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Aug 26, 2025
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[Music]
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Yeah, I smelled the mustard because I
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want to smell it so that I can predict.
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Hi, I'm Heather and welcome to Hack
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Chat. Today I'm going to be talking
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about Tik Tok hacks.
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I'm going to be rating them as usual on
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a scale of helpfulness and easiness, but
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also because it's Tik Tok hacks, I'm
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going to be rating them on a scale of
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fun because I've learned from my Tik Tok
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consultant, my 14-year-old daughter,
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that they have to be fun. Tik Tok hacks
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must be fun. I'm going to do the egg
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sandwich hack. Egg sandwiches are one of
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the best things in the world. And this
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hack, I was so excited to try. I have
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the feeling it's going to be amazing,
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but I'm just going to just stop talking
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and just try it out. I'm going to put
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some butter in even though this is
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already nonstick because butter's good.
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So, here's the thing about this one. I
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don't know who invented it. If you
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invented this, let me know in the
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comments down below because I would like
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to give you credit. Whisk it up. All
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right, here we go. So, you put your eggs
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in. Let them cook a little bit. Season
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it up. I like a lot of black pepper. Put
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it down. Put it down next to it. It
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smells really good. Like the best Sunday
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morning. I want this to flip over
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perfectly. I'm putting American cheese
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on this because my preferred breakfast
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sandwich is a bacon egg and cheese. I'm
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going to put some bacon on here. Going
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to put some hot sauce on here. Fold it
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up into a pocket.
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Okay, that is extremely satisfying.
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Here's what I want to discuss about
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this. First of all, I'm very excited.
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Second of all, I'm hungry. Third of all,
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look at the proportions. Proportions are
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very important in a sandwich. So, here
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we go. I'm going to cut it like a
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triangle cuz that's how I like to cut my
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sandwiches.
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M. The bread is really soft. There's
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like a cheesy layer in there. Yeah. Look
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at that. It's a perfect proportion. It's
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so good. Okay. My ratings are
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helpfulness
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four, easiness
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four, fun five plus plus plus plus um
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I'm sorry I need to keep talking but I
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want to put this in my mouth. Like
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perfectness four like five. I don't
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know. Can you give something a five for
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perfectness or will the world explode if
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that happens? Like you just don't need
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to do anything ever again. I think this
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is a beautiful thing. I give it a thumbs
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up.
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The next hack that I'm going to try is
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mashed potato chips by Sam the cooking
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guy. There's something about the texture
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that I'm really curious about. I've
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decided to test this with sour cream and
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onion potato chips because that is the
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best potato chip flavor. The first most
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curious thing about this recipe is that
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we're using a kitchen scale for
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precision. 3 oz exactly. So, I'm going
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to just heat up this water. You have to
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wait for it to boil. I did do a little
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bit of research beforehand on this one
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and a lot of the conversation has to do
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with the price of a potato versus the
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price of a bag of potato chips. Is it
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more expensive to make mashed potato
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chips or is it more expensive to make
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plain mashed potatoes? Okay, so I have
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the chips. Putting them in. This might
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be good if you were camping. Really,
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everything tastes better when you're
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camping. Like all foods improve by like
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50% when you're camping cuz you're just
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hungry. Okay, so this has only been
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about 10 seconds. These are softening
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up. They feel a little gluey. So this is
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like stirring like a really thick cake
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batter. Okay, so we're going to add a
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four of a cup of half and half. It's
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created a sort of a lumpy sauce. Going
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to try to cook it down a little. This
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appears to be very very very very lumpy.
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I'm trying to give this really its best
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shot. Like I want all of the hacks to
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work. I don't think it's ready because
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it's still liquid and I know that
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because when I push my spoon through it,
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it fills in the channel. Like if I were
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parting the Red Sea, nobody would be
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safe. Nobody could get across. I'm going
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to let it boil.
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Okay, so we're ready to plate it. I've
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followed the Tik Tok as closely as I
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possibly could.
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I'm going to give this its best shot
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here. Chop up some scallions. Here I go.
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Mhm.
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Okay. So, it's possible that I did
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something wrong. And it's possible that
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the brand of chips is really important,
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but this is really lumpy and very
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liquidy. So, it's like somewhere in
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between a soup and mashed potatoes. It's
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not like good. On a scale of
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helpfulness, it's like a two or a one
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cuz I got my hopes up. It like went from
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a two to a one because I got my hopes up
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and then they were sort of dashed. For
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easiness, it's a two because it's like
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it's not harder to make mashed potatoes.
