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on this combustible episode of mythbusters.

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Oh, that's pretty.

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Adam and Jamie try a little tenderness.

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Red meat and high explosives.

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They're testing the myth that blasting the heck out of low-grade steak

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with high explosives makes it so much softer.

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It's awesome. I love results.

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Then Carrie gets to torture Grant and Tori.

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I knew that we would make him angry, but I didn't realize he'd be this angry.

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To see if stressed out drivers really do use more gas.

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Where did those rats go?

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I didn't know. I really am.

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Who are the mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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Hal, people of Earth.

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And Jamie Heidemann.

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Mushroom.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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These things are always catching on fire.

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Joining them, Carrie Byron.

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I feel so sci-fi.

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Grant Imahara.

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Warning, warning.

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And Tori Bellachy.

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All right, release the hound.

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They don't just tell the myths.

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They put them to the test.

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Adam, I thought we talked about doing that while you were at work.

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Ha ha. Oh, Jamie, my friend.

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You know, many fans have written to us over the years and said,

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mythbusters is the best way to tenderize by steak.

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Now, thanks to a viewer submission, we may have a new technique.

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For we might replace this with this.

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The question we'll be answering is, can you tenderize a steak with explosives?

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

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Oh, it went down.

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Over the years, we've used explosives.

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To answer all sorts of vital questions,

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can they clear a clogged up cement truck?

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Can they help cushion a fall?

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And can they make a surfable wave?

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Now, it's time to open the fridge on combustible condiments.

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So, Adam, if we're using explosives on steaks, wouldn't it just blow up the steak?

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I'm going to go without the accent. No, okay, it's too hot.

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No, it won't. In fact, the technique we'll be testing involves putting the meat into a vacuum sealed bag,

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putting that into a barrel of water, and then detonating a small amount of explosives in the water.

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The theory is that the shock wave created by the explosive will actually tear apart micro-tissue fibers within the meat,

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rendering it a heck of a lot more tender.

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A steak's tenderness depends very much on where it's cut from the cow.

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Meat from the short ribs is super soft.

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Meat from the neck and the rump? Not so squishy.

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It's all due to the strength of the connective tissue between muscle fibers.

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The weaker the tissue, the softer the meat.

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Two common ways to break those bonds are powdered pineapple enzymes and a sound thrashing.

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But the fans want to see this third method thoroughly investigated.

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If you're going to tenderize meat with explosives,

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it's not like you're just going to throw a stick of dynamite on the steak and expect it to work.

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You've got to put it in water because the water is actually going to transmit the pressure of the blast wave a lot more effectively.

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And you also don't want to contaminate the meat. You've got to seal it in something.

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So we're going to vacuum bag this meat in some really tough plastic.

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These crash test steaks are all relatively low-grade select cuts.

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So there's plenty of room for improvement.

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They're sealed and delivered. Not to the kitchen, but the bomb range.

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By popular demand, today we are joining two of my favorite steaks.

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Red meat and high explosives.

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What we're creating here is a shock wave that is traveling at supersonic speeds.

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And it is just ripping apart all those little fibers that make up the muscle of the meat.

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Hence it's tender.

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As to how much explosive they need, well, they'll find that out by trial and error.

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Tenderizing steak with explosives in three, two, one.

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Jamie, I think that was too much explosives.

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Some chefs add too much salt. Some go nuts with the garlic.

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But Frank's added way too much C4.

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What can you say? This recipe is just plain wrong.

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Everything else is gone, but the steak is here. Sort of.

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So while Adam and Jamie recalibrate, let's jumpstart our second myth.

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Okay, I'm relaxed.

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What does a shoulder massage have to do with fuel efficiency?

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According to this myth, there's a really easy way to save gas.

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Forget nitrogen in your tires, forget gadgets in your tank. This one has to do with feelings.

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The idea is that if you're driving and you're relaxed and you're happy,

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you'll save a lot more fuel than if you're angry and stressed out.

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So if you want to save fuel, don't drive angry.

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Precisely.

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It's a widely accepted fact that bad driving habits like stopping and starting abruptly

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result in less fuel efficiency.

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But could the simple act of driving stressed turn an otherwise careful motorist into a gas guzzler?

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You know, I really like the sound of this myth.

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I mean, you get to relax, kick back, and then take a little drive.

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You know, it's not going to be all easy, though.

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It sounds like we're going to have to get stressed out, too.

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Yeah, in fact, I think it's going to be dangerous, so we're not going to do this on the road.

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We're going to go to an abandoned neighborhood, and I'm going to set up a course.

