I disagree for sheet cakes with fruits, they taste better when baked in a Serious Oven - a tool the bakery owns and I not.
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Afternoon tea @renkeās!
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I donāt particularly like cake. And Iām pretty ambivalent about bacon, to be honest.
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Do you mean like grocery store? Is a proper bakery okay?
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Thereās a lifehack that involves using your ovenās clean mode. Youāll need to disable the locking mechanism, though.
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Since nobody ever calls it a store: yes.
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Yes, seriously, that part was a bit like the infomercials where someone fails in an utterly incompetent manner.
Edit: Iām finally watching the whole of the original video (instead of the other one perviously linked here), so sorry for the late comments, but is this man the most incompetent man ever to be in front of a camera? I mean, I know heās very smart in other ways, butā¦
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Also, does the onion thing go away the more you cut onions? Or some varieties are less tear-inducing than others?
I cook every day, have done so for 15 years, and I barely remember the last time an onion made me tear up. I probably cut five or six red or yellow onions a week.
Maybe itās also because I use a very sharp knife.
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They actually confined this on Mythbusters.
John Green is awesome. Mental Floss is awesome. This series is awesome. For a good time watch all of the series of these life hack debunking videos.
mkay. Iāll use a lifecheat and walk to the bakery instead 
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The way he works, heād give the āhackā that heated water boils a FAIL.
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SSHHHH!!
Dont tell people about that, otherwise they may all start making great pizza!
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They should be useful tips like how to prepare a guest for dinner with a few easy hacks.
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A side note, but Iāve been watching Halt and Catch Fire, and I keep expecting Lee Pace to end up like American Psycho, but he keeps getting more sympathetic as the season plays out. But he was pretty much straight up the character from American Psycho in the first episode, without the murder.
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The way I do the egg test is to see if the inside is spinning freely. You do that by spinning the egg, immediately stopping it, and then letting go just as fast. If it is uncooked, it will spin a little more as the fluid sloshing around inside keeps going. If itās cooked, it will stay stopped.
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John Green is a total klutz.
I like the show. Somewhat.
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Ooohhhh, plum cake. I didnāt think anyone outside our tiny little ethnic area knew about those.
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Um, the egg one is true!
Also, this is no life hack, as professional chefs have been teaching young cooks this technique for differentiating cooked versus raw eggs FOREVER!
A cooked egg can be spun really fast, while an uncooked egg will spin slowly, because the yolk inside is moving too, acting as a counterweight, which slows the spinning. Basic high school physics.
This could clearly be seen in the video. He spun the white egg and it spun slowly. He spun the brown egg and it was spinning so fast, it began to walk across the table. The difference was so totally and completely obvious, that I donāt know how the presenter got it wrong and then concluded the life hack was false.
Kind ruins the credibility of the presenter and his debunking abilities.
PS. A large pizza box lid, 20"x20", and a box cutter/X-Acto knife/razor blade/sharp kitchen knife would make cutting four 10" serving plates not only doable, but quick and easy. So, that one shouldnāt have been debunked either.
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