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Proof

Why Not Eat Bugs?

Proof

America's Test Kitchen

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A South African Entrepreneur, Leah Bessa, discovers that processing Black Soldier Fly larvae produces a milk-like substance, dubbed Entomilk. Can Leah’s entomilk ice cream succeed as a dairy-alternative? Although South African populations have a traditional history of bug-eating, can modern society overcome its ick-factor to take advantage of all bugs have to offer? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Warning. If you have a tendency to get the creepy crawleys, skip ahead by 30 seconds.

0:07.0

You're in your home, working, cleaning, whatever, when you hear it.

0:13.5

At first, it sounds far away, a tiny buzzing so faint that you're not even sure it's real.

0:19.2

So you ignore it and you get back to your task, that's when the housefly dive bombs you.

0:27.0

Where did it come from? Your windows aren't open, how did that thing get in? But that does not matter right now because this fly is attacking your head

0:36.3

like it's got a target painted on it.

0:38.1

So what do you say we turn the tables on our creepy crawly friends and instead of looking at them as pests, we invite them for dinner. From America's Test Kitchen, I'm Bridget Lancaster, and this is proof. And so to simulate use over time products are tested by robots in the cycle testing lab

1:14.9

over and over and over again.

1:20.2

And for engineer Noah Panolovitch, there's beauty in a durable product.

1:25.0

Every once in a while there will be times when all the sound sinks up and you're like,

1:30.0

that was amazing, like this is really, it was magical.

1:34.0

Suddenly like everything like dancing together.

1:40.0

Find your kitchen groove.

1:42.0

Shop all products at oxo.com. That's oxo.com.

1:47.0

Oxo better guaranteed.

1:50.0

Hey thanks to our presenting sponsor Bob's Red Mill.

1:53.0

Stay tuned at the break for their quiz.

1:55.0

Intermophagy, that's the proper term for eating insects.

2:05.0

This is Elna Schutz, our reporter for the story.

2:09.0

She spoke to us from her extremely noisy apartment.

2:12.0

Somebody has decided to turn... from her extremely noisy apartment.

2:13.2

Somebody has decided to turn the street in front of my house

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