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I'm Stefan Gates and I'm a food adventurer.

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I'm fascinated by food.

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In fact, I'll eat anything.

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Doesn't matter how ugly or how many claws it's got.

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I want to know where our food comes from and what it does to us.

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I want to break all the rules about how we eat and what we eat, so join

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me and the Gastronuts for some harebrained experiments,

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some eye-popping stunts and a slice of extreme cooking.

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Don't get me wrong. I love a cooker.

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But don't you sometimes get a bit bored cooking with the

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same old bits of kit.

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Well, we're going to find out if there aren't some more exciting ways

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to make our food. Maybe there's life beyond the cooker.

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Coming up, the Gastronuts leave the cooker behind

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and try to cook with a liquid that's colder than an iceberg.

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They find out if a paper bag can do the same job as a saucepan.

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-It's not burning, yet.

-Yes, it is. You can see smoke coming out.

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And what sort of mayhem will be unleashed

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when they get their hands on the world's most dangerous toaster.

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Oh, yeah.

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I need assistance in my journey to find new ways of cooking,

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so here to help are today's adventurous Gastronuts.

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I'd like to cook pasta salad in the washing machine.

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When I went to brownies I cooked like a soup with a twig.

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I'd like to cook with an aeroplane cos it would be interesting and fun.

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If I could cook with anything

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I'd probably barbecue something over a volcano.

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One of the weird things I would cook is a train.

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Now, all of us have loads of electrical appliances hanging about

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around our houses, but they sit around idle most of the day.

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Now, I thought maybe we could take some of those things and

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liberate them from their dull, menial lives and in the process,

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help ourselves on our quest to cook without using a cooker.

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I'm not really sure about this one but we're going to try and cook

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a proper meal using a dishwasher

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and a tumble dryer. First of all, we're going

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to prepare some ingredients without using a cooker.

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So, Sophie, if you can put the stir-fry into the tub.

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I'm going to take this salmon... that can be mine...

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Eleanor, can you take a couple of eggs, crack one on the side.

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-Squelch.

-That's a beautiful thing.

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Jordan, can you grab a couple of knobs of butter and drop them in?

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Pop the lid on for me, Eleanor.

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Give it a really, really good shake. That's it.

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It's like a smoothie,

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like custard.

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It does, doesn't it? Are all of our lids on nice and tight?

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-Yeah.

-Bring them round this way.

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Great thing about a dishwasher is it gets very hot.

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So maybe we could use that heat to cook some food.

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So, let's grab our salmon.

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Nice and tight. I'm hoping that the heat around this

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will be strong enough to heat up the ingredients inside.

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OK. Let's put our stir-fry in there, with the basil.

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What you need to do is put this

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on to the highest wash, to go through the whole cycle.

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The idea is the dishwasher will poach the salmon

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and steam the vegetables.

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At least that's the idea. Now, what do tumble dryers do?

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It dries clothes with heat.

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And they move it around, don't they? Well, I was thinking

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that we need the heat and we need the moving around to scramble eggs.

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So, Jordan, pop that in there.

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Bear in mind that tumble dryers and dishwashers

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weren't designed for cooking in or for getting inside, either.

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So, if you're going to use them for cooking, ask permission

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from whoever owns them first.

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Right. I reckon an hour on top heat.

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-Now, do you reckon this is going to work?

-Yeah.

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I guess it's like a giant heated whisk, so cook it.

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Let's see what other household appliances we can use to cook with.

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We're leaving the dishwasher and the tumble dryer

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to chuck around our dinner.

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We're going to try and cook with some other things

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you'd find lying around the house.

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-Now, have you seen one of these before?

-Hairdryer.

-Hairdryer.

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Now, what does a hairdryer do?

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-It blows heat out.

-It blows heat out. Exactly.

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-It dries your hair.

-Eleanor, you grab that one there.

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Keenan, you're over here.

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-How do you normally cook a pizza?

-In the oven.

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We're going to try cooking pizza with a hairdryer.

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Do the top first and when you're happy that the cheese

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is beginning to melt, you need to go down from the bottom,

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try cooking it from below as well so it cooks through all the way.

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That's it.

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While these guys are starting cooking their pizzas,

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we're going to go and try something else over here.

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-Have you seen one of these before?

-Yes.

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-It's a big floodlight thing.

-It's a big light. Put sunglasses on.

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I turn the light on and we leave it to heat up.

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We're going to use the security light as a hot plate

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or a frying pan to cook up pancakes.

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How are we doing there?

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Slowly, slowly, slowly. Spread it out over here.

