Can we crack a Starbucks hack without a recipe? – Let’s talk about that. (upbeat music) Good Mythical Morning. – I’m gonna tell you, it’s a good day for old Link when I try something new at Starbucks and actually like it. – Yeah, okay. – But the good people over on TikToK have been doing me a solid because they’ve been creating new Starbucks hacks that actually look insanely delicious, but also insanely complicated. Take a look at what I’m talking about. – [Woman] If you like sweetarts, you need to- – [Rhett] Oh, I love sweetarts. – [Woman] Here is how to order. – [Link] How do you order? – [Woman] Venti blended strawberry lemonade- – [Link] Okay. – [Woman] With three pumps classic syrup, and whipped cream layered. – All right. – Okay. – I gotta write that down. – Well, just remember sweetarts. – Okay, that’s sweetarts. They all use this voice whenever they are talking about the hacks. – Yeah that’s the way Gen Z talks now. They all talk in that voice. I don’t know what it is. I haven’t figured it out yet. Okay, that brings us to today’s experiment. If one of these gorgeous and delicious drinks was placed in front of us, could we recreate it without any kind of recipe or official barista training? Of course we can, and I’m willing to bet my life on it. It’s time for TikTokers have unleashed hacks for new Starbucks drinks. Even without directions, we can make them. So we thinks. – So we thinks. – Okay, we’re gonna be given a set of ingredients necessary to create a viral Starbucks drink hack. – Viral. – Starbucks drink hack. (audience laughing) And then our job is to recreate that drink based solely on an initial blind tasting. – All right, and we’re gonna start out with zero points. I can’t even talk. I’m already buzzed, like I’ve been drinking the coffee. But if we get really stumped, we can use lifelines. But the lifeline’s cost points, we might even go into the negative. The more help from the lifeline, the more points it’s gonna cost. We’re gonna have six minutes to try to figure out each drink. – Easy. – We get two points for every correct ingredient measurement we use, but we’re gonna lose a point for every incorrect measurement. – Not gonna happen. If we get 10 points then we’re crowned king bucks and we get a prize to wear and go mythical more. – Love it. – [Woman] Okay, guys, for each round you have 30 seconds to taste the drink and explore however you see fit. Once those 30 seconds are up, we’ll take those drinks away and you’ll have six minutes to figure out how you make your drink. And if you’d like to use a lifeline, you have three available. For one point you can get an additional sip of the original drink, but you’ll need to put your blindfolds back on. – Okay. – All right. – [Woman] For two points, I can tell you one of the correct measurements for an ingredient. Or for three points, Ever the Gen Z barista can show you what the drink looks like. – Ever’s here. – Ever’s here? – Hey, guys. What’s up? – Hey, Ever, good to not see you. As you can see we can’t. – Sorry. – Okay. – [Woman] Are you ready for your first drink? – Yes. – [Woman] So this drink is called the Dragon Frappuccino. Go ahead, and bring it in. – Don’t be shy. And you have 30 seconds starting now. – Ooh, that’s good. You call it a dragon what? – [Woman] Dragon Frappuccino. – Is that caramel? Butterscotch almost. – I mean, there’s definitely some frozen. Of course that’s frappuccino. – It’s pretty strong in whatever that… I think it’s butterscotch, but it might be caramel. I think it’s pretty similar. – Well, it’s all about ratios not about ingredients. We’re gonna be told everything. – Yeah, I’m saying, but there’s a lot of that in there. And then maybe a little vanilla? – [Woman] All right, all right, that’s enough sipping. We can take them away. Link. – I’m trying to sip the top to see if there’s- – Whipped cream. – Whipped cream. – And how much. – [Woman] Okay, you can go ahead and not look at the drinks on the side and remove your blindfold and we can bring in all of your ingredients for you to work with. And you’re going to have six minutes starting now. – We have a cup. We have whipped cream. We, oh my goodness, look at that. – What is this? This is just a cream frappe. Vanilla bean cream frappe. – But it’s all about proportions. This is… – So hold on. – Two straws though. – Is this basically like we’re being given a base