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on the tenderizer if they made the pieces out of metal and then added basically like a screw on both sides then you could raise and lower each of the metal rollers to the desired height
cubed double eggs my dad is going to have an amazing present now and you could probably even put just even more egg custard or whatever the on it oh my God I'm getting it
I trust this guy. Not only did he immediately spot why the tenderizer was flawed, he actually tasted the food afterwards. I give him a 5/5 in Effectiveness and Watch Rating.
@@zuludude2 you really just said a1 sauce? Thats like the crappiest sauce on the market catered to Americans that can't season their food and have awful taste buds
I'd bet it has. I 'needed' to keep using my right hand for arrow keys when the mouse became popular years ago. I learned to use it with my left. Now years later, I can even write with both.
I broke my right hand when I was 17, and it took about a year before I could really use it again. I had to learn to do everything with my left hand, and it just stuck. I'd consider myself capably ambidextrous at this point, and it was one of the better "terrible" things that ever happened to me!
As someone who has significant dexterity issues, I have never heard of the left handed oil test and while I think it’s probably not the best comparison, I really appreciate that any thought is given to accessibility at all. Most of the time disabled people are given little to no consideration at all.
They should have made him do it with oily offhand after standing in a walk-in freezer for 30 minutes. No jacket. That would be a far better loss of dexterity.
@@ObservationofLimits that wouldnt make sense anymore, since at this point you cant even do the easiest things anymore. And at that point its not the products "fault"
@benjai that's seriously harmful. industrial walk in freezers can be ridiculously cold. some of them could possibly even kill you from hypothermia within that time
@@baadlyrics8705 It would actually make a lot of sense because a lot of the "As seen on TV" labor-saving gadgets are aimed at a disabled audience (especially elderly people), even if the marketing is ambiguous. If your normal mobility is such that you can't do "the easiest things," as the freezer test imitates, you are much more likely to rely on gadgets like these. So the product is absolutely "at fault" in some degree if it can't meet the needs of its target audience. Lots of things that seem on the surface to be aimed at lazy people are actually accommodations for people with mobility limitations, like no-spill microwave plate-grabbers or fridge milk-pourers. Cutting can be an especially challenging area of food preparation for people with mobility impairments or joint pain, so making sure a product can be used even with very stiff limbs is really useful. (that said, I do recognize that an actual freezer test is likely dangerous for the tester and not likely to be used. the solution to me is to have more disabled testers and designers :) )
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I love that Dan does a test with his left hand and oil. I have dexterity issues due to a work injury and a lot of "helpful" kitchen gadgets are hard for me to use. Jar twisters are great in concept but when you don't have the necessary strength to actually grip them, it becomes yet another useless waste of money.
@@funky_tree Some people have muscle problems that can make them pretty weak, so maybe that's the idea behind the product existing? Like maybe there are people who actually can't use a mallet? I have no idea though.
@@jxavier3876 I don't know who you're referring to, so I didn't want to make any assumptions. BUT, if you're saying people with muscular disabilities don't deserve chicken, then you don't deserve chicken either, you deserve a mallet to the head. ~signed a person who's amazing father has physical disabilities.
My grandmother had the egg cuber. When I stayed at her house as a little kid I would make the square eggs using the cuber after she had boiled them (I did not leave them for 20 minutes. Maybe 5 or so. Little kid attention span isn't that long). It was the coolest thing ever and it was the only way I ever wanted to eat hard-boiled eggs. Get it if you want your kids involved in the kitchen. Things that make cooking fun for kids are good.
That was a cute anecdote! And egg cubers are pretty cool. It's always good to find ways to interest kids to get involved in the kitchen and other important life skills.
It seems like they would be really great for deviled eggs, so they would lay flat and you wouldn't have to worry about them toppling off the tray, or getting jostled around and spilling their guts.
The egg cuber is honestly something I'd love to have. I usually like to thinly slice my hard boiled eggs for sandwiches and when it's the regular shape I'm always left with parts that are all white or uneven! The egg cuber definitely fixed that. So that's an extra use for it.
The curl a dog is something you can have little kids use, compared to a knife. Bonus points for that. "Man bites dog" - You got me with that one. Great video.
One aspect I'd love to see analyzed is that of food safety; how easily can you use, re-use, and clean each product without contaminating the surfaces of the device and the surrounding food preparation area?
A plastic surface are easy enough to clean if it only hold liquids but well I seen scratches on things ghat is worrisome. Also be careful about hot liquids in plastic containers, some plastics well release unhealthy chemical into the liquid.
@@maggiehanson0413 Exactly. As with most gadgets, the setup, storage space etc. is not worth it. And unless you are feeding an army with chicken, and use his improvements, getting the Salmonella off that thing is definitely not worth it.
There are egg cubbers that are animal molds too. It’s mostly intended for bento boxes I assume and making it nicer. There’s a heart one that makes cool heart cuts it extra show and also space saver if it’s square
I would love to see the lefthanded oil test used on the conventional methods as well, as that may be where the gadgets are useful or labor-saving. When using a non-dominant hand covered in oil, choosing between using a knife to cut a spiral in a hot dog and a device that you just press down on, I think I'd choose the spiralizer over the knife because it requires a lot less dexterity.
I just googled Dan Formosa (after seeing all his videos and being curious about his own inventions, why not?) and wow, this guy's reach is impressive. Ford Motor Company, OXO, Sirius XM, basically anything you may have in your home
I just did the same, thanks to your comment and I realized he was involved in designing one of the toothbrushes I had when I was a kid, a green and purple Reach Wonder Grip toothbrush I had in the 90's, wow!
Dan is the only reason why I'm subbed to this channel, though they only let him out of his cage once a month to do a video. I wish this was a weekly series.
I think the main reason for that is that theres only soo much unique looking kitchen gadgets, i mean for example lets say we would have cake cutters this week. I can buy approx 4 different ones from the nearby stores but they are only different by brand as i get 3 copies/variants of something Dan already tested and 1 knife.
My family loves stuffed burgers, and I've debated getting one of those presses for a while Because It Never Occurred to Me to Use a Rocks Glass. Dan isn't just improving products, he's dropping life hacks. My hat is off!
@@thaliacrafts407 I can't speak for Dan or his process, but I can tell you that I have made burgers like this since the video came out, and using the bottom of a glass worked great! The burger press may be a very good product, but having been presented an option which effectively free and doesn't require me to find space for another tool in my kitchen it's a pretty hard sell.
The burger press literally is like five steps it's not that difficult to use I think it is a inventor and engineer he might have been overthinking and over processing the idea he overcomplicated it it really is a simple and amazing Gadget I own two of them. Literally all you have to do is spray a little bit cooking spray on the inside put your hamburger in press down make the divot the first time put your stuffing in put another layer of burger and then flatten and then remove and the cooking spray releases the meat it's extremely easy
I wonder if he considers the usability test for the alternative too. It seems like the left handed oil test for the paring knife and hot dog could be a bit dangerous, which would be extra points for the spiralizer for anyone with dexterity issues
I mean ideally yes, but he cant test that properly its just to help with design flaws, what he needs to really vet it out is someone who is one handed or like me doesn't use their right hand because of the chronic pain I have, while I could hold a knife and swirl a hotdog it would cause pain, I dont think the hotdog curler would solve that issue I have but it would make it a better process, I would still need to skewer each dog lol maybe just use it without a skewer. But with his redesign often times he suggests circles should be lumpy for grip but that's rarely helpful in my opinion because now its lumpy but made of the same slippery materials, so handles sticking off a bit for leverage is more useful.
Because these tools are often made with the intent to make a given task easier, and thus beneficial to people for whom it's already obvious they wouldn't easily be able to use a knife or something. We already know how using a knife with a slippery hand would go - the purpose of the test is to see if the product is ACTUALLY easier to operate under such conditions versus what it's attempting to replace.
@@chimpaflimp One reason why they often fail is that they need to be sturdier, less complicated and easier to clean. I also strongly suspect that there are commercially avalible things for thease functions but you do not often see them in people's homes but in large scale kitchens. I suspect theaee to be expensive thou but if you need to tenderise hundreds of loafs of meat it may be worth it.
For the tenderizer, don't just count the seconds it takes to tenderize the meat, also count the time it takes to set up the device.. I mean, you're not going to keep that thing clamped to your countertop all the time. Also, cleaning that thing takes so much longer than the mallet.
@@jasperj.d.g.4147 You don't put your tools back in the same place..? Also of all tools in the kitchen, a mallet is not the thing I think if first when thinking of things that easily get lost. XD
@@jasperj.d.g.4147 Good luck finding the O-ring. Mallet is one big piece. The gadget-thingy is 10 or so pieces (and you have to take all the pieces apart to clean it)
I have an egg cuber. My cap has "flat" sides that help with grip. I never grab the plunger to pull it out, but always push from the bottom. It's so much fun! Yes, storage is great, but the look on people's faces when I put out square eggs: priceless!! My only thing: wish I had two, so I can cube faster!
The Chicago style hot dog has mustard, sliced tomatoes, a dill pickle spear, celery salt, sweet pickle relish (preferably dyed "kryptonite green") and sport peppers (similar to serranos) -- these are often left out. No ketchup.