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And this is the Test Track, a once-thriving California suburb that someone pulled the plug on.

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This is Cypress Noles, and it's an abandoned military housing neighborhood.

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And the city of Marina has agreed to let us use it.

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And there are plenty of neighborhood streets, and we are going to be tearing around these streets

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to see if you use more fuel when you drive stressed.

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The place is so decrepit that Kari's forced to make some running repairs.

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We've set up a course that includes traffic lights, different speed limits, stop signs, obstacles, and u-turns.

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These streets haven't seen traffic for 15 years, so for the test car, we've gone retro-rusty.

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So this is the car that we're going to use for our test.

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Now it's pretty old, and it doesn't get great gas mileage, but that doesn't matter.

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What we're trying to test here is whether or not driving stressed out or driving calm

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has a difference on whether or not you use more fuel.

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And to get a precise reading on fuel usage, they'll bypass the car's gas tank for a gas bag.

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What we're doing is measuring the fuel before and after, but not by volume, but actually by weight, so that it's more precise.

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Now for a few practice laps, just to get a feel for the car and the old neighborhood.

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Alright, goes first.

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We're shimbo.

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Dynamite.

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There's no dynamite.

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No, you're pointing at me. That means I go first.

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Kari's marked out a 4-mile course that, like most racetracks, finally brings you back to where you started.

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Grant's the first to try a test lap.

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Approaching playground, on right.

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On the playground, on right, and turn left.

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Then Tori tries cruising the Koldesat.

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It's like a modern day ghost town.

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Alright, looking for smashed computers.

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Does this GPS sound condescending, or is it just me?

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I don't want to feel this way.

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I'm a sole survivor.

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I'm searching, searching for a lone survivor.

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Hopefully it's a female so I can start procreating.

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That's enough of that, though it might surprise Tori to learn that a rather more wholesome fantasy awaits him just around the corner.

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Home, home on the bomb range.

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Adam and Janie are testing a viewer myth that low-grade stakes can be tenderized with high explosives.

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So far, it's a total bust.

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Now we're going to pull it all the way back in the other direction and detonate what is essentially an extra-large firecracker full of aluminized black powder,

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which is a fairly low-speed explosive as opposed to what we just used.

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And remember kids, do not try this at home.

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Barrels of water and low-velocity explosives might not sound like a good tenderization technique, but hey, it's worth a shot.

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When Adam and Janie tested an age-old idiom, the results were surprising.

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I killed it!

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They found out it's not the bullet that kills Vish in a barrel, but the shockwave.

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The question now is can a similar shockwave rip through cow flesh and tenderize a stake?

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The low explosive we're using is like a really big firecracker.

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It's illegal for you to have, but of course these guys can have one.

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It requires a fuse to light it.

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Finicky for some, but for JD, it's just like shooting Vish in a barrel.

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That was a nice little blast.

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It sure was. The buckets destroyed.

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But more importantly, how's the steak?

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Well that went perfect. The explosion went off and we didn't ruin our bag of meat.

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Now I can't tell anything specific just by touching this meat.

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The proof in any improvement in texture is really going to be in the cooking.

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The bag's intact, so the steak's still good to eat.

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Even better, they've tracked down someone at the Department of Agriculture

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who says he knows how to blast a steak to perfection.

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And they say that we've got to put a steel plate at the bottom of the barrel.

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We have to suspend it in the air and they gave us the precise amount of explosive we have to use.

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In a few minutes we should have very tasty meat.

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And just for the record, this one goes back to using high explosives.

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So we've done baby bearer and we've done papa bearer. This is Goldilocks, right?

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This is the recommended recipe. In, three, two, one.

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Oh, look at that.

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Boom times for fans of exploding meat.

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And just like last time, the steak is...

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Not breached.

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As the sun goes down, the Barbie fires up.

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So let's meet the meat.

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The fourth one, we've tenderized with a pineapple enzyme commercial preparation.

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We're going to test all of these and see which one is the most tender.

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And so is not to influence the results, Adam adds a touch of color.

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We have five different cuts of meat to cook and test.

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Each of those cuts of meat has been assigned a color, which matches to these pans

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We're bringing in Ron Siegel, who's the chef at the Ritz Carlton,

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Thanks for coming out to the bomb range.

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All right, where are those steaks?

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It turns out that Ron is double qualified to judge this contest.

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He began his professional life as a butcher.

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Gentlemen, we get five cuts of meat and we are to rate them from the least tender to the most tender.

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It's all about tender.