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I think that's beginning to cook. That's not bad, is it?

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-Do you think this is working, George?

-Yeah.

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The pancakes seem to be cooking,

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but how is our hairdryer pizza getting on?

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How's yours doing? Is yours bubbling up?

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-Yeah. How's your tomato now?

-They're cooking a bit, they are.

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-Meanwhile, back with the pancakes...

-It smells nice.

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It's good, isn't it? Look at that.

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I just want to scoff my face with it.

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Well, that looks fantastic, doesn't it? OK. Grab the pancake

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and let's find out how the guys are getting on.

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-Are you happy with yours, Eleanor?

-Yeah.

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OK. Let's pop that on there. You can turn yours off.

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That looks fantastic as well.

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OK. Grab your pizza. Eleanor, you grab yours.

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Let's take all of these foods and go and find out

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how the tumble dryer and dishwasher got on.

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The salmon, vegetables and scrambled egg mix have been in for an hour.

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They're probably clean by now, but will they be ready to eat?

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-Gather round.

-Look. It's spilt all over the thing.

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Looks a bit of a mess, doesn't it?

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OK. What do you reckon, guys?

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-Can you see anything?

-Boiled puke.

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-That looks gooey.

-Boiled puke?

-Yeah.

-I think you're right.

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That's made a real mess of that.

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Doesn't look like it's done, but we'll stash it over here.

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The eggs look like tumbled vomit, but if you do want to try this,

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you'll need an understanding adult,

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a sick bag and money for a new tumble dryer, standing by.

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Now, will the dishwasher have done any better with the salmon?

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There we go. Oh, look. Well, something's happened in there.

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Look. It's changed colour.

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These are all very hot.

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OK. Let's go back to the table and see if we can taste some of it.

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Oh, dear. Well, something's cooked on the outside.

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I can't even open it.

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It's sealed itself up.

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Cooking scrambled eggs in a tumble dryer has failed miserably.

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That was a disaster, wasn't it? Will the salmon be equally washed up?

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-It actually looks like a proper meal.

-You're surprised, aren't you?

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That's brilliant.

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It's cooked all the way through.

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Fantastic. OK. Everyone, grab a forkful.

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Well, it does look cooked, but will it taste like a dishwasher?

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That is good.

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It's really good cos it's still really moist inside.

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It melts in your mouth.

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I don't really like salmon as in when it's cooked

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but I think this way's much more better.

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Cooking salmon in a dishwasher not only works,

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it actually makes it taste better.

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Now, let's try the pizzas.

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Hairdryer-cooked pizza. OK.

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Dive in there.

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Next up, what does pizza taste like after the hairdryer treatment?

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Cooked really, really well.

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-Do you think it's actually cooked?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

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I'm never a big fan of pizza and this is all right.

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-Do you think hairdryers are a good enough cooking tool?

-Yeah.

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Next time you're blow-drying your hair,

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pop a slice of pizza on your head and cook up lunch at the same time.

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Now, let's try some pancakes.

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OK. Now, that's fantastic.

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Stop stop stop stop stop stop.

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The security light's designed to terrify burglars, but how good is it

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at cooking pancakes? OK. Everyone dive in and grab a little piece.

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It's a little bit chewy.

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The pancake was really nice.

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It seems to have worked.

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Another experiment that ends in satisfied stomachs.

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Fab!

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what do you think about the idea of cooking without a cooker?

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-Good idea.

-Good idea.

-It's fun and interesting.

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Knowing that you cooked it in a strange way

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-actually makes it taste better.

-Well, this has really inspired me.

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I've begun to think maybe we could use all sorts of different things

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for cooking with. Maybe we can get out of the kitchen altogether.

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-Shall we try some new things?

-Yeah.

-OK. Let's go. Imagine the scene.

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You're trapped on a desert island. No pots and pans.

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However, OK, on our desert island, something weird has happened.

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A big container has washed up on the beach

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but it's only full of paper bags.

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The thing is, can we cook with a paper bag?

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-You can store things in it.

-You can put things in it. Yeah.

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It's paper and when you put the food in, it probably can heat up

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cos it only has a thin layer.

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OK. Paper tends to burn, doesn't it? So let's have a quick look.

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Let's see what happens. We seem to have found...

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a fire. We're trying to prove we can cook without using a cooker, but is

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using a paper bag instead just a step too far?

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-What do you reckon? Do you reckon it's going to burn?

-Yes. Burn.

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It's burning. Yes. So that's not really a lot of cop, is it?

