 This is a terrible idea. Who's making me do this? I'm Heather and welcome to Hack Chat where I try out all the hacks. This week on Hack Chat we're going to be testing out tools for things that they weren't designed to do. You can use this instead of a subway card. So for the first hack I'm going to use this apple slicer on not apples. A plum. I'm a little nervous that it's going to crush the plum. Look at that. This is super good. I'm going to try it on a potato for roasted potatoes. You know you have to center it just like as if it's like a little sun. That's pleasing. They're nice shapes. These would be good for roasting. But look at this. I don't know. What would you guys do with this stump? Now we're going to try this on onions. I've heard that you don't cry if you cut them with one of these and push. I'm going to break this. This is actually going to make me cry. All right I'm going to try this again. It did go through but with a lot of effort. And what we end up with is something that would get you kicked out of culinary school. There's absolutely no reason why you would do this except for if you were like you just bought it and you're in your car and you suddenly need some soup. On a scale of 1 to 5 for helpfulness using this to cut other things is a 2. It's not that hard. It's pretty easy. Cutting other foods with an apple corer. For this next hack I'm going to see if you really can make a chopped salad with a pizza wheel. Is it easier? Is it just a gimmick? We're going to find out. I'm going to put in some bacon. I'm going to put in a hard boiled egg. Maybe some onion slices. Romaine. Some radicchio and dives. Pepper. I'm going to throw in some blue cheese. I'm going to be really careful not to cut my thumb because I can already tell that this is not hack that should be tried by anybody who's not wearing a cut glove. Okay I'm actually really going to put on a cut glove. See now I feel much better. I feel more confident. It's hard to take this hack seriously because it's not good and everybody knows it. Everyone already knows it. I'm going to keep going though because nobody likes a quitter. Do you want to see it? Well it's aren't about looks. They're really about just like getting everything onto a fork. Pretty tasty but definitely was not fun. The helpfulness of this hack is a one. The easiness is a zero. I had like a lot of emotions while it was happening and most of them were unpleasant. So as an overall hack I give it a thumbs down. I just want to add that if you need this it's already disqualified. I want to talk about picnic season. This is a hack that I actually need because I love chicken salad but I don't like shredding chicken. Now I know that I'm pretty lucky to have a stand mixer and I got this stand mixer on eBay. I poached some chicken because that's my favorite kind of chicken for chicken salad because it's really juicy. I'm going to start it on low. Okay looks like it's going pretty well so far. I'm really like I'm so I'm so excited about this because you know what? So it's shredded. It's very fluffy. It's like the perfect texture for chicken salad and I could basically just put the like mayo mustard salt pepper mixture in here directly and chicken salad would be done with one dirty bowl. So this is a total win for helpfulness. It's a five because it's just incredibly helpful. It's super easy. It's a five for easiness. I did nothing for like super duper fancy appliances. It's also a five. It's a very smart use of a stand mixer. Overall I give it a thumbs up. My next tool hack I'm going to test out the egg slicer. Slicing things it wasn't designed to slice. We're going to start with a mushroom. It's crushing it not in a good way. I have this crush room. Our next victim is a kiwi. It did save a lot of time. Strawberry. Oh that was good because you don't have to cut off the stem. Okay this banana this part of it crushes the whole entire thing. I don't think this tool is meant to cut things that are oblong. I think I'm gonna break this. See see what happened? Didn't cut all the way through. Olives are next. Squished. Disappointing. It's like when you meet somebody and you think they're gonna be your friend and then you realize they're like really really not your cup of tea. Okay it's caprese season and I am ready for it. This took me like four seconds. Let's see if this will work on the tomato. This is a terrible idea. Who's making me do this? Is anybody else ashamed of this? So this didn't work at all. Don't ever do this to a tomato. Here's how this guy did. On a scale of one to five for helpfulness I give it a four only because the strawberry cutting is just basically miraculous. On a scale of easiness I give it a five. It's super easy. There's no scale required. It's like a guillotine. I give it a thumbs up. So this next hack is making whipped cream using a french press. Let's see if it works. You just squish it up and down over and over. Obviously you add sugar. Like my top arm muscle, whatever that's called, the one that's on the top. The shoulder. That is hurting me. But I do really like whipped cream so I'm still invested in making it work. So it's getting thicker and it's getting much harder to pull up and down. So it appears to be whipped cream. It's kind of liquidy in parts. It has not increased in volume very much, which is one of the things that's supposed to happen with whipped cream. Do you want the good news first or the bad news? The bad news is this hack is really dumb. My french press is, I don't know how long it's going to take me to clean it, but the good news is that I have a cup of whipped cream to eat and to drown my sorrows. So how bad is it? So for helpfulness, I give this a three. Middle of the road, not that helpful, not a disaster really. For easiness, I give it like a zero because I'm tired and I have a lot of work ahead of me cleaning this up so that I can have coffee tomorrow. Look at my french press everybody. This is what I did for you. So I give this one thumbs down. This hack is a classic. It's squeezing citrus using tongs to get more juice out with less effort. I'm getting a lot of juice out of this guy a lot and I'm not even working at all. It's a little messy. Is that really a problem? I don't think so. And look at how much juice there is. For helpfulness, I give it like a four. So it doesn't get the full five because it just doesn't have that level of genius. For easiness, it's much easier than squeezing it with your bare hands. So I give it a four and overall, I give it a thumbs up. For specialness, I don't know, it's like a two. It's not really, you know, something to write home about. But if you happen to have some tongs and some lemons, make lemonade. For this hack, we're going to get the seeds out of this with this. Sometimes you just don't want the seeds because they're spicy. I like spicy stuff, but not everybody does. So I'm going to take the end off of here and I'm going to use this. I'm going to dig these out. Just going to move it around the outside using the swivel action. I can see there's some seeds in there still and I just want to show you something. Let's just do this using the same tool that I just used to cut it. What do you think worked better? The knife or the peeler? My emotion is primarily like why am I using this instead of this when I have this out already? So here's my rating on a scale of one to five for helpfulness. I give it a one for easiness. I give it like a three. I don't like it. I feel like lost when I'm doing it. I feel like I don't get it. Like I'm left out of the joke. I guess like on a scale of loneliness, I give this one a five. Seeding peppers with this is a thumbs down. But what I learned overall is like it's fun to try stuff out. Winner overall winner slicing some things that are not eggs on an egg slicer. Least best using a pizza wheel to make a chopped salad. Just only cut pizza. Let the pizza wheel retain its dignity. The thing I'll never use again but I'm really really glad that I did because it was ridiculous is making whipped cream in a french press. I'm amused by how incredibly messy and difficult it was and how much whipped cream I had to eat to comfort myself as a result. The one that I'll probably really use a lot this summer is shredding chicken in my stand mixer. It's crazy how easy it is and how fluffy and amazing it is and also I'm gonna try pulled pork in it. Did you learn anything today and are you gonna try any of these? If you like hacks, like and share this video and subscribe to The Spruce Eats. I know you have a hack. I know you made one up or you liked one or your cousin liked one. Tell me about it in the comments below and I'll try it. I want to try out the hacks that you like. I don't, it's a lie. It's not even true at all.