Someone has had to have said this before but I feel like we should get a pass it on or something using all the "failed" gadgets I feel like that would add some extra chaos to the mix
The portable blender I actually use at work. I work as a caregiver and the ladies I take care of have to have all their food blended because they have problems swallowing. So when we go out to eat at a restaurant we use them so they can eat there at the restaurant without having to take the food home to blend it.
My gran has a soup maker (better than the one they reviewed apparently), and it's been great for her remaining independent and healthy despite mobility and digestion problems cropping up. I'd recommend anyone whose busy, or having dexterity struggles look into getting a good quality well reviewed one.
Ben being brutal is one of the funniest things ever. I think the boys are just glad it's not aimed at them today. "Role play smoothy making' - my mind went to a dark place. LOL
I think that place was also in sight during the banana filling product segment. It seemed to me that Ben is not a newbie when it comes to plunging and stuffing things into holes. And remember when he made the comment about role play? "Role play only works when both parties are fully invested ". Said from personal experience, apparently. So there was innuendo everywhere in this episode.
Really appreciate the shoutout to the food team, and even if they don't want to be on camera, the fact that their part in making Sorted what it is, is acknowledged in the videos, is a good touch.
I live on the road and struggle to eat as healthy as I’d like, specially with food intolerances and allergies making it difficult to find easy snacks. You’ve inspired me to purchase the blender. I don’t mind 2 pushes to get a smoothie or fruity drink…everything I own works from 12v or usb so it’s worth it to me. UPDATE: I love it. I haven’t used it with ice but that’s hard for me to get on the road anyway. Used yoghurt, berries, banana and almond milk and it was perfect!
This is the only legit use for it. It charges in a car and works while the car is off. Its small. It doesn't matter if it is heavy since it is staying in the car.
PLEASE be careful with the BlendJet! I loved mine, and it worked for about 1.5 months. BUT mine *CAUGHT ON FIRE* at the place where the cord connects to the blender. They offered a replacement if I sent them my damaged one. I did, and the company never sent me a replacement and stopped answering my emails.
My grandma had a more manual version of the 3rd gadget. Its like a smaller tortilla press, with a crimping mold in it. But the difference between this gadget and the one grandma had , is that the filling is added only to one side of the press, as opposed to putting it in the middle in this fancy gadget. So the problem of the filling splooging out when the dough is pressed together , is solved. Wayy less messy. Sometimes overengineering gadgets which already work well, isnt necessary. 😂🤷🏽♀️
I had the same thought!! We have this small plastic contraption, can buy it for 20 Indian rupees, and always gets the job done! We use ours most frequently for making 'gujiyas'.
The soup maker thingy. I have a portable Crock Pot, 20 oz, I use it for work all the time during the winter. Fill it, put the lids on, pick it up by handle, plug it is when I get to work, nice hot lunch in a couple of hours. Interior pot comes out for easy cleaning by hand or dishwasher. Bought it NIB at a garage sale for $5.00...LOVE IT!
To support the soup maker, we have that exact model and it is absolutely fantastic. We were working from home and being able to slap basically any raw veggies and some stock into a pot and press one button to get smooth soup is so useful!
Thank you for trying out ridiculous gadgets for several years.The best part is I have seen so many gadgets at shops and wonder if they really work and sadly sometimes tempted to buy. But you guys do a great job of reviewing and telling how it is!
I would say that more than half of the various kitchen gadgets are absolutely useless or actually make the job more difficult. The whole point is to convince a buyer that they will magically get expert results with zero learning curve and that they will suddenly do (everyday) a kitchen task they never do (like sushi gadgets). Like Ben, people that actually cook would rather spend their money on good ingredients than gadgets that end up collecting dust.
I mean most of the times you can dertmin if something is usefull and if you maybe gonna use it by looking at it at thinking about usecases. I kinda learned that 10 years ago, when I for whatever reason bought a spiral slicer. I mean it was cheap. I used it once. It's been sitting around ever since. For most shit I see I can tell, I wouldn't use it enough to be usefull, or there are suitable replacements. Oh also just look at the build quality. Most of the gadgets I encounter are built absolutely poorly. You can tell they'll propably break within 10 times using them.
@@tiacho2893 You really do have to be careful with these things. I mostly stay away from them because the ads seem to think I'm totally inept. Don't treat me like you think that I'm stupid thank you very much. You also have to know who you are buying these things for. My son does make sushi, but all he really needs is the mat which I got for him.
@@maryjoyspohrer256 I'm Korean and make the Korean version of the roll (kimbap). The mat and a sharp knife are the only necessary tools. After that it's just practice. That said, the practice is usually not justified unless you make sushi often.
This is a good change to the "product test" series. After all... if something doesn't work or is fundamentally daft, then it's far better to show that it doesn't work, instead of trying to "be nice" and hide away all the issues.
I really would use the portable blender a lot but that's because I travel a lot for my work. And while staying in hotels sounds fun, after a couple days it actually kind of sucks. Especially when it comes to eating well & maintaining my gut health... if I could smoothie daily or twice daily that would be a game changer
Yeah, when I thught of why someone wouldbuy the product, the first came to my mind is traveling. Hotels can have a mini-fridge, and having a rechargeable blender you can carry with you gives some nice options.
If your hotel room has a fridge and your gut health is taking a beating just add yogurt cups to your fridge and whole grain bread and sliced turkey. The only thing I mess with in a hotel is making proper coffee. I don't want to leave the room in the morning to get coffee, I want it before I leave the room.
9mins30ish: Mum has one of these and has never had any problems, but I've got to say, I do love that Ebbers tests particularly hard on these things. It shows the team's care for audience and their money, which is too often lacking and I appreciate that a lot.
I have a compact Morphy Richard’s soup blender with sauté function, absolutely love it. What I find makes a world of difference to solve this issue, boiling water from your kettle rather than cold to start with.
Hi, unrelated but it would be nice to have a video on what to do when you've messed up on something, or have a work around on common kitchen problems. For example if you have fruit or vegetables on the go (still edible but not fresh), how to maximize it's usage. Or if you have a dish too salty, how would you fix it. Or if you're missing an ingredient (or an ingredient is too expensive or obscure for you to get), what would you use as a substitute?
A cook at my 1st nursing home( I wound up a nurse, was an aide in those days) used a whole potatoes and a whole carrot to simmer 15 min to absorb extra salt from soups. Worked great to remove ' explosive ' qualities from been soup as well.
I've got the soup maker, use it every week especially in the winter - it makes fab tomato soup and a wicked gazpacho. Food has to be cut small enough to cook in 20 minutes (remember the start of it is heating up, the end part is blending, so the actual cooking is only around 12-15 mins) so roughly chopped veg is the way to go.
