I Tested 100 Years Of Life Hacks

Life hacks have been around since the dawn of civilization, with people always wanting a more efficient way to do things. Whether it's cooking salmon in the dishwasher to make the perfect poached salmon, or using spam to keep your mirrors from fogging up in the shower, or even using spray paint to keep your lawn green, there have been some absolutely insane life hacks over the past hundred years, and so we're gonna test out the absolute best ones I could find to see if people over the last hundred years knew what the heck they were talking about. Some are absolutely crazy, but I'm excited. So this first life hack is absolutely crazy and I came across from it on this YouTube video from November 21st, 1975. And a guy named Vincent Price was on the Johnny Carson show, which is like an old late night show. He claims that you could make the perfect poached salmon using the dishwasher. So I'm no stranger to the dishwasher. In fact, I've cooked up some pretty good hot dogs that were legitimately tasty using the dishwasher. But this time he wants raw fish in the dishwasher. On the full time. Okay, so there we have it. He's taken out the fillets that are wrapped in aluminum foil. The fish cooks in only a very short time and it really is kind of beautiful, is it? Oh, now, yeah, now you leave that in the whole cycle. All right, he claims that fish is one of the few products that can be steamed utilizing the heat in the dishwasher, which makes me feel like the hot dogs thing was definitely clickbait. Let's see if this life hack from 1975 on how to poach the perfect salmon actually works. I can't believe that this is a real life hack. So we're gonna follow it to a T. So first off, we're going to wrap this nice and snugly inside this aluminum foil. And now that the filet is secured in here, I'm just gonna sneak her right there. And then we're just gonna run a cycle and we're gonna see if this salmon actually cooks. And if it's gently poached. So I'm not gonna put detergent or anything. I learned my lesson from that because I cooked hot dogs, I realized, with detergent in it. So we're gonna run it without detergent and we're only gonna go through the whole two hour cycle with the water and the steam. We're ready to go now. So it says washing. Rest assured, we are cooking. All right, we will come back here in about an hour or two and we'll see if our salmon is cooked. The cycle has now ended. So we're gonna see if the salmon cooked up. This is how they were eating it. So I'm trusting that it actually cooked it. Here we go. There's our salmon. Okay, feels hot. I'm curious what the color looks like on this salmon, because we'll know pretty immediately if this thing cooked. Oh! I think this white indicates that the fat is coming to the surface, so this thing is definitely cooked. Not, like, completely cooked, so I don't know if I'm actually gonna take a bite of this. You know what? Why not? Let's do a little bit of a bite here. Here we go. Not bad. It's more cooked than I thought. Not the most appetizing in terms of the look. In terms of the taste, it competes with the best. Just make sure you don't put detergent in. So we've cooked hot dogs in the dishwasher, salmon in the dishwasher. Dishwashers are the new ovens, so I'm gonna say that worked, weirdly enough. So in the 1960s, I guess they didn't have toasters or pans or stove tops or anything like that, because this next life hack is how to make a grilled cheese sandwich using a hot iron. Yes, I'm talking about the iron that you use on an ironing board. And pretty straightforward, honestly, right? You're just putting the Putting the bread and cheese together and then with the iron you're just going to press Press down on it for five minutes a side, and then you're going to have the perfect. Grilled cheese. I'm a grilled cheese connoisseur. I've made one with a toaster before, so let's see whether or not this works. Now, previously, I used an iron to cook up a steak, and it worked perfectly. Truly a flawless steak. But can it cook a grilled cheese? Maybe in your dorm or something, and you don't have a stovetop, and you need a source of heat. Pull out your iron, and you might have grilled cheese for days. So we have cheddar cheese, not American cheese, because American cheese is disgusting. And we're going to take about two, you know what, three cheeses. Top our bread here. Put it in the center of our aluminum foil. Then we're going to tightly pack this in. All right, great. And then it's simple so all we're gonna do now is wait for our iron to heat up And then we're going to press it for three minutes on each side, and we're gonna make the perfect grilled cheese, okay? I think it's just about hot enough to get started. Let's press Really easy. I mean you could like watch a show or something as you're doing this now We do have three slices of cheese So it's definitely a bit more to melt than usual But I think the iron can do it already see some of the steam coming up. That's a good sign you guys hear that Okay, so it's been about three minutes or so so