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I don't know. On a scale of
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disappointment, it's like pretty high.
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It's like a five. Fun doesn't work in a
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linear way. Fun is cumulative. So like
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you could have fun riding a skateboard,
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but if you fall and break your knee, it
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like retroactively becomes not fun.
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Overall, I give it a thumbs down. lumpy.
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For this Tik Tok hack, I'm going to be
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making Delona coffee. I think that I'm
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going to be a good test case because I
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have not actually watched this video
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before and I've never made it. And then
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apparently you have to dance and pretend
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to play a flute. So, I wonder if I'm
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going to just be whisking all day. But I
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also could use a workout, especially on
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my top half. So, that's two tablespoons
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of each thing. Sugar, coffee, water. Oh,
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this is already frothing. This is
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already becoming thick. It smells like
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coffee, but also kind of like
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dirt. It's a beautiful color. It's like
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very ribbony.
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This is fun so far. I'm going to use oat
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milk. So, here I go. Half glass of oat
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milk. And uh here I go. Look at that.
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It's just fun to look at it. It also
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floats, which shouldn't really be
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surprising cuz it's filled with air. All
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right, here it is. The moment of truth.
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It's It's super good. It like sticks to
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your top lip. It's kind of warmish on
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the top and then it's really cold
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underneath and then you get two
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different flavors. Bittersweetness
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that's fluffy. Then you get like cold
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blandness. M. Here are my remaining
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questions. Do I have to mix it up and is
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it better if I mix it up? Is it better
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if I drink it straight out of the glass
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or if I use a straw?
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Definitely don't like the straw. I don't
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think it's going to turn out well.
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Yeah, that just turned into instant
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coffee. So, yeah, it's better if you
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drink it out of the glass, unmixed up
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without a straw. So, here's what I want
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to say about the rating scales in this
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world is that like fun is so important.
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Fun and helpfulness are sometimes at
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odds with each other. It's kind of like
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in a curved scale just for Tik Tok. Like
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this coffee in real life, it's not
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really that helpful. But like if you
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want a delicious fluffy coffee that's
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pretty fun to make, I'd say that you are
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helped by this. And so I'd say that
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helpfulness, it's a four. Easiness, it's
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like a three. This is the longest rating
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of any ratings ever. Fun, it's a four.
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I mean, that's pretty fun. Overall,
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thumbs up. The Tik Tok hack that I'm
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going to try next is pesto eggs. I love
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it because you take a store-bought thing
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that's already delicious and it has a
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lot of fat in it and you use it to cook
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the eggs. I'm acting like I've made this
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before. I've never made it before,
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obviously. Um, but sometimes I've seen
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ones This is way too hot. Way, way, way,
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way, way too hot. This is fine,
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everybody. Don't worry.
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The sizzly sound is one of the best
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sounds. So, what's happening here is
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like the oil separates out. I'm seeing
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it happen. The eggs are cooking, the
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flavors getting all around them. So,
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what's happening underneath here, I want
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to tell you, cuz I don't know if you can
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see it, but like a lot of crispiness is
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happening that maybe some people would
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consider burnt, but other people would
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consider caramelized. It smells like
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pasta in the summertime. Herbs and
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cheese and like the olive oil. It's
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very, very fragrant. All right, it's
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done. I'm kind of a little bit of a
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purist, but I'm going to do this
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combination anyway. So, this is ricotta
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cheese. You know, if you don't try new
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things, then life is going to be boring.
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I have already sliced an avocado.
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Flatten it up. I'm going to put some
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salt on here. I'm going to put some
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pesto eggs on here. Now, I don't know if
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anybody is as excited as I am. Probably
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not because this isn't in your house
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yet. This is drizzly honey in a bear.
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Okay, so I plated up this pesto eggs.
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It's like a whole entire meal. I would
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totally eat this for dinner. I don't
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really think it's a hack. I think it's
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just a really good new recipe.
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It's so good. I just I just hit my
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cutting board really hard.
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It's really so incredibly tasty. The
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toastedness of the pesto, which I was
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slightly worried about, is really doing
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a lot. It's like really really serves a
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purpose. I mean, it's kind of just
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perfect as it is because it has like the
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fat and the flavor and the cheese and
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the herbs and it's all together already
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and it's sort of fresh. There's like
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nothing phony in there. So, here we go.
