Does water EXPLODE in the microwave? Debunking fake hacks 2023

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[@No_Bubble]

I once found my baby sister putting eggs in the microwave. Having seen Anne's previous video on it I was absolutely horrified. She just had no idea it was so dangerous! I think she found it on TikTok. It's upsetting how this information can get everywhere, even to children. Thanks for keeping me educated Anne!

[@SylviaRustyFae]

Cookin eggs in the microwave isnt an issue if you do it properly As stated at 5:21; you absolutely shudnt poach eggs in the microwave. Ann extends this to all forms of cooking, but if you scramble and microwave eggs; it wont explode unless you way overcook that stuff, and even then itll explode durin cookin, not just randomly due to an air pcket... Bcuz you keep mixin the eggs to prevent such formin You can egen cook a whole egg in the microwave tho, you just are probs gonna want to **repeatedly** pierce the yolk and scrape the edges inward durin cookin to prevent any potential buildups The real thing you shud nvr do with eggs is leave them to cook in an area theyre bein heated from the outside in, without any agitation of the egg to prevent gas buildup Ive cooked eggs in microwaves my whole life and have nvr even seen an egg explode in a small way when taken out; bcuz i dont try poachin eggs in the microwave, and even if i did... Id be smart enuf to poke that thing with a wooden skewer to let the gases escape before i cut into it Notably, ive witnessed superheated water from the microwave before, and as such, i tap the water cup hard enuf to agitate the water if i ever notice its not boilin when it rly shud be boilin; and thats meant to be the rarer exp

[@jadziajan]

@@SylviaRustyFae why would you continue to write long comments to encourage other people to heat their eggs in the microwave no matter how much you hear it's dangerous? It's one thing to take the risk for yourself, but trying to make it seem like it's not dangerous feels inappropriate to me. I've never needed to cook an egg in the microwave so bad it was worth risking it exploding boiling water in my face.

[@InsoIence]

@@SylviaRustyFae There might be children reading your comment. How about you don't encourage this behaviour? If you want to keep doing it - I don't care.

[@thespankmyfrank]

​​​@@jadziajan Even though they're being really annoying about it, they are sort of correct about one thing. My parents have cooked scrambled eggs in the microwave my whole life and it's been fine. They just set it for like 30 secs at a time and mix it in between. BUT cooking a whole egg as is in the microwave seems way too dangerous to recommend in any way, especially for children. I personally always cook eggs on the stove, but it is correct that cooking scrambled eggs in the microwave is fine as long as you keep checking it often. With that said, most people should just stick to the stove which is safer as you have more control.

[@Annie_Annie__]

@@SylviaRustyFaeAnn literally said in the video that piercing the yolk doesn’t make it safer to cook eggs in the microwave, yet here you are trying to claim it does and that you know more than her. At this point, I’m going to need a citation from a credible source before I believe that it’s safe.

[@KamillionTheFox]

I like that some of the debunking is not just "yes, this works." and "no, it doesn't." With you, there is always nuance, adding a "but" or why and how anything works. I appreciate learning a little bit more about food every time a video pops up!

[@Itsgay2read]

Come for the debunking, stay for the food science.

[@Narra0002]

Same

[@kimberlympala3771]

I agree, debunking has a deeper meaning than yes it works. Now it is yes it works but not for the reasons they are saying.

[@jameelagill5408]

Unfortunately it seems Ann's been dishonest about a creator in this video.

[@Narra0002]

@@jameelagill5408 wdym?

[@aeolia80]

I'm really confused as to why Sugarologie is included in this, her channel is all science based, like more science based than any cake content I've ever seen, she shows research papers and does very thorough tests herself, even created a new version of American buttercream that's not chalky.

[@madabouthollyoaks411]

@@BebbaDubbs right!! Why was it in the thumbnail ??

[@SesshouFan22]

There's no way to keep the color as condensed after adding air to it as the color was before. Adding air will always lighten the color. Anybody who claims otherwise is either wrong or lying.

[@jenni8982]

Somebody sent Ann the video so she says, "Let's try it out!" So she tries it out. She said it works, but not dramatically and does reduce the volume, so it would be easier to just add more food coloring.

[@katvtay]

@@jenni8982Too much food coloring often tastes dreadful to people. It’s the dark red elephant in the room few content creators want to acknowledge.

[@onezerotwo]

@@jenni8982 don't try and be reasonable these hens don't want to see reality. :P

[@ChristyOFaghan]

I was really surprised Anne repeated the experiment with Super-heated Water, and while that was genuinely scary to watch, I'm really glad she did if only to save one person from serious injury at home.

[@sanachanto]

You can tell the spoon she’s using to add the powder is attached to something longer, so she made sure to be a safe distance away.

[@Catheidan]

I did that once by accident because I forgot about some water I was heating for tea. Absolutely terrifying

[@AnaOhKay]

@@Catheidan did u get burnt at all? thats so scary

[@Catheidan]

@@AnaOhKay fortunately not. Just almost had a heart attack

[@emilys.6610]

Yeah uh, I usually use the microwave to re-heat my coffee so i think i'll use a little hotplate to keep my coffee warm from now on (for that very use), getting burnt isn't on my to-do list

[@QuiRK85]

I like that Pasta Girl really acted like she was doing something stuffing 5 servings of dried pasta into one plate's worth of fresh pasta. I would imagine the flavor was fine but the texture was dense as particle board. She may never poo again after that meal 😂

[@loftyradish6972]

Plus, it would have also had a really inconsistent texture, no way did she get all those tiny bits of pasta to be the same size.

[@dietotaku]

right, that was the nastiest looking "pasta" i've ever seen, like honey there's a reason they sell it the way they do in stores

[@MercuryKurogane]

The noodles that she made looked like playdough I'm not sure why someone would want to eat pasta that thick

[@DMacB42]

She pulled a Homer, compressing 5 pounds of spaghetti into one convenient, mouth sized bar! “…Hospital, please.” -Homer J. Simpson

[@madday9589]

It’s obvious people only do this type of stuff for views. It’s a waste of food I say don’t even give ppl like tht attention

[@Luesatora]

The lemon seed to apples thing really works, trust me. Not only that, but you can get different kinds of fruit if you use different eggs. For example: When I used a duck egg, I got pomegranates. But when I used an ostrich egg, a watermelon tree grew out of it.

[@clarasnotlikely]

Use a quail egg and you can get a delicious potato bush

[@nataliebell6760]

Just be careful with wild-found eggshells - Starling eggs produce _sour_ cherries, which is _not_ something you want to find out by eating one. :D

[@ohhellobethany]

I used snake eggshells and got dragon fruit, but if you microwave the eggshells for ten minutes before planting, they'll turn hot pink and grow habanero peppers.

[@cherie7100]

Can I get the name of the Ostrich egg supplier....

[@yagirlsheila7705]

When I read this comment i felt like I was having a stroke

[@HeisenbergFam]

Props for exposing these fake "life hacks", its crazy how many of them try to tool you, thank you for your service

[@essixthefalcon8657]

For once, Heisenberg lets someone else knock

[@ivannovalery6504]

I like to believe that these people simply don’t know how to do things and believed that others don’t know too, so they made things up... like the noodle lady don’t know how to make noodles so she proceed to to crushed an already existing noodles and make a new one..

[@miltonjones3519]

Yo Mr White i think we found a better cook than you.

