Is your chocolate fake? Debunking 5 minute crafts & freeze drying water
In this episode: Debunking 5 minute crafts & viral recipe hacks, Freeze Drying Water, Japanese chocolate infused strawberries and is your chocolate fake?
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39 Comments
Very exciting weekend in our household, James is getting married tomorrow. I have just, right then, finished making the wedding cake.
I don't know about blooming cocoa, but when I owned am ice cream store we always dissolved our cocoa in hot milk or water to turn it into a syrup because otherwise it was impossible to get it to mix and bind properly into the cold ice cream base.
13:45 it’s Google AI overview. Come on now, not surprising
If the "hack" has to use an AI voice, I'm definitely not trusting it.
Google AI linking searches to influencer videos feels like it should be illegal. But, like many things to do with AI, apparently they can do whatever they like. They already stole the work of every artist and writer in the world, and now they can purposefully push misinformation onto people.
Tbh the biggest issue with AI is that it is designed to agree with you and please you as much as possible, so ask it enough questions and it will eventually tell you the sun is blue and the sky is neon green. It is called AI but there is no intelligence, at most it is an artificial parrot, it neither knows or cares what is or is not true it is designed to find and parrot whatever information you want but it does not actually know if that information is true, it would assure you an article from the onion was 100% true if that was the only piece of information it could find.
People say Canadian chocolate tastes better. I now understand why. I once bought an American chocolate bar, it was disgusting
with the ai overveiw, I highly reccommend completely ignoring it and scrolling pass.
Howtocookthat casually exposing how much of a lie US food ingredients lists are
to my understanding, australian chocolate is quite different to ours in england because you have higher temperatures. though i suppose an oven is a consistent, higher temperature than both countries
Caramel can be boiled in water an melted if you actually submerge it an not put it in a pan with shallow water.. that one was bullshit. Also of course you can't let it cool, you have to drizzle it then immediately wrap the pastry in it… that is the only one here i call bullahit on. She just flat out did it incorrectly…
4:38 My god. Freeze dry being interpreted as freeze and then "dry" completely skipping what freeze drying is supposed to do. Which is suck out all the moisture WITHOUT cooking it. (Even the "directions" note letting it cook *sob*) Specifically drying it in a COLD environment. It doesn't pass the sanity test!
P.S. The suicide cable into a glass of water is wild, and wildly, criminally irresponsible.
19:45 Ah yes, "opening the particles". We call that nuclear fission. And "really really hot water" is going cook what its in contact with. Kinda like what happens if you get really hot water on your hand. Tasty bacon! I assume this is piggy backing off of "tempering" of chocolate which has a specific purpose, function, and is testable. Where as this "blooming" just makes it "better" in an ill defined, placebo esc manner. I guess it was inevitable the BS snake oil alt"medicine" would show up in cooking.
This was a fantastic one. Keep it up!
14:16 NO THE AI CAN NOT UNDERSTAND. Accuracy and truth are fundamentally not part of LLM AI. They are algorithms that predict the most likely thing that would come after the prompt. Then trained by what receivers "like." And people "like" to be affirmed. So they always lean towards affirmations. Please understand though that the "most likely to follow after the prompt" part fundamentally means the AI doesn't understand anything at all, at any time. It gets a prompt and looks it up in a metaphorical dictionary, it does not need to understand an entry to find it in the book, and spit out what follows after it. So by its underlying structure it has no ability to derive "truth" from fiction because its all the same. So until the day comes that the whole of the internet contains zero fiction, LLM AI will be hopelessly flawed.
Hersheys could legitimately be lying about their ingredients, which could result in a major lawsuit. Not like it was a good chocolate anyway though, just stop buying it.
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Americans and their Hershey's "chocolate". I have tasted a Hershey's kiss once, and it tasted like vomit. That is not a hyperbole, it was truly horrible.
I'm pretty sure you could do the caramel thing prior to it setting. Still would be odd having hard caramel on a cake though.
UK Cadbury's chocolate is like eating Palm oil and it awful stopped buying it ages ago.
@18:35 It's been many, many years since I've been to Hershey Park but I seem to recall them saying their milling process/machinery for the cocoa is different than other companies.
UK Cadbury chocolate is awful now.
A, chocolate cake. B, chocolate cake. C, chocolate cake. Man's just living his best life.
I wonder if we can import the Australian Cadburys back into the UK. Because Kraft are insistent on making everything as shit as possible. They just don't care about the people who do, they have the money to wait them out and then they can have a penny more profit at the expense of a product that's only a shadow of the previous product.
My go to chocolate cake recipe blooms the coco in coffee and melted butter at a temp of "just hot enough to melt the butter." I wonder if scalding the coco in too hot of liquid is a problem? Or it's useful that it's being bloomed largely in fats instead of just water. Or maybe it's not doing anything! Other than the most important part of mixing warm butter, coffee, and coco in that it makes the kitchen smell AMAZING before you even start baking lmao
The amount of time and effort you spend on these videos amaze me every single time
The freeze dry bit… that is a level of imbecility I’ve never thought possible
11:39 I should call her…
I admire the bruteforce simplicity of the idea that freeze-drying = freezing, then drying (in a clothes dryer). You can see exactly why they thought that, and also immediately know that they know nothing about the process
Came up on my feed on happenstance, and I decided to watch. Love you, now.
I forget the mother company of Cadbury chocolate beside Kraft Heinz. In my personal opinion, they have untrustworthy sustainability standard called "cocoa life". They create the standard and they also do the auditing/verification. No third party involvement.. suspicious.
I was so enamoured by the infusion part of the video, that when the blender and tin foil came up, I had to pause from the whiplash.
19:02 please correct me if I’m wrong, but Hershey’s milk chocolate has a certain amount of lactic acid, which allows for more stability at slightly higher temps and thus easier shipping, compared with non-lactated chocolates. It also gives Hershey’s that unusual taste.
I am obsessed with your voice and accent i could listen to you all day!
Also I can’t believe they’ve changed our dairy milk!! Sacrilege!!!
For the freeze dried strawberries, I’m curious if chocolate milk would work with the strawberries
Update: I asked my mom if she had eaten any Hershey Kisses lately, and not the mint ones. She said yes she had and without me even asking her, she said “they tasted different. They had a fruity undertone to them.” That is, in my opinion, confirmation that the recipe has changed. My mother has consumed so many Hershey Kisses in her lifetime, that she metaphorically bleeds chocolate. She knows Hershey Kisses. If she says they tasted different, then something has changed.
Mmmmmm freeze dried wrench
When I was a kid I tried to make dry ice by just taking it out of the tray and putting it in a different part of the freezer.
That’s the level five minute crafts operates at.
this queen really took her time to debunk those chocolate strawberries, what a legend
I think the caramel one could half work if you melted it your way and then already had the cake ready to wrap it round immediately before it's set? 🤔