I Tested Viral Tik Tok Food Hacks

In a world full of food hacks, which ones are actually true? Let’s test them.

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Ingredients: An extreme level of patience.

A food hack is one of two things it’s either the worst thing ever invented in humanity in a complete and utter lie or it’s so timesaving that it revolutionizes your cooking or eating forever yeah sure they’re fun to watch but are they even useful so today we are

Going to Tik Tok to find the most viral food hacks and we’re going to put them to the test to see if they even work in the first place now look I know my opinions can be harsh worked my whole life in restaurants mostly fine dining things are pretty specific and not

Always very nice in those worlds but today I’m going to be a little nicer emphasis on only a little bit I really am hopeful that some of these are actually good and effective I want people to learn at the end of the day but I also want people to know the truth

So let’s give it our best effort starting with number one using an onion ring as a ring mold this is an affordable and edible alternative so I do like it pan over medium heat onion goes in I’ve got some oil already in there get let that onion start cooking I

Think you should salt the onion a little bit I think that’s nice take our egg little salt pop a little lid on that bad boy here comes the bride ooh all fat and wide damn I will say if the onion ring was a little bigger it would have held

It together so all things considered we got a cooked egg is actually kind of badass you could put this on a sandwich with some bacon and cheese I’m going to give that a thumbs up does your bread do this supposedly you can bring it back by

Taking to the sink and you just kind of give it a little one of those this can’t be good supposedly goes in the oven straight up all right it’s out I have some thoughts on this heating up steel bread in the oven especially if it’s wrapped in something like foil will

Almost always bring it back to life depending on how stale it is that said if if it’s really stale the water might actually help and I was surprised to see that the crust was still kept crisp it’s actually quite nice thumbs up supposedly you got cracked eggs in a bowl maybe you

Get a little shell in there that happens Haack is wet fingers we’ll get it out I’ve always used the shell I did not know this I could see this being true it works I did not know that that’s not even like an internet hack that’s a life hack thumbs up supposedly you can

Use an apple slicer to get potato wedges oh boy this is scary if your Apple slicer has enough sharpness you might get better shaped wedges these are but what I should point out is whenever you do this you will also end up with this what do you do with this do you also

Bake this so all of them you have wedges except you have one phallic one for every potato or do you throw this away cuz that’s just wasteful did you know that if you just used literally a knife you can get both a cut apple and potato wedges and millions of other options and

This is hard to use I had to apply a lot of force with this so if you can do this you can use this it might be useful for some so I’ll give it a 50/50 hardboiled egg peeling by blowing it this is one of

The worst hacks I’ve ever seen But if it works I will be amazed so little hole on the top and on the bottom we’re going to make a big hole and I just blow on this no way it cracked a little on impact but I mean if it worked once

Can it work twice that’s crazy when you do this it will crack the egg so if you want a perfectly intact egg you probably won’t get one secondarily I don’t want your hot breath all over my hard-boiled eggs so please don’t do this for your guests and just peel them by hand cuz

That is gross and unsanitary but if it’s just for you I mean it works it works in between mid and good it’s like right here I picked a lot of herbs in my day if you ever worked in a restaurant you probably have also picked a lot of herbs

It’s very annoying so supposedly using a box grater speeds up the process let’s try it you just take a stem of your herbs push the stem through here did I do that right I mean it literally just gave me more stems I’m really trying here I don’t just do this to make it

Suck I want these to work I really do people like oh you’re supposed to do it like this and like you know how long I’ve been cooking I’ve been cooking my entire life if it is this difficult for me to understand it do you think other

People are going to figure it out that kind of worked if you put more herbs you get them picked what I will say is they end up bruised and some of them don’t fully get picked I don’t know who this helps I feel like it’s just as fast as

Just pull pull the amount of time that this took for me to figure out I could have already had herbs picked I don’t see this reducing any friction in anyone’s life if you like it let us know but I’m not a fan of it I’m going to

Give it a thumbs down I’ve actually seen this before this has been around for a while supposedly a cup can peel a mango these Ty of things I have a hard time feeling good about but I can’t help but want to know does it actually work the

Funny thing is you do need a knife to get this part started you already have the tool that you need to do this so you get a mango cheek you just get the cup you get it lined up with I knew that wasn’t going to work you line it up oh

Wait wait it didn’t really work that well second try I really don’t want to rip the skin so I’m going to go real slow maybe if I start a little higher up there hey I mean you’re likely going to end up with more waste doing this but

But if this makes your life easier it makes your life easier it did work I can’t say it didn’t work we got peeled mangoes so little bit of waste try to be careful with it maybe just suck on these so you don’t waste that I’m going to