[@katharina819]

​@@ivannovalery6504 and by the way, I think the spagetti the lady shredded looked very good 🍝😋 but the new ones looked disgusting to me 😬🙈

[@BipsTheSecond]

I continue to be so grateful for you holding the tide against all this nonsense.

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

I think the tide is not being held, sadly.

[@ChildOfGorb]

@@user-jz2bm4wz1g dang well that is sad

[@ChildOfGorb]

@@user-jz2bm4wz1g i shall now unsub to one of the few youtubers i thought were decent

[@aurorarowley7310]

@@ChildOfGorb Ann is still decent. She just made a mistake by oversimplifying it. Do not unsubscribe to her over a small MISTAKE.

[@rumbleinthekitchen_Amy]

@Aurora Rowley the bigger mistake is not acknowledging it. She's had many days to respond and has said nothing. Sugarologie did not deserve being called out by Ann. It's lazy content creation and goes against everything Ann used to stand for. She'll repeatedly ruin a microwave to debunk junk but won't investigate the science behind a frosting tip? Weird.

[@courtney-ray]

But wait Ann! You never told us whether or not planting a lemon seed in an eggshell at my uncle’s house would give me delicious apple juice! 😂

[@AdmiralKomodo]

When life gives you lemon seeds, make apple juice!

[@kristinarobinson5277]

Or the beans thst make potatoes 🥔 😅

[@DAN8137]

I forgot to plant it at uncles house quietly. I am now getting tomato juice. Make sure to plant it quietly to get apple juice.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

WAIT!!! HOW THE F*** DID I END UP WITH PAW-PAWS?!?!? ;o)

[@omatic_opulis9876]

the eggshell*

[@jojopfr]

I'm 30 and I didnt even know heating water in the microwave could be dangerous. But then again, like most Europeans, I use a kettle to boil water. I guess its never too late to learn. Thanks Ann for pointing that out. :)

[@dietotaku]

i sometimes boil water in the microwave but i always look for the bubbles to see if it's boiling. if it's been in there for a few minutes and there's no bubbles, i know something's not right.

[@DMacB42]

@@dietotaku Critical thinking? Preposterous!

[@ErwinPommel]

@@dietotaku I sidestep the issue entirely by only boiling water in filthy glasses. Mmm... You can really taste the nucleation sites!

[@Hip.Username]

I thought most Americans used kettles too, this is so weird to me. Even if you don't have a stove, electric kettles are cheap and work fast, and are much safer than a microwave

[@GeoQuag]

@@Hip.Username americas that really like tea often do end up getting electric kettles. However, the hot drink of choice for most Americans is coffee so many people have coffee machines instead and don’t buy a whole kettle for the occasional times they want tea.

[@PiratePhD]

That last one is a well known trick where they say something obviously incorrect (like calling lemons apples) to get people to correct them in the comments and thus boosting engagement metrics. Helps them get more views.

[@greggleblom]

You know, I appreciate that Ann's first reaction to people doing dangerous things unknowingly is sympathy. She doesn't call them stupid for not knowing better, she just feels bad for them.

[@cairrean2412]

Because it's not their fault for trusting things that claim to be trustworthy.

[@gronkykong7863]

W Ann

[@dodixaber8968]

@@cairrean2412 true.but again this is the internet, there's bound to be people who thought they are smart enough to not try anything. How are people going to know that a supposedly clean how to channel actually omit the risk on their video? What's baffling was there was a guy that was somewhat well known content creator that tried to debunk that 5 minute crafts hacks all are bad by picking some that was safe, and conclude it was not all that bad, not realizing how harmful that attitude was when all their hacks are lumped together and it was random whether they work or not.

[@ember9361]

@@dodixaber8968 there is always a cocky guy isn't there

[@bekkyc9780]

She saves her derision for the content farms, as she should!

[@callistamccracken3744]

I'm dying laughing at the last one. Ann is all "nope not even going to try to explain why this entirely insane" 😂

[@shadowfox1221]

I laughed so hard at the sass. "Look how far we've come." A-men!

[@nalodailec]

I watched this daft pasta one fifteen minutes ago and I'm still laughing. 😂❤

[@megt7128]

It's a silly video, but if you do that with mung beans, you do pretty reliably get mung bean sprouts. Though the clip failed to mention that you need to change out the water a few times.

[@cairrean2412]

It felt like one of those "I made a bot read / watch / listen to" meme posts

[@MathewHaswell]

Я3TAW

[@knitpiks587]

As someone who didn't know that lemons could grow apples or lentils could become potatoes....that last video changed my life!😂😂

[@Sskelll]

From that video Ive been able to grow my own meat lemons at home!

[@ettinakitten5047]

I feel like it was probably a poor translation from another language. Especially given the weird mention of uncle's house.

[@keara.ls3]

I know, ever since I’ve been growing avocados from my orange seeds! 😂😂🤦‍♀️

[@TheFallenFaob]

When life gives you lemons make apple juice

[@Dondizle]

@@MaliciousMalcontent so, I've been planting my lemon seed all wrong? Wait until I tell Uncle about this. This time we'll have apples by summer.

[@alorachan]

Alton Brown, on an old episode of Good Eats, explained this concept of superheating water in a microwave. A bit sad Anne didn't give more details, but she was still 100% spot on - fully smooth surfaces give water no nucleation sites (points where bubbles can start to form), so the water becomes packed with a TON of potential energy and no way to release it until the surface tension is broken. Alton's solution was to put a single wooden chopstick in with the water you're heating, the wood is incredibly irregular on the surface and thus provides a bunch of nucleation points so you shouldn't ever have to worry about superheating water in the microwave. =)

[@howellaboutno9500]

She explained it in previous videos, thats why :)

[@adaharrisonn]

Do NOOOOOT put wood in the microwave, I nearly caused a fire doing that. Wood gets very hot and unevenly too, and it will absolutely light on fire or at least burn and start to smoke. I did it once with a wooden popsicle stick when I was melting some wax for hair removal, and I left the stirring stick in with the cup of wax.

[@XOChristianaNicole]

@@adaharrisonn - It’s because the wood was dry; as wax does not contain any moisture. Microwaves work by causing water molecules to spin super fast, and crash into each other. So, if there is no water - things are gonna burn, because there is nothing to diffuse that energy. If the wood is in water or soaked - it’s a completely different story. Putting wood into water is going to diffuse the energy, from the boiling water. The water in any soaked wood is going to diffuse the energy, also. When you have a dry wooden stick and wax - there is nothing to diffuse the energy, within or surrounding the wood. This is why the bottom little lip of even hotel paper cups will burn if microwaved, also (recently realized this, in fact. Though, that could potentially be a combination due to heavy metals being in the materials, also). It’s, also, the same reason why putting a wooden spoon on top of a boiling pot of water helps to prevent the water from boiling over - the wood helps to absorb and diffuse the energy, the heat and steam produces/gives off.

[@adaharrisonn]

@@XOChristianaNicole so should you wet the whole stick before putting it in? Or is just the bottom of it sticking in some water enough?

[@alorachan]

@@adaharrisonn Alton Brown just says to put a single disposable chopstick, not pre-wet, into a glass measuring cup with water when heating it up. I presume the steam from the water will be sufficient to keep the chopstick from scorching, but you can always soak it before hand or keep watch while it's heating to be careful.

