I tried a £9 Fryer from Aldi!
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Lets fry some things! Yes, with this funky little gadget I got from Aldi for £9.99 - a mini deep fat fryer from a company called Ambiano who also made the recent sausage roll maker! In this video we'll give it a review and fry 4 different things - fried oreos, fried ice cream, fried cola and fried mac n cheese balls... plus maybe something a little crazy at the end lol I'm not a huge fan of frying, but there are times when I need a fryer for certain recipes, this could just be my new favourite toy for a bargain!
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If you enjoyed this video, there's more individual gadget reviews such as the sausage roll maker made by the same company and the epic grilled cheese toaster video on this playlist, grab the popcorn and have a watch ruclips.net/video/olFYfhtScR4/видео.html I was actually pretty impressed by this piece of kit for the price and the cola with the syrup was outstandingly weird, but tasty!
I hope Stuart doesn't hit you with a copy right strike for using his "cheapo". lol
Make a deep fryer vs air fryer.
@@alvingous did you not listen to what Barry said?
@Jean Longsden I think that answer is obvious.
It was £19.99 and reduced to £9.99 to clear. I waited for other items to become reduced and missed out on the last few fryers... but I managed to get everything else I wanted half price (or better) with free delivery... you win some, ...
I had to play back the first 30 seconds a second time because I wasn’t expecting the “Cheapo!” From Ashens and had to do a double take 😂
thought I had another tab open
Barry and Stuart have the same editor, Linton. He probably inserted it. I haven't heard it on Ashens for ages.
Same
I read this comment before the vid started and still had to do a double take hah
There was an Ashens reference in the new video from DankPods today as well.
You can tell a new frier owner by the phrase "If I strain the oil I can reuse it". Give it a couple of weeks and you'll be at the "Well it sinks to the bottom anyway..." phase. LOL
just thinking the same or fresh oil ant the same as used haha
I bet you smell of monster energy
I use lard instead so the leftovers are used for potato hash.
In fairness, you get the best chips out of the deep fry after youve used the oil a half dozen times, think ive had mine for a few months, and only strained the oil once, and that was only cos i cooked some cheap vegan food in it and the oil would constantly boil over, but straining all the sludge out of the bottom and topping it up with fresh oil (45% fresh 55% strained) and chips come out a lovely golden brown rather than pale like they do with fresh oil. though if you want to season the oil quick, just cook up some battered sausage and chips in one of them and the drippings from the sausage will season the oil pretty quickly, least thats what ive found
@@ste887 I agree, I have been using my oil for almost a year now and it keeps getting better after every use!
Interesting video; if you gentle drop items into the oil, rather than lay them on the basket and then dunk, they are less likely to stick. A comparison of recipes in an air fryer would be very useful 😘
Exactly this - put the basket in empty, and carefully place the drippy items in after. Also - you can run the oil throughj a coffee filter in a sieve to remove finer bits in it, but it does take awhile to run through.
A tip for if you’re frying battered things - rather than putting them in the basket and dripping the basket in, put the basket in first and then gently lower the items into the oil with some tongs, hold them for 10-15 seconds and then let them go. That way the batter gets a “shield” before contacting the basket surface and is less likely to drip though and stick to it
Exactly what I was coming here to say. Lower the basket down into the oil first. The batter will then get a coat on the outside BEFORE it sinks to hit the wire of the basket and therefore will not stick or go through as happened with the Oreos.
I usually stab such things with a skewer, gently lower the sticky mass into the oil and pull the skewer out when the batter sets (only a couple of seconds)
Stops it sinking and sticking to the basket.
@@petersargeant1555 Might have to try that one myself, seems cleaner than my tongs method!
@@chrisjfinlay
You can leave the skewer in too, like a kebab. 1 inch cubes of boiled potato, skewered, battered and deep fried. Crispy on the outside, creamy inside.
