Sure it’s only July, but the Hydraulic Press Channel has already released a video of their best hydraulic press metal crushings of 2025. *shrug* I guess it’s just like the saying goes, the best is yet to have already happened.

These are a couple videos of Prince Rupert’s Drops being crushed by hydraulic presses (the first actually bends the metal of the press and doesn’t break, in the second video they explode in a supernova of glory). What are Prince Rupert’s Drops and why are they so indestructible? READ AND

This is a video of fun-loving Finnish crushers Lauri and Hanna of the Hydraulic Press Channel pitting a 10,000 brick LEGO block against their 300-ton press. Obviously, hydraulic press has quickly moved to the #1 spot on my Christmas list this year. Will Santa be able to fit it down

While we may have previously seen an uncurated compilation of dancer smacmccreanor’s impressions of a hydraulic press crushing various objects, this is her top 15 hydraulic press fashion moments. And let me tell you, they are some REAL GOODIES in there. Like, imagine the best goody bag you’ve ever gotten,

This is a video of Australian performance artist and avante-garde dancer Smac McCreanor performing an interpretive dance for each of 100 different random objects being crushed by a hydraulic press. She really does a fantastic job of capturing the essence of each’s destruction. Of course the matching outfits don’t hurt

This is a video from the fun-loving duo behind the Hydraulic Press Channel reproducing some of the shrapnel they’ve created crushing things in a hydraulic press, and seeing how a ballistics gel human face would fare against those flying pieces. SPOILER: Not well at all, and if that head belonged

Presumably to show Consumer Reports how tests should actually be conducted, this is a video from The Hydraulic Press channel, who created a bracket of different priced kitchen knives, then pitted them against each other to see who will the championship. Me? I would have destroyed all these knives because

Presumably unhappy being involuntarily involved in the destruction of books, this is a video from the Hydraulic Press Channel of their press blowing a hydraulic pipe in an attempted act of book censorship. The pipe blowing (starting around 1:20) is actually pretty unspectacular, but the books exploding IS spectacular. What