What is then the added value of it? Get a pot on the hob and a blender, more multifunctional and takes less space. For the same time? A genuine question!
@@oxfordkomma I don't own one, but I imagine not needing to watch it or worry about it burning would be really nice. you could take 5 minutes to get it started and then keep your kids from destroying your house instead of giving them 30 minutes to do so.
@@oxfordkomma I'm with you there. I'm sure it makes perfectly good soup but what can it do that you can't do just as well in 15 minutes with a perfectly normal cooking pot and - if you want a smooth soup - a stick belnder???
My Nan has a soup maker. At 83, living on her own and having a colostomy bag, it's actually been fantastic for her. She uses hers all the time... Though it is a different brand to the one you reviewed. Smaller size too.
The throwback to the banana yum station had me rolling, specially because Ebbers remembered the full name of the thing while I didn't, and I've watched that video countless times.
Having lived with the soup maker for many years i use it mainly for winter soups but have done a broccoli based one, I can say I've never had the issue you have had. I would love to see a revisit with a testing its limits and recipe ideas not just soups as it's an affordable kitchen gadget that I can see being used more than just basic soups,
@@stefan514 to be fair, they did say they would not judge it as not sure what was wrong and Ben did say he would want to thoroughly test it before calling it good or bad.
I love our soup maker. It doesn't see as much use during the warmer parts of the year, but once the fall and winter arrives, it's a yummy way to get hot soup with very little work.
We use a soup maker almost daily at work. Just chuck in frozen vegetables, a stock cube and water 30 mins before lunch time and you always have fresh soup to enjoy. Ours is a different model though, it's basically a blender with the blades at the bottom so never had any issues making smoothly blended soup.
I was thinking about the blendjet. I have a small offroad camper trailer with a good solar battery system that allows me to run my electric fridge/freezer pretty much indefinitely when I'm out on a trip, but a nice blended margarita while watching the sun set someplace remote out in the desert had not been achievable because a big blender is large and heavy and I would need an inverter to run it. Everything in my rig is on 12V so I don't need an inverter. One of these little gadgets would make it possible to have a reasonable frozen margarita or something the like while being out in the wild. They're around 50 bucks over here in the US, so who knows, maybe I give it a shot one day. Dumpling maker: I think you put too much filling in it. It won't squeeze out the filling with less and then it should seal the dough. Try with less filling.
The SoupMaker is genius and I absolutely love it…. I get home from work, bung whatever’s in the fridge in it, crack on with my just got home routine and then have a light supper. Did Ebbers stick to the Maximum fill level? It looked overloaded.
That blender would be really useful for me. I've always lived in apartments and tend to go to work at 5:30/6am. Sometimes I want a smoothie but don't want to make that much noise that early and be annoying to roommates or neighbors. This would let me make my smoothie at home and easily wait to blend it when I get to work. I love that!
grilled, chocolate filled bananas are actually pretty good, the last product makes the whole thing much easier. In school we used to have to cut them up and fill them with pieces of chocolate. It was great, but also messy.
Love my soup maker....quick easy and less washing up. I use mine to batch cook soup for three lunches every three days..its a game changer. Bought mine from Aldi
I was already prepared to snicker at some Bennuendos just from the thumbnail, but Ben prancing along to his "allotment" was just what I needed to see today! Don't ever change, guys! 🥰😂
I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. Watching Ebbers test these gadgets, and his acerbic comments brought a smile to my face. The banana coring gadget was surprisingly satisfying. This of all the products in this episode, would be a lot of fun for a family get-together.
I dont drink smoothies ever, but i could see this tiny blender being quite useful to prepare pesto or sauces while camping. Also for people who got small kitchens
The banana loca would allow for some amazing banana fritters. Stuff a banana with whatever you'd put in a canoli, pistachio cream, cheesecake batter, batter it and deep fry it. Serve with ice cream, pour over some rum and set it on fire.
Mike saying ‘The angle’ has the same vibe of Pheobes ‘my eyes’ Also, in the videos I have seen with the dumpling maker they use a lot less filling. And maybe some water would help bind the dough together better
14y ago I saw your videos for the first time and I am so happy that you guys are still around. The freeze cake is still requested by my friends, going to make one tomorrow 🎉 thank you!
I used a blend jet at work, I have to cycle in so there's no point making it at home but there's a freezer for me to store the ingredients at work, I highly recommend it after using one for 3 months ish
i got a very similar blender to use while camping or when i'm literally on the road in my camper. in times like that, power is hard to come by and a blender is prohibitive for all but the most robust batteries/inverters (systems that aren't connected to mains). so yeah, instead of almonds you might use almond butter. the blender is great for protein shakes and powders too. it's exactly like ben says, you just have to scale your usage to the capabilities of the gadget.
we have that tiny blender. makes great options for the kids in the morning for smoothies. We use frozen fruit rather than icecubes to make it work better. That banana corer/filler I could see using to make banana sushi with other fruits down the center. Fun stuff, thanks for the review of the gadgets.
I have a BlendJet2 and keep it at work. I make protein meal replacement shakes at work and I love it! I do have a Vitamix at home and did blend them at home to bring in, but they were rarely still in the same form when I was able to eat/drink them at work (the ice was usually melted and I just had a watered down shake). It is very easy to clean, with just water and a drop of dish soap, blend, rinse and dry.
For the dumpling press - I have a smaller indivdual metal version of that, and it has one very important edge case where it's useful - making gluten free dumplings for my dad. The gluten free dumpling skin recipes I've used always have a more playdoughy texture before being cooked and react better to the press than hand manipulation ( though I think the particular one you've tested is a little too rough handling for it lol)
We don't have the Morphy Richards soupmaker but we've had a couple of cheaper Lidl ones (the first one died when Mrs Hedgebull washed the motor unit by dunking it in the sink). They've always performed excellently. Produces smooth delicious soups. Based on our experiences I'd have cut the broccoli and herbs up a bit more.
We have the Morphy Richard’s soup maker & blender and it blends fine, totally should have made the broccoli chunks smaller, I mean, most recipes where you would use a regular blender you would cut ingredients smaller (inc herbs) to allow the small blades to work better and this is not only blending them but cooking them as well, but, as Ebber’s said, you would try different things and find out the best way to use the appliance.
But then as Ebbers says, if you have to go to that much effort cutting everything up and it still takes a while you may as well just use a blender or stick blender and have the whole thing done faster. The only thing I can see working is the "fire and forget" aspect, where you can chuck stuff in when you wake up, set it to go while you are at work, set it to go again when you get back from work and then by dinner time it will have made soup and the slower nature of it matters less because you are doing other things in the downtime.