The cubed egg device could be fun to make like dice shaped egg appetizer for theme parties such as Vegas night. Put some capers as the cube dots. Or make egg salads.
For your stufz burger press test it is important to remember that beyond burger meat does not act the same as regular burger meat, so it is hard to truly test its effectiveness with its true purpose
I really want one of these where it’s just ordinary objects. “I like how this spoon has a little bowl at the end to contain liquid foods, but let’s see if we can get some improvements with the redesign”. “This $10 bread knife did cut the bread but it felt a little out of control with the left handed oil test.”
I almost wonder if the egg cuber might work well for people with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (arfid). I've seen some people say that foods that don't look like food (ie pearl shaped pasta cooked in colored water so it looks like fishtank gravel) works well for them as a food they can eat. Maybe a cube shaped egg would work because it doesn't look like an egg
And it might help with picky eaters as well, at least some of them are easier to convince to eat with fun-looking food (eg. square eggs, purple potatoes)
Probably so. If you eat a lot of hard boiled/deviled eggs it would be worth it. I don't, but I still kinda want one. And you could probably shape other things with it, not just eggs.
@@scouttyra I'm a fan of purple vegetables. Purple broccoli, purple cauliflower, purple green beans (purple beans?). Heck, even purple cabbage. It's all great.
We are the exact same way! I love this series so much, Dan has a great eye for what works. Would love to see a series of him revising some of his old designs.
In terms of effectiveness I give this man a 5/5, really trustworthy opinions and tests. In terms of usability I've got to give this man a 5/5 helpful reviews that I can use if I want to buy these products. In terms of a buy rating I'd give this man a 5/5 because that's a nice shirt lol
14:07 "[the burger is] not a hotdog so ketchup is ok", I ask you what person can resist the smell of a snag, fresh off the barbie betwixt white bread topped off with tomato sauce? not someone I would trust.
@@realretrorelapse I don't think actual meat would fare any better, if it sticks it's not gonna want to not stick to a really similar substance in terms of texture
I really like the end-to-end testing. Going beyond a visual test, cooking then tasting the two-chicken breasts and same for the other products tested. This makes it for a quality and reliable test.
@Ori Artman - Mr Formosa occasionally mentions storage and sometimes re-designing to make storage better, but does not often mention cleaning the gadgets. He should explore that more.
LOVE the left-handed oil test. I'm left-handed and product designers never take us into account (think can openers, scissors, gas pumps, power tools, etc.)
The burger stuffer would have probably worked better with real burger. The beyond stuff looks sticky. I still feel like it would be orders of magnitude easier to do it by hand.
I think that was by design, they tried using it with something that would be difficult to do it with to see if it works. A pressure test, if you will. Like the left handed oil thing, but with the food itself.
I have a few family members that are engineers and boy do I love how he goes to the drawings board to "fix" anything that can be improved in it. Can't believe that this series isn't 1million few or close to since this is a gem.
I'm always curious about what the control test would look like if he repeated it with the left hand oil test, since I feel like a lot of these gadgets would be safer and easier for someone with dexterity issues to use than a chef's knife for example. In my own kitchen I prefer just using a knife over any gadgets because it's much easier to clean, has many uses, and only takes up a small amount of space, but knives can be super dangerous and if I had kids or limited use of my hands I'd definitely want to pick up some good kitchen gadgets.
Yes! If you coated my non-dominant hand with oil then asked me if I wanted to use the knife or the hot dog spiralizer, I'd feel a lot more comfortable with the spiralizer! It's fantastic that he considers the devices' accessibility to people with mobility impairments, but he doesn't seem to consider the limitations of the traditional method when evaluating the devices' comparative usefulness.
@@stellaluna6421 But he's not giving design notes for the knife, he's giving them for the hot dog spiralizer. The point isn't to tell the audience "don't buy this if you're disabled," it's to point out ways the designer could improve the product in order to better cater to a disabled clientele.
@@flamemasterelan But there is a problem. He's essentially saying "this isn't helpful _because_ a knife works better" without acknowledging that no, a knife has many limitations that can't be easily overcome. It comes off as "just use a knife," which isn't actually helpful design advice. I mean, at the end of the day, hot dog spiralizing is probably a niche kitchen need, so it's probably not the most significant accessibility tool out there, but if he's going to compare products to their alternative, he should acknowledge the limitations of the traditional alternatives.
@@stellaluna6421 Yeah, no. You're comparing two different tests which have different criteria to pass. The first test is about whether or not it does a good job of replacing the the standard/normal method, and the second is specifically about whether or not the design is accessible to people with physical handicaps and mobility issues. You can pass the first and fail the second, and vice versa.
@@flamemasterelan I recognize that there are two different tests; I'm critiquing the first test because I think it can do better. I think that if you're asking the question: "how does this compare to the traditional method?" we should take into account that the traditional method may be inaccessible for people with dexterity issues, because the actual question the video currently asks is "Does the device do a good job replacing the standard/normal method _for able-bodied people?"_ If we ask "how does it compare to the traditional method?" I think we should recognize the second question hidden there: "For whom?" instead of assuming the answer (non-impaired users) and assuming everything's primary purpose should be to appeal to able-bodied users. If the device fails the first test because the "normal" method was considered universally accessible when it's not, that's a design flaw of our testing methods. I love that the second test asks whether the device itself is accessible. I just think that since the device may exist *primarily* for people who can't use the traditional method (e.g. small children, people with mobility/dexterity issues, etc), its existence as a safer alternative is key to its purpose. Its purpose might not be "make cutting hot dogs easier for able-bodied people," but "make hot dogs easier for people who struggle with dexterity." If that's the case, then failing to recognize that the traditional method might be unusable is a failure of the first test as a test of its comparable usability. The reason I bring this up is because the final score combines all the tests, and if something is a huge improvement over the inaccessible traditional method for disabled people but offers no specific benefit to able-bodied people, it'll be scored lower anyways and lower the overall score. It's the equivalent of "there's no real difference between stepping up onto the curb and having a curb cut (ramp) that you can roll up...because I can step up over a curb and assume that's just normal, therefore curb cuts offer no improvement over the traditional method." If you then test the curb cut and find that 'yes, it's accessible to disabled people or people with strollers!' and give it a good score on test 2, the overall score still takes a hit because test 1 sees the curb cut as pointless since it considers the thing's comparable use and worth _to an able-bodied user._ I guess I'm saying is that "able-bodied adult" is the unspoken control subject here, and it's nice that usability for disabled folks is considered, but it would be more inclusive if we considered a disabled control subject across the tests, especially when funky gadgets are involved, as they're most often marketed for kids and the elderly (often coordination-impaired). One person's "fine but unnecessary" may be someone else's "vital accessibility tool" but get ranked 3/5 stars anyways because person 1 is the expected audience and person 2 is an afterthought.
I love the proposed redesign element! It takes this from simply laughing at poorly designed items into something creative and maybe even inspiring for would-be inventors. Thanks!
I like ketchup on my hotdogs, and I still love this man. The way he tests gadgets combined with the left handed oil test for people with dexterity problems, it's just perfect. Keep up the good work Dan!
I think I would personally prefer making the burgers by hand like I have been doing. One thing to point out tho is that in my personal experience, beyond meat is actually a lot softer and stickier than regular meat. It may be the reason why it was such a messy experience. However... I also just dont think the burger press makes things easier in general.
The burger press makes it easier for me because I can't really touch meat because it grosses me out so much. With the press, I just scoop it in, form it and put it on a spatula, directly from the press. Another thing that is helpful for me is that the patties from the press are uniform. They need the same time to cook, they will definitely fit on the bun and they will look pleasant, which is also a big plus. Also if you can't use your hands that much to form the meat, they're probably great, especially if you want to make many burgers. They're also really easy to clean
@@bean2046 But there are other burger presses, in easily cleaned metal, that are much easier to use. Of course, they are not making the divet for filling the burger by default, but I suppose you could use a spoon for that.
It's probably meant to be used with meat that's fairly cold, I imagine that might help with the sticking issue. But I imagine that's not something your average casual cook would think of, and I bet Dan is also trying to illustrate the poor conveyance on the manufacturer's part as well.
I LOVE that you considered people with disabilities. I think many products are deemed unnecessary by a lot of people who forget that they could be a huge help to those with e.g. dexterity problems.
Are you from U.S.A? If you are can you answer me why y'all hotdogs looks depressed? I mean.. look at hotdogs from Rio de janeiro, Brazil. That's a amazing hotdog
Our hot dogs are ugly but it taste like heaven ingredients: -hotdog bread -Sausage -potato sticks -ketchup -quail egg -cheddar -Green sauce -raisin -everything you want
Yeah i didnt get that. If hes vegan how come he ate a hot dog? Funny that beyond meat is going bankrupt, i guess people werent afraid they wouldnt like it.
I know someone with extreme dexterity problems, weakeness in arms in particular cuz of sickness rather than old age. They really prefer to be independent when cooking and whatever as much as possible. I have a feeling they would prefer the crank tenderizer compared to the hammer. This person is also particularly prone to breaking their bones. The hammer is just too much for them lol. Perhaps feeding the chicken horizontally and vertically would be a good solution
Yay! Dan is back! I've been binging all of the 'Well Equipped' videos and finally saw all of them, so I'm really glad to see a new one. I wish there would at least be 2 episodes with Dan every month. As others have said, it would be neat for him to review/analyze one of the gadgets he designed in the past. The egg cuber looks like the only product worth buying, but only if you fit into the small niche who wants their hard boiled eggs cube-shaped. All the other products performed worse than regular items around the kitchen.
