30 More Life Hacks Debunked Pt. 3 - mental_floss on YouTube - List Show (245)
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- A weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John tests a third round of 30 "life hacks" to see if they work as promised.
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Life Hack Links:
1. Cupcake eating: cdn-media-1.lifehack.org/wp-co...
2. DIY ice cream sandwich: / 466639188159647744
3. Banana peeling: www.pyroenergen.com/articles13...
4. Deseed pomegranate: cdn-media-1.lifehack.org/wp-co...
5. Pizza cutter for ingredients: snackhacks.org/post/82823049238
6. Spoiled eggs: 24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mat...
7. Use Kool-Aid to dye eggs: www.heyjenrenee.com/2011/04/ko...
8. Dye Easter eggs with a whisk: / 456191059798675456
9. Grate butter: snackhacks.org/post/70610251010
10. Post it note keyboard cleaner: cdn-media-1.lifehack.org/wp-co...
11. Untangle headphones: / 437225465737400320
12. Headphones in tape dispenser: / 456351627314593792
13. iPhone speaker: / 455728360425918464
14. Lego phone dock: 1000lifehacks.com/post/7761970...
15. Fast Food tablet stand: omglifehacks.com/story/10-coll...
16. Insert straw into ketchup: 37.media.tumblr.com/7959df0a62...
17. Wings: www.buzzfeed.com/kater11/how-t...
18. Paint and rubber band: nowyouknowthis.com/40-incredib...
19. Paint tray and tin foil: shialabeowulf.tumblr.com/post/...
20. Comb for nail holder: 1000lifehacks.com/post/7030780...
21. Permanent marker: media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736...
22. Batteries: / 447070549882445825
23. Cut bread upside down: shialabeowulf.tumblr.com/post/...
24. Corkscrew / Hanger: omglifehacks.com/story/18-alco...
25. Frozen food bag: media.tumblr.com/1332728f89686...
26. Chocolate covered strawberries: / 445952935202402304
27. Lime-a-rita pops: / 466276838374146048
28. Microwave limes: 1000lifehacks.com/post/8183230...
29. Soft ice cream: media.tumblr.com/1dd67bb888112...
30. Dryer lint as kindling: shialabeowulf.tumblr.com/post/...
"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
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.
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 ,.
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.
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!!
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 @_@
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)
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. ;)
"Just eat the fucking chicken." -John Green
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
Can I get a "just eat the f*ing chicken" tshirt?
Rotten pomegranate? 😝
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).
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.
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"
Life Hacks are supposed to make your life easier. What if you don't have a serraded knife? Then the entire point of a life hack is ruined.
Energyrush100 Or get a knife sharpener. You don't need to get an extra knife for one or two simple tasks and a knife sharpener works on all knives.
+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
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.
This is easily my favorite series on the channel.
LOL Love your videos!
instablaster
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.
"I mean... just eat the fucking chicken."
- John Green 2015
dammit you beat me to it dammit
That pomegranate was kinda sorta rotten.
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 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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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."
Also I like how he just doesn't care, like, if he's doing it wrong, FAIL
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.
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.
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.
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, I absolutely love Mental Floss! I love, love, love random trivia and fun facts, and Mental Floss is an entire show about it! I watch religiously. Also, I read The Fault in Our Stars and it was a beautiful novel, thank you for writing it. I have a copy of Looking for Alaska at the end of my bed right now, it is next on my list when I finish my current book!
The first requirement should be
1) find someone who's physically competent to try life hacks
Stuffing the iPads into the cup holder made me laugh so much. Thank you.
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😂😂
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.
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.
i mean technically pass but at what cost? hahahahhahha
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.
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.
Putting a half finished ice cream container in a plastic bag does actually prevent freezer burn though! I use it all the time!
"I mean... Just eat the f*cking chicken." - John Green, 2015
These are great..i rewatch these all the time
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
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]?
"Which is made with the help of all of these nice people..."
*puts his name at the top of the list*
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.
Mother of God. How old was that pomegranate?
That pomegranate looked really old. And it just separates the seeds from the pith better because the pith floats. AND pomegranate squirts when pealing and the water prevents it from getting on your clothes.
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)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...