[@rc4780]

Ann honestly deserves a public service award of some sort. I would, however, like to actually see some hacks that work, or at the very least won’t put me in the hospital. I remember that lady that said to put your strawberries in glass to make them last longer. That was brilliant.

[@hritviknijhawan1737]

I agree, she deserves an award for Public Service.

[@amystrader5139]

ann has given many words of wisdom over the videos im sure it’s just about compiling them

[@dietotaku]

wait what's the strawberry hack? my husband buys strawberries all the time but they always go bad before he can eat them all.

[@amberfrazier575]

@@dietotakuif you prep the food they will eat it out of laziness 😂 get yourself 2 large divided glass Tupperware and wash and cut all of your fruit and veg when you get home and put them in the glass Tupperware. Since all you have to do is pull it out and eat it. It will be the first thing to or they eat because it’s easiest.

[@TwiFiveGirls101]

Ever since the strawberry glass jar video I bought 2 extra large glass jars for my berries and its worked wonderfully for my household. One of the best tips I ever got.

[@FiercesomestDragon]

I think I had the boiling water one happen to me! No explosion, but I heated up water in a mug, and when I added my tea leaves to it, it suddenly fizzed and boiled over and I had to angle the mug so it poured on the floor instead of all over my hand. Never had that happen before. Very cool to see an explanation of what that might have been.

[@KyleCorbeau]

8:50 Bad hack. If we're even going to the realm of food photography just chill the cake a little first then cut it. The frosting will not cling to the knife since it will have less moisture but still look the same.

[@WeirdDragonTwins]

As an Italian seeing the spaghetti in a blender killed my soul... Great video once again! I'm now going to have a nice carbonara to heal :')

[@ghoulchan7525]

not even Italian, but i was just confused at what the point was. at first i thought she was gonna make vermicelli out of the pasta.. but then that happened

[@NWolfsson]

@@ghoulchan7525 I think the point was to have the taste and texture of fresh-made pasta "without the hassle" of making them from scratch... Yeah, powdered dried pasta isn't a replacement for flour, and that was clearly not well made (that paste was still sticky, and ideally you would want to use a laminator to have a THIN sheet to cut into pasta)

[@Hip.Username]

Maybe her goal was to have the most concentrated pasta meal ever, whoever ate the 8 giant noodles she made ate 2 boxes of spaghetti 😂 don't tell her about carbonara she'll ruin that for her next tiktok

[@ghoulchan7525]

@@NWolfsson yeah what she made in the end looked very crumbly. also i think sticking ready made pasta in a blender is more work...

[@WeirdDragonTwins]

@@Hip.Username She'll cook the egg in the microwave first xD explosive carbonara

[@GamerAbbylee]

I remember reading on a baking forum that if you dehydrate your buttercream in the refrigerator the food coloring will incorporate better. It worked for me...but my buttercream was dry. Sometimes you have to choose: flavor or looks.

[@mluna1237]

Ann, I love your videos! I just have one criticism for this one. The frosting hack you tested is from Sugarologie, who like you is a small creator who enjoys developing, testing, and sharing recipes. Your debunking hacks videos typically focus on content farms and other very large creators and, at a glance, Sugarologie's video looks like it might be from one of these. I think you should've clearly communicated what type of creator she is so that people wouldn't get the wrong impression. As a creator yourself, I really think you should be lifting up small creators, especially those whose channels are much smaller than your own. I'd also really love to see you maybe revisit the hack now that she has made a response video showing a lot more information about how her process works.

[@HowToCookThat]

Hi Starlit Reader, thanks for your comment. The video was sent to me to test and the scientific explanation given in the video was incorrect. It fits in with debunking and was debunked in a simple non-agressive scientific manner. The problem here is if I do what you ask and address this again in another video explaining it in more detail, including explaining why re-whipping the swiss meringue didn't work in her response video didn't work - then that would not be "lifting up" her channel as you requested. And that is why I am stuck here - you are asking for 2 conflicting things.

[@keladry12]

@@HowToCookThat Love this response, it makes total sense. When I first saw her video I also thought that the result looked a lot like the air had been removed from the frosting, which is a choice one can make, but I agree, is different to what she is saying happens. Can I just ask why you used this hack with an American buttercream, which she specifically said wouldn't work well as it didn't use the emulsion method (so, I thought that even she said this would occur by knocking out the air for an American Buttercream)?

[@anicapreston3198]

​@keladry12 while she does show american buttercream to demonstrate and elaborate on the results, if you watch the video again, you 2ill notice she says "swiss buttercream" for the one used in the experiment

[@kappadappa]

The cake slicing hack actually does work well with cream cakes like a swedish Prinsesstårta. It's much easier to slice from the outside in using a sawing motion, because when cutting from the top down the cream tends to squash.

[@ashenfox3535]

I learned about the super heating water from Alton Brown. In the episodes he would heat water in the microwave he would say to put a chopstick into the water before putting it in to break the surface tension.

[@kelath5555]

This is what I do!

[@freethebirds3578]

2 references to AB in this video. As Ann was talking about baking the cupcakes, I could hear him saying, "golden brown and delicious!" I would love to see a mashup of H2CT and Good Eats.

[@Janya1999]

Yes AB taught me to use chopsticks, and if you don't have wooden chopsticks, a plastic spoon works in a pinch. Do this for ANY liquid. :)

[@CallMeAlice818]

@@Janya1999 I really don't think we should be putting plastic in the microwave. Maybe find a wooden skewer or something similar

[@adde9506]

It's got nothing to do with surface tension, he's just outright wrong there. But most wooden chopsticks aren't smoot enough to allow superheating. I want to use the term nucleation points, but I suspect that is not the correct name for what the chopstick provides. If you want to pull off a nearly identical but totally safe weird water phenomenon, leave a bottle of water on your dash overnight when it's well below freezing. It should stay liquid until you move it or start the vehicle, at least until the sun or the temp comes up. Not sure what makes thd dash so special, but I get to do this on most frozen mornings.

[@paintingwithkarmiya6149]

I think with colour it can depend on what is adding the colour. Matcha, for example, browns quickly above 325F, so baking it at a low temperature for a little longer will maintain that soft green shade, and preserve the delicate flavours. Artificial food colouring is probably more 'hardy'!

[@xingcat]

The buttercream hack is very Sugarologie. She does a ton of experiments on getting more stable frostings and better colors, but I have found when I try them, they often have odd textures that aren't as pleasant to eat.

[@katvtay]

I’ve never tried it because I figured it wouldn’t taste very good to have the air taken out of it (which she did also share that is what is happening).

[@markbollinger1343]

I’ve had some good success with her methods.

[@xingcat]

@@markbollinger1343 Oh, her experiments are really interesting, and I've gotten some of the same results she has in the frostings, but I never wind up caring for them (taste-wise and texture-wise) as I do with the classics.

[@yoso378]

It feels like with frosting you have to decide between aesthetics and taste. I always had trouble with buttercream melting when I was making cakes for summer birthdays and man is shortening frosting very unappetizing lol. Nowadays I just stick to Swiss buttercream and try not to go too nuts decorating. I'd rather have something that tastes amazing than looks amazing.

[@arianamauery9281]

I used her ermine frosting last week and while it tasted really good, I do have to agree that the texture was not quite what I was expecting. It did use cooked flour thickener so I may have not been as careful to cook it, but from what I’ve seen, I agree with you on that.

