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The Cover-Up Collection

Stop Losing Money to Grocery Tricks You Can't See

303 store tricks and kitchen myths, exposed by a grumpy old man with receipts: what's draining your cart, wasting your ingredients and wrecking your food.

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  • Fully illustrated
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  • Why the priciest items sit at eye level
  • The “family size” pack with the worse unit price
  • The “organic” halo that sells on trust, not proof
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Written by Oddly Factual"Just because your grandma said it doesn't make it true. Mine either."— Oddly Factual

The videos are free. Why buy the books?

Jump straight to it

The videos run 60 to 90 minutes in order. The books let you jump to the myth you care about.

1,719 pages in your pocket

Skim the grocery chapter on your phone right there in the aisle.

No ads, no algorithm

Three illustrated PDFs you keep, and you never lose your place.

One bundle. Every kitchen lie I've ever busted.

I've spent years yelling "that's not true!" at a camera for a living — mostly about food. The Cover-Up Collection puts it all in three illustrated ebooks: the psychology tricks the grocery store uses on you, the baking rules that never held up, and the cooking habits quietly wrecking your food.

📖 Priced to Fool — Grocery Tricks 📖 The Sweet Deception — Baking Myths 📖 Burnt Truths — Cooking Myths

The store, the oven, and the stovetop — three kitchens, one theme: everyone's been following rules nobody ever checked. Buy once, get all three as separate PDFs, and read them in any order.

What everyone believes vs. what's actually true

🙄 What You Were Told

  • "Family size" packaging is always the better deal
  • The "Organic" label proves it's healthier
  • Butter has to be ice-cold for good cookies
  • Overmixing batter is just a minor slip-up
  • Rinsing chicken before cooking makes it safer
  • Cold water boils faster than hot

✅ What's Actually True

  • The "Family Size" Fallacy — it often costs more per unit
  • The "Organic" Halo — pricing psychology, not proof of quality
  • The Room-Temperature Butter Tyranny — the chemistry says otherwise
  • The Overmixing Panic — most home bakers worry about the wrong step
  • It just splashes bacteria around your sink instead
  • Busted — starting hotter always wins, every time

What's actually inside the bundle

Book 1 of 3

Priced to Fool

563 pages · 101 grocery tricks
  • The Eye-Level Trap — why the priciest items sit right at eye level
  • The "Family Size" Fallacy — bigger packaging, worse unit price
  • The "Organic" Halo — a label that sells on trust, not proof
  • The Final Receipt — what actually happened to your cart
  • Layout, lighting, and pricing psychology, aisle by aisle
Book 2 of 3

The Sweet Deception

586 pages · 101 baking myths
  • The Overmixing Panic — the step everyone stresses over for nothing
  • The Room-Temperature Butter Tyranny — put to the chemistry test
  • The Final Deception — the last baking "rule" standing, debunked
  • Chilled butter, sifted flour, the toothpick test — all checked against real kitchen chemistry
Book 3 of 3

Burnt Truths

570 pages · 101 cooking myths
  • Resting Meat Is Optional — what searing actually does (and doesn't)
  • Cold Water Boils Faster — busted, with the physics to prove it
  • Burnt Truths: The Only Myth That Matters
  • Rinsing chicken, flipping burgers once, and other stovetop lore, tested
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What readers are saying

"I sent the grocery store chapter to my mom. She's never looked at milk placement the same way since."

— Marisol T.

"The baking chapter alone saved me a dozen ruined batches of cookies. Wish I'd read it years ago."

— Dave R.

"Read all three in a weekend. Feels like binge-watching the channel but I can actually flip back to the parts I forgot."

— Priya K.
Oddly Factual, the channel's narrator, reading a book

Who's yelling "that's a myth" at you, exactly?

Nobody in particular — that's kind of the point. Oddly Factual started as one guy's spite project after one too many "kitchen hack" posts turned out to be nonsense. A few hundred hours of digging through studies later, it became a channel. Now it's a bundle of books. The voice hasn't changed: blunt, a little smug, always ready to show its work.

No credentials to sell you, no supplements in the description box — just someone who reads the actual research so you don't have to, then tells you about it like you're sitting across the table.

— The Old Man Himself

The Cover-Up Collection

Three illustrated ebooks. Every kitchen trick, myth, and lie the channel has ever busted.

  • Priced to Fool — 101 Grocery Tricks That Make You Overspend (563 pages)
  • The Sweet Deception — 101 Baking Myths That Are Wasting Your Ingredients (586 pages)
  • Burnt Truths — 101 Cooking Myths That Have Been Wrecking Your Food (570 pages)
  • 303 entries total, 1,719 pages combined
  • Instant access — all three PDFs emailed within 60 seconds
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Questions people ask before buying

Is this actually accurate, or just "internet facts"?

Every entry in the bundle is checked against real studies, food-science sources, and expert write-ups before it makes the cut — the same research process behind the videos. Where the science is genuinely split, the book says so instead of pretending there's one clean answer.

Your videos are free — why would I pay for this?

The videos are 60-90 minutes of narration you have to sit through in order. The ebooks are the same myths, organized so you can jump straight to the ones you care about, skim on your phone, and actually hold onto — no ads, no algorithm, no losing your place.

Why is a 3-book bundle only $37?

Because it's a launch price for people who already watch the channel — $37 for all three instead of the full $60.

Do I get all three ebooks, or just one?

All three — Priced to Fool, The Sweet Deception, and Burnt Truths — delivered together as separate PDFs. Buy once, get all three, read them in any order.

What format is it in, and how do I get it?

All three PDFs are emailed to you within 60 seconds of checkout, formatted to read comfortably on phone, tablet, or computer — or print at home. No app to install, no waiting on the mail.