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Let the chewing commence.

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Some of it is better than others.

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I'm done.

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So, drum roll please.

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Three different tasters and three totally different results.

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For this myth to be true, the order should be red, yellow, blue, pink, then green.

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But no one agreed on anything.

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Even though we had five different samples here, the main thing we wanted to see was that the green,

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the high explosive tenderized meat, would be rated higher than the red, our control.

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And even though I did that, neither Ron nor Jamie felt like that.

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So right now it's not looking that good for this myth.

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Let's get back to the shop and crunch the numbers. I'm cold.

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Is there any more steak left?

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Here's a few simple rules for safe driving.

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Don't do it drunk, distracted or stressed.

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Aside from the danger, driving under duress might add to your fuel bill.

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And that's today's motoring myth.

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Later on, we'll try to redline Grant and Tory's stress levels.

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Oh, you fuck!

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But first, we need a nice, calm comparison test.

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And Carrie knows just how to put the boys into a mellow mood.

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Grant, for you, we have puppies.

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Tory, for you, we have the director's cut of Blade Runner.

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And all your favorite desserts.

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I don't want to leave.

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These are the fluffiest puppies we could find. They're eight weeks old.

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Oh, I'm so sorry.

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Okay, I think we found Grant's happy place.

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Thank you.

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While Grant gets acquainted with his extra fluffy puppies,

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Tory slips next door for a pre-movie massage.

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This is the best day of Mythbusters ever.

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Yeah, we want that calm feeling to last throughout the test.

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So we're going to cater to the senses.

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We're going to have CD playing that has really soothing effects.

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We're going to cater to the senses.

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We're going to have CD playing that has really soothing music.

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We're going to have lavender scenting the car.

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So they have something nice to touch.

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And we'll see how much fuel that they use when they're in that relaxed mode.

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Sounds very calming, but not for Carrie.

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She's wrestling with a concept that never fails to raise your blood pressure.

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One size fits all.

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Calm day has been a pain in the butt.

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I'm looking forward to stressful day.

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I think that's going to be Carrie calm day.

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So it's been fun.

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Oh, it smells nice in here.

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What if I get so relaxed I fall asleep and crash?

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I guess we'll find out how fuel-fishing a crash is.

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Tory's the first cab off this restricted rank with precisely 2,500 grams of gasoline.

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Now, for the first of three nasty surprises, as he learns, he's not alone out there.

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Go Angry Driver.

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Good job Angry Driver.

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Awesome.

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What's that guy's area?

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And good job Tory.

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You'll notice he didn't respond with gunfire or rude gestures.

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But every man has his limitations.

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Cue Slow Driver. Over.

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Look at this guy.

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Carrie's added these distractions to simulate a typically frustrating day on the road.

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He's overtaking the Slow Driver.

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That was annoying.

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That doesn't seem very calm.

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Now let's see the response to one very annoying pedestrian.

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There you go.

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The calm test is almost over.

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Now for that deliberately difficult parallel park.

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Nice San Francisco park. I like the bumper bump.

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That's why they call them bumpers.

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Nice.

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Okay, well now I'm going to weigh your fuel and see how much you've actually used up

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and then we'll have something to compare.

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Cool.

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So Tory's used 924 grams of fuel.

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Next step is to top this back off to exactly 2,500 and start the test again with Grant.

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Alright, the birdie has flown the nest.

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That means Grant's gone.

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Do you make this stuff up or is somebody writing it down for you?

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There's a rider strike in my head.

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Okay, that's Angry Driver. Can you hear him honking?

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Oh, I can hear him honking.

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Grant takes both the angry

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and the Slow Drivers in his sedate stride.

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He's been told to stick to a safe speed and that's no problem at all.

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That is funny.

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Now for the parallel park.

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Grant's so relaxed it takes him a minute to find his inner rage.

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This is attempt number nine.

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Oh!

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This isn't fair.

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Now you're starting to break me off.

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Oh, seas getting...

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Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm dead.

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That was real smooth.

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There you go.

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Carrie weighs Grant's remaining gasoline and comes up with a figure she wasn't expecting.

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Alright, Grant used 1,053 grams, which is actually quite a bit more than Tori,

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but that's not what's important here.

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They're testing against themselves.

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So what is important is how much they use in their calm test versus how much they use in their stress test.

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And how exactly does one go about turning two very relaxed dudes into quivering wrecks?

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Oh, this is going to be fun.

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We're about to find out.

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Alright guys, we know one of the most stressful things about driving is having to have a bathroom and not being able to.

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Sweet.

