Kian84's bizarre hygiene: blowing on rice to avoid endocrine disruptors

Webtoon artist turned entertainer and painter Kian84 provided laughs by showing significantly improved housekeeping skills while maintaining unique lifestyle habits that defy common sense. While his cooking skills have noticeably progressed—making soy-marinated shrimp and pickled chili peppers from scratch and even boiling cod soup—he left the 'Rainbow Club' members horrified as he was repeatedly caught blowing on food and using his bare hands.

In the MBC variety show 'I Live Alone' broadcast on the 28th, the daily life of Kian84, who had previously lived at a distance from housework, was revealed to be changing bit by bit.

After returning from grocery shopping, Kian84 began making soy-marinated shrimp and pickled chili peppers. He boasted about his changed lifestyle, saying, "I've changed a bit; in the past, I lived by eating delivery food, freezing it, and reheating it multiple times, but lately, I'm good at cooking."

In fact, looking strictly at the cooking process, he appeared distinctly different from before. However, in scenes related to hygiene, Kian84's signature 'free-spirited lifestyle' was fully on display.

While making the pickled chilies, after pouring soy sauce boiled with ginger over the peppers, he suddenly plunged his bare hands directly into the soy sauce. He explained it was to ensure the sauce soaked into the inside of the peppers, but when his prayer beads hanging from his wrist also dipped into the sauce, Jun Hyun-moo joked, "It tastes like prayer beads."

Watching this, actress Kwon Yu-ri expressed disgust, saying, "Oh, seriously."

While the cast members watching Kian84's life in real-time in the studio might have grown used to it, the shock repeated as his actions consistently fell outside the realm of expectation.

The highlight was the process of portioning out rice. Kian84 placed hot rice into plastic containers and began blowing strongly on the rice with his mouth. When he continued to blow "hoo" for a considerable amount of time, going beyond just cooling it once or twice, Jun Hyun-moo burst into laughter, describing it as a "French kiss."

Kian84 had his own reason. He explained, "It's so hot that I was worried endocrine disruptors might be released if I put it in the plastic like that."

However, the reaction from the Rainbow Club members was cold. The cast pointed out the irony of worrying about endocrine disruptors while failing to consider the possibility of his saliva touching the food, drawing laughter. Kim Dae-ho joked, "If you add water to that, it immediately becomes *makgeolli*," and Kwon Yu-ri chimed in, "Fermentation."

While Kian84's lifestyle seems far from scientific hygiene management, the points where he has changed from the past were clear. Having cooked cod soup himself that day, unlike in the past when he would eat side dishes and *kimchi* directly from the containers, he showed himself transferring food to a separate plate.

He remarked, "I realized that if I portion out the *kimchi* or side dishes, the *kimchi* doesn't spoil. In the past, I wondered why I should bother portioning food. I just ate straight from the side dish containers to avoid extra dishes, but now I portion it out."

Though it seemed like a minor change, the cast welcomed it greatly. Jun Hyun-moo and Kim Dae-ho reacted as if they had been observing his lifestyle improvements for a long time, saying, "He's progressed," "It's a growth drama," and "He could even get married now."

Jun Hyun-moo went a step further, offering a blessing: "That increases the marriage probability among the three of us."

When Kim Dae-ho retorted, "The only thing that could have made him marry faster than me was that one thing," Kian84 responded, "You have nothing better than me. The only thing was portioning food, and now that I'm doing it," adding to the laughter.

In this broadcast, not only his cooking and eating habits but also Kian84's unique lifestyle were confirmed once again. He was seen performing self-grooming while shirtless in the bathroom, and even using fire directly, claiming he would sew socks without turning them inside out and polish his shoes.

Watching this, Kwon Yu-ri finally shook her head, saying, "His gait is different."

Jun Hyun-moo also emphasized the fun of observing Kian84's daily life, saying, "Isn't it rewarding to watch directly?"

The reason Kian84's character has been loved for a long time on 'I Live Alone' is the combination of such unpredictable lifestyle habits and his gradually changing human side. While far from a perfectly organized life, the process of him reflecting on his past habits and fixing them one by one creates a different kind of laughter and empathy.

While his cooking skills have certainly grown, he has not become a completely new person regarding hygiene. Kian84's bizarre logic—worrying about endocrine disruptors only to blow on the food—remained the same as he continues to navigate his life as a single man.