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Other reoccurring segments include:

  • Clever or Never: where Reardon (usually accompanied by her husband Dave) tests a bunch of kitchen gadgets to see how useful they are.
  • Teeny Weeny Baking: where Reardon makes recipes in a dollhouse fitted with a fully functioning kitchen.[1] Her miniature baking includes making tiny eggs using sodium alginate.[2]
  • 200 year old recipes: where Reardon makes recipes from her collection of old cook books, most of which are between 100-200 years old. She also makes more historically significant recipes, including the first recipe written down in English.
  • Cake Rescue: where Reardon tries to rescue viral cake fails.
  • Hit Or Myth: where Reardon tests baking hacks to see how useful they are.
  • The Sweetest Thing: where Reardon travels across Australia, talking to pastry chefs to learn more about their passion and the creation of a specific cake. This series was made as part of an arts grant that Reardon received, so it had a much higher production value then what she was making at the time.
  • Exposing the food industry: where Reardon gives an insight into a particular part or problem within the food industry. Some topics have included: chocolate, false advertising, artificial food dyes, milk and health food.
  • Giant Chocolate Bar: where Reardon makes a giant version of a well known chocolate bar, and gifts it to a person or charity "doing giant things."
  • Viewer Challenges: where Reardon attempts challenges sent in by her viewers, including creating the Minecraft cake with only the ingredients listed in the game, and following a Bob Ross tutorial but using chocolate instead of paint.
  • Gingerbread House: a yearly Christmas series where Reardon makes a unique (and rather complex) gingerbread house.

In more recent years, Reardon has shifted to disproving false/misleading viral claims, often testing "food hacks" (recipes that supposedly show an easy way to make an existing dish or a new one) to show their impossibility and warn viewers of more dangerous trends.[3] Reardon often debunks and calls out large content farms such as Five Minute Crafts, First Media, So Yummy, Troom Troom, Buzzfeed and YumUp, as well as many other channels producing recipe and life hack content that is often fake (ice cream frosting,) dangerous (wrapping someone’s head in plastic wrap to avoid onion fumes,) irresponsible (washing clothes with eco soap in a natural stream,) useless (using a toilet lid as a portable table) and unnecessarily complicated (cutting a cake with toothpicks and dental floss.) Reardon often says that these videos are "the fake news of the baking world."[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Teeny Weeny Challenge How Small Can I Bake? How To Cook That Ann Reardon" – via www.youtube.com.
  2. ^ "Where do my mini eggs come from? - HowToCookThat : Cakes, Dessert..." 26 June 2020.
  3. ^ "The woman busting dangerous viral food and cooking hacks". 7NEWS. 30 January 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  4. ^ "The fake 'kitchen hacks' with billions of views". BBC News. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
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