I'd say it may have been because of the broccoli. We have it too and tried to make broccoli and stilton for our Christmas meal starter. In the end we had similar results to Ben and had to use a stick blender anyway
@@esmeecampbell7396 You don't have to go to huge effort, I'd have chopped the broccoli into pieces about 1/3 the size Ebbers used and spent 5 seconds roughly chopping the herbs. The best use for it though is making tinned and frozen ingredients delicious. Our favourite soup was 1 tin of potatoes, 2 medium or 1 large apple (cored, peeled and chopped into 1/4's), some frozen peas and a ham stock cube. Maybe add a few rocket leaves if we had any.
I have the soup maker and it’s excellent! In the winter when working from home I use it to make a soup daily. I think perhaps you need to chop the herbs a bit to stop them tangling and then it definitely should produce perfect soup 👌
@@HAbarneyWK They used the blend function at the end as a quick finish which didn't do it, but clearly for the 20 minutes it hadn't been working because it was blocked up by the herbs. You can't really equate the full function with an extra blend at the end.
Not that I'd have one, but I can see the portable blender being handy for things like Margaritas 🍸🍹 & some other cocktails out in the garden, camping or at the beach.
I always love that Ben acknowledges that while he doesn't personally like a gadget it could be useful for those with dexterity problems. As somebody in their 30 with Parkinson's it's mind numbingly frustrating to see people make fun of things that have added so much accessibility to my life.
Portable blender is good for people living in hostels (like me) where you are not allowed any proper electric appliances for cooking sadly. I had a cheap one from amazon, but it broke. But it's great to make smoothies with fruits if you are trying to eat healthy
You all manage to bring a smile to my face every video. More importantly though, is that at 56, I have realized that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks! Since happily finding you guys, I have learned more from the past 4 mths that I've been watching, then in all my years. Laughter and knowledge....... the perfect combination. LOL Thank you so much! I have found my love for cooking again! Though, I do wonder..... how about an episode dedicated to what Canada has to offer? Or, how many versions can you come up with of the Nanaimo Bar (my hometown of Nanaimo).
As someone doing daily meal replacement shakes, honestly the blendjet looks useful. It does a single serving, takes up less space than a full size blender, and seems like less of a hassle to clean.
I have the soup maker and I love it! Usually what happens to you guys only happens to me if I don't add enough liquid or put in too many solids, and usually I stir fry or boil any vegetables beforehand to make it easier. I'm literally eating soup I made with it right now and its really good!
If ever an episode called for a visit from Chef James, this is it! He would have gone BALLISTIC at these four gadg! Although, like Ebbers, I was kinda charmed by Banana Loca.
The soup maker looks really interesting! The design and motor looks almost exactly like my soymilk maker, so I reckon it should work pretty well, but it may be user error. There was a bit of trial and error with the soymilk maker as well, but it works beautifully now that I've figured it out.
👉👈 can we have a soup maker redemption video much like we did with the portable pizza oven and the kebab maker? its always nice to see ebbers doing his thing and cheffily nerding out over faintly unnecessary gadgets
I've got that exact model of soup maker.....i use it to make my gravy after a roast..... Put all of the veg from under the roast in it ...with stock, wine and walk away....then strain it into a pan to reduce....no wastage.....winning...
I use the Soup Maker to do a spicy roasted butternut squash soup, I roast off large diced butternut squash and onions with some spices then add to the soup maker with stock cube and water works for me.
gotta love that the soup maker makes a minimum of 1,3L and a max of 1,6L like (at least per the writing on the side).........you get the choice between making 6 and 7 servings XD XD
I’m glad you guys tested the Blendjet. I’ll be honest, while I didn’t end up buying it, I was considering it because I recently had Bariatric surgery and you drink a lot of protein smoothies in the first few months. The fact it was portable was helpful for me because I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to pack the required amount of food for work in a situation where I wouldn’t have access to a blender. It worked out that I just got prepackaged ones, but that was my first thought when I saw it.
I cannot possibly imagine a scenario where I'm travelling and think, "Man, I wish I had a blender so I can buy stuff, make a smoothie, and find a convenience store sink to wash the blender in." No, I think I'd rather just buy a smoothie somewhere, thanks.
I can see maybe having it in an office setting where you can store the ingredients in a common fridge. Or a student hostel. Places where a full blown blender is too clunky.
I was originally led to this channel years ago after watching kitchen gadgets videos, probably the crazy Russian hacker. Years later, I've watched every episode and love that you're still making gadget review videos!
My grandmother has mobility issues and the soup maker works very well for her (different brand but same idea) and it gives her the satisfaction of being able to cook despite not being able to cut up veg with a knife. Highly recommend this for anyone who has loved ones who struggle with mobility and want to cook!
I also have the morphy Richards blender. And I adore it for making soup. Potatoes. Sweet potatoes. Carrots. I dump it all in and it all comes out super smooth. I do chop them up into small chunks.
Banana Loca: Fill with fudge sauce & freeze. Fill with mini chocolate chips. Fill with peanut butter. Fill with caramel, batter & deep fry. Fill smaller plantain w/ground meat, bake/fry. Will it work to core hot dog or sausage? If so, fill with cheese. Or cheese & cooked bacon.
I got a generic blendjet at Aldi because i don’t use blenders often enough to spend any more money on it. I think it would be interesting to have the guys compare super cheap (Aldi, dollar stores, etc.) appliances/gadgets with the brand name counterpart.
For the same price as that failure of a double dumpling maker, you can get 4 different sized manual dumpling presses and a silicone mat marked with the different sizes for your dough. Soup maker has an undersized blade that isn’t even as wide as the soup maker. When I first saw the soup maker a couple years ago, I thought exactly like Ebbers, make soup and use an immersion blender.
A brutal review actually would have called for Mr. James Curry as a guest juror but I understand if he doesn't want to come in, since he and Janice are on a break. Still love every single of your videos! :-)
I would love to see you do a gadget test on gadgets made for people with disabilities. I know you have done one in the past but they have definitely come out with a lot of them and it really does highlight the need for them
I own a similar (Mini) blender, I agree with the problem of the ice. Other than that, nuts it doesn't handle, so I agree with that too. But gosh darn it, getting up at 2am and making a mint chocolate milkshake has never been easier
Need you guys to go through different recipes with the soup maker, I have that exact one and only really make tomato soup with it...would love more options! The naan croutons are such a creative idea!
Love the way you guys incorporate vegan recipes into just everyday activities, without it being a "special vegan" thing. It's such a little thing but so welcoming every time 🥰
As a Pole, saying 'vegan pierogi' in this case felt like saying 'gluten free rice'. This type just is vegan. There was no change in the recipe needed to make it vegan (which I assume is the case when the word 'vegan' is used).
