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10 tricks you didn’t know you could do with your food.

By Blossom

The internet went from showing food recipe videos to alchemy in less than a decade. There’s going to be a quick video on how to make the philosopher’s stone from tomato sauce next week. 

Oh my god guys DO NOT DO THE THINGS IN THIS VIDEO
Several of these are well known tricks, sure, but the trick is that they’re tricking you into doing ridiculous things and breaking shit so you can try the things they show.

You absolutely cannot fix broken plates with milk, you sure as fuck cannot turn coal into diamond or “crystals” with peanut butter (just because they contain the right elements doesn’t mean you suddenly don’t need immense heat and pressure anymore to make things happen), and the ketchup thing idk why people insist on spreading the idea that you can rub condiments on things to clean them or fix them or whatever but just…. don’t rub ketchup on any antiques or collectibles or anything, okay? I’m sure there are lots of things that ketchup will stain.

The one thing here that I know is right is the “instant freezing water” one, but the video still totally leaves out the fact that you need 100% pure distilled water to make it work. Tap water, spring water, none of that. The trick is that in perfectly distilled water there’s no particles for ice crystals to start forming on, so the water stays liquid even below its freezing point. Agitating the water with a good impact or shake will get that crystallizing chain reaction going, and fast.

99% of this is pseudoscience though and you will probably feel dumb afterward if you try any of it!