[@lavanyasaberwal5428]

A little trick for the darker colour one - either add the colour to the meringue before beating in the butter OR you can take a like a tsp of frosting, melt it and mix the color and then beat it back in. 100% works from a professional cupcaker

[@wombat.6652]

Excuse my lack of understanding please. I have never yet added butter to a meringue recipe. What is going on here? - genuinely confused, please help?

[@lavanyasaberwal5428]

@@wombat.6652 No worries! The type of buttercream the original poster showed was Swiss Meringue. For this type of buttercream, you first whip a meringue and then beat butter into it. It's way smoother and less sweeter than the American buttercream but has more steps. It's harder to colour because it's smooth unlike American buttecream where the icing sugar easily absorbs the color. So if you colored your meringue, then beat the butter in, you'd get a more vibrant color. Hope this helps!

[@wombat.6652]

@@lavanyasaberwal5428 Thank you for taking the time to explain. Yes this helps.

[@cardiganweather]

I thought it was perplexing (if not a little misleading) that Ann didn't show the rewhipped Swiss meringue buttercream, but instead did it with American buttercream, which is specifically the type of buttercream the original video said this didn't really apply to.

[@katla_phc]

@@cardiganweather I agree-that account may have gotten the scientific explanation wrong, but if you review more deeply, she’s not a clickbait misinformation account and generally gives good advice.

[@cherachapin3826]

I can always appreciate a "do not boil water in the microwave" reminder. For many years my mom used to make her tea that way. One day, doing the same exact thing she did for 30 years (with the same cup😅) She picked up a tea bag before the water had a chance to cool and settle and it exploded in her face.

[@n76543]

oh my god that's scary, to think i used to heat tea in the microwave too. my mom still heats milk in the microwave, is it still dangerous to do so? ty

[@cherachapin3826]

@@n76543 not sure. Milk has fat in it, so it probably takes more time to boil? My husband is from a country where they have to boil.the milk before drinking. He never used a microwave in his life. But then he came here with me and uses a microwave every chance he gets 😂 I think he just doesn't heat it long enough to boil. Just enough to make it warm

[@n76543]

@@cherachapin3826 thank you! my mom likes her milk as hot as possible and i found it can also be similarly unsafe, i will have to let her know 😟

[@sarahsmith840]

It's not often I'm glad I have hard water, but the minerals keep it from super-heating.

[@becp488]

A bit of a gardening tip - while you can grow from seeds you get out of your fruit, it will often result in a weak plant or fruit that is not necessarily exactly the same quality as the one you got the seeds from. Fruit trees are usually grafted (same for roses) because the selective breeding for big, juicy fruit or particular flowers comes at the expense of other parts of the plant, including the roots. So the trees/shrubs are grafted onto hardy root stock. Also, when a plant is pollinated and forms seeds, it may have DNA from two different plants so the fruit or flowers are not always going to be the same as the plant they came from. This can be a bonus, though as you might get different coloured flowers, I have seen this often with pentas flowers. Commercial plants are grown from cuttings or tissue cultures to get clones of the parent plant. Love your videos Anne.

[@Samata94]

The one with the water reminds me of the time my mom was getting really frustrated that the pot of water took so long to boil. I remembered my teacher in physics mentioned something about the molecules needing something to aggravate them for them to move, so I threw a macaroni in and it immediately started to bubble up haha, mom was very surprised as she had no idea that could happen. I was surprised too considering we have very old pans and it was tap water so the odds that there wouldn't be a crevice in the pan or something in the water to start the process must have been really low.

[@jb6712]

"haha," when there was nothing at all funny about your comment. Apparently some people just don't have sufficient vocabularies to make full thoughts, so have to resort to foolish fillers.

[@fashionbug9880]

@@jb6712 Who shat in your coffee today? You're really getting heated about the word "haha"? Get a hobby or something.

[@studioyokai]

​@@jb6712 being snippy to random strangers over extremely minor, petty things like that, is an unbecoming waste of your time and theirs. You're better than that.

[@audeforcione-lambert4293]

Omg, "aggravating molecules". That's so cute! I'm gonna use it all the time now 😆 If you're curious the technical term is "a nucleation point"

[@cggc9510]

From a chemist's pov isn't so much from aggravation, but from changing the boiling point instantly in 1 spot and then watching it spread. Drop 1 sugar or salt crystal in and it will happen because you changed the bp by a fraction instantly which lead to a cascade effect.

[@BecomingBoundless]

@sugarologie has posted a response video to you talking about her buttercream video. It's very thorough.

[@rumblefish9]

sugarology is terrible. esp when she claims to invent techniques that have been around for years

[@talunae.8924]

@@rumblefish9 She mostly tweaks existing recipes a lot and gives really thorough instructions and scientific backgrounds for what she does, basically making it fail-save. That's still a great feat and nothing I'd call "terrible".

[@Hannahgs]

@@talunae.8924she completely lied about the buttercream thing. I don’t trust her after that. You can try and replicate it yourself. I did.

[@NikiNinjaX]

I genuinely will never microwave an egg no matter how many videos I see of people doing it because of you. Appreciate you so much!!

[@rachelbird2440]

I love sugarologie videos. She walks us through testing and experimenting with each new things she creates, like her frostings. Some of her experiments have reminded me of Anne's

[@sanachanto]

I’ve watched her before too. I was a bit surprised to see her reasoning here was off, despite the hack actually working for brighter colors.

[@rsbah]

Love sugarologie videos as well!

[@nothanksplease]

yeah think Anne is actually wrong on here.

[@nothanksplease]

@@sanachanto i think Anne just needs to see the full video if shes not. if you heat up the frosting it def brightens the colors. you just need to whip it again.

[@pensandshakers]

@@nothanksplease Done this. It results in a very flat buttercream and absolutely does not work on a meringue buttercream. Further, I've seen the short Anne references here and at no point does she mention that the air is going out of the frosting in said short, she fully leans into the emulsion theory. Which is actually common of all of her frosting videos, including the black cocoa frosting and the read beet frosting. Sugarlogie's videos are fun, but they're based almost exclusively around aesthetic and her foods are not optimized for flavor. It's cool if that's what you're going for, but that doesn't make Anne wrong here.

[@elsa_g]

You can also do the boiling water trick with freezing water, which is in my experience safe and a lot more fun! If you take a single use plastic water bottle and put in in a fridge/freezer set just below freezing, you can get the water to that temperature without it turning to ice. Then if you shake the bottle to introduce air bubbles, or drop it, or otherwise disturb it, it will visibly turn to ice! If you’re careful, you can actually keep it liquid long enough to drink from it and feel it turn to ice and then melt quickly back to water in your mouth. Very fun sensation!

[@urdadsleftasshole69]

yeah it's called supwecooling water!

[@tjsynkral]

Ann: Superheated explosions are rare Also Ann: Reproduces it on command

[@vashsunglasses]

Both of those things can be true at the same time.

[@jonv0]

The differences of random factors in daily use and a controlled experiment where you've eliminated said factors.

[@snood4743]

Most people use tap water and/or old glasses, so it would be rare in day-to-day life thankfully.

[@Yusuf-ke5iu]

if you know what you're looking for, it's not that difficult.

[@myladycasagrande863]

We also don't know if Ann needed more than one try.

