woah! You solved the 100yr old secret!!

Cadbury: "it's a 100 year old secret only few people know..." Ann: "Just add a lil water" Cadbury: "dammit"

i love how this is so lawfully chaotic like "ok for this one i'll microwave approximately 15 eggs one at a time to prove it will always explode, discover a 100-year old industry secret and then sacrifice 3 baby teeth to the coca cola gods"

This woman really spent an hour trying to find out a 100 year old secret, looked straight into the camera and said now you can make it at home EASY and moved on like it was NOTHING - an icon

okay so no one is going to talk about how she not only solved a century old secret, but ALSO cleaned her microwave several times for us, AND is literally the tooth fairy? Maybe this woman is an actual angel sent from heaven.

Ann is so committed to educating her fans that she exploded multiple eggs in her microwave just to entertain us. Thank you, Ann!

Cadbury : it's a closely guarded secret only a select few know. Ann : it's seized chocolate you can diy at home. Cadbury : surprised pikachu face

Dear Anne, I really need to thank you for discussing the egg in the microwave issue in detail. My mom fell for this and I've always been so afraid of her getting hurt. A couple months ago we had a scare and she's stopped ever since. The explosion was strong enough to force open the microwave door - fortunately no spatter got on her even though she was immediately front of it. Loud sounds like that really spook me so I had to go sit down for feeling faint and avoided the kitchen for a few days afterward.

Regarding the chocolate flake at ca. 14:00 - a solid state chemist here; chocolate has actually 6 distinct polymorphic forms (polymorphs are substances with the same chemical composition, but the molecules are stacked in different ways in 3D space, which can lead to different physical properties in separate forms), each with slightly different visual properties and melting points. The one that became soft and malable when you held it in your hand was an example of what's the 'standard' and most desirable across the industry, form 5, which doesn't melt too fast when held in hand, but does in mouth. Looking at how the 'flake' behaves, I strongly suspect that it's simply form 6, which is characterised by being harder and having a higher melting point than form 5, which would explain the observed difference in behaviour. Conceivably, it was then processed in one way or another and that's the secret they are talking about. Out of melted chocolade, each of the 6 polymorph forms can be crystallized by applying certain techniques - think of this as a process similar to tempering a sword (hence: tempered chocolade), wherein by combining melting and cooling processes at varying (but precise) temperatures, you are able to manufacture the target form, aside from form 6. This one is made by leaving any 'tampered' form on a shelf (in carefully managed conditions) for several months. You can google 'chocolate polymorphs' to find out more, and a quick graphic I find helpful can be found here: www.compoundchem.com/2014/04/19/the-polymorphs-of-chocolate/

Do you think Dave is sitting in the living room reading and hears the microwave start and an explosion and says to himself, “Ann must be recording a video.”

Ann Reardon: Figures out Cadbury’s secret Cadbury: Delete this. Now.

I can just imagine a century ago, a guy melting some chocolate in the Cadbury factory and balls it up by adding milk and siezing it.... trying to get away with hiding the result somehow, only to go, "hey, we can sell that"

Ann: “I’m going to give you something to taste.” Dave: *INSTANT SUSPICION* This poor man has been through it.

I love that Ann just casually solves a 100 year mystery

For the bottle "hack", even if you manage to successfully break the bottle, those edges are still going to be sharp. Be careful!

I remember one time when I was younger I wanted to warm a boiled egg (don’t like them cold), and it exploded in my mouth when I took a bite. It terrified me, but I was lucky; it could’ve been worse. It sucks to see topics like these, but I’m so glad you talked about this.

cadbury: "its a 100 year secret" Ann reardon: successfully recreates it at her second attempt

"Is it like turmeric and sardine?" Poor Dave, he's so traumatized he can't even imagine Ann giving him a normal chocolate bar to taste test. 😂

oh that Flake thing is extremely similar to a traditional form of chocolate we have here where i'm from! it's called "chocolate en rama" (the translation would be something like branch chocolate??) and that's pretty much the exact recipe, yeah. y'all should watch some videos on how it's made if you've got the time, it's vv cool

Thx for calling out the fake hacks,we need more people like you🥰

Cadbury: our Flake recipe is a closely guarded secret, no one can ever know Ann: ya wanna see some real speed? edit: i just came back to this randomly omg thanks for all the likes!

