Debunking DANGEROUS Hacks & Storing AVOCADOS in water? | How To Cook That Ann Reardon
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- Debunking Dangerous Hacks & should you store avocados in water?
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When I saw that there's a new video I literally screamed!
Of terror cuz of the danger? cuz its never a safe bad hack is it? lol
Me too..😱
Why did you literally scream? Are you incapable of just actually screaming?
@@Cornz38 🤣👌🏼.. We screamed in all ways.. just🤷🏼♀️
I feel sorry for you. It must be hard to live with such a rare phobia. Thankfully you overcame your fear and clicked on the video. Great job!
Love that as this series has gone on it's grown from "people on the internet don't understand food safety" to "people on the internet are actively trying to kill you"
I think you've hit the nail on the head with that last sentence. These two "hacks" aren't merely intended to generate likes and clicks. The creators of this content are actively trying to injure or kill people. It's digital guerilla warfare. The effects of such tactics are probably very low, but so is the cost of implementing them. And every little bit helps. Looking at current world events, the list of suspects is short and obvious.
It's strange how youtube is not doing anything about the hacks that are really dangerous. is it really ad friendly if you make a fake hack that can kill you?
@@paradoxzee6834 Do we have the link to that particular video (the metal plug one) - we need to report that, immediately. It's not the "cutesy" (and I use that sarcastically) "oh I wasted a carton of milk and need to clean the microwave" type of hack. It's both electric and fire hazard. Stuff like this needs to be purged.
P.S.: Wait, they COOK food on molten metal ☠And declare it safe to eat? WTF!?!
@@Duncan_Idaho_Potato I don't think it's necessarily on the level of a state actor trying to sabotage other countries but it could just be sadistic individuals who would think it was funny if they killed a child.
Honestly, at the rate this is going, I don't see these hack channels being taken down unless someone really did die and was proven to have watched one of their videos shortly prior to the incident. Sad but true when it comes to the law, being reactive instead of proactive.
That plug one is genuinely terrifying to think about a kid trying to emulate it, at MULTIPLE stages.
for a platform that is trying so hard to make videos "kid friendly" and to allow something like this just blows my mind
I wonder if criminal charges could be brought against the people uploading and hosting that video for deliberately attempting to cause grave bodily harm.
But I'm probably dreaming...
@@jwenting All we can do is hope that they get what they deserve. If someone dies because of it, they are responsible. It would be best if they just used common sense and not made the hack in the first place. I definitely believe we all cringed looking at that plug.
melting molten metal and putting that into a live outlet, what could go wrong !
@@jwenting Unfortunately, no to the charges for a website hosting the video. The people who posted it might be able to be sued, but only if someone tried it and was serious injured.
I never thought I'd learn about electrical currents on a cooking channel but thanks for teaching us! at first glance I knew the homemade plug was bad but no idea why
Exactly. Unless you work with it as a professional, or have researched it yourself as a DIYer it's not nessisary common knoledge. I've been knocked on my butt by a low voltage circuit, as a 200 lbs (90.7184 kg) adult. It was due to stupidity (mine) not following procedure (forgot LOTO step, was interupted and didn't restart from step 1, again my stupidity).
I honestly thought that everyone knew short-circuiting is a bad thing to do. Even at low voltage as you saw. But especially at mains voltage.
It's good you learned about this, seeing how ubiquitous electricity is. Kids should learn about electrical safety as well.
Plus where else would someone use chocolate to demonstrate that something is heating up! Go Ann!
@Repent or you will likewise perish. no
Jesus loves you!😊❤ so very much!
truly a woman after my own heart, “while we’re waiting let’s melt some more things”
Wow, how can they say that would be “safe to eat” and RUclips doesn’t even ban their video?? Thanks Ann for making these potentially life saving videos.
Imagine making that video... Like, what kind of person do you have to be to say something like that?
RUclips generally seems to ban only according to political discourse and not dangerous activities
@@Roozyj a narcissist
@@Roozyj a sociopath.
@@Roozyj someone who has no goal other than getting interaction on their posts
"While we're waiting let's melt more things"
Next week, Anne launches her "how do I smelt that" video..
Not gonna lie just 'will it melt in my pan?' would definitely take off...
But it might be so popular Ann might not make us baking videos any more :c
Words cannot express how much I love this comment...
Suddenly she gained a new profession: Blacksmith
"I smelt the smelt smelt."
As a metallurgist, I would ABSOLUTELY watch this
I would mention too, don't mix your silicone molds for CRAFTS (i.e.- the metal/resin) with your silicone molds for BAKING. If you've used it with crafting/resin/metal then never use it for baking or food related activities again.
Definitely, unless you’ve just made bread clay, don’t trust the craft materials even if they’re currently believed to be nontoxic, like gallium and polymer clay.
Or the pan for food...
Yes! I make soaps and chocolates with silicone molds during the holidays. I label all of my molds with a sharpie: "soap" or "candy" and then the number of ounces it takes to fill them. Saves us from eating perfumed chocolates.
This is why I don't buy food bowls/pans second hand. You don't know what has been cooked on it.
Agreed. Silicone can be fully sanitized from germs and is nonporous (which is why it's great for kitchenware and certain other products), but crafting materials still can't always be removed completely and you don't want to ingest that.
Soooooo, instead of just going out and spending 5 bucks on a charger, they think it makes sense to go buy kinetic sand (pretty sure most people don't just have that sitting around the house), metal, something to melt it in, etc. - and then make something extremely dangerous with all that crap..? BRILLIANT!
I really hope no one would actually do that.
Those videos exist to cause people to comment things like this on the videos. They know it's stupid, and they know people will think it's stupid, and they know people will want to let everyone else know that they know it's stupid. It's farming engagement for the sake of making their video more appealing to an algorithm that over values engagement. The small percent of people who actually believe this shit is interesting and at the same time stupid enough to try it are the sad victims of a system that doesn't care about people.
plus if they have even an ounce of knowledge about how things work, they'd know that just a chunk of metal isn't going to work as a phone charger, even if it's the right shape.
New to 5 min hacks? They always assume you have like every tool known to man and every material ever known just lying around waiting to be turned into these random shoddy replacements.
@@shawnpitman876 No, I had noticed, but it's still just so bafflingly ridiculous 😂
They're doing it *specifically* because it's so outrageous, stupid and dangerous and that drives engagement.
Literally stated on this video.
Those "lifehack" channels have discovered that even negative comments, hate-watchers, dislikes etc. are an effective way to more ad revenue so irresponsibly dangerous BS gets more engagement.
Beyond that they don't care.
Even if someone gets hurt or dies.
Those channels ran out of actually effective or even remotely viable lifehacks years ago.
I love how Ann is like "yes, we'll test this dumb, dangerous hack that doesn't work, but I know why you guys are really here. Let's watch stuff melt!"
in a way im glad dave wasnt testing this one. although i did miss dave, its not a debunking video if you havent fed dave some gross food. maybe he could have the battery chocolate.
@@ThePurpleCheesecakeZebra I get the feeling he got to enjoy many avocado dishes from the testing of that first hack. The others are a bit too dangerous to try to eat something from them.
i'm here for milky mommy ASMR
lol
When life hands you dangerous melting metals, make a space ship!
Something I find so interesting is how electricity is literally everywhere, but an average person's knowledge of it can be so slim. I appreciate the quick rundown of it! Something like that can be so dangerous. Sure it can look cool, but if someone doesn't look close enough and they try to use it, especially with the cable attached, so many things could go wrong.
Your phone being fried is the least of your worries.
@@macdongr right? Imagine someone trying to unplug something metal and conductive from an electrical outlet! And the fire hazard too. Oof
That's why in many countries only certified electricians are allowed to work with cable installations etc. It can so quickly go wrong.
Certainly. My father was living on a farm when he was 16. One day he was supposed to be carrying a long metal rod with his brother who didn't show up, so he ended up carrying it himself. He held the pole vertically and hit a power line, which instantly blew one of his toes off and to this day 55 years later still causes nerve and phantom pain.
It’s fascinating to hear about the stories of the Victorians and edwardians who were first figuring out electricity. The tragedies that happened because of carelessness and lack of knowledge contributed to how we use it now
"While we're waiting, let's melt some more things."
She knows what the people want.
For a moment, I was afraid for Dave.
she understood the assigment
@Imran Zakhaev don't forget the cuircit breaker that probably costs more than the plug as well...