So Barry, the major concern when deep frying is water, anything that contains water will cause that exact reaction you got from the salad. What happens is the water instantly turns from a liquid to a gas and the gas has to escape the oil so it rushes to the surface and causes that boiling effect. Its actually pretty dangerous since it can easily spit oil straight in your face or cause the fryer to boil over entirely. Essentially just be careful what you stick in a fryer, anything high in water or frozen but not breadcrumbed/battered just do one at a time and lower it in slowly.
I also used to be terrified of deep frying cause when I was little, my older brother tried to deep fry some chips and the pan burst into flames and burnt him, at like 7 or 8 I had to pick the pan up (still in flames) and carry it outside cause my bro had 2nd degree burns all over his hand and arm.
Never EVER EVER EVER move a burning pan!!!!! That is extremely dangerous ☠ if possible turn off the heat and at arms length drape a fire blanket over it. if you dont have one use a damp (not wet!!!) towel.
I caused a pot of oil on a stove to boil over cuz i was a dumbass teen and threw frozen stuff right in, and it shot a huge flame to the roof and left burn marks 😭
Love the Ashen "Cheapo!" In the introduction.
Yeah it caught me off guard 😂 I would love them to get together for another vid surely using these gadgets
I thought it was!
when you put battered things into the basket to stop them sticking put the basket into the oil then add the battered food with tongs holding it for a few seconds before dropping it
Came here to make sure it was said.. add the items to the oil not using the basket
Wow I love it, it's perfect for taking on the train to make a cheeky snack 😌
EGGSACTLY
Love the amount of people who recognised the 'Cheapo', miss the videos you all made together
As an American, it does my heart good to see a brit finally understand why we deep fry anything that isn't nailed down
You do realize, that deep frying anything that isn't nailed down is a scottish invention, right?
I love fried ice cream. I made it one time. It was a two day process. After the cornerflakea I put in the freezer overnight. I think 90 seconds is too long. I did 10 of them one by one, 10 seconds each.
It gave it time for my guests to put it on their plate and use my topping bar and the ice cream was still soft..
That being said, I not trying to criticize Barry's ice cream, it looked awesome and I'm sure it tasted good too!
Really enjoyed this video.
Thank you!
I have the T-Fal self filtering fryer. I love it. I’ll never use a different kind again. You should always swim the food in if it’s a liquid covering. And use basket only for dry breading.
Cereal boxes have had "Sold by weight not volume. Some settling of contents may occur in transit." on them for at least 30 years.
250g is a bloody small box though.
I reckon it's shrinkflation on the 250g point but I also think that's the same amount of air we've always seen as you say
Ashens "Cheapo" made this video :')
Agreed!
I wasn't expecting to see you here. I like your vids. 🙂
My mom has one that is similarly sized, and I love it. Having a dedicated small fryer means you can do this stuff outside and it'll be much less of a mess to clean up in the kitchen.
smell and safety wise it is good too if it doesn't get rained on.
quick tip for frying, i am a chef so i know lol. put basket in first then carefully place the food in slowly fry the bottom for a second, helps stop the batter sticking to the bottom of the basket
"Is it a good idea to deep-fry this?" could totally be an homage channel to the Microwave boys of early youtube
We already have "Will it Soft Serve" so we probably need "Will it deep fry"
I wonder if instead of reducing regular cola, you could instead use syrup for a Sodastream.
Probably but based on the calorie info they're actually selling low sugar versions of Pepsi.
@@sie4431 much better tho
@@jomarcentermjm Lower sugar = more chemicals
Also here to show my appreciation for the Ashens voice clip :)
I miss Barshens so much...
Eli roll! Eli roll!
It was a fun time - an expensive fun time for Stuart and I though lol
i lived in england for two years and i remember going to buy some kitchen stuff when we first moved in. we went to morrisons and found a tiny little slow cooker (perfect for just me and my bf!) and it was only 5 pounds. so seeing this mini fryer is giving me memories!! :)
You can see through the lid of the fryer better than your microwave 😉
Yep!!
These always get published right in time for my lunch break at work. Bloody Stonking.
