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Restaurant and joining me tonight are a rack of rib ticklers rolling a rhubarb roulade. It's Sarah Pascoe
Using a research a ragu. It's Mark Watson
Remarkable relish it's Phil Jupiter's
Heating a reduced ready meal. It's Alan
Mark goes yes
Right away chef Phil goes
Making it now chef and Alan goes
Why would you want to eat in a restaurant with a heavy fork and nothing fresh on the menu?
Is it because you're in space the great restaurant in space?
Yeah, yeah
Much about space or rest clearly but
If there was one then the heavy fork would stop it floating away it really worked that with gravity
There are there is gravity or there isn't yeah, if the people are floating away the forks are going to be
Sprouts are gonna be all over why you can't lift your for no
This is just like the toothpaste that what do you need the fork for?
Like somebody direct from NASA
I think the space thing sounded quite you like that. Yeah, cuz in space you can't have anything fresh grow things in space
I'd love to help you out. So are we talking about like game? Is it a fork or is it another fork in the road?
Is it to do with space?
Some very difficult TV appearances, but my class is normally to stay on
She starts throwing the hat around you know, you're in trouble Mark Watson
Okay, none of this is working
There is a computer scientist his name is Dan giraffesky and he looked at the description of dishes on six and a half
Thousand menus and the higher-end restaurants. They tend not to describe food as fresh
They don't describe it as tasty
They don't describe it as right because the customers in the high-end restaurants expect it to be those things
To be those things in fact in posh restaurants, they tend to use kind of sexy terminology
So if food is sort of sensuous or silky, uh, they use language like that nude
We got a topless chicken and we put it under the grill
This sandwich will wank you off
Oh
Okay moving on
In posh restaurants, they use a completely different language and here is the bizarre thing people enjoy their food more with heavy cutlery
So there's a guy called charles michelle and he is the chef in residence at oxford university's cross modal research laboratory
So what they are researching is how our different senses modulate any appreciation of flavor
And so he gave everybody exactly the same meal and people who used heavy cutlery were willing to pay 15
More for their food. It is one of the most bizarre things. Yeah, was there any point when the fork became too heavy?
Because I reckon there is like that is a scale that actually by the time you've got like a garden fork
Yeah
To pay again what you might have done now inadvertently is inspired cheap restaurants to glue their forks to the table
To get the illusion or glue two forks together thereby doubling the weight
One of the ways that restaurants trick you into spending a bit more money do nobody know hypnotism
Would you like the view
I mean, I would I certainly would do it after absolutely. Yeah
One of the things they do is they remove the pound sign from menus
Oh, yeah
So they did a study at cornell university and if it just has the numbers somehow
We don't associate that with the true cost of something. Yeah, they think it might just be 2.4 amps or something
Our brain kind of doesn't turn that into dollars or pounds if you put 20
Dollars, then you suddenly think about the price
But if you just have the number subconsciously we don't think about the cost of things
Has anybody ever been to a restaurant with a lady's menu a lady's a lady's menu
I've never been into the ladies in a restaurant
Are they doing food in there because i'm gonna
I'm gonna start dragging up to go to restaurants
So it's a menu with no prices on whatsoever because the bitch ain't paying because
Oh my god
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It was that the boy was paying for it. Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah, are you shocked? I'm really shocked
Men should have a revolution. You should say something
That's why men say why don't you just have two starters then
What's the worst trouble you can get into with one of these right? Would you like a bread roll, please?
I'm doing rather well. Yeah
Thanks mom. Okay
Looked like the boy who was crafting. It's just if the glasses come off a second time it starts
Hey there we go
The worst trouble you can get into with one of these
I'd say you can get into a bit of trouble if you painted it black rope bomb on it and then went to an airport
You murdered a man with it. Yeah or woman or anyone that would get you in trouble
How would you murder somebody with a bread roll gluten intolerant?