6:50 The living hinge makes cleanup a bit more awkward, yes, but it makes it impossible to separate the pieces, which is a good thing because a separate piece is just one nudge away from being a dropped piece, which is easily misplaced or stepped on by accident. I'd say it is an improvement in economy and preventing waste, over a hinge that can be disassembled, so the tradeoff with poorer usability is probably worth it.
The square egg tool was my Vietnamese Nanas favourite tool she got before her Dementia hit! She loved to put hard boiled eggs but sliced (like a tomato) into her soups so when she found that in a store she was immediately obsessed, she made hard boiled eggs for breakfast every morning after that and she loved to use it to make egg salad sandwiches too because she could make it with tons of tiny cubes. When we put her in a nursing home she demanded to bring it and so she would get them to microwave her an egg in it every morning. Seeing a video mentioning it made my day by reminding me of my little ol Nana loving it. I’d 10/10 recommend it because she loved it so much and it worked for years!
Started watching videos with this guy in it for the weird gadgets, now i find myself watching them out of genuine curiosity if the gadgets would be good for me as someone with dexterity issues. As time goes on i find myself needing products to assist me, or switching to things that dont come in squeeze tubes. His left-handed oil test is super helpful to see. I cant grip things well or do a pinch/twist motion without my hand cramping/paralyzing. So the clamp on that meat tenderizer would be impossible for me to use comfortably.
Do you have a facility in your city designed to support people like yourself? Where I live there's a place called the "independent living centre" that has a huge range of accessibility aids on display & they have OT's employed there to provide specific advice to people like us. OT's are worth their weight in gold on this stuff, but a specific centre that specialises in this stuff is even better, cause there's a huge range of readily available items out there, so much faster to test & compare than have an OT go though each issue independently. Tubes for example, there's a range of rollers & squishers available to suit a range of disabilities. I personally find the tiny caps tend to be more of a problem than the squeezing on those things. I'm liking the new trend of baby foods coming in squishy pouches, with large caps & they're actually high quality & able to be re-used & pressure cooked to sterilise too. Remember too that sometimes it's just more cost efficient to lose much of what's in the container than to buy more expensive disability friendly ones. So toothpaste, just put onto a bench & push down with the palm of the hand, once it reaches the point where no more is coming out doing that, just chuck it & buy a new one. I mean you can use weights etc on half of it to keep it pressed, then use palm on the remaining half to get more out of it & weight only needs to be applied once if the tube can live on the bench, but if the product doesn't cost a lot, I just see the waste as one of those "living with a disability is expensive" things Also, have you tried long nose pliers yet? Large/regular size ones, not the mini ones. I find them surprisingly easy to use for a lot of stuff, even things like small sewing repairs, no way I can hold a needle to do it, but with regular pliers I can. I stumbled onto that, attempting to use pliers for their purpose, not expecting to be able to & surprisingly I found I could use them & then found I could use them on a lot of other things too. I've lost track of how many pairs of them I have scattered around my home in various locations now lol. They're perfect for pinching/twisting difficulties, cause you can use larger/different muscles for the task when pliers are added into it
@@cecilialuiz9985 I’m not the person you asked, but OT means occupational therapy. It’s a fascinating and very patient-centered field of healthcare. OT can include helping people with special techniques and/or tools that better enable people to do activities like cooking, among many other things.
Dan seems like that person that makes you feel happy for being who you are,and being faithful to yourself,he is a kind soul and makes my soul happy ✨☁️ reminds me of my late grandma ✨
The "oiled non-dominant hand" bit was good, but you really should do a comparison with the "normal" method there as well, to see how much better the device is vs the standard method under those conditions. This is especially relevant given that many of these gadgets are really intended for folks with various conditions that can make the standard methods more difficult.
i feel like he should definitely try all of the control/manual non gadget tests with the oiled left hand as well. a lot of the gadgets aren’t great for regular use but may still be easier than the manual alternatives in the same situation for people with physical disabilities.
you need to remember that there's alternatives to a lot of those items for disabled people though, for example specialised handles on knives. & in reality, us disabled people already know our capacity with regular stuff, it's only the gadget being considered for purchase we don't know the accessibility of
@@mehere8038 i guess you’re correct from your experience, i was more speaking from watching how my father navigated neuropathy and partial blindness as a lot of these gadgets allowed him much more freedom in the kitchen
@@CommunityBlock I asked another person this, haven't got a reply yet, do you have a facility in your city that caters to the needs of people like your father? Where I live we have an "independent living centre" that is set up specifically to showcase all popular/available disability aids for each room of the house, kinda providing a one stop option for anyone newly dealing with a disability or change in disability to visit & actually touch & test all the various options in one place to see what's available & what works best for them. Not everyone knows this place exists though, so I don't know if similar doesn't exist where you/your Dad are, or if it does & you're just not aware of it. Definitely well worth looking up & hopefully visiting if you have one, if not, an OT consult is well worth it to find the best gadgets for your Dad. There's a LOT of stuff out there & it's OT's job to specifically know what is & recommend/prescribe the various things for their clients. There's a HUGE range of options out there & ways of using everyday stuff that cater to disabilities, for example I have polystyrene craft balls on all my pens, so that I have the capacity to use them, cause I can't use my finger tips, so they let me hold & control the pen with the palm of my hand. Specific disability stuff I have things like a trackball to replace a mouse/trackpad & of course there's a huge range of speech based software for computers, huge range of programs that read pages too for people like your Dad, either built in or add ons. If you haven't had a proper OT assessment with your Dad, you really should, makes SUCH a difference in life!
@@mehere8038 thank you ! that sounds like an amazing and life changing resource. sadly he either wasn’t aware of such a center or wasn’t open to visiting one, but he did find lots of digital accommodations to allow him to use his devices comfortably. he passed two years ago in august, but thank you for the information ! i’ll keep it in mind for anyone else i come to know who has to handle these things in the future. he would’ve loved an opportunity such as that.
@@CommunityBlock I'm sorry to hear he's passed :( Glad he did find tech at least, that makes such a difference to quality of life & information access! & yeh, for anyone in that situation, something like the independent living centre, or easier option for someone you're not close to is probably just to make sure they know that OT's (occupational therapists) job is specifically to find options to allow people to undertake tasks that disability/differences in their body mean they can't easily do with normal stuff. Physios job is to try to help the person's body to adapt to tech, OT's job is to find the tech that adapts to the person's body. Some people think OT's are only for workplaces & so miss this valuable resource, but they're worth their weight in gold! The pen thing is a classic example, would never have occurred to me, but to the OT, that was just bread & butter when she knew I was having trouble writing, to bring along a range of options, from ones normally used for kids learning to write, to items like the polystyrene craft ball, that she stuck one of my pens through in front of me & said "try this", I did & while it was slightly awkward to start with, it was immediately apparent that my writing was far more readable with that added. A basic $5 packet of 8 balls & all of a sudden I had pens of all colours, in all rooms of my house that I could actually use! (I bought the packet myself after her session, cause that way I could test the different sizes available in the craft store & see which one was best for me. That's how she did stuff, presented the idea & then encouraged me to fine tune it & take responsibility for obtaining what I needed to make sure I was fully independent :)) I definitely support recommending them to anyone with any difficulties with anything - and they will know about local resources like an independent living centre in the local area too
I can see that spiralizer for hot dogs being good if you're cranking out a bunch of them at a cookout where you want to impress people by giving them extra room in their buns for condiments, you'll also inadvertently have less food waste because people will use a little extra I can't imagine the stress that it would be to spiralize 100 hot dogs for a cookout, for instance by hand
The hot dog gadget should have gotten a higher rating. I love this guy, but if you considered using it for mass prep. in a local fast food setting, it's probably a life saver! Ex: Putting skewers in 200 hot dogs and then spiraling 200 hot dogs versus just using a knife. Awesome video tho!
@@vjhreeves Slicing hotdog grooves is more to make cooking the hotdogs easier, since you're opening up more of the hotdog's interior to the heat. I think Setsu's point is that if you were to be cooking lots of hotdogs on a skewer, the Curl-A-Dog would be faster, more consistent, and safer compared to slicing each individual hotdog with a knife.
Cleanability/cleanup really needs to be a section of its own. So important for any product. Maybe you save time doing the function, but what's the point if cleanup takes three times as long.
1) the instructions for the burger stuffer specifically say to put cooking spray on it and it comes with wax paper inserts to further help with separation 2) using a device meant for meat with a patty distinctly not made of meat is about as good a test as trying to use peanut butter in it. It’s just not equivalent.
I personally don't have dexterity issues for the most part but I absolutely adore that you take people with disabilities into account while making reviews. Very thoughtful, very niiiiiice.