We love our blend jets! The bf and I got one each and sent his mom one. It's great for a personal sized blended drink and there is a learning curve. Use crushed ice and put it last in. I've enjoyed smoothies, pizza sauce, pasta sauce, and marinades. Great for small batch and way less work to clean than our Vitamix. Is it perfect? No. Is it convenient for personal, small batch use? Yuuuuuuuusssssss!!!
I bought a blendjet for a friend as a gift and they are very happy with it. She's sometimes more than 12hrs away from home and likes to prepare a smoothie after work. It's actually a cool blender.
I have the Ninja Soup Maker which works a lot better than that Morphy Richards one (it blends and cooks everything perfectly) ... I'm sure they used to have one on the counter in the studio too!
I've got a non-branded soup maker that's very similar to the one they used here, and I've had no issues with blending and making soup using the likes of swede and carrots. I'm pretty sure that every recipe I've seen has the stock being made using hot water, then added. It looks like they used cold water here, so I don't think it got to a hot enough temp to cook stuff properly.
In all fairness to the blender, Ebbers is absolutely filling that sucker up. I can't help but feel like it would be a fairer test if he had 85 or 90 percent of the material that he keeps putting in it. The other comments are pretty apt, in my opinion.
Yeah he definitely overcrowded the blender. Which isn't a problem with the fancy high powered blenders like a vitamix but cheap blenders need to get up to speed to get through hard stuff which they can't do if they're crowded.
Gotta say, I used to laugh at a lot of these portable appliances. But since switching to working out of camps out in the mountains where options are slim, I'm finding the advantages.
regarding the 'double dumpling maker"; when I make gyoza at home, I usually also take a rolling pin to the dumpling pastry, makes it a bit thinner and an easier cook.
I'm really sad the soup maker didn't work - I have the older model and I love it. The only difference I make is I always use boiling water to start it. I never bother chopping things finely - just shove everything in and chill out for 20 mins then I have soup! I normally have to blend it another time for the smooth but it's wonderful for broths, stews and crushing ice!
I think the first test of the Blendjet might have been a little unfair. I have the original Blendjet and the instructions did say it was meant to be started upside down with ice and other hard items so the blades could get up to speed first. Did they forget the include that in the new model’s instruction book? In any case, I love my Blendjet. I work in food service and would often use ingredients from work that I wouldn’t necessarily keep at home! Always fun to watch Ben review gadgets! Keep it up 😊
The soup maker doesn't like large pieces of veg like broccoli, and hard stems either, so the trick is just to cut your veg into smaller pieces. It works fine then. It's just not that powerful a blender but works fine with much smaller pieces and veg like potatoes, carrots, leeks, peppers, onions etc.
I love the smoothie makeer because if you wanted smoothies in the morning but don't have time you can prep your ingredients beforehand and grab them and the blender to run out the door
I think the portable blender probably had issues in the first test because it was jammed full with hard ice cubes stuck at the bottom. I've got impression that most blenders rely on spinning fast rather than having torque. May have worked better if the machine crushed the ice before adding any other ingredients. Or not jammin the container full of stuff so the spinning blades could kick stuff up until they break up... Which in my experience has been how ice crushing blenders generally work.
I like these because while arguably, on the surface, you could say that any one use gadget is wasteful. However, the guys consider things like different lifestyles, home sizes, disabilities, and more before writing something off as totally useless. It’s very rarely “useless” and more “useful to different sizes of audiences.”
Haven’t watched the video yet but I just wanted to say, I live in Abergavenny and every year we have a food festival, it’s always in September, this weekend this year so unfortunately you’ve missed it, but I think you guys would really find it interesting! There’s loads of local and further afield food vendors, experts who do demonstrations and multiple panel talks from people in the food industry. Maybe something for next year? :)
How funny. I used to live in Abergavenny and now live just a few miles away. Have worked at the food festival many times and yes, agree, definitely worth a visit.
Ben needs an award for getting through the banana corer without making any innuendos
You mean "Benuendos?" Or in this case, "innuebendos?" Cuz, it stuffs the bananas.
Or cringing cuz that looks painful.
Nah, the sound he made while twisting it was innuendo enough😂
I was waiting for one, and it never happened
He probably made too many that they had to cut them out 🤓
Someone has had to have said this before but I feel like we should get a pass it on or something using all the "failed" gadgets I feel like that would add some extra chaos to the mix
there was one. It was the only thing Ben didn't eat.
@@anastasias6352 Yeah that was due to the pineapple causing curdling due to the enzymes.
ah, we have you to thank!
1:45 -- "The problem with roleplays is it only works if both parties are fully invested". He said that with such expertise and conviction...!
#Awks 😂
Sounds like someone who’s played his fair share of D&D!
@@endymallorn ...yes, D&D... that's what I was hinting at; plain ol' 2-person D&D sessions, yup... 😅
Ben plays on Balmung
@@puzzlejinx I appreciate this reference
“Did you put the core back in mine?”
I almost died from laughter. Kush is a genius.
Ben is usually positive about gadgets, but I do love it when he gets properly annoyed at completely pointless ones
now imagine how salty our ginger giant would be with the banana sossage fest.
It was like James was back lol
James has summoned him.
What's sad is that they had two gadgets which has a reasonable purpose, that didn't work. And the pointless one worked perfectly.
"WHY WOULD YOU SCOUP A SAUSAGE!!!"
The portable blender I actually use at work. I work as a caregiver and the ladies I take care of have to have all their food blended because they have problems swallowing. So when we go out to eat at a restaurant we use them so they can eat there at the restaurant without having to take the food home to blend it.
Oh cool!
My gran has a soup maker (better than the one they reviewed apparently), and it's been great for her remaining independent and healthy despite mobility and digestion problems cropping up. I'd recommend anyone whose busy, or having dexterity struggles look into getting a good quality well reviewed one.
i use something very similar to make soymilk, corn milk, and almond milk and it works wonder tbh
Ben being brutal is one of the funniest things ever. I think the boys are just glad it's not aimed at them today. "Role play smoothy making' - my mind went to a dark place. LOL
You were not alone, in that place.
He talked about "plug and play" when talking about the same product too...
@@kayjacoby290 What are you doing step-smoothie maker?
I think that place was also in sight during the banana filling product segment. It seemed to me that Ben is not a newbie when it comes to plunging and stuffing things into holes. And remember when he made the comment about role play? "Role play only works when both parties are fully invested ". Said from personal experience, apparently. So there was innuendo everywhere in this episode.
Really appreciate the shoutout to the food team, and even if they don't want to be on camera, the fact that their part in making Sorted what it is, is acknowledged in the videos, is a good touch.