Taking a moment to appreciate the amount of times Ann must have cleaned her microwave out for us to enjoy quality content

I always imagine what the boys think when they walk in on their mum filming debunking videos: James goes to get a glass of water Sees Ann stood by the microwave “Mum what are you doing” “Just microwaving eggs to see if they explode”

Honestly I’ve considered poaching eggs in the microwave cuz I failed miserably with the stove method . The only things stopping me was the horror of eating egg cooked in microwave. And now this video has completely put that thought out of my head 👍

I still dont get why the KZfaq algorithm isn’t recommending Ann to more new viewers. Its really a shame how KZfaq promotes fake baking hacks, more than Ann who has her own cookbook, a full on website, recipes, debunking videos and many more. We need Ann to get on the recommendations

“It’s a closely guarded secret” Ann: *tries like 2 methods” “Another mystery solved”

She really went from debunking fake hacks to creating flake hacks ❤️

The way you smiled when you revealed the book and saw it, held it in your hands... That was so wholesome and made me smile too :)

I can’t stop laughing at the fact Cadbury’s guarded secret was that they made the chocolate slightly more wet

Cadbury: "its a closely guarded trade secret" Anne: "lol they just screwed up and seized a batch of chocolate then tried to save it"

I’ve watched this video before but I came back for the eggs and then watching the Flake recreation was epic. I love how you could see Ann was so chuffed that she figured it out 😄 what a legend

Cadburry: 100 year old secret. Ann: Challenge accepted

This video is wild: exploding eggs, burning glass, shading KZfaq, exposing Cadbury's, a whole book and then baby teeth casually introduced at the end

I can't decide the best moment of this video. We've got: 1. Ann sacrificing her microwave's dignity countless times for exploding eggs 2. Ann casually solving a 100-year-old closely-guarded secret 3. Ann nonchalantly mentioning that she has baby teeth on hand for no reason

Thank you for this one. You might have saved me from an exploding egg mishap. I occasionally get frozen ramen bowls to cook in the microwave, and I'd been cracking an egg into them to cook in there as well. I hadn't realized how risky this was and will definitely not be doing it again.

My friend recently started poaching eggs in the microwave, and I immediately remembered this video and sent it to him! Thanks for your really easy-to-understand methodical ways of showing how these things are dangerous!

cadbury: flakes are made using a 100 year old closely guarded secret that no one knows ann: i’m about to ruin this mans whole career

I love that the likely origin of Flake is "aw, dang, we ruined this batch of chocolate... let's use it anyway"

We don’t have a microwave at home so I took this video as a nice informational advice until I went to visit my grandma. She has a microwave and wanted to reheat a boiled egg from yesterday, I wasn’t there when she put it but I realised immediately what had happened when I heard a gunshot sound from the kitchen. The explosion was so forceful that opened the microwave door and fragments of boiled egg got everywhere. Fortunately my grandma who was near the microwave didn’t get burnt. I am glad this happened with me here so I could tell her to never put eggs in the microwave because apparently she did that with raw eggs too. After that I just texted people to inform to never do this. Thank you for making videos like this! 💕

I love this lady. She's so pragmatic and thorough

Ann's really at that point of her career where she can just say "Here's these corporations' secrets xoxo" and i love it

You are literally a genius. The dislikes are from Cadbury employees disgruntled by the fact that you solved this

With the chocolate I know another situation that *kinda* does the same as flakes. When a chocolate bar is expired and left there for a long time after the expiration date, they turn white-ish and seem to have the same quality of not melting easily anymore and being really crumbly but in the mouth it does melt and tastes like the chocolate (it does however take a little while until the taste comes about and it usually does lose its scent of chocolate when not in the mouth too).

one of my friends mentioned poaching eggs in the microwave and i pulled this video out to show her why she should stop. she tried to argue that one wasn't enough, but as the eggs kept going she got quieter and quieter. thanks for being thorough ann!