I like that part of his criteria takes into account dexterity issues for people, my use of my hands fluctuates on an hourly basis depending on how much muscle pain or fatigue I'm experiencing at the moment and have multiple different things to help me with that issue but some things really dont work for a large range of things, my favourite thing for opening jars is very limited on the size of jar it can open which leaves me just flat out unable to open somethings on certain days because I just cant grip hard enough to get anything moving small lids and round lids are the bane of my existence especially small ones even if they have a texture if its small its a toss up of if I'll be able to open it or not
Shouldn't the traditional method also be tested with an oiled left hand? I think that the paring knife with an oiled left hand on the hot dog could have gone much worse than the invention did.
I don’t think they necessarily need to be. A lot of the products that he tests are accessibility products that are marketed to the general populous to generate more revenue. Therefore it is a useful test to see if it can (at a surface level) help people with lower dexterity. I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that using a knife cannot be dangerous for people with lowered dexterity. However, if the product designed to replace that knife cannot be operated by those people, that product needs to be redesigned
Cutting a hotdog really doesn't need much strength. So I wouldn't think that it would be a big deal with an oily left hand. Sadly I can't test it because of three reasons: I am ambidextrous, I don't want to oil my hands and I am vegan. So maybe someone else is willing to test it 🤣
I don't use a paring knife, I use a super sharp Chinese meat cleaver for tasks like that, along with rolling motions on a fixed chopping board & I already know how my current disability options for the task work, I don't need for him to demonstrate them for me, it's only the new product I need to know if I'm wasting my money to buy or not
@@mehere8038 i mean sure we all know what we can and cant do, but he so often judges it based on 'i think the traditional way is easier' so its a buy rating of 1-2/5. I dont think he takes into consideration so many of these are actually made for people who need the help and they're often still a better option than a dangerous knife in a hand prone to slipping 😭
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That egg cuber should be a great choice for making canned eggs, or for food decoration. It would be amazing if it had other sizes, like a size for quail eggs
@@slikskils1603, that's quite rude, denying weaker people access to cooking themselves proper food. You know of momentum, Newton's laws, etc? School physics. A person can have issues swinging a f-ing mallet and no issues using a knife. You know, that sharp thing which you put directly on a thing you want to cut and slice without swinging it around.
Also, people should remember that mallets require both repetition and strength to be effective, whereas the tenderizer only needs you to slowly turn a crank to do the same thing. For older people or physically-handicapped people who may not have the strength to make the mallet effective or safe, or have difficulty performing repetitive motion due to weaker joints, the tenderizer is a safer deal.
I like that you pointed out the egg cuber’s use to creative types, I immediately started thinking of creative plating applications for thin square slices of boiled egg
A good design idea for the burger presser would to make the top piece have a button that could change it from divot mode to press mode, and then it would only be 2 pieces.
The eye for usability for a disabled audience shows a good understanding of why these gadgets exist in the first place. Mr.Tenderizer seems a bit silly to someone with enough arm strength and muscle control to swing a meat mallet accuratly, but could be a very large help for someone, like you said, with dexterity issues. So huge ups for not overlooking groups of people so often overlooked.
Honestly, on the first item, I think the tray sliding is intentional because you can align the tray at the end and it moves with the piece of meat you are tenderizing so it fall dead center.
One point I like about Mr Tenderizer is that it doesn't spray raw poultry juice and salmonella around your kitchen, like a mallet does. If I was in a restaurant and concerned about my A rating, I'd go with Mr Tenderizer.
If you were in a restaurant you wouldn't use this either. You'd get something electric, size and type varying on how much meat you need to mechanically tenderize. But the mallet is a great tool for home cooks, just need a bit of plastic wrap to stop the juices from splattering. But if I were a professional and only had a choice between Mr Tenderizer and a mallet, I'd go with the mallet, since you can actually control how thin you want to pound it out.
@@Magrijack I've read "cover the kitchen in something like plastic wrap" and was wondering how much time and plastic wrap you spend to tenderize chicken
Making a sample of his design would be really expensive! You make up those costs in doing large scale production for much cheaper later on but making just ONE of something is a very high expense
I think it would be cool if he polled his audience to see which redesigned gadgets they’d wanna see in real life and do a big video on it where they make the products real
I would challenge you to do the oiled left hand test for the alternative method too. Some of these seem like they would be a huge help even as is to someone with dexterity issues
Honestly I don't see the Mister Tenderizer as something for a neurotyical, but for someone who might not have the capability to use a mallet properly. I love how he iterated on the design though!
As someone who is neurodivergent, I agree with this. It would save a lot of wincing and pain from the sound of a mallet. Even with earplugs, it's definitely something I'm never looking forward to.
The hot dog and egg devices seem like fun ways to include young children in kitchen activities. I also wonder if the burger press didn't need to be oiled before use to prevent sticking (especially with notoriously sticky Beyond(C) meat).
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After his review, I'm not quite sure anyone would XD
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Let me see if I caught you, did you say not to the catch?
on the tenderizer if they made the pieces out of metal and then added basically like a screw on both sides then you could raise and lower each of the metal rollers to the desired height
cubed double eggs my dad is going to have an amazing present now and you could probably even put just even more egg custard or whatever the on it oh my God I'm getting it
I believe the egg cuber was originally made for the Japanese market so you could put a boiled egg in a bento box without wasting any space.
made for, or possibly at least inspired by.
That makes a lot of sense.
The Egg Cuber would be a lot better if it allowed to do more eggs at once.
@@BComet or if it came with an extra for quail eggs.
wow never thought about that, thank you for that thought. makes a lot of sense now, always wondered what would be the point of it
I trust this guy. Not only did he immediately spot why the tenderizer was flawed, he actually tasted the food afterwards. I give him a 5/5 in Effectiveness and Watch Rating.
He also knows that ketchup is an inferior condiment. If you need a tomato based one, use a1 or other steak sauce at least.
@@zuludude2 I only have one use for ketchup as a condiment, and that's on corndogs. It's the only place it tastes right.
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@@zuludude2 you really just said a1 sauce? Thats like the crappiest sauce on the market catered to Americans that can't season their food and have awful taste buds
@@zuludude2 sorry not sorry, i like hot dogs with ketchup
I wonder if after years of doing the left handed oil test his left hand dexterity has improved...
I'd bet it has. I 'needed' to keep using my right hand for arrow keys when the mouse became popular years ago. I learned to use it with my left. Now years later, I can even write with both.
I also ask myself that. I bet it's not as good as a test for usability as it used to be, since he's dexterity probably improved.
I broke my right hand when I was 17, and it took about a year before I could really use it again. I had to learn to do everything with my left hand, and it just stuck. I'd consider myself capably ambidextrous at this point, and it was one of the better "terrible" things that ever happened to me!
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mine did from working with tools every day.
As someone who has significant dexterity issues, I have never heard of the left handed oil test and while I think it’s probably not the best comparison, I really appreciate that any thought is given to accessibility at all. Most of the time disabled people are given little to no consideration at all.
They should have made him do it with oily offhand after standing in a walk-in freezer for 30 minutes. No jacket.
That would be a far better loss of dexterity.
@@ObservationofLimits that wouldnt make sense anymore, since at this point you cant even do the easiest things anymore. And at that point its not the products "fault"
@benjai that's seriously harmful. industrial walk in freezers can be ridiculously cold. some of them could possibly even kill you from hypothermia within that time
Agreed! Me and my arthritic lil fingers felt so seen~😭😭
@@baadlyrics8705 It would actually make a lot of sense because a lot of the "As seen on TV" labor-saving gadgets are aimed at a disabled audience (especially elderly people), even if the marketing is ambiguous. If your normal mobility is such that you can't do "the easiest things," as the freezer test imitates, you are much more likely to rely on gadgets like these. So the product is absolutely "at fault" in some degree if it can't meet the needs of its target audience.
Lots of things that seem on the surface to be aimed at lazy people are actually accommodations for people with mobility limitations, like no-spill microwave plate-grabbers or fridge milk-pourers. Cutting can be an especially challenging area of food preparation for people with mobility impairments or joint pain, so making sure a product can be used even with very stiff limbs is really useful.
(that said, I do recognize that an actual freezer test is likely dangerous for the tester and not likely to be used. the solution to me is to have more disabled testers and designers :) )
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I love that Dan does a test with his left hand and oil. I have dexterity issues due to a work injury and a lot of "helpful" kitchen gadgets are hard for me to use. Jar twisters are great in concept but when you don't have the necessary strength to actually grip them, it becomes yet another useless waste of money.
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Get actual jar openers. They're oddly hard to find now.
"If you're tired of egg-shaped eggs, this is the thing you need" absolutely needs to be on the commercials for the egg cuber
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Now use some food coloring to paint them to look like dice and it could look cool on some gamers smorgasbord.
The cubed eggs would make cool deviled eggs.
I'm wondering what the egg yolk looks like now :D
The tenderizer would be a nightmare to clean vs. a mallet.
I would hope it's diswasher safe.
I mean...like...How hard is it to use a mallet?
@@funky_tree Some people have muscle problems that can make them pretty weak, so maybe that's the idea behind the product existing? Like maybe there are people who actually can't use a mallet? I have no idea though.
@@yinyang3681 they don’t deserve chicken
@@jxavier3876 I don't know who you're referring to, so I didn't want to make any assumptions. BUT, if you're saying people with muscular disabilities don't deserve chicken, then you don't deserve chicken either, you deserve a mallet to the head. ~signed a person who's amazing father has physical disabilities.