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OK. So we'll give up with that idea.

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However, the thing is, we're really hungry,

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so we've got to try something else. Back to the table. OK.

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So, what happened was, alongside the container of paper bags, a huge

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container with all the ingredients for English breakfast turned up.

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Eggs, bacon and hash browns.

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That is oil, so grab that.

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Spray the bottom of this.

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When you're cooking an English breakfast..

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When you make an English breakfast,

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it's always good to put a bit of oil down first. OK. Stop there.

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-That looks like hairspray.

-That would be a very bad idea.

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OK, George, grab that bacon there for me, please.

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We're going to put that on the bottom as a little whole layer.

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-That's a good start. Everyone like bacon?

-Yeah.

-I love it.

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Now, let's get a few hash browns.

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One either end. Yeah.

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That's it. Now, Keenan, do you like cracking eggs?

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-Yeah.

-Excellent. OK. Crack me an egg.

-This looks gorgeous.

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Pop it in the middle so it sits in the middle.

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Put your hands in. That's it. Right down. Right down.

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That's looking fantastic. OK.

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I'd say that's a full English breakfast.

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No. We need tomatoes in it.

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We've never tried this before so there's a good chance we'll fail

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and end up looking stupid and feeling hungry.

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I don't think I'd be able to cook in a paper bag because

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it just wouldn't work properly.

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Well, it's not burning yet.

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-Yeah, it is.

-Can you see from there if it's burning on the bottom?

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-You can see the smoke...

-It is smoking a bit.

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Smells like bacon.

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You can smell some bacon? So, do you think it's worked?

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-Yeah.

-Do you reckon it's worked?

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OK. Shall we try it? OK. Let's go.

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After 15 minutes over hot coals, the bag hasn't caught light,

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but are we going to be the first people in the world

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to have cooked breakfast in a paper bag?

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-Who's hungry?

-Me.

-Me.

-Yeah. I'm hungry, too.

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OK. Let's have a little look.

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OK. Fingers crossed, everyone.

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Oh, gosh. Look at that.

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-It cooked.

-It cooked.

-Look at the egg.

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Even the bacon's cooked in there. The egg's a proper egg.

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A bit dry but it looks good. Is everyone going to try it?

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-Yes.

-Excellent.

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-If I'm hungry, I'm hungry.

-Everybody tuck in.

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I want to know, what does it taste like?

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Does it taste of paper bag?

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-No.

-Just tastes of...

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-That tastes good.

-Is that how you eat your breakfast at home?

-No.

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-We've got an oven.

-The bacon's gorgeous.

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It's fantastic.

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Cooking in a paper bag was really, really, really fun,

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because I didn't think it was going to work

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but it worked really, really well and tasted really good.

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I was quite amazed cos I thought the egg would be all soggy, but

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actually it tasted quite nice, like the bacon was all like...

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as Stefan showed me, that was all crunchy.

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That is extraordinary.

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You can cook with a paper bag.

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I'm amazed and the Gastronuts thought it tasted fantastic.

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The bacon was actually crispy, with a paper bag, over some hot coals.

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It is possible to cook with just a paper bag.

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But it you're trying it yourself,

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get an adult, or your local paper bag cookery expert to lend a hand.

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One traditional delicacy of Iceland is rotten shark, hakarl.

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A Greenland or basking shark is beheaded and gutted. The carcass is

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placed in a ditch, covered over in sand, pressed down

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with heavy rocks, then left to rot for between six and 12 weeks.

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When dug up, it's hung out to dry for several months to mature, like ham.

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Unlike ham, it looks and smells like stale pee.

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Most people who try the snack immediately vomit it back up.

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We've already come a long way on our journey towards

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cooking without a cooker.

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The Gastronuts will get even further from the kitchen

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and try to cook with something that could end up cooking them.

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But next up, I'll be making my very own version of Meals On Wheels.

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I'm planning a trip, but I hate service-station food, so I thought

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I'll be going pretty fast, the engine'll get hot,

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it'd be a shame to waste the energy.

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I read somewhere that you can use a car engine as a cooker.

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I've got all the ingredients to make some kebabs and tortilla wraps.

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Thought I'd try out using some fish,

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some vegetables.

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Just poke them on a skewer. We'll do a couple.

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That does sound like an extraordinary idea,

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engines are quite mucky, so once you've made your

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kebabs, create a really, really good parcel for them.

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It's really important you use good foil

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and there are no holes where the fumes could get in.

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A little bit of oil over the top.

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And there we go.

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Another bit of basil.

