Testing 5 Viral Coke Hacks (One Actually Works!)

uh if we there we go when you drink coke with it you can taste coke things you learn in today's video we are testing out some life hacks with coca-cola we have another odd assortment of things in the kitchen people keep sending us videos they want to see tested and several people sent us this one with life hacks that use cola soda i don't think was branded but it looked like it was red and white so we're just going with coke and we've got several of them so let's get started here's the basic idea we have several life hacks involving cola that we saw on a blossom video we want to see which ones of these are true and which ones just don't work first we've got some bacon over here this one actually looked fascinating to me they said that you can make candied bacon by pouring coke over your bacon before cooking it i've had candied bacon made a few different ways i've had it with brown sugar and my favorite is where it's made with maple syrup usually involves just doing a frying pan and when the bacon's like 80 cooked you pour some maple syrup over it it finishes cooking in there and you get like a nice candied coating over your bacon it's really quite delicious this seems like it's supposed to be an easier simpler way we're going to try it the first step is to marinate the bacon in the coke for half an hour okay so we've got bacon uh we've already cut it in half for different videos but the idea is you put in a glass cup pour the coke on it and we have two cups because i wanted to try something the normal coca-cola that is made with high fructose corn syrup i thought maybe that wouldn't work so i got some glass bottle made with sugar coca-cola as well to see if that makes a difference so we're just going to try both of them and see if one or both works for this i like it and now we need to pour our coca-colas in there and make sure it's covered press them down a little bit so they stay under 30 minutes then we take it out and cook it okay there's fat floating to the top and the bacon's floating the bacon is floating they did in the video they like pressed it down in to try and keep it submerged i think we have like little shot glasses we can put that on as a little weight that's staying under the bacon so we got to give it 30 minutes what's next well we have another one that's supposed to take a little bit of time and the idea is that you can take some brownie mix add coca-cola into it and you end up with cola flavored brownies uh that sounds delicious so it calls for one quarter cup of water which i assume will replace with cola how about this let's do the quarter cup mixed in and then after we pour the brownie batter in let's pour a little bit more cola on top of it as sort of a glaze okay fully aware that we are not exactly following the recipe that they said in the video we're gonna try this anyway so our next hack is making lip balm that's cola flavored so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a little scoop of coconut oil a scoop of vaseline okay mix those in a hot water bath with some cola and then once it's all nice and liquid and somehow combined even though we have two oils and not an oil maybe this has enough of an emulsifier that'll blend in there we're then going to pour it into these emptied chapstick containers there's nothing in these well nate has that going i'm going to go ahead and try the jewelry hack which is we're going to set an old piece of jewelry and some coca-cola for an hour and it's supposed to clean it off now nate's idea was to just put half in so we can kind of see how it goes these little beads won't fall off so we'll just go ahead and set half the chain in there all right that sits for an hour now this other one is an interesting idea we're supposed to be able to take an old photo soak it in coca-cola for about 20 minutes pull it out and it should be sepia toned so here's a fun blast from my past there's me at homecoming guys 15 year old cali there we go i could not find any physical photographs that i owned all right excuse me i'm just gonna put it in a pan because they had it resting in quite a bit of liquid and then i'm just gonna soak this picture in here we'll see what happens it's supposed to turn sepia toned and sink there we go we'll see what happens to that needs to stop floating to the surface we'll just put this on one side so we'll actually be able to see how well it's working perfect 20 minutes okay and i have the bowl okay coconut oil vaseline and coca-cola which maybe seem like they've bonded together oh no the cola is just at the bottom it's kind of hard to see but the coke is just underneath all of the oils oh my gosh okay this is kind of what you'd expect with oil oils being less dense and all now i'm pretty bad at pouring and these are probably pretty bad at being poured into but maybe with this thing looks like you got some oil in there yes i think i do have some oil in here i'm just gonna set this to the side we may move that to the refrigerator to cool down and if i just look here at the bowl we have to me i think it looks like we have some oil yeah on top of some coca-cola let's go ahead and just let that chill in the fridge just like that yeah let's put both in and see what we get our bacon's been sitting for thirty actually 40 minutes now we let it go a little longer now we're gonna cook it up it recommends cooking it in the oven but it actually recommended doing it at like 520 degrees what and i'm not gonna do that so i'm just gonna say it would definitely burn your bacon if you tried to cook it at over 500 degrees so we're going to use a frying pan okay and this is the sugar version yes this is the glass corn syrup version and so i think we can just do like two pieces from each one sure and try and keep them separate in the pan and just see how they turn out i like it while we do that there's another hack that involves cleaning a frying pan the frying pan used in the video was stainless steel and we didn't have any of those so we went to the store and the store didn't have any stainless steel frying pans either so we got a pot and we're just gonna burn stuff on the bottom it didn't say what the stuff was but it looked like sauce of some kind of mystery stuff so we're going to use barbecue sauce and we're just going to burn it onto our pan all right while nate is burning that i believe my picture has marinated long enough so let's take a look at my sepia tone picture this piece of glass is holding it