around  the cake so that it is even and there we go,   done. Michelle thank you for sending in this  next one also by five minute crafts they put   sugar into a fry pan and turn on the heat and  that looks burnt and then they put a different   looking number five on top of the cake let's  look at those side by side 🧐 This is not the   method i would use to make a sugar five at all  but i will do it their way and see what happens.   Arrange some sugar into a number five shape turn  on the heat and let it melt then once it's cold   try and get it off the pan, now it is of course  stuck because sugar really sticks to things well   and it has broken. If you look at the pieces  anyway it is quite dark and if i taste it it   tastes burnt. Now here is how i would suggest you  do that if you want a sugar number on top of your   cake put sugar into a pan and add enough water to  make it wet then turn on the heat and stir until   the sugar is dissolved wash down the sides of the  pan using a wet pastry brush this is important to   get any sugar crystals off the sides and then let  it boil unstirred until it's just starting to turn   golden it goes from golden to burnt very quickly  so pull it off the heat. now pour that onto a   non-stick baking paper in the shape of a five you  should have enough there to make a few so you can   choose your favorite one. once it's cool it just  peels off the baking paper and you can add it to   the top of your cake. With thanks to my patrons  for your support every month here is a list of   absolute legends if you liked this video make sure  you let the algorithm know by liking commenting   sharing subscribing and watching more of my videos  don't forget to enter the competition to win the   Furi knives and pre-order my cookbook so exciting!  Make it a great week and I'll see you on friday 😁

Channel: How To Cook That

Views: 3,813,994

Keywords: Debunking, ann reardon debunking, fake viral videos, exposing 5 minute crafts, fake viral tiktok videos, food scientist, dietitian, pastry chef, pork parasites, strawberry razor blades, steak in a toaster, shrimp in a toaster, sugar decoration 5, youtube algorithm, facebook algorithm, worst tiktok videos, ann reardon, how to cook that

Id: eYwnU1DuJOo

Length: 20min 34sec (1234 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 09 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/GetYourMotherPlease]

That Rick Lax dude from the first video is internet poison. He needs a kick to the nuts.

[u/Toffeeapplechew3000]

She's the bomb! I'm so glad she covered that razor strawberry trick, that one makes my blood boil.

[u/kinopiokun]

I love her channel she’s so fun. Her poor husband

[u/copperwatt]

I am far more worried by the fact that these videos need debunking.

[u/saint_karen]

That woman with the razor blades and strawberries always shows up on my feed making weird Cheeto Mac n cheese.

Bad vibes from her.

[u/TheBioboostedArmor]

Ann's channel is amazing.

[u/Mikeltee]

Ann Reardon is so good at these debunking videos. She simply explains why these recipes don't work and speaks about how damaging and harmful these 'hacks' are. Glad she's released another debunking video.

[u/sarcasmismysuperpowr]

Anne is seriously awesome.

[u/mothnfloth]

Did someone seriously cook steak in a toaster?