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If you cover it in too much foil, it won't cook fast enough.

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Too little foil, it won't be protected from all the fumes.

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That looks pretty good.

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So that's the kebabs. I thought we'd also make some tortilla wraps.

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A little bit of tomato salsa.

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A few peppers.

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Then some cheese. A little bit of cheddar.

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We just fold that up.

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Wrap it up there. One more for good measure.

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That's our food all prepared. Where can we strap it to the engine?

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Now, this is, I have to say,

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the tricky bit - all engines are different.

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You've got to make sure you're not tying your food to

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any moving part so it gets shredded and ends up damaging your engine.

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So it's always best, really, to take your car to a garage and ask

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them where they think is the best place.

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So, this bit of my engine gets really, really hot.

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I wouldn't advise you tying something to your folks' car

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without them knowing about it.

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That looks pretty tight.

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That'll work well. I've made a little

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cage here for the heater.

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Pop that in there.

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That looks pretty firm. Now, I've never tried this before!

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I don't know if it'll work, but let's try.

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When you cook with a car, it's not

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about how long you cook for, it's about how far you drive.

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If I can keep a steady 70 mph,

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the engine should reach 100 degrees Celcius,

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and in theory, 25 minutes at that temperature should do it.

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But, will my tortilla wrap and my car-bab actually be edible?

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Just turned the air conditioning on, and I don't know if this is hope

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or if it's reality but I think I can just get

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a slight smell of fish in the air.

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I've done about 30-odd miles.

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We managed to hit 70 mph for

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quite a chunk of that, so let's give it a try!

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Oh, that's nice and hot, that is.

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It's the heat you'd feel off a barbecue.

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So, see what we get.

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All I can smell is engine, and that's probably good -

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if you smell the fish, it probably means

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the fumes of the engine could have been getting in.

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There we go. OK!

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Let's see if it's done the trick.

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Yay! Let's have a look at

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our tortilla wrap.

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The moment of truth.

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But has my cheese melted?

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Oh, yes! Look at that!

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That's perfect! The proof,

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though, is in the eating.

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That's perfect. Nice and spicy.

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Nice and hot. Nice melted cheese there. I think that's worked!

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There's no smell of engine.

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No smell of exhaust or petrol, which I was

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worried about. It's just proper tortilla wrap, properly cooked.

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Much trickier, though, has the fish worked?

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Oh, my word. Look at that.

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If it wasn't cooked, it'd be translucent.

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But look at that.

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Cooked all the way through! It's still moist -

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it's been wrapped up so all the juices couldn't escape.

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And that looks like a perfect kebab.

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That is truly delicious. Perfectly, perfectly cooked.

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This proves that you don't need to be stuck in a kitchen

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and you don't need a cooker to cook!

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So, you can cook without a cooker,

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but can we freeze food without a freezer?

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We've asked Dr Andreas Zeller

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to help us try something that is literally supercool.

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So, this is Dr Zeller.

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He's developed one of the coolest cooking techniques I've ever heard.

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I'm going to show you liquid nitrogen.

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Here it is, and you can see it's very, very cold.

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What I have here is a surgical glove, and I'm going to take it and...

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You can see it's all floppy.

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-That could be like one of our hands?

-One of your fingers.

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What we'll do is put it into

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the liquid nitrogen and dip it in, and within seconds, look at it.

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It's all gone stiff.

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GLOVE CRACKLES

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It's frozen, completely solid.

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If that was your hand, you can

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just, like, bend it back and it'll just, like, snap off?

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-Absolutely. You'll be able to snap off your fingers one by one.

-Ugh!

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But can you use liquid nitrogen for cooking?

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It's actually an amazing way of making

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one of everyone's favourite foods.

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And that's going to be ice-cream.

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So, what we have here

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is a bowl which has some lovely ice-cream mix, ready to be cooled.

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This is what ice cream starts at. It's a big, warm, sloppy mess.

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But how are we going to turn this into ice cream using that?

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Ordinarily, you an ice-cream maker,

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a fridge which churns and cools it.

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You're going to be the churn, and I'll provide the fridge.

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I want you to start stirring and then

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I'll pour in the liquid nitrogen.

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And keep stirring.

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Is anything happening?

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-It feels stiffer.

-Can you just pull the spoon out a little?

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-Can you see it?

-Let's stir some more. Let's stir

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in a little bit more. Keep stirring.

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-All you can see is clouds of smoke.

-Here it is.

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Looks pretty stiff!

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-It feels pretty stiff.

-Do you want to pull some out?

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Well, there we are. Ice cream.