Give that a thumbs up not bad I don’t think I’ll ever use this again cuz I like the technique of using a knife but that’s just me reheating cold pizza in my opinion this is sacriligious just literally eat it cold it’s so good cold but if you want it hot the problem is

You microwave it it goes too soft what are you going to do boil it putting it in the oven it kind of dries out so what’s the perfect way to eat it supposedly a hot pan now bottom of the pizza in a pan that’s been over medium

Heat so pan is hot and supposedly you take an ice cube whatever that’s for that goes next to the pizza and then you lid it and I guess we wait for 3 to 5 minutes you got it all right let’s check it top is gooey all right take it out

First thing I’m noticing is that the top of the crust is completely soft not crisp but what is there to be said about the bottom pizza’s heated through I get what they did this is basically the pot sticker mentality what is that you might ask well if you’ve never made pot

Stickers you make contact with the pan and it’s searing it’s essentially crisp ifying on the bottom you add the ice creat steam you could also probably just Add Water honestly just like you do with a pot sticker that cooks the top while the bottom stays crispy makes sense it’s

That a perfect method though because the crust is still completely soft like as if you were to microwave it but is it better than a microwave yes is this better than Heating in any other way possibly in comparison to an oven not that much better so I would say I’d give

It a mid this one is interesting you ever bred something with a three- tier setup and I’m talking flour egg and a breadcrumb usually you need three bowls but what if you could do it with just a sheet tray and foil I like it but we’ll see if it works without them mixing

Together so got a sheet tray layer of foil goes down make a nice wall I’m going to do another layer just so that it’s totally coating the surface so you’re going to make three sections not sure if this wall is going to hold up section two and section three which is a

Little skinny that’s my mistake I mean I feel like this is going to work flour into one bread crumbs into another egg wash I mean it’s holding it this is kind of a typical expectation of the simple fact that aluminum foil can be whatever you want it to be that’s what I’m

Learning here if you were to breed this would work you can bread into your flour your egg wash your Panko and then when you’re done you just throw the foil away and your sheet tray is clean I like this one I actually might start using this technique I’m going to give this a

Thumbs up supposedly you can roast garlic in 5 minutes in the microwave so cut off a little bit of the head that then goes into aramin so we’re going to fill this up about halfway with water I mean this is just boiling it little olive oil on top 40% power 5 minutes see

You then wow let me just say something no the benefit to roasting garlic is not just that it gets soft is that you slowly achieve caramelization I want you to take a look at this and tell me if you think this is caramelized let’s see if

It’s soft it’s not I’m sure if you left this in long enough it would be soft here’s the hack take all these cloves out submerge it in oil low heat for like 2 to 3 minutes and you will have essentially spreadable roasted caramelized garlic that’s also called conine this is dumb thumbs down

Supposedly you can use a hair straightener to open a bottle of wine let me just do a data research real quick so from Walmart you can get a wing wine cork screw for $323 this costs around $20 if it works and you don’t have one of those maybe

This is a helpful thing you just do this there’s no way this is going to work I have this turned on to the maximum temperature which is 410° f it has been over 5 minutes nothing at all has happened supposedly this lady said it could take up to 15

Minutes so I guess we’ll wait the full 15 to really test this out okay 15 minutes later nothing has happened this is a stupid hack go buy a wine opener on Amazon or wherever you buy stuff you don’t even need to do any of this stuff just go buy one right now

That’s a thumbs down the real hack is being prepared not everyone has a vacuum sealer how do you vacuum seal something without that Ziploc bag and a bowl of soon to be water all right so I got some butter here maybe I want to preserve this butter for longer you got your item

In the bag you close it until it’s almost closed you’re going to finish closing that after you’ve fully submerged this in water once the water is as high to the seel as possible you’ll then close it all the way there we go it’s never going to be as powerful

As a typical vacuum sealer but you could use this for soused and it helps preserve things longer so I’ll give this hack a thumbs up okay the overhead fan turned on cuz it’s getting hot in here pal no it actually is really annoying trait that this thing has if it reaches

A certain temperature up here fan turns on and we can’t turn it off but it will turn off eventually hopefully so Fried Chicken I’m actually excited to try this technique I don’t think it’s dumb I’ve just never heard of it but basically you dip breaded chicken real quickly in

Water and then fry it supposedly makes it crispier and it has less oil sputtering I feel like it’s going to have more oil sputtering so I’m going to turn the fire off so that we survive this shoot okay first we’re going to go in with the UND dunked chicken this is