I felt real sorry for the cups as they were pretty clean and solid but then making molds of millenium falcon fixed that for me!
Storing avocados in water can mean you have a higher risk of things like listeria and salmonella, due to it multiplying in the water.
Yup, and if the outer skin is damaged (and fruits often have dings or scratches) it will rot faster than just being exposed to air.
Put avocados in that jar, don't put in water and just put lid on it. Point at it with your both hands.
I just put mine in the fridge. Works great.
also who has avocados for two weeks, we usually get a couple of them and eat them immediately
@@MrDUneven Does pointing at it make it stay fresh for longer? how long should i point?
aside from the obvious parts about a self cast metal plug that is a bad idea; ... buying kinetic sand, metal and a usb cord is probably more expensive then buying a plug at the nearest hardware store
I know, right?
@@khamjaninja.
AC = Alternate Current - Flows in both directions - Used in house appliances like lamps, microwaves, and stuff like that
DC = Direct Current - Flows in one direction - Used in charging phones, laptops, etc
Your entire house is on the AC power grid, but chargers change it into DC before it reaches your phone
AC shouldn’t power phones with power because their magnitude/voltage (unsure) is not constant/steady, it constantly changes. DC is constant/steady, which is ideal for charging phones, since phones have batteries in them. Batteries use Direct Current, not Alternate Current.
[Not entirely sure on the explanation part, but it’s definitely not good to use AC for charging phones]
Or just borrow one from friend if you have time to buy all material if you're too stupid to buy new charger
@JayLeeBeanz doubtful kinetic sand is expensive and more something artist use then kids, noone here has granspas tin cans and even if would you melt it... not to mention most usb cables can charge via a pc port
I wouldnt say it scares me, im a big fan of natural selection, it does piss me off that youtube wants to play moral high horse on 1001 subjects they shouldnt mingle in but dont care about the possibility a naive child might try to replicate this
I don't think the intention of the original video was in any logical sense to give you something useful. Not even something that could be thought to be useful if you were incredibly dumb. As Ann said, the purpose of the video is to get people to write comments saying that this is dangerous and doesn't work, to create engagement and therefore money.
I studied physics and computer science in school. Seeing that “hack” about casting a plug sent a wave of terror and rage through me that’s hard to capture with words. They’re literally risking people’s lives.
thank you for mentioning it. I was checking the comments to see if anyone said anything about how the casting process they show is in itself a hazard to health. 1st. They are casting with Pewter or some other low melting point metal, but regardless kinetic sand is full of water, so you're asking for flash burns or explosions. 2nd. they don't even state that they are using a low melting point metal, so good luck to anyone who tries this with I don't know copper, tin or even worse iron. As soon as they tilt the molten metal into kinetic sand you are going to a spectacular sudden expansion of water and that will probably be the last thing you see.
As someone who's just a nerd who likes to collect knowledge like cards, the entire metal casting bit is just "!?!?!" to me lol
@@tamerbatayneh1163 Oh yea, don't most casting (especially like copper) that involves plaster or sand require a heated mold just to avoid the sputtering mess?
Not sure if your interested, but the RUclips Chanel TheKingOfRandom has a lot of videos about metal casting. You’d have to go back a few years, though
I don't have a physics background, but I love chemistry (including electrochemistry), and as soon as I saw that "hack" video start up, I felt my jaw drop, and it just got worse from there. I've gotten minor shocks before, and I have burn scars from an old job, and I will not mind pummeling anyone who tries to convince people that this is safe.
Electrical Engineer here: Everything in the video is great and I just wanted to add that the components inside of the actual plug are very important. You can think of electricity like water and batteries like bottles. If you just dump a bucket of water onto a bottle, that's not going to work because the mouth of the bottle can only accept so much water at once and the rest is just going to go everywhere. Similarly, if the bottle is full and you keep pouring water into it, the bottle will overflow and the excess water will spill out. With batteries, you need to essentially gently "pour" the water into the battery and stop when it's full. This is what the components inside the plug are doing: You have a transformer (control the pour) and a controller (stop when full). If you remove these two components and just plug 240V straight into the phone, the battery will blow up like a Galaxy Note 7 because the excess water needs somewhere to go. Needless to say, this is also extremely dangerous however the good news is that these components are cheap, reliable, and even the crappiest charger from China is loaded with safety features to stop this from happening. If you're using normal chargers, the threat of something breaking and blowing up your phone is next to zero.
if you buy the cheap charge cords from dollar stores or gas stations, though, and you leave it plugged into the wall and dangling near something flammable, they have been known to start fires! always unplug electrical cords when not in use!
I was thinking that too. Plugging directly into the socket with none of the adapter components is a stupid and dangerous idea for MANY reasons.
Excuse me, Electrical Engineer, Hi, how are you? Do you by any chance know what the software that was used for circuit simulation?
Came here to ask what software she was using, too
@@smallsignals When I was in school, they made us use this horrible tool called SPICE where you had to write a software description of the circuit you wanted to simulate. It was truly terrible. In the video, Ann is using PhET - Circuit Construction Kit, which looks much more user friendly.
I love that this video has an avocado hack at the beginning, then goes into several minutes discussing smelting metals and electrical currents and circuits... on a channel called "How to Cook That"
Ann, you're an absolute treasure! Never stop what you're doing!
pewter tankards melting into a frying pan was the most unexpected but most enjoyable surprise 😆
Hey, she used chocolate to show how hot the batteries were getting, that counts as cooking, right?
also, with the avocado "hack" at 2:00 , the FDA in America found that water storage for avocadoes increased risk of listeria - yikes!
em, no? it says that you should wash your avocados to avoid listeria and salmonella. "While listeria contamination was minimal on tests of the avocado fruit, the bacteria was more prevalent on the skin. After testing 361 avocados from the larger sample, the FDA found 17% contained listeria on the skin." do you have some information that i don't or do you just spreading misinformation for fun?
@@YourUnrulyServant do you like spreading misinformation or are you just stupid? The original commenter clearly meant storing the avocados in water, not washing the skin off before use. You would think it was pretty straightforward the way the worded it but perhaps not…
@@YourUnrulyServant there’s a difference between storing them in water and just washing them off
@@YourUnrulyServant An FDA spokesperson told Today, "The FDA does not recommend this practice. The main concern is with the possibility that any residual human pathogens (i.e. Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp., etc.) that may be residing on the avocado surface, may potentially multiply during the storage when submerged in water."
@@YourUnrulyServant one 10 second google search told me that according to the FDA it is NOT safe to store avocados in water, because it may make listeria and salmonella on the skin multiply. I'm guessing that is the information OP wanted to share. So maybe research next time before embarrassing yourself...?
The cool thing about watching Australian content as a graveyard shift American is that I get to see some fresh awesome content towards the end of my shift
Hi. Fellow night worker.
Same here!
Morning shifter here but we got some overlap.
Overnight team here
Same here fellow graveyard worker.
I always get so stressed watching Ann test those dangerous "tips and tricks", even though they're in more controlled environment. I can't imagine how dangerous and painful the result of those experiments can be for people who have less knowledge on the subject :(
Seriously some people just don't hv morality. Just throw them into the jail.
I was so scared when she plugged the metal plug in! So relieved when she said it wasn't attached to power 🙂
Same but at least we know she won't repeat a hack if there's no way to safely carry it out. She says when she won't be repeating a hack if it's too dangerous but still takes the time to go into the science of it and why it's unsafe. 🥺 she's a saint, really 😭
I hope both of those videos were removed from whenever they're from, the plug one and the "metal meat" that was labeled as safe to eat. Those are deaths waiting to happen and how awful of these people to know they're lying and what they're peddling is dangerous, but click equal views...and what Ann left off is the most important part: these two combined equals money. They don't do it for genuine publicity, but to get rich quick by going viral.
@JayLeeBeanz "That metal plug gets people killed" I really doubt that. This will just instantly trip your breaker and no electricity will flow through you no matter how stupid you are.
"there's someone with too much kinetic sand who will try this" I also doubt that anyone who actually cast metal pieces is dumb enough to believe this would work. Even the dumbest of individuals would know that there is some circuitry in a phone charger.
I translated many of your videos to my niece (9y), watching you has helped her understand why it's important to ask before trying anything she sees in RUclips.
Thank u for taking the time to explain everything in an easy way to understand.
U are awesome and we fucking love your videos!.