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So I'm going to have to drink caffeine all day and the potty's off limits.

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Here's the exploding steak story so far.

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Adam, Jamie and one of America's best chefs can't agree on which steak is more tender.

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The prime cut, the one sprinkled with pineapple enzymes, or those we've blasted to hell and back.

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I don't know what to do with this one.

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I'm dumbfounded.

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We clearly have too many variables in the mix because we could run this test a dozen more times

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and I don't think we'd come up with results that agreed with each other.

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Yeah, I think having humans involved is the problem.

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We need to have a mechanical, purely objective test.

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And for that matter, you know, I was thinking about it and there got to be a lot of other ways that we can tenderize meat.

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Like what?

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What say we've fired out of a can and at a steel plate.

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Not how to tenderize it.

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I love it. Let's do it.

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With explosives, we're passing a pressure wave at high velocity through the meat fibers and hopefully that pressure wave is going to be so violent that it rips the fibers apart

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and makes the meat tender.

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Now in the case of the air cannon, we're looking for a high velocity impact of the meat against a steel plate.

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Jamie's got the plan, the hardware, and the real estate to build a cannon as long as a four-story building is high.

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As a tenderizer, it's total overkill.

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And that's why we're doing it.

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Today's target is simply meant to stop the steak cone.

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That is our target.

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It's a tough and steel plate. Jamie calls the flower of death.

328
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Now this is going to be a very sturdy catching device for our steak tenderizing.

329
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We're going to be shooting up Kevlar burrito full of meat at it and hopefully this will help prevent it from just spraying all over the room.

330
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And this is the Kevlar burrito.

331
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Raw steak wrapped in a high tensile fiber that should minimize the mess.

332
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Santino, I'm really upset. I think the hemline looks nice now, but it could be a huge disaster.

333
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You realize what we're making? It's cannon con carne asada!

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To get a fair comparison between unmodified meat and cannon con carne, Adams cut each steak in two.

335
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One half gets blasted and the other, control cut, doesn't.

336
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So your very rational question might be why go through all the trouble to make every steak its own control?

337
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See the white parts here? That's marbleization. That's fat and connective tissue.

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Now while the comportion of this makes the steak delicious, it also makes it inconsistent.

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That's why we're going steak to steak. Every single steak is tested against itself for evidence of improvement.

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That testing will eventually be done by a highly sophisticated machine that promises indisputable results.

341
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Meantime, we've got some steaks to shoot.

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Steaks are all prepared and properly labeled. The cannon is all together.

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We're now going to try and tenderize these with this.

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The only thing we need left is a plunger, some way to get the steaks from the business in all the way back to the propulsive hand.

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I do need to figure out how to make a 40 foot long thing that is reliable.

346
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I could probably do it out of PVC and some duct tape.

347
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PVC and duct tape. How did we build the pyramids with Adams?

348
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Which brings to mind the history of the savage family.

349
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We have been meat tenderizers to the apsebergs, to Charlemagne, to do with their fourteenths.

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The four cylinder air pressure charge is set and Jamie estimates the potential velocity at over 400 miles per hour.

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Tenderizing meat when you're ready.

352
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In three, two, one.

353
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Oh shoot.

354
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Oh, yeah, see there's a piece of meat over there. There's one over there.

355
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Yes, but it's a tender.

356
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It ripped the kevlar. I kind of thought that the kevlar would hold on to it. I guess not.

357
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Taught wrong.

358
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This is actually through the other side. There's your problem.

359
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There's a meat-soaked kevlar on the other side.

360
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This is only part of it. I'm missing some.

361
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I think it seems prudent to recalibrate the pressure.

362
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What's the PSI you want to go to?

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I'm backing it down a third to a hundred PSI.

364
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It's not going to make a single bit of difference. I'm going to bet you that it's not going to make a single bit. It's going to obliterate it.

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You want to bet?

366
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No.

367
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I got 20 bucks.

368
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Anyone want to give me some action?

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But Jamie made this cannon. And hey, let's not forget who runs the joint. So he calls the shots.

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This time we're using four times the kevlar. We've backed off the pressure about a third to a hundred PSI. We'll see what happens.

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Firing in three, two, one.

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Uh-oh.

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Well, there's the outer layer. That's hard on that thing.

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Here's the inner layer.

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Once again, this New York strip's been less tenderized than pulverized. But there is hope amongst the carnage.

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I think that's still a testable piece of meat.

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I would say so.

378
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Yeah, this is number four. I'm going to cook this now.

