+Juliane Nguy (Lastsolace) I'm pretty sure it was rotten -- when I open a pomegranete under water, the good seeds sink and the rotten stuff either floats or moves into the water, so I just have to rinse the good seeds.
I immediately paused the video after that part to see if anyone else had called it out, because I too use this method all the time. The trick to it (John Green, if you're reading this) is that the pomegranate has to not be disgusting.
Um.. is everything okay, guys? You're not having financial issues or anything? I'm guessing that rotten pomegranate was half price at the local fruit market but I mean you know, it's really dead. Like really, really, it's-turning-the-water-brown dead...
They always get a lot of hacks wrong and then say "FAIL". That pomegranate was truly awful. They probably never eat them, so then don't know what a fresh pomegranate looks like...
February I know, right? The thing is, you couldn't even do the trick properly with that dead pomegranate. And as a side - the pomegranate in water thing works wonders.
February There's a particular way to cut into it as well so that you don't pierce the fruit and get juice everywhere. It's a bit hard to describe, but if you search for it on youtube, there are quite a few videos. You kind of like, take the 'top' off it and cut it into sections like you might an orange. Try searching on youtube. I eat way more pomegranates now that I know how to easily get all the fruit/seeds out.
Even if that trick does work, I still prefer my method of quartering it in a bowl. I get to keep all the juice. And yes, that pomegranate looked nasty.
I understand the irresistible urge to correct everything which seems wrong, but really most of these which failed and he did "incorrectly," I personally wouldn't do anyway if they did work. I can eat chicken off of the bone, I can buy a bottle opener-- Really, I just watch these for entertainment. I feel the comments on these are always a liiiittle hard on John.
Yes, I tend to notice this. Some of the fails were impatient application. So I try not to feel to angered by it. Years ago he tested the wooden spoon preventing water from boiling over, and I was determined to make it work. Use it all the time now (especially since my pot is a hand-me-down with two spouts on the side, which make life difficult)
Can't see whether anybody already said this, but wouldn't the pea-bag-tying hack work rather better once you've actually removed some peas from the bag? If you're not taking any peas out, might as well leave the bag sealed up!
I actually did this about a week ago with a bag of steak fries. As for the dryer lint, we don't need kindling, so we leave it out for the birds to find (they use it to build their nests).
The egg trick should work, I don't know what eggs you were using. And you had it backwards. Eggs that are starting to go bad fill up with sulfurous gas, and will start to float. Eggs that are fresh sink to the bottom. Your "old eggs" weren't actually old. ;)
Significantly longer actually. Ours are usually good about 4-6 weeks after. Eggs can even keep for a few days when left out. It takes a while for them to go bad on you.
Olivia Hill Spin them. Eggs that spin smoothly are hard boiled. Eggs that wobble are not. The eggs that are not are filled with fluid, and the fluid sloshes around. When hard boiled, it is all one solid so it spins fine. ;)
You could be so much more scientific with these John. You had two limes, you could have left one out of the microwave. Still not much of a sample size but at least you've got a control.
I thought that on most of the hacks he tested! Even when he compared ice creams inside and outside of a ziplock for softness, they were 2 different types in different containers!
But nothing about him saying "are they as juicy as real limes?" and we all know they were real before the microwave, and still real limes afterwards. But for the hack they are easier to use when they are not straight from the refrigerator and room temperature and slightly easier to juice after a short soak in a bowl of hot tap water ( I'm sure the microwave will accomplish similar results) then firmly palm rolled over the counter before cutting into them.
you can write beautifully but you are the most miserably uncoordinated bloke I've ever watched struggle through daily tasks. some of those fails were your own alone. love the show you're amazing.
+Keaton Smith He wasn't using a chef's knife; while I agree he should have used a serrated, I think the premise of the hack is that the knife you're trying to use is dull and/or ill-suited for the job.
+Veridan Don't ever buy a knife sharpener. You want to buy a good steel so you can hone your knives before and after each time you use them. A knife sharpener is going to straight up destroy your knives
+uzeir gamazsi Also, sharp knives are a thing. If you open the peas, it's probably to use some, so it will be easier to tie with less peas in the bag. This guy is horrible at everyday problem solving tasks. Meredith must be his caregiver.
Paul Mabie But so many of the ones he does in these vids are accompanied by pics - sometimes even a full set of how to...is someone just reading the hack to him and letting him make it up?
+Paul Mabie For example, this is the kind of pic most associated with the post it hack, though it's a PC unlike the vid 57228-Post-It-Notes-To-Clean-Crap-Out-Your-Keyboard.jpg His comb's teeth are clearly bigger than those used in the hacks i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--AKD1AYMp--/18ix5xb8it039jpg.jpg Why is he using a steak knife??? i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--W8b1sLgj--/17l2qupnmp0cvjpg.jpg chocolate strawberries: I blame John's nonattempt to twist or slam the ice tray like everyone else does :P
My dad used to be a painter and decorator and his tip is to put the roller tray inside a plastic bag, you can tie the handles together to keep it in, then just remove the tray when you're finished and put the bag inside out into the bin. Your tray will be clean- better than foil!
jimhemstreet As an ACE Hardware employee, absolutely this We sell disposable liners for like maybe a buck or less, and they're incredibly handy for the exact reasons Hank described. They also have the same texture as the roller tray, so they catch paint just as easily
jimhemstreet Yeah, or don't spend money and use free plastic bags. Seriously, if I bought every convenient thing instead of using stuff like free bags etc, I'd be significantly poorer. All the small things add up.
Except a plastic bag will stick to the roller and you'll get poor paint distribution. I guess if you don't mind shoddy work it's worth saving a couple pennies.
Have you ever tried to de-seed a pomegranate? It's hard to do efficiently and the juice gets everywhere and stains everything. So, do it with your hands under water; the seeds will sink, the pith will float, and the juice won't stain anything.
Here's a faster way to de-seed a pomegranate. Cut it in half, pull on the sides a little to loosen it up, get a wok or something to catch the seeds in, then beat the purity out of the back. That's how I do it and I get them de-seeded in under a minute.
Koden That method knocks many seeds loose, but it doesn't cleanly de-seed the pomegranate. Many will remain trapped and have to be fished out (or else thrown away).
You didn't do the chicken bone one right. First off, it is strictly for chicken wings(the part with the two bones and cartilage on each end). You pull off one of the cartilage ends, and can pull the two bones from the wing. Then all you have is chicken to scarf down. It's a GREAT trick for anyone doing hot wing challenges. Take out all the bones then just pop all the necessary wings in your mouth and eat them as fast as possible before the burn defeats you.