Cadbury: it's a secret (◡‿◡✿) Ann: hold my chocolate

Ann really woke up and said, “I’m gonna bring a centuries-old chocolate empire to its knees today” and condensed the whole process into a section of a 20 minute KZfaq video

If you microwave a jawbreaker it explodes to they covered that on MythBusters and interesting enough the experiments showed that literally only one part of the jawbreaker was being affected by the heat from the microwave but the rest of the candy wasn't so I wonder if it's something at like the molecule level in egg that is being affected in the egg.

Holding my own printed book was one of the most incredible moments of my life. I know this is an old video, but congratulations on all your hard work paying off.

If 5 Minute Crafts said a bomb would instantly bake a cake, Ann would be the type of person to calmly say “Look at that. The dynamite blew up the cake. It’s not cooked” I love her personality.

'i happen to have some baby teeth on hand' is one of the most unintentionally terrifying things you've ever said

I completely forgot about this game, but I watched all of your LP's years ago. LOVE that you're bringing it back!

The egg is the first “hack” I’ve seen on your channel that I may have potentially fallen for. I grew up cooking scrambled eggs in the microwave, which does work fine. I wonder what about scrambling them changes things. Even so, you have to watch it, or it will expand far out of the bowl. Perhaps it’s something to do with the protein bonds.

She's such an icon. In a single video she, threw shade at KZfaq, blew up a bunch of eggs just to get across the point that you're not supposed to put eggs in the microwave, figured out a "closely guarded secret" in two tries, flaunted her book, and casually showed us that she's totally a mom by pulling some baby teeth outta nowhere.

Ann smiling while embracing her book and saying "Look! Mah book!" is such a precious moment

@8:06 Waaaaht?! A microwave oven with a curved interior shell with zero corners? 😖😲. This is literally my first time ever seeing or learning of the existence of such microwave ovens. I guess I've been comfortably living under a rock without a clue until now 🤣 On a side note, my theory on the exploding eggs in the microwave is: As the egg or egg white or egg yoke is getting heated in the microwave oven, the outmost boundaries of the egg white/yoke forms a rubbery barrier that has very little water molecules. Meanwhile, the interior portion which still has more water molecules continues to vibrationally and frictionally get agitated, to the point that quickly accelerating pressure buildup of the interior of the cooking egg, egg white and etc against the rubbery boundaries gets too much and is released via violent explosion of the egg or egg white or yoke

Currently in quarantine and not doing well at all. Your videos make me feel better and lift my spirits. Thank you always ❤️

This entire video was a wild ride. Horrific burns, exploding eggs, Sherlocking an industry secret, DAVE, hugging your cookbook, "hey I have human teeth" omg I love you

Cadbury: it’s our secret recipe *Evil laugh* Ann: add water to melted milk chocolate Cadbury: 🔫👁👄👁

Someone linked this video to a Facebook post asking about why flakes don’t melt. This was so educational I had to subscribe. Wonderful job!

I’ve done the “burning string” trick to crack a bottle neck off of a bottle to try and make a guitar slide before, and if you take the usual precautions one should take when working with tools or fire and whatnot, it’s not very dangerous, and it works! But you must be careful, and must do your research, and shouldn’t do anything if you aren’t sure you can pull it off.

Ann Reardon is a true chaotic good; in one video, she debunked dangerous hacks, exposed corporate secrets, dissolved some human teeth, and exploded at least a dozen eggs. Respect ✊😂✨

Cadbury: "Our secrets will remain known only to us until the end of time." Ann: _Spends an hour experimenting and finds it out_ Cadbury: 👁👄👁

I really appreciate the effort that goes into these videos, always going the extra mile and trying things over and over in slightly different ways to demonstrate practically what the results are as well as explaining why that is what happens. I don't know any other person who does debunking videos that would explode like a dozen eggs in their microwave despite knowing it's always going to explode.

My cousins taught us the vase trick, what I didn't see was any scoring of the glass around the string. It makes a weak point for the glass to break in a more controlled manor.

The fact that Dave assumed the chocolate would have sardines or such untasty nastiness while blindfolded made me giggle. That man has a lot of taste tester PTSD.