My grandmother had the egg cuber. When I stayed at her house as a little kid I would make the square eggs using the cuber after she had boiled them (I did not leave them for 20 minutes. Maybe 5 or so. Little kid attention span isn't that long). It was the coolest thing ever and it was the only way I ever wanted to eat hard-boiled eggs. Get it if you want your kids involved in the kitchen. Things that make cooking fun for kids are good.
That was a cute anecdote! And egg cubers are pretty cool. It's always good to find ways to interest kids to get involved in the kitchen and other important life skills.
It seems like they would be really great for deviled eggs, so they would lay flat and you wouldn't have to worry about them toppling off the tray, or getting jostled around and spilling their guts.
I see egg cubers as a great product for perfectionists who want the sliced eggs to be perfectly squared within sandwiches.
The egg cuber is honestly something I'd love to have. I usually like to thinly slice my hard boiled eggs for sandwiches and when it's the regular shape I'm always left with parts that are all white or uneven! The egg cuber definitely fixed that. So that's an extra use for it.
You'll still have two all-white sides, now they'll just be larger.
First world problems.
@@sycoticpsycho but I actually live in Algerian, which is in Africa, which is quite literally as third world as it gets 😂
@@didiervanhessen577 it's definitely more about the shape and not the white aides.
@@samipenicho Understandable
The curl a dog is something you can have little kids use, compared to a knife. Bonus points for that.
"Man bites dog" - You got me with that one.
Great video.
shout out to the person doing all the gadget illustrations, you absolutely don't have to be going as hard as you do
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I've been watching this series for years and I only just now noticed them because of your comment, so you are very right, lol.
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One aspect I'd love to see analyzed is that of food safety; how easily can you use, re-use, and clean each product without contaminating the surfaces of the device and the surrounding food preparation area?
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yeah, i highly doubt that the plastic these products use is nonporous
I thought a lot about that with that raw chicken.
A plastic surface are easy enough to clean if it only hold liquids but well I seen scratches on things ghat is worrisome. Also be careful about hot liquids in plastic containers, some plastics well release unhealthy chemical into the liquid.
@@maggiehanson0413 Exactly. As with most gadgets, the setup, storage space etc. is not worth it.
And unless you are feeding an army with chicken, and use his improvements, getting the Salmonella off that thing is definitely not worth it.
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@@shravan1005 emotional face, think like QwQ
@@shannonsuryaatmadja2738 oh ok i think its because im on a lower version of android or smth lile that
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There are egg cubbers that are animal molds too. It’s mostly intended for bento boxes I assume and making it nicer. There’s a heart one that makes cool heart cuts it extra show and also space saver if it’s square
I would love to see the lefthanded oil test used on the conventional methods as well, as that may be where the gadgets are useful or labor-saving. When using a non-dominant hand covered in oil, choosing between using a knife to cut a spiral in a hot dog and a device that you just press down on, I think I'd choose the spiralizer over the knife because it requires a lot less dexterity.
Exactly what I was thinking
I just googled Dan Formosa (after seeing all his videos and being curious about his own inventions, why not?) and wow, this guy's reach is impressive. Ford Motor Company, OXO, Sirius XM, basically anything you may have in your home
Love me alot of oxo products they generally reasonably priced and fairly well made. Not always but often.
Indeed! So cool!
The apple tablet before the ipad....
I just did the same, thanks to your comment and I realized he was involved in designing one of the toothbrushes I had when I was a kid, a green and purple Reach Wonder Grip toothbrush I had in the 90's, wow!
You see those little bumps on the home keys on your keyboard? Yeab Dan Formosa is the reason those exist.
Dan is the only reason why I'm subbed to this channel,
though they only let him out of his cage once a month to do a video.
I wish this was a weekly series.
I got you bro, i did the same 😅
Same
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I think the main reason for that is that theres only soo much unique looking kitchen gadgets, i mean for example lets say we would have cake cutters this week. I can buy approx 4 different ones from the nearby stores but they are only different by brand as i get 3 copies/variants of something Dan already tested and 1 knife.
Same
im in love with this guys energy. he seems like the really fun science teacher you had in middle/high school.
What an amazing person to have on the show. Please ask him to do more. I'd watch an entire series of this if he's hosting
They actually have a pretty huge series on here. Check it out
My family loves stuffed burgers, and I've debated getting one of those presses for a while Because It Never Occurred to Me to Use a Rocks Glass. Dan isn't just improving products, he's dropping life hacks. My hat is off!
I've read in the comments that the burger stuffer actually works great with meat. They did not give the device a fair chance.
@@thaliacrafts407 I can't speak for Dan or his process, but I can tell you that I have made burgers like this since the video came out, and using the bottom of a glass worked great! The burger press may be a very good product, but having been presented an option which effectively free and doesn't require me to find space for another tool in my kitchen it's a pretty hard sell.
The burger press literally is like five steps it's not that difficult to use I think it is a inventor and engineer he might have been overthinking and over processing the idea he overcomplicated it it really is a simple and amazing Gadget I own two of them. Literally all you have to do is spray a little bit cooking spray on the inside put your hamburger in press down make the divot the first time put your stuffing in put another layer of burger and then flatten and then remove and the cooking spray releases the meat it's extremely easy
I wonder if he considers the usability test for the alternative too. It seems like the left handed oil test for the paring knife and hot dog could be a bit dangerous, which would be extra points for the spiralizer for anyone with dexterity issues
I mean ideally yes, but he cant test that properly its just to help with design flaws, what he needs to really vet it out is someone who is one handed or like me doesn't use their right hand because of the chronic pain I have, while I could hold a knife and swirl a hotdog it would cause pain, I dont think the hotdog curler would solve that issue I have but it would make it a better process, I would still need to skewer each dog lol maybe just use it without a skewer.
But with his redesign often times he suggests circles should be lumpy for grip but that's rarely helpful in my opinion because now its lumpy but made of the same slippery materials, so handles sticking off a bit for leverage is more useful.
Because these tools are often made with the intent to make a given task easier, and thus beneficial to people for whom it's already obvious they wouldn't easily be able to use a knife or something.
We already know how using a knife with a slippery hand would go - the purpose of the test is to see if the product is ACTUALLY easier to operate under such conditions versus what it's attempting to replace.
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Agreed!
@@chimpaflimp One reason why they often fail is that they need to be sturdier, less complicated and easier to clean. I also strongly suspect that there are commercially avalible things for thease functions but you do not often see them in people's homes but in large scale kitchens. I suspect theaee to be expensive thou but if you need to tenderise hundreds of loafs of meat it may be worth it.
For the tenderizer, don't just count the seconds it takes to tenderize the meat, also count the time it takes to set up the device.. I mean, you're not going to keep that thing clamped to your countertop all the time. Also, cleaning that thing takes so much longer than the mallet.
But it might be a lot easier to find than a mallet, which is smaller and easier to get lost.
@@jasperj.d.g.4147 You don't put your tools back in the same place..? Also of all tools in the kitchen, a mallet is not the thing I think if first when thinking of things that easily get lost. XD
@@RoloFilms I live with other people who don't lmao
@@RoloFilms my roommate put it in the shed ones. He thought it was a just a weird hammer.
@@jasperj.d.g.4147 Good luck finding the O-ring.
Mallet is one big piece. The gadget-thingy is 10 or so pieces (and you have to take all the pieces apart to clean it)
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I have an egg cuber. My cap has "flat" sides that help with grip. I never grab the plunger to pull it out, but always push from the bottom. It's so much fun! Yes, storage is great, but the look on people's faces when I put out square eggs: priceless!! My only thing: wish I had two, so I can cube faster!
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The Chicago style hot dog has mustard, sliced tomatoes, a dill pickle spear, celery salt, sweet pickle relish (preferably dyed "kryptonite green") and sport peppers (similar to serranos) -- these are often left out. No ketchup.
@@johnhobson9165 wasnt it a crime to put ketchup on a Chicago dog ? Some people told me that
@@henrycooper3431 Not a crime, but socially unacceptable. Along the lines of performing Black Masses or admiring Rod Blagojevich.
The cubed egg device could be fun to make like dice shaped egg appetizer for theme parties such as Vegas night. Put some capers as the cube dots. Or make egg salads.
Cut black olives in small dots and put on the egg as dice numbers 🤣🤣🤣
Dice was what I immediately thought of too
The square egg "thing" is awesome. One of my aunts had it and in Christmas we had "dice" eggs with pepper corns to make the numbers. It was amazing.
that’s stellar
For your stufz burger press test it is important to remember that beyond burger meat does not act the same as regular burger meat, so it is hard to truly test its effectiveness with its true purpose
I really want one of these where it’s just ordinary objects. “I like how this spoon has a little bowl at the end to contain liquid foods, but let’s see if we can get some improvements with the redesign”. “This $10 bread knife did cut the bread but it felt a little out of control with the left handed oil test.”
I almost wonder if the egg cuber might work well for people with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (arfid). I've seen some people say that foods that don't look like food (ie pearl shaped pasta cooked in colored water so it looks like fishtank gravel) works well for them as a food they can eat. Maybe a cube shaped egg would work because it doesn't look like an egg
And it might help with picky eaters as well, at least some of them are easier to convince to eat with fun-looking food (eg. square eggs, purple potatoes)
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Probably so. If you eat a lot of hard boiled/deviled eggs it would be worth it. I don't, but I still kinda want one. And you could probably shape other things with it, not just eggs.