Arrgghh, John don't drink the Kool Aid. No, no, no. Eggs contain salmonella. Egg shells are porous. Kool Aid after having an egg soaked in it will likely carry salmonella, if the egg had it. Former certified food safety trainer, just sayin'.
Diana Peña that is also not a situation in which you would use the comb trick. It works great if you are trying to hammer in a tight space or really close to a wall.
I'm guessing they just used eggs that are past their expiration date. Expiration dates are lies. Fun fact: really, really old eggs will sometimes explode if you pierce them with a needle. A family friend did this to one of a clutch of eggs that we found under our shed, and it exploded all over her (the eggs could easily have been more two years old). Our porch smelled like sulfur for days.
+Maxwell Edison I find watching John attempt these a glorious sight to behold. I don't however find it informative as to whether they work, and I'm not sure I'm supposed to.
and ice cream that was totally frozen. I feel like the advantage to that life hack is I can make an ice cream sandwich out of any flavor ice cream and cookie I want, rather than store bought which are just regular boring flavors.
shivore Yeah, serrations have a longer cutting surface. And John's crew does not strike me as the sort who take the time to keep their kitchen knives sharpened.
Ummm...the pomegranate was rotten...I suggest trying that with a fresh one...plus that demonstration would turn any pomegranate lover off of them for a little bit.
erm... a) old eggs as in eggs that are gone bad do float i tried it to see if it works b) the post it one is for between the keys c) the the nail and comb the teeth of the comb needs to closer not sized for dreadlocks d) the bag of peas ain't you supposed to use some first before you it hence making it easy to tie it? e) how low is your freezer temperature that the ice cream is soft and lime-a-rita is drippy as soon as it comes out? dude i like stuff like your video but if you gonna do something do it right or don't do it at all oh an I've only commented on the ones i know work
yep. crappy video is crappy. also - the butter should have probably been frozen if he wished to grate it... the high friction would definitely melt a cool one (unfrozen) in seconds, thus - smearing it all over the grater. better to watch "mythbusters" if one wants to truly enjoy some rigorous testing.
***** without justification in my opinion. It's pretty apparent that the butter wasn't THAT hard to begin with. And in any case, it wasted way more than it produced. so to say that it's a "pass" is ridiculous. The real test is whether he would actually do anything like this in his real life when confronted with a similar situation. He wouldn't. Therefore --- BS.
***** no, because otherwise it isn't really useful - especially for a common task as peeling a banana or spreading hard butter. we're not talking about some McGuyver hack of constructing an Ipad stand out of egg-boxes, we're talking about spreading butter. Anyone who uses butter or eats bananas would be faced with these problems, so - if he himself doesn't use these "hacks" it strongly INDICATES that they aren't "Hacks" at all but contrived "tricks" to be performed as entertainment. They were true life hacks if they were so useful so as to replace any traditional way of spreading hard butter or peeling bananas. He gives them a "pass" simply for half-working, even they aren't necessarily any better than the traditional method (or even worse). That's a useless definition for a "pass", he might as well have "passed" a method of peeling a banana via a nuclear explosion or of spreading butter by using a laser beam. To actually be considered a "proper life hack" it should be practical, simple and useful - and should in principle be better than (or at LEAST as good as) the traditional method.
The Lime-a-Rita popsicle could've been drippy because alcohol drinks freeze at a lower temperature than water. Or perhaps his freezer was just not that cold, who knows.
John, your eggs weren't old enough, because the floaty thing actually works. New = sink, older but still ok = stand on end, and really old = float. Try like a month or more past the sell by date to see a floater.
Ha ha Let me check this life hack, by lighting a tp roll stuffed with lint on fire on a wooden deck! I'm glad everything went well without the firefighters.
You know, with butter, you keep all but one cube in the fridge, the last you keep in a covered holder for the butter. It'll be room temperature, at which point you use a butter knife to cut off a small bit which is already easy to spread over the warm toast without making a mess with the cheese grater.
1) Additional hack idea: most (all?) refrigerators are made so you can easily flip the doors around to open from either side - looks like that fridge should have the doors opening the other way to be more convenient for the microwave and the rest of the kitchen 2) Maybe the beverage carrier was supposed to be flipped over to serve as an iPad stand? 3) I think the comb and nail trick would work much better if using the comb to hold the nail up against a wall (rather than down onto a table).
jus' sayin, I think this is brilliant. I mean, he's showing life hacks as how they actually are. he's not trying to make then look easy and if he gets it wrong, that may just be his own personal preference.
Dryer lint can be toxic and dangerous. While it is very important to clean out dryer lint, it can contain quite a few chemicals that can be toxic in several different ways if inhaled. These chemicals come from fabric softeners, the clothing themselves, and other environmental factors that get into the clothes and dryer. More info: www.ehow.com/list_6820352_dangers-inhaling-lint-dryers_.html
I highly suggest either editing the video to remove/replace that life hack, or adding a disclaimer. From what I have personally heard, burning dryer lint and breathing in the fumes is worse then plastic.
This is a more survivalist life hack if anything. It's good knowledge to have if anything happens or if you have no power for a few days (also, the impending zombie apocalypse).
Using kindling to start a fire is either done outside or in a fireplace where the fumes will be extracted via the chimney. Few intelligent people would be huffing the fumes/smoke from kindling a fire. Dryer lint is a great survivalist tool as one of the carried ways to start a fire. Have used successfully.
1)You don't need a knife to cut the cupcake. Just pull off the bottom and invert it onto the frosting bottom side up. 2) Ice cream sandwich: the ice cream needs to be FROZEN and you need to use a serrated knife. 3) That pomegranate was SO rotten ! 4) DUDE, the butter has to be FROZEN not just "super hard" ! hahaha. 5) The post-it note trick works best for BETWEEN the keys. You fold the sticky edge in half (the long way, sticky side out) and run it between the keys. 6) If you've opened a bag of peas, you were probably going to TAKE SOME OUT and the bag would have a wider space to use the 'tie'. (I'm dying ! because now you're putting spit back into your freezer!) 7) I don't know who's fridge/freezer that is, but you need to change the doors so they open right to left instead of left to right (that's a hack that'll make you're life a bit easier) 8) Chocolate covered strawberries...should have lightly sprayed your ice cube trays with PAM...and again, with the spit. 9) The point of microwaving a lime is that you get more juice out of a warm lime than one that's right out of the fridge. Best to keep the lime (or lemon, orange) at room temp and then roll back and forth on the counter before cutting and squeezing. 10) Mic drop...