Hey Barry, when you’re frying, the enemy is water, things with a high water content like the lettuce will always fry and spit really aggressively. Same with frozen items, they hold their shape better, but they spit and fry more angrily. The water is denser than the oil, so the water sinks and turns to steam, which pushes the oil upward aggressively, making it spit and potentially boil over. Also, it’s best to not lay things in the basket and then lower into the oil, that’s what made them stick. Put the basket in and then use tongs, a spoon or fork, or your fingers (for larger things only) to gently drape and lower the item into the oil. The basket is more for bringing items up out of the oil, or things like chips, where there is no liquid batter and dropping them in by hand would be too impractical.
I’m experienced with frying, I used to work in a take away shop.
Seeing your ice cream covered in corn flakes, my kids and I love ice cream, handful of crunchy nut cornflakes or Frosties over it and a toffee sauce dribbled over it! Amazing and great occasional dessert!
You may not be able to fry lettuce, but yes to frying fresh parsley - I first encountered it as a garnish to steak in a French restaurant. Delicious!
Excellent 👌🏻 Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a great day everyone 🌻
Thank you, you too☺️
Thank you you have a great day too 😊😊
Enjoyed this, Barry. When you do your air-fryer video I'd love to see you redo some of these recipes so we can compare the results. Maybe not the ice cream one 🫠
For takeaway style Seaweed - Chop up some kale, mix in some brown sugar and a tiny amount of oil, then layer out onto a baking tray and cook for about 12-15 mins at 180. Its delicious!
Deep fried ice cream, deep fried Coca-Cola... this is the most American thing I have ever seen a British person do.
You're absolutely right about the fried "seaweed" in Chinese buffets. It's Chinese kale/broccoli aka kailan. The leaves
are shredded and deep fried and as the water content is lower than salad greens, they crisp up well. Real crispy seaweed comes in sheets like the nori used in sushi. Btw, spinach leaves battered and deep-fried make a delicious snack. Yum.
A few Chinese takeaways I know around me use shredded cabbage for their seaweed, they would fry it up and then put it on a big pan with newspaper and would put it in the oven for 10 minutes to take moisture out leaving it crispy. Although they would add some kind of sugar/salt mix to make it taste better
Remember Barry, you can use them as pasta boilers as well
I bought a similar model a few years ago from my local Aldi here in the states and it still works great. Other than a few cosmetic differences, it looks like mine.
Your videos are genuinely so relaxing and fun to watch 😊 cheers from Greece!
Greetings from Germany :)
hi, there used to be a chippy where i used to live 40yrs ago that did the deep fried pizza slices whic he froze first then battered them, he also did the usual deep fried mars bars and many more things and deep fried ice cream sandwiches.
Barry, put the basket in the hot oil first and put in the food to be fried with a slotted spoon, tonges or if confident enough, your hands. It will stop it sticking to the basket
I love that Barry adds Ashens “sound effects” like “cheap-o” and “hello!” 😄👍🏻
Having the fryer on the corner of the work top had put the same fear in me as seeing someone walking on the edge of a cliff. Deep fried pizza is common in West Scotland and can come as pizza crunch which is battered deep fried pizza
Me too. When you open it, it will flip over, I thought
I have bought a few of the Ambiano kitchen items from Aldi such as a milk frothier and an immersion blender and the work fabulously.
You need tongs for manipulating and picking up the fried items without burning yourself.
You need a fine skimmer (small round of wire net on a long handle) to remove the residual crunchy bits floating in the oil.
And there are oil cans fitted with a fine sieve for saving used cooking oil, which comes in a variety of sizes this side and the other of a liter and are also fitted with a spout for repouring.
Your tangent about the box being smaller is absolutely correct. It's called "Shrinkflation" and manufacturers use it all the time. Instead of rising prices, they will make "new packaging" or "new design" and actually just lower the amount of product. Slowly, and over a long period of time. The difference is stark but because it's just a bit at a time not many people notice.
I've just found the exact same type of fryer on German Amazon for an RRP of 50€. Safe to say 10 quid is quite the bargain.
