Can You Really Tell If Food Is Made With Love?

- Can you really taste the love? - Let's talk about that. (gentle, upbeat music). Good Mythical Morning. - Home cooked meals can be missing ingredients, over seasoned and even burnt to a crisp, but they can still out do some of the finest plates. in the world because of one special. and not so secret ingredient. (singing) Love, love, love.

- Oh, nice. - What dish does your mama make better than anybody? As an illustration of my point. - (singing) Tortilla stacks. - Tortilla stacks. - Yeah, she's just a white lady from Georgia, but she puts that love into each tortilla. like you would not believe. - Okay. - And I think you can taste it. - Well, science agrees that your mom makes. the best tortilla stacks, but science would also argue. that it's due to you knowing that it was made with love.

and care, rather than the love and care. actually raising the flavor profile. - Okay. - So what if we were to taste the love blindly? Could we still taste the difference? It's time for I Think I Taste a Special Something. in This Plate. Is It Actually Love or Monosodium Glutamate? - (making machine noises) According to a 2012 study. by the University of Maryland, if you perceive there to be benevolent intentions. behind your food, then it betters your physical experience. of eating it.

So here's how we're gonna test that thesis today. We're gonna see if loving energy can be transferred. from one person to another. Very scientific! Each round, we're gonna be presented. with two identical dishes. made with the same ingredients, same recipe. The only difference is that one will be prepared. by our Mythical Kitchen-eers. with some good. old-fashioned loving. I'm interested in what that's gonna look like. - (laughing) Yeah. - And the other is gonna be, well, quite the opposite of love. - We're gonna taste these dish and plant our flags. Speaking of plant, it reminds me of the experiment. where they talk nasty to plants.

- Yeah. - And then they play classical music. I don't know what they did with plants. They did a lot of stuff with plants. - Mostly middle schoolers did that. Some of them would grow more than others, but we're gonna taste the dishes. and plant our flags behind the one. we think was made with love so that in the end, we'll see what findings our experiment generates. (mimicking machine). (gentle music). All right before we taste each of these dishes, we're actually gonna get to see how it was prepared. by the Mythical Kitchen-eers. Like for this first one, we got Vi and Josh.

both making chicken and dumplings. - Okay. - One of them is gonna do it with love. and the other one with the opposite. Let's see. - Oh, celery, you are looking so beautiful today. You must be on your skincare. - If it wasn't for the movie "Holes", no one would even care about you, onion! - Oh, Mr. Onion. See, you know, you are a nice and big like IG model. (chopping intensely). I got a friend, okay? Because there ain't no party like a chicken party. - You suck, you suck, you suck!

- I brought you something to drink. - And just a couple of sprinkles of black pepper. - Yeah, doesn't that feel nice? - You suck! - You know what? There is nothing wrong with that. Don't let any man. - You're not even pretty, you're just rich. - Tell you otherwise. (punching loudly). Yeah, you guys will be so ready for Rhett and Link, okay? - You deserve to be turned into poop by Rhett and Link. - Mommy misses you. - And Rhett's got a long colon, based on his height. You're gonna be there for awhile. I call him Long Colon McLaughlin. - So the interesting thing is-. - That was pretty cute. - The love and the hate was generated.

directly at the ingredients, not towards us, you know? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So the love went into the-. - [Link] It was made with love and hate. - Man, first of all, I love chicken and dumplings. I don't believe in this, okay? I'm just gonna let you know my bias right up front. I don't believe in this, but I'm gonna try to be completely open. to if there's some sort of energetic quality. that this was transferred and didn't get cooked out. when they heated it up. - Dink it.

I'm gonna tell you, that's good. That is a good bowl of chicken and dumplings. - [Rhett] I mean, was it made with love? - If anything is a transferal via food of love, it's chicken and dumplings. This is-. - [Rhett] Ultimate comfort food. - This is so comforting and I think I'm feeling it. Like, I don't think it sucks. - So you think that this one is gonna taste bad? - I don't think it thinks it sucks. - Okay. - But hold on! Wipe it off, man. - Wipe the love. - Or get a new one. - Wipe the love or wipe the hate off. - Yeah, you gotta-. - You can't cross-contaminate.

- This is science. - This spoon has been energized. I should probably even use a different one, but I think I got it off. - Yeah, it is absolutely identical. That's called a control. Okay. I got a little more salary in that bite. I'm not gonna let that sway me too much. - There is a different energetic quality, but it might just be because it's the second bite. There's naturally a different energy.

to the second bite of something. - Yeah, that's a good point. How do we take that into account? - [Rhett] I'm just going on instinct, man. - We've really established. Three, two, one. - Let's three, two, one. Sorry. - It really set up her dumplings to be ready for us, so which one felt like it was ready to go. into my mouth more and which one thinks that it sucks? - All right. - I'm ready. - [Stevie] Three, two, one. - Made with love! - Yeah, again-. - Maybe it's the first taste thing, but yeah. - There was a qualitative difference.