The pomegranate one works great, if you do it right. Cut a small slice off of the stem and blossom ends, then score the sides, not going deep enough to cut the seeds. Get a large bowl of water and put the fruit in the water, and pull it apart. Keeping it under water, use your thumbs to gently pry the seeds away. The water keeps the seeds from popping, and they sink, while the waxy pithy stuff floats. Scoop away the pith, strain the seeds from the water. Good Eats is a very helpful show.
the chocolate-covered strawberries in the ice cube tray would've worked WAY better if you'd sprayed the tray with cooking spray first- just like you would in a jello mold, for example.
Referring to the nailing hack: I think the comb John used was the wrong kind. The filaments should be closer together, so they can squeeze in the nail. I don't know if that works though.
He didn't do the pomegranate correctly. You cut it in half and put it in a deep metal bowl in cold water. then you pull the seeds apart and the white fibrous stuff floats and the seeds sink. it does work if you do it correctly, also that pomegranate looked kinda gross
The egg thing is right, bad eggs float. The expiry date is mostly meaningless. All the eggs you used were good. Also, for the ketchup thing, I've never done it an have no idea if it works... but it would work much better if you had covered the end with your finger so the straw is hollow and can easily supply air to the bottom of the container. The way you put it in would clog the straw making this not work (even if it does work).
You don't open a banana from the top via the stem, you press your thumb against the outward facing edge near the stem and rip the skin open from one side. It's a million times faster than either of the methods you showed.
Alec Joseph Depends on how ripe it is. If a banana is very ripe and soft the inside gets mushed up but the pressure you put on the stem. The other end doesn't do this, and you get rid of that gross black end.
Ahh. Of course. I didn't think of that for some reason. I store my old batteries in a jar because I'm too lazy to drop them off at the supermarket where they have those handy drop-off stations.
"Good" batteries will not bounce. "Bad" batteries will bounce several times. There's no need to drop them from as high as he did. 6" is plenty high enough. This only works for alkaline batteries. Doesn't work for rechargeable ones.
Chris Miller My question is, what causes them to bounce? A dead battery's mass isn't really changed, aside from a few moles of electrons, which is not a whole lot.
Tricell CEO I'm not a scientist, and I'm not going to pretend that I know WHY they do or don't bounce, I just know that dead alkaline batteries bounce, and good ones don't.
But isn't it all that mass still contained in the same volume? Whether it's liquid in X volume or and equivalent mass of compressed gas in X volume is irrelevant.
suzyr82 mass still has something to do with it, but when a part of that mass is turned into gas that mass will shift to one side given the opportunity and will raise that side higher then the now heavier other side, like shivore said. If mass and size remains the same it will not float anymore then it did before, meaning unless the egg leaks it wont actually float.
Could you find a way to do less research and put less effort in to testing these next time? I doubt it. The ice cream thing works, but like most of these, you did it wrong. Keeping opened, partially eating ice cream containers in ziplock bags will reduce the hard film and/or icy build up that occurs after a decent amount of time in the freezer. It's only important if you're gonna keep the container around for a while. It won't help new ice cream containers at all, since they're either sealed with plasstic inside or have almost no exposure to air with the ice cream pressed up against the top.
Real life hack for carpentry. If you are tired of the weak wood boards splitting when you have to nail near the edge, I got a trick for you. Place the nail on its side and tap the head of the nail with your hammer onto the spot where it needs to be hammered in. Do it until the nail head creates a small groove. This creates a stress relief hole. No more splitting. Hammer the nail into the stress relief hole and thank me with your good craftsmanship.
Using a comb to hold a nail? Why fix what's not broken? Hold the nail with your fingers, hammer in nail. #LifeHack Cupcake sandwich? Whatever, I'm not going to tell you how to eat your food. Eat it however you want. Don't make it a sandwich if you want. #LifeSmack The right way to open a banana? Monkeys already do that in nature and they can't even use hashtags. #MifeCrack Untangling your earbud cords? Try wrapping them around your device when not in use instead of praying to the tangle gods by performing your extravagant arm wiggle dance. #Pipemac Rubberband around paint can? Yeah, sure that's fine if you have a rubber band hanging around. You can also use the big lip that paint cans use for the same purpose if you're afraid of rubber bands. #Nicepad Ice cream not soft enough for your baby teeth? Chances are you have a microwave right next to a bread warmer in your kitchen if you're worried about that. Use the microwave. Or the sun if your microwave is currently reheating some left over Mexican food. #Psychshack Calling every new thing you discover a 'Life Hack'? There are probably better words for your world changing discovery. 'Idea' might be a good term to use or 'Hey, look at this thing.' #Piketrack
The banana hack is dishonest at best - peeling from the bottom is only "easier" if you're so clueless as to not know how to peel a banana in the first place. I have tried both ways myself, and peeling from the stem side is far easier, likely because of the freaking HANDLE you have to do it with by leveraging the stem. In your demonstration you just wiggle the stem and the one weak attempt to peel you pull the stem in the wrong direction. Pull the stem back towards the convex side of the banana, pops open every time. Except, perhaps, when a banana is overripe as yours appeared to be, a fresh banana should not be that soft and rubbery. I love watching Mental Floss videos but moments like that just make me grind my teeth. You're better than that, please show it. Peeling a banana from the bottom only proves that you mindlessly follow internet posts, not that you've mastered some sort of hack.
Regarding the frozen bag; keep in mind that a portion of the contents of that bag will be removed for consumption, so there will be more bag on top of the area you're tying, and that'll make it a lot easier. I've used that method many times.
The chicken wing hack works fine, but it's not anything like the hulk-smash method John tried here. If you are just going to crush-smash-mush the wings, then fail. To do the hack - First, it only applies to the the flats, not the tips or drummets (the forearm part with two bones) Hold the larger bone on the side. From the end, grab the smaller bone with your fingertips and twist until it comes loose from the meat. Slide out the smaller bone. (optionally stop here, since the larger bone is harder to remove and may be more effort than it's worth) Hold the meat tightly in one hand From the end, grab the remaining bone with your fingertips and twist until it comes loose from the meat. Slide out the bone. Dip and eat the chicken meat. There are many videos of how to do this already on youtube, maybe John can watch one and then retry the hack.
to clean my keyboard, i bought a super cheap paintbrush for $1 and use that. alot easier and cheaper in the long run cause you reuse it for unlimited times. plus that straw in the ketchup bottle does work, he didnt take it out afterwards. i poke it in and pull it out so the air gets down there, works every time
Is anyone else concerned about how old that pomegranate is?