down because for me that wasn't actually staying down in the liquid so this one spot might be a different color oh it has kind of a bubble huh yes i'm going to go ahead and say no all we've done maybe like is it maybe a little different not by much though because like i'm still pale if you haven't even gained a tan how sepia tone could it really be look at the back of it so all i've done is make this picture of me from homecoming very sticky oh what a bonus don't do this all right sugar corn syrup burning barbecue sauce and we've got about 10 minutes more until our brownies are supposed to be done although they kind of look done now let's take them out brownies and also while things are cooking we can take a look at our lip balm and see if that's solidified okay it just had coca-cola underneath this oh look liquid coke not connected to the loop nope floating underneath this just sphere of wax gross zero mixture yep and yours was just the wax that got poured on top we do so seem to have made something that resembles lip balm up and down but the question is does it have any cola to it it's very very soft you just smoosh it across your face does this one even [Music] no i think that might work as a lip balm if you're willing to risk a lower melting temperature lip balm but no coca-cola hint to it no taste no smell it doesn't even stay together in the bowl guys so don't do that take a look at our jewelry so the idea here was that it might even give it sort of a nice dye or a color if it didn't clean it all together clean off the chain here and well the coca-cola came off this is the side of the chain i didn't put in there and this is the side of the chain i did it's a slightly different color i don't know if it's cleaner or stained yeah i'm not really seeing any difference here i wouldn't call that a benefit so i'm gonna go and say don't try and clean your jewelry in coca-cola or at least not silver so the bacon is still cooking and i am noticing so there are parts of it that at a normal cooking temperature are like burning and sticking a lot more and i do think that might be from the sugars that are in this so um maybe we're getting somewhere good with this all right i think that's plenty burned for our sauce look at that that looks great now it's not the same it doesn't really match the like painted look that we had before so it's already a bit different it's okay we'll see what we can do here hang on it wasn't smoking in the video when they put in so i think we need to let it cool down and have a cool burned-on saucepan before we add that cola right this is still very hot but it's not smoking so i think we're at a point where we can say let's add our cola throw it on the stove and see if it gets rid of all the sauce that's burnt onto it sugar pieces corn syrup pieces okay not impressed with the crispiness no it's very kind of floppy bacon i like bacon where you can hold one end of it and it just doesn't curve at all the whole piece just holds itself in shape so normally to get burned parts on bacon you would be past that crispy shape see what the flavor is though tastes like bacon but missing some of the flavor yeah it actually seems to have taken out some of the flavor and because the edges are burned there's like a hint of burnt sugar but it's not good it's just burnt sugar let's try the one with real sugar instead of corn syrup this is closer there's a little bit of candied taste to it very mild properly candy bacon will literally just have a glaze over the whole thing it'll be like shiny and smooth looking almost this took out some of the salt a lot of the salt actually take a look at our brownies cali it's chocolate bread your favorite two things i don't eat oh very crumbly i do want to say though all of the cola that was on top seems to have yeah been absorbed or otherwise disappeared somewhere very soft this particular recipe comes with chocolate chips in it so it's got melted chocolate which is good i'm just going to stab a piece i call it good there's some soft gooey brownie any coca-cola flavor whatsoever i'm getting nothing thank goodness it's just fine it's an okay brownie we did not do exactly what the video showed the video showed the whole box and then an entire can of cola being poured onto it it didn't say anything about oil it didn't say anything about egg so i think they were more making a chocolate cola cake yeah it makes it more sweet cake need egg though usually cake mixes need egg too you can make something of a bread substance without the egg i'm sure that's true so overall at least this we're replacing the water with cola and the pouring of a little bit more cola on top it does work it just doesn't do anything i'm ready to pour this out and see how good of a surface we have underneath it you can see looking down still just really really dark hey look at that that actually worked that is a pretty cleaned surface right there we do have a couple spots that are still burnt let's see if they come off easily oh just came right off wiped right off the side so at least if your problem is that you burned barbecue sauce in your pot or pan to a moderate level coke does a great job of getting enough we just poured the coke in boiled it for a few minutes and basically took all of it off so i would say that is definitely a viable choice depending on what you put on there maybe some stuff doesn't work i don't know we can't try everything we don't know what they used but on the thing we used it worked great all right so out of everything that we tested today we had a couple of successes we had some brownies that turned out don't taste like a coca-cola but they are brownies i have no objection to these brownies and it cleaned a pot it sure did did not make lip balm even a little bit didn't clean my jewelry didn't turn a photo see a tone bacon bacon no it made the bacon definitely worse removed bacon flavor added nothing good to it so most of these hacks i would say are pointless yep cleaning the pot at least in some cases definitely works any other videos you want to see us debunk guys you know that we will do it for you they keep lining them up we'll knock them down guys that is not all you know we've always got more for you to see and if you like this kind of content make sure you hit that button to subscribe and we'll see you in the next one talk to you then [Music] you

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Length: 13min 12sec (792 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 18 2020