@@scouttyra I'm a fan of purple vegetables. Purple broccoli, purple cauliflower, purple green beans (purple beans?). Heck, even purple cabbage. It's all great.
@@scouttyra imagine being an adult picky eater
This is the only guy I trust in kitchen gadgets reviews, this is one of my favourite RUclips videos, I always check to see if he posted something new.
We are the exact same way! I love this series so much, Dan has a great eye for what works. Would love to see a series of him revising some of his old designs.
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In terms of effectiveness I give this man a 5/5, really trustworthy opinions and tests. In terms of usability I've got to give this man a 5/5 helpful reviews that I can use if I want to buy these products. In terms of a buy rating I'd give this man a 5/5 because that's a nice shirt lol
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It’s time to put Dan through the left-handed oil test
14:07 "[the burger is] not a hotdog so ketchup is ok", I ask you what person can resist the smell of a snag, fresh off the barbie betwixt white bread topped off with tomato sauce? not someone I would trust.
I think for the burger stuffer, maybe lightly oiling it before use would help against sticking.
I don't think you need any tools at all... just use your hand?
It is because he is using meat substitute
@@realretrorelapse I don't think actual meat would fare any better, if it sticks it's not gonna want to not stick to a really similar substance in terms of texture
I had one of those, nothing helps, is really a mess
I think something that's often overlooked with these kind of product is: How often will I use it and how much space does it take away.
I really like the end-to-end testing. Going beyond a visual test, cooking then tasting the two-chicken breasts and same for the other products tested. This makes it for a quality and reliable test.
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@Ori Artman - Mr Formosa occasionally mentions storage and sometimes re-designing to make storage better, but does not often mention cleaning the gadgets. He should explore that more.
The graphics department deserves a big thumbs up for these videos
Yes but at 6:35 they used the wrong graphic. Only a medium thumbs up for them
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Get this man his own tv show on the busiest hour of television. He’ll make us watch for hours
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As someone with mobility difficulties I really appreciate the thought he puts into the usability rating.
LOVE the left-handed oil test. I'm left-handed and product designers never take us into account (think can openers, scissors, gas pumps, power tools, etc.)
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The burger stuffer would have probably worked better with real burger. The beyond stuff looks sticky. I still feel like it would be orders of magnitude easier to do it by hand.
I think that was by design, they tried using it with something that would be difficult to do it with to see if it works. A pressure test, if you will. Like the left handed oil thing, but with the food itself.
I said the same thing, the texture is entirely different so it's not very fair to rate the device based on that imo
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As someone who has this gadget I have zero qualms with real meat
@@nahadoth2087 it just doesn't represent the majority, imo
I have a few family members that are engineers and boy do I love how he goes to the drawings board to "fix" anything that can be improved in it. Can't believe that this series isn't 1million few or close to since this is a gem.
“Mr. Tenderizer” would be a pain to clean compared to a tenderizing hammer.
But the name…. You can’t deny that
I'm always curious about what the control test would look like if he repeated it with the left hand oil test, since I feel like a lot of these gadgets would be safer and easier for someone with dexterity issues to use than a chef's knife for example. In my own kitchen I prefer just using a knife over any gadgets because it's much easier to clean, has many uses, and only takes up a small amount of space, but knives can be super dangerous and if I had kids or limited use of my hands I'd definitely want to pick up some good kitchen gadgets.
Yes! If you coated my non-dominant hand with oil then asked me if I wanted to use the knife or the hot dog spiralizer, I'd feel a lot more comfortable with the spiralizer! It's fantastic that he considers the devices' accessibility to people with mobility impairments, but he doesn't seem to consider the limitations of the traditional method when evaluating the devices' comparative usefulness.
@@stellaluna6421 But he's not giving design notes for the knife, he's giving them for the hot dog spiralizer. The point isn't to tell the audience "don't buy this if you're disabled," it's to point out ways the designer could improve the product in order to better cater to a disabled clientele.
@@flamemasterelan But there is a problem. He's essentially saying "this isn't helpful _because_ a knife works better" without acknowledging that no, a knife has many limitations that can't be easily overcome. It comes off as "just use a knife," which isn't actually helpful design advice. I mean, at the end of the day, hot dog spiralizing is probably a niche kitchen need, so it's probably not the most significant accessibility tool out there, but if he's going to compare products to their alternative, he should acknowledge the limitations of the traditional alternatives.
@@stellaluna6421 Yeah, no. You're comparing two different tests which have different criteria to pass. The first test is about whether or not it does a good job of replacing the the standard/normal method, and the second is specifically about whether or not the design is accessible to people with physical handicaps and mobility issues. You can pass the first and fail the second, and vice versa.
@@flamemasterelan I recognize that there are two different tests; I'm critiquing the first test because I think it can do better. I think that if you're asking the question: "how does this compare to the traditional method?" we should take into account that the traditional method may be inaccessible for people with dexterity issues, because the actual question the video currently asks is "Does the device do a good job replacing the standard/normal method _for able-bodied people?"_
If we ask "how does it compare to the traditional method?" I think we should recognize the second question hidden there: "For whom?" instead of assuming the answer (non-impaired users) and assuming everything's primary purpose should be to appeal to able-bodied users. If the device fails the first test because the "normal" method was considered universally accessible when it's not, that's a design flaw of our testing methods.
I love that the second test asks whether the device itself is accessible. I just think that since the device may exist *primarily* for people who can't use the traditional method (e.g. small children, people with mobility/dexterity issues, etc), its existence as a safer alternative is key to its purpose. Its purpose might not be "make cutting hot dogs easier for able-bodied people," but "make hot dogs easier for people who struggle with dexterity." If that's the case, then failing to recognize that the traditional method might be unusable is a failure of the first test as a test of its comparable usability.
The reason I bring this up is because the final score combines all the tests, and if something is a huge improvement over the inaccessible traditional method for disabled people but offers no specific benefit to able-bodied people, it'll be scored lower anyways and lower the overall score. It's the equivalent of "there's no real difference between stepping up onto the curb and having a curb cut (ramp) that you can roll up...because I can step up over a curb and assume that's just normal, therefore curb cuts offer no improvement over the traditional method." If you then test the curb cut and find that 'yes, it's accessible to disabled people or people with strollers!' and give it a good score on test 2, the overall score still takes a hit because test 1 sees the curb cut as pointless since it considers the thing's comparable use and worth _to an able-bodied user._
I guess I'm saying is that "able-bodied adult" is the unspoken control subject here, and it's nice that usability for disabled folks is considered, but it would be more inclusive if we considered a disabled control subject across the tests, especially when funky gadgets are involved, as they're most often marketed for kids and the elderly (often coordination-impaired). One person's "fine but unnecessary" may be someone else's "vital accessibility tool" but get ranked 3/5 stars anyways because person 1 is the expected audience and person 2 is an afterthought.
Definitely the most fun of all the presenters on Epicurious. This man should have his own TV show.
I love the proposed redesign element! It takes this from simply laughing at poorly designed items into something creative and maybe even inspiring for would-be inventors. Thanks!
I like ketchup on my hotdogs, and I still love this man. The way he tests gadgets combined with the left handed oil test for people with dexterity problems, it's just perfect. Keep up the good work Dan!
The fact he used the world's shittiest mustard didn't help me agree with his ketchup comment lol.
@@jabblock5433 You from Chicago or somethin??? Ketchup goes on a glizzy…
@@nikobuerk346 no it doesnt
I think I would personally prefer making the burgers by hand like I have been doing. One thing to point out tho is that in my personal experience, beyond meat is actually a lot softer and stickier than regular meat. It may be the reason why it was such a messy experience. However... I also just dont think the burger press makes things easier in general.
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The burger press makes it easier for me because I can't really touch meat because it grosses me out so much. With the press, I just scoop it in, form it and put it on a spatula, directly from the press. Another thing that is helpful for me is that the patties from the press are uniform. They need the same time to cook, they will definitely fit on the bun and they will look pleasant, which is also a big plus. Also if you can't use your hands that much to form the meat, they're probably great, especially if you want to make many burgers. They're also really easy to clean
@@bean2046 I havnt thought of that, you make a very good point. im glad you found something that helps you with things like that.
@@bean2046 But there are other burger presses, in easily cleaned metal, that are much easier to use. Of course, they are not making the divet for filling the burger by default, but I suppose you could use a spoon for that.
It's probably meant to be used with meat that's fairly cold, I imagine that might help with the sticking issue.
But I imagine that's not something your average casual cook would think of, and I bet Dan is also trying to illustrate the poor conveyance on the manufacturer's part as well.
I LOVE that you considered people with disabilities. I think many products are deemed unnecessary by a lot of people who forget that they could be a huge help to those with e.g. dexterity problems.
I feel like the burger test was awful because you're using beyond meat and it's lacking the oils from the fat to release it from the mold.
That’s the exact reason I thought the burger press test a pretty unfair
Are you from U.S.A? If you are can you answer me why y'all hotdogs looks depressed?
I mean.. look at hotdogs from Rio de janeiro, Brazil.