If your niece likes food and science I highly recommend chef Alton Brown. The best way I can describe him is like if Bill Nye and Julia Child had a baby. He's really funny, smart, and someone you can listen talk for hours.
What language does she speak? I am just curious as I love all languages. If you're not comfortable sharing, that's okay too.
My mind is boggled that someone would think cooking meat on melted metal is safe? Thank you for all the care and safety you put into your videos. And so glad your friend shared his story and he’s alive!
I suspect they were using gallium or wanted you to believe they were using gallium. Which is not something you should eat but is believed to be nontoxic and melts at about body temp (so no sharp edges).
I just don't get the part about this being a hack. What's convenient about getting tin or gallium and melting it and cooking meat in it? Just.... cook your meat on a pan and eat it, guys 😂
@@WilloWik This is also my question - it's like the one she did where the hack was cooking a pancake on the BOTTOM of a pan. Like...just turn the pan the other way, why are you doing this?!
The people who made the video probably don't believe it themselves. Like Ann said, videos do this kind of thing for outrage. Outrage brings views, views bring money.
I don't think anyone would actually believe it unprompted. However, if you watch a video saying it's safe then it's a lot more likely that someone would go on to believe it. It's honestly despicable.
As someone who has used Betterhell in the past, *do not use their services.* Their therapists are underpaid, and it shows in how they treat you. Using the service actually made my issues worse with how they were handled.
I'm sure Ann Reardon wasn't aware of how bad the service is when she was sent the sponsorship, so I don't begrudge her, but I hope she reads the comments of those who have used the service in the past so she doesn't take their sponsorship again.
(Also apparently any comments related to this are being filtered out which is just *yikes*)
I was looking for this comment… I hope she sees this!
Her account has been filtering anybody actually talking about it by name from what I’ve seen. So perhaps she is aware now at least from the minor backlash?
She has in the past talked about how she won't take sponsorships for products she doesn't believe in, but I guess she can't really test this product if she doesn't herself need counselling. Hopefully she will take the feedback seriously. (I'd already heard on another platform it was no good, so my first reaction was "Oh no, she doesn't know!")
she did respond a few hours ago defending it, i’m a bit worried considering i’ve been scrolling for while and haven’t seen anything besides that
@@YourPlaywright Where did she post her response?
The power plug thing is terrifying. I have been shocked my household electrical appliances before (before we had MCBs) and it's terrifying to think that someone would actually advocate making a device to shock yourself to death basically.
If someone did that, I don't just wonder if they're stupid, I also wonder if they're low key hoping their advice will kill someone.
i actually OMG’ed out loud when I saw that all metal plug. It’s insane how low they can stoop to get views. If someone actually tries that and dies, it’s literally blood on their hands 💔
They don't care since the revenue came from views and with dislike is hidden, there are no safe stuff that can prevent any kind of fake video and misleading information anymore. RUclips being cheap.
Life hack channels have literal gallons of blood on their hands, I guarantee it. They probably debated throwing a toddler in a blender for views
I think it is safe to say (and I feel that phrasing is like a pun in this context) that the creators of these hacks actually want to get people hurt or killed. Reminds me of some years ago someone on 4chan made a step by step how to grow crystals guide, which was actually a guide on making mustard gas and some people actually tried it and had to be hospitalized.
yes! i also immediately thought about that too
These content farms, at least in some cases, do have ties to regimes like China and Russia, so that conspirational theory can not be dismissed off-hand. Anything from radicalized groups in the country to, actually, the governments themself.
@@57thorns really? because here I am dismissing them out of hand and the Gestapo hasn't come and kicked in my door.
Somehow I don't think China or terrorists are paying for videos to try to convince kids to put a fork in an outlet to take down America.
Kids in (okay maybe not China but) Russia watch these videos you know.
i believe those people who post shit like that on 4chan are just mentally challenged and think they are some god tier troll or something.. just pitiful.
@@57thorns I honestly don’t think so. Like the lady said, most modern electrical systems will trip a breaker when you plug something like that in. The creators of the video probably know that. Like she said, I think it’s more about the clicks and the comments than actually trying to hurt anybody. All that said, God forbid, the law suit would be interesting.
That’s so amazing that the guy she interviewed survived that incident. My mom sadly lost her best friend growing up from unsupervised electrical play. Rest In Peace
I read an autobiography by a woman who grew up in an FLDS cult. Her stepfather would build stuff around their house and property so they didn't have to hire a professional. Except his work either didn't happen (like with their lack of plumbing), or it was done very haphazardly.
He built an electric fence, but didn't properly bury the wires. One day, this woman's little brother and cousin made contact with a wire and basically got sucked onto the electric fence, paralyzed by the electricity, most likely dying instantly. The mother then tried to free them and ended up with the same fate.
May they rest in peace.
@@laurao3274 sadly, they probably didn’t die instantly. Anne’s friend was not only lucky that he survived but also that he wasn’t in agony the whole time. Depending on how you’re connected and grounded and the nature of the current flowing through, death by electrocution can be a excruciating, like up there with burning to death excruciating. The electricity causes your muscles to contract, and higher currents cause stronger contraction, well beyond what your body will allow itself to do because it’s damaging itself (A woman in my area got struck by lightning through the ground, and the muscle contractions were so strong she broke her own jawbone!). With alternating current (AC), the direction reverses constantly, so that’s a constant clenching of every muscle, then reversing, then clenching. With household power, that’s about 50 or 60 Hz or 100-120 reversals per second. The net result is your entire body feels like it’s going through a meat grinder (heard directly from two men who’ve suffered such shocks and lived). The only mercy is that if the current is high enough, it can cause the victim to lose consciousness immediately or at least fairly quickly, but not always.
Man, I'm starting to realize that the time I was electrocuted while changing a ceiling light fixture could have been a lot worse. (I turned off power to that room at the breaker-box, but apparently that fixture was on a different circuit. Fortunately, to reach it I had to use a step ladder; so, while I did freeze up when I brushed that second wire and completed the circuit, I then tipped over. With the circuit broken, I was even able to catch myself when I fell off the ladder!)
@@laurao3274 So sad to read that. There's a reason why the cow fences only send through electric pulses and not electricity constantly. I once got shoked so badly that I found myself 3 meters away from the fence after I touched it on a dare. Looked like it was set up a "bit" too strong. But I'm glad nothing worse happended.
Actually, it is not amazing that he survived at all. From what he said he only had contact with the plug with ONE hand. While the human body can conduct electricity, it is not great at it and has a lot of resistance. All of the current from that plug went into his hand and back out of his hand since there was no way for it to go through the rest of his body.
The little light bulb demonstration in this video even shows that happening. Most of the current stayed in his hand and went back to the plug while only a small amount, if any, would have went through the rest of his body. Current through and arm or a leg will NOT kill you. It has to go through your heart to kill.
She's so damn thorough. I just find her whole scientific process so satisfying and therefore reliable :)
"While we're waiting, let's melt some more things". Ann knows what the people want.
RUclips NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS DANGEROUS HAZARDOUS CONTENT “CATERED” FOR KIDS!!! Like how is it not basic human logic for them to ban/remove such harmful content??
Thank you Anne for potentially saving thousands of children’s lives worldwide with all those debunking videos by raising awareness in such informed, loving and entertaining ways! You’re truly an inspiration to us all! 💛💛
Why aren’t they banned?
There mu$t be $ome rea$on…
We all just need to find and report it to YT... Tweet about it too to the YT team.
@@zombiTrout Banned? They should be arrested. The content they put out puts people at risk of house fires, and worse, sometimes self harm or death.
@@zombiTrout because they bring in the money :)
It isn't basic human logic. Because they don't have humans checking every video that gets uploaded. If the bot doesn't detect anything obviously wrong when they scan the video, there's no reason for humans to double check. People have to actually report these videos in large numbers for humans to notice AND the video can't have plausible deniability of its harmfulness.
Hi Ann, I love your videos so much
I just wanted to let you know there has been a lot of backlash surrounding your sponsor recently. They sell clients data to 3rd parties (including their mental health records) and therapists have been coming out saying how the service doesn't pay therapists fairly and also creates an unhealthy reliance on the therapist for the client.
I just wanted to let you know of this as you seem to be very conscious of what you advertise to your viewers
Love your work so much! My brother and I watch together ^-^
Not only that but they don't even make sure that the therapist are even legit and qualified, so you could be paying hella money to some random person who has 0 idea of what to do and could cause more harm to you since they aren't qualified
Therapists have had to take their videos down talking about the company under threat of legal action, they're really shady, and they punish their therapists for weird shit like the length of conversation that they have with their therapist.