[@DarenJana]

I can just imagine the Pasta Queen's horrified face at that pasta making video! Always love your debunking videos

[@Asakw]

No need to imagine it, she made a reaction short: kzbin.infoUkETqQOaJm0?feature=share

[@awadulcecity]

She does have a video reacting to it 😂 that's where i knew that footage from

[@JustTheWarning]

That pasta video is just Rage Bait. The Verge even has an article about rage bait cooking- it's created _just_ so people share the video in anger, write angry comments, & get more clicks, because the more engagement the better. It's not meant to be real at all, and it's definitely a type of fetish @ this point. How Ann doesn't know by now that this is just Rage Bait cooking is strange to me; I thought she'd be able to point them out by now- especially a video from the queen of Rage Baiting herself, constipated pasta-girl.

[@comradewindowsill4253]

@@JustTheWarning she's done a whole video on how channels like 5 minute crafts are just clickbait moneyfarms. she's also said that the best thing to do if one actually sees this sort of video in ones feed is to leave immediately- not to dislike, comment, or anything. when she takes this footage, though, the originator doesn't get money for us watching it, and it is still important that there exists a warning of some sort, someone to tell the impressionable youth that boiling eggs in a microwave is dangerous. earlier, she had a video about electro-burning wood, and how that is incredibly deadly, and has gotten numerous people killed, and I'm sure that that video has saved peoples lives. misinformation is always worth countering with the truth.

[@eminakostic3406]

​@@JustTheWarning im glad you mentioned the fetish bit. I recognised the voices of those two from a DIFFERENT video calling them out for making fetish videos on tiktok and selling them to children. It was one where she strips in a store and does some stupid "bra hack" that requires shoplifting. Theyre notorious for this and on every platform.

[@simplepiano7653]

A few years ago my mum did the microwave egg “hack” and we ended up getting egg all over the roof and the house smelt like egg for ages. Lets just say looking back, best option out of everything

[@quynhtran3285]

My family have been heating water in the microwave for years without realizing how dangerous that was so your video literally save me and my family. Thank you so much for another informative video, Ann! You're the best!!❤

[@michaeldenison7339]

If you use tap water, it is generally safe. There are enough contaminants in the water that it will boil. It is the filtered/distilled water that can be dangerous. As a kid, and much of my adult life, I made my tea via the microwave. Now I just use an electric kettle.

[@quynhtran3285]

@@michaeldenison7339 yeah, luckily my family mostly uses tap water so we haven't had any explosion accidents.

[@venusofchaos9066]

Wake up babe, Ann reardon uploaded a new debunking video

[@marcsauers9787]

Amen, I feel the exact same way

[@Sermetimusic19]

AWAKE

[@kittenmatchvids6440]

After the rabbit hole I just went down, I'm surprised more people on here aren't talking about the Buttercream coloring thing

[@WhichDoctor1]

I had a cup of oat milk that I’d heated in the microwave boil over the counter once when I added a spoon of coco powder to it. So it’s definitely not just super pure water that this happens to

[@studioyokai]

Very true! Oat milk is thicker though so I suspect it's easier to trap bubbles, rather than just not have them actively form, which is what happens with pure water. Regardless, if you're using distilled water and have nothing to break the surface tension, the chances of it happening are even higher.

[@cggc9510]

You likely had a diet coke and mentos effect with the powder. If you add powdered sugar to water that was boiled but left to cool for a minute or so, the same explosion happens. Fun science experiments, just not for kids.

[@monkaWGiga]

Actually sent my boyfriend's dad your video about the exploding eggs as I remembered his parents talking about how their friends had shown them a trick to cook eggs in the microwave. Thankfully they got the advice before they tried it and no harm was done.

[@Andlekin]

I knew about super-cooling water, which is generally good fun in a flexible or open container, but I had no idea you could super-heat water. I don't often microwave water, but I'll try to keep this in mind. Thank you!

[@angelicamartacahyaningtyas9083]

It always amaze me how I keep a bottle of water in freezer stay liquid, but when I pour it then suddenly it contains ice appearing like from nowhere.

[@Kath2378]

9:00 When life gives you lemons, make apple juice and let life wonder how you did it

[@fededelcampo1]

Ann keeps sacrificing her microwave for our safety xD

[@SubconsciousChaos]

This is tje new one😂❤

[@PokingAngel]

Oh my God! Finally the water thing has been explained! I remember seeing a news report as a child about a woman who got severely burned after she stuck a spoon in a cup of water she heated up in the microwave. Scared me for life but I never understood how that worked! Guess it's a good fear to have.

[@vcka]

happened to me exactly like that. very painful

[@Nyankhou]

7:20 "We're making fresh pasta out of pasta" THEN IT"S NOT FRIGGIN FRESH PASTA

[@quinn7894]

Once you have that pasta, you can make fresh pasta with it.

[@LikaLaruku]

Who knew apple juice came from lemons, or that potatoes came from mung beans?

[@ghostly.creature]

I remember from watching some food photography video you could also just have the cake refrigerated and cut it normally with a slightly heated knife to get that clean cut.

[@lapsedluddite3381]

@ghostly.creature - Savvy caterers have a pitcher of hot water handy to dip the knife in while serving wedding cakes, works a treat to get clean cuts.

[@matthewdie9880]

I love it when Ann does everything exactly like in the "hack" and pours syrup on a failed experiment. It's funny.

[@SubhaChugh]

I'm sorry Ann but now our expectations are too high! 10 minutes just felt like a teaser, we want an entire 2 hour long documentary every week 🙌🏽😂

[@Taolan8472]

Dave's deep dive on content farms is unironically one of my favorite pieces put to camera on this channel. I have referred many people to it when discussing the issue. It is one of my top 10 most viewed bookmarks.

[@dpchiko17]

@@Taolan8472 Wait which vid? I may have missed it 😮

[@AndromedaD]

That sounds like a reason to sub to get Patreon then. I'm sure making a movie a week gets expensive when you're buying so many ingredients

[@Orthus100]

I used to microwave an egg everyday for a breakfast sandwich, but I also used a little plastic vessel with a hinged lid designed for doing so. They did tend to pop a little, but the top did its job and kept the steam explosion contained enough to keep the microwave clean.

[@stephaniedesmond8329]

I did it every morning in high school, but I never found out about the explosion thing because I scrambled them first. I guess it’s a different situation then, because it never did anything but make the kitchen smell bad. The exploding poached eggs sure look scary, though!

[@rachelbird2440]

@@stephaniedesmond8329 We used to do scrambled eggs as well (cooked on lower power). I wonder if just scrambling it fixes the entire problem. We never had problems.

[@stephaniedesmond8329]

@@rachelbird2440 Maybe it does; breaking up the internal membranes of the egg probably means there’s nothing left to pop?

[@The_Imperatrix]

​@@stephaniedesmond8329 It's not about a membrane or anything Ann explained that in another video.

[@fairiesarefair]

Nothing is better than getting a notification for a video from your channel!!

[@richjdnz]

agree!

[@smolboiBowie]

agree!!

[@morriganx6021]

Amen

[@thefriesofLockeLamora]

I'm up. I'm up

[@laura606937]

Yes!!

