Food Theory: Fixing TikTok's FAILED Pringles Mashed Potatoes! (Viral TikTok Hack)

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don't stop be foreign, they are something that exists, it is a

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group, let's start at the beginning, hello Internet, welcome to

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, where today we cover my second favorite food and my first favorite way to consume

mashed

potatoes

, wait, You don't like French fries better, not better than mashed potatoes au gratin. I'll get out of here again. Like all adults, Matthew for some reason prefers flakes over real potatoes, they are real potatoes, they are just dehydrated potato flakes, has a potato ever made this sound?

Put it right next to your mind, look at this, this shaking and wrinkling sound. i feel like no potatoes should make that's the deal folks thanksgiving dinner is the best meal of the year in my opinion turkey top tier food mashed potatoes second tier food combine them together the best food is like the best dragon ball z All time fusion or I guess for all you modern kids it's like a Steven Universe gem fusion oh my god it's happening let's see I'm up to date with the relevant times except it's a show that ended five years ago years.

I'm just catching up on that, okay Stephanie, it's taking me a while. It's time to see it, we're making some references to amphibians and then we'll talk. I'm on episode three. Thank you very much, that just ended too. Anyway, we're here today to make mashed potatoes. Yes because? We're talking about Thanksgiving and mashed potatoes when it's nothing like that. Recently on Tick Tock a monstrosity of a food

hack

has started popping up where they take Pringles and turn them into mashed potatoes on the surface that looks crazy. concept, but when you dig deeper it makes some sense.

Pringles are chips made from dehydrated potato flakes that have been pressed and re-formed into a chip like this kind of thing you're pulling out of the bag, yes, actually. They add the same first ingredient in both cases, so the first ingredient of our little potato chips is dried potatoes and then also, if you look at Pringles' first ingredient dried potatoes, that's the question here: is the How do they show it on the brand? tock, is there a better way to do it? And then once we've tested all that, can we do it with other chips? So today we're going to determine if Pringles' new slogan should be once you pop the mashed potatoes.

I'm not stopping, yeah, because that's pretty bad, wasn't it as bad as the mashed potatoes are going to turn out? I'll tell you what, now Tick Tock, food and garbage tricks, in fact, they are live action matpat, in fact they are, but before we go into experiment mode. To start destroying our stomachs, Steph and I first had to settle an important debate mashed potatoes mashed potatoes no that's not that it's not a 50s dance you make the mashed potatoes yes what is that that's what you make something with you leg also I think it's like a right, it's kind of knees out, knees in a kind of button that you press, you can't see any of this, we're just behind a counter moving, where is that corn? footless live stream those are nice socks where did you get them from? where are those? the star wars socks talking about my quality socks we can also talk about my quality merchandise that I am wearing right now available just below this video in the description new theoretical merchandise ladies and gentlemen it is great this product is so good in the Foreigner, this product is so good that they will be speechless.

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ware.com or just click on the product shelf just below this video, enough of the delays, it was time to see if this Tic Tac food

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was a bust or a bust as I wanted this to be a suitable experiment, we needed a control group, so we made regular mashed potatoes to see what our Pringle goo should taste like.

Side note while researching the episode, I found a bunch of random sites claiming that instant mashed potatoes are banned in the European Union, which seemed crazy. food myth that is tremendously false, there are French brands of instant mashed potatoes along with French television commercials that advertise them in confusion. I started digging deeper and was surprised to learn that many brands of American instant mashed potatoes are banned in Europe largely because they use a specific preservative called butylated hydroxyanisole or BHA, it is used in many packaged foods to help them stay fresh, which is good, but it also tends to cause cancer in rats tested in the lab, which is less good, obviously, scientists haven't proven that definitively.

It's a human carcinogen, but many anticipate that it's probably not that good for us, so even if Pringles mashed potatoes don't taste as good as my favorite chips, at least they don't cause cancer, anyway, with a basic mashed potato. the way it was time to move on to the tic tac recipe originally created by Dirk boy 2.0, the steps were pretty easy to follow, you take a can of Pringles, open it and literally throw it away and that's it, that's a recipe that can be left behind without mashing, without stirring, without anything, they simply dissolve into a puddle with the texture of semolina or oatmeal.

Don't you dare put this in the same category as semolina porridge. Grits are amazing porridge, maybe I like all those things. that stop I like hot cereal I'm 75 years old inside well guess what you're going to like this too so no what did you always tell Ollie about trying your food? You have to try new foods because they may taste good, thanks Daniel Tiger. I have to try Pringles soaked in boiling water and rehydrated to make mashed potatoes because it might taste good. Go with an open mind, my friends, but despite my best efforts, I was about to learn that there's only so far a positive mental attitude can take you.