When my mom got her first microwave oven in 1981, Litton, a salesman brought the microwave and explained its operation. He also warned her about eggs and instructed her on how to cook them safely. Our family often ate microwave eggs but prepared them correctly with no issues at all. I take a very small shallow bowl. Break your eggs into the bowl. Whisk the eggs. Add a tablespoon of water. Cover the bowl. Microwave on high for about 2 min. Never had a problem. It didn't use a turntable, but a "fan" to move the beams around. I don't think that made a difference though. What I do is I don't put my bowl in the middle of the turntable, but on the edge so you don't get standing waves in one spot of the egg.

Thank you for the video! About poaching eggs in a microwave, I found an interesting addition, so maybe one day you would want to try it out: "I have been making microwave poached eggs for over 20 years. One tip I learned working in a hospital kitchen as a dietary aid...make sure the water you drop the egg in is hot. Yes, one minute cook time. But I found out early on that if you use cold water, the egg yolk often explodes before 1 minute in the microwave. This is because the microwave cooks from the inside out and if the water is cold, the egg yolk will reach a very high temperature before the white is cooked and it often explodes!...in your microwave. Anyhow, hope this helps."

Everyone is talking about Cadbury but not how she just casually has some human teeth on hand. I respect it.

The stupid thing about the vase hack (apart from how dangerous it is, of course) is that it doesn't even produce a good vase. That rim is still jagged, potentially sharp, glass.

It's worth pointing out that the "String Hack" was at one time published in the "U.S. Department of the Army" Field Manual for improvising booby traps and demolitions. It was intended to use a shoe string or boot lace and gasoline, and the "optimal bottle" was a champagne bottle, being used because the indent in the bottom was already calculated "back home by the egg-heads" for a shaped charge with a known "stand-off" distance... Without getting into too much dangerous detail, the stand-off is the proper distance between a shaped charge and it's target if you intend to blast a neat round hole through as much material as physically possible with that particular size of charge... The point (and the conclusion) then is that it WILL work, given the appropriate amount of time with nearly any liquid fuel for the fire, and on nearly any glass bottle or similar container... BUT being this was intended for soldiers in the field (who were already in hazardous field conditions and fighting just to survive) it's also NOT a very safe "trick" one should indulge in while "playing in the house". It MIGHT be worthy of demonstrations for educational purposes regarding glass, stress fracturing, the use of heat to induce stress and some of the other engineering points about material science and clever stuff to do with that information, but this is a "big kids OUTSIDE stunt" at best... I only know about it because I collect such field manuals when I can find them, and I read them before trading or packing them quietly away where they won't incidentally get anyone else into trouble, injured, maimed, or killed. I know this kind of thing can be readily found on the internet "all willy-nilly and stuff", BUT I DO NOT have to contribute to that. NOTHING against Ann for demonstrating. She explained it well, and I believe she did a fine job of informing viewers of the potential dangers, and warning us all NOT to play with fire just because we saw something silly on the internet... BUT do follow her and Taras Kul's (Crazy Russian Hacker) example and prepare for issues whenever around open flames. It's all fun and games until it's not, whether someone loses an eyeball, or lights themselves on fire, or burns the house into a smoldering hole in the ground. ;o)

“Turmeric and sardine” 😂

Ann - solves 100 year old guarded secret chocolate recipe Ann: “Easy! 🤗” What an absolute assassin.

Ann, when beginning her channel: I want to make a channel where I show people how to make cool bakes. Ann right now: Please stop putting things in the microwave. I'm tired of cleaning mine.

As someone who at least twice has proven I can burn hard boiled eggs, it’s not just microwave eggs that explode. I forgot about them until I heard gunshots coming from the kitchen sounding like rifle shots. Chunks of excruciatingly hot egg and shell seemed to be targeted directly at me with no mercy. Because of this, I had to duck,weave, and cower across the kitchen to get the saucepan pan off the heat before *it* turned into a guided missile too.

I did that bottle thing many times when I was 10-12 years old. I put string on in one loop, then used lighter fluid on string and set alight. Never had a problem. Not all bottles snapped straight.

