Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and
in this video we are looking at the most dangerous hack I have seen on the internet! But before
we get to that I wanted to start with something interesting Morgan sent me a link to this video
on facebook … now we've covered cooking meat in toasters in a previous video 🤯 Toasters are hot so
if you keep putting it down repeatedly for about 20 minutes you can get it to cook a thin steak
but you end up with a very tough piece of meat and meat juice all through your toaster, which
is not good for bacterial contamination. On top of that because you've put it down repeatedly for
20 minutes the toaster itself gets very very hot one guy even burnt his house down trying to use
this hack.
We have also done videos covering the dangers of putting foil in your toaster …
there's a reason why every toaster manufacturer says in their instructions 'do not put foil in the
toaster'. It could give you an electric shock it can cause fires it's just not a good idea. On
top of all of that the video is clearly faked because the sausages and the bacon took the same
amount of time to cook as a piece of toast did and we know that that's not true as bad as that video
is that's not why Morgan sent it to me he sent it to me because it was posted on YouTube's Facebook
page and shared with their millions of followers. As humans we are susceptible to a thing they
call in psychology the illusionary truth effect which is the more we see something even if it's
implausible we are more likely to believe it to be true.
So it's important that YouTube doesn't
promote these videos and doesn't keep getting them seen by more and more people. I also found it
curious because this video wasn't just shared from youtube it was natively uploaded to facebook so
they've taken the content, edited it to how they want it and uploaded it to their facebook page. So
I asked youtube to confirm whether this was their official facebook page and if creators get paid
for the use of their videos on youtube's facebook page to which they responded saying 'yes that
is youtube's official facebook page. no creators are not generally paid for use of their videos
youtube uses the page to spotlight our creators'. Using anybody's content they want from the whole
of youtube to be able to put videos up on their facebook page certainly seems to be working
for youtube they've got 86 million followers on facebook! But is it working for the creators
that they spotlight? Well let's have a look at a different one because i don't want to show you the
bad one again let's look at one by Wigglz' Art. If we have a look here it was uploaded two weeks
ago to youtube's official facebook page and it has 1.3 million views there.
If we click on the
post you can see the logo pops up super quickly and then there's a link over to the original
… all the comments are positive people like it they're loving it but if we go to the actual
youtube channel we can see here that this video has 18,000 views which seems fairly typical on
that channel at that time so while youtube got 1.3 million views on this video it didn't seem to be
any advantage to the Wigglz' Art channel … they do have quite a lot of interesting videos so go
check them out and give them some extra views. But i didn't know if you would be aware as
a YouTuber that when you upload a video to their platform you're giving them permission to
do this it's actually in the terms of service if we read it it says: by providing content to
the service or in other words uploading a video you grant youtube a worldwide non-exclusive
royalty-free sub-licensable and transferable license to use that content in connection with the
service and youtube's business …
So I guess the facebook page is youtube's business … including
for the purpose of promoting and redistributing part or all of the service. So they can use your
videos however they like if you're a youtuber let me know what you think of that in the comments
in this next one they take a carton of milk and add some tea bags and some sugar just a little
bit more lots of sugar and then they put it in the fridge for a few hours and then it says
you'll notice it becomes milk tea jelly 🧐 It looks horrible it really does, I don't know
why anyone would want to make it because it doesn't look good, which would be the only thing
that would make me go maybe it isn't fake because surely if you're gonna fake it you would make
it look appetizing and make it look yummy but as always let's test it out.
They had a pint
bottle of milk we don't get that size here so i'm measuring out a pint of milk into a bowl
instead then they added two tea bags and this is the exact same brand of tea as they used in
their video and then they added some sugar, they probably had a little bit more than that
i'll put a bit more in then push them down and i'm going to give a quick stir and then pop that
in the fridge overnight … and the next day you have milk with tea bags in it and if you scoop
right down to the bottom the sugar is just sitting there. So that video is definitely faked if you
wanted to make a jelly then you would need to heat the milk and sugar so that the sugar can
dissolve and then add some tea bags into the hot milk and jiggle it around as much or as little
as you want just to flavour it then you're going to need to add some gelatin because that's what's
going to make it set.
I've just got some gelatin sheets here that i've soaked in water and you
squeeze the extra water out put them into the hot milk and stir it until it dissolves then pop that
into the fridge overnight. As you may know I don't drink tea or coffee so I'm definitely not going
to like this dessert but let's see what Dave thinks of it … Okay here we go, it is sand
colored gelatinous mass with a nice wobble. It's odd, it's sort of sweet, very milky. Like almost a coke ….
milk …. Jelly … or tea? Yeah 🤨 I'm not sure it's a winner!
Don't bother making that it is not good if you want some yummy recipes check out my last video
which was seven easy lemon dessert recipes there are plenty in there.
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I have seen yet! This hack has already killed 34 people in the US and that is only counting the
ones that have been reported in newspapers there may well be a lot more than that and certainly
there are many more around the world the hack is called fractal wood burning or Lichtenberg
wood burning.