Now let's sneak it oh no oh no it looks bad it looks like baby vomit Do you suffer from regret syndrome in the middle of the MERS episode? I do it very frequently on this channel. I like that I simultaneously drained a lot of potatoes into the sink and yet there is still a huge puddle of water on top, this is a lot of glitches all combined, ah, this is the first episode, don't look at it directly, really avoid the eye contact if your eye contact wasn't the only thing we had to worry about. about the smell, I could stand a lot of things, friends, I can stand a lot of things, the smell of this concoction is quite crude, it's the consistency of applesauce and the smell of rancid meat, as you can imagine if it looked and smelled this good like this.

We were very excited at the prospect of putting it in our mouths, oh boy I hope you're hungry because we have some chips for you. It moves like pudding or jelly. It is not. It's not what a mashed potato should do. I'm not implying that The Tick Tock would give me a bad recipe for food, am I? I mean, Tick Tock is pretty much the end-all, be-all of factual information. The texture can always be adjusted. Seeing this goop is simply the worst thing we have ever had. I even tried the Pringles move we already wanted a palette cleanser but there was no way to prevent the inevitable we had to take a bite out of foreign science it's like I haven't had snot in my mouth like that many times in my life I recognized that it's like pasta of wallpaper is sticky, it's really good what's in a pringle that's so sticky.

I'm glad you asked Steph. Well, we didn't realize it at the time now that I went back and did some research. I can actually explain it, unlike French fries, which are literally just sliced ​​into French fries. Pringles have less than 50 chips, in fact they only have 42 chips. If you watch videos on how Pringles are made or just check the ingredient list, you'll see that dried potatoes are ground into a powder and then combined with oil, water, and a secret mix of starches to create a paste that is then flattened. like a big old sheet, like a big flat layer of lasagna or cookie dough where you then cut the oval shaped chips, but it's the starches specifically corn starch that produces the Gloppy mucus-like texture we're all about. reacting here.

Cornstarch is used for its thickening properties in foods such as sauces, soups, and marinades, but when mixed with water, the resulting gel can be used as a basic glue. and when you remember that 50+ chips aren't potatoes, chances are there's a lot of starch in that mixture, resulting in a lot of sticky glue for science. I'm going to go back and get one more so I can analyze more than just the texture, but let me tell you, when you take a bite, the only thing you can really focus on is the texture because it slightly stinks but not as good as a pringle, yeah , it's like a moist and slightly salty cardboard, it's the flavor I prefer. now it's actually getting worse after i eat it oh sure it stays in your mouth it just stays.

I want, yeah, give me a hit of this, it goes up the paddle, oh, much better, okay, hahaha, it obviously wasn't a hit, it didn't taste terrible, I mean. After all, they were just Gloppy Pringles, but it was the texture that was truly unbearable. It's a pretty inedible texture. It's real glue, like you can, you can stick things with this, but in theory, in food theory, we were convinced that this should work. The Pringles are done. of potato just like instant mashed potatoes are made from potatoes, maybe it was just a matter of massaging the recipe a little, so, like a Food Network star desperately trying to get a second season, we tried to make this recipe work for this part of our experiment.

I tried three different varieties of chips, the original Pringles Lay's chips and the Pringles cheddar flavored chips. In case the added flavor helped, we took the instant mashed potato recipe from the box and replaced these dry potato flakes with these dry potato chips which we then mashed. little bits on hand now Steph, if you want to squish a little bit oh, I go out, I get some rage out oh, this is satisfying, it's actually great, this is our ASMR channel right now. I'm crushing the Pringles, let's make some mashed potatoes, oh they're going to be so delicious and good.

It's tickling your brain right now because your mouth is about to tinkle with the taste of these pricks. We decided it was probably best to leave our ASMR careers behind and get on with the theories. okay get it out oh i hate doing miniatures meetings i'm so frustrated by all this stuff in my life oh man oh the back room is over oh poppy play time i still haven't gotten the shit out of my mouth taste of that tree, two years later Oh wow, you really die, you got it down real quick, yeah, cool, that was some serious assault.

Those tokens disappeared. I crushed them into dust with the amount of stress and anxiety I have. Now is the time, is the time. It's time to put potatoes in after that crash course in anger management, it was time to create our new chip-based mashed potatoes using the Instant Pot Chips recipe. Now it was a little difficult to get a perfect one-to-one substitution, since if we measured by volume, we were going to have inconsistencies depending on how finely we crushed the fries and doing a substitution based on weight wouldn't work either because a lot of the weight of the fries Fries comes from the oil trapped inside them, so we did some basic guesswork and adjusted them as we went, still runny? um, no it's not brat.