Oh
Throughout history
The people who make the bread rolls the bakers have been punished severely if they lower the quality of their produce
So it is the bakers who can get into the most trouble
So bread has always been a staple food
I mean we've probably as human beings been eating bread for about 30 000 years
If they can't afford it or it's not available there have been riots and french revolution french revolution indeed started by the women
In the market over the price of bread. So one way in which to control they've given them the women's menu
So
Just ordered loads of bread and I assume the price is fine. Yes
One of the ways in which you can control it and indeed the bakers is to form guilds
So one of the earliest ones that we know about is the collegium pistorum, which was formed in rome
And we're talking about 168 bc. I mean a very very long time ago
And it gave special privileges to bakers and families sort of guilds guilds. I thought you said gills like fish
It's much more difficult to form gills, I think
Really
When do they put the seeds on do they do it before it goes in the oven or just when it's out
They do it one at a time from the other side of the room. It's a great skill
I like when when you've had it there's still seeds left and you just
So what we're saying is you're a messy eater
It hasn't given a plate
You never are some really posh restaurants
They just put the roll in front of you and you start looking for a side plate
Why do they offer you from a basket? Which bread would you like?
Yeah, I know the nicest one, please. Yeah
No, but also you can ask for more than one and they don't say no i'll say yeah, I love all of those. Yeah
I've not touched mine because
I've got a fear that it'll turn out to be someone else's bread roll because that often happens
Turns out it's the one on the left. He is meant to be the one
Okay, there's a really easy rule for me to be able to work the same
So under the table if you make this sign like this this one when you look at it forms a b
And this one forms a d the bread that is yours
I'm not looking sitting next to alan is like sitting next to a naughty boy at school
Because you were doing this like really in a wanky way
Poor sandy she's so multifaceted, but this is one skill that she has never
What i've really that's really valuable to me i've never knew that um anybody know what baker's doesn't is
13 13
Yeah, so in medieval britain, uh the law they were forced to sell bread by the weight
Rather than the price of each loaf and if you undersold anybody you got into terrible trouble
So they got into the habit of making a 13th loaf just to make sure that the total weight not too low
They've had a hard time the bakers with everyone putting rules in I mean lots of rules
I mean the romans they wanted to make sure that bakers were saved from vice
So they were forbidden by law from hanging out with gladiators or comedians
What about eureka johnson
She's a great
And there were lots of laws in medieval time
So in the 13th century the very first time you were caught
Adulterating your bread you were dragged on a hurdle through the streets with the bad life hanging around your neck
the second time if it happened you had your hands and your
Head locked in a wooden pillory and again, you would drive through the streets the third time
It was not so good. You were dragged through the streets
Your oven was dismantled. You were forced to swear that you would never practice the trade of baking
It slightly lost me at the word adulterate adulterating your bread it means sleeping with bread this you're not married to yes
Why would you keep doing that
In france, they were equally heavy-handed one of the punishments for bakers was that you had to wear a sandwich board
What sort of sandwich board well listing your crimes
Good quality bread is still enshrined in law in modern france
So in 1919 the french made a law banning anybody from a baking bread between 10 pm and 4 am
And the idea was to stop mass produced bakeries
They wanted to keep all the artisan bakeries going
But it meant the bakers couldn't work overnight to create the bread for your breakfast
And that is where the baguette becomes the bread of choice
So up until 2015 it was the law that parisian bakers were split some had to take their holiday in july
And some had to take their holiday in august in order to make sure that the capital always had
Uh sufficient bread that's so french. I know the threat of a baguette crisis. Yes
Think about the get you do have to have it fresh though. Don't you it is no good the next
Yeah, it's very very hard. Yeah, if you've got hard bread, that's gone hard. You just put it in a
sink full of water
And then put it in the oven
And I know this because I read nigel slater's book. That's what he had to do in his first job, right?
I don't think that's going to taste very nice though. Do you it's not noticeable?
Oh really, yeah, because it comes to the table a little bit warm. You think oh freshly baked. No recently dunked in the sink
And then dried out in the oven
Bread and potatoes were rationed in britain in the 1940s, of course because of
war
Not the war what was it the atkins
The two big crises of the 40s the second war in the act it wasn't one it was the other
Yeah
No bread and vegetables were never rationed during world war two
In fact, there were subsidies from the government in order to make sure that it was all kept on the table
Were potatoes bigger or children smaller?
