Debunking Jolly Rancher cotton candy, deep-fried frozen eggs, heat treated flour ... | Ann Reardon 

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Imagining some kid inhaling with candy in the straw is ruining my evening.

The "cotton candy" one is perfectly fine as long as these conditions are met: 1. You don't use a plastic straw. 2. You're not a child. 3. You don't do it.

The fact that the gent doing a piss-take on fake food hacks managed to accidentally stumble across something plausible, if impractical, was honestly the kind of wholesome balm I needed after imagining all of the ways another molten sugar debacle could go wrong.

When I first saw the title, I was thinking "Yes, Jolly Ranchers can be used to make cotton candy" but then I did not expect to see the *method* in the video. That's some 5-minute crafts levels of dangerous! Once again, I am glad to see your videos, thank you for keeping people safe!

I get so upset when I see videos like that "cotton candy" one. For starters, it's not even cotton candy, lol. But also ... the number of people (and kids, specifically) who probably burn or injure themselves doing these terrible 'hacks.' It's really sad that the content creators care so little for the people giving them money that they won't even put any type of safety warning on the screen.

The fairy bread part was so wholesome, I love how your exclamation of 'Fairy Bread!' proved it was a nostalgic Australian snack before he said it. ❤

One note about the rice: not all countries do this, but some do, so check your package of rice and look to see if its ENRICHED rice. Most rice does in fact need to be rinsed. It removes potentially harmful residue, insect parts, or other detritus as well as that excess starch that can make rice unpleasant to eat. Enriched rice however tends to be pre-rinsed, has had mineral/vitamin powder added to it, and then is typically sealed in airtight packaging (whereas many rices are sold in sacks that are not air tight, to prevent moisture from ruining them). This distinction isnt a huge deal if you have a balanced diet, but there is no reason to spend the money on enriched rice if youre going to rinse said minerals and vitamin enrichment off of the rice. It also helps maintain nutrition when you have limited access to nutritious foods or dont engage with a balanced diet (ie, if you are too poor). The existence of enriched rice has confused many Americans when it comes to rice preparation since that rice does not need to be rinsed and was quite popular for a long time here, and also due to the popular rise of instant rice here. I understand that to many people in other countries not washing your rice would be unthinkable, and I absolutely dont expect anything different, but I do think that the context here is an important disclaimer to make so that 1: people know to wash rice before cooking it and 2: people know to NOT rinse their enriched rice and why. Always check your packaging and read the cooking instructions provided with the product you buy! (even if you dont plan to follow them, know what the manufacturer intends)

Re the egg one - you can see when they peel the frozen eggs that they’ve been shaken up so the white and yolk have mixed, golden egg style. Then at the end it’s magically back to an egg with separate white and yolk, perfectly cooked!

That subtle, but furious, look when the guy said 'you don't need to rinse the rice'. It made me giggle.

I know it's unlikely you'll see this personally Ann, but I felt it was worth saying - I had to give up working as a chef due to ill health after many years. I've also seen the majority of my family pass away for various reasons in the last 10 years. I'm not unhappy, but I am a bit lonely and I miss family life. Your videos really cheer me up. Thank you for sharing your beautiful family and your lovely caring attitude. This old chef's day is a bit brighter every time I see one of your videos. Thank you from the Northwest UK.

I love how she actually RE-bunked the rice in the air-fryer.

A lot of youtubers could learn from this channel, just start the video straight away, no lengthy intro nonsense. It is so refreshing!

I worked as a cook for many years, one day we decided to challenge ourselves by figuring out how to deep fry and egg without exploding it AND keeping the yolk runny. Keep in mind this was in a professional kitchen with safety gear present by experienced cooks. We stared by soft poaching the eggs, then freeze for 30 minutes just to firm up the outside, then we breaded it using egg and bread crumbs twice. Then we froze again for another 30 minutes. Deepfry it for 2 or 3 minutes until crispy. It came out with a crispy breading and soft inside. We served it on eggs benedict which was fantastic! An alternative way to do this could also be to boil the egg instead of poaching, just remember to peel off the egg shells before breading it.

All Im saying about Fairy Bread is the last family party we had it at, it wasn't the kids fighting over the last piece.

"it's for kids' parties, you don't just usually eat it as a snack!" cut to me, 30 years old, hunkered down over my midnight fairy bread like a goblin in the corner of my kitchen, lit only by the half open fridge

The eColi story was interesting to me especially. At 18 months I developed HUS, haemolytic uremic syndrome. I was on dialysis for 10 days and needed 2 full blood transfusions. Today I have 80% usage over both and high blood pressure, part of the exceedingly lucky 5% who escaped HUS without need for permanent dialysis or transplant. The doctors said it would have developed from eColi poisoning but no one could work out how. My Mum and grandma like/liked to bake so now I wonder if we just got a very very unlucky bag of flour. This would have been the late 80s so impossible to know now but it makes more sense than the other options that have been suggested over the years.