- Or lack of celery in the bite, but. - I felt different. They tasted the same, I felt different. - [Stevie] The chicken and dumplings made with love. is on Link's side. (Rhett laughing) (buzzer dinging). - Okay. - Okay, all right. - Maybe we like playing hard to get. - I do like to be mistreated sometimes. (crew laughing). (gentle trumpet music). Now, it's my understanding. that Josh and Trevor have both baked us apple pies. - You want some sugar, dough?

Work, but okay. - I don't wanna be here. You don't wanna be here. (oven beeping). Oven doesn't wanna be here. - Oh, yeah, pie dough, you like the way. I massage that butter into you? - If all of the apples in all of the world disappeared. off the face of the earth tomorrow, no one would even notice. - Do you mind if I get you into something. a little bit more comfortable? (Link laughing). (chopping aggressively). Can't wait until you're dripping in butter and sugar. (kissing). - We're getting there.

We're getting there. - Oh, yeah, you like that? (Josh grunting). Yeah, do you want me to do it a little faster? Now, I'm ready to lay you down and fill you up. (crew laughing). Can't wait for Rhett and Link to taste how juicy. and wet and delicious you are. - All right, you're Rhett and Link's problem now. Peace. - I don't know if Trevor understood the assignment. (crew laughing). And I don't know if I wanna taste it. (laughing).

- How much of himself did he put into it, is my question. - Right, that's the real question. - I feel dirty. Let's start over here. - Start over here. - So that at least we're changing that up. - So we'll like this one more first. (laughing). I gotta get a little bit of that crust. Oh, sorry. I'm messing it up for you here. - Don't apologize. Don't bring negativity. - Oh, I love pie. That was more than love. That felt like lust.

There's a line. - Uh-huh. - It's good, but I'm just trying to be a scientist. I'm trying to act like I'm eating in a lab, not like I'm eating at a dinner. - Or at like, a brothel. - (laughing) Right, yeah. - [Link] I'm not aroused. - Some my best meals. (crew laughing). Have been at the Bunny Ranch. (Link laughing). - Okay, okay, okay, okay. - Did I say that out loud?

- People need to buy a ticket for this stuff. I'm gonna go in over here. I'm getting the same type of bite, which had a little bit and a little bit of that. - [Rhett] Yeah, I'm dealing with of the situation here. - In one of these, I'm definitely tasting the ambivalence, I'm feeling like. And I thought that it would translate. into the cut of the apple, the detailing, but I'm actually not seeing-. - You would see more care in the ingredient? - I would see more care in the presentation.

- Like the visual. - Yes, but I'm not seeing that, so we're going totally with the intangible here. - Yeah, which I think is the correct, scientific way. to do it. I felt a little perkiness, for lack of a better word. - Oh, it's a great word. - I think there was a little perkiness to one of these. I'm not lying. - I felt a little down by one of these. - [Stevie] Two, one. - See, we disagree. - Oh, this is perky! - This one, that one brought me down a little bit. - Oh, okay. - I just felt a little sad.

and maybe I'm still in second bite world. So, this one's up for grabs. - [Stevie] The apple pie made with a whole lot of love. is on Link's side. - See? - Oh, okay, you tasted a little bit of the love. - And so maybe I'm more of a love taster than you are. because the previous round, we both agreed and were wrong. Now, we're not really concluding anything positively. about love because we're not on the same page. - The only thing that's been conclusive so far. is that I like to be punished. (gentle trumpet music).

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- Wa-pow! - I'm so sorry. - Don't complain because you know, it doesn't matter. - I'm so sorry. - Mr. Onion, you basically look like my ex. - (gasping) Are you okay? You're okay. Okay, good. Might get a little sizzly, but don't worry. - I hate you, but Rhett and Link are gonna hate you, too. - It's not too hot in there, is it? Okay. - You don't deserve to be in this lasagna. - You don't think of this as shredding. Think of this as diversifying yourself. - You just wanna be pizza so bad, don't you?

- You're gonna be the most friendly lasagna. Rhett and Link have ever tasted in their lives. - You make me wanna be lactose-intolerant, but guess what? I already am. - You guys are gonna be so delicious. Rhett and Link are gonna absolutely love you! Let's go. (sniffing and sighing). - Wow, Nicole was so maternal. - Yeah and apparently, Vi's got some issues with her ex. (Link laughing). Better watch out. You mean you mean the onion she dated?

- Don't give her a knife. Okay. - Let's start over here. - Lasagna, man. I mean, lasagna's just good, you know? It's always good, right? - [Link] Unless it's got a chip on its shoulder. - [Rhett] But here's the thing I'm doing-. - This is crunchy on top. - I'm just going with the one that I think-. - What's wrong with this fork? This won't go through anything. - The top's a little crispy. Okay. - It's it's forming a hard outer layer, which might be a form of protection.