[@shinychariotsimp1952]

just letting you know that sugarologie responded to a comment in that video about the portion and she did say what you said about the air, i just wanted you to know! 😊 amazing video, really love these debunking videos ❤ Edit: seems like a lot of people agree, though i was upset to see that Ann dismissed her video as not true. I don't really wanna blame Ann for it and i don't she would've checked, still wished that she could of seen sugarologie's comment ^^ Edit: Sugarologie made a response make sure to check it. Also, please don't hate on Adriana or Ann, hopefully Ann responds to this situation

[@FrostedCreations]

Yes, sugarologie is a very legit science baking channel. Though, she is an experimental baker so her videos aren't for everyone. I haven't seen the video that features here but it's a shame to see her lumped together with 5 minute crafts, I hope people don't get the wrong idea about her channel.

[@aritin5259]

@@FrostedCreationsI know! Was initially excited to see her here, but having her dismissed alongside with other 5 min craft videos was a letdown.

[@Asharra12]

Agreed, she has some great videos that involve a lot of experimenting for it. I've done the immersion blender for buttercream before and it worked really well to get a colour that I wasn't able to get with just food colouring which is when you would want to use that technique! Cooling and rewhipping it afterwards meant that I didn't even notice the difference between the normal buttercream or the one I coloured.

[@awadulcecity]

Thank you for these comments, I was starting to get worried. I really thought high of Sugarologie and after Ann's review my confidence in her was starting to shake but... Good to see it's still well-deserved and -based

[@meerkatmobster]

Ah, thanks for letting us know! Absolutely love her content and well crafted experiments, she puts in a lot of work to get to the science and facts behind it all. It upset me to see her being clubbed with the scammers out here!

[@redstonepotato9756]

The eggs in the microwave, I've told everyone I know about this and everyone tells me "I do it all the time and nothing happens"... idk how to tell people the truth without then ignoring me

[@hibak_]

I would say in defence of sugarologie, they do mention that the volume of the frosting does very much decrease with there method. Although I do think it’s in a different video though

[@TheErador]

I reported that pasta video when I saw it on Facebook as dangerous, because of the part where they're shoving the pasta down with a fork whilst the blender was running. It's just immoral to allow them to profit from misinformation and normalising dangerous practices

[@moonshiro]

Its a shame you didn't exactly give correct information here, your "information" about the coloring of the cream cake frostings is incorrect and it's a shame that people will take it as real scientific information when it's just not true. You can't test something once and claim it doesn't work, especially when you don't test under the same conditions that the video you claim to test did.

[@brokenguardianangel8575]

Well, you can test something once and say it doesnt work. (though you should say that perhaps under other conditions it might have yielded a different result) just like with Ann's test. It doesnt work for the type of frosting she used but had she used Swiss meringue (?) it would have. That is how scientific studies are done. Imagine having to do endless testing to get just one research paper out and then wait for years for people to repeat your experiment. You can do just one or a few tests and leave the others to someone else. Just as good science but you should have a section where you discuss the result and in this situation say that perhaps had I used the same frosting as the one in the original video, the result might have been different. A research paper or an experiment isnt less valid bevause it didnt cover every single variable. I believe Ann just didnt realize the hack only works for certain types of frosting. Though I do agree that she should have repeated the experiment as it was. Not use different items.

[@brokenguardianangel8575]

@@roanc3709 I don't know what Ann was thinking. I am not her. Neither do you. It would have made sense to follow the hack as closely as possible (or make two different frostings and see if there is a difference). However, I would suggest Ann believed that the hack works for any type of frosting so it makes sense for her to try it out with different one than what was shown in the hack. I do hope she retries this and corrects her mistake.

[@DivineDosaDose]

She clearly didnt watch the video thoroughly or follow the recipe. Also she didn't do the due diligence of checking the channel before lumping it with content farms.

[@DivineDosaDose]

@@brokenguardianangel8575 If she would have watched the video, one of the important things that the OG video mentioned is that it WONT work on American buttercream. Hope Ann responds to Sugarlogie's response video, retries it and hope they work it out amicably!

[@柴充]

I just love everything about her Her confidence Her voice Her family Her channel The things that she does

[@CrimsonAkato]

and I'd love if I could be her neighbor fir free food when she makes a big video full of cooking things xD

[@westzed23]

@@CrimsonAkato You would not like the debunked food she cooks. Check with Dave and the kids. Anne's corrected recipes would be great.

[@clarewillison9379]

You left out All the talent 👑

[@clarewillison9379]

The fallen internet is anxiously waiting for the 2nd coming of Tim Berners Lee 😉😫

[@kittydollkori]

Omg thank you so much for these videos. I didn’t know anything about the water in the microwave and I grew up with both parents going through all the food safety courses they could. They taught us so much, I felt like I couldn’t have possibly missed anything dangerous but OMG I do this all the time and never knew it could be so dangerous.

[@linlupin]

There are plenty of content farms, and plenty of times when you've fully tested out hacks! Sugarologie stated in her video and description that American buttercream does not work and that "the hack" is entirely emulsion based science, so why did you not test it appropriately? Instead of going after other creators, why not collaborate with them instead? Or at least talk with them, Sugarologie is a person and you could've contacted her and asked what went wrong with your experiment.

[@Polin-dx5ru]

Ann: *uploads new debunking video at 4 am* Me: *wakes up just to watch it and then go back to bed*

[@Orion_TheyThem]

7:36 unfortunately Anne you've been introduced to a VERY specific niche of "cooking hacks" that is NOT for cooking. It's.... ahhhh......how do I explain this without getting graphic??? 😅 It's for people who get "pleasure" from seeing messes and people playing with messy foods with their fingers and hands. In all of these videos there's a guy filming making "weird" remarks and the girl has dainty rings or painted nails and really pretty hands. And makes lots of.......noises. the term for it is spl00shing (replace the zeros with o's) but beware if you search it. Just saying.

[@childofcascadia]

Damn. People will get off on anything I guess. Dont get it but to each their own.

[@angelousmortis8041]

I take it those noises were made during the silent parts Ann showed or were in parts not shown?

[@Orion_TheyThem]

@@angelousmortis8041 usually it's like the "oohs" and "ahhs" that were said. Basically any noise that can be used for exertion or........ other....... activities. If that makes sense. Edit: basically, to avoid getting removed.....the sexual stuff is made as innocuous as possible to fly under the radar. But it definitely leads to a dark rabbit hole (as will any f3tish content).

[@tubbygubbler]

regarding the sugarologie video (about frosting color) - i don't mean this in a combative way, but wouldn't it make more sense to use a different buttercream to demonstrate why it does/doesn't work? she said it doesn't work as much on American, and she gave some examples of buttercreams that it works best on (Italian, French, German). just curious, hope you have a great day!

[@dianaellul9345]

About 18 months ago, I was heating water in a very large cup (about half full) in the microwave. I was trying to get it all steamy to clean the inside. I'd set it for 1 minute on 1000 watts and all was seemingly calm, when with 15 seconds to go the water suddenly erupted out of the cup. My microwave died that day, clean but dead.

[@michaeldavidryandanielpaul1990]

R.I.P. Chef Mike! 😉

[@IIITheDeadGamerIII]

From what I can tell about Sugarologie stuff, it feels like a rehash of the debunking video she did that involved The Food THeorists. Feels a bit like a superiority complex. A statement saying "I was wrong about this" wouldn't be that hard buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut. I'm glad there's a lot of pushback for Sugarologie's video.