It looked like carrying the heads of something, doesn't it?
Uh, no, it was to do with the weather
Soon after the war there were very heavy rains and very bad frosts
So we're talking about 1946 and 1947 and then rationing of bread and potatoes came in
Then there was a bumper crop in 1948 and then after that all the restrictions were gone
There's some wonderful stuff that they did do about food though
Um before the war britain imported about half its meat and more than half its cheese and about a third of its eggs
So they did a test in 1939 to see if britain could deal without all of that protein
Eight human guinea pigs were sent for three months to live in the lake district. Oh lovely. I know
But they were put on a special diet
They were given as much wholemeal bread and potatoes as they could eat
And they were to spend their time walking and cycling and mountaineering and so on and the result was
fundamentally a huge increase in flatulence
And an awful lot of time was spent eating because it takes an awful lot longer to get your calories from potatoes than
To get through a steak and I don't know who measured this but it says here thanks to all the extra fiber
There was also 250 more voluminous fecal matter amongst the participants
Oh, that's what ruins the holiday. Yeah, they're shitting in jars. Yeah
Have you been on that sort of holiday?
It's a writer's retreat
Kids were given blackcurrant syrup free during world war two. Does anybody know why scurvy?
It is scurvy exactly the citrus trade routes were completely blocked and so blackcurrants were growing domestically
Totally unknown in the united states. Why because of the ribena wars of 18th
Oh
The american logging industry had a campaign is that like the lake district logging industry
Referring to the voluminous fecal matter i'm pretty sure I saw voluminous fecal matter at hammersmith odion in 1974
The american logging industry absolutely loathes the ribes plant because it has a disease that can threaten the white pine
And so blackcurrant was banned in the united states. In fact, the federal ban was only relaxed in 2003
It is still illegal in some states to grow blackcurrants. So the americans have never had ribena
They don't care for it. That explains a lot. It does doesn't it?
Um did rationing help or hinder the health of the population?
I thought it helped him. It did help it did help. In fact infant mortality rates
Halved between 1935 and 1950 and the age at which people died of natural causes that actually increased
um rationing was still going on when
The then princess elizabeth married in 1947 and she had to use clothing ration coupons in order to pay for her dress
When they brought in clothing coupons, they weren't ready. So they repurposed margarine coupons
Uh this cake which was the wedding cake was called the 10 000 mile cake. Why was it called that?
Did it travel a long way? You are right. The ingredients came from south africa and australia
They were in fact donated in fact, we have the recipe for the 10 000 miles made of wombats and koalas
Shall we ever look at the recipe?
This is the recipe for a 10 000 in case anybody wants to make it at home there
We are 60 pounds of butter 55 pounds of sugar 75 pounds of flour
668 80 oranges and lemons 300 pounds of dried nuts
Three and a half gallons of navy rum
Or as I call that list last thursday
Thursday
I think probably not because the war only took place. It was all overseas but it was a way fixture that war
Yeah, it was avoided actually until 1918. Uh, so
If you look at the picture list, it said france brackets away. Yeah
The german submarines created a blockade so 1918 and that did lead to food shortages
But the countermeasures are so wonderfully british. Uh, first of all feeding pigeons was banned
And then they limited restaurant meals to two courses for lunch and three courses for dinner
How many were they having before I don't know I encourage people to eat out
In the second world war because it was a more efficient use of resources
To make lots of food and then lots of people come and eat it all up rather than ever making individual meals
Yeah, uh right bread and potatoes were rationed after the war not because of the nazis but because of the weather
Right bread away
Why is my cellar riddled with frenchmen?
That's a for your own conscience really
How's the june finnegan tribute painting
A wardrobe malfunction
Where the man's trousers are gone at the bottom of the picture
The bloke at the bottom is just on a stag night and he's been caught up in the war. Yeah
I don't know what the painting is. Is this french revolution? Well, it's actually not it's the july revolution of 1830
Oh, they're always having revolutions. I don't know why the woman had to have a top off
You know what it is is to get you interested so it's like you learn something once you're looking at the painting
But you looked for the boobs. It was just that they were like we're interested in dependence, but can you sex it up?