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Let's talk about it. On a scale of
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helpfulness, I give it like a three. On
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a scale of easiness, it's like four.
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This is exactly the same difficulty
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level as making eggs in another way. But
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as a fun element, I give it like a two
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because it's exactly like making eggs in
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another way. I guess like the thing that
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makes it a hack is that you get to have
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all of these flavors that are very, very
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good with eggs. Overall, as a hack, I'm
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going to just have to give it a thumbs
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down. Not because I don't think it's
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delicious, because I don't really think
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it's a hack. This next hack that I'm
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going to try, it's peppers with cream
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cheese and everything bagel seasoning.
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It's by this nurse, Janelle Roner. Is
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this a hack? Because to me, it's just
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putting three foods together, but maybe
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it's because like it's using a pepper
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instead of a bagel. Also, my daughter
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loves Miranda Sings. I also love Miranda
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Sings, and I saw her try it the other
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day, so I want to try it out. Let's see
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what it's all about. All right, so we
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take a pepper. I'm going to get rid of
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all of the insides. So, I think that
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this snack exists for people who don't
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really want to have like a ton of carbs.
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I'm also going to do this thing that I
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discovered when I was camping. You take
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the cream cheese and you squish it up a
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little bit and you cut off the corner
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and then you kind of just can squish it
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in. I'm sneaking a mini hack in here.
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Here we go. This is not difficult.
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Putting a lot on.
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Yeah, this is like predictably good.
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It's like chili creamy with like I can't
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even believe how much I put on there.
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You can actually see my tooth marks.
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It's really tasty snack, but I don't
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think it's a hack. Do you think it's a
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hack? Will you let me know in the
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comments below? So, I'm going to rate
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this. It's not super helpful as a hack
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cuz it didn't invent something new. So,
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it's like a two. It's very easy. Five
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for an easiness scale. For fun, it's
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like a two. It's an ordinary snack level
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of fun. On a scale of like being
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awesome, I give Janelle Roner a five cuz
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she's a nurse. As a snack, I give it a
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thumbs up. As a hack, I give it a thumbs
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down.
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[Music]
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The watermelon mustard Tik Tok
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challenge. I'm not afraid of it at all.
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I don't know what could be so bad about
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it. I'm going to just watch Lizo do it
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cuz I just could watch her have a facial
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reaction all day long. She somehow
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slices her watermelon by snapping. She
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just has so many emotions like in a row
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on her face. It's like she's not sure.
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She thinks it's gross. She thinks it's
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good. She goes back in for more. Yeah,
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it's fantastic. Let's do it. I'm going
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to do a giant chunk cuz I thought that
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was really fun looking. I was told that
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the mustard had to be yellow. Here we
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go. Yeah, I smelled the mustard because
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I want to smell it so that I can predict
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cuz you know if you smell two things at
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the same time, you can often tell
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whether they're going to be good
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together. Did you know that?
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Squiggle.
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All right.
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This tastes so much like mustard on
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watermelon.
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You'd hardly believe it. I don't know.
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For easiness, I give it a four. So, I
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think like for fun, I guess I give it
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like a three. For like helpfulness, I
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give it a two. I'll give it a two
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because I like trying new things. For
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predictability, I give it a five.
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Overall, sure. You know what? I'll give
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it a thumbs up cuz it's fun to try
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things out.
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So, we're going to talk a little bit
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about what we did today. We tried a lot
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of Tik Tok hacks. We talked a lot about
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what hacks are and what they're not.
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When is it a recipe and when is it a
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hack? Can you please tell me what you
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think? I seriously want to know. I I
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need to talk about my least favorite
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first just to get it out of the way.
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Potato chips. Mashed potatoes is only
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good if you have a desperate craving for
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mashed potatoes and you are locked in a
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convenience store with a little bit of
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boiling water. But my favorite thing and
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it really like shines more brightly than
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anything in the whole entire universe of
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Tik Tok hacks that I tried today is this
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egg sandwich. And it's the perfect hack.
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And you know why? Because it improves
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upon the egg sandwich. It's like can you
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really improve upon that? And the answer
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is yes. I literally read your comments.
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So, please tell me what hacks you want
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to see. You know, I'd like to talk about
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back to school. I think that's a really
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good time for hacks.
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