Ben dismissing the scenario and being Ben is a power move. I love it ❤
Ben "I reject your reality and substitute my own" Ebbrell
I live on the road and struggle to eat as healthy as I’d like, specially with food intolerances and allergies making it difficult to find easy snacks. You’ve inspired me to purchase the blender. I don’t mind 2 pushes to get a smoothie or fruity drink…everything I own works from 12v or usb so it’s worth it to me.
UPDATE: I love it. I haven’t used it with ice but that’s hard for me to get on the road anyway. Used yoghurt, berries, banana and almond milk and it was perfect!
This is the only legit use for it. It charges in a car and works while the car is off. Its small. It doesn't matter if it is heavy since it is staying in the car.
PLEASE be careful with the BlendJet! I loved mine, and it worked for about 1.5 months. BUT mine *CAUGHT ON FIRE* at the place where the cord connects to the blender. They offered a replacement if I sent them my damaged one. I did, and the company never sent me a replacement and stopped answering my emails.
I bought mine long before I watch this video and I love it!
My grandma had a more manual version of the 3rd gadget. Its like a smaller tortilla press, with a crimping mold in it. But the difference between this gadget and the one grandma had , is that the filling is added only to one side of the press, as opposed to putting it in the middle in this fancy gadget. So the problem of the filling splooging out when the dough is pressed together , is solved. Wayy less messy.
Sometimes overengineering gadgets which already work well, isnt necessary. 😂🤷🏽♀️
I had the same thought!! We have this small plastic contraption, can buy it for 20 Indian rupees, and always gets the job done! We use ours most frequently for making 'gujiyas'.
@@aparnakholiya6487 YESSS. exactly that. The one we make is EXTREMELY similar to that .
...I just realised what that gadget my mom own is for. Its just been gathering dust, so maybe I should see about stealing it.
@@chrishansen4685 DO IT. 😂🤭
Im convinced that vintage gadgets are built wayy better than our modern day crap.
@@hrithikasarvodayan agreed! @Chris Hansen DO IT!!! 😂😂
The soup maker thingy. I have a portable Crock Pot, 20 oz, I use it for work all the time during the winter. Fill it, put the lids on, pick it up by handle, plug it is when I get to work, nice hot lunch in a couple of hours. Interior pot comes out for easy cleaning by hand or dishwasher. Bought it NIB at a garage sale for $5.00...LOVE IT!
Props to Kush for reassembling the Banana Core. Also, condolences to Mike’s taste buds for that surprise hot sauce.
To support the soup maker, we have that exact model and it is absolutely fantastic. We were working from home and being able to slap basically any raw veggies and some stock into a pot and press one button to get smooth soup is so useful!
Do you need to process the veges a good amount? Cause it seems like you need to chop the veg down to size for better processing
@@victory8928 nope, they just did something wrong. Over filled it maybe.
Thank you for trying out ridiculous gadgets for several years.The best part is I have seen so many gadgets at shops and wonder if they really work and sadly sometimes tempted to buy. But you guys do a great job of reviewing and telling how it is!
Thank you!
I would say that more than half of the various kitchen gadgets are absolutely useless or actually make the job more difficult. The whole point is to convince a buyer that they will magically get expert results with zero learning curve and that they will suddenly do (everyday) a kitchen task they never do (like sushi gadgets). Like Ben, people that actually cook would rather spend their money on good ingredients than gadgets that end up collecting dust.
I mean most of the times you can dertmin if something is usefull and if you maybe gonna use it by looking at it at thinking about usecases.
I kinda learned that 10 years ago, when I for whatever reason bought a spiral slicer. I mean it was cheap. I used it once. It's been sitting around ever since. For most shit I see I can tell, I wouldn't use it enough to be usefull, or there are suitable replacements.
Oh also just look at the build quality. Most of the gadgets I encounter are built absolutely poorly. You can tell they'll propably break within 10 times using them.
@@tiacho2893 You really do have to be careful with these things. I mostly stay away from them because the ads seem to think I'm totally inept. Don't treat me like you think that I'm stupid thank you very much. You also have to know who you are buying these things for. My son does make sushi, but all he really needs is the mat which I got for him.
@@maryjoyspohrer256 I'm Korean and make the Korean version of the roll (kimbap). The mat and a sharp knife are the only necessary tools. After that it's just practice. That said, the practice is usually not justified unless you make sushi often.
This is a good change to the "product test" series. After all... if something doesn't work or is fundamentally daft, then it's far better to show that it doesn't work, instead of trying to "be nice" and hide away all the issues.
I really would use the portable blender a lot but that's because I travel a lot for my work. And while staying in hotels sounds fun, after a couple days it actually kind of sucks. Especially when it comes to eating well & maintaining my gut health... if I could smoothie daily or twice daily that would be a game changer
That’s a great way of using it, we didn’t think about that.
Yeah, when I thught of why someone wouldbuy the product, the first came to my mind is traveling.
Hotels can have a mini-fridge, and having a rechargeable blender you can carry with you gives some nice options.
If your hotel room has a fridge and your gut health is taking a beating just add yogurt cups to your fridge and whole grain bread and sliced turkey. The only thing I mess with in a hotel is making proper coffee. I don't want to leave the room in the morning to get coffee, I want it before I leave the room.
That's the actual legit use tbh
@@gustavowadaslopes2479 Hotels *always* have a power socket - a Nutribullet would do a far better job.
9mins30ish: Mum has one of these and has never had any problems, but I've got to say, I do love that Ebbers tests particularly hard on these things. It shows the team's care for audience and their money, which is too often lacking and I appreciate that a lot.
The banana loco seems to be pretty good but nothing beats Barry saying “yumstation”…. Pure gold
I have a compact Morphy Richard’s soup blender with sauté function, absolutely love it. What I find makes a world of difference to solve this issue, boiling water from your kettle rather than cold to start with.
Agreed, I love my Morphy Richards soup maker and this is either user error or faulty machine.
Hi, unrelated but it would be nice to have a video on what to do when you've messed up on something, or have a work around on common kitchen problems. For example if you have fruit or vegetables on the go (still edible but not fresh), how to maximize it's usage. Or if you have a dish too salty, how would you fix it. Or if you're missing an ingredient (or an ingredient is too expensive or obscure for you to get), what would you use as a substitute?
This sounds like a great idea, and potentially very fun to watch this group do.
A cook at my 1st nursing home( I wound up a nurse, was an aide in those days) used a whole potatoes and a whole carrot to simmer 15 min to absorb extra salt from soups. Worked great to remove ' explosive ' qualities from been soup as well.
Wrong channel
I've got the soup maker, use it every week especially in the winter - it makes fab tomato soup and a wicked gazpacho. Food has to be cut small enough to cook in 20 minutes (remember the start of it is heating up, the end part is blending, so the actual cooking is only around 12-15 mins) so roughly chopped veg is the way to go.