“Mom what did you ever do with my baby teeth”. Ann: “I needed them for..... scientific purposes”.

“Is it turmeric and sardines?” Poor Dave has been traumatized 😂

When I was younger I got a burn in the middle of my neck and its a good thing it didnt damage my vocal chords or voice box! It was the most painful thing ever. I opened the pot when making popcorn and a kernel popped straight up and the hot oil and hot kernel popped on me. took about 3 years for it to heal

Hi! I'm 3 years later to this, but in an argentinian city in Patagonia, Bariloche, they made this flakey chocolate, they have been doing it for decades! It's called "chocolate en rama" and it's very traditional! (And expensive)

Ann: “No, it’s just a normal chocolate bar that you would buy from the shops.” Dave: *still visibly nervous*

Three times my mind was blown today. 1. Anne cracking a 100 yo Cadbury's secret 2. Her book finally being in print 3. "I happen to have baby teeth on hand"

"LET'S TRY A BLOWTOCH!" haha u are crazy and i always sit with my eyes wide open - i can't believe i have the guts to play so much with fire and microwaving things u shouldnt microwave etc LOVE YOU FOR DOING IT , i admire it lots! Would never have been tough enough to do myself, though. For sure 😂

Hey Ann. I just wanted to tell you that I watched this video a few months back and thoroughly enjoyed it! My mother was about to put eggs in water in the microwave and I immediately remembered this video. I rushed through KZfaq to find this video to show her it was a terrible idea. Finally, I got it and made her watch the part about eggs exploding in the microwave and she finally said "Ok, I get the message" and did not put them in. However, she burned her fingers on a hot pot handle the same day, but I couldn't stop thinking how it could've been a lot worse. Please keep it up!

Ann really just gave away Cadbury's secret about Flake, if she suddenly goes missing we know what happened

Cadbury: It's a closely guarded secret Ann: Hold my water

I have watched a whole bunch of these since i discovered your channel yesterday, i LOVE your debunking and hesring your knowledge about food and cooking

KZfaq caring more about removing dislikes more than the safety of people is so ironic it actually hurts

No one: Ann: Hmm this chocolate isn't melting. Let's try a BLOWTORCH.

Cadbury: The Flake creation process is a century old secret. Don't try to figure it out. Ann: Hold my tempered chocolate.

Ann's microwave: it was horrible, i'm traumatized.

I didn't realize a poached egg could explode like that... I learned to cook them in the microwave when I was in middle school. I put it on a slice of toast and added cheese. It was my breakfast until I finished high school. I never had it explode on me...

Daves look of concern at "blindfold" and then DREAD at "taste something" His relief at "no its a normal chocolate bar" was palpable.

Cadbury ppl: "She discovered our secret!" Coca Cola: (trembles in fear)

Oh my god the excitement in here face when she was talking about the book is just pure wholesome

I remember my father doing the rope-fire-bottle trick to get just the long neck as an instrument for guitar playing. I dont know much of it, but i know it was a verry thin thread, like for sewing. Not a big rope. But i remember it working multiple times. Also he once bought a plastik microwave container for cooking / poaching egs. used this once or twice, but neither me nor my brother liked the eggs cooked in the microwave.

Cadbury: It's a closely-guarded centuries-old secret ;) Ann: *I'm about to ruin this company's entire career*

We gotta appreciate all Ann is willing to destroy for us. Her kitchen, her microwave, Dave's stomach, his trust in her food, his taste buds...

That is interesting. Years ago I used to poach eggs in water in my microwave and never had an egg explode. I've only probably poached maybe 10 eggs, but this looks like they explode every time? Well I won't try it again, lol.

Hi Ann, ever since I watched this video I wanted to try a Flake, but I live in America so we don't have them around here. However, recently I learned that there's a store in the city that sells a bunch of treats from the UK, and Flake is one of them!! I tried it and really liked it, it tastes different from any chocolate I've had before. Thanks for introducing me to this tasty flaky treat :)

If Ann goes missing we know she didn’t leave Cadbury got to her 👁 👄 👁 🍫