we're gonna flip this over now cook this side Okay, give it a little bit longer. And there we go, it's blinking, which means that the grilled cheese is ready. The iron knows. Let's see what it looks like. Let's open her up. Ooh, that is a good looking grilled cheese to be made on an iron. Really nice char on this. And the cheese obviously is melted to perfection. I mean, you're not gonna need an iron to melt all the cheese all around. That is beautiful. And it tastes. Exquisite iron grilled cheese. This is the next wave Gordon Ramsay take notes bring it to your restaurant really cool Whoever came up with this. This is a newspaper advertisement from June 1965 and it looks like they claim there is actually a way to turn the brown turf green Utilizing colored hairspray, you know what? That's actually pretty interesting. I mean it can't be good for your lawn You're definitely gonna kill your lawn, but hey, at least it'll be green All right So I got my hands on the spray really useful because a lot of people have all the dead grass from like different season changes and stuff, but if you want to spruce up and make anything green, this is for you. So I found a brown spot right here on the lawn. It's completely dead. There's no grass here whatsoever even. So I want to see if this could actually revive a super dead spot. Let's see if they were cooking back then, 100 years ago, were they really maintaining lawns? Oh, whoa, look at the difference. Okay, so look at that color. Oh my gosh, what? That actually is straight up making the entire area completely green. Wow, that worked really well. I mean, look at the before and after. There's absolutely no browning anymore. It is completely green and revitalized, and it actually does kind of match the coloring of normal grass. All right, pretty cool. That one worked perfectly. I'm probably going to do it on my entire lawn. So in 1995, at the advent of the popularity of spam, it looks like there was a book called Polish Your Furniture, and this is what they claimed that you could do. On page 96, you could steam-proof your So spam can be used to keep the condensation off the bathroom mirror when showering. Also, according to the New York Times Magazine. So many publications were clearly claiming in the 90s that in order to keep the condensation off your mirror, you just spread a film of spam on it beforehand, which is absolutely disgusting, but great for post-shower shaving. And then you can eat the spam after. I don't know. Let's see if this works. All right, well, I have my spam right here. We're going to see if spam can actually help to defog your mirror. So to test this, I'm going to basically just rub all this spam juice. Onto this paper towel and then I'm going to rub it. On this side of the mirror and then we're gonna compare this to this side after I run the shower. What is the ingredient in here that may be doing this? I don't know because spam I think is disgusting. That seems to be about half of the mirror So I'm gonna run the shower and then we're gonna see if this actually works. This is a goofy one, but hey somebody claimed it to work. So they must have seen something when they tried this. All right, the showers been going there's somebody in there right now. I'm gonna take you in with me But we're gonna see whether or not the spam created a film that doesn't allow it to condensate. Yo, we're coming in. All right, let's see. Okay, it did absolutely nothing. I think it actually might look worse on the right side versus the left. So it looks like a film of spam fat does not help your mirror when somebody's taking a shower, right? There's no B in there. That'd be off of YouTube's limits. Now you guys know that life hack does not work, so don't try it. Now this life hack might just be the first life hack ever invented. It's from 1913, which is 113 years ago, and this is what we have. Okay, so here we have withdrawing paper from under an inverted bottle. So we're gonna go ahead and try this out. Let's see if 1913 was cooking in terms of life hacks. So in 1913, they had a trick. We were able to remove a dollar bill or anything beneath a glass bottle, putting it on a table like this, and then just pounding the table and then pulling it out. There's actually a lot of ways I did one version in a Zach D Films video where you basically roll up the bill. But this one seems a lot more fun because all you have to do is just bang and it looks like it's going to work. Voila! Voila! We just freed $50 worth of bills using that method right there. That was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be, so super cool life hack right there. If you ever need to win this little party trick, I recommend doing that. Good job, 1913. This next life hack we're looking at is from the early 2000s, and it's quite interesting because it claims that you can basically save yourself in the wild if you have a bag of Doritos on you. And the reason being is because Doritos, due to their high fat contents and all the corn syrup and everything, is super flammable and is basically a really good fire