Yeah never had an issue with mine, great for the family!
What is then the added value of it? Get a pot on the hob and a blender, more multifunctional and takes less space. For the same time? A genuine question!
@@oxfordkomma I don't own one, but I imagine not needing to watch it or worry about it burning would be really nice. you could take 5 minutes to get it started and then keep your kids from destroying your house instead of giving them 30 minutes to do so.
@@oxfordkomma I'm with you there. I'm sure it makes perfectly good soup but what can it do that you can't do just as well in 15 minutes with a perfectly normal cooking pot and - if you want a smooth soup - a stick belnder???
@@tessjuel That sounds like way too much effort
My Nan has a soup maker. At 83, living on her own and having a colostomy bag, it's actually been fantastic for her. She uses hers all the time... Though it is a different brand to the one you reviewed. Smaller size too.
The throwback to the banana yum station had me rolling, specially because Ebbers remembered the full name of the thing while I didn't, and I've watched that video countless times.
Oh what a collection of gadgets! Thanks for truthful assessment, Ben. You were more than generous.
For small blenders, a lot of the temptation is actually the cleanup. Small hand held blenders are much easier to clean.
Having lived with the soup maker for many years i use it mainly for winter soups but have done a broccoli based one, I can say I've never had the issue you have had.
I would love to see a revisit with a testing its limits and recipe ideas not just soups as it's an affordable kitchen gadget that I can see being used more than just basic soups,
It's just ridiculous that they didn't spend another 30 minutes to redo the soup after messing it up the first time
Agreed. I use mine every week and it’s fabulous.
@@stefan514 to be fair, they did say they would not judge it as not sure what was wrong and Ben did say he would want to thoroughly test it before calling it good or bad.
I love our soup maker. It doesn't see as much use during the warmer parts of the year, but once the fall and winter arrives, it's a yummy way to get hot soup with very little work.
We use a soup maker almost daily at work. Just chuck in frozen vegetables, a stock cube and water 30 mins before lunch time and you always have fresh soup to enjoy. Ours is a different model though, it's basically a blender with the blades at the bottom so never had any issues making smoothly blended soup.
I was thinking about the blendjet. I have a small offroad camper trailer with a good solar battery system that allows me to run my electric fridge/freezer pretty much indefinitely when I'm out on a trip, but a nice blended margarita while watching the sun set someplace remote out in the desert had not been achievable because a big blender is large and heavy and I would need an inverter to run it. Everything in my rig is on 12V so I don't need an inverter. One of these little gadgets would make it possible to have a reasonable frozen margarita or something the like while being out in the wild. They're around 50 bucks over here in the US, so who knows, maybe I give it a shot one day.
Dumpling maker: I think you put too much filling in it. It won't squeeze out the filling with less and then it should seal the dough. Try with less filling.
The SoupMaker is genius and I absolutely love it…. I get home from work, bung whatever’s in the fridge in it, crack on with my just got home routine and then have a light supper. Did Ebbers stick to the Maximum fill level? It looked overloaded.
That blender would be really useful for me. I've always lived in apartments and tend to go to work at 5:30/6am. Sometimes I want a smoothie but don't want to make that much noise that early and be annoying to roommates or neighbors. This would let me make my smoothie at home and easily wait to blend it when I get to work. I love that!
grilled, chocolate filled bananas are actually pretty good, the last product makes the whole thing much easier. In school we used to have to cut them up and fill them with pieces of chocolate. It was great, but also messy.
Love my soup maker....quick easy and less washing up. I use mine to batch cook soup for three lunches every three days..its a game changer. Bought mine from Aldi
I was already prepared to snicker at some Bennuendos just from the thumbnail, but Ben prancing along to his "allotment" was just what I needed to see today! Don't ever change, guys! 🥰😂
I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. Watching Ebbers test these gadgets, and his acerbic comments brought a smile to my face. The banana coring gadget was surprisingly satisfying. This of all the products in this episode, would be a lot of fun for a family get-together.
I dont drink smoothies ever, but i could see this tiny blender being quite useful to prepare pesto or sauces while camping. Also for people who got small kitchens
That's a great shout for the blender!
Just want to say thanks for skipping the preview in this one, you guys are so good at listening to your fans. Big points for that!
The banana loca would allow for some amazing banana fritters. Stuff a banana with whatever you'd put in a canoli, pistachio cream, cheesecake batter, batter it and deep fry it. Serve with ice cream, pour over some rum and set it on fire.
Kush putting the banana core back into the banana is the kind of audience-pandering that will absolutely work on me
Mike saying ‘The angle’ has the same vibe of Pheobes ‘my eyes’
Also, in the videos I have seen with the dumpling maker they use a lot less filling. And maybe some water would help bind the dough together better
14y ago I saw your videos for the first time and I am so happy that you guys are still around. The freeze cake is still requested by my friends, going to make one tomorrow 🎉 thank you!
I used a blend jet at work, I have to cycle in so there's no point making it at home but there's a freezer for me to store the ingredients at work, I highly recommend it after using one for 3 months ish
That’s good to know, thanks LewLew.
Must be nice having a fridge where you can trust your frozen yogurt ain't getting yoinked by colleagues
i got a very similar blender to use while camping or when i'm literally on the road in my camper. in times like that, power is hard to come by and a blender is prohibitive for all but the most robust batteries/inverters (systems that aren't connected to mains). so yeah, instead of almonds you might use almond butter. the blender is great for protein shakes and powders too. it's exactly like ben says, you just have to scale your usage to the capabilities of the gadget.
we have that tiny blender. makes great options for the kids in the morning for smoothies. We use frozen fruit rather than icecubes to make it work better. That banana corer/filler I could see using to make banana sushi with other fruits down the center. Fun stuff, thanks for the review of the gadgets.
I have a BlendJet2 and keep it at work. I make protein meal replacement shakes at work and I love it! I do have a Vitamix at home and did blend them at home to bring in, but they were rarely still in the same form when I was able to eat/drink them at work (the ice was usually melted and I just had a watered down shake). It is very easy to clean, with just water and a drop of dish soap, blend, rinse and dry.
For the dumpling press - I have a smaller indivdual metal version of that, and it has one very important edge case where it's useful - making gluten free dumplings for my dad. The gluten free dumpling skin recipes I've used always have a more playdoughy texture before being cooked and react better to the press than hand manipulation ( though I think the particular one you've tested is a little too rough handling for it lol)
Mikes actual genuine excitement when gadgets start working is EXACTLY what you need on a rainy day..
We don't have the Morphy Richards soupmaker but we've had a couple of cheaper Lidl ones (the first one died when Mrs Hedgebull washed the motor unit by dunking it in the sink). They've always performed excellently. Produces smooth delicious soups. Based on our experiences I'd have cut the broccoli and herbs up a bit more.