They also don't match people up the way they should, if you live in a small town, you're getting whatever therapist they can throw at you, not the custom tailored therapist they promise. It's scummy at best.
@@bbcallie9586 god that's sickening
@@bbcallie9586 In the past they didn't validate that therapists were qualified. They were dragged over the coals and now validate credentials and have their own process to ensure that they are.
They are still a waste of money for anyone in Australia where bulk billed services are covered by Medicare.
i was pretty surprised and honestly disappointed to see Ann take a sponsorship from them
I really appreciate these debunking videos cos they really keep a lot of people safe. Can't believe the audacity of some content creators -- actually indirectly harming unsuspecting people just for a quick buck. And RUclips promotes them! I guess money is the only language these companies speak 😒
"I'm afraid currency is the currency of the realm."
Agreed, I know some content creators that do their best to follow the guidelines and get punished for a some weird reason or RUclips system seen a little hole on their videos. It is really unfair for those content creator gets punished while hacks like this are getting off RUclips.
But those videos have no dislikes they must be good!
I find it entertaining to think Ann didn't tell her family about her expeiriment and she just scared them half to death when the power went out.
Idk I don't get scared when power goes out. At most i can be mildly annoyed when I was doing something online and it kicks me out of the page
Unrelated but, your name is amazing
@@PineappleDealer37 Well it depends on your age! When I was a kid, we were playing hide and seek in the house (it was winter so it was dark out) and my little brother climbed on top of a shelf and pulled the main breaker, casting us in near-total darkness. I was terrified and legit though it was the end of the world 😂
I love these videos, but it crushes my soul to continuously see nothing done about enforcing rules against dangerous content and that algorithms keep promoting this and young viewers keep thinking its real/good content
I agree with you! Dangerous content like they post shouldn’t be allowed. I’ve seen hot sauce challenges and parkour experts post and they’ll say this is dangerous, I’ve practiced a lot, don’t try this without supervision kind of thing but these “hack” accounts are really that: they’re hacks! Why even film a video that COULD KILL SOMEONE
@A Cool YooToobist I'm not toxic and have never stirred any drama. I only state the truth and I'm against lying, cheating, and stealing.
Whats ironic is you thinking you are making any kind of point
Came to the comments to say the same thing. These '5 Minute Crafts' style channels (which, let's face it are all run by the same content megafarm) have gone from stupid 'hacks' involving paperclips and sticky tape to full on dangerous, hazardous and poisonous idiocy - it really is Idiocracy come to life. Like, using Kinetic sand to cast metal could be a fun activity if done in a safe way, and they /could/ have used a little toy model, or something silly. Instead they're putting out content that can literally kill a child or less well informed adult. The worst part is that even by interacting with the content to report it, you're boosting their viewing figures and engagement ratings.
@A Cool YooToobist im so grossed out just by the fact that he’s in her comment section
It annoys me that scientific channels that display ‘dangerous’ content in a highly educational way with a ton of warnings will get demonetised or even get a strike against their channels, when there are idiots posting stuff like the plug and (probably literally) getting away with murder :(
"while we're waiting let's melt some more things" thanks Ann this is exactly what I wanted to see, and made me way happier than just doing a jump cut
Same
Watching those tankards melt was strangely satisfying
Same!
I laughed out loud. It speaks to our inner children.
Right? So pointless and fun to watch!!!!
Ann Reardon, one of the few RUclipsrs left who care about making quality content for her viewers rather than sensational clickbait.
I know right. Really salute her for keep going through all this while.
I think there are more than a few... but their videos can get drowned into the click-baity ones, I guess. :-(
There are a lot of people in this platform who care about releasing quality content. Sadly they usually struggle to find an audience the way Ann has done so successfully.
@@Cecily-Pimprenelle It’s really terrible. Those who actually genuinely try to make good quality content often go unnoticed and get taken over by those click bait videos and repeats. Sometimes thinking about it makes me so mad.
You continue to be one of the best science channels out there even as a cooking show. You don’t just say “that doesn’t work” you explain the science of it and show visual demonstrations to help better understand.
I love watching your videos to help me understand my baking and I also like watching these science ones with my nephews
Hey Ann, I know you go out of your way to try to not endorse things that are problematic or could hurt others, but there have been some dubious things about better help's privacy policy and practices. I cannot remember all the details off the top of my head, but it is something to look into. Anyways, this was a great video as usual!
I commented a similar thing but I can’t see mine anymore…I can’t imagine Ann of all people taking down comments, but I’m glad other people are recognizing this
commenting to get further up; there is a reply somewhere in the sea, but it was 18 hours ago or smth
Boost!
This is what I was thinking lol
Much respect
Just putting in my two cent echo about how awful the sponsor is. Went through like four different therapists on that app and it was shocking how awful each one was, especially considering what I was paying.
it's a genuinely predatory "service" that utilizes unlicensed "therapists" and preys on mentally ill people who are desperate for help
They straight up rejected me. Hate them
@@minirosehorse that's not ok
Yeah. Every single one I had tried to get me to convert to a religion or just straight up ignored mine and my sons problems. sad.
That’s horrible. Thanks for informing 🙏
For teachers: The interactive circuit simulation that was showed on 10:32 is from a plataform called PhET, created by University of Colorado. It is a great online and free tool for science teachers that need to use digital labs on class. Helps me a lot on the Chemistry class demonstrations!
Thank you very much! I was looking for this.
things like that are honestly really useful for students as well. i would have loved to know about something like that when i was studying high school physics last year to be able to more easily visualize what the calculations were actually about to increase a deeper understanding and make it less abstract. for me physics almost became more like maths but slightly different and i didn't always actually understand what i was doing.
PhET helped me to understand Boyle's law in high school
PHeT anything, especially this one, was about 20% of what my physics class did last year. It’s incredibly helpful
Chemistry?
I work in a produce dept, and we store our avocados in our cooler when they come to us too ripe to slow the ripening process! It works with a lot of fruits save for like, bananas. Bananas just get sad and grey when they're cold.
When someone at work forget's his or hers it tends to go seriously brown really quick :P. Like not spotty, but all over.
They do turn quickly on the outside. But the fruit itself is still good. A grocer can't refrigerate them, but you can at home to make sure that last one of the bunch doesn't end up inedible.
Just in case anyone reads this again, don't refrigerate bananas! They hate cold damp environments and rot so quickly... Even if the skin looks good the flesh will be brown and mushy...
@@Dutch3DMaster theyre really nice for making milkshake. U dont need sugar as theyre so sweet when they go brown/black.
I love how Ann says "let's melt more metal" all mischeviously in her soft yet authorative Aussie mum voice.
Bless his heart, I’m so glad his was able to live through that awful experience. I absolutely love these videos. Ann has taken up this mantle of not just watching and ragging on Troom Troom or 5 min crafts, she is creating public service announcements for everyone to really learn from. We are grateful for her hard work.
And how! ⭐️
"man I wonder what new food hacks she'll debunk"
Ann: [starts melting cups and making tiny metal items]
The plug made out of complete metal reminds me of the "secret killers in Edwardian homes".
The plugs were full metal in a home with gas, still.
There is a reason it doesn't exist anymore 😬
"While we're waiting, let's melt some more things" and a dramatic background music. That was so funny!
I love you and your content Ann! It's very difficult to entertain and educate people at the same time, but you can do that. I'm always so happy when a new video comes out 😍.
"How To Cook That"
"Today we'll learn how a plug works so you don't get yourself killed."
Does she learn these things as she goes? That's some good dedication, going out of your way to learn about these things to potentially save lives.
Kids aside, anybody who knows the basics would know this is dangerous, but unfortunately not everybody has the same education, and even worse is that the ones who lack such education are the ones who are most vulnerable as there are no safety measures in place to save them.
It's criminal that those videos are legal and nothing is being done about it. There are thousands upon thousands of misinformation video where people are tricked into dangerous situations or situations where they are economically hurt... disgusting!
True.
I'm pretty sure our Anne there is well versed in the physics and chemistry. And I wouldn't be hugely surprised if we see a future video where she debunks "One Weird Trick From A Mom To Solve Parametric Equations". Smart lady, that Anne.
Always thought that basics of electricity is taught in middle school.