starter. So if you ever need a fire in a pinch and you don't have firewood or anything like that, But you do have a bag of Doritos you could just light those up with a match or some flint and then bam and this is Something that a lot of people have done and verified pretty cool one right here I'm excited to try this and maybe it could help save you if you're ever in a dire situation And so to test this I have some Doritos right here And then I have some just normal Lays here And I want to basically see the difference if this actually burns longer and is more combustible than this one So let's first start with the Lays see if we're able to burn this I mean, this does not catch fire at all. Oh, there we go. I mean, it's definitely burning. It's holding the flame nicely. That's good. We'll see how long this lasts, though. So the flame is starting to get a bit weaker. You'll see it's still burning through, but the heat source is definitely coming to an end here. Yep, so it's done on the outside. There's a little bit of a flame right there. But that was about one minute or so, and now the chip is completely done for. And now it's time for the Doritos, which, funnily enough, actually show to be on fire. See if the Dorito catches flame. There we go. So we're going to time-lapse this, and we'll see what the difference is. All right, this Dorito is actually starting to act up a bit. We're getting some higher flames with this. This has been going for about three minutes now. It's a lot slower of a flame, which is good. But I want to add more Doritos to this. I want to see if you could, like, just actually start a little campfire with Doritos. Okay, I poured all them atop and that flame is escaping burning through all the rest of them Yeah, we've reached the top of the Dorito pile now and this thing is I mean you could tell this thing is just going to Burn for probably the next hour or so I think it's safe to say that Doritos are an excellent fire source. So really cool life hack right there That is one of the more recent ones. So we do have the new technology to learn this Whoever was the first person to do this. Thank you. You probably saved somebody's life watching this So if you're camping dump your Doritos light them on fire, you're good to go This next life hack is from 1934 and it's from Ritz, the same company that makes Ritz crackers. So you can make a mock apple pie without apples using Ritz crackers. What? Okay, and here's the ingredients right here. So in order to make it with no apples needed, you can use the following. 36 Ritz crackers, water, sugar, tartar, lemon juice, lemon, margarine, cinnamon. Were they trying to rage bait back then? I mean, I'm not a hater of Ritz crackers. I actually think they're pretty good, especially with some nice cheese and stuff. Ooh, cool. Munster, some cheddar on there, some pepperoni slices as well. Throw in some mozzarella, some prosciutto. We are having a good time. However, we are not making apple pies with this. I will try it because 1934 is pretty crazy. Crazy for claiming this, but I doubt this life hack works. So the old life hack about how to make an apple pie without apples is right here. I actually bought it off of eBay. This is actually from an old Ritz Cracker box. So as you can see, it's basically of the same exact material that you would find, except it was on here. So we're going to see if you can make an apple pie without apples, which doesn't make a lot of sense, but according to Ritz, you're able to do it using their crackers. So the first thing we want to do is get 36 Ritz crackers out, and these are basically going to replace the apples. Okay, so one sleeve of Ritz crackers has about 30, so we're going to take one sleeve and then just six others from another sleeve. All right, so let's put them in the pan. We'll do some bonus ones as well, because baking is not an exact science, as everybody knows. Now that these are in here, it's saying to crush it. All right. I guess this is going to basically act as our apples and crust. Looks pretty good. We've got some breadcrumbs happening here. And then while that's cooling down, I'm going to take water, sugar, and cream of tartar to a boil with some lemon rinds over here. So far looking good. We're going to add some cinnamon and then some butter, and then we're going to top it with even more crust, and then we're going to bake this thing. Time to top it off. Nothing about this screams apple pie outside of the cinnamon. Okay, so our pie is now complete So we're gonna pop this in on 425 for a little bit and then when I pull it out We're gonna have our own apple pie. All right, here we go. We will check back in a little bit Okay, so it's been about 30 minutes or so. So we're gonna see if our mock apple pie is officially ready. Ooh, there she is There's our apple pie Definitely passes the smell test. We have to, of course, open this up and see if it actually looks like an apple pie. Okay, moment of truth. Does the life hack to cook an apple-less apple pie work? It does have a little bit of integrity around the crust. Let me get a bigger piece. Here it is. This actually looks like a piece of apple that's kind of falling off right there too. You're telling me this isn't an apple right there? Like this isn't apple pieces? This might be magic. So only one more thing to do. Let me take a taste of this. All right, bon appetit. Let's see if this life hack works. I don't hate that. If you don't have apples, this isn't like the greatest choice. I'd rather make literally anything else. But in terms of trying to make an apple pie, it's surprisingly close. So I'll give that like a five out of 10, which consider there's no apples in this thing is actually pretty good. All right, well now we know that this thing does kind of work. So pretty good life hack. Shout out to the people in the 1900s. 