+Juliane Nguy (Lastsolace) I'm pretty sure it was rotten -- when I open a pomegranete under water, the good seeds sink and the rotten stuff either floats or moves into the water, so I just have to rinse the good seeds.
+Juliane Nguy (Lastsolace) lol, I was just thinking that. It was definitely rotten.
+Juliane Nguy (Lastsolace) Yeah that definitely wasn't a healthy pomegranate
+Juliane Nguy (Lastsolace) I just asked the same thing..lol
Ampz14 ,.
Am I crazy or was that pomegranate super rotten? I use the pomegranate/water trick and it always works for me.
the water turned brown and I was disgusted...
yeah....
***** I thought it was something else I hadn't seen before
I immediately paused the video after that part to see if anyone else had called it out, because I too use this method all the time. The trick to it (John Green, if you're reading this) is that the pomegranate has to not be disgusting.
Yes it is, Ahkilalah.
"just eat the fucking chicken"
YES best part
John green realist person of 2015
It was weird to hear John say that
Chicken is food. I eat food. Period.
--John Green, 2015
Um.. is everything okay, guys? You're not having financial issues or anything? I'm guessing that rotten pomegranate was half price at the local fruit market but I mean you know, it's really dead. Like really, really, it's-turning-the-water-brown dead...
They always get a lot of hacks wrong and then say "FAIL". That pomegranate was truly awful. They probably never eat them, so then don't know what a fresh pomegranate looks like...
February I know, right? The thing is, you couldn't even do the trick properly with that dead pomegranate. And as a side - the pomegranate in water thing works wonders.
KC Elle
I really have to try it now, since I know how difficult it is to "deseed" a pomegranate by hand.
February There's a particular way to cut into it as well so that you don't pierce the fruit and get juice everywhere. It's a bit hard to describe, but if you search for it on youtube, there are quite a few videos. You kind of like, take the 'top' off it and cut it into sections like you might an orange. Try searching on youtube. I eat way more pomegranates now that I know how to easily get all the fruit/seeds out.
Even if that trick does work, I still prefer my method of quartering it in a bowl. I get to keep all the juice.
And yes, that pomegranate looked nasty.
I understand the irresistible urge to correct everything which seems wrong, but really most of these which failed and he did "incorrectly," I personally wouldn't do anyway if they did work. I can eat chicken off of the bone, I can buy a bottle opener-- Really, I just watch these for entertainment. I feel the comments on these are always a liiiittle hard on John.
Yes, I tend to notice this. Some of the fails were impatient application. So I try not to feel to angered by it. Years ago he tested the wooden spoon preventing water from boiling over, and I was determined to make it work. Use it all the time now (especially since my pot is a hand-me-down with two spouts on the side, which make life difficult)
You know, considering how smart this guy is... testing firestarters on a wooden deck connected to his house isnt his brightest idea
That's his office, not his house. I am sure that someone else was there with an extinguisher or a bucket of water.
I thought his office was his basement... Still wouldnt it have been better to walk three feet in front of the porch to what is surely a cement pathway
That little toilet roll tube isn't going to set that deck on fire no matter how hard he tries.
That material wasn't wood. It's a trec-material that's more plastic based than anything. So it really only warps under heat, not combusts
Denver3344 It looks like wood
1:07 do not eat a pomegranate that looks like that!!
Can't see whether anybody already said this, but wouldn't the pea-bag-tying hack work rather better once you've actually removed some peas from the bag? If you're not taking any peas out, might as well leave the bag sealed up!
+Phil Boswell That's what I was thinking too hahahaha
What if you open the bag but get grossed out and decided to order pizza instead?
I actually did this about a week ago with a bag of steak fries. As for the dryer lint, we don't need kindling, so we leave it out for the birds to find (they use it to build their nests).
Quite right
That is probably one of the grossest pomegranates I've ever seen :c
It was way bad.
+Emma Price
Maybe it was a passion fruit standing in for a pomegranate; they tend to look like rotting meat on the inside.
+SchizoSchematic That is in no way a passion fruit
+SchizoSchematic that looked nothing like a passionfruit.
It looks completely rotten. Yuck @_@
Rotten pomegranate? 😝
The egg trick should work, I don't know what eggs you were using. And you had it backwards. Eggs that are starting to go bad fill up with sulfurous gas, and will start to float. Eggs that are fresh sink to the bottom. Your "old eggs" weren't actually old. ;)
Agreed. That egg trick is as good as gold. Most eggs that are properly stored, will be good far past the "sell by" or even "expiration" date.
Significantly longer actually. Ours are usually good about 4-6 weeks after. Eggs can even keep for a few days when left out. It takes a while for them to go bad on you.
Just about to write this:p It's funny how many people think eggs are going bad in a weeks time :D
I think it also works for finding the difference between boiled and non-boiled...but I could be wrong.
Olivia Hill Spin them. Eggs that spin smoothly are hard boiled. Eggs that wobble are not. The eggs that are not are filled with fluid, and the fluid sloshes around. When hard boiled, it is all one solid so it spins fine. ;)
Can I get a "just eat the f*ing chicken" tshirt?
You could be so much more scientific with these John. You had two limes, you could have left one out of the microwave.
Still not much of a sample size but at least you've got a control.
SlightlyNotorious this is a life hacks video. The science does not matter. How many life hacks here could even be scientific at all?
I thought that on most of the hacks he tested! Even when he compared ice creams inside and outside of a ziplock for softness, they were 2 different types in different containers!
But nothing about him saying "are they as juicy as real limes?" and we all know they were real before the microwave, and still real limes afterwards.
But for the hack they are easier to use when they are not straight from the refrigerator and room temperature and slightly easier to juice after a short soak in a bowl of hot tap water ( I'm sure the microwave will accomplish similar results) then firmly palm rolled over the counter before cutting into them.
He's not Hank. Science isn't really his thing.
you can write beautifully but you are the most miserably uncoordinated bloke I've ever watched struggle through daily tasks. some of those fails were your own alone. love the show you're amazing.
Shouldn't life hacks work for the dumbest of us also?
He’s literally filming a long video and just trying to keep it interesting with some reckless silliness but ur just a bully I hope you’ve changed
John, don't use a chef's knife and proceed to saw at something. You should have used a serrated knife.
