Debunking Fake Viral Cooking Videos | How To Cook That Ann Reardon

You said the strawberry one was confirmed but I think it was debunked! They clearly added a bunch of extra bugs for those shots, making it seem like strawberries are absolutely crawling with insects that you can't see, when in fact as your test proved there will likely only be one or two insects which are clearly visible. Debunked imo!

You CAN make multi colored skittle flavored popcorn. But OBVIOUSLY not by throwing a bag of Skittles in the pan while popping the popcorn... Obviously that would come out brown, since that's the color you get when you mix the different colors of Skittles together... That's just common sense that when you mix all the colors, you get brown... And common sense also dictates that the Skittles will BURN WAAAY before the popcorn pops...
Even if it didn't burn, you're still not gonna get multi colored popcorn... You would have to make separate batches with each color, IF this "recipe" actually worked, which it doesn't...

Your cheesecake looks amaaaaazing!

Should've put the flowers in Brawndo. It has what plants crave.

Also, kudos for doing a control with just water!

Bugs on fruit? I call that extra protein.

Not to mention the actual popcorn was probably made in seperate single colour batches then mixed together.
Their hack is like thinking you can make rainbow paint by mixing all the colours together.

The egg noodle hack may not work for noodles but I am going to make some fire egg drop soup tomorrow with that method.

The steam in the shower thing will work on some things. I remember my mom putting my cap & gown in the bathroom and it worked for it.

Strawberries aren't available in here in Fiji. Though I would love to try them one day.

aaand now I want a cheesecake...

Plants can't absorb sugar from their surroundings so the sugar in a soft drink shouldn't do anything.

Can you do one specifically about eggs in the microwave? I keep sharing yours with the time stamp whenever I see people microwaving eggs on insta. But inevitably someone says something like, but it's in vinegar, you did it too long, at the wrong power level.

Man when 5 minute crafts is shooting down your hacks you really know you messed up.

I wonder what would happen if you dripped the egg noodle mix into hot grease instead of hot water and fry them

your cheese cake looked at bit dry, i have a better recipe if you need it

No, no now, that shower steam wrinkle remover is an old trick that works - sorta. I remember 60 years ago my g-ma bought my mom a new dress and it was "slightly" wrinkled from the box - the steam in the show relaxes the material so the wrinkles relax. But only if there are just a few wrinkles and the steam how to be really hot - too hot for a person to shower. Don't use it on wool or anything that might shrink.

Poor Dave

this is basically how I make drop dumplings when making gulyas except I spoon the batter into the boiling water and they turn out really well pretty sure you just had the quantities off

The yes yes i should!

Ann: "Should I get Dave to taste these?"
Me, shouting at the screen: "Yes!!"
Ann: "...Yes I should."
Me: 😄
It's like Blues Clues only better (for me, not for Dave haha

Can we all just take a minute to tell Ann what amazing hair she has? Beautiful.

As soon as I saw them make the egg noodles I knew it wouldn't work. It needs to be an actual dough, not an orange juice imitator. I've done quite a bit of pasta making and what they're doing just makes me sad.

If you're ever just tired of traditional BUTTERY popcorn... There's one, ONE (count it... 1!) alternative that's passable.

Make your favorite caramel, and pop your corn... With the caramel adequately heated, coat the popcorn, and lay out on a cookie sheet as Ann suggested with the skittle catastro-corn... LIBERALLY dust it with coarse sea salt, and THEN bake low to dry it out...

The "pangs" of the coarse salt crystals creeping through the sweetness of the caramel coating will compliment each part of the flavor-profile and augment the corn with a delicious balance of sweet and caramelized corny delight... It works almost magically. AND whether you start with the caramel first or you start with the popcorn first, it's no big deal... just coat the POPPED corn and dust with the COARSE sea salt... Do NOT bury the stuff. We're not making crystalized popping corn, we're liberally dusting down the coated corn so the salt will stick well when it bakes and dries out... I say YOUR FAVORITE because there are lots of good recipes for a great caramel, and anything beats the hell out of buttered friggin' greasy-*ss skittles or other candies... blech!!!