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So we're going to replicate the same exact dish and see whether or not it's actually good. Starting off with the tomato soup as the base. Let's dump these into here. I'm a big fan of tomato soup, bud. In a cake, we'll see. Okay, get you in there now. Okay, and we're gonna take some all-purpose flour. Let's make sure not to skimp on this. Great. Gonna start folding it into each other. Dump in some sugar. That is looking juicy. Put in a little bit of baking soda and some baking powder now. Touch of cinnamon. Of course, need to add in two eggs and set a cup of water. Okay, now we're just gonna mix this all together until we get the perfect batter we'll put into a cake pan and then we'll cook It up. I don't know how I'm feeling about this doesn't smell that bad. Honestly, okay So let's go ahead and dump this into our pan here. Oh, that's looking good Okay, then we're just gonna pop this in and we'll see what this tomato soup cake looks like. See you in a bit Hey guys, it's been exactly 30 minutes per the recipe. So we're gonna see what this thing looks like tomato cake. Oh nice brown Okay, it smells great Well, that doesn't look too good. Okay, let's slice into this and see what it looks like. Smells very tomato-y. Can't say it looks very tomato-y. Let's see the inside of this. Oh my gosh, this thing's like rubber. Okay, here we go. Kinda looks like a well-done carrot cake. I'm gonna take a little bite of this, but I'm not looking forward to it. It does not really look that appetizing. But this was the craze back then. This was the life hack to make all of your neighbors, when they came over for a little party, extremely happy and impressed. Let's dig in here. Looks like a good little piece, right? Bon appetit. That is disgusting. Oh my gosh. We followed the recipe to a T. How is this a real thing that people were making? Like, it's so unbelievably bad, guys. I can't put it in my body. All right, that's disgusting. That doesn't work whatsoever. Worst life hack maybe of all time, though. Whoever made that book, burn it. Can't trust cookbooks from the 50s, 60s, or 70s. This next life hack we're looking at is from 1948, right after World War II, and this is what they were telling people to do. Clean your carpets using raw cabbage. And they're able to get rid of the dust, the smell, some dirt, and anything like that if your broom is occupied. Let's see if this works. So 1948, they claim that a head of cabbage is able to pick up lint, dirt, and then even some potential liquid that is spilled all over a white fibrous rug. So we're going to test that out right now, starting with some Ritz crackers. We're going to take these and dump them all over our rug. Now, this is famously very difficult to get up because... I mean, look at that. And then let's say you're drinking your iced tea, and oh no, now there's iced tea there too. You're gonna take the cabbage and then like that. I don't think anything was picked up. I think we just massaged it deeper into the fibers, so you can't actually see it as much. It looks like we picked up a lot. Let me try this again. It also claims to brighten the rug up, so let's see what it does to this tea. It's so weird, because the rug does objectively look better than before, but there's nothing that's sticking to this. Like, there's no reason it should actually look better, so I'm so confused. Yeah, I mean, that's definitely lightening up this whole area, and the Ritz crackers are now... Almost gone like we only have about like 10% left in the middle here. Okay, I don't know what just happened But this did kind of work This is one of those weird voodoo magic sort of things that people in 1948 just thought it worked and I guess it does I mean, I'm still to this day confused about it as they were probably back then. Alright pretty cool one I have no idea how that works, but it did Now, this is one of the first life hacks ever from 110 years ago in 1916 by a company named Gallagher. Looks like they used to issue 100 cards, like some light bathroom reading. You pull it out, it gives you a little tip and trick for the house. And this one in particular is as follows. They are teaching us how to blow over a brick. This is a seemingly impossibility until one properly applies the force of pneumatics. After