There are heaps of videos on TikTok showing people doing it. Essentially
it uses electricity to burn a lightning or a tree-like pattern into wood that's been dampened.
The results are unique every time and it does look pretty impressive which is why people want to try
it for themselves, then they head over to youtube and find more videos showing people doing it
including how-to videos that show you how to make your own fractal wood burning device using parts
from an old microwave. It is so dangerous that the American Association of Woodturners has banned any
demonstrations of it at their events and they will not publish anything about it on their website
except for articles saying how dangerous it is. So why is it so dangerous? Well to explain that,
let me draw you a picture …
We'll start with our piece of wood and then we'll wet that with
a mixture of water and bicarb. Then over here we have a power point that we will plug the machine
into and in the middle here we have a box which in most how-to videos is a transformer that has been
taken out of a microwave. So they attach one side of the transformer to the power supply and on the
other side they have a couple of car jumper cables and in these alligator clips they add
long metal spikes that they touch the wood with.
Then you turn it on and the electric
current starts to burn patterns into the wood. One of the problems with this hack is that
people don't understand what is happening inside the microwave transformer on this side the
wire does a few turns around but on the other side it has lots and lots and lots of turns and what
that effectively does is it takes the 120 volts or 240 volts that are coming from the power outlet
depending on where you live and it transforms that into 2000 volts! Which means if you accidentally
touch the metal on those alligator clips or you touch the wood or you touch the table if it's
not on a non-conductive surface you are going to be delivered ten times the amount of power that's
needed to stop your heartbeat and in seven out of ten cases the person is dead before they even hit
the floor! There is just no margin for error here one little lapse in concentration one little error
and you're dead.
It's not a good hack for anyone to try and you'll remember from a previous video
that was talking about electricity and it had that stupid metal electric plug which short circuits
everything and it's dangerous in itself but you'll remember in that that the residual current device
on our house flicks the power off because it notices there's something wrong and as a safety
measure it flicks it off and most modern houses have a device or some sort of safety device
it's going to flick the power off if someone's getting electrocuted.
Well that doesn't happen
with this machine and once again the problem is what's happening inside that microwave transformer
… you may have noticed that there are no wires connecting one side of the transformer to the
other the charge actually passes from one winding to the other using a pulsing magnetic field so
in this half everything continues to operate as normal. The safety switch doesn't kick in because
it's not noticing anything abnormal happening in one sad case in Wisconsin where a couple were
both electrocuted …
If if someone is being electrocuted it's important you turn off the
power before you touch them or you also will be electrocuted … and then in their case after that
because the power continued to go through, the whole house burnt down. "We do know that the fire
started in the garage before spreading to the home we believe that the fractal wood burning equipment
that caused the electrocutions likely started the fire." Now that you know just how many volts of
electricity are going through that and that there is no safety off switch I want you to watch a
couple of these clips again and tell me would you walk this close to a fractal wood burning machine
knowing if you just brush that wood with your leg there's a 7 out of 10 chance that you're dead?
Would you hold these alligator clips in your hand as so many videos show people doing knowing that
one little mishap you slightly touch that metal and it's all over? Well sadly this guy
learnt that the hard way and his widow in an interview with the local newspaper
said that he was not aware of the dangers. She went on to say we knew he could get a
shock but we had no idea it could kill you, there were no warnings with the videos if
he had of no one he never would have done it.
There is a small number of people who have
managed to survive a fractal wood-burning injury and that is usually due to the fact they've got
someone watching who has managed to turn off the power immediately start CPR because their heart
stopped and by some miracle emergency services managed to get to their house within a few
minutes, which is pretty rare here in Australia, I don't know about the rest of the world. But
even those people aren't left unscathed, they usually have very bad injuries to their hands and
permanent injury to their hearts. Mary Calhoun was walking with her fractal wood burning device she'd
finished using it and she tripped as she went to put it somewhere and turned it on accidentally
this is what her hands looked like after the surgeons had tried to rescue them so that she
had some functionality for the rest of her life. Trust me you don't want to see the before
photos we're talking severe burns we're talking 2000 volts here we're not playing with tiny
amounts of current this is just not worth the risk people.
And in case you're thinking
oh well she should have been wearing insulating gloves that would protect her from
the electricity part of the problem is if you do that the rest of your body could still brush
up against the table or the wood or anywhere else it's not just your hands but also people don't
know how many volts they're dealing with so the insulating gloves are often not enough.
Listen to this from Brem from Utah: "I remember just gasping for air looking down and seeing the
smoke coming off of my gloves that were basically welded to my hands". And just in case there are
any electricians out there who are thinking well of course it's dangerous it's electricity but
if you know what you're doing and you're careful you'll be fine i'll be fine to do this, two of the
deaths that i flashed up before were men who were experienced electricians and they left behind
their wife and kids so don't do it it is just not worth it! If i had my way youtube
would make a policy against dangerous hacks and dangerous how-to videos they've got one
against dangerous pranks and dangerous challenges why isn't there one for dangerous hacks? I don't
know but i feel like we've been waiting a long time for them to listen on this one so it's up
to you …
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