with which to start? – [Woman] Yeah. – Well, thank you. – [Woman] Also, by the way, it’s called the Dragon Frappuccino, so… I don’t know if I’m allowed to tell you what that is, but- – This is dragon… This is freeze dried dragon fruit. – [Woman] Yeah. – Did you get any of that dragon fruit in your- – In my what? – [Rhett] Sippy sips. – [Link] I didn’t. – Also, guys, you have some machinery, on Rhett’s side I believe, that is also a part of this as well. – So I’ve got a blender here. We’re gonna basically put that dragon fruit into our blender with this deal. – Yeah. – We’re gonna blend it up and when we think that we’ve recreated that original taste, then we can put the whipped cream on top. – And we call it a day. I don’t think we’re gonna need any lifelines. – So whole thing. Right, Link? – [Link] Yes. I’m going with one scoop. – Definitely at least one scoop. I think let’s blend one scoop and see what kind of color we get. ‘Cause I think this is a visual drink. – Stop. Stop. Stop. All right, I can go ahead and tell you, that’s not exciting enough. I don’t even need to taste it. – Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. – We definitely need to go with two. – I don’t know, man. Just mark my words here, or remember what I say here, this may, we may have gone too far. – Nope. Now we’re talking. – And I gotta really blend it ’cause it was too crunchy. – That definitely looks super pretty. – Yep. Two scoops of dragon fruit. – Well, we’re never getting in it. – Oh, no. And then you give it a little pour. Now it might have this throughout because the hack that they showed us, it had whipped cream throughout. – Ooh, you think it’s layered? – So we need to taste that. Was it layered. Sorry. – You just got that right in my crotch. We’re pretty close on taste. – Let’s sip it. We gotta sip it. – [Woman] Okay, blindfolds down. – Sip this first. – Yeah, let me sip it first. – [Woman] I don’t want any accidental side peeping. Okay, let’s bring in the OG drinks. Okay, that was a sip. – All right, listen, masks up? – [Woman] Yeah. – There’s no- – It’s so creamy. – Listen- – I think that this is throughout. – Yeah, I agree with that but I didn’t taste any crunchies in there. It’s like, I think they layered the things in there. – Starbucks has a different blender than us. I don’t think they’re gonna hold that against us. – [Rhett] Starbucks blender. – I think it’s just- – [Rhett] Now I’m doubting everything. – It’s throughout. – [Rhett] We layer it. – [Link] So a little of that. I didn’t even know layering was a thing. – [Rhett] It’s a layer. – You gave us a big hint here. – Layer. Layer. You think a Starbucks employee does this? And then we go all the way to the top and now you just hit the top. – And while you put this on and then I think I’ve seen them do this. – You’ve watched. You’ve paid attention. – [Link] There we go. – Fill it up. Just like the biodome. Good, good too much. Okay, I got a little bit. Lick that off. We’ve nailed the taste. – [Link] All right, we’re locked in. – [Woman] All right, guys, I mean you didn’t do bad at all. You didn’t quite get it all the way, which is why we’re gonna toss over to Ever the barista to show you exactly how it’s done. – You guys were really freaking close. I’m proud of you for your first try. – Thank you. – But I’m gonna show you how to do it the right way. So first what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna take this whole venti vanilla bean frappuccino and we’re gonna put it… I don’t know how to work the blender. – C’mon, man, you can do it. – I spent too much time on TikTok and not enough time at the gym. – [Link] Yes! – That was so easy. Okay so next we’re gonna pour the whole thing in. – All right. – Perfect. – Check, that’s what we did. – I do work at the Starbucks to be clear, that’s why I have this cool apron. And we’re gonna go one scoop of dragon fruit. One scoop. You guys got a little over zealous. – No, no, no. One scoop before the second scoop. – One scoop in the blender and I’m gonna have to get this off again once I’m done blending. Think that’s on right. Perfect. And I’m gonna hit the pulse button. Perfect. Now I’m gonna take this here, whipped cream. Give it a nice little cocktail shake. – Oh, he’s gonna layer it. – Whoa. – He’s gonna layer it. – Yes. – [Rhett] He might just do bottoms and tops. – On the bottom. – Yeah. – Give