+Keaton Smith He wasn't using a chef's knife; while I agree he should have used a serrated, I think the premise of the hack is that the knife you're trying to use is dull and/or ill-suited for the job.
+ImpartialSanity I imagine he was referring to the the ice cream sandwich "hack"
+Veridan Don't ever buy a knife sharpener. You want to buy a good steel so you can hone your knives before and after each time you use them. A knife sharpener is going to straight up destroy your knives
*ceraded
+cammie nelson serrated. Seriously, google before you correct people. lmgtfy.com/?q=ceraded
LIST OF THE "NOT RIGHT" LIFE HACK
- 2:19 { must be hard butter }
- 4:38 { not doing it right }
- 5:42 { smaller comb gap }
+uzeir gamazsi Also smaller nail... the longer ones have plenty of space to just hold in most applications.
+uzeir gamazsi Also, sharp knives are a thing. If you open the peas, it's probably to use some, so it will be easier to tie with less peas in the bag.
This guy is horrible at everyday problem solving tasks. Meredith must be his caregiver.
Also the ketchup one you gotta blow on the straw
Also the new eggs are not supposed to float they are supposed to stand on their nose which they did and old ones lay down which they also did.
Also keeping ice cream in a zip lock bag keeps it from going icy not stay soft. Also putting limes in the microwave make them easier to juice
"Just eat the fucking chicken." -John Green
lol " just eat the f**kin chicken"
+FLAMINGMOH you're supposed to grab each bone, twist like a screwdriver and slide them out. i don't know WHAT he was doing. lol
+David Burton Its not like he was giving visual instructions. He was only told to twist the chicken wing.
Wasn't an attack. Was an amusing observation.
Does John/mentalfloss not do any research on the life hacks, not even following a picture, because so many of these are done wrong.
The problem is that when one runs across a life hack it's not researched by most people. This is how most people would go about it.
Paul Mabie But so many of the ones he does in these vids are accompanied by pics - sometimes even a full set of how to...is someone just reading the hack to him and letting him make it up?
+Paul Mabie For example, this is the kind of pic most associated with the post it hack, though it's a PC unlike the vid 57228-Post-It-Notes-To-Clean-Crap-Out-Your-Keyboard.jpg
His comb's teeth are clearly bigger than those used in the hacks i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--AKD1AYMp--/18ix5xb8it039jpg.jpg
Why is he using a steak knife??? i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--W8b1sLgj--/17l2qupnmp0cvjpg.jpg
chocolate strawberries: I blame John's nonattempt to twist or slam the ice tray like everyone else does :P
+HoshiHikari They tell him what to do and they do it. He doesn't look at any pictures or videos. He just does it.
Ikr
"I mean... just eat the fucking chicken."
- John Green 2015
dammit you beat me to it dammit
This is easily my favorite series on the channel.
LOL Love your videos!
instablaster
My dad used to be a painter and decorator and his tip is to put the roller tray inside a plastic bag, you can tie the handles together to keep it in, then just remove the tray when you're finished and put the bag inside out into the bin. Your tray will be clean- better than foil!
Or you could just get liners google "Paint Roller Tray Liner"
Cost 50 cents and wont stick to the roller
jimhemstreet As an ACE Hardware employee, absolutely this
We sell disposable liners for like maybe a buck or less, and they're incredibly handy for the exact reasons Hank described. They also have the same texture as the roller tray, so they catch paint just as easily
jimhemstreet Yeah, or don't spend money and use free plastic bags. Seriously, if I bought every convenient thing instead of using stuff like free bags etc, I'd be significantly poorer. All the small things add up.
Except a plastic bag will stick to the roller and you'll get poor paint distribution. I guess if you don't mind shoddy work it's worth saving a couple pennies.
Have you ever tried to de-seed a pomegranate? It's hard to do efficiently and the juice gets everywhere and stains everything. So, do it with your hands under water; the seeds will sink, the pith will float, and the juice won't stain anything.
I enjoy pomegranate and I agree. You do it to minimize the mess, not to make it easier.
That makes so much more sense than what he tried!
*****
yeah it looked really nasty to me
Here's a faster way to de-seed a pomegranate. Cut it in half, pull on the sides a little to loosen it up, get a wok or something to catch the seeds in, then beat the purity out of the back. That's how I do it and I get them de-seeded in under a minute.
Koden That method knocks many seeds loose, but it doesn't cleanly de-seed the pomegranate. Many will remain trapped and have to be fished out (or else thrown away).
Also I like how he just doesn't care, like, if he's doing it wrong, FAIL
I think the microwaving of limes is not so much that they'd be "juicier", but that it makes them a bit softer and easier to squeeze.
You didn't do the chicken bone one right. First off, it is strictly for chicken wings(the part with the two bones and cartilage on each end). You pull off one of the cartilage ends, and can pull the two bones from the wing. Then all you have is chicken to scarf down. It's a GREAT trick for anyone doing hot wing challenges. Take out all the bones then just pop all the necessary wings in your mouth and eat them as fast as possible before the burn defeats you.
I completely agree. You can't use the entire chicken wing, just the flat parts with the two small bones. I was going to post that you hadn't.
I actually eat my wings like this all the time so I know he just doesn't know what he is doing unfortunately.
YomiMizuhara Same here XD
"Just eat the f**king chicken wing."
-John
Snakeye808 Nope. You get more meat if you take out the bones first. It actually is less wasteful, which makes it the better way to eat it by default.
Arrgghh, John don't drink the Kool Aid.
No, no, no.
Eggs contain salmonella. Egg shells are porous. Kool Aid after having an egg soaked in it will likely carry salmonella, if the egg had it.
Former certified food safety trainer, just sayin'.
Do you not boil your Easter eggs?
You boil eggs before dying them. Or at least, I hope you do.
He didn't actually drink it
I'm vegan I don't boil, bake, scramble or fry eggs. When we did it as kids, we poked small holes and blew out the insides.
Already cooked, and people drink raw eggs anyway, they dont always have salmonella just more common in eggs than most other foods
You need to use a fine tooth comb to hold the nail. The teeth were too far apart on that one
I feel like they didn't approach these with any common sense. I mean seriously, my 8 year old daughter could figure this one out.
Steven Wheeler I'm thinking the same... annoys me so much how 90% of the fails are just because he does them so badly.
I'll just hammer the fucking nail with the time I would spend looking for a fine-tooth comb.
Diana Peña that is also not a situation in which you would use the comb trick. It works great if you are trying to hammer in a tight space or really close to a wall.