The higher price is due to the item being remaining stock. It was on sale at Aldi until 2019, then it cost around 20€ in Germany. So 9 quid is still a bargain.
Hearing Ashen's say "Cheapo" made me wonder why I haven't been seeing him on my recommended recently... Thanks Barry :D re-enabled notifications!
I bought a very similar one from Lidl for about £30 a while back and it works a treat for my chicken spring rolls I get at Lidl! I think the brand of the rolls are called Culinea over here in Sweden but that mini fryer works great imo! Sure it's not very big or professional but for small things I find it pretty alright! 😁👍
I think this is the earliest I've ever been to one of these videos...Hiya from Australia! Also heck yeah, Aldi stuff!
Nice one, welcome :)
I know you are afraid of oil fryers, but frankly I am glad you have one because those times you fried in a pan were scary stuff
When frying remember that if it's battered, you spoon it in, if it's coated with crumbs or flour , or like fries you put it in the basket and lower it in the oil
0:25 Love the little Ashens reference there.
i bought one of these for like £20 a few months back. its ideal for small portions and kids etc. plus i like the flat element at the bottom, easy to clean
My wife and I got one from aldi 3 years ago and it's great. Makes fab chips
Great Posting on My Birthday. 17 years young.
The ashens “cheapo” had me creased 🤣🤣🤣
When you get the air fryer, I think you should do comparing real oil fried to the air fried foods you make.
One step closer to "5 course fancy meal, but everything looks like fried chicken". :D
I’m so jealous of you eating the Mac and cheese ones 😭🤤
Although the highlight so far was choking on the icing sugar. It’s definitely something I’d do 😂
In vietnamese restaurants here, in Montréal, Qc., what you describe as "thinking eating seaweed" and that is sprinkled with sugar is basil, fried basil leaves.
It's delicious !
It's common in thaï restaurants also.
Oh I've had the spinach version 😋 so good.
could you use frosties instead of cornflakes for the ice cream...
Deffo
@@mrbarrylewis probably hold off on the extra sugar 😅
Hi Barry. I have to say "Its so cute!" Like a mini McDonald's.
Never understood stuff like pancake mix that you still need to add all the wet ingredients anyway.
Battered stuff is best placed into the hot oil rather than dunked with the basket to prevent them merging with the mesh.
Layers of filo pastry are another option for deep frying icecream rather than going the scotch egg route, lettuce is a very high water content so a coating of a light batter reduces the violence of the fry.
Try using a piping bag to squeeze the cola batter into the oil
I've had one of these like a year or 2 don't use to often but it's pretty good for what it is
Omg I'm exactly the same as you! I'm always a little bit scared of fryers 😅 whenever I've used my parents, it always makes me freak out from the noises and they make me jump like you did 🤣
Air fryer I think you mean Mini fan oven 🤣👍👍
I bought one from Lidl: it's practically identical. Works a treat.
Dude, when you pane coat food, always work with using only one hand for the wet dipping and always keep the other hand dry for the flour / crumb dipping. Then you won't end up with both fingertips coated in egg and crumbs. Great upload. 👍
Barry, if you don't like fried stuff you should visit the Netherlands, our cuisine sucks (I can say it as a chef) but our fried snacks are bloody delicious. It'll change your mind for sure.
This video's ways too genuine, I have to subscribe, I love it and gonna go buy one from Aldi tomorrow, trust me!
I’m glad that you will get another one that little fryer looks like it works perfectly and that basket looks like it’s pretty good material too that’s amazing thanks for making this video
Crumbed food will fill your fryer with burnt sludge but battered food and chips won't meaning that your oil stays cleaner for longer.
When the oil starts foaming insanely, it's time to replace it.
You can apparently filter it and use it to fuel your car (if it's a diesel and you're a tightarse)
You ought to try frying Parsley, Barry. It's delicious.
Some bloke in America made fried beer a few years ago.