I can't believe it's not butter, then we move on to the Lays, these look rough, I mean, rough like ruffles, ruffles, it's a chip, get it,ruffles, ruffles. and finally the cheddar cheese is like sad, lumpy macaroni and cheese, long story short, I'm not really looking forward to this taste test, but we're done, we're all mixed up, dump it in a bowl and shove it down our throats, we might find it. you feel I was feeling a little defeated at this point in the episode, I didn't know that our taste tests would give very surprising results, okay friends, so our mashed potatoes are ready, doesn't it look pretty, we did the best we could, we did everything what we could.

This episode has been a huge betrayal of my favorite food, well, you know, this made me realize that each of these bowls of mashed potatoes are significantly more expensive and require more steps to prepare than flaked potatoes, which It is really very true. There's no saving anything here, your time, your money, even the ingredients, like I think it's potato chips, which you can get at any grocery store, but sometimes, like potato chips, the specific kind you want or Pringles, it's especially hard to find. This expensive one doesn't save anything, actually. By being branded as a mashed potato food hack, you're not hacking anything, right, life is hacking you with that general observation, out of the way, it was time to feed some potatoes, You can already tell from a texture point of view that they are much more similar.

It's so sad, it's like the first round is like eating glue, this is like eating glue, if it's half dry, if you let it sit in your mouth for too long, your mouth will like to stay closed, you know what you never do I open? Again you know what I'll say, although the taste is better, this made me realize it's not. I guess I like the taste of Pringles. Don't know. I thought I liked Pringles, but seeing the Pringles flavor distilled into this, oh. true, it just has this cardboard flavor, it's actually not that good, honestly that doesn't work outside of the Chip format and I don't know why it doesn't work, pause there because I remember what we mentioned earlier.

Pringles has less contain more than 50 potatoes, so I'm getting a lot more flavor here thanks to the additives and oils. It's a fiber and starch flavor, not an actual potato flavor. On the contrary, traditional potato flakes do not have this problem because they have already been cooked. That process breaks down many of the natural starches found in the potato and no additional corn or wheat starch is mixed in, resulting in less sticky textures and less unpleasant flavors, which is something we were about to learn with the test. . Number two, Lay's fries, let's eat some Lay's fries in soft form, what's better than fries? some soft fries, you know what this tastes like. potatoes au Graton Hmm, this is it, this is it, I don't want to throw up, this is actually really good this is legit rotten potato this is one of those drier moments where I'm shocked this looks disgusting this looks terrible stirring it in there Stephanie said this it's not going to work this is absolutely worse than Pringles this is my fourth bite of this but the fact maybe it's a mistake it's salty it's potato more important it's potato wheat and I think that's what Pringles are missing is the flavor potato tastes like cardboard while this tastes like potato see what I'm telling you shocking results like go Go back and look at the signs of how these fries are made, it makes a lot of sense, it's actually a success, it's buttery, it's salty, It has potatoes, this is really delicious if you didn't have potatoes in your house and for some reason you needed something really spicy.

I served a potato dish at your table and you had no other options, this is completely passable, wow, it works. Hallelujah, one of them works and finally round number three, the Cheddar Cheese Pringles with a little extra flavor powder, helps them get better results than the originals, the pie, huh? the taste is better, you know what a Cheeto tastes like, you know, I don't care about this. I'm surprised you're actually having a strong reaction while doing it. The texture is still terrible. I don't agree with the taste here it's rubbish the taste here because the powdered cheddar cheese has actually turned it into a tasty food that I can put in my stomach this is where we can split this doesn't work for me as a cheese flavor and then there is still a lot of mass, so we have a definitive failure, a definitive failure, a definitive victory and then a house divided.

This was surprisingly intense and also very surprising from a result point of view. I was hoping one of them would come out. He didn't expect it. to be any of these guys I thought for sure we'd be a Pringles winner and we certainly didn't if you take one thing away from this episode Tick Tock YouTube anyone who doesn't use Pringles to make mashed potatoes doesn't optimize anything they'll regret That said, if you want to experiment with making mashed potatoes with lays or flavored Pringles, yes, there's some validity there, but you know? At the end of the day, I'm still going to eat flakes for my Thanksgiving dinner, but hey, that's just a theory oh theory bon appetit is like sugar and you know what else is so good this other food theory episode where we try make the crispiest french fries in the world let me tell you the potatoes in this episode ended up being much more delicious or if we're looking for ways to complement your mashed potatoes with some Thanksgiving turkey.

Check out the secret trick to making the perfect Thanksgiving dinner. Spoiler alert: you'll have to perform CPR on a turkey. Both links are available on the screen right now, so hit Check them out if you haven't seen them and as always I'll see you next week.