- Which might be? - Yeah, it might be like how it's dealt with trauma. You know? Forming a shell. - It tastes good, but I'm trying to get. the energetic quality to it. I'm trying to connect with it. At this point, I'm not evaluating whether it's love or hate. because I've connected with hate twice. - I'm just evaluating the fact. that I'm only chewing a burnt corner of it. I need to give it a good chance. by getting away from that one spot. Well, that's a little better.

(Rhett and crew laughing). Maybe it's just bad lasagna. - Link loves it. - So you know that one's not doing anything for me. This one. - [Rhett] Yeah, yeah. I'm having to break out the knives. - It's just really crunchy on top and that's not a bad thing. until it becomes a bad thing. Now, I'm gonna put you in my mouth. and I'm gonna chew you up. - Don't give it love now. - Oh yeah, that's right. - Yeah, yeah, you'll screw up the experiment. - Let's hope we get on the same page here.

- Well, but we can have different intuitions about things. You taste love and I taste hate and that's scientific. - I also guessed that true science, you don't hope for any result. - Right. - You just go with it on. - You just put on your lab coat, put on your blindfold, go in there and you don't even. I'm not here to make friends. That's what all scientists say. All people who were on The Bachelor. and all scientists in labs. I'm not here to make friends. - Yeah, I'm here to get laid in a hot tub. - [Stevie] Three, two, one.

- This is a toss up for me. I didn't like either one of them. - I liked this one significantly more. - Huh. - [Stevie] The lasagna made with love is on Rhett's side. - Oh, dang it! I'm not consistent. - I know, and so the introduction. of Ren Dimity is diminishing any sort of a conclusion. - Are you saying we should get a hot tub at our lab? (gentle trumpet music). Okay and finally, to eliminate. any sort of emotional, energetic noise,

we just wanna go with the simplest possible dish. to receive the love or the hate, PB and J. - Oh, bread. You're gonna do amazing things in life. I just know it. You are destined to be the best peanut butter and jelly. in the world! (intense grunting). Now, we're gonna do a little bit of strawberry preserves. I know it's your favorite. Some people like grape. Some people like raspberry.

We're gonna do strawberry. (gasping) That's just perfect. (labored breathing). Now, we're gonna go with a diagonal cut. because that's the most lovely cut there is. Ready for Rhett and Link. I love you! - Here you go, Rhett and Link! (Trevor screaming). (beeping). (Rhett laughing). - I'm pretty sure some of Trevor got into that sandwich.

- A lot of heavy breathing right over the sandwich. - Yeah, yeah. What we've learned about the way things happen. in the past couple years. Yeah, some of Trevor definitely got into one. of these sandwiches. - The way that he made it, with all the huffing and puffing and shaking, I have to think that translates. into the perceived quality of it. - I'm not looking at it because of that. - But yeah, that's kind of cheating. We don't wanna do. - I'm not looking at it. - All right. - If one's got stuff spilling out of it, I don't wanna know. I don't even know what side we're starting on. You'll be the judge. (crew laughing).

You'll be the judge. - I'll be the judge. Let's start over here. I'm just gonna give it a nice little bite. - You taste any Trevor on that? - [Link] It's a good sandwich. - [Rhett] That's what I'm trying to detect at this point. - It's well-balanced. If the crust was removed entirely, you know that the extra effort that went into that. has to mean care. That what makes an Uncrustable so magical. - You love Uncrustables. - If it's homemade. - It makes me feel empty. - It makes you feel empty? - Yeah.

- Because you really like crust? - No, I'm saying that sandwich in particular. made me feel empty. - [Link] Oh. - [Stevie] Linked, did you take the crust. off of your sandwiches? - When my mom didn't, yeah, I did. (Rhett laughing). I was like, my mom didn't love me as much today. It was very tenuous in grade school. - Okay, this sandwich is significantly better. than that sandwich. I know I'm not supposed to influence you, but. - Well, you kind of just did. No, you didn't because I already have my answer. I'm ready. - This was a huge difference to me. - [Stevie] Three, two, one. - This one.

The balance of the two flavors was nice. - [Stevie] Well, let me tell you something. You guys must really love the taste of Trevor. because the one made with love is on Link's side. - Hey. - So the only time we agree is when we're both wrong, so. - Right. Here's the thing. - This is bull crap. Love is a farce! - Two possible conclusions. Number one. - Love is a farce. - Very likely, you can't taste love. That's bull crap, not scientific. - But you can taste bull crap. - Possibility number two, seventy-five percent of the time,

I can taste hate and I love hate. Or maybe I just love Trevor. - Don't we all? - Yeah. - He's a cute little guy, isn't he? (Rhett and crew laughing). - He's a cute little guy. - All right, according to our official results, you cannot taste love. - Yeah, so drop that. Just drop that whole concept. - Forget about it. Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. - You know what time it is. - Good Mythical Morning! We're Nick and Lily and we're in the Lake District, England,

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