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Finally, Adam has some useful cannon fodder to test against its unstressed twin.

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Here's its other half. Unmodified. I'm going to cook both of these.

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Freeze them again. Test them and see if there's any improvement.

382
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First off, both cuts are cooked precisely.

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So the magic temperature here is 70 degrees Celsius. When it's 70 degrees at the middle of the steak, I've reached the USDA standard for cooking a steak for testing.

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Once they're cooked, the steaks need to be cooled to four degrees Celsius.

385
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Modified cooked. Here's another steak for you, Jamie.

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Adam needs more than one sample, and Jamie's happy to fill the order.

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Firing in three, two, one.

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At 340 miles per hour, it looks like we finally found our range.

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It's totally intact.

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It's almost enough to inspire yet another change of career.

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I can see it now. I've started a restaurant. It's Jamie's cannon-fired steak.

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You place your order, and then a few seconds later, there's this big...

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Roost!

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So the first thing I thought of was a dryer, because, you know, it's that kind of motion, and if you put a steak or anything you want to tenderize in there, sooner or later, it's got to loosen all those fibers up and make it nice and tender.

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Sounds straightforward, but to make it work, the dryer needs some modifications.

396
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Okay, so that's the slit right there. If we put that over that thing.

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This is dry ice, and this is going to pour down into our dryer and hopefully keep the meat cold while it gets tumbled.

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Yeah, let's do it.

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And to keep the meat company, a generous helping of tenderizing ball berries.

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To the chagrin of our sound guy, we're throwing it in the dryer, a whole bunch of them, and see what that does to the meat overnight.

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So far, my neighbors think it's pulled me next to the Knitbusters. That could change.

402
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Next morning, the dryer should still be running, but it's not. Did you turn it off?

403
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,000
I didn't turn it off.

404
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I didn't turn it off.

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That's not a good sign.

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This is the color of the plastic bags that were in there.

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It's still kind of turns, but something got messed up.

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I think we might have burned out the motor. How many did we put in there? Four?

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Four went in and two sort of came out.

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Adam now has a fridge full of tumbled and blasted meat to test for tenderness.

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And he's got the perfect machine for an impartial appraisal.

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Starting from the bottom up, we've got a plate in here, which the meat is placed on.

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It's got a slot in it, exactly the width that the USDA expects the slot in their machine should be.

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Above that is a blade that is exactly the angle the USDA says it should be.

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Above the blade is a pressure gauge, which as the blade pushes through the meat, will read exactly the number of pounds of force required to push through that meat.

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And what's pushing this down at a constant speed, but a linear actuator, which I will power with a power supply.

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This is exactly the way the government tests the tenderness of meat. It ought to be good enough for us.

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Tori, Carrie and Grant are testing the myth that your mood affects your mileage.

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The boys have already run the course in a state of supreme serenity.

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Now, Carrie has two short hours to turn these angels into deranged, distracted motorists.

421
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Drink that. Come on. Come on. We're on time limit. Seriously.

422
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,000
So I've had nearly a liter of caffeinated energy drink.

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Carrie has just informed us that we're not allowed to go to the bathroom from this point on.

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And it's the thought that I can't go to the bathroom anymore that's starting to stress me out.

425
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If you've got to go to the bathroom, you've got to go to the bathroom.

426
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But needing to tinkle in traffic might be the least of their problems.

427
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In each of your drinks this morning, I put one of these.

428
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That's why I took it from the car and you got them already opened.

429
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Oh, yes. Is it a laxative?

430
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This is a laxative.

431
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Yes! Payback some. You know what it is.

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You've got a few hours left, so enjoy.

433
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Pumped full of jumping juice, the boys are getting real antsy.

434
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You father! I'm not stressed. I'm totally fine.

435
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Carrie responds by having them in.

436
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This is your permissible area. You cannot leave this area, sit in this area, or land this area.

437
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You must stand within the lines.

438
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I'm not going in a circle. No, I'm not going in a circle. You can't keep me in a circle.

439
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000
Let's do a circle.

440
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If we had a football, we could be like chucking the football. Let's pretend like we got one.

441
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,000
Oh my God, how much coffee have you drank today?

442
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Catch it! Yeah!

443
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He can't even catch it in his imagination.

444
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Leaving the boys on a slow simmer, Carrie sets about reverse pimping their ride.

445
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I have got so much stuff. I'm really excited about it.

446
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I've got stink bombs that smell like sulfur, so they basically smell like flatulence.

447
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:43,000
Those are going to go in my sensorator. I've got some gross slimy stuff that goes on the dashboard.