Idk but I learned that in elementary or middle school
These hacks seem cool to children so I'm glad that so many kids also watch Ann's channel. I taught my kids about how electricity works but I'm an engineer and not everyone has that education or the time to teach their children.
I saw that homemade "plug" and immediately had a flashback to middle school when in science class we were learning about electricity and some kid decided to hook 10 D batteries to a bunch of steel wool and no lightbulbs, and he burnt holes through his desk while also setting off the fire alarm, forcing the entire school out of the building until the fire department deemed it safe to return to class.
He’s a genius. He let you skip class 💭
meanwhile I had a idiot in elementary school who thought putting forks into the socket
lucky for him nothing happened at all , but here was a dumbass and I lowkey wished something would have happened to teach him a lesson cuz dude wanted to try it multiple times bruh
Atleast you got to skip a class
What a legend.
@@hhiippiittyy I'll say!
I'm always blown away by how Ann is a great chef and a legit jack of all trades. Not afraid to discuss things like electromagnetism.
This is why we NEED the number of dislike to be visible to the viewers that watches DIY/hacks videos so that people can use their judgement before attempting something as dangerous as working with hot metal and electricity. Really hope youtube will bring back the dislike button in the near future
Yes it's pretty bad and youtube channel can remove comments so you can't even look at the comments to see if a diy/hack thing is legit.
Maybe these videos just shouldn't be allowed at all? I mean ones that are clearly harmful have no redeeming value
Exactly.
Even then they still had hundreds of thousands, or even millions of likes! While the dislikes were only 20-50 thousands.
I believe they paid bots to spam like their videos, so even then likes wasn't a reliable source of information; I'm more upset that they have an option to turn off comments!
Sometimes comments alone have saved me from doing stupid things.
Fully agree, but they won't. Google doesn't listen to users. Google listens to currency symbols.
For the phone charger one: Even if you stay safe and the electricity is able to flow to the phone. it's never gonna charge your phone; it's going to destroy it.
That little chip inside the charger has 3 functions:
1) It has a step-down transformer because the voltage that comes to homes is 220/120 Volts and the phone to charge needs 5-9 volts that alone is going to completely damage the phone and the phone does have a way to prevent the electricity in case this happens but it can still fail.
2) it has a ac to dc converter because the phone won't charge with an alternating current.
3) it has a voltage regulator because electric wires aren't ideal and loses and fluctuations are going to happen, and it's there to protect your phone
Man, something about Ann's
"We instantly lost power"
A slight disappointment, slight "See, I told you!" vibe. Makes me both glad that she's making the videos to educate people and also sad that she has to because WHO GIVES PEOPLE THESE IDEAS??
The power plug example is deadly. ☠️
Social media needs to remove it.😡
Holy sh- it's not the first time I see dangerous hacks in your channel (I actually subscribed because I found one of your debunking videos) but this one was insane! That guy's story was absolutely terrifying, I had shivers when he said he was completely paralyzed. Thankfully he's okay now.
And that steak hack made me think these channels are just trying to kill people in a creative way.
Indeed. Some of these hacks are not just wrong and useless, but outright dangerous! Those channels and accounts should be banned from the internet.
Yes, although it's so much harder to enforce laws on the internet, because what's criminal in one country can easily just be posted from another country. Still, I'm sure there are some legal experts that could figure out the most effective ways to go after people or hopefully at least shut them down.
@@junbh2 at the very least, RUclips should have guidelines against these kinds of videos. They don't let you say "F*ck" but teaching kids how to off themselves is somehow ok.
I think this kind of content that Ann debunks should be criminalised. So many people have access to the Internet that don't have the mental capacity to realise how dangerous these things are. Posting content that endangers life just for clicks and comments should be an offence. There's plenty of people who won't see Ann trying to educate on these matters, and let's face it its not Ann's responsibility. Criminalise these practices and ban the culprits from posting any content in the future
Natural selection, people would do dangerous things out of stupidity regardless if they saw some random YT channel or not
Repost this with credit to the author, everyone. Like, comment so the RUclips devs see it. People's health and well being should ALWAYS come first. Endangering lives is NOT acceptable!
Agree.
We fact check and prevent misinformation
Only when it's convenient. When it makes us money we ignore it.
@@Raya-ir4tm “A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.” those viral tiktoks are much more popular than the debunkings and you think people that watch them will go 'hmmm hold up I better fact check if this wont leave me dead'
Also when you say 'people' it usually means 'children'.
Wait a minute though, what do you mean content goes untouched? If its banned then theres no point in touching it, because its not being spread... What test?
I just cannot believe that people think cooking meat on melted metal and labeling it safe to it is okay. The audacity and the lack of conscience is baffling.
Lack of conscience is right. There are ignorant and unknowing people out there but the people who make these videos know that it's BS and do it because it makes them money. And YT does nothing about it because it makes them money. Literally one of the most subscribed channels on RUclips is one that makes fake content like that.
Even with zero knowledge, that meat was GREY!! 🤢
The MEAT was safe to eat if it was cooked on liquid metal, now the metal on the meat wasn't lol
It's abhorrent but the inside of the meat was technically safe
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows that's just going to have been because it was steamed not fried, so the colour wasn't a problem but it was very off-putting
@@ConstantChaos1 that's one way to look at it. I look at it as telling someone to eat meat cooked in metal without any other information is not safe. As Ann says, you have bits of metal which may be sharp and lacerate your insides.
I took physics when I was like 13, with controlled experiments that resulted in a small, scary (but still safe) electrical shock. The most valuable lesson from that is "don't mess with electricity" and it has kept me alive and unharmed for 30 years after that, and I see no need to change a winning concept.
This almost happened to my brother when I was a kid. He was trying to do an "experiment" with electricity, and I was trying to get him to not mess with the wall plugs because it was dangerous. He had put nails in the outlet and wanted to see if a current would still flow through a charger (he was like 8 or 9 or something). I finally convinced him to take out the nails and told him to use pliers and not touch the nails with his hands. And when he went for all-metal needle nose pliers, I stopped him and told him "no use the ones with rubber so if something happens the current won't go through your body." When he tried to take out the nails, he ended up accidentally touching BOTH nails with the pliers while they were in the outlet. The breaker blew, but not before the wires IN THE WALL melted and the ends of the pliers and also the nails melted down into a single piece of metal. It was terrifying, but because I got my brother to use the RUBBER pliers, none of the current went through his body.
That was not the end of his electricity experiments, but after that he did make an effort to learn and follow electricity and lab safety rules whenever he set up an experiment.
Let me guess, it happened on North American 120v outlet? Because 230v ones usually end up with instant fireball, hole where the metal pieces touched each other, and poped breaker, all that in a fraction of a second. I still own kitchen knife with a hole in the blade. I accidentally cut power cord with it once.
@@voidseeker4394 How do you accidentally cut a power cord ?
@@Gatorade69 Knife was laying on the ground, cord wrapped around it while i was working. Then I stepped on it.
i went to school with a kid that thought it would be fun to bend a paper clip into a U shape, shove both ends through a rubber eraser, and then plug the thing into an outlet. there was a loud bang, a lot of smoke, and a couple of sparks, but thankfully he wasn't too badly injured and no fire started IN THE CLASSROOM. some people have fewer brain cells than the rest of us ;) at least he had that bit of rubber on there, it probably saved the day!
The moral to this story kids: GET an ADULT or know how to shut off the MAIN breaker to the house before removing anything from an electrified object (wire, outlet, toaster, hairdryer, etc).
Hey ann, love your channel and have enjoyed your content for a long time.
Just wanted to let you know, as a few others have, that the company you endorsed is not a good one. With major scandals involving issues with their therapist licensing, privacy (selling data), and paying their staff badly.
The idea of the company as well isn’t usually beneficial, 24/7 care doesn’t allow the individual to self reflect or have a separate space to unload or process. For some cases it would be great but with addition to therapists having underlying motives with their salary scheme, it isn’t as great as it seems.
Hope you end up seeing this because other comments seem to be washed out.
I felt like she focused on it being an emergency option, where if you need help and can't get it for a few months. Sometimes waiting is not an option. Not all places have someone in an emergency situation, there is the suicides hotline, or turning yourself into mental hospital, but sometimes it's not that extreme and you don't want to take up a space in the suicide hotline if you are just super anxious not suicidal. Just my thought. If she meant it as an emergency situation where you go ahead and make the appointment with the program in your area, but this is a "get you to that appointment" situation. I think it's a great idea.