That first one (melted jolly ranchers), made safely, looks perfect for a "forbidden treat", like eatable glass or something

„Its like eating glad wrap […] and it’s really good“ was not a sentence I expected to hear today 😆

I love Ann debunking these and dishing out warnings/facts so much but I can't understate how much I adore Dave and the kids trying out these 'hacks' afterwards. Such characters.

Ann's face of bemusement while the egg "hack" played was just perfect, lol

I have an 8-year-old daughter, when she found out about fairy bread she sometimes wants it for supper. It's so fun to make and for her fun to eat :)

My grandparents were Dutch and ate chocolate flakes or sprinkles (called hagleslag in Dutch) on white bread (sometimes toasted) for breakfast or a snack. The Dutch stores around here (Canada) sell the chocolate and candy sprinkles in paper boxes. I have a few in my cupboard.

A "debunking" video in which EVERYTHING REALLY WORKS! I find that oddly refreshing.

It's nice having something on RU-vid that's simply wholesome to watch

Your face was adorable when you exclaimed, “Fairy Bread!” 😍

Oh gosh, the fairy bread! I moved to Australia during my teens and had never heard of it. It wasn't until I was in year 12 and our English teacher asked us to pick a poem and do something creative. One of my classmates chose a poem that had all of us partake in a classroom picnic. We moved the desks and chairs to the edges of the room, spread out a blanket that we all sat on and as she recited the poem, she served us plates of fairy bread. My Aussie classmates were shocked that I'd never experienced them so I was urged to try them while they watched. I mean, it was white bread with butter/margarine (I honestly couldn't tell which) covered in colorful sugar. It tasted fine, but it's not going to be something I'll crave as an adult. I was more surprised that many of them had never had a PB&J sandwich before, so I got up extra early one morning to make several PB&J sandwiches (with different jams), cut them into triangles and brought them in a basket to pass out during recess. It was interesting to see the reactions of several teenagers munching away on what had been a beloved childhood snack, trying to decide if they liked the taste or not (most of them did!)

Why do people try to make crazy and potentially dangerous food instead of first learning basic cooking? The average kid doesn't know how to cook an egg or make a cake, yet they're trying to blow sugar or break the microwave. In America each year we have millions of people calling into the Butterball hotline for advice on how to cook a Thanksgiving turkey, when most don't even know how to use a Crock Pot. When I was in middle school we had a semester of Home Economics where we learned how to cook a cake, sew a bag or pillow, plan a meal, set a table, do laundry and some basic baby care. It was so useful and fun!

11:17 as someone who grew up in an Asian household and has cooked rice many many times, the moment he said “don’t rinse the rice, keep all those starches in there” I had a visceral reaction. Edit: I’d also like to add, that with a rice cooker it would take around 20 minutes to cook 3 cups of rice anyways rendering that hack useless even if it worked.

Thanks, Ann! This was incredibly informative. I'm very happy (and relieved) to see Dave finally taste something enjoyable in these debunking videos!

Actually in asian countries they make tiny electric rice cookers that DO make individual servings of rice! Very popular with people living in dormitories/ alone(ok well makes two cups of cooked rice, soo two servings?)

There's a powdery filipino dessert called "polvoron" that's basically cooked flour, sugar, butter, and milk powder. We always cook the flour until it's a slightly toasted brown, so I'm thinking for people who want to heat treat their flour but don't have thermometers, cooking the flour until it's toasty should be a pretty effective indicator

The American similar-treat to fairy bread (I am sure other places must do it but I haven’t heard of it elsewhere) is party toast Just buttered toast and pour sugar and cinnamon over it. It should mostly absorb into the butter, so not an overwhelming amount of either, not that the excess will stick anyways

I remember as a kid eating the occasional sugar sandwich: A slice of the most taste-free, texture-free white bread, buttered, and as much granulated white sugar as will stick. Slap on another buttered slice of bread to hold everything together. It is a shame it never occurred to us to try it with brown sugar!

My kids used to have "international day" where each class learned about a continent and then had a party. Australia was a challenge, but we did have fairy bread!

I've put jolly ranchers through an actual cotton candy machine. It does come out whispy, and the flavor is great, but once in your mouth it solidifies into strands of hard candy rather than staying cloudy like normal sugar/flosssugar.

