Edible Paperclips: A Culinary Challenge

Greetings, my beautiful lovelies! It's Emmy and welcome back to today's episode. I'm excited to share with you a unique culinary challenge that I've taken on - making edible paperclips! Yes, you read that right - paperclips made from food ingredients. This idea came to me after watching an ASMR channel where the creator eats all sorts of faux object foods, including paperclips.

I must admit, there's no particular reason why I wanted to make edible paperclips. It was simply a challenge that I couldn't resist taking up. I first learned about this concept from ASMR Choa's channel, where she enjoys eating various fake food items, but unfortunately, she doesn't demonstrate the process of making them. So, I decided to sleuth out the recipe and technique on my own, and now I'm excited to share my findings with you.

The Big Reveal: What Are These Paperclips Made Of?

As I began to explore the world of edible paperclips, I discovered that they're made from a surprising ingredient - angel hair pasta! That's right; we're talking about the thinnest, most delicate pasta available. The creator of this innovative food hack uses a type of pasta called "skinny pasta" and even goes so far as to use the specific brand "angel hair pasta."

To make these edible paperclips, I followed a simple recipe that involves cooking the angel hair pasta in water until it's tender. Once cooked, the pasta is drained and then manipulated into a snail-like shape using the swirly technique. This involves swirling the pasta around multiple times to create the desired shape and size, with the ultimate goal of creating a paperclip.

The Swirl Technique: The Secret to Making Edible Paperclips

Now that I've revealed the secret ingredient behind edible paperclips - angel hair pasta - let's dive deeper into the process. To begin, the creator starts by boiling water in a saucepan and then adds the angel hair pasta. The pasta is left to simmer for about four to six minutes until it reaches the perfect level of tenderness.

Once cooked, the pasta is drained, and the Silpat-lined baking sheet is ready for action. Here's where things get creative - I used tracing paper templates to create two sizes of paperclips: a large one and a smaller one. However, as I soon discovered, these templates were more than just decorative; they served as guides for shaping the pasta into perfect paperclip forms.

The Pasta Swirl Technique

After experimenting with various methods, I finally mastered the pasta swirl technique - the key to making edible paperclips. The creator explains that you simply need to take a piece of warm pasta and swirl it around multiple times until you achieve the desired shape. It's as simple as that! And, as an added tip, using cold water on your fingers can help prevent the pasta from sticking.

The Swirling Process

Once I grasped the swirly technique, I was eager to try it out for myself. As I began swirling the pasta around, I realized just how mesmerizing this process can be. The way the pasta curls and twists into a snail-like shape is almost hypnotic! And when you pinch the pasta together, voilà - you have yourself an edible paperclip.

The First Few Attempts

In my first attempts to make edible paperclips using the swirly technique, I made a few mistakes. I followed the templates, but they just didn't work out as planned. However, with each subsequent attempt, I grew more confident and skilled in shaping the pasta into perfect paperclip forms.

Midnight Moments of Inspiration

There were moments when I doubted my ability to create edible paperclips - midnight doubts that crept in and made me wonder if this whole project was worth it. But, as the creator so aptly puts it, "it's just ridiculous" not to give it a try! And, with each passing moment, I became more convinced of the possibility.