Yes, do you want to be free what if I got my tits out?
I think maybe the little boy has shot her bra strap off. I think we've we've all done it as kids
Why is my cellar riddled with frenchmen is it to do with wine it is to do with wine
What do you think it's to do with? Oh, that's as much i've got. Oh, you're just
In the cellar, so i'm basically hoping to build on that
So a riddler is the person whose job it is to rotate bottles of wine now, why might they do that?
Why might the sediment yeah, it is exactly that so it's essential particularly to probably the most famous french wine of all champagne champagne
Absolutely, so it requires a secondary fermentation. So the yeast
From the fermenting process is left in the bottle as the wine mature
It's what makes the bubbles appear but nobody wants to buy a bottle of wine with bits of yeast sediment in it
So they have to be slowly removed. So what they do is I happen to have
That
So you have to get the yeast to the neck of the bottle
You have to imagine that there's all this sediment in the bottle like this you see
And so what the riddler does first of all is that they rotate each bottle
90 degrees and then they push it slightly further into its cradle and they tip it slightly and that makes the sediment go down
Into the neck and professional riddlers can turn and tilt
40,000 to 70,000 bottles a day
They do about three or four per second. In fact, I think we can see some on a video
I mean, he just looks like a terrible date doesn't he?
That's his actual job that's his actual job unfortunately they are now being replaced by robots known as
Like all of us, I know who can do the job much quicker
But he might be able to do something more interesting with his life. I think something's wrong with his life
Just like do do not come near me
What should do and this is one of them there is a real skill in it
This is made of strength and glass. Um before that it was a very explosive process
So in 1792, uh, the canon of reams cathedral reported that 345 out of
594 bottles had exploded in their cellars. Well, that's their version of things
Nose of the champagne just explodes
And that's also what the mess is in here. Yeah, the riddler is absolutely slaughtered the whole time
I was a hundred of them blew up. Yeah, but not many explode some of them just go in your mouth
The pressure in here is three times that of a car time and the cork can fly out
Like have a guess the speed of the car. I'll just i'll just get out of the way. No, sir. I haven't taken the
800 miles an hour 8 000 8 000 8 million 8 million
Okay, oh is it less than that is it 55 miles an hour
Oh, that's obvious about the speed of an average van
So this bit around the top of the bottle is called the mousselet. It's the french word for muzzle
Oh, yeah, but it sounds so much more chic. Anyway, um initially in the first fermentation
They don't have a cork in it
They have a cap and i'm going to open it in a rather spectacular way in a minute
It's like being in a kitchen as a student. Has that got a fag putt in it?
But my favorite way to open a champagne bottle is with a sword
Indeed
Uh, so I would like to introduce you, uh to someone who can do just that
julian the magnificent
All right, you are a member of la confrida sabrador, is that right?
I am you have indeed and i'm the ambassador emeritus. Isn't that fantastic?
How did you are spoiling it? How did you come to be able to do this?
Well, I get a thirst around about 11 o'clock every morning
Absolutely
So
I take out a bottle of champagne and one of my sabres and I roof the top and
Bob's your uncle because if you're called julian the magnificent
It's a shame if you just end up working in a stationary shop or no
But you work in the wine trade do I do indeed working with the spoons?
Now here's the thing I I was told that uh for health and safety reasons we cannot actually do this
Oh
however
If you all agree, shall we just do it? Yeah
The reason we were the night at the studio and sandy tuxford lost her hand
Really clear you're not going to extract the cork. You're actually going to I shall remove the glass annulus and the cork together
Okay, should you are you okay to stand close? Um, no problem at all because i'm going to be shooting it over there. Okay?