We have the Morphy Richard’s soup maker & blender and it blends fine, totally should have made the broccoli chunks smaller, I mean, most recipes where you would use a regular blender you would cut ingredients smaller (inc herbs) to allow the small blades to work better and this is not only blending them but cooking them as well, but, as Ebber’s said, you would try different things and find out the best way to use the appliance.
But then as Ebbers says, if you have to go to that much effort cutting everything up and it still takes a while you may as well just use a blender or stick blender and have the whole thing done faster.
The only thing I can see working is the "fire and forget" aspect, where you can chuck stuff in when you wake up, set it to go while you are at work, set it to go again when you get back from work and then by dinner time it will have made soup and the slower nature of it matters less because you are doing other things in the downtime.
Thats SOUPer interesting. Maybe we were doing it wrong, definitely more testing needed!
I'd say it may have been because of the broccoli. We have it too and tried to make broccoli and stilton for our Christmas meal starter. In the end we had similar results to Ben and had to use a stick blender anyway
@@esmeecampbell7396 You don't have to go to huge effort, I'd have chopped the broccoli into pieces about 1/3 the size Ebbers used and spent 5 seconds roughly chopping the herbs.
The best use for it though is making tinned and frozen ingredients delicious. Our favourite soup was 1 tin of potatoes, 2 medium or 1 large apple (cored, peeled and chopped into 1/4's), some frozen peas and a ham stock cube. Maybe add a few rocket leaves if we had any.
I have the soup maker and it’s excellent! In the winter when working from home I use it to make a soup daily. I think perhaps you need to chop the herbs a bit to stop them tangling and then it definitely should produce perfect soup 👌
But it didnt blend it even after removing the herbs
@@HAbarneyWK They used the blend function at the end as a quick finish which didn't do it, but clearly for the 20 minutes it hadn't been working because it was blocked up by the herbs. You can't really equate the full function with an extra blend at the end.
Not that I'd have one, but I can see the portable blender being handy for things like Margaritas 🍸🍹 & some other cocktails out in the garden, camping or at the beach.
I always love that Ben acknowledges that while he doesn't personally like a gadget it could be useful for those with dexterity problems. As somebody in their 30 with Parkinson's it's mind numbingly frustrating to see people make fun of things that have added so much accessibility to my life.
Portable blender is good for people living in hostels (like me) where you are not allowed any proper electric appliances for cooking sadly. I had a cheap one from amazon, but it broke. But it's great to make smoothies with fruits if you are trying to eat healthy
You all manage to bring a smile to my face every video. More importantly though, is that at 56, I have realized that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks! Since happily finding you guys, I have learned more from the past 4 mths that I've been watching, then in all my years. Laughter and knowledge....... the perfect combination. LOL Thank you so much! I have found my love for cooking again! Though, I do wonder..... how about an episode dedicated to what Canada has to offer? Or, how many versions can you come up with of the Nanaimo Bar (my hometown of Nanaimo).
I think that the dumpling maker might need less filling and a bit of water to seal the edges.. I loved also the banana thing 😂
As someone doing daily meal replacement shakes, honestly the blendjet looks useful. It does a single serving, takes up less space than a full size blender, and seems like less of a hassle to clean.
I have the soup maker and I love it! Usually what happens to you guys only happens to me if I don't add enough liquid or put in too many solids, and usually I stir fry or boil any vegetables beforehand to make it easier. I'm literally eating soup I made with it right now and its really good!
The blender is great for frozen drinks on the boat. I have 6 of them we use for mudslides or frozen margaritas. Everyone gets their own. It's fun!
If ever an episode called for a visit from Chef James, this is it! He would have gone BALLISTIC at these four gadg! Although, like Ebbers, I was kinda charmed by Banana Loca.
I've had a soup maker made by same company for years and it has never failed like yours!
The soup maker looks really interesting! The design and motor looks almost exactly like my soymilk maker, so I reckon it should work pretty well, but it may be user error. There was a bit of trial and error with the soymilk maker as well, but it works beautifully now that I've figured it out.
👉👈 can we have a soup maker redemption video much like we did with the portable pizza oven and the kebab maker? its always nice to see ebbers doing his thing and cheffily nerding out over faintly unnecessary gadgets
I've got that exact model of soup maker.....i use it to make my gravy after a roast..... Put all of the veg from under the roast in it ...with stock, wine and walk away....then strain it into a pan to reduce....no wastage.....winning...
That’s a GREAT idea! 👏
I use the Soup Maker to do a spicy roasted butternut squash soup, I roast off large diced butternut squash and onions with some spices then add to the soup maker with stock cube and water works for me.
PS I was previously doing this in a pan with a stick blender but the soup maker was a gift I probably would not have purchased it for my self.
Butternut squash and tomato is wonderful
gotta love that the soup maker makes a minimum of 1,3L and a max of 1,6L like (at least per the writing on the side).........you get the choice between making 6 and 7 servings XD XD
I’m glad you guys tested the Blendjet. I’ll be honest, while I didn’t end up buying it, I was considering it because I recently had Bariatric surgery and you drink a lot of protein smoothies in the first few months. The fact it was portable was helpful for me because I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to pack the required amount of food for work in a situation where I wouldn’t have access to a blender. It worked out that I just got prepackaged ones, but that was my first thought when I saw it.
I cannot possibly imagine a scenario where I'm travelling and think, "Man, I wish I had a blender so I can buy stuff, make a smoothie, and find a convenience store sink to wash the blender in." No, I think I'd rather just buy a smoothie somewhere, thanks.
I can see maybe having it in an office setting where you can store the ingredients in a common fridge. Or a student hostel. Places where a full blown blender is too clunky.
I was originally led to this channel years ago after watching kitchen gadgets videos, probably the crazy Russian hacker. Years later, I've watched every episode and love that you're still making gadget review videos!
My grandmother has mobility issues and the soup maker works very well for her (different brand but same idea) and it gives her the satisfaction of being able to cook despite not being able to cut up veg with a knife. Highly recommend this for anyone who has loved ones who struggle with mobility and want to cook!
I also have the morphy Richards blender. And I adore it for making soup. Potatoes. Sweet potatoes. Carrots. I dump it all in and it all comes out super smooth. I do chop them up into small chunks.
You'd think a chef of Bens caliber had undergone proper teaspoon training. 😂
Banana Loca:
Fill with fudge sauce & freeze.
Fill with mini chocolate chips.
Fill with peanut butter.
Fill with caramel, batter & deep fry.
Fill smaller plantain w/ground meat, bake/fry.
Will it work to core hot dog or sausage? If so, fill with cheese. Or cheese & cooked bacon.