Just lightly marinated lightly breaded fried straight up okay so we can see how that’s frying looks like that so number one not sputtering that bad so that’s already debunked but will it be crispier we’ll see so you just full dunk real quick and take it out all right cool

That just washed off all the batter let’s see if it sputters less white literally no do not do this this is the non- dunked and this is the dunked clearly a lot less color seasoning are salt the one that was dunked has significantly less color it

Is more breaded than I thought it would be is it cooked through yes we’ll let it rest and then we’ll taste it okay the moment of truth so we’ll start with the properly Fried Chicken as expected crunchy juicy salty delicious great now for the dunked chicken cheers the bite

On it was crunchier maybe there were a few benefits surprisingly some areas are more crunchy but the underside was not bread cuz it got washed off and it did sputter more when it went in the oil typically that would give it a thumbs down but because there were some hidden

Benefits granted I won’t be doing this again for me personally I’ll give it a 50/50 it kind of works try it for yourself just be careful supposedly microwaving Citrus will get you more juice I’m going to try to get these slices as similar in weight as possible

They weigh the same relatively even in size so we will microwave one they say to microwave it for 30 seconds so maximize the juice out of this I’m going to use a spoon just to point out that you can Max juice out without just squeezing it that feels pretty pretty

Juiced the non-microwave Citrus gave us 26 G so let’s try the microwave that is so hot how the do I juice this I would consider this juice 18 G we literally got almost half the amount of juice Citrus juice is very delicate there’s a lot of really special flavors in it now

Cooking it changes the flavor raw Citrus light fragrant cook Citrus you lose flavor and you end up with more of like a caramelized flavor which you don’t always want this is just a net loss all over thumbs down you can apparently peel this with this so you take a little

Piece of tin foil scrunch it up and then you uh rub this I hate this hack this isn’t that dissimilar to how you would peel a carrot in a nice restaurant whenever you get those perfectly smooth carrots they take a piece of scotch bright scouring pad for example and they rub the carrot

And you get a really smooth carrot if you rinse this carrot you will see that it is essentially peeled you can do the same thing with a scouring pad you can do the same thing with a peeler now I’ll give this a thumbs up with a caveat I

Feel like this is somehow unhealthy maybe rubbing your carrots with aluminum foil is not good for you I don’t know I’m not a scientist I personally would not but it worked so it’s a thumbs up supposedly you get a perfectly circular fried egg by rubbing garlic on the pan

That sounds like a load of horse we’re going to find out but as a substitute you could just use a ring mold you kind of draw a circle so I’m going to crack the egg right in the center it’s not a perfect circle but it did stop did that

Just work I wonder if it’s just the pan so this technically worked we’ll do another version without the garlic and see if it does the same thing here we go ooh it was the pan we cleaned the pan completely with soap and water got the garlic out it basically did the same

Thing and I will say the egg that we put in there was not perfectly circular so some may say thumbs up I say thumbs down Chopstick a lemon and you just poke a hole in work that hole out and uh it should juice so here we go it is juicing

Oh my God sorry here’s the thing it worked it got juice absolutely everywhere I want to see if there’s still juice left in this lemon cuz I’ve squeezed it to its Max so you wasted about 25% juice with this method for the sake of convenience this requires a lot

Of arm strength first off with wastefulness I’m going to say that’s a solid thumbs down this is a butter softening hack we have a cup that is running under hot water very hot water this hurts you’re going to pour that out and you’re just going to do this now

Normally softening butter takes 30 minutes to an hour supposedly this takes 5 minutes so we start the clock okay it’s been 5 minutes this should be softened it’s not like I at all it’s actually still cold softened butter would be room temperature which should be anywhere around 70 to 75° that is 48°

Uh that did not work it’s still better than waiting 30 minutes I feel like if you waited longer it would probably work so I’ll give it a 50/50 you might be wondering what I’m doing supposedly this hack will give you two bags out of one

So the key is to get your knife very hot and you just cut a bag in half and it should give you two bags that are sealed supposedly oh actually wait hold on no way oh there’s a little leak it sort of worked I don’t think that this is

That practical and if you pull hard enough it will open and the side that is sealed properly kind of doesn’t pitting a cherry with the Chopstick I’m skeptical of this one I don’t like single-use tools but I will say a cherry Pitter is useful hopefully this works

Stem off supposedly you just press it through the center perfect that did not work at all thank you very much there’s no further testing the pit did not come out supposedly the hack is you can juice a lemon using kitchen tongs but I thought that you take the tongs and do

That it turns out you use this end and squeeze you’re just squeezing a lemon it works I kind of like it it’s like less aggressive than squeezing with your hand but you want to know what else you could do you could use a lemon with anything take this offset spatula for example