448
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,000
They won't know what it is. It looks like guts. I've got stressful noises.

449
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,000
I'm going to put in the CD player. I've got a seat cover that is filled with golf balls,

450
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,000
so it's not sticking your back, and the seat's going to be at an uncomfortable angle.

451
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I think I might make it wet, and then the steering wheel is going to be stickier

452
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because I'm going to cover it in cola and then like gross, melty candy bar,

453
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,000
so it will not be sticky, but it will be kind of slimy, and it will just be like brown crap all over your hands.

454
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All this suffering is in the name of science to see if the boys use any more gas when they've got their dander up.

455
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,000
Good news is you guys get to leave the circles.

456
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I like my circle.

457
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,000
Bad news is it's not necessarily going to be any better.

458
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Are you ready?

459
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Anti-spaw! Come on in.

460
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Hey!

461
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Oh my God.

462
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,000
Come on in and welcome to Mad Man's Man Massage.

463
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Right here in the break your back shack.

464
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,000
I'm over this experiment. How about you?

465
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,000
Get on the table!

466
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,000
Is this going to hurt?

467
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000
Well, it depends on how you define hurt.

468
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000
While Tori gets pummeled,

469
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,000
Cary takes Grant to his own personal hell.

470
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000
This has nothing to do with driving.

471
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,000
It's nothing to do with fuel efficiency.

472
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000
This is all about torture.

473
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Grant's torture is a goldfish foot bath,

474
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000
guaranteed to send his stress levels through the roof.

475
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:16,000
The problem is that I really don't like any fish.

476
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000
It's just touching me.

477
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000
It's just something, it's a phobia that I have.

478
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000
Now for our final stress-inducing condition.

479
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000
There are two live rats in this box.

480
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000
Now the reason we chose rats instead of say snakes or spiders

481
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
is because rats are self-aware.

482
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,000
They're not going to run under the petals.

483
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:41,000
And the first angry man to slide his baleful butt behind the wheel is Tori.

484
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Are you feeling stressed?

485
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,000
A little.

486
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,000
Are you feeling angry?

487
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,000
Yeah.

488
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Cary adds the rodents and this stinking, sticky rat trap is ready to roll.

489
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,000
Buckle your seatbelts, little fellas.

490
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000
We're going for a ride.

491
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Grant and Tori have just suffered two hours of torture

492
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:13,000
to see if stress really does make them drive more erratically and use more fuel.

493
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000
Cary's teased the boys to breaking point

494
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000
and she's modified the car for maximum discomfort.

495
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,000
Tori's the first to vent his spleen behind the wheel.

496
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
Buckle your seatbelts, little fellas.

497
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000
We're going for a ride.

498
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000
I would say he's sufficiently angry.

499
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000
There's no mistaking the look on his face,

500
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,000
but he is driving within the speed limit

501
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,000
and at least trying to stick to the traffic rules.

502
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Adding to his frustration,

503
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,000
the racket from the CD means Tori can't hear the GPS.

504
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,000
Not talking to me.

505
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Tori's actually skipping the course.

506
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,000
He's totally missed a turn

507
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,000
and now the slow driver gets burned off.

508
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000
You guys got me f***ing f***ing f***ing.

509
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000
This is definitely a great job.

510
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,000
You know, I knew that we were going to make him angry and stressed out,

511
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,000
but I didn't realize he'd be this angry.

512
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,000
Back on the HQ hilltop, they're all standing way back from the curb.

513
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,000
Wow, significant amount of stress. He still has a great parking job.

514
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,000
Well, I definitely saw a difference in the way I drove.

515
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,000
It was calm versus stressed out.

516
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000
I just found myself all day kind of fighting the stress,

517
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,000
trying not to let all this stuff get to me,

518
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000
but then at some point I realized, you know what,

519
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,000
I need to let this stuff get to me in order for this to be a valid test.

520
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Okay, I think I can see just from the level that he's...

521
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,000
I think he's used more gas, but he did...

522
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,000
I heard less of the course, which is kind of crazy.

523
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,000
We got 1089.

524
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:15,000
You were so stressed out that you actually missed pretty much a third of the course.

525
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000
You went right by it.

526
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,000
I did.

527
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000
How could you can't hear that GPS?

528
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000
You still used more gas.

529
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Are you serious?

530
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000
A shorter amount of time.

531
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
You're crazy driving that made me fear for your life.

532
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,000
Actually, it made you use about a third more gas.

533
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,000
That is incredible.