the failure by your friends to accomplish, take a paper bag and stand the brick upon it. Now gather up the mouth of the bag and blow it into a good puff of air. The brick will be easily overturn. Not sure really what the utility is for this, what they were doing in 1916 for fun, but hey, if you're ever in this situation, let's see if this one works. If you ever need to blow a brick over, don't do this because it won't work. So instead, grab yourself a lunch bag, put it underneath it, like so, good. And then you just blow in right here. So through this opening, the air is going to enter, and I think the logic is that it's going to then push the brick over. Wrong way. Move you down, you're misbehaving. Success! That cost me a lot of oxygen to do, so I'm not sure what exactly the goal of that is, but it does technically work if you want to blow a brick over. So 1916 life hack, this one worked. This next life hack we're looking at is from 1915, which is over a hundred years ago, and it's from the Boy Mechanic book, which is the same one with that inverted bottle trick we just did. So let's see what their follow-up is for version 2 and see if this works or not. Okay, so this is to remove a cork from a bottle. A cork that has been pushed into a bottle can be easily removed in the following manner. Tie several knots in one end of a string to form a large cluster and drop it in, holding on to the other string, turn the bottle over, and then bam, pull out the string, and you should draw out the cork. I don't believe this to be true because I've tried so many different attempts with Trying to get a cork out of a bottle and not a single one worked. But maybe it's back to the basics. 1915, they knew what they were up to and you just take a little string and then fish it out of there. So let's go fishing and see if they're relying from a hundred years ago. So I removed the cork, but now I'm going to put it back in. So I'm going to pound it in with this mallet and we're gonna try to retrieve it with just that little string. Let's get her in there. I have an idea. Okay, the cork is officially in the wine bottle. So now we're gonna try to literally fish it out using this string right here. Okay, let's go fishing. I got a party later. We got to fish you out of here. Unraveling this a little bit, and I think we have it caught on now. Let's give it a try, come on. Oh, oh, come on. Stuck in there. The cork is basically trying and screaming to get out of there, but it's not going. Alright, so the string broke. So now we not only have a cork in there, but we have a string too. So once again failed with trying to get the cork out using a string. There's really no good method here. Just get a bottle opener and have it on hand or just don't drink wine in the first place. Alright, well we tried but that life hack is absolutely useless. So do not follow that one. They were not cooking back then. The next life hack we're looking this is from 1915 from that same boy mechanic book. This time it's version 2 with a thousand things for boys to do and one of them is how to create a folded tin disc whistle for survival. So you're going to cut a circular piece of tin, any convenient size, preferably three inches in diameter. And the result of the first attempt may not be a sound, but with a little practice, any familiar tune may be whistled. So if you have like an aluminum can or a tin can or something, you just do this configuration and then you're able to blow a whistle that is super loud. All right, I'm excited for this one. Let's create a makeshift whistle. So I just had some soup. I took off the top and then I made this thing right here. What you can do in any survival situation is just bend it, drill a hole through it, put it in your mouth and then blow in order to get the attention because it ends up being a pretty loud whistle. So, here it goes. That actually works kind of nicely. It's like a tea kettle. You can even do SOS, like some Morse code. All right, I did not think this would work, but it ended up being pretty nifty. Pretty cool. Good product. Decent life hack as well, especially for back then. This next life hack is from 1919 from the same The Boy Mechanic book. This one is version 3, I believe. 800 things for boys to do. And here we have how to pour liquid out of a bottle quickly. Look how old this book is. It has like... Food stains on it and everything in pouring a liquid from a jug or bottle the vessel should be held with the opening Downward rather than horizontal if convenient and swung quickly with a circular motion. Aha, so it's going to be the vortex trick Alright, let's go ahead and test this and see if it works So according to that 1919 life hacks if you have two waters that are equal in size and you dump one out normally and the other in a circular Vortex motion the one in the vortex is going to pour out quicker Which is pretty cool because sometimes you have to dump water out and you want to get rid of it quickly But you're beholden to whatever the normal speed is so I'm gonna pour both these at the same time this one This