it a little tap tap. Then I’m taking this off. Pouring it in. – [Rhett] Yeah, see he’s going full. And then just- – And then… – But is he topping it off? – I’m gonna pop this lid on here. – It’s hard, man. It ain’t easy. – That’s the hardest part. This is the test of every Starbucks employee. – That was so easy. And then we’re going whip cream on top. – Yeah. Okay. – And finish off with a straw. – We did… I mean it was… – Ours is actually prettier. – You’re right, man. You know, double up with the scoops, that’s what we say. Even though that’s not correct. But we got some points though, right? (upbeat music) – [Woman] All right, guys. Remember you have the same lifelines as the previous round. Let’s bring this drink in. It’s called the pink and green drink and you have 30 seconds starting now. – Oh, that’s… Oh, what is this? – Oh, that’s got some juice in it. – Remember to slide your straws up and down if you wanna taste the full range. – Whoa, there’s something else up there. – Is it pink and green? – I’m trying to get the very top. – [Woman] All right, your time is up. Let’s remove the drinks. – I didn’t taste any whipped cream. Did you taste whipped cream? – No. – Right, you may take up your blindfolds. – Masks up. – Okay, so- – [Woman] And let’s bring in the ingredients you’re gonna be working with. – Starbucks has no business making what I just tasted. Oh my gosh. – So it’s got matcha. It’s got some matcha powder in it. And what looks to be strawberry… – [Link] It don’t have a label. – Lemonade? – So this is the normal drink. – It’s just called pink drink. – You order the pink drink with strawberries floating on top, and it’s iced, and then that’s looks to be skimmed milk, maybe 2%. But all we gotta do is get the- – Get milk. – Oh, look at this. We got a little. – So that’s a matcha- – Ooh. – So what that is, it’s a frother… Wait, not a frother but it’s basically for mixing up the green tea. So what we need to do. – Maybe do it over this. Can I… – You can do the scooping. – Well hold on, no, I was asking to do the frothing. – The problem is is the only scoop that we have is this but my friend- – That’s a lot of matcha, huh? That’s a whole lot of matcha. Unless matcha powder works differently. Let’s start with half a scoop. – [Rhett] And even that’s a lot. – And then, are we frothing the whole thing? Are we frothing- – [Woman] I’m gonna get you guys another vessel. I feel like you need another vessel as well to do some of these things in. So, yeah. – Okay. – Put this in there. We’re gonna froth the matcha. – In a different one and then we’re gonna mix. – With some of the milk. – With milk, yeah. But how much milk and do we have a way to measure milk? Like what if you poured the milk towards the bottom line? – [Link] Gotta start somewhere. Kinda my thing anyway. – And then- – Oh, that was… You know what? That was all the milk. Bottom line, Rhett. – And then half a thing of matcha. And then you take this and mix it. Hit the button. You want- Ooh. You see how dark that is? Did you taste… Like you don’t like matcha. – Yeah. – You would have been responding to how much matcha was in there. – Yeah, it was much. – Well maybe when you mix it with the thing. Pour the rest of the pink drink in there. – See if you mix this, it’s not gonna make pink and green. It’s just making green. See, that’s why we need to look at this one. We just need to look at it. – That’s three points. – I don’t care. – We have to see it though. – We’ve gotta look at it. – We have to see it. We need to see it, Ever. – You guys wanna see it? On my way. – Oh, he’s coming over here. Wow, we get to… We get.. Oh my gosh, that is a nightmare. – It’s pink and green. – [Rhett] So it’s green, pink and then green. – And some frothing. That is nasty, man. Get that out of here. – You don’t have to be so aggressive, sir. – Have you tasted that? – So how do you get that green down on the bottom, Link? – Put the matcha in the milk. And then we’re gonna froth that. – Two pinches of green. – It’s not enough green. – [Rhett] That feels like the right amount of green to me. – [Woman] You have about a minute left. – Okay. And now you put that in the bottom. – Make a layer. Doesn’t that… This is just, this is stupid. This is a TikToK prank. – Yeah, you should immediately like receive some sort of civil violation for ordering this. – I’m keeping the ice. See