Conclusion

And there you have it - my journey into making edible paperclips using angel hair pasta and the swirly technique. It may seem like an unusual culinary challenge, but trust me when I say that it's worth trying. Who knows? You might just discover a new passion or hobby hidden within your creative self!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(gentle music)- Greetings, my beautiful lovelies,it's Emmy and welcome back.Today I'm gonna bemaking edible paperclips.Paperclips, the littlemetal clips I use to holdpieces of paper together.I'm gonna be making anedible version of that.So you may ask why, there'sno particular reasonexcept that I just wantto take up the challengeof seeing if I can make edible paperclips.I first learned about this, ofcourse, from an ASMR channelwhere they eat all kindsof faux object foods.I'll put a link down belowto the channel below.It's ASMR Choa, she eats the paperclips,but she does not demonstratehow she makes them.So I'm here today tosleuth out of the recipeand the technique, andthen I'm gonna go aheadand proceed to eat them.So the big reveal is what arethese paperclips made out of.Dee dee dee tee dee.Pasta, skinny, skinny, skinny pasta.This is angel hair pasta, thethinnest pasta I could find.And what I'm going to do is cook it.So, in this little saucepanI've got some water.We don't need much, justabout an inch or so.Water's come up to a boil,now we're going to takethe angel hair pasta and we'regoing to break it in half.And drop it in there.And we're gonna simmer thisfor four to six minutesuntil the pasta is tender.Now that our pasta is cooked,we're going to drain it.Now I've got a Silpat-linedbaking sheet here.I have a little Post-It note,which I've traced a coupletemplates of paperclips.A large size and a smaller size.And I can barely seeit through the Silpat.For the large paperclipwe don't have to cutthe pasta at all, but for thesmaller one we're gonna cutmaybe about an inch off.And this is the easiest way Ifound to make the paperclips.You actually don't even need a template.So you take your warmpasta and you swirl itinto a little snail shape, just like that.You want one two, three,four layers of your snail.And then you just pinch it together,you narrow it up.Now, the pasta likes tostick to your fingers,so a little dish of cold water helps.And then you can kindof manipulate the pastawithout it sticking.If you follow the swirly technique,you don't need the template at all.But the template is morejust a reference for sizeand for width.So again here's the technique,you just swirl it around,it can be counterclockwise, clockwise,but you want one, two, three, fourpieces of pasta going across.Get your fingers wetand then just pinch it.Kind of pinch it together.And you got yourselfthe perfect paperclip.Now the first few that Imade, I actually attemptedto follow the template andit was just ridiculous.Midnight and I'm making pasta paperclips,but then I figured outthe swirly techniqueand I was just like, \"Aah!\"So again, you take thepasta swirl it around,and then make sure youhave four widths of pasta,and then you use your dampened fingers,and you just squeeze it together.You're like a pasta paperclip maker.Doo doo doo doo!It's so simple and easy.Now you're gonna let these dry.Now I just let these dryovernight on my countertopand by morning they looked like this.Tee dee!Like this.It went back to their dried pasta form,completely hard, as you canhear, and in the shape of pasta.Now some of these are moresuccessful than others.Some of them want to curl up,but generally speaking theylook just like paperclips.Isn't that great!It's so satisfying toactually get that shape.As you can imagine, the largerpaperclips are easier thingto form and to shape.Now to make this look even more realistic,we wanna add a little bit of color.I thought about adding someluster dust or luster dustmixed with some alcohol toget these to look metallic.But I thought it would be more fun to dothe colorful version of paperclips.So to do that, I usedthe white food coloringand just regular food coloring.You can use liquid orpaste, whatever you got.But the white is really importantbecause you want it to bea little bit opaque.I've got some dried ones here.You could also probablydry these in a warm oven.Turn on your oven andthen turn off your oven.And then place your pasta in thereand just let them kind of dry out.Now we're gonna take a clean brushthat's just designated for food.Now we're gonna take a littlebit of our food coloring.Put a drop here.And some hot pink.Dampen your brush, removemost of the moisture.And we're gonna take alittle bit of the whiteand mix it with the pink until we getthe shade that we want.I found using a chopstickto hold the paperclipin place really useful.We're just gonna paint the paperclip.Or the pasta.Flip it over, make sureyou get both sides.And then just let this air-dry.It makes it look so much more believablewhen you add the color to it.Love it!That shape, oh my goodness!Okay.(happy music)And this is the finished result.Aren't they great!They turned out so great, so, so pleased,actually very, very simple to make.You're just using pasta and shaping itand letting it dry backuntil it's hard again.And listen how crunchy they are.And they look just like paperclips.Yee! Okay, let's give them a taste.I don't expect these to taste like much,I just want to eat one, so.I'm always using food coloringfor all kinds of things,particularly when I am doingfun experiments with my kids,and so it always gets all over our hands.And I found that toothpasteworks really wellin getting it off.Although blue can be pretty stubborn.But anyways, I'll be washing my handswith toothpaste after this.I should also be very clear,these are fake paperclips,they are made out of pasta,please do not eat paperclips.Alrighty, itadakimasu!Tastes like pasta.The whole inside of mymouth is gonna be white.(laughs) Here we go.It doesn't taste likeanything but plain pasta.A little bit of saltwould have been great.So if you want these totaste like something,add a bit of salt.Let's eat this big red one, here we go.There you have it, edible paperclips.(laughs)Before I leave you, Iwanna do one other thing.I wanna test to see ifmy paperclips actually dothe business of holding paper together.I'm gonna go grab some paper.Oh, here's some.Let's see, I think it's gonna work.Tam ta ta dah!So exciting, it totally works!Edible paperclips that totally work.Tan tan tan tan!Alrighty, my beautifullovelies, there you have it.Edible paperclips thatactually clip paper togetherand if you're feeling a little bit noshy,you can just eat them.Remember these are edible paperclips,they're made out of pasta.Do not eat real paperclips.I often get questions about my T-shirts,and I buy a lot of them at a store calledFrog and Toad in Providence.And they very kindly sent me this shirt.I will put a link down belowin case you're interested.This is not a sponsoredpost, I'm just sharingwhere this shirt came from.Thanks again for watching,I hope you guys enjoyed that one.I hope you guys learned something.Please share this video with your friends,follow me on socialmedia, like this video.Don't know what I'm doingwith my hands, but I am.Subscribe and I shallsee you in the next one.Too-da-loo!Take care, bye!(gentle music)\n"