one's going to be normal. This one's going to be the Vortex. I'm going to see who wins. On your marks, get set, go. All right, well, it looks like the Vortex lost. So that was a little bit underwhelming. You know what, let's run this test again. I'm going to find two water bottles because there's no way that that guy actually just got that completely wrong. Okay, race number two. So I found some pretty standard water bottles. So hopefully the Vortex actually works on this one because right now the Vortex is down 0-1. Let's see if we could win here. Three, two, one, go. Vortex method absolutely destroyed this one. That was by like a full second and a half, maybe even two seconds. I think with a standard size mouth of a water bottle, this is going to absolutely mug this one. So the vortex method, whatever happens there, absolutely works. Whoever came up with this in 1919, that's actually insane tech to know back then. Decent life hack if you're ever in a situation where you need to pour things out quickly, do a little bit of a tornado and you're good. Good job, 1900s. This next life hack is from 1965 and it's how to remove gum from hair. So it looks to be a... Ponds advertisement, which is basically this cold cream that you could use, and here it is right here, a gum removal hint. This lady seems to have kids who are addicted to bubble gum, and it gets tangled in their hair, especially the girls. And then one day, a friend handed me a jar of cold cream and told me to try it. I put some on, rubbed it, and sure enough... The gum came off. All right, so we can remove gum from hair using cream. I know I tried peanut butter before, I think I tried even something else, but maybe it's cream that does it. Okay guys, so I have the hair on now, and we're gonna see if you can actually get gum out of your hair using this Pond's cream right here. I'm gonna take this gum. We're gonna try to stick it right here. Look at that, completely in there. I don't want this in my hair. I can't cut my hair, right? I don't have time for that. So have no fear. According to that ad, Ponds is here and it's just cold cream makeup remover. So we're just gonna take a lot of this, run it through the gum right there. Let's see if it could slide right off my hair fibers. Come on, please, please, please. I don't wanna have to cut my hair. Come on, come on. Oh, I'm pulling something off. Is it working? Oh. Oh, ow, my scalp. All right, well, I think it's safe to say that this life hack is not super useful, at least if you have hair like mine, super long, beautiful hair. So I don't know what they were on sometime in the 1900s, but they were not cooking with their life hacks. I've still yet to find a perfect life hack to remove gum from the fibers of carpet or hair. Let's see what else we got because they were not cooking back then. Next up, we have another Gallagher's how to do it illustration. This one is number 62, and it's going to be a life hack involving how to light a match in the wind. The familiar difficulty of lighting a match in a wind can be to a great extent overcome if thin shavings are first cut on the match towards its striking end, as shown in the picture. Okay. On lighting the match, the curled strips catch fire at once. The flame is stronger and has a better chance. Alright, so we're just gonna trim up, and it looks like we create a little force field so the wind can't get into the flame. Birthday parties everywhere would be rejoicing if this actually worked, so let's try it. So I went ahead and curled up some of these pieces of wood, and I think it's basically going to block the wind from coming and then extinguishing the match. And I have a normal one right here, so we're gonna- do this, see whether or not it actually works. So I have a fan right here and it's honestly pretty high. This is basically as strong as wind would be. So we're first gonna start with this one just to make sure that it blows it out, which it easily did. Now we're gonna take this guy. All right, and it didn't look like it worked. So let's assume it's not a hurricane because if it's a hurricane, even this won't help you. So I put it to some modest wind, probably like 15 miles per hour or so now. Let's do this again. Normal match, completely obliterated, but now our special matches. Per that life hack should be able to withstand a little bit of wind. Let's try it again. Okay, here we go All right, guys, I don't know if this one works I don't think these little flaps shield any of the wind at least a meaningful amount of wind So unfortunately, it looks like there's no way to bypass mother nature because if you have a flame and you put it up to wind that's what happens in 1916 over 100 years ago i mean they thought they knew what they were talking about maybe the wind was different back then but that life hack is not a life hack so let's see what else they got this next life hack i came across from the early 2000s is how to hyper decant your wine so if you're a red wine drinker this is for you apparently you could oxygenate it and basically soften your wine by just putting