this isn’t doing what I hoped. – How do they do the thing with the thing? I don’t understand how they make it layer. – I think they just put matcha in the bottom. – Really? Maybe. – [Link] I don’t know. – [Rhett] You’re doing great. – ‘Cause that’s not doing anything. – And then you do this a little bit more on top. And now we sip it. I really don’t want to. – Do we have straws? – 10 seconds. – Where’s the top. – Oh, we don’t need tops where we come from. – Oh, it tastes about right. – It tastes right. – Okay. – It tastes right. – [Woman] Just in the nick of time. Let’s take a little peak at how this thing’s actually made. – You guys were pretty close. Not as close as last time. – Why are you dancing? Are you listening to music in your brain? – Yes. All right, so we’re gonna take half a scoop of matcha powder. – Half a scoop? – So we were right the first time. – Pop it into this here glass. Then I’m gonna pour some milk over the top. – [Link] Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. And then he’s gonna froth it. – And then I’m gonna froth it. – Now I think two pinches is pretty much equivalent to a half a scoop. – [Rhett] Yeah, and there’s only one way to find that out. I have to throw this in the air and catch it. – In the scoop. Two pinches is… – Like a fourth of a scoop. – Yeah, so I say we got that half wrong. – [Woman] I will give it to you. – Now that it’s nice and froth and mixed. – Oh, you don’t put all that in there, that’s what it is. – Then we’re gonna pour out 40% of the pink drink. – [Link] In the bottom. – Yeah, and then you do a portion of concentrated matcha. – 40%, it’s not an exact science. And then we’re gonna take this and we’re gonna pour it over the top. – Whoa. – [Rhett] Whoa, you do end up with it all. – And now I pop the lid on. – We didn’t do bad. – [Rhett] We should have stuck with our first guess. – Hey, you’re learning all this stuff on TikToK, we wanna remind you, check out the Mythical TikTok. – Yeah. – And also the Mythical Kitchen TikToK. – Yeah. – You can learn how to create the orange chicken sandwich over there on theirs. And while you’re at it, just watch all of the Mythical Kitchen because they do good work. – Yeah, they do. – [Woman] Boy, you can learn so much on the Mythical TikToK as well. – Yeah, you can. – [Woman] Let me tell you. – Yeah, what not to do in life. – [Woman] Okay, guys, this is your final round. It has 14 possible points so there’s still a chance here. Same lifelines, and this drink is the Twix Frappuccino. And you have 30 seconds, now. – Ooh, that’s good. This is dessert. – Okay, that’s got some chocolate. – Now can I… I’m gonna hold onto this straw and I want you to… I want you to… I’m gonna choke up on it and you pull down. I wanna get to the end. Is that the end? – [Woman] Yeah. – I’m gonna do some like oil drilling. – It’s actually pretty uniform throughout, I think. It’s just more about the mix. – That’s your time. Let’s, no, yeah, all right. – I don’t know what you did over there but I’m ready to hear ya. – I was trying to… – And you can de-fold. – Did you learn anything? – [Woman] Let’s bring in your ingredients. – I was trying to taste the layers. – [Woman] And your six minutes starts now. – Okay, we know we have all this stuff. I definitely tasted some chocolate chips. – So we got some chocolate chips here. This is hot chocolate. That’s just chocolate syrup. – Let me take a sip, I gotta make sure. I’m on the team. – It’s just drinking chocolate syrup. – Man, that’s good. – I mean, chocolate, chocolate crumbles, chocolate syrup, caramel. – And that just a straight up syrup? That’s like… Oh, hazelnut. – Hazelnut. – Oh, man, Link. Another day at the coffee shop. – So if we ask for how many, how much of an ingredient that costs two points. But then if we get that ingredient right, we get two points. – We get two points. So we shouldn’t ask. – Is this stuff just garnish do you think? Just a few of these on top? – No. I told you I tasted pieces in my straw, so it’s not definitely not on top. It’s blended. – All right, so- – I feel like a full scoop is too many. – Are we asking about that? Because how much syrup are we putting in? – [Woman] I mean, I don’t wanna tell you guys how to do your job or anything but you do have a lifeline where you get to see the drink and, you know, there’s a lot of things going on. – Yeah, we have to use