Is John using a novelty comb or something?
What would you even comb with that enormous thing?
That looks very much like a rotten pomegranate to me...
+ValanceJ Yes, rotten pomegranate and the eggs were still too fresh, that trick works to tell if eggs are rotten, not just "old"
I'm guessing they just used eggs that are past their expiration date. Expiration dates are lies. Fun fact: really, really old eggs will sometimes explode if you pierce them with a needle. A family friend did this to one of a clutch of eggs that we found under our shed, and it exploded all over her (the eggs could easily have been more two years old). Our porch smelled like sulfur for days.
Yes, always check if an egg floats before cracking it, or you could have a very smelly surprise. One that could ruin your omelette.
Does he screw these up on purpose?
+Maxwell Edison i hope so, unless he is the clumsiest person on earth
+kezoomer he actually is the clumsiest person on earth.
+Maxwell Edison I find watching John attempt these a glorious sight to behold. I don't however find it informative as to whether they work, and I'm not sure I'm supposed to.
I think it's more likely that the staff gives him a very vague idea of how the hacks are supposed to work and then he quickly looses patience
It doesn't matter. It's funny. The point of this video isn't to actually give you ideas for life hacks.
That pomegranate was kinda sorta rotten.
You should have used a serrated knife on the ice cream, like a bread knife.
Also a knife that wasn't extremely dull.
and ice cream that was totally frozen. I feel like the advantage to that life hack is I can make an ice cream sandwich out of any flavor ice cream and cookie I want, rather than store bought which are just regular boring flavors.
GreatEmeraldWyrm makes sense but you can also use a spoon or ice cream scooper. Cutting the container has no benefit
GreatEmeraldWyrm You calling ice cream sandwiches boring? Take that back you snot guzzling son of a bitch!
shivore
Yeah, serrations have a longer cutting surface. And John's crew does not strike me as the sort who take the time to keep their kitchen knives sharpened.
Ummm...the pomegranate was rotten...I suggest trying that with a fresh one...plus that demonstration would turn any pomegranate lover off of them for a little bit.
My favorite John Green quote used to be “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
Now it is "Just eat the fuckin' chicken."
erm... a) old eggs as in eggs that are gone bad do float i tried it to see if it works
b) the post it one is for between the keys
c) the the nail and comb the teeth of the comb needs to closer not sized for
dreadlocks
d) the bag of peas ain't you supposed to use some first before you it hence
making it easy to tie it?
e) how low is your freezer temperature that the ice cream is soft and
lime-a-rita is drippy as soon as it comes out?
dude i like stuff like your video but if you gonna do something do it right or don't do it at all oh an I've only commented on the ones i know work
yep. crappy video is crappy.
also - the butter should have probably been frozen if he wished to grate it... the high friction would definitely melt a cool one (unfrozen) in seconds, thus - smearing it all over the grater.
better to watch "mythbusters" if one wants to truly enjoy some rigorous testing.
***** without justification in my opinion. It's pretty apparent that the butter wasn't THAT hard to begin with.
And in any case, it wasted way more than it produced.
so to say that it's a "pass" is ridiculous.
The real test is whether he would actually do anything like this in his real life when confronted with a similar situation. He wouldn't. Therefore --- BS.
***** no, because otherwise it isn't really useful - especially for a common task as peeling a banana or spreading hard butter.
we're not talking about some McGuyver hack of constructing an Ipad stand out of egg-boxes, we're talking about spreading butter.
Anyone who uses butter or eats bananas would be faced with these problems, so - if he himself doesn't use these "hacks" it strongly INDICATES that they aren't "Hacks" at all but contrived "tricks" to be performed as entertainment. They were true life hacks if they were so useful so as to replace any traditional way of spreading hard butter or peeling bananas.
He gives them a "pass" simply for half-working, even they aren't necessarily any better than the traditional method (or even worse).
That's a useless definition for a "pass",
he might as well have "passed" a method of peeling a banana via a nuclear explosion or of spreading butter by using a laser beam.
To actually be considered a "proper life hack" it should be practical, simple and useful - and should in principle be better than (or at LEAST as good as) the traditional method.
The Lime-a-Rita popsicle could've been drippy because alcohol drinks freeze at a lower temperature than water. Or perhaps his freezer was just not that cold, who knows.
John, if you actually read these comments, please realize that you were doing half of those life hacks incorrectly.
Scroll down.
Less typing question marks. More scrolling down.
Looks like he's doing it on purpose.. LOL.. John Green Way...
You took too long to scroll down.
You're right. You can clearly still scroll down and see them.
The first requirement should be
1) find someone who's physically competent to try life hacks
John, your eggs weren't old enough, because the floaty thing actually works. New = sink, older but still ok = stand on end, and really old = float. Try like a month or more past the sell by date to see a floater.
Honestly, this says just as much about these life hacks, as it does about how good John is at understanding how to do life hacks😂😂
Stuffing the iPads into the cup holder made me laugh so much. Thank you.
Mother of God. How old was that pomegranate?
Ha ha
Let me check this life hack, by lighting a tp roll stuffed with lint on fire on a wooden deck!
I'm glad everything went well without the firefighters.
You know, with butter, you keep all but one cube in the fridge, the last you keep in a covered holder for the butter. It'll be room temperature, at which point you use a butter knife to cut off a small bit which is already easy to spread over the warm toast without making a mess with the cheese grater.
1) Additional hack idea: most (all?) refrigerators are made so you can easily flip the doors around to open from either side - looks like that fridge should have the doors opening the other way to be more convenient for the microwave and the rest of the kitchen
2) Maybe the beverage carrier was supposed to be flipped over to serve as an iPad stand?
3) I think the comb and nail trick would work much better if using the comb to hold the nail up against a wall (rather than down onto a table).
jus' sayin, I think this is brilliant. I mean, he's showing life hacks as how they actually are. he's not trying to make then look easy and if he gets it wrong, that may just be his own personal preference.
Dryer lint can be toxic and dangerous. While it is very important to clean out dryer lint, it can contain quite a few chemicals that can be toxic in several different ways if inhaled. These chemicals come from fabric softeners, the clothing themselves, and other environmental factors that get into the clothes and dryer.
More info: www.ehow.com/list_6820352_dangers-inhaling-lint-dryers_.html
I highly suggest either editing the video to remove/replace that life hack, or adding a disclaimer. From what I have personally heard, burning dryer lint and breathing in the fumes is worse then plastic.