it into a blender or a salad spinner so the more you spin your wine the softer it gets and it could be the more enjoyable depending on what your taste profile is all right let's go ahead and test this out and see if it works so if you're looking to We're looking to oxygenate and aerate some wines Wine, have no fear, your salad spinner is here. And that's according to that life hack from however many years ago. So we're gonna see whether or not this is true. Try to soften the wine a little bit. I'm gonna start off by just tasting this wine normally. Something light, because we've got a weekday. Pretty good. However, I will say it needs some oxygenization. And so before I take another sip, I'm going to take the wine here, and I'm just going to pour it, and we could spin it out and really work towards softening this up. And they said do it for about 30 seconds or so, and you should be good to go. Now all the wine is in there. We're all set. Yeah, it's spinning. It's like we're making chocolate. We're gonna turn this into grape juice. Basically removing all the alcohols. A little bit longer. Three, two, one. That is spinning. Look at that. Let me click stop. Good. Stopped on a dime. Really nice device. Now let's take this up. Okay, so visually, it doesn't look too different. Taste-wise, let's try it out. So just to remember what this one tasted like. Okay. This is the one that was spun out. I hate to be that guy, and I'm not just playing it up for the cameras. There's something about it that is drastically different from this, but I can't quite put my palate on it. I think overall, it's a good way to soften up and aerate your wine. Kind of interesting. I don't know if everybody's going to do this, because then you're left with something that looks like this, but maybe use a blender or something in more modern days. It's probably a bit easier. A pretty cool one. Didn't think that would work, but it turns out it did. Now, this next life hack is for all the artists out there. If you're somebody who's interested in contemporary art, canvas work, anything like that, but you can't really afford some big pieces, some cool abstract pieces. to hang up on the wall. Have no fear because Crayola crayons are here and all you need to do according to this early 2000s life hack is just use a hair dryer on them until the wax melts. And it could create some pretty cool canvas art as you're seeing right there. You get literally every color of the rainbow and more and it'll dry directly to it and create something that kind of looks like that. I'm excited to try this. I like art. I think it's fun to express in whichever way you want. And so I think this could be good. Hang it up on your wall, something like that. And all it will cost is like three dollars for the crayons. So we're gonna see whether or not this works. And so we have a little makeshift canvas right here, a Revlon hair dryer, and then the crayons just taped directly to our canvas. And let's see if heat can turn this wax thing into something beautiful. Here we go. This should work, right? I see a little bit of melting. Oh, look at that. That's kind of cool. Now it's really starting to melt and we are really creating art now. What a clever thing that somebody came up with. Okay. Well, evidently that works. So that's a pretty cool life hack. I'm sure if you were more artistic than I am, you're able to create some actual art. Crayola crayons with a hair dryer can make some conceptual canvas art. They were using their brains back then. Next up, we have a life hack from the early 2000s that shows you how to deconstruct and break down ahead of iceberg lettuce in just three seconds. You just strike the lettuce core against the counter and then you ultimately remove it. Let's see if it works. This might actually be the most useful life hack in this entire video technically, because a lot of people cook with iceberg lettuce and the most The annoying thing about iceberg lettuce is this stem right here, because it could really affect the way that you cut around it. However, 2012, somebody, some scientist came out with a way to correct for this. And all you have to do is just take the stem, turn it upside down, and then slam it. And you're supposed to be able to remove the stem. Maybe I don't have enough power. There we go. Am I being fooled? Is this clickbait? I guess, right? There we go. There's our lettuce. It kind of shredded it up, I guess, so it did everything besides what I thought was going to be the main use for it. But here's the stem. It is officially decapitated off the head of lettuce. So it did work after three attempts, but nonetheless, pretty cool, interesting kitchen hack right there. So if you're cooking something up, use that right there. All right. Let's see what else we got. So I came across a very old life hack, perhaps the first one that showed the perfect way to eat a cupcake, and this is what they claim. So you just take the cupcake, pull off the paper around it, pull out the bottom, and then smush it like so, and you can make the perfect cupcake. This could be an