it. You’re right. All right, Ever, let’s see it. – I’m coming. – We’re just gonna see the darkness of the drink. Okay. Okay. So, see, this is blended chocolate. Or is that syrup? Let me see. – [Rhett] No, but look, look throughout. The syrup is on top. There’s blended bits all throughout and then the syrup is just on top. – Syrup is just drizzled. – Caramel is squirted on top too. Caramel and chocolate are squirted on top. – And then this stuff is squirted on top. – On top. – On top of that. So it’s like… – Top. – Chocolate syrup, then whip cream, then caramel. – All at the top. So set those aside. So thank you, Ever. – [Ever] Yeah. – In this order. So we got this. That did really help. – So the real question, Link, is it a full scoop of these? No way. That’s so much. – It’s a risk man. But you were right before with a half scoop. So… – I think that’s a half scoop. – [Link] Right, we’re saying a half scoop of these chocolates. – But you know what? You can always add. You can always add more. Why don’t I give this a little blend just to get a visual. – Oh, and what about these pumps? We got… I think… – Let’s pump in a second. – But don’t you pump before you blend? – No one knows how many times a man blends. – I don’t watch ’em when they make this stuff. ‘Cause I don’t order it. How much is a… Let’s just. A full. One pump hazelnut. That’s all you need. You don’t need two of that. Right? It definitely doesn’t need more hazelnut. It may already have too much. – I feel like it needs more chocolate. – You think it needs chocolate in? Oh gosh. – Yeah, it needs chocolate in the thing. – In the thing. – [Woman] One minute left. – Okay. Oh no, you gotta measure it. Half. – I think it just goes on top. Let’s stay with our- – You know what? Stick with your instincts. – Put that in here. We just don’t have a lot of time. And now we’re doing that and you see the crumbles. We’re doing this and then we’re drizzling here. – No, no, no, no. Drizzle this. Drizzle this. – But the chocolate had to be drizzled over it because I could tell by looking at it. – [Rhett] Okay. Stop. – [Link] You’re an aggressive drizzler. – [Woman] 10 seconds. – Okay. And then finally, what’s the last thing we did? – You just top it and you say, “Good job, boys.” – You get the idea. Good job, boys. – And time. You did a good job, boys. But let’s see what the other good job boy does. – Yeah, that’s me, the good job boy. Okay, so we’re gonna start with the whole venti caramel frappuccino. Oh, it was so easy this time. Going in the blender. Oh. – Nice. – Now we’re going two pumps of hazelnut. – Two pumps? – Oh. – One. Two. – [Link] Oh, come on. – Two pumps. And now we’re going one whole scoop of Java chips. – What? – [Ever] One whole scoop. – Wow, we suck so bad. – And now we blend her up. – [Rhett] We were wrong on both counts. – This is the tricky part. We’re gonna do a drizzle inside the cup. So I’m gonna take the caramel. – We’re done for man. – And I’m gonna do a little. A little drizzle going inside the walls of the cup. That’s beautiful. I’ve done that so many times before. And I’m gonna do it so many times again. And a little mocha drizzle as well. – [Link] I did not see any of that when he showed it to us. – It had been wiped off. – You didn’t look hard enough. Now pour this into here with that drizzle. Oh yeah, that’s beautiful. It smells like a Twix bar. And then we’re gonna finish it with a little whipped cream. – Yep, see, I did do the whipped cream next. – We got that right. – [Link] We got it wrong, but we didn’t do it on purpose. And then- – That’s good whipped cream. And then finally, one more drizzle of mocha. – [Link] Yep, which we did that. Chocolate syrup. – [Ever] And one more drizzle. – Yep we did that. – Caramel. Boom. It’s done. Top it. Send it out. – Now I am being told that we got a total of negative one points for this round. – Yes, we sort of reversed course here. – [Ever] Great try, guys. Great try. – But so we got one point total, nowhere near the 10 points we needed to be crowned king buck. So crap. Oh, you get to be king buck? – Yeah. – I get to be king buck. – I think what I learned is that I’m gonna stick with just my trusty coffee or maybe an old milk latte and that’s it. – And also if you’re gonna do something, just order it, don’t try to make it. – Yeah, TikToK. 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