Exploding Chickens, Shrimp Cannons and Biscuit Bazookas: Food Myths with Adam Savage
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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The Myth of Swimming in a Vat of Goo
The myth is that if you're trying to swim a certain distance in syrup, that while the thicker material slows you down. We put him in this trough weed dug full of guar gum syrup and he couldn't see and it was cold and he was pinballing off the sides. It turned out that me, the generalist who is so far from an athlete, I was better at consistently swimming than our Olympic swimmer because I was a more adjustable animal. And the weirdest one, can you cook shrimp midair?
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