What about a spoon tweezers the point I’m trying to make is that anything that will break up the Flesh of a lemon will juice the lemon this will juice the lemon without making as much of a mess so it’s a thumbs up supposedly you can use a fork to remove chicken tendons so

We have a deboned chicken leg quarter you got lots of little white tendons here here like quite a lot actually and these are very annoying to remove so supposedly paper towel you put the tendon in between the fork T try this with a strong hand it kind of worked see

If it does it again some of these don’t even usually come out with tweezers I mean here’s my general thoughts you do waste a little meat but you waste less which I do enjoy this is a great hack I actually might end up using this thumbs

Up all right I don’t know what this is about supposedly a Pringles can and a watermelon oh what do you do with the rest of the watermelon meat after that you just have a hole in your watermelon that’s just waste tastful I’m not doing this let me show you the right way pick

Cut a watermelon a lot of people like to buy watermelon tools and if you have to buy one that’s fine but you have a knife you can cut a watermelon cut off both root ends flat side down pick whichever one you want knife and then you just carefully and slowly cut around the

Watermelon okay might not be perfect The First Cut is usually the hardest cuz you’re trying to figure out where that flesh is Right sometimes the white of the watermelon is thicker than usual the first cut right and then the other ones will follow you’re going to go all the

Way around wow look at that there’s a little waste sometimes that’s okay the point is you save way more watermelon you can cut it into rounds or my preferred way cubes you see I get not everybody’s going to be able to use a knife I get

Not everybody’s going to be able to buy a tool but with the waste that’s going to come from this I’m not a fan of it I’m going to give it a thumbs down I don’t know why you would do this but cutting cake with floss this is mint

Maybe we should get unflavored next time well I already cut a triangle out of this so I’m going to try and make more triangles out of it oh look at that didn’t get all the to the bottom that’s lovely um that’s a thumbs down thank you very much that’s stupid use a

Knife vicam brought me his up pan and we’re going to supposedly fix it with baking soda a lemon and a little bit of white veneer supposedly the baking soda goes in the pan you just throw the lemon in there I guess you turn it on and you put some vinegar in

There you bring it to a boil I think this is hor and then you scrub it with the lemon I mean some of it’s coming off I still don’t understand the purpose of the lemon other than the fact that it smells kind of good let’s check to see

The results it’s the same name to be honest it did clean some of it out I’m sure this would work on a pan that wasn’t as messed up sometimes harsh chemicals just work better I’ll give it a mid a muffin tin now what would you use this for muffins right no now you

Can easily assemble tacos I’ll tell you one thing if you pull up to Waka and you’re doing something like this you better expect a chuna flying somewhere this could help some people I think it’s incredibly dumb I guess this works for hard shell so does it work it does do I

Like it no so I’m going to give it but it does work you can cut an apple in half with just your hands I guess if you want to share this with someone you could be like oh yeah no problem here we go how about you just eat the damn Apple

If you don’t have a knife so what I bet you I could karate chop this in half vicam worked see how stupid that is if someone’s like hey can I have a quarter of that apple and youate chop it in half I don’t know use a spoon pair of

Scissors that would a really long Chopstick I don’t know what do I do with the technique cuz in any other scenario just eat the apple just eat it if you don’t get that go to therapy today thumbs up supposedly you can haul a strawberry with straw I don’t know if

There’s some sort of a joke in there look you poke it through and then supposedly I don’t see what that did I mean it does work but I don’t know you want to know the alternative to this use your fingers and do that and eat the

Strawberry you can eat the butt it’s not going to hurt you cuz of the how you have to hold it it’s not making it easier for anyone I’m going to give this a thumbs down plastic wrap supposedly if you put it in the freezer it will not

Stick to itself which makes it easier to use it does does feel different all right here we go it works for about 50 seconds so I see what’s happening because this is cold when it comes out it gets a slight amount of condensation on the outside and water prevents things from sticking

Together because it’s wet as soon as that dries up and this comes to room temperature which takes about a fraction of a second it immediately returns to its original properties does this work sort of kind of not really I guess if you want to keep your plastic wrap in

The freezer it might help you a little bit I’ll give it mid okay so they’re calling this the reverse strain you take a strainer and instead of pouring your past through the strainer or colander rather you put the colander in your pots and then strain to me this isn’t really

A hack this is just smart kind of cheffy you got your pasta still in the pot you can sauce it toss it Etc just do me a favor and reserve some of that pasta water I like it it’s smart it’s thoughtful and with this being our last

One you know what I’m going to give it a thumbs up so thank you subscribe Goodbye