Okay
Do not try this at home
Off we go
Don't touch the top because that's sharp
Obviously, but you could drink that you could drink that perfectly because no glass will go inside
As you quite rightly said earlier, the pressure is about five times actually
Okay, and it will just shoot any glass away
Right. I mean this is why you hire julian the magnet
Is there like an evening course you can go on to learn how to do it
Can I learn how to do it? You can indeed? Okay
It takes three seconds
Take that in your left hand in my left hand. Yes with your thumb up the punt thumb up the punt
The first time
Champagne oh, it's quite heavy
Yeah, right now the art of sabrage. Yeah, you never take the blade off the glass
No, it's a shaving motion. You go straight up there and follow through don't stop
Right and take the glass annulus and the cork with it with the sword in this never take the blade off the glass
Okay, the straighter you get it. Can you hold the bottle as well? I'll do that for you. Why not? Okay off we go
That's terrifying. Oh my god
Nobleman
Put a little velvet bag
It is the most fun you'll have with all your clothes on
Very cool. There's the one you cut. Let's look at the cleanliness of that. I'm gonna put it in this little bag
It's like a scene from killing eve
It was brutal
I i'm not exaggerating. That is one of the most exciting things that's ever
Fast forward to three years time top big outside of tescos with a swiss army knife and a bottle of diamond
Champagne sellers are riddled with riddlers, although it's nothing to whine about
Or a question about the uses of rice
Who's that? Which one of you? No, i'm really sorry
Yeah, yeah, all right
Yeah, hello
Yeah, i'm doing yes
No, she's here. She's here. Yes. It's the danish ambassador. He wants to know where you left the key the herring fridge
The danish ambassador look at who says on there it says piers morgan
Okay, because i'll put it in a box of rice and let it dry out because that's a good idea, isn't it
Is that a trick question? It's up to you making it now chef. Yeah. Yes
Making it now chef
No
That because they're in the rice absorbs the water
Yeah, so here's the thing you're telling us that's not really a thing
Well, if you put a phone in a closed container with rice less water is lost than if you just left it out in
an open room
Because I had this I put my phone in the rice
Yeah, and then my wife and I could not agree on whether to seal it in or not
Well, don't put it in the rice at all
It's the thing because it will also get little bits of rice stuck up, you know the charging port
If you do put wet phone into rice, it's going to survive if it does survive it would have done anyway
So who's the first person who said oh don't worry about that. I'll pop it in some rice. It was an asshole
The only redeeming feature of the so-called rice cure is that you're usually told to turn the phone off before you
Put it into the rice and that is a good idea because the heat of the phone can cause the water
To warp the wet compartments. So basically that is a good idea. Also don't blow it with a hairdryer very very bad idea
I'm hearing a lot of don'ts. I just want a good do just leave it out
In a room or there are other more absorbent things cat litter is probably your best option
Okay, cus cus cus I can see one disadvantage of the cat litter theory if you haven't got a cat
All right, if you haven't got a cat, why have you got cat litter?
Yeah, I need to go I need to go get the litter
And does anybody know why rice is grown in flooded fields? Oh, oh when you plant it
Birds can't get the seedlings. Okay. So here's the thing. It doesn't need to be grown in water at all
But it doesn't mind just find it. It doesn't no you're just gonna repeat everything
Why did they start it does prevent some weeds from growing
Because they do mind being submerged and then also some farmers
You can see here. There's some ducks in the picture and they actually employ ducks and fish
To swim around and nibble at the pests. How do they do p-a-y-e when?
What's your favorite rice I like red rice brown rice this please ambrosia
Don't put your phone in
I've had it in this tin for four hours. This still won't work
That isn't your real phone is it
It's really most bizarre sketch. I couldn't follow it at all. So the danish ambassador rang you
I was lying about the danish ambassador and it actually says on the phone that piers morgan. It wasn't a real phone call
Why was piers morgan ringing you there?
I didn't know about the piers morgan thing. I was trying to have a go at phil that piers morgan might be his friend
There were some plot holes in it. Yeah
I mean as a plot it lacked something if i'm not hooked from the beginning
It gets good in episode two
Previously on qi
Does this clown eat
Who is that? Is that the original ronald one of mcdonald? Yeah, it is the original ronald mcdonald. What does he eat burger king?