Yeaahhh. They took my money then said they had no therapists for me, then refused to refund. I had to get my bank involved to get money back. Kinda hard to her if that's the type of business she will endorse.
@@mysticfirefaery1988 She explicitly said it is not to be used as a crisis service, but for general ongoing issues like anxiety
Yeah the company got exposed as a scam by several people
Just replying to try to get this seen
Nutritionist, baker, electrician, mental health advocate, debunker. Is there anything this wonderful woman can't do?
She can't feed Dave palatable food 🤣
mental health advocate is a bit of a stretch considering the sponsor is known to be extremely bad
@@SpookiestAlice yeah
Yes she can't create bad content
She cannot make cake fails normally
Fact check: Silicon starts to loose it's mechanical properties if exposed to 200°C for long periods of time and combusts at 450°C. Meaning putting molten tin in a silicon mold can damage the silicon, but is (most likely) no hazard, unless you heat the tin to almost double it's melting point. What i think was smoking when you tried it was the coloring or another additive to the silicon.
As always, amazing video! I really appreciate the work and research that goes in to making your videos!
I love how you not only debunk the videos but also teach us the right way💜💜💜
Anne, I love your content so much. You're one of if not the most genuine content creators around today and because of that and the trust your audience has for you I really, really caution you not to take any more sponsorships from (redacted). It's a fraudulent service that does not vet the so-called psychologists/therapists working for them, and they sell confidential information and dat about clients. There are alternatives to this app that could be promoted in it's place.
(I had previously posted this comment just a few minutes ago with the name of the sponsor and the comment was deleted /immediately/ so what people are saying about the comment filtering is true).
boosting
The filtering is definitely true. I made a comment and checked logged in and out, even doing a screen record going between the two on the spot showing it. I’m really, deeply disappointed in her for allowing and doing this.
@@shestewa6581 I can see comments with the sponsor mentioned by name that outline the issues with it, so it's probably tripping RUclips's badly implemented spam filter.
@@known1443
Yeah it's RUclips fault for that and not Ann
I hope she sees this! People trust her so I was also concerned to see that she was promoting B H
you are such a considerate person for informing us about these channels and their lies, luv your vids 🥰
Thank you to your friend for sharing his story. So glad he is around to tell it. Seems like a great person.
Additional note about consuming metals (from an environmental consultant specializing in metals toxicity): Even with no metal chunks on the surface of that meat, it could still be harmful because of smaller particles embedded in the meat or dissolved into the juices. Copper and antimony (both in pewter), aluminum, lead, and any other substance have safe amounts and amounts that can cause damage either over time (e.g., increase to cancer or infertility risk) or immediately (i.e., an ER visit or death). Pewter, copper, and aluminum mugs and pans - these are totally safe to use when you use them as intended because you wouldn't expect there to be very much (if any) of the metal making its way into your body. With this whole cooking meat in molten metal thing, I have no idea what your dose would be or how bioavailable it would be, but just don't do it. It sounds incredibly unsafe, and as Anne said, there may be impurities in the metal that are VERY toxic, like lead. The current US EPA drinking water criteria for lead is basically "if you can detect any lead, that's too much", just to put lead's toxicity in perspective. Some metals like copper are nutrients - you'll find them naturally in food and in your multivitamin - but too much of them can be toxic.
Former EMT here! Metal toxicity is no joke. It can and will kill a person at high levels.
Edit to add: there is also no way to ensure that there are no micro shards of metal in the meat. The lacerations to the mouth, esophagus, and stomach would also be dangerous.
A German saying: Gefährlich ist es, den Kupferschmied am Arsch zu lecken, denn er hatte Grünspan daran!
yes copper iron and zinc are in food and important for our body. but the food usually does not contain pure metal it is always some form of metal Ion. I am sure noone wants to eat sodium in metal form but as Ion it is very important in our bodys (or potassium or calcium or magnesium)
@@Raziel1984 Mmmm, pure explosive sodium~ 😋
Came here to say the same- and just to add that antimony can also be dangerous when aspirated. If it gets low enough in the lungs and stays there it can form antimony trioxide, which is a carcinogen.
I was just screaming "SHORT CIRCUIT! SHORT CIRCUIT!" while you were showing the creator's video of the power plug hack. I love how you explained it so well. Was just studying that chapter in my physics class the other day haha
all it got was a bug-eyed stare from me
ain't no way I'm doing that.
oooooooooooh that makes so much sense now! short circuit, a circuit that is too short!
Forget shorting, just imagine the poor kid copying what they see online with their hand wrapped around this as they shove it into the socket?
I was getting a bit antsy when it was only the two AA batteries that were getting shorted out!
I was like: that is a better fitting fork. People will end up seriously injured
There should definitely be some type of laws regarding misinformation this dangerous. There should at LEAST be those fact checker disclaimers we see on posts about other things.
The problem is platforms like RUclips or Instagram or whatever have too much content to moderate everything being posted. And while this is bad the dark side of sites are straight up nightmare content. An algorithm that finds copyrighted content is easy. Stuff like this requires a human who will not only watch the whole thing but also know enough about electrical engineering to recognize the problem.
This is typically a low paid job where you're supposed to moderate content after watching seconds of it and honestly the last video you watched might have involved someone actually dying. There's a lot of burn out so constant turn over of staff needing to learn the content rules, that's not enough time to add in a basics of electrical engineering module. Add to that no support for people doing this work and the amount of content just continues to grow. Not to mention the outrage when some random person accidentally bans the wrong thing and it's a miracle anything gets caught.
I read an account by someone who worked for Facebook and was so traumatised he had to speak out. Specifically he was so busy with reports from people misusing the report function he didn't get to a report from a child in danger in time. I just reading his account and it has stuck with me for years. I can't even begin to imagine how horrific the job actually is.
Honestly if you're actually dumb enough to try any of such hacks you randomly found on the internet you deserve whatever happens. Like that one guy who was stupid enough to try a 4chan recipe for making crystals and ending up in the hospital from inhaling toxic fumes.
@@viking-astronaut I think that's a super unfair thing to say. I get that not everything said on the internet can be trusted, but if someone chooses to lie and intentionally edit videos in a deceitful way that make it look like something is safe, it's on them at that point. They may not be trying to HARM people, but they are actively trying to trick them without caring about the consequences.
@@m4nman In the USA ppl stormed the capitol just bc they were mad that there was no longer a white supremacist in office, lmaoo (you're absolutely right, tbh)
@@viking-astronaut One answer to you: Children.
I truly hope you're not serious, and that you're some troll, because if NOT, I'm concerned.
You need to check with a microbiologist or other expert about whether putting the avocado in water increases the risk for organisms to grow. I suspect that it does.
Yes. The FDA recently issued a warning about storing avocados in water. Their primary concerns were Listeria and Salmonella.
I think for the molten metal hack, they were using gallium. Based on the pale grey colour of the meat that looks frankly slow cooked, the ease of melting the metal, and the fact that it beaded up on the meat so readily, that’s my guess. The reason for the slow heat is probably because it melts at such a low temperature and forms toxic gaseous compounds at high temperatures.
It’s easy enough to buy or create some joke cutlery that melts in your mouth or tea, pure gallium’s generally non-toxic (although it does love to corrode aluminium and form more toxic compounds so don’t play with it), and it’ll stay molten because its melting point is about 4° C lower than human body temperature. It’s not good to consume a lot, or really any honestly, but it is less nasty on a surface level than those spiky tin flakes.
I could genuinely read you talking about metals in depth all evening. You have a really engaging way of writing and your knowledge shines through without being intimidating.
For joke cutlery I'd use chocolate/ candy melts - there's several colors available and you can use an edible gold dusting on it if you want it to look metallic rather than plastic. No risks, unless the person is allergic to chocolate or nuts (some chocolate has tree nut or peanut residue) Granted, this joke cutlery will fall apart faster, but if it's something like a spoon for tea it'll probably only break once put into the tea.
I didnt know you could eat metal!?? Now i want to eat gallium at least once in my life
My local newspaper made an article about that avocado thing, noting that there's a risk of listeria if you keep those avocados for weeks and weeks even if they look good. Needles to say, I would be hesitant to try these "hacks".