And yes, Chinese takeaway crispy fried seaweed is usually just deep fried cabbage. Have a look at Atomic Shrimp's channel (random awesomeness) to see him collect real seaweed and fry it. It's a bit more 'lively' than your salad, to say the least. 👍👍👍
The top of that reminds me of them little bug catcher kits to get for the kids when they was little LOL
"Well, that's one cheeky donut." One of the best lines I've ever heard in a YT video. 🤣
You generally still want to keep the basket in when making fried cakes of any sort in the deep fryer, just so you don't lose random drips in the oil and have it burn
Seeing just Boston looking excited at the breadcrumbs hurt a little❤️❤️
"Fryers are dangerous but this one was only 9 pounds" 🤣
Hopefully we get this in Australian Aldis soon
Not sure your reading the comments but a layer of pound cake of any flavour sliced thinly around your icecream ball and frozen before egg wash and crubing works way better for deep-fried icecream balls
I think we need a compilation of "Mmmm!" clips from Barry here! 😂
The egg ball (Eierbal) is a popular snack in the Northern and Eastern Netherlands. The egg ball is available there at the vending machine, snack bar and cafeterias. Outside those regions, the egg ball is hardly known. It shows many similarities with the Limburg (Southern Nterhalnds) fries egg and the Scotch egg.
Cheapo! Love the little Ashens reference
And they say the Dutch fry everything :o
We just have a lot of different 'original' snacks to fry. We don't fry non-fry food :)
Looks great Barry! 👍🏻
That ice cream looked amazing. Fried salad ha!
Fried pizza is a quiet common dish here in Italy ...We also fry a kind of mini calzone and call them panzerotti !!🤗 Or even better,fried sage ( obviously covered in a pastella)....so delicious 🤤
Fried base pizza it’s actually probably inspired from “Pizza Fritta” or the “La Montanara” recipes from Naples, they are delicious! You should try them
Some interesting things you tried Barry. What exactly were you expecting when you threw in the (95% water) lettuce ?
Have you tried using ground cornflakes on a scotch egg instead of breadcrumbs? Gives them a fantastic crunch.
Try using ground pork scratchings…
I got this same fryer from Aldi some time ago. I could never get french fries to be crispy enough and cleaning it was a hassle. After a while it gets caked in oil and it doesn't come off anymore. I got better results just using a pan...
Lol. You obviously just have to clean it more often than you did. And I cant even imagine how you think it "could never get french fries to be crispy enough". Its literally a metal pot containing oil over an element...and the element and oil definitely gets hot enough. So I think thats on you.
Pro-tip from an old sous chef:
Place the empty basket in and *then* place in the food to fry. Don't be scared of the popping. Be a man and accept your battle scars :) This will allow the food the gain a 'skin' before it touches the basket.
Also give it a vigorous shake after a minute to break it free if it decided to cling to the basket, before it has time to REALLY stick.
Fried salad is AMAZING! You dont need a deep fryer for a fried salad use just a basic frying pan. I use it all the time. And you just put on your basic toppings like u would a normal salad and whatever dressing u like
The chip truck I worked at, we did deep-fried chocolate bars. Though oddly enough, a favourite of mine was the deep-fried cauliflower.
Here in the US some people fry turkeys for thanksgiving! My uncle did it once and it was nerve wracking to watch because of how dangerous it is
Tiny fryer, tiny food processor, it makes sense that you’ve got tiny corn flakes box
You need to freeze just about anything fancy that you batter and fry. It just helps everything cook better even though they don't stay cold. Everything will hear ok. Do a Snickers bar! Yum
I have a little deep fryer and I've always wanted to try jalapenos with cream cheese.
I've had fried Icecream at a restaurant before, it's not runny at all. I think they use a deep freeze or something.
Love this fryer so much
I feel like the burning toaster on Barry's shirt is foreshadowing...
Barry should really do a "mmmhm" montage😂
There's a place on my town that makes deep fried cheesecake. To die for
The fried coke was very different. I wasn’t sure how you would do it. Very cool, fried coke. Loved the video, learned that you can fry coke. Thank you