[@annastirling8429]

I absolutely love your videos Ann, thanks to you I know understand not only how to bake and cook, but also why is happens and if something goes wrong I know why. Thankyou so much, you put a smile on my face every time you post 😊.

[@HowToCookThat]

Awesome to hear Anna

[@annastirling8429]

You have helped so many people by creating this channel ❤

[@embee7434]

Super video, Ann! How far we've come indeed. Makes me wonder how far I'll see us go in my lifetime yet...

[@AnymMusic]

7:10 Italy putting out a search warrant for her

[@Phoenixwaffles]

Thanks for the new video! Always love your content 😊

[@harleyp580]

Absolutely agree

[@LikaLaruku]

This comment section is turning into a real Waffle House.

[@Phoenixwaffles]

@@LikaLaruku We just need a few more breakfast people then it can be a Waffle Home

[@zuzucha5881]

I loved the lemon seed hack. Those look like lovely apples.

[@saalkz.a.9715]

Not to mention the bean potatoes. 😂

[@happytofu5]

It will work if you plant them at your uncle's house.

[@grimgracious]

Really wonder how the person that sent her that frosting video is feeling right now lol

[@katvtay]

Oh, Bianca, look what you unleashed. 😂

[@just_caitlin]

Every video of yours I watch, I am more grateful for you, the work you do and the entertainment you provide. Thank you infinitely, Ann! The world is better for having you in it! 💜

[@shawndavis7862]

I always thought the exploding water was an old wives’ tale. Even so, some things you are told when a child, you can’t shake. Took 40 years but it happened to me a couple of years ago. Luckily I was not harmed, I saw it start and released my grip and slammed the door. Got just two splashes on my hand. Please believe me, if you think it should be boiling, and it is not, this could be happening. Thank you, Ann, for sharing and looking out for your fellow man.

[@Dionysos95]

I don't understand why this isn't (more) commonly known? Superheating can happen to all kinds of fluids, not just pure water. For everyday scenarios it is probably best to put a microwave safe object in your cup/container (like a chopstick or something). Especially when you heat it for a very long time and your fluid doesn't seem to be boiling at all try to tap it lightly with an object from a safe distance to make sure.

[@martinleehb]

I suppose we can say common sense is an evolving knowledge. Back in my childhood, if I wanted hot water (or eggs), we would use the stove. Microwave is for reheating food only. Using a microwave for water and eggs just doesn't make sense. In primary school (age 6 to 12) we may have heard, in passing, that water can be heated beyond 100 degrees Celsius, and heard about condensation nucleus when we visit the observatory. But all these never really clicked together to form an understanding. It is easy to think that, in a laboratory we can do all sorts of magic. "Supercooled and superheated water? Easy! Nah, it's not going to happen in daily life would it?" To realise the danger of exploding water, one needs to know: 1) Glass may lack nucleation sites for steam, 2) Microwave provides very little disturbance to the water, 3) A rough idea how long should it have taken for the water to boil. The above three knowledge would not click together until I am in middle school or early high school. If I am 12, and I have watched some videos of people successfully heated up water in a microwave, I probably would not have been able to identify the danger. It seems nowadays there are many things, that we simply won't do in the past, become commonplace. And it may very well have outpaced the growth of our common sense.

[@martinleehb]

Another aside: I have a friend whose family would put a tiny cup of water into the microwave, to provide moisture when reheating food. You can occasionally hear pops coming from the exploding water. And yes, there are water droplets insids everytime a pop is heard. It is kind of amazing that they have been doing this and the water never exploded when they were reaching in. This is PURE LUCK, I should warn everyone. If you want to do so, put a toothpick into the cup at the very least.

[@snakabuz]

I didn't grow up with a microwave but always heard about it. In fact, I didn't have a microwave until very recently. It is a lot faster to heat water for my coffee press in the microwave and more energy efficient. I'm curious how long it typically takes in a microwave to super heat water. I've always done 2 mins from room temp and 4 to 5 for refrigerated water.

[@laurenmannion6516]

​@@Dionysos95yup, it happened to me years ago with a mug of hot chocolate. Microwaved it, opened the door and went to stir it, but the second the spoon touched the liquid, it basically exploded. The mug broke in half right down the middle and there was hot chocolate everywhere 😅

[@MrPoirot12345]

I'm an ardent fan of yours and I love the calm and straight forward manner you approach baking science and debunking misinformation online. But I'm sad to see the "debunking" of sugarologie's video... Switching to using american butter cream when trying to prove that rewhipping causes the frosting to lighten back to baseline (even though her video states the method won't work will with an american buttercream - swiss meringue buttercream when rewhipped won't go back to baseline colour) and stating that her method is not creating an emulsion are two points I hope you'll address soon in a future video or post. You do such amazing work in debunking dangerous and wasteful misinformation online, I hope you can clear this up and continue doing so in the future :)

[@HowToCookThat]

G'day Moosa Jamal, The reason I didn't show re-whipping the Italian meringue buttercream is because you can not get the air back into it. Whipping it with beaters will not make it light and airy again (that is why the frosting in the response videos stayed dark). Italian meringue buttercream is made by whipping egg whites with hot sugar syrup and then adding the butter - it is very light and airy. After knocking the air out it you can't just whip it with beaters to add the air back in. If you are interested in testing this for yourself - try making a batch at home (measure the volume) - then blend it (measure again) - then rewhip (and measure the volume again after rewhipping). The final volume will not be as much as the first one due to not being able to get it as airy. American butter cream however can be rewhipped to add the air back in - so it the only frosting suitable for showing the effect of rewhipping.

[@MrPoirot12345]

Hey Ann! I really appreciate the response, and love your new video explaining the history of Food Colouring I totally understand what you're saying, but given that the original video by Sugarologie doesn't recommend using the immersion blender method with American Buttercream, rewhipping it is a bit of a moot point imho I agree that the immersion blender decreases the volume of the Swiss/Italian meringue buttercream, but I'm inclined to think it's a mix of emulsive properties AND air reduction which achieves this (so, likely you're both correct! Yay, haha). Personally, it's not a method I prefer since it tastes too buttery for my preference... I'm more of a stabilized whipped cream, meringue frosting, or ermine frosting lover Thanks again for your response! Love your work and hope you keep pushing KZbin in the right direction

[@julzmusic8708]

My goodness some of the things out there - I definitely feel like ‘common sense’ and ‘logic’ needs to be taught as it’s own class throughout all levels at school. Love your work always! From Melbourne 🥰

[@HowToCookThat]

It was such a beautiful day here today. Hopefully it's not too rainy for us tomorrow.

[@nicholasscott3287]

But what did Dave think of the vertically sliced vs horizontally sliced cake?

[@lisaroper421]

Right?! That's when we know it's true

[@marthahawkinson-michau9611]

His opinion is critical!!!!

[@OriasRofocale]

Thank god you said super heated water does happen, because otherwise I would have felt I slipped into a different reality. I have had this happen before, but fortunately I wasn't burned. It was terrifying though. I also tried to make a small bit of custard in the microwave and that was also not safe at all, but fortunately just exploded inside my microwave. I love microwaves, but I also fear them.

[@DefaultJane]

I think I will never microwave anything ever again after all the horror stories about stuff exploding after being reheated in a microwave. xD My terrible attempts at humor aside, thank so much for these, and for always taking the time to explain why things happen or don't happen. Seeing obviously bad hacks debunked is always good but it's so much more satisfying because you prove it doesn't work but also tell me why it doesn't work, always learning stuff. Appreciate you! :D

[@Cadebenson]

When life gives you lemons, make apple juice I guess.