This is a more survivalist life hack if anything. It's good knowledge to have if anything happens or if you have no power for a few days (also, the impending zombie apocalypse).
Where in the video does John suggest to frenziedly huff the fumes in an attempt to get high off dryer sheets?
Using kindling to start a fire is either done outside or in a fireplace where the fumes will be extracted via the chimney. Few intelligent people would be huffing the fumes/smoke from kindling a fire.
Dryer lint is a great survivalist tool as one of the carried ways to start a fire. Have used successfully.
Even though some of these aren't being done right (Ugh look at that pomegranate) I still thought this video was funny to watch.
I think the chocolate-strawberry thing *isn't* supposed to be frozen :L
I think it is and he just didn't know that he could've taken a knife to use as a lever to get at least one out.
If you don't temper the chocolate, you kinda need to freeze it. But then the strawberries will be grose.
1)You don't need a knife to cut the cupcake. Just pull off the bottom and invert it onto the frosting bottom side up. 2) Ice cream sandwich: the ice cream needs to be FROZEN and you need to use a serrated knife. 3) That pomegranate was SO rotten ! 4) DUDE, the butter has to be FROZEN not just "super hard" ! hahaha. 5) The post-it note trick works best for BETWEEN the keys. You fold the sticky edge in half (the long way, sticky side out) and run it between the keys. 6) If you've opened a bag of peas, you were probably going to TAKE SOME OUT and the bag would have a wider space to use the 'tie'. (I'm dying ! because now you're putting spit back into your freezer!) 7) I don't know who's fridge/freezer that is, but you need to change the doors so they open right to left instead of left to right (that's a hack that'll make you're life a bit easier) 8) Chocolate covered strawberries...should have lightly sprayed your ice cube trays with PAM...and again, with the spit. 9) The point of microwaving a lime is that you get more juice out of a warm lime than one that's right out of the fridge. Best to keep the lime (or lemon, orange) at room temp and then roll back and forth on the counter before cutting and squeezing. 10) Mic drop...
The pomegranate one works great, if you do it right. Cut a small slice off of the stem and blossom ends, then score the sides, not going deep enough to cut the seeds. Get a large bowl of water and put the fruit in the water, and pull it apart. Keeping it under water, use your thumbs to gently pry the seeds away. The water keeps the seeds from popping, and they sink, while the waxy pithy stuff floats. Scoop away the pith, strain the seeds from the water.
Good Eats is a very helpful show.
1:06 John that is literally the most rotten pomegranate I have ever seen do not eat that [sic]
GeterPoldstein who were you quoting to write [sic]?
4:04 upside down, probably
I don't know, I've never tried it, but it seems as though upd=side down would work better
the chocolate-covered strawberries in the ice cube tray would've worked WAY better if you'd sprayed the tray with cooking spray first- just like you would in a jello mold, for example.
Or just put it in the fridge and not the freezer.
Or if he twisted the ice tray like you would for like, ya know, ice.
Or used a silicone ice tray.
These are great..i rewatch these all the time
"I mean... Just eat the fucking chicken" 😂
#29, how the god damn hell are you doing to do a TEST and a CONTROL with two different ice creams?!?!
That pomegranate is so beyond being edible. The seeds are supposed to be bright red. Not all brown and rotten
Shouldn't you... twist the ice cube tray? Like... that's the most efficient way to get ice cubes out????
Referring to the nailing hack: I think the comb John used was the wrong kind. The filaments should be closer together, so they can squeeze in the nail. I don't know if that works though.
Behold, the man who wrote one of the greatest tear-jerkers in the 21st century. Gotta love this big goof. +1
He didn't do the pomegranate correctly. You cut it in half and put it in a deep metal bowl in cold water. then you pull the seeds apart and the white fibrous stuff floats and the seeds sink. it does work if you do it correctly, also that pomegranate looked kinda gross
+John Davenport KINDA gross? That pomegranate was completely rotten, long spoiled
The egg thing is right, bad eggs float. The expiry date is mostly meaningless. All the eggs you used were good.
Also, for the ketchup thing, I've never done it an have no idea if it works... but it would work much better if you had covered the end with your finger so the straw is hollow and can easily supply air to the bottom of the container. The way you put it in would clog the straw making this not work (even if it does work).
That Pomegranate looks disgusting
When I was in Girl Guides many eons ago, we used to make fire starters for camping trips using egg cartons, dryer lint and old crayons. Worked great!
"Which is made with the help of all of these nice people..."
*puts his name at the top of the list*
omg that pomegranate is so rotten it hurts ;-;
You don't open a banana from the top via the stem, you press your thumb against the outward facing edge near the stem and rip the skin open from one side. It's a million times faster than either of the methods you showed.
Naw, you grab the banana from both ends and bend it against itself, splitting it into two. It's surprisingly easy, and then the peel just peels away.
Yeah that would save about .1 of a second of your time... Hahah you're acting like opening a banana is a difficult process
Well you know it's pretty easy to open it normally from the top by bending the stem backwards of the curve like you're supposed to
Alec Joseph Depends on how ripe it is. If a banana is very ripe and soft the inside gets mushed up but the pressure you put on the stem. The other end doesn't do this, and you get rid of that gross black end.
I boil my bananas in water and then carve out the yummy scoops with a spoon. Is that normal?
That fridge has the hinges on the wrong side... it doesn't let you microwave without going around the door. Very inconvenient.
For the love God, man, reverse the refrigerator door!! Of all the things in this video, this one killed me the most.
Why reverse it? Looks like it opens the right way.
"Just eat the fucking chicken." I'm dying now.
I've always used clothes pegs instead of ties for bags of peas and things.
What is a clothes peg? Like one for hanging laundry to dry?
TheSlaight yep, one with a spring.
We call them clothes pins. I guess because they pin them on the line.
I used to use clothes pegs/pins for open bags of chips and frozen veggies. Then I discovered that binder clips hold much better.
Now my question is: how do jumping batteries hack life?
you can tell which ones are old/used and which ones are new if you're one of those people (like me) who save old batteries for no real good reason.
Ahh. Of course. I didn't think of that for some reason. I store my old batteries in a jar because I'm too lazy to drop them off at the supermarket where they have those handy drop-off stations.
"Good" batteries will not bounce. "Bad" batteries will bounce several times. There's no need to drop them from as high as he did. 6" is plenty high enough.
This only works for alkaline batteries. Doesn't work for rechargeable ones.
Chris Miller My question is, what causes them to bounce? A dead battery's mass isn't really changed, aside from a few moles of electrons, which is not a whole lot.