You had the cutest expression when you said, "Fairy Bread!"

All of those liars discourage so many children from cooking! It's sad!

Not sure how accurate this is, but I have read that shouldn't "heat up" water in the airfryer, as it steams up. The droplets from the steam could get into your electric parts, causing damage to the airfryer or even create a fire hazard. Absolutely love your videos!! Keep up the amazing work. Love from UK!

Growing up in Greece in the 70's we had our own version of "fairy bread". Same concept but with sugar instead of sprinkles as those were not available in Greece back in the day. Oh the memories!

Fun fact; as someone who lives on a farm and breeds their own chooks, I end up with an egg surplus at some point every year. I tend to freeze the yolks in batches that I know will make a French custard-base icecream. They definitely do defrost like jelly, but whisked with sugar, they mix and beat like fresh yolks. At leaat, I always seemed to think they did. 😅 I have been doing it for years now.

Butter the bread, pour the 100's and 1,000's into a dish, turn the buttered bread upside down and press into the dish - easiest way ever! Sprinkling them over the buttered bread you lose too many and don't get an even coverage. Made hundreds of times. Easy.

@2:07 the Jolly Rancher thing reminds me of these toys we had as kids. My fellow Filipino millennials would remember this, it was called “plastic balloon”. Basically it was a sealed tube of plastic goo, which you stick to the end of a thin, small plastic tube. You blow the tube, and you get a plastic balloon. It didn’t taste nice, it had a smell like acrylic, but we had a lot of fun with those growing up.

I love the crushed plastic bottle/jellyfish description. It does look like something that could be fun for a themed party/cake decoration, provided you aren't _reverse mouth pipetting molten sugar_ and risking horrifying burns.

The fairy bread reminded me of a treat my Mom used to make when I was a kid (long, long time ago!). Brown-sugar sandwiches - take a slice of bread, spread on margarine (butter was too expensive back then), sprinkle with brown sugar, then - the most important part - fold in half. Yummy!

I'm American and I have never heard of or seen fairy bread! When I was little my parents would make "butterfly bagels" for us, which were bagels cut in half each direction and then arranged back to back open-faced (so instead of the sliced bagel halves being like ( ) and ( ) they were )( and )( so they looked like butterfly wings... I'm not explaining it well but you can Google it lol), which were then buttered and sprinkled with cinnamon and brown sugar before being briefly microwaved or toasted.

Fun fact--you can make cotton candy at home in just three minutes by wrapping some cotton around a stick. It won't be edible but you could make it in a jiffy! Stay tuned for more tips (:

I can't believe how much the boys have grown up! I remember watching your channel when they were still so much younger. You have such a beautiful family, and I'm so proud of what you and Dave have accomplished! Keep up the good work, and I can't wait for the next video!

Your face was lovely when you said, "Fairy Bread!"

Fairy bread reminds me of hagelslag, the Dutch version - very soft white bread, buttered, and then loooots and lots of chocolate sprinkles!

Fairy bread is so good! It has a very special place in my heart 🥰 Make sure you use plain white bread, never wholemeal or multigrain. It's not supposed to be healthy 🧚🏻‍♀️

I think telling people how to properly heat treat their flour is the better approach because people are for sure going to eat things with flour that haven't been cooked. Its better they are safe

I had fairy bread as a child here in the USA. Early 70s. Love your channel, Ann😊❤

Hi Ann!, my name is Camren, and I just want to say that I love your channel a lot and admire the work that you do to help protect the online community especially the younger one. Idk if I will but you’ve inspired me to try making my own baking videos trying out recipes like the great ones in your cookbook. -Love from Louisiana, USA

Ann thanks for the debunking videos. It teaches us not to blindly trust or experiment any videos we see on the internet. Thanks for informing us ❤️❤️

Her son has a point! It would make a cool snack (mass produced in a factory by machines is preferable ofc lol!) it could make a great snack for babies and elderly people who can't easily chew firmer foods. It could also be cool for cake decorators, something unique to add on top!

Actually, the last one is pretty interesting to me, because I know one similar simple dessert for kids in Russia. The only difference is: plain sugar instead of sprinkles, because this treat was more popular back in the times when families didn't have much money or this variety of products as now

Wow! Is Dave's book being made into a movie?! Congrats!!

3:00 Dave's reaction reminded me of that video of raccoon trying to wash cotton candy😭😭

Honestly, with the "Fairy Bread" thing at the end, I would absolutely LOVE it if there always was a food related Australian fact at the end!