534
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000
Time for Carrie to top up the tank

535
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000
and fetch Grant from the torture tent.

536
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,000
How is the fish?

537
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000
Really sucky.

538
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,000
Why are you walking funny?

539
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,000
Might have to go to the bathroom.

540
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,000
And you've got to figure that a man who gets spooked by ornamental fish

541
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000
will not be a rat lover.

542
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000
One more thing.

543
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,000
Yeah!

544
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,000
There are two little live rats that are going to go for the ride with you.

545
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Carrie's turned a puppy kisser into a moving violation.

546
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:15,000
This time around, Grant's demeanor is less demure.

547
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,000
Oh, crap.

548
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Grant almost missed the turn.

549
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:32,000
Just like Tori, Grant finds himself accelerating and breaking much harder this time around.

550
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000
And his steering's not nearly as smooth.

551
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000
Where did those rats go?

552
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,000
Where did you go?

553
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Hey!

554
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000
Cross walker in position.

555
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,000
Cross walker is ready.

556
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,000
Thankfully, Grant's at the end of his run.

557
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000
Actually, he's doing better parking.

558
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
He's doing way better like this.

559
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,000
Rest out.

560
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,000
That's it, that's it, that's it.

561
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:07,000
At last, he ran the full course and carries in no doubt that angry Grant used more juice than his calm counterpart.

562
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Grant has 826 grams left, which means he used 1,674 grams.

563
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,000
Last time he used 1,053 grams.

564
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:27,000
Grant's also used a third more fuel than on his calm drive.

565
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,000
The lesson is clear.

566
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,000
Drive under stress and it will cost you.

567
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:38,000
You both used a significant amount of fuel more when you were stressed than when you were relaxed.

568
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000
Yeah, that seemed pretty obvious.

569
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000
Yeah, well now we have the results to back it up.

570
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,000
Well, that's cool.

571
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,000
That's what's confirmed.

572
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,000
Confirmed?

573
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
By the way, how are your stomachs doing?

574
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,000
That wasn't laxative.

575
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,000
That was a vitamin.

576
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000
So you should be okay.

577
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,000
What?

578
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
Placeva, awesome!

579
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,000
Are you kidding me?

580
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,000
I'm gonna kill you!

581
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Number one.

582
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Number one.

583
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Back in our cow poke kitchen, the boys are ready to test the cannon-fired meat for tenderness.

584
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:24,000
Each steak from each test is numbered so they can match those figures with the unblasted control halves.

585
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,000
2.5.

586
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000
2.1.

587
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000
2.4.

588
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Dude, you know, the readings are looking pretty consistent here.

589
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,000
Now to test those modified meat missiles.

590
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,000
Here's your moment of truth, Jimmy.

591
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Air cannon testing.

592
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,000
Yeah, nothing.

593
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,000
0.0.

594
00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:00,000
That could mean it's so tender it just fell apart, but let's try a second one.

595
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Test after test shows their cannon concarny is way softer than the steaks that sat this one out.

596
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,000
0.7.

597
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,000
Dude, the averages are in.

598
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:20,000
The controlled steaks were averaging a tenderness of about 1.33.

599
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:26,000
The post cannon-fired steaks averaged a tenderness of about 0.4 pounds.

600
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
That's pretty tender.

601
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000
There's a clear, clear improvement.

602
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,000
It just takes a 40-foot air cannon.

603
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,000
Yeah, and about 50 bucks worth of Kevlar.

604
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:43,000
Now for that marbled mess that totaled the tumble dryer.

605
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,000
All right, this is the ball of the brain.

606
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000
And this steak.

607
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Who knows what we're going to get out of this?

608
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,000
The very first slice sets the standard.

609
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,000
0.

610
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,000
And that seems like an honest 0 to me, man.

611
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,000
This is like nothing here.

612
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000
And that calls for one more reading.

613
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000
Total zero.

614
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:16,000
It looks like it's falling apart in your hands, but it does still look like meat.

615
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
It's not like it looks like hamburger.

616
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:25,000
So this definitely showed some significant improvement, although the process itself also needs a little improvement.

617
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:30,000
Steak and a dryer with ball bearings actually did really tenderize the meat.

618
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:35,000
Of course, there were problems because it like tenderized the dryer itself and it fell apart.

619
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,000
But, you know, if you get over that, you've got a tender steak.

620
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:45,000
Two positive results confirming that meat really does benefit from a bashing.

621
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:52,000
Now that they found a reliable way to test for tenderness, it's back to the bomb range to bring this one home.