For anyone wondering about this, I just did a little reading because this comment made me curious. It's pretty common for avocados to have listeria on the skin, but as long as you wash them before cutting it normally won't get into the flesh. However, listeria grows quickly in the fridge and can contaminate other foods. Maybe the water wasn't such a bad idea after all? (No word on whether that would actually stop it from spreading, but maybe it was the idea)
@@woodfur00 But Ann not warning people is beyond a let down, if she DID know about that risk :(
@@ee-em-oh7392 obviously Ann wouldn't knowingly do that. It's _Ann_ .
@@artyb27 I second this. This is a helpful piece of information from the commenter, but it is in no way a reflection of Ann being negligent.
@@ee-em-oh7392 She definitely didn't know.
a friend at work got bread stuck in the toaster and was trying to remove it with a fork. I told her to stop immediately, go round and unplug it first. she did so I went in with the fork. Turns out, she unplugged a phone charger instead of the toaster and BOOM. I'm so lucky our workplace had the automatic emergency electrical trip thing, I would've been toast!
HOLY CRAP. That's terrifying!
With friends like that, I'd be unplugging my own cords from now on! 😅💀
As respectfully as possible, your friend is a huge idiot.
Wow! Can you believe the audacity! ALl I wanna say is - As long as there’s Ann, we’ve got a chance. ;)
nice first
How did u consent 23 hrs before the vud was posted?
@@potARTo Patreon backer probably.
Hold on its not even 1 hour ago, how did you- oh its patron
As someone who uses lead solder for my stained glass hobby, I feel compelled to correct one thing. Although pewter with lead is bad for plates and mugs, due to microparticles wearing off and being ingested, melting lead does not cause lead molecules to be released as an airborne toxin. Only at its boiling point, or under combustion as in old-fashioned leaded gasoline, can lead be taken into the human body through the lungs. Most lead poisoning is through the mouth, as in children chewing on old lead paint. Handling lead and not washing hands can also transfer it to food, or touching the mouth area. But at lead's melting or soldering point, there is no danger of airborne lead molecules being breathed in. We have many lifelong stained glass artists in some Facebook groups, who have attested to being checked for lead by doctors, and the results show no lead problems. Some of the artists who restore old stained glass windows have elevated blood levels, because old lead gets a powdery surface, and again, it is microparticles ingested through the mouth due to less careful handling, and not the soldering, that has been at fault. Thank you.
I'll back that up with 2 separate (unfortunately quasi-anecdotal) occurrences from my life. I've worked with several companies who do extensive electrical soldering work and 2 of them (one telecommunications company and one aerospace manufacturer) have done complete blood checks on employees who regularly solder totalling over 500 employees between the two companies. Neither one practiced anywhere near the safe ventilation levels you see nowadays (particularly the telecommunications one). Of those over 500 employees two were found with particularly elevated lead levels. One employee was practicing essentially the opposite of safe soldering techniques (often eating while he was handling lead). The other was found ti have improperly installed lead pipes in his house.
However I will mention that soldering isn't completely safe, the slightly dangerous part was actually found to be the rosin which you use to make the metal flow better. Ironically this means that modern lead free solders are actually more dangerous for the person soldering since lead free solder uses a more aggressive resin. This is why it is highly recommended that you have good ventilation while soldering.
EDIT: The reason why I say these were quasi anecdotal accounts is that unfortunately those 2 studies aren't available to the public since they were both in house.
That’s really good to know. Thanks to both of you.
Goot to know!
Still doesn't change the fact that lead is dangerous to the body tho
As a science teacher, seeing you use PHET to model the circuit was very fun! Thank you for the excellent science lesson!
Ahh, it really is a good flashback to when I was younger... Just wishin' it were under better, less lethal circumstances.
Anne: Playing with hot metal is dangerous, this is not kid safe
Also Anne: Let's melt some more stuff while we're waiting!
She is not a kid. It's dangerous, but it won't explode or anything like that.
Ann, at this rate it's guaranteed that you've saved at least one life and prevented countless injuries! You truly are a gem and one of only a few content creators I would actually trust with my life. Thank you so very much for all you do! 🥰💖
@@ee-em-oh7392 And how exactly would that happen? 🤔
a bit surprised about the sponsor, didnt expect this from anne considering shes amazing in researching
A few people who didn't support that company at the time all that controversy happened are doing so now. So I'm assuming there's been some changes. I agree. I can't imagine Anne allowing a sponsor she hasn't researched. So I'm going to assume it's not run the same or by the same people.
That is a very dangerous assumption, do not blindly trust people on RUclips - you'd think you would have learned this from Ann!
rather than assume off the good will of some youtubers you like, it's probably best to do actual research. like Anne constantly talks about on this channel.
Dude that 4 year old controversy was blown out of proportion in the first place. But now the app is absolutely fine.
Bummed to hear that some people who could really use the app won't do it because everything has to be either perfect or irredeemably bad in the eyes of the internet
I honestly have never heard anything bad about BetterHelp
I didn’t realize how satisfying it is to watch metal melt… until this moment. Always something new and exciting on your channel, Ann!!
That was my favourite part ... "While we're waiting, let's melt some more things" :-)
Try cooking sugar! Heat a half cup on medium heat. If you add a bit if cream it will be just like those Sugar Daddy lollipops
Anyone else think that this channel is the best? Even the small ad breaks are really thoughtful.
you literally taught me more about electrical currents and their dangers in 12 minutes than 5 years of high school have been able to. great vidio, very important especially for kids. 😍♥️
I would have loved to have a circuit simulator like she had when I was in high school since I learn by tinkering. But, understandably, randomly tinkering with electricity isn't good.
life hacks 2015: stuff like "make your own shoes from glue" impractical and kind of stupid but mostly harmless
life hacks in 2022: EAT METAL.
I’ve seen the cooking on metal thing years ago.
I CANNOT believe first off: that anyone would think these “hacks up,
Secondly that anyone would watch these ideas and think that they are ok.
Thank you so much for educating people on what is safe and what is most definitely not. Keep up the amazing work!
School age children are drawn to things like this - they very specifically don't connect why its a bad idea, only that its online and hasn't been removed so it must be true (Just World Fallacy). If one were left unsupervised and followed through: bad. Very very bad. Moreso because the poured thing is pure metal and in no context would I see them suggesting "wear rubber gloves"
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger I myself have twin boys and watch the H2CT videos with them, so I really appreciate the hacks being disproven and the explanation of why they are so dangerous. Terrifying to think the things they may come across and think they are a good idea.
The fact that an alleged "hack" like that can be put out into the world, endangering lives, with no recourse is beyond the pale. Thank you for your ongoing efforts in the battle against dangerous misinformation and bunk "science". You are a gem of a human. :)
Can't stop asking "Why, just why?" over the cooking a steak on melted metal. The pan you cook on is already melted metal. Some hacks just don't need to be.
Why cook meat normally when you could do it a harder way that is also likely to poison you and/or cause internal bleeding?
What if I pour the metal on top so both sides cook at once? ( just a joke)
@@trekie30122why not cast a metal steak? who needs to buy food when you just make it yourself (also a joke dw)
@@oatmilk9918 sounds yummy. 🤢
@@trekie30122 Timesaving hack! (Except you have to spend extra time to melt the metal)
The other super dangerous thing with the full metal "charger" is that there is no ground. If the breaker fails and there is no ground, there is ZERO safety for it. That thing will zap indefinitely.
This is why all electronics that pull large amounts of energy all have a ground (the 3rd prong).
I've also zapped myself really good as a kid. I tried to do the potato trick with the busted lightbulb. I had the switch off, but my cousin walked in and flipped the light on. It was like a taser, making me just fall straight off my bed. Fortunately, the braker tripped, but it still hurt like a mother.
It's a dead short, it will either trip a breaker/GFCI or melt the wires in the wall and burn your house down even with a ground. Most euro plugs (like the one they made the mould of) aren't grounded anyway though.
Not in a ideal case, because of the RCB/GFCI. Touching that thing would cause a current to flow between you and ground and trip the RCB in a ideal case.
I've zapped myself a couple times by my welder and other things around the shop. So painful.
First world thing. You actually have wires and plugs with three prongs. Europlug is just two but some (i.e. computer power cables) have ground contacts on the sides... HOWEVER, in Eastern Europe at least, many houses just don't HAVE grounding so the third prong is not connected to ANYTHING, and is just placebo. So while grounding is nice, it's far from universal and short circuiting itself is far more dangerous than not having grounding (as I said, several COUNTRIES are without ground wires in many buildings and we're fine).
