Prepping for the Worst
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America's Test Kitchen
4.4 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the engineering lab at Oxo, senior product engineer Macmore builds prototypes bringing |
| 0:06.5 | Oxo gadgets to life. |
| 0:08.4 | I cut the blade out of a bigger spiralizer and glued it inside a cut-up water bottle and it turned out it was like the |
| 0:14.7 | perfect size to hold in your hand but we got like these springy fun noodles that we |
| 0:19.6 | really liked and I brought it home that night to me zucchini pasta for dinner and from that |
| 0:24.8 | on we just made it real. Bring your dinner creation to life. Shop all products at |
| 0:29.2 | oxo.com that's oxo.com. Oxo, better guaranteed. |
| 0:36.0 | Hey thanks to our presenting sponsor Bob's Red Mill. |
| 0:38.0 | Stay tuned at the break for their quiz. It was the 1990s. Regis and Caffy Lee were still on the air, fusion cuisine was a thing, and boy bands were everywhere. |
| 0:57.0 | America and the rest of the world were becoming tech savvy. |
| 1:01.0 | Apple had released the brand new Teal I-Mac, |
| 1:05.0 | people carried Nintendo Game Boys around with them, |
| 1:07.0 | plus a whole lot of batteries, |
| 1:09.0 | and connecting to the internet sounded like this. |
| 1:16.4 | Our computer addiction was well on its way. |
| 1:19.2 | Computers were in just about everything by that time. |
| 1:22.0 | Our appliances and cars cash registers gas |
| 1:25.1 | station pumps this tech automation was supposed to make life a whole lot easier |
| 1:29.8 | until it didn't. In 1998 people started talking about something called the Y2K |
| 1:38.2 | bug. Computers have been programmed to assume that all years began with a |
| 1:42.3 | number 19 so if you inputed |
| 1:44.9 | 98 the computer would read 1998. But with the year 2000 coming, that might mean |
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