We have a dessert called Polvoron here, that uses flour, powdered milk and sugar. The flour is cooked in a pan until golden brown (or sometimes lighter), then mixed with powdered milk and sugar. Shape in a mold and it's good to eat.

Love this series so much! Thank you for destroying your kitchen to keep us safe, Ann! 🙏🏻💕

Deep fried eggs do actually work, i think the problem is that they basically poked a hole into the egg, which could have introduced additional moisture from the freezer, thereby creating ice crystals in the yolk. Several chefs have already attempted a deep fried egg in the form of tempura rather than breaded and fried. It is possible.

They're hundred and thousands in the UK too, for what it's worth. That looks an awesome thing to have at kids' parties, too!

Dave's little plug at 10:30 was beautiful.

Love this & congrats on the new book!

It's so great to have a channel to watch on youtube that consistently uploads clean, appropriate, educational and entertaining content. I'm grateful for what you do. Thank you 🙏🏻

This channel deserves ten million subscribers

2:50 I hope he doesn't take it the wrong way, but this is the most he's ever looked or sounded like Dave ❤

Just heading to bed, perfect video to watch before trying to go to sleep!

While I (a German) was on holiday in the Netherlands I found out that they have a breakfast dish called Hagelslag, which is basically the same as fairy bread, but mostly done with chocolate sprinkles (dark or milk chocolate, and you can find the colourful ones as well). As I had never eaten something like that before I tried it and it was surprisingly good.

The thing about an frozen egg yolk sounds really interesting! You never stop learning.

We also call them Hundreds and Thousands in the UK. People have started to call them Sprinkles, which annoys me.

Thanks for always being honest.😊

I've known about it for a bit, but it's a little loud at my house now so I just want to say, huge thank you to you and Dave for the captions! They're very helpful, even for folks who aren't necessarily hard of hearing!

I love how wholesome Ann’s comment section usually is.😊

I like her approving nod about heat treating....then the horrified head shake when she said microwave lol

Always a delight to see what's new here!

This video has everything I love to see in HTCT video! A warning about another potentially dangerous melted sugar life hack, learning some interesting food science about frozen egg yolks and heat treating raw flour, and getting to giggle at a wholesome cooking channel

2:37 casual Australasian reference to one of nature’s most lethal organisms 😂

Ann's facial expression at 12:22 should be included in the dictionary under 'nostalgia'.

I am so excited for this!!

I absolutely love how wholesome this episode turned out! Thank you Ann. Congrats to Dave too for his new book debut! You guys are the best

We love your content ann

We love Dave getting to eat some good stuff in a debunking video haha Surprised he doesn't like cookie dough though Would've thought it would be great compared to the stuff he's had to taste before lol!

Such a fun and educational episode!! ❤

So if you’re proving the hack actually WILL work…is it called re-bunking?

Deep fried egg can actually work, but you boil the egg first. It's a Dutch snack called eierbal!

So glad to see a new debunking video!

I love Anne's debunking videos, it's good to know that someone out there cares for the public's wellbeing

E coli is not a joke thing. one of my dorm mates in uni got a nasty infection from that thing. he was a pretty solid build, sports guy. this put him down like 2 rounds aganist Mike Tyson. he was walking to and from the WC, in the shape of a C most of the time with pretty solid grunts. you have to be careful with food, I sure as hell am, would not want to try what he expirienced.

The rice in the airfryer does work. I have made rice in the oven and it's better than doing it on the stove. Just use 1 to 1 rice and water, oil and salt, cover with foil and let it cook for 20 minutes at 180C.

Always love your vids, Ann! ❤️

That "cotton candy" looks like a clear, glassy intestine. I love the immediate shift in facial expression on Ann's face with the rice the moment buddy there said "You don't need to rinse your rice."

Guys, always wash your rice. Rice is often contaminated with low levels of arsenic and washing it thoroughly will clean it enough for it to be eaten safely

Ann, you always know how to start my day with your bright and glowing personality, and your cute sense of humor.

Thank you so much. You just saved my life. I have always licked the bowl when I bake and I have gotten sick, but I didn’t know why.

There are many great things you do Anne, teaching us that safety and precaution should be in first place when experimenting with recipes on the internet being one of them, but i have to say that one of my favorite things is that you always put subtitles on your video, to which i (and many others) are very grateful for! your voice is very smooth but i still love to watch along with subtitles, might be an adhd thing lol

Who loves ann reardons videos they are just so entertaining and informative ❤😊😊

That Fairybread reminds me of the Dutch tradition to give out beschuit met gekleurde muisjes when a new child is born.