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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. 

Description of the claims in the video above, and whether I think things are true based on a brief google, because it was bugging me:

Putting a hot coal in peanut butter then freezing it makes a crystal: No. The crystaline form of carbon (coal‘s main ingredient) is diamond, but it requires huge pressures and can’t be made from anything as impure as coal.

Putting a bottle of water in a mixture of ice and salt will cause it to become supercooled then freeze all at once when tapped: plausible?

Cleaning silver with Sprite or tomato paste: plausible? I found differing opinions.

Warm water removes wax from fruit: Plausible

Adding carbonated water to scrambled eggs makes them fluffier: Plausible, but I have my doubts about the specific method shown, the final result looked more like a pancake to me.

A ripe banana will ripen green tomatoes: True but probably not overnight

Putting milk in coke makes a clear gross liquid: Plausible but why would you?

Soaking broken, taped together crockery in milk for 2 days fixes it: False. You can apparently fix VERY MINOR CRACKS with HOT milk.

So yeah. Two false but dramatic things with a bunch of semi-plausible/true things in between to trick you into thinking it’s all true.