@@KasumiRINA grounding is useless IMO, my new house doesn't have it
I am worried that you have omitted mentioning important safety precautions for melting tin in the video. According to an article I was able to find on the topic, it is essential to wear full face and body protection during the process, because molten metal tends to splash like oil when it cools, for example if it contacts water, and can cause serious burns to unprotected body parts (and you were handling the pan with your bare hands in the video!). Good ventilation and a respirator are also required, because you cannot guarantee other metal mix-ins in the tin are non-toxic.
This isn't an exhaustive list of precautions, just the ones that were easy for me to grasp. If you're planning to melt tin (or anything else, really) at home, please do a thorough research before.
I'm surprised nobody pointed any of this out in the comments or at least questioned the process.
Thank you!!! I couldn’t believe she used bare hands, no eye protection, no coat, no fume hood/ventilation.. would be way worse than an egg in the microwave
⇑ been looking for this comment
*remembering I used to melt and mold and remelt tin soldiers completely unsupervised and with absolutely no protective gear at age 8* 👁👄👁
@@AwsomenessRain lucky little lass
@@lucygoosey69 *lad
Gosh, that christmas light accident was so scary, I could feel and imagine it way too clearly. He IS super lucky to be alive, it's amazing that his family managed to save him!
Thank you as always for your wonderfully informative videos. It is a little disappointing to see a sponsorship from a business that has so much press for shady business practices on a video that's all about making informed choices. Please consider looking into BetterHelp's controversies.
replying to get this higher up
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Seriously shocked me to see them on her channel :(
thanks for this comment, I was also really surprised to see a sponsorship from them on her channel
I can't even imagine a scenario where I would think to myself; "let's have a nice, juicy steak cooked in liquid metal!"
@JayLeeBeanz That's exactly what happened! Thanks! 😂
How is that even a food hack? "So, I have heat and a pan. Let's add metal before we fry our steak as usual!"
Extra step, extra effort, for the same goal... why?
The battery phet software you used is the same one we use in our basic electrical engineering class. As an engineer I am impressed how you not only debunk the hacks by testing them but also inform us about why each hack doesn't work. Going even as far as to take expert opinions. Your's is one of the few fun and interesting educational channels on youtube currently. Lots of love , may you have all the success in the world Ann.
Just a quick warning about the sponsor: do your own research first (searching their company name brings up a couple of videos on RUclips about their shady business practices)
i'm quite surprised Anne didn't!
I couldn't believe it when I heard the name of the sponsor 😳
@@sammygraves7127 me either, but it isn't her field I guess.
@@5fingerjack I would expect anyone to look into sponsorship companies before accepting money from them. It took me 2 minutes to Google the name and discover that something was up. In less then 30 minutes I was caught up in the whole scandal. People need to do better.
I'm wondering if she trusted them because they've sponsored many others and she hasn't seen anything strange. If nothing seemed "off" to her, perhaps she was inclined to trust them? Their shadiness isn't really as well-known as other organizations.
I remember... it was either Backyard Scientist or TKOR did the meat on metal test and had the same message of "yes it works but don't do that"
and Evan and Katelyn did a similar one of cooking an egg on epoxy resin where again "yes it works but fumes = bad"
Not even fumes. Literally eating metal or plastic
Oh I love Evan & Katelyn! They're sweet.
Betterhlp honestly seems like the type of thing I'd expect to see you debunk, not be sponsored by. Considering they can store the information that you give to your therapist and sell it, for one. Not to mention that they severely underpay and overwork their therapists. Very poor choice here. I honestly imagined you'd investigate the people you work with more carefully to find out these things.
yeah, i was surprised.
This!!!!!
And they have had cases where their 'therapists' werent actually licensened! Disappointing.
and a lot of their therapists are not professional or licensed. Thank you for saying this I was thinking the same thing
THIS
Chocolate melting on batteries. I'm here for this kind of content! I've binged the entire Debunking Playlist because of how amazing your explanations are, Anne!
The funniest thing just happened: the video broke into an add right on 11:57, so right after you plugged in the metal “adapter” and said 3, 2, 1… and the ad started with an enormous lightning bolt 😂 I jumped so hard
I actually audibly gasped when they poured the aluminum in for the supposed 'diy wall plug'! Like how the heck can anyone have the audacity to claim that's a good idea?! They're going to get some poor fool or simpleton electrocuted!
I know this video is from a while ago, but I still feel the need to let you know that there is something going on with better how where therapist information is ending up online and incorrect and the only way to be able to fix this is to make claim to that account and a lot of therapists don't want to make claim to that account
Speaking of touching electrical outlets and getting lethal dosages of current running through you, what your friend said is very important to take note of.
When you’re actively getting electrocuted, your muscles tense up and you’re completely immobilized.
Now, if you see someone who is getting electrocuted, don’t ever touch them directly, don’t try to shove them with your bare hands or anything that is conductive, look for a way to turn off the power instead if you can. If they are in contact with a high voltage wire (they’ll usually immolate in seconds), best you can do is call emergency and wait for them to turn the power off.
If you touch them, you’ll just get electrocuted too, and then you’re both stuck there getting fried, depending on the voltage quite literally.
The usual advice here in the UK is to find a wooden broom or similar to try and push them off the electrical device, but obviously still only do something like that if your certain it's got nothing conductible in/on it. My work place is covered in those kind of What to Do kind of posters as we work closely with electrics and batteries.
what if you drop kicked them? would that work?
@@Tw0DrunkGuys if you have shoes on they might protect you. MIGHT.
@@Serena-or7sl I think the rubber to too thin for any protection.
@@Tw0DrunkGuys No
The melting of tin reminded me that in Finland there's a tradition to melt tin (wikipedia says that the metal is nowadays not made out of tin but some sort of alloy) on New Years and then pour it into water, the shape will tell you what kind of year the next year is gonna be. I personally have done it couple of times with my parents when I was young.
Not just Finland, it's also very common here in Germany and other countries in middle europe. We call it "Bleigießen" ("lead-pouring") but as you said, nowadays it is definitely not lead! (interestingly tin, not some alloy, is used as a substitute here) Then there's also "Wachsgießen" ("wax-pouring"), which works the same way but doesn't have the health risks that come with melting metal.
@@a.s.1484 It is possible the metal sold in tin-pouring kits is - for simplicity's sake - referred to as "tin" even though it is actually an alloy. And it would make sense because some alloys have significantly lower melting points than the metals they're composed of. Eutectic solder (i.e. an alloy of 63% tin and 37% lead) melts at 181°C which is significantly lower than the melting points of tin (232°C) or lead (327°C). 37% is still a lot of lead - so that's probably not what they sell - but similar effects can be achieved by adding other substances (such as copper, silver or bismuth) into the mix.
@@MrAranton Yes alloys can melt at lower temperatures, but I don't think that they are used for Bleigießen anymore (except in Finland, they use a lead containing alloy, which confuses me because of the lead ban in the EU)? All I can find online is _Wiener Silvesterguss_ which wikipedia and every other site claims to be an alloy, despite clearly stating that it's just tin and the melting point of around 230°C also checks out for it to be tin. To add another metal that's as expensive as silver and copper is in my opinion a bit unneccessary as the resulting alloy (Sn95.5Ag3.8Cu0.7, used for soldering) melts at just 10 degrees less than pure tin. And the sets for Bleigießen are now called Zinngießen (tin-pouring). I'm just confused.
@@a.s.1484 The sources the wikipedia article cites for the claim that in Finland a lead based alloy is used date from before the ban. So probably not accurate any more.
The makers of tin/lead pouring sets are not restricted to alloys commonly used in electronics soldering. Lowering the melting point was just the first reason to not use pure tin that came to mind. But there are others.
At melting temperatures tin quickly forms (solid) oxide layers that can be tough to break. Small amounts of liquid tin might not be heavy enough to break through that layer. In that case the tin would move more like a water balloon than a liquid and you wouldn't get the variety of shapes you need for the divination part of the tradition. Adding some deoxidizers (such as aluminium) into the tin would help with that issue.
Another reason that comes to mind is tin pest. Those pouring sets are seasonal article, which means they might be stored for years before they're actually used. If they get too cold in between manufacture and use (a winter in an unheated warehouse is all it takes) the tin in them might get tin-pest and turn into powder. A small addition of antimony or bismuth eliminates that risk.