His secret shame is that he doesn't really like mcdonald's
He's actually a vegan one child for every happy meal party
You said burger king well inadvertently you're going to get yourself an extra point because
It's the best kind of point to get so ronald mcdonald never ate fast food
The company were very keen to ensure that he was really just their mascot for their particular charity
They didn't want kids to get obese but the very first ronald mcdonald was a guy called willard scott
That's him there. He was eventually fired for being too fat
Oh my god, but he became incredibly famous in the united states
He was a weatherman on american television and he did an ad for burger king. Is he being held at gunpoint in this book?
But that's awful that he got fired for being too big televisions were much smaller in those
And that would be fine on a massive screen. I always thought ronald mcdonald was rather frightening. Yeah
I didn't like the hamburglar. I thought was scarier than ronald mcdonald and he promoted crime as well. Exactly
Okay
My first job was in mcdonald's. So he was the one I was always scared coming in. What were you doing serving burgers?
Were you cooking them or you were you do everything at mcdonald's? Oh, right
Yeah
They don't have drive-throughs anymore because they finally realize that the person at the window is servings inhaling
So many fumes they're shortening their life
Well, if you if you would like to shorten your life
The best place to go is the heart attack grill in las vegas
You can eat for free if you weigh over 350 pounds or 25 stone
So just for you, that's about three quarters of the weight of a blue whale's heart
That's quite a lot and you are verified by being weighed at a cattle weighing station
And then you are led to your table if you are more than 350 pounds by your personal nurse
It's a waiter and their signature quadruple bypass burger is just a shade under 10 000 calories
It's made there. It is it's made of four half pound beef patties 20 strips of bacon eight slices of american cheese
I say cheese. It's american cheese
A whole tomato half an onion served in a bun coated with lard. Okay
One question sandy do they have a lady's menu?
If you at least the presentation's gorgeous
If you finish it your nurse will deliver you to your car in a wheelchair and then do we know anything about fecal matter?
I imagine we bound up for quite a while after all that protein if you don't finish it
She will spank you in front of the other guy
You saw this is a real restaurant not a dream
In 2013 the unofficial spokesman for the restaurant who was 52 died of a heart attack
Three other people have died on the site what?
In the restaurant the clue is in the fact that the dish has bypassed in the net. Yes, I think that
They do have a vegan option
It's a vegan
That's how they get their roughage, yeah
It must be some vitamins in a vegan
The only vegan option on the menu is cigarettes
Donald hasn't eaten a burger since 1970 and now for the final course does anyone have room for general ignorance?
How many calories do you gain from eating celery?
Is it one of these things where you you expend more calories eating it than you're
What the worst thing happens tonight is that along
All right, yeah a man with a saber tried to kill you exactly
So mediums talk to take six calories, but there is a notion that it has negative calories
So I love this they did a study of bearded dragons. Okay. This is the university of alabama
It turns out that these particular lizards have a rather similar diet and digestive system to humans
Yeah
But they measure their metabolic rate and the energy that they lost and so on and there is a net gain of energy
Obviously it isn't very much chewing and digesting our very low energy pursuits
The bearded dragon, of course only started appearing about five years ago and are mostly baristas or work in vintage shops
I think that one's a pencil sharpener
That is weird isn't it that is very strange
The closest we can find to a negative energy food is sugar-free gum
It has I mean so few calories if you chew 100 times a minute
Uh for approximately 11 minutes it becomes negatively calorific, but that but so does life doesn't it?
When it comes to the crunch even celery has a positive number of calories
To prevent bacteria, what should your chopping board be made of?
our wood
Yes is exactly right for ages. They thought the plastic ones were better
People thought that wood has these little grooves and bacteria would go in there and live and multiply
But then they actually found that plastic was much worse. Can I tell you why I know this?