That's a amazing hotdog
Our hot dogs are ugly but it taste like heaven
ingredients:
-hotdog bread
-Sausage
-potato sticks
-ketchup
-quail egg
-cheddar
-Green sauce
-raisin
-everything you want
I have that thing and it works pretty fine with real meat. You have to fiddle a bit but it works quite nice. Jalapeno and blue cheese is my fave
Yeah i didnt get that. If hes vegan how come he ate a hot dog? Funny that beyond meat is going bankrupt, i guess people werent afraid they wouldnt like it.
I wish I was as passionate about anything as Dan is about ketchup on hot dogs
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I know someone with extreme dexterity problems, weakeness in arms in particular cuz of sickness rather than old age. They really prefer to be independent when cooking and whatever as much as possible. I have a feeling they would prefer the crank tenderizer compared to the hammer. This person is also particularly prone to breaking their bones. The hammer is just too much for them lol. Perhaps feeding the chicken horizontally and vertically would be a good solution
Yay! Dan is back! I've been binging all of the 'Well Equipped' videos and finally saw all of them, so I'm really glad to see a new one. I wish there would at least be 2 episodes with Dan every month. As others have said, it would be neat for him to review/analyze one of the gadgets he designed in the past.
The egg cuber looks like the only product worth buying, but only if you fit into the small niche who wants their hard boiled eggs cube-shaped. All the other products performed worse than regular items around the kitchen.
6:50 The living hinge makes cleanup a bit more awkward, yes, but it makes it impossible to separate the pieces, which is a good thing because a separate piece is just one nudge away from being a dropped piece, which is easily misplaced or stepped on by accident. I'd say it is an improvement in economy and preventing waste, over a hinge that can be disassembled, so the tradeoff with poorer usability is probably worth it.
There was a product very similar to his redesign on another video and from memory he didn’t really like it
The square egg tool was my Vietnamese Nanas favourite tool she got before her Dementia hit! She loved to put hard boiled eggs but sliced (like a tomato) into her soups so when she found that in a store she was immediately obsessed, she made hard boiled eggs for breakfast every morning after that and she loved to use it to make egg salad sandwiches too because she could make it with tons of tiny cubes. When we put her in a nursing home she demanded to bring it and so she would get them to microwave her an egg in it every morning. Seeing a video mentioning it made my day by reminding me of my little ol Nana loving it. I’d 10/10 recommend it because she loved it so much and it worked for years!
Started watching videos with this guy in it for the weird gadgets, now i find myself watching them out of genuine curiosity if the gadgets would be good for me as someone with dexterity issues. As time goes on i find myself needing products to assist me, or switching to things that dont come in squeeze tubes. His left-handed oil test is super helpful to see. I cant grip things well or do a pinch/twist motion without my hand cramping/paralyzing. So the clamp on that meat tenderizer would be impossible for me to use comfortably.
Do you have a facility in your city designed to support people like yourself? Where I live there's a place called the "independent living centre" that has a huge range of accessibility aids on display & they have OT's employed there to provide specific advice to people like us. OT's are worth their weight in gold on this stuff, but a specific centre that specialises in this stuff is even better, cause there's a huge range of readily available items out there, so much faster to test & compare than have an OT go though each issue independently. Tubes for example, there's a range of rollers & squishers available to suit a range of disabilities. I personally find the tiny caps tend to be more of a problem than the squeezing on those things. I'm liking the new trend of baby foods coming in squishy pouches, with large caps & they're actually high quality & able to be re-used & pressure cooked to sterilise too. Remember too that sometimes it's just more cost efficient to lose much of what's in the container than to buy more expensive disability friendly ones. So toothpaste, just put onto a bench & push down with the palm of the hand, once it reaches the point where no more is coming out doing that, just chuck it & buy a new one. I mean you can use weights etc on half of it to keep it pressed, then use palm on the remaining half to get more out of it & weight only needs to be applied once if the tube can live on the bench, but if the product doesn't cost a lot, I just see the waste as one of those "living with a disability is expensive" things
Also, have you tried long nose pliers yet? Large/regular size ones, not the mini ones. I find them surprisingly easy to use for a lot of stuff, even things like small sewing repairs, no way I can hold a needle to do it, but with regular pliers I can. I stumbled onto that, attempting to use pliers for their purpose, not expecting to be able to & surprisingly I found I could use them & then found I could use them on a lot of other things too. I've lost track of how many pairs of them I have scattered around my home in various locations now lol. They're perfect for pinching/twisting difficulties, cause you can use larger/different muscles for the task when pliers are added into it
@@mehere8038 hi! This may be a stupid question but what do you mean by OT?
@@cecilialuiz9985 I’m not the person you asked, but OT means occupational therapy. It’s a fascinating and very patient-centered field of healthcare. OT can include helping people with special techniques and/or tools that better enable people to do activities like cooking, among many other things.
Dan seems like that person that makes you feel happy for being who you are,and being faithful to yourself,he is a kind soul and makes my soul happy ✨☁️ reminds me of my late grandma ✨
Can we ghave more of him PLEASE??? I love his personality so much! I hope i can watch his videos regularly
The "oiled non-dominant hand" bit was good, but you really should do a comparison with the "normal" method there as well, to see how much better the device is vs the standard method under those conditions. This is especially relevant given that many of these gadgets are really intended for folks with various conditions that can make the standard methods more difficult.
i feel like he should definitely try all of the control/manual non gadget tests with the oiled left hand as well. a lot of the gadgets aren’t great for regular use but may still be easier than the manual alternatives in the same situation for people with physical disabilities.
you need to remember that there's alternatives to a lot of those items for disabled people though, for example specialised handles on knives. & in reality, us disabled people already know our capacity with regular stuff, it's only the gadget being considered for purchase we don't know the accessibility of
@@mehere8038 i guess you’re correct from your experience, i was more speaking from watching how my father navigated neuropathy and partial blindness as a lot of these gadgets allowed him much more freedom in the kitchen
@@CommunityBlock I asked another person this, haven't got a reply yet, do you have a facility in your city that caters to the needs of people like your father? Where I live we have an "independent living centre" that is set up specifically to showcase all popular/available disability aids for each room of the house, kinda providing a one stop option for anyone newly dealing with a disability or change in disability to visit & actually touch & test all the various options in one place to see what's available & what works best for them. Not everyone knows this place exists though, so I don't know if similar doesn't exist where you/your Dad are, or if it does & you're just not aware of it.
Definitely well worth looking up & hopefully visiting if you have one, if not, an OT consult is well worth it to find the best gadgets for your Dad. There's a LOT of stuff out there & it's OT's job to specifically know what is & recommend/prescribe the various things for their clients. There's a HUGE range of options out there & ways of using everyday stuff that cater to disabilities, for example I have polystyrene craft balls on all my pens, so that I have the capacity to use them, cause I can't use my finger tips, so they let me hold & control the pen with the palm of my hand. Specific disability stuff I have things like a trackball to replace a mouse/trackpad & of course there's a huge range of speech based software for computers, huge range of programs that read pages too for people like your Dad, either built in or add ons.
If you haven't had a proper OT assessment with your Dad, you really should, makes SUCH a difference in life!
@@mehere8038 thank you ! that sounds like an amazing and life changing resource. sadly he either wasn’t aware of such a center or wasn’t open to visiting one, but he did find lots of digital accommodations to allow him to use his devices comfortably.
he passed two years ago in august, but thank you for the information ! i’ll keep it in mind for anyone else i come to know who has to handle these things in the future. he would’ve loved an opportunity such as that.
@@CommunityBlock I'm sorry to hear he's passed :( Glad he did find tech at least, that makes such a difference to quality of life & information access!
& yeh, for anyone in that situation, something like the independent living centre, or easier option for someone you're not close to is probably just to make sure they know that OT's (occupational therapists) job is specifically to find options to allow people to undertake tasks that disability/differences in their body mean they can't easily do with normal stuff. Physios job is to try to help the person's body to adapt to tech, OT's job is to find the tech that adapts to the person's body. Some people think OT's are only for workplaces & so miss this valuable resource, but they're worth their weight in gold!
The pen thing is a classic example, would never have occurred to me, but to the OT, that was just bread & butter when she knew I was having trouble writing, to bring along a range of options, from ones normally used for kids learning to write, to items like the polystyrene craft ball, that she stuck one of my pens through in front of me & said "try this", I did & while it was slightly awkward to start with, it was immediately apparent that my writing was far more readable with that added.
A basic $5 packet of 8 balls & all of a sudden I had pens of all colours, in all rooms of my house that I could actually use! (I bought the packet myself after her session, cause that way I could test the different sizes available in the craft store & see which one was best for me. That's how she did stuff, presented the idea & then encouraged me to fine tune it & take responsibility for obtaining what I needed to make sure I was fully independent :)) I definitely support recommending them to anyone with any difficulties with anything - and they will know about local resources like an independent living centre in the local area too
I'm like 80% certain Barry Lewis has reviewed an alternative curly dog cutter that basically functions how you described, and yeah it was much better.
Most "experts" are snobby and pretentious, but this guy is great. Seems like a really fun guy to be around
As someone with muscle weakness in both my hands, I really appreciate the oil test.
In regards to the square eggs thing, it will be used more in a Japanese style bento box.