I got a generic blendjet at Aldi because i don’t use blenders often enough to spend any more money on it. I think it would be interesting to have the guys compare super cheap (Aldi, dollar stores, etc.) appliances/gadgets with the brand name counterpart.
For the same price as that failure of a double dumpling maker, you can get 4 different sized manual dumpling presses and a silicone mat marked with the different sizes for your dough. Soup maker has an undersized blade that isn’t even as wide as the soup maker. When I first saw the soup maker a couple years ago, I thought exactly like Ebbers, make soup and use an immersion blender.
A brutal review actually would have called for Mr. James Curry as a guest juror but I understand if he doesn't want to come in, since he and Janice are on a break. Still love every single of your videos! :-)
I would love to see you do a gadget test on gadgets made for people with disabilities.
I know you have done one in the past but they have definitely come out with a lot of them and it really does highlight the need for them
I own a similar (Mini) blender, I agree with the problem of the ice.
Other than that, nuts it doesn't handle, so I agree with that too.
But gosh darn it, getting up at 2am and making a mint chocolate milkshake has never been easier
Need you guys to go through different recipes with the soup maker, I have that exact one and only really make tomato soup with it...would love more options! The naan croutons are such a creative idea!
Love the way you guys incorporate vegan recipes into just everyday activities, without it being a "special vegan" thing. It's such a little thing but so welcoming every time 🥰
As a Pole, saying 'vegan pierogi' in this case felt like saying 'gluten free rice'. This type just is vegan. There was no change in the recipe needed to make it vegan (which I assume is the case when the word 'vegan' is used).
We love our blend jets! The bf and I got one each and sent his mom one. It's great for a personal sized blended drink and there is a learning curve. Use crushed ice and put it last in. I've enjoyed smoothies, pizza sauce, pasta sauce, and marinades. Great for small batch and way less work to clean than our Vitamix. Is it perfect? No. Is it convenient for personal, small batch use? Yuuuuuuuusssssss!!!
Some thickened pureed strawberries in the cored banana would be awesome!!!
or just raspberry jelly.
Bring the soup maker back on and work with it on air to get it right. Be our role models for "patience makes perfect" in the kitchen.
I have a blendjet and find it very good. The reason you had issues was the ice should be half the size, liquids go in first and it was too full.
Yep, basic blender knowledge is that liquid goes in first. Was surprised at the ice first!
I love how Ben just has fun with everything!
I recommend testing a “pie iron” they have many names but the basic idea is a cast iron dish on the end of a long handle for cooking over a camp fire.
I bought a blendjet for a friend as a gift and they are very happy with it. She's sometimes more than 12hrs away from home and likes to prepare a smoothie after work. It's actually a cool blender.
I have the Ninja Soup Maker which works a lot better than that Morphy Richards one (it blends and cooks everything perfectly) ... I'm sure they used to have one on the counter in the studio too!
I've got a non-branded soup maker that's very similar to the one they used here, and I've had no issues with blending and making soup using the likes of swede and carrots. I'm pretty sure that every recipe I've seen has the stock being made using hot water, then added. It looks like they used cold water here, so I don't think it got to a hot enough temp to cook stuff properly.
@@dennett316 Plus they didn't even bother to chop the ingredients properly. Of course it failed when he did everything wrong.
In all fairness to the blender, Ebbers is absolutely filling that sucker up. I can't help but feel like it would be a fairer test if he had 85 or 90 percent of the material that he keeps putting in it.
The other comments are pretty apt, in my opinion.
Yeah he definitely overcrowded the blender. Which isn't a problem with the fancy high powered blenders like a vitamix but cheap blenders need to get up to speed to get through hard stuff which they can't do if they're crowded.
Gotta say, I used to laugh at a lot of these portable appliances. But since switching to working out of camps out in the mountains where options are slim, I'm finding the advantages.
I know. I have literally bought some of these odd gadgets you never thought you'd use for family as Christmas gifts lol.
regarding the 'double dumpling maker"; when I make gyoza at home, I usually also take a rolling pin to the dumpling pastry, makes it a bit thinner and an easier cook.
I find it hilarious that you use the closh to “cover” the gadgets!
I'm really sad the soup maker didn't work - I have the older model and I love it. The only difference I make is I always use boiling water to start it. I never bother chopping things finely - just shove everything in and chill out for 20 mins then I have soup! I normally have to blend it another time for the smooth but it's wonderful for broths, stews and crushing ice!
Mike yelling "No! It's rubbish!" made me laugh so good 😂
😂😂😂
I think the first test of the Blendjet might have been a little unfair. I have the original Blendjet and the instructions did say it was meant to be started upside down with ice and other hard items so the blades could get up to speed first. Did they forget the include that in the new model’s instruction book?
In any case, I love my Blendjet. I work in food service and would often use ingredients from work that I wouldn’t necessarily keep at home!
Always fun to watch Ben review gadgets! Keep it up 😊
The soup maker doesn't like large pieces of veg like broccoli, and hard stems either, so the trick is just to cut your veg into smaller pieces. It works fine then. It's just not that powerful a blender but works fine with much smaller pieces and veg like potatoes, carrots, leeks, peppers, onions etc.
I love the smoothie makeer because if you wanted smoothies in the morning but don't have time you can prep your ingredients beforehand and grab them and the blender to run out the door
the dumpling one seems promising for people who have a hard time with their hands, like arthritis
I think the portable blender probably had issues in the first test because it was jammed full with hard ice cubes stuck at the bottom. I've got impression that most blenders rely on spinning fast rather than having torque. May have worked better if the machine crushed the ice before adding any other ingredients. Or not jammin the container full of stuff so the spinning blades could kick stuff up until they break up... Which in my experience has been how ice crushing blenders generally work.
I'm thinking lots of resources globally are wasted on gadgety stuff that just ends up sitting on shelves..
I like these because while arguably, on the surface, you could say that any one use gadget is wasteful. However, the guys consider things like different lifestyles, home sizes, disabilities, and more before writing something off as totally useless. It’s very rarely “useless” and more “useful to different sizes of audiences.”
Haven’t watched the video yet but I just wanted to say, I live in Abergavenny and every year we have a food festival, it’s always in September, this weekend this year so unfortunately you’ve missed it, but I think you guys would really find it interesting! There’s loads of local and further afield food vendors, experts who do demonstrations and multiple panel talks from people in the food industry. Maybe something for next year? :)
How funny. I used to live in Abergavenny and now live just a few miles away. Have worked at the food festival many times and yes, agree, definitely worth a visit.
Ben Ebbrell was a guest of honour at my local food festival in Bradford-on-Avon
"roleplaying smoothie making... you saw it here first." the EXHAUSTION of that line had me in stitches for a good five minutes