Tricell CEO I'm not a scientist, and I'm not going to pretend that I know WHY they do or don't bounce, I just know that dead alkaline batteries bounce, and good ones don't.
7:30 you're gonna fucking pour some out aren't you. You're not just gonna fucking open a bag of peas and close them again
"Just eat the f*cking chicken" is my favorite john green quote
Its to find out if the eggs are rotten, not just if they are old.... Because rotten eggs are filled with gas, and thus float.
But isn't it all that mass still contained in the same volume? Whether it's liquid in X volume or and equivalent mass of compressed gas in X volume is irrelevant.
Harabeck Eggs have pores and gas enters through these over time. That's why old eggs float.
Harabeck I'm pretty sure it's that the gas gets collected all in one end, causing the egg to stand upright rather than truly float.
Harabeck Mass has nothing to do with floating. If a substance is less dense than water, it floats. You can see a huge board float but not a tiny pin.
suzyr82 mass still has something to do with it, but when a part of that mass is turned into gas that mass will shift to one side given the opportunity and will raise that side higher then the now heavier other side, like shivore said.
If mass and size remains the same it will not float anymore then it did before, meaning unless the egg leaks it wont actually float.
John, your brother has totally tested some of these. Do you watch his videos??
who is his brother?
MsRainbow Brite Hank Green from Sci Show
MsRainbow Brite who the eff is Hank?
Phil Collins.
pete275 Hank Green, scientist, vlogger, and all around smart guy.
Could you find a way to do less research and put less effort in to testing these next time? I doubt it.
The ice cream thing works, but like most of these, you did it wrong. Keeping opened, partially eating ice cream containers in ziplock bags will reduce the hard film and/or icy build up that occurs after a decent amount of time in the freezer. It's only important if you're gonna keep the container around for a while.
It won't help new ice cream containers at all, since they're either sealed with plasstic inside or have almost no exposure to air with the ice cream pressed up against the top.
" And then you're eggs are ready to die" That is hilarious!
Real life hack for carpentry.
If you are tired of the weak wood boards splitting when you have to nail near the edge, I got a trick for you.
Place the nail on its side and tap the head of the nail with your hammer onto the spot where it needs to be hammered in. Do it until the nail head creates a small groove. This creates a stress relief hole. No more splitting. Hammer the nail into the stress relief hole and thank me with your good craftsmanship.
Using a comb to hold a nail? Why fix what's not broken?
Hold the nail with your fingers, hammer in nail.
#LifeHack
Cupcake sandwich? Whatever, I'm not going to tell you how to eat your food. Eat it however you want. Don't make it a sandwich if you want.
#LifeSmack
The right way to open a banana? Monkeys already do that in nature and they can't even use hashtags.
#MifeCrack
Untangling your earbud cords? Try wrapping them around your device when not in use instead of praying to the tangle gods by performing your extravagant arm wiggle dance.
#Pipemac
Rubberband around paint can? Yeah, sure that's fine if you have a rubber band hanging around. You can also use the big lip that paint cans use for the same purpose if you're afraid of rubber bands.
#Nicepad
Ice cream not soft enough for your baby teeth? Chances are you have a microwave right next to a bread warmer in your kitchen if you're worried about that. Use the microwave. Or the sun if your microwave is currently reheating some left over Mexican food.
#Psychshack
Calling every new thing you discover a 'Life Hack'? There are probably better words for your world changing discovery. 'Idea' might be a good term to use or 'Hey, look at this thing.'
#Piketrack
that pomegranate was hella rotten and unedible and ew
what the fuck was wrong with the pomegranate? was it rotten or something?
anyone else notice that this was the first video of john being outside... EVER! I think that's a milestone.
I miss having John doing the Mental Floss videos
John Green have my baby! I am a 28 year old hetero male... I don't know how science can make this work. Ask your brother and get back to me.
Make like a seahorse and shove your ovipositor in him.
Ango Ango MMMMM that dirty talk yo
The banana hack is dishonest at best - peeling from the bottom is only "easier" if you're so clueless as to not know how to peel a banana in the first place. I have tried both ways myself, and peeling from the stem side is far easier, likely because of the freaking HANDLE you have to do it with by leveraging the stem. In your demonstration you just wiggle the stem and the one weak attempt to peel you pull the stem in the wrong direction. Pull the stem back towards the convex side of the banana, pops open every time. Except, perhaps, when a banana is overripe as yours appeared to be, a fresh banana should not be that soft and rubbery.
I love watching Mental Floss videos but moments like that just make me grind my teeth. You're better than that, please show it. Peeling a banana from the bottom only proves that you mindlessly follow internet posts, not that you've mastered some sort of hack.
Just eat the f****** chicken wing
I died 😂😂😂
i mean technically pass but at what cost? hahahahhahha
Regarding the frozen bag; keep in mind that a portion of the contents of that bag will be removed for consumption, so there will be more bag on top of the area you're tying, and that'll make it a lot easier. I've used that method many times.
Wait. Did he just answer my mind-blowing question about where the answers to mind-blowing questions went?
Mind. Blown.
my new favorite quote: "just eat the f*cking chiken" - john green
hahahahahha "I mean, just eat the f***ing chicken" i died
I love these life hacks!
"Just eat the *bleep* chicken." At #19 😂
The chicken wing hack works fine, but it's not anything like the hulk-smash method John tried here. If you are just going to crush-smash-mush the wings, then fail.
To do the hack -
First, it only applies to the the flats, not the tips or drummets (the forearm part with two bones)
Hold the larger bone on the side.
From the end, grab the smaller bone with your fingertips and twist until it comes loose from the meat.
Slide out the smaller bone.
(optionally stop here, since the larger bone is harder to remove and may be more effort than it's worth)
Hold the meat tightly in one hand
From the end, grab the remaining bone with your fingertips and twist until it comes loose from the meat.
Slide out the bone.
Dip and eat the chicken meat.
There are many videos of how to do this already on youtube, maybe John can watch one and then retry the hack.
I love how he uses two different brands of ice cream to compare softness of each other
He is so hilarious, considering he wrote the depressing, heart breaking "the fault in our stars
His face when trying the frozen beer - lol
to clean my keyboard, i bought a super cheap paintbrush for $1 and use that. alot easier and cheaper in the long run cause you reuse it for unlimited times. plus that straw in the ketchup bottle does work, he didnt take it out afterwards. i poke it in and pull it out so the air gets down there, works every time
i always love the popery of intelligent ideas and just goofy ones in these vids.