That’s what I was thinking. Would make packaging waste less space
I can see that spiralizer for hot dogs being good if you're cranking out a bunch of them at a cookout where you want to impress people by giving them extra room in their buns for condiments, you'll also inadvertently have less food waste because people will use a little extra
I can't imagine the stress that it would be to spiralize 100 hot dogs for a cookout, for instance by hand
good to see Dan again he is one of the reasons i subscribed a couple days ago
I guess the effectiveness of the Egg cuber was: eggcellent!
Booooo! 😂
The hot dog gadget should have gotten a higher rating. I love this guy, but if you considered using it for mass prep. in a local fast food setting, it's probably a life saver!
Ex: Putting skewers in 200 hot dogs and then spiraling 200 hot dogs versus just using a knife.
Awesome video tho!
But what is it *actually* accomplishing? You're not stuffing the dogs. You're still only putting condiments on top.
@@vjhreeves Slicing hotdog grooves is more to make cooking the hotdogs easier, since you're opening up more of the hotdog's interior to the heat.
I think Setsu's point is that if you were to be cooking lots of hotdogs on a skewer, the Curl-A-Dog would be faster, more consistent, and safer compared to slicing each individual hotdog with a knife.
I would bet that someone who spirals 200 hotdogs a day can do it much quicker with a knife than with that plastic thingy.
@@Jehty_ most definitely.
Cleanability/cleanup really needs to be a section of its own. So important for any product. Maybe you save time doing the function, but what's the point if cleanup takes three times as long.
1) the instructions for the burger stuffer specifically say to put cooking spray on it and it comes with wax paper inserts to further help with separation
2) using a device meant for meat with a patty distinctly not made of meat is about as good a test as trying to use peanut butter in it. It’s just not equivalent.
I personally don't have dexterity issues for the most part but I absolutely adore that you take people with disabilities into account while making reviews. Very thoughtful, very niiiiiice.
I like that part of his criteria takes into account dexterity issues for people, my use of my hands fluctuates on an hourly basis depending on how much muscle pain or fatigue I'm experiencing at the moment and have multiple different things to help me with that issue but some things really dont work for a large range of things, my favourite thing for opening jars is very limited on the size of jar it can open which leaves me just flat out unable to open somethings on certain days because I just cant grip hard enough to get anything moving small lids and round lids are the bane of my existence especially small ones even if they have a texture if its small its a toss up of if I'll be able to open it or not
Get two oil filter wrenches. They grip on just about any threaded lid and jar, even oily ones and give you extra leverage.
Shouldn't the traditional method also be tested with an oiled left hand? I think that the paring knife with an oiled left hand on the hot dog could have gone much worse than the invention did.
I don’t think they necessarily need to be. A lot of the products that he tests are accessibility products that are marketed to the general populous to generate more revenue. Therefore it is a useful test to see if it can (at a surface level) help people with lower dexterity. I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that using a knife cannot be dangerous for people with lowered dexterity. However, if the product designed to replace that knife cannot be operated by those people, that product needs to be redesigned
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Cutting a hotdog really doesn't need much strength.
So I wouldn't think that it would be a big deal with an oily left hand.
Sadly I can't test it because of three reasons: I am ambidextrous, I don't want to oil my hands and I am vegan.
So maybe someone else is willing to test it 🤣
I don't use a paring knife, I use a super sharp Chinese meat cleaver for tasks like that, along with rolling motions on a fixed chopping board & I already know how my current disability options for the task work, I don't need for him to demonstrate them for me, it's only the new product I need to know if I'm wasting my money to buy or not
@@mehere8038 i mean sure we all know what we can and cant do, but he so often judges it based on 'i think the traditional way is easier' so its a buy rating of 1-2/5. I dont think he takes into consideration so many of these are actually made for people who need the help and they're often still a better option than a dangerous knife in a hand prone to slipping 😭
Dear Dan, I love every single video of yours! Your intelligence and wit make me enjoy each and every video, sometimes more than once!! You are one of my most favorite people on RUclips!
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5:47 Agreed. NEVER put catsup on a hot dog. The more mustard, the better!
That egg cuber should be a great choice for making canned eggs, or for food decoration. It would be amazing if it had other sizes, like a size for quail eggs
Speaking of dexterity issues.. the Mr tenderizer removes the risk if accidentally yeeting a metal meat mallet through your kitchen..
That's what I wanted to say. Maybe it is not too efficient, but it is definitely easier and safer than a mallet.
Look, if you're afraid of being Thor, then you are unworthy.
bro if u cant hold a mallet, u shouldnt be working with a knife, or in the kitchen at all
@@slikskils1603, that's quite rude, denying weaker people access to cooking themselves proper food. You know of momentum, Newton's laws, etc? School physics. A person can have issues swinging a f-ing mallet and no issues using a knife. You know, that sharp thing which you put directly on a thing you want to cut and slice without swinging it around.
Also, people should remember that mallets require both repetition and strength to be effective, whereas the tenderizer only needs you to slowly turn a crank to do the same thing. For older people or physically-handicapped people who may not have the strength to make the mallet effective or safe, or have difficulty performing repetitive motion due to weaker joints, the tenderizer is a safer deal.
That spiralizer works for frying hotdogs as well. They stay straighter when put in buns.
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I've been watching Dan for a while now and I'm a huge fan of these videos. I give him a 5 out of 5!!
I like that you pointed out the egg cuber’s use to creative types, I immediately started thinking of creative plating applications for thin square slices of boiled egg
The spiral thing is the first I’ve seen that makes sense, because it can’t be done super easily and more fun without it
Best category on this channel! Love Dan!
A good design idea for the burger presser would to make the top piece have a button that could change it from divot mode to press mode, and then it would only be 2 pieces.
I wonder if the beyond meat burger is more loose than regular meat which is why it didn’t work
Could be, it's not real meat. So yeah.
The eye for usability for a disabled audience shows a good understanding of why these gadgets exist in the first place. Mr.Tenderizer seems a bit silly to someone with enough arm strength and muscle control to swing a meat mallet accuratly, but could be a very large help for someone, like you said, with dexterity issues. So huge ups for not overlooking groups of people so often overlooked.
Honestly, on the first item, I think the tray sliding is intentional because you can align the tray at the end and it moves with the piece of meat you are tenderizing so it fall dead center.
One point I like about Mr Tenderizer is that it doesn't spray raw poultry juice and salmonella around your kitchen, like a mallet does. If I was in a restaurant and concerned about my A rating, I'd go with Mr Tenderizer.
You’re really supposed to cover the chicken in something like plastic wrap to prevent that.
If you were in a restaurant you wouldn't use this either. You'd get something electric, size and type varying on how much meat you need to mechanically tenderize. But the mallet is a great tool for home cooks, just need a bit of plastic wrap to stop the juices from splattering. But if I were a professional and only had a choice between Mr Tenderizer and a mallet, I'd go with the mallet, since you can actually control how thin you want to pound it out.
@@Magrijack I've read "cover the kitchen in something like plastic wrap" and was wondering how much time and plastic wrap you spend to tenderize chicken
@@patrykapiezo1650 i mean, most people aren't tenderizing their chicken THAT often. it's usually cubed or shredded
@@xChijouChanx Huh? You don't tenderize WHOLE chicken, just breasts for cutlets, which is what they are used the most.
Great video! Would've been very entertaining if his improved designs were custom built and tested! Please consider this for future videos
I think that would require way too much effort and time for an easy going video like this
Making a sample of his design would be really expensive! You make up those costs in doing large scale production for much cheaper later on but making just ONE of something is a very high expense
I think it would be cool if he polled his audience to see which redesigned gadgets they’d wanna see in real life and do a big video on it where they make the products real
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The cubed egg is honestly adorable to me and probably a fun way to serve them to kids! This was a wonderful video in general 😄
5:47 is the point at which I fell completely in love with this man.
There are reasons for the cubed egg and I respect them but boy do I love watching this guy and his cold sarcastic delivery.
It’s interesting that he suggested a hot dog cutter that went on top when he’s tested one before like that and said it should have a hinge
I'm curious to know if a version with an unhinged lid and lever (maybe attaching to the bottom) might be more helpful for pressing the hot dog down
I would challenge you to do the oiled left hand test for the alternative method too. Some of these seem like they would be a huge help even as is to someone with dexterity issues
In the interest of fairness, the left handed oil test should have been tried for the mallet and hot dog 🔪
Yes! (and maybe after a bit of rock climbing to fatigue grip strength :P)
Honestly I don't see the Mister Tenderizer as something for a neurotyical, but for someone who might not have the capability to use a mallet properly. I love how he iterated on the design though!
As someone who is neurodivergent, I agree with this. It would save a lot of wincing and pain from the sound of a mallet. Even with earplugs, it's definitely something I'm never looking forward to.
Love the Man Bites Dog shout out 😂😂😂
Square eggs sit still better on a plate, and the REALLY make for conversation as deviled eggs at parties.
The hot dog and egg devices seem like fun ways to include young children in kitchen activities. I also wonder if the burger press didn't need to be oiled before use to prevent sticking (especially with notoriously sticky Beyond(C) meat).
Love this guy. His content is so easy to watch.
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I need more of these in my life, I've binged all of them.