actual useful life hack for those who enjoy cupcakes out there. So let's go ahead and try it and see if it works. So I'm not a big fan of cupcakes for this exact reason, because when you bite into it, it's like all the frosting is on the top. Like I always wish it was a sandwich, but now according to this life hack, we are able to turn it into a sandwich. By simply taking it out, we're going to peel this. Paper off it, it's like a jumbo cupcake too. Take that off, happy birthday. Whoever's birthday it is, leave a comment, let me know, happy birthday to you. Then, it says flip it over, and then you're gonna twist to remove, and then put it on top, and voila, look at that. We just turned a cupcake into a cup sandwich, allowing us to have the perfect bite now for our dessert. Highly recommend. Very good life hack right there. I don't know why more people don't do this. All right, that one works. Good to see. Nice and easy. Anybody could do it. This next life hack is from 1962, and here it is right here. It looks to be a newspaper column that basically tells us that you can clean your windows and mirrors using vinegar and crumbled up newspaper. Hints from Heloise, which used to be the life hacks column in the 1960s. Sounds good enough. Let's see if it's true. Let's go ahead and test this out. We're gonna move to the bathroom right now. I'll put some fingerprints on the mirror and we'll see if it actually cleans it to be the most streak-free cleaning that you'll ever see. Not really sure how this newspaper, which feels pretty rough, is supposed to actually turn this mirror spotless. All right, so we have a little bit of markings on this mirror right now. Okay, well, we're gonna take a couple of newspapers, crumble them up. Go ahead and get a little bit of warm water on it. All right, white vinegar. Okay. Dry it out a little bit and let's see. Streak-free cleaning. Here we go. Looks like it's cleaning it. All right. Looks very streaky. Maybe I'll go over it with a dryer side. Housewives around America were doing this in the 60s. Okay. Wait a second. Wait a second. Hold on now. This is very, very clean. Look at that. There's actually no streaks left. You see a little bit up top because I was kind of just like doing that on purpose. I spoke too soon. This is confirmed the most OP way to wash your windows and mirrors. I put a lot of fingerprints on here. There's nothing left. But not only that, I'm just surprised that there's like zero streaking. I have to say that is a useful life hack. So whoever came up with that all the way back then, very smart. Very good. That one works. Who would have thought? Okay, here we have our next life hack. And this is around Mr. Potato Head, which apparently I'm learning right now used to not come with an actual potato. In fact, the original one claims that you can. You can use any fruit or vegetable to make the funny-faced man. And there's actually this really old vintage commercial from 1950s or so, and this is what it looks like. That is one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. So I went ahead and purchased one of these OG Mr. Potato Head kits, and we're going to see if it could actually go on any fruit or vegetable. And so today I have three different vegetables here, and I want to see one, if they actually stick on like the life hack claims, and then two, what the best looking one is. So this is fun. So I guess that's his pants. This one actually comes with the full Mr. Potato Head build out, which we won't be using. We don't need this body because we have the actual potato. All right, so we'll start them off with a hat here. Now this doesn't look like it's able to pierce Pierce through a potato. Oh, we got it. There we go. Helmet on. Ears. Good. Put on his shoes before we make his face. Now, unfortunately, because he's a real potato, he's uneven. But it gives him some personality. This is really going to bring him to life now. Here's his eyes. Ugh. Nose. OK, and then we'll put on his mouth. All right, he lost a leg in the process. And there he is, Mr. Potato Head. We actually even have some arms. Can't forget the mustache. All right, he actually kinda looks pretty cute. So this is what a real Mr. Potato Head looks like compared to this guy right here. Not bad, right? We're looking pretty good. Now based on the size of this garlic, I don't think it's possible to get all these different parts onto it. So I think the minimum is the size of a potato. The eyes alone are gonna take up the entirety of it. Now let's see if we can make a Mr. Onion Head. He's wide. He looks good. Well, it works on a potato, but you really can't do it on anything else. I see what they wanted to do there. Kind of cool. But yeah, for the most part, garbage life hack. But we do like Mr. Potato Head. All right, guys, that was a lot of fun. Let me know which one of these life hacks was your favorite. But with that being said, thank you guys so much for watching. If you want to see more content, make sure to click here or click here. Otherwise, subscribe on your way out, and I'll see you next time. Peace.