I think you should give the ice cream a new go. Use ice cream which has been opened once before (and perhaps has poor packaging to begin with). If your control wasn't stiff, you didn't really test anything. It's like testing a cure for a disease on people who are not sick, then saying it didn't work because it made no difference (control group also not sick).
omg that pomegranate is so rotten it hurts ;-;
"I mean... Just eat the fucking chicken" 😂
Behold, the man who wrote one of the greatest tear-jerkers in the 21st century. Gotta love this big goof. +1
i don't understand why everyone's like 'wah wah more scientific' because if you're just doing this at home with the extremely vague info included with most 'life hacks' it's proooobably gonna end up like this.
With most of these tests, you forgot to have a control
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!
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).
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.
#29, how the god damn hell are you doing to do a TEST and a CONTROL with two different ice creams?!?!
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.
Whoa, that pomegranate looked overripe or even rotten.
That pomegranate is so beyond being edible. The seeds are supposed to be bright red. Not all brown and rotten
How rotten is that pomegranate? That's freaking gross! I've never heard that lifehack but you should use ice water in a large bucket to get pomegranate seeds out. The seeds sink while the other parts float. Isn't perfect but helps.
anyone else notice that this was the first video of john being outside... EVER! I think that's a milestone.
Just eat the f****** chicken wing
I died 😂😂😂
Shouldn't you... twist the ice cube tray? Like... that's the most efficient way to get ice cubes out????
Even though some of these aren't being done right (Ugh look at that pomegranate) I still thought this video was funny to watch.
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.
These are my favorite mental floss videos!
I kinda like these life hack videos, but all they really teach me is what John can and can't do.
That Pomegranate looks disgusting
i always love the popery of intelligent ideas and just goofy ones in these vids.
No, bad eggs float. Those eggs may have been older, but them sinking means that they were still good.
"I mean, just eat the fucking chicken." -John Green
Quote of the year^ lol.
Should do some tests more than once, for instance battery bounce Etc. better statistics = better results. Can't just do one trial lol.
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.
I love your crash course history videos
It frustrates me SO much when John "tests" lifehacks that I know WORK and makes them NOT work by doing them wrong. -_-.
.) You obviously can't make a rotten fruit fresh again by putting it in water, but if you have an actually edible pomegranate submerging it in water will get seeds out.
.) You can also actually tell if an egg has gone bad by putting it in water, but your eggs were all still fresh enough to be used safely! This is where the rotten food would have come in handy...
.) The post-it note is handy mostly because it is so slim and still sticky, so you can insert it in between the keys and get dirt out there - the top could be cleaned much more easily with a wipe or cloth.
.) When you want a comb to hold a nail for you you need to use the right size - for a small nail like the one you were using you can't use a comb for curled hair, obviously. Also: clothespins.
.) Who opens a bag of peas, takes none out and tries to close the completely full, but now much shorter package?
.) You get frozen food out of ice cube trays by slightly warming the bottom - just dip the bottom half into warm water for a few seconds!
.) Microwaving citrus fruit helps break the cells inside the fruit - it doesn't magically produce more juice, it just makes it easier to get more of it out - it works, just as rolling them on a board before cutting them does.
No trick on earth will help you ever if you do it wrong!
I always de-seed a pomegranate under water. the seeds sink and the skin floats. Also, your pomegranate looks extremely old.
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.
I love these life hacks!
Ok several fails that demand do over. Yeah the pomegranate was sooo rotten couldn't even see the seeds. The lime thing is that you didn't compare it with unmicrowaved lime. And the ice cream hack is for ice cream that had been opened not fresh. Strawberry thing maybe should have sprayed the ice cube tray with spray oil or put the bottom in hot water to release the ice cubes.
You're not meant to freeze the chocolate strawberries. They go in the fridge.
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.
A lot more life hacks have popped up since this video. You should do more!
Wait. Did he just answer my mind-blowing question about where the answers to mind-blowing questions went?
Mind. Blown.
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
Did you really just chew ice cream? My sensitive teeth are upset.
Aside from that I think these videos are great! :)
He is so hilarious, considering he wrote the depressing, heart breaking "the fault in our stars
I miss having John doing the Mental Floss videos
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
what the fuck was wrong with the pomegranate? was it rotten or something?
Thank you for captioning this video! :)
It would be nice if John could read the hack for himself to understand how its done. Many hacks i see are not done correctly.
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.