Yes, because an ex-boyfriend bought me a chopping board for christmas
Part of the reason it was a good present was him explaining that actually it was good for bacteria
Box a day his head was on it
99.9 percent of the bacteria that is added to a wooden chopping board has disappeared within three minutes of application
And on plastic ones, it's all still there
I mean the only good thing about the plastic ones is you can put them in the dishwasher
You can heat them up, which is good
But the most important thing of course is to wash them and then replace them when they get a bit knackered
But again, eventually we're all gonna die count
That's fair point actually yeah, yeah i'm gonna give you an extra point for that
Which is the hottest part of a chili seeds
It's not seeds, what is it be careful if you've just chopped it and then you go for a wee that's all
Oh, yeah
So it's not seeds anybody know which bit it might be is it the bit that holds the seeds in it's the pith
The pith is the pith. So like you say going for a wee. Is it
Is it a fruit or a vegetable it contains seeds so it's a fruit
But the seeds do not contain the hot compound, which is capsaicin ham is a berry
Nothing. Yeah, most crispies are a legume
We just don't talk about it
The seeds only taste hot because they've been in contact with the pith
But they are not actually the hottest chili in the world is something called pepper x
It was grown by an american who's rather pleasingly called ed curry
It was more than three million on the scoville scale so that is a thousand times spicier than a jalapeno
Can you die from you absolutely can die from it? Yeah, if you ate this you would die
Um, they're not meant to be eaten because what would happen is that it would cause blisters in your body
And the body's defenses would go into overdrive you so much stuff would come out of your nose you'd drown
Yeah, I mean you could go into anaphylactic shock. Your airways could end up closing. It's not a good thing
So why did they do it sound? Uh, but well, it's boys boys
For our final question we're going to play a game of beer
Hunter, okay. So I have four cans
Okay
So, oh my look at this that's marks, okay
Yes
Okay, okay. So here's one for you. Here's one for you. Let's have that phil and then you have that one
Okay, let's have a go at opening them sorry you want to go first? Yeah, i'm gonna do some tapping first tapping
Whoa, this is an s6 trick. Okay, open yours open mine. Yes, please. Yeah
Oh, okay, so not that one ellen with it, okay, not that one
Uh mark well the more this game goes on the worst feeling I have about it
Wow
pressure
They're all equal, right?
Yeah, so the pressure is constant
It's about three atmospheres no matter how much you shake it an unshaken can has a small amount of gas
That sort of floats on top of the liquid
But when you shake it it all gets mixed together
And then what happens is you've got bubbles floating inside the drink and when you open the can they rush back to the surface
Fizzy waters the one the worst one can bring and then brings all the liquid up
How close it but you can't even tell you can see it is he gonna do it I don't know he's doing it
First jobs after mcdonald's were in bars
And um the one thing that you'd learn from like barbecues was that if you've poured someone a drink and it's fizzy
Put your finger in it and you can't do that when you work in a bar
People think it's really rude
It does work
But you were tapping the top and the bottom. Yeah, what do you think that is going to do?
Well, it was just what we were told to do to make sure you know
Like if it'd been like in the back of the car
Yeah in the boot for a bit if you did that for a few taps, then it wouldn't fizz
Well, so here's the thing tapping it top and bottom makes no difference whatsoever because the gas is already exactly what you want
In it now what you need to do is tap the sides. What? Yes, you need to tap the sides
And dislodge the bubbles so that they rise to the top sandy you're changing my life. I'm nearly 40 years old
I've just learned how to actually do this. Yeah, so tap the sides and then when you open the drink
The co2 will rush out without displacing any liquid
This is useful drinking information
That's what we have the bbc for I know right
How could you change the pressure in the can?
I mean, it's it's clearly not down to shaking. How could you change the pressure in the can heat it up
Yes, any other ways cool it down reduce the volume. So if you crushed the can tell you that whatever happens, you'll love it
Yeah
You could also increase the amount of fluid in the can by weaning it
To stop your fizz going everywhere tap the sides but not the top all of us brings us to the match of the scores
Uh, let me tell you in first place. Our triple michelin star is with three points
alan
For sarah an equal last place with minus 18
It's phil and mark
So it's thanks to mark phil sarah and alan and I leave you with this thought by bob monkhouse
I read one survey that said 70 percent of british married couples would rather eat a good meal at a restaurant
Than have sex and that's because it might disturb the people at the other tables I expect
Thank you and good night