Kitchen Hack Testing – Another Batch of Viral Hacks (Ice Cream Regrets Included)

Every so often, we end up with another pile of kitchen and life hacks sent in by you lot, so we test them properly to save everyone else the effort. That’s exactly what’s happening again here, with another round of kitchen hack testing.

Mrs B is, as always, right there with me, helping judge whether these ideas are genuinely useful or just look good in a seven-second clip online.

It starts off slightly festive, thanks to the only Christmas-themed hack we were sent this year, before quickly returning to normal service.

You can watch the video above or here on YouTube if you prefer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzB6kcAS_7s

The ice cream cookie disappointment

Before we even got into the hacks, we had to deal with a viral clip claiming there are hidden cookies sitting right at the bottom of certain ice cream tubs.

There weren’t.
There was disappointment.
And that set the tone rather nicely.

Holiday pancake hack (the only festive one we were sent)

We started off in Christmas jumpers because this was genuinely the only festive hack anyone sent us this year. The pancake idea promised a bit of seasonal flair, and to be fair, it wasn’t a bad way to kick things off.

That said, once it was done, the jumpers came off and the internet went straight back to being the internet.

Fried egg mayonnaise (the one that absolutely stank)

This hack claims you can turn eggs into mayonnaise in a way that makes you question why you ever bothered frying them in the first place.

It smelled absolutely awful. Properly unpleasant.

But then, inexplicably, it actually tasted quite nice… with a weird bacon-like flavour that neither of us were expecting. Still unsettling, but not the disaster we thought it was going to be.

AI pineapple cutting advice

This one involved following artificial intelligence instructions on how to cut a pineapple, which feels like something no one asked for but here we are.

Surprisingly, it worked really well. The end result was neat, practical, and actually quite satisfying.

In fact, you could easily slide a wedge of cheese between the pineapple pieces and recreate that retro pineapple-and-cheese-on-sticks vibe, which feels very on brand for this channel.

Parchment paper grilled cheese press

This hack promised a cleaner, easier way to make a grilled cheese using parchment paper as a press.

We didn’t even need to push it far. One go was enough to prove the point, and it worked brilliantly. Minimal mess, good melt, and no reason to complicate it further.

Sometimes a hack just does what it says on the tin.

Sticker removal hack (with a comment-section upgrade)

The sticker removal hack itself was… alright. It helped, but it wasn’t the miracle solution the internet suggested.

However, after reading through the comments, we grabbed a hair dryer and tried that instead. Unsurprisingly, heat did the job far better and made the whole thing much easier.

Once again, the comment section quietly saved the day.

Are these kitchen hacks actually worth trying?

As always with kitchen hack testing, the results were mixed. Some ideas worked far better than expected, some were a bit underwhelming, and a couple raised more questions than answers.

That’s exactly why we keep testing the ones you send in. It’s far less painful to watch us do it than try them all yourself.

If you want to see more videos like this, there’s a whole section of the site dedicated to it here:
https://barrylewis.net/recipes/kitchen-hack-testing/