[@CaseyCartman]

The pancakes at the air fryer could totally be used as and ad "What i ordered on wish vs what i received". xD

[@anni321]

Really love your debunking videos, so educational! Not just "doesn't work" but "why it doesn't work". Thanks :)

[@Ian-bf4yk]

It is worth noting that at the lower temperature you get a bigger grace period between cooked and golden brown which makes it easier for amateur bakers to time it correctly.

[@julianasmit3407]

I would really appreicate a response from Ann about the Sugarology video 😔

[@inuyasha1014]

@@roanc3709 I went and looked and that comment is still there. this is a blantant lie lol if you go look at the video, ann's comment is still there, and still pinned. sugarologie pinned it, and ann hasn't deleted it.

[@suzannestrickland1586]

Love your outfit in this video! Thank you for the reminder about the dangers of exploding eggs!

[@alekhyanarayanam4670]

Love your debunking videos... They are my absolute favourite!!! ❤

[@facebookaphobia1523]

3:50 not Ann using American butter cream instead of an emulsion based butter cream just to say Sugarologie is wrong when Sugarologie clearly stated in her video the hack works best with emulsion based buttercreams and less so with American because it is not emulsion based

[@Reynallday]

Thank you Anne! I was just telling my father about your fractal wood burning video! Your commitment to outing misinformation is such an honorable cause!

[@shadowfox1221]

My mom is doing an art course and brought it up. I shut it down *immediately* and pointed her to Anne's video, telling her people have died from it. She never mentioned it again and started doing other (non-dangerous) art instead.

[@marthahawkinson-michau9611]

My sister is into woodworking, and while she’s smart enough to not try fractal burning, I still warned her like a good sister.

[@maccamacca2548]

Thank you again for my much needed How to cook that instalment. Hope your having a great school holidays!! And hope you had a good Easter. - Your favourite fan ❤️❤️

[@glenjennett]

I will never understand the idea of trying to find alternative ways of cooking foods when it's unnecessary. If a stove is a proven method for cooking something, why make life more difficult by using a microwave that doesn't work as well? Why make it a chore when it doesn't need to be by using an air fryer or microwave or some other unnecessary alternative appliance that would make it take longer and put yourself through extra steps and make the finished item taste worse? I'm not fond of the hack craze that has come out in recent years. Just remember that it's not a hack if it's less convenient than doing it the normal way. Pancakes do not take that much time or effort to cook on the stove. Seriously, you can mix the batter and have a stack of pancakes in less than 5 minutes. I don't eat eggs anymore, but there was a time when I would make them in the microwave so that I wouldn't have to dirty a pan, but I would scramble a couple eggs into a bowl and cook them for 1 minute and it would be fine, no exploding eggs. Whole eggs I wouldn't recommend, nor cooking them for longer than a minute. I have heated water up in the microwave and my mom does this to this day when she wants to make some hot chocolate, but I've never experienced the water getting hot up to boiling temperature in the microwave. Then again, it doesn't take that long to heat up water on the stove.

[@leeriches8841]

I'm surprised you haven't been approached by schools to create a series of videos like these to show children in Home Economics classes. Your videos are incredibly important, easy to understand and always full of fascinating information. In this day and age of nonsense 'hacks/DIY' videos that can seriously harm the health of someone copying them, you're doing a fantastic public service ❤

[@practicallymedieval2027]

Oh that would be awesome. A bunch of basic cooking vids for kids, with a science background. As a structured class with the kids then making good food!

[@comradewindowsill4253]

would be nice if we still had home economics classes, for a start...

[@leeriches8841]

@@comradewindowsill4253 Some countries still do.

[@jb6712]

I would think more of an overall home safety course, not just home econ classes.

[@joelbell6413]

I’m so happy I got here so soon❤ Love you Ann, keep producing!

[@ekakutsuri]

That frosting hack is actually legitimate. It would have been better to carefully mind the ratios used and listen to what she had said. Please repeat the experiment with more coloring, and explain the reaction. You may also see if you can re-whip the icing after and do side-by-side comparisons of all three states. This creator also replied to your criticism in her own video on her account, and it was quite thoughtful and careful.

[@HowToCookThat]

Hi ekakutsuri, In the response video unfortunately she carefully measured the decrease in volume from blending but never measured the increase in volume after re-whipping. Had she done that she would see that it is very difficult to get air back into deflated swiss buttercream. Without putting the air back in it will not go pale again. That is why I showed that with American that can be re-whipped.

[@missgirl3410]

I love Sugarologie's channel!

[@smileygirl6457]

I just love how much love and time u put into your videos Ann.❤😊

[@HowToCookThat]

thanks Smiley Girl

[@anthonyrobertson2011]

The rotisserie or turning plate in microwaves was added to cut down on liquid explosions. The turning helps move water around so it's more likely to boil. Added in the 80s because even though rare, with far more people having microwaves, these incedents were happening more often. Our late 70s microwave did not have a rotisserie. I don't put a cup of water directly in the center but off center, so the cup is jostled around a little more. Not sure if that helps, but that's what I do just in case.

[@aronasmundurjonasson3175]

I am pretty sure that the turning plate was actually added because a microwave heats very unevenly. Since a microwave uses electromagnetic radiation to cook stuff, you will have spots where the waves interfere in a destructive manner, resulting in virtually zero heating. The rotating plate is primarily there to even out the heating

[@JoeyKlu]

My dad reheats his coffee way too much, I need to show him that bit so it'll actually stick in his brain how bad that could get. Thanks as always for these videos. Remember when we all thought we'd seen the full extent of dangerous and misleading cooking "hack" videos there could possibly be...?

[@ControversyCupcake]

7:00 when you boil water the water BOILS YOU RIGHT BACK

[@jamesjohnston3643]

Speaking as some one who deals professionally in audio signal processing,wiring, etc, I greatly appreciate your debunking some of the utterly whacked stuff we see on cooking "hacks". Audio usually doesn't hurt people, it just takes the money from unsuspecting people, and most of my "videos" (I'm not a video producer) are of tutorial issues, usually in acoustics or digital signal processing directed at professionals, with some hope of some "trickle down". So thank you for doing this debunking. It's extremely important. As to superheated water, yes, it is possible to superheat water. I have used that (CAREFULLY) as a magic trick about how "hot my tea bags are". Certainly superheated water is pretty )*((*& scary. (My dad was a high pressure boiler engineer from the 1920's onward, and was very clear on that issue!)

[@bethlovesthings]

I love your scientific method approach to debunking. So many people won't heed warnings unless they *see* that it doesn't work. Thanks so much for all your efforts (& microwave sacrifices) to keep making these entertaining PSAs 💖

[@westzed23]

I agree. Somehow common sense is disappearing.

[@almonddoll2323]

In India, we usually have our mom or grandma constantly telling us what to do and not to do in the kitchen. While Ann Reardon is taking up the 'sponsibility to educate noobs on the internet... safety must be priority even for curious minds! Always love you content

[@ClanImprobable]

I love the way you put this Sanjan!

[@Hermititis]

So Ann is our internet mom (at least for "noobs" who didn't get to learn from theirs).

[@Hip.Username]

Sounds like good moms and grandmas