AND don't generally sweat the bugs... Yeah, it's important to wash off the fruits and vegetables, but if an occasional bug gets eaten, it's just more PROTEIN... chill... ;o)

I chew gum for the onion and I have eaten unwashed strawberry

The noodles hack should work, if the consistence of the batter is right, because spätzle(germany) or nockerln(austria), are not made that differently. (Instead of the bag you poor the batter over a grate to get the small noodlylike things)

That last one reminds me of a time I went to a college poetry reading/potluck, and there were strawberries on the food table. The strawberries had a caterpillar on them. I remember mentioning it to a teacher, and she just smiled and said, "Well, that's evidence they're organic!" In my mind, I was thinking, "Well, yeah, but it's also evidence they haven't been washed," but explaining it seemed more trouble than it was worth. I just took the whole pint of strawberries and washed them myself, then returned them to the food table. And kept my little caterpillar friend with me to deposit outside on a leaf after the poetry reading was over.

Just add the skittles to the popcorn! The heat of the freshly popped popcorn makes the skittles go a bit soft, and the popcorn salt goes great with the sweetness of the skittles. Sure it's not caramel corn, but I've been eating popcorn that way for decades and it's definitely worth the try.

The King of Random also debunked the skittle popcorn myth and they tried a caramel version that also went badly.

The shower steam hack is not totally nonsense; it won’t make your clothes look ironed but it can freshen them up a little by making some of the smallest wrinkles fall out.

So we don't steam our shirts in the shower but if they have some wrinkles we do spray them with a water spray bottle and hang them while they are damp and it helps. It's not perfect and definitely doesn't change the shirt altogether but it gets some of them out. Dad and I have been doing it for years.

I saw some actual Asian sheds making rice flour noodles in a very similar way. But their butter looked a bit more firm and didn’t have eggs, I suppose.

The girl with the Saran Wrap saw don’t worry darling.

That cheesecake batter looks and behaves remarkably like whipped cream....

I briefly worked in a produce distribution center and warehouse and let me tell you... wash your fruits and vegetables, bugs and spiders would be the least of the problems.

When I cut onions I use Gordon Ramsey’s video about it, which shows how to avoid cutting the part of the onion that releases the stuff that makes you cry.

"Dave did eat the delicious baked cheese cake but I didn't film it"

Screenshots or you're lying

Powerade's got what plants crave

the homemade pasta cut with a knife just looks like linguini! nothin wrong with that! ♥

My grandma used salt water and it worked really well

The steaming shower trick is actually good but it works better on delicate thin material like something silky that you would only iron on a low heat anyway. It’s a useful trick if you are travelling somewhere and have limited time/access to ironing facilities

Sugar in flowers does regenerate flowers. I do this every time I have fresh flowers and they begin to wilt in regular water. The soda I would had thought would had caused issue.

For cutting onions, just... wear glasses or goggles or cut them under running water. Contact lenses work too, onions stopped bothering me after I got mine.

In my country we make the "egg noodles" in a beef soup we call it "olivanci" but you just need thicker dough and hotter soup.🙃

I know the exact brand they used for the egg noodles 😂 for 5 min craft

I would rather cry my eyes out cutting onions than risk sweating to death lol

Thank you for all the great content over the years, and for debunking all sorts of things! I have started showing my 7year old son your videos and then we are guessing if something is actually can be done? He so wanted the skittles to work.. Again thank you, because one thing is that he’s mom says that most things that you see online is not true and can be dangerous, but another thing is to actually see that it does not work!

Ah, yes. Death from suffocation will definitely stop you from crying when you cut onions. 🤦

I think these Russian 5 minute craft, or other content farms, actually set up fake user accounts to self boost their algorithm views. They possibly have an automatic bot style farm of fake user accounts. I tend to ignore anything that even once produces a video that I think is fake. I move on and find real content creators, I have a list of channels I avoid and it seems my recommendations from YT has picked up on this and it doesn't offer me things like Bright Side or 5 min crafts anymore.