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I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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Let's go see what it's like.

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So, you poured liquid nitrogen into this. Is that not dangerous?

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Remember, we're breathing nitrogen all the time.

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It's simply cooling, and then it boils away and so it's gone,

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-leaving nothing behind.

-So we're not tasting liquid nitrogen here?

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-That cold? Does it taste any different to normal ice cream?

-Yeah.

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It's much creamier.

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The ice cream did taste a little bit

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different, but it made a big difference - I love it.

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What we've done is no stunt.

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Some of the greatest chefs use liquid nitrogen

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to create instant ice cream at the table, because they're

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looking for ways to cook without a cooker.

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Chefs use liquid nitrogen to get things supercool,

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but this is what they use when they want to go super hot.

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Who's ever seen one of these before?

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-It's a blowtorch.

-Brilliant.

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Sometimes, you want to have a real intense heat to cook things,

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to get a little browning on the food.

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Blowtorches are very hot and very dangerous,

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sp always ask an adult or a fireman to help you out

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if you want to use one.

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And break in there. Look at that!

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That's worked really well.

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-It's like toffee?

-That's exactly what it is. Toffee.

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We like to take fun ideas like that and blow them up

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on a massive scale. Come with me.

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We're going to take what chefs do with blowtorches

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and move it to a crazy new level.

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I bet you've all got kitchens full of toasters and

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-lots of little bits of kit lying around?

-ALL:

-Yeah.

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-Anyone got one of these?

-ALL: No.

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This is an industrial flame-thrower.

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-Wow.

-Could it work? Could we cook with this?

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What do you reckon? Would you like to try?

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-ALL: Yeah!

-You need to be careful.

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It's extremely dangerous, all right?

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If you've got a flame-thrower,

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what's the best thing you can cook with it?

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The Gastronuts will find out, starting with blitzing a lasagne.

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So, are you ready?

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You've made lasagne before? Excellent. Let's give it a go.

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It's coming along very nicely.

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Oh, yeah!

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That's fantastic.

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You're about there.

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OK. Now push the trigger forward.

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OK! Well, this is very interesting.

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You've made a right pig's ear of that.

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You've exploded the oven dish. With something like this, the heat is so

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intense that some parts of the dish

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will heat up quicker than others - that's when things break.

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The browning looks perfect.

0:25:010:25:03

So, we can't still eat it?

0:25:030:25:04

No. You might munch bits of oven dish

0:25:040:25:07

if you tuck into that. Still, at least we know lasagne works.

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It's flame on now for George as he takes on the marshmallows.

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That's it. And close it off.

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-What do you reckon?

-Good!

-The marshmallows scorched too quickly.

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Can Eleanor do any better with some toast? Pull that trigger!

0:25:230:25:28

Wow!

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You're about done.

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Push that closed. Fantastic!

0:25:330:25:35

Look at that! It's kind of done there. Well, I wouldn't butter that,

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but will Sophie have more luck with the flame-thrower

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on the creme brulee?

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-Wow!

-Oh, yeah!

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Oh, yeah!

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-Oh, yeah!

-I think that's perfect. OK. Let's shut that off.

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-It doesn't look too bad.

-That looks perfect.

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Now, will the cheese make all the difference on Jordan's toast?

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OK. And aim it right. That's it.

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I've got burnt toast.

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I reckon that's great. Now shut it off.

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Fantastic!

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OK. That has been incinerated.

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Not sure that's worked.

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So, the flame-thrower is too much for toast and

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marshmallows, but good for lasagne and perfect for creme brulee.

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So, the world's most dangerous flame-thrower creme brulee.

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It looks pretty good. What do you reckon?

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-It tastes better than the other one.

-Delicious. Seriously.

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I'd say that's a real success. Sophie, give me five.

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It was really interesting.

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It made it taste better because you knew you cooked it in a fun way.

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My favourite thing that I did was to try lots of different foods

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and cook lasagne with a flame-thrower.

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The thing I enjoyed the most was probably cooking with

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a flame-thrower, and I managed to make a decent creme brulee.

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The thing that I enjoyed the most was eating out of the paper bag.

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I think today has made me more adventurous because it showed me

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different ways to cook different things.

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Let's be completely honest.

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Cooking with a flame-thrower is the least practical thing,

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but you don't need to be stuck with the usual junk

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that you find floating round the kitchen.

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You can cook with paper bags!

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Hairdryers, liquid nitrogen!

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You can take cooking, which is often boring, a little bit similar to

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everything you do in your life, and turn it into an adventure.

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