622
00:42:53,000 --> 00:43:03,000
So far, Adam and Jamie have stayed up late to spawn a series of culinary catastrophes.

623
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:11,000
But it's all in a good cause, making tough steak al dente for the cash-strapped consumer.

624
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:17,000
Results were mixed, but they've learned enough to revisit the original myth.

625
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,000
The method won't change, but the testing will.

626
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000
Oh, that's awesome.

627
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:31,000
The first time we were out here at the range, we blew up our steaks and then we cooked them and ate them in order to gauge their tenderness.

628
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,000
And it was a disaster.

629
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,000
Steak's good. Some of it is better than others.

630
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:40,000
This test was totally subjective. We all three came to different conclusions about everything.

631
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:45,000
I put the green, then the yellow, then the red, then the pink, then the blue.

632
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:53,000
So we began to look for what's an empirical, non-subjective test, and we went right to the USDA's testing procedures for grading meat.

633
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,000
2.5, 2.1.

634
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:01,000
So we are following all of their guidelines now, with all of our steaks, in order to gauge their tenderness.

635
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Adam and Jamie shape a lump of C4 to the size of a pool ball.

636
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:11,000
They add a fuse, then wrap it inside a plastic glove.

637
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,000
There it is, the blue hand of death.

638
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,000
For me, let's put it in.

639
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:24,000
Following strict instructions, this handful of high explosive is dangled and secured a foot below the surface.

640
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,000
Well, there it is. Let's blow it up.

641
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,000
Okay.

642
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:33,000
The cranes deployed and the boys retreat to the bunker.

643
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,000
Are we set?

644
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,000
I think we're set.

645
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:42,000
Tenderizing meat with high explosives in 3, 2, 1.

646
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,000
Oh, that's pretty.

647
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,000
We might have to look far in line for our steaks.

648
00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:01,000
The bucket is history, but they're hoping to find some steaks still fit for the griddle.

649
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,000
Oh, I see a steak.

650
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,000
Yup.

651
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,000
That's a good sign.

652
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:10,000
Hey, that's totally intact.

653
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:18,000
That's great. This one's breached. I can see that, but these two are totally intact. That's fantastic.

654
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,000
And even that one looks like a usable sample.

655
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,000
Yeah, completely.

656
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:27,000
Well, apparently the practice has paid off. We got exactly what we came here to get.

657
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:36,000
Now it's time to run some USDA grade testinies and find out once and for all if tenderness resulted from an explosion.

658
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:42,000
Back at M5, Adam scrapes down the hot plate for the last time.

659
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,000
But Jamie's on tender hooks.

660
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,000
So what, does it feel any different? Like tender?

661
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,000
It doesn't feel that different.

662
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,000
All right, sample number 16.

663
00:45:53,000 --> 00:46:00,000
This final test should make or break the myth of tenderizing meat with high explosives.

664
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,000
70 degrees Celsius.

665
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:11,000
After a quick chill, the unmodified meat is cored and sliced.

666
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,000
2.3.

667
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,000
Nothing to sully our science.

668
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,000
I'm getting good at this.

669
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,000
2.9.

670
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:27,000
All right, that's pretty good. Let's just call that and let's do the exploded ones.

671
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:35,000
We're moments away from finding out if a high powered shockwave through water really can make steak more digestible.

672
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,000
1.8.

673
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:42,000
And this time, thanks to modern mechanics, it's not personal.

674
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:46,000
Another zero. These two zeros are accurate.

675
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:52,000
There's nothing here. I mean, this is, you like, if you take a look at it.

676
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:58,000
I would say so. It's going towards the direction of the can or the, the ball bearing.

677
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:03,000
Jamie works the numbers. Now Adam shows his tenderloin.

678
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:07,000
I think I know the results. Tell me what the averages are.

679
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:14,000
Control was 2.82 and the exploded steak was 1.16.

680
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,000
Oh, that's so great.

681
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:23,000
I'm exhausted. All of this protocol to build the machine and to have it actually give us results.

682
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,000
We were hoping to see something and we got something.

683
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:31,000
Yeah. When you're chewing on it, you can't tell, but the machine won't lie.

684
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,000
That's awesome. That's awesome. I love results.

685
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:46,000
Don't we all? And against all expectations, it seems blasting a steak to Kingdom Come really does make it melt in the mouth.

686
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:52,000
Our core sampling from both the control and the exploded steaks is totally conclusive.

687
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:59,000
The high explosives absolutely have a marked effect on the tenderness of the steaks.

688
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,000
Tenderizing steak with explosives? It works. It's confirmed.