Alcohol (ethanol) is less dense than water, so 50mL of pure alcohol weight about 40g. Wine has 12% alcohol, so 98g for 100mL seems pretty realistic. With the whisky its even greater of a gap cause its around 40% alc.
Came here to say this - gotta use density conversions if you're trying to find the volume of (pretty much) any liquid other than water using only a gram scale
I don’t have a good measuring jug so whenever I bake something that uses oil in the batter I have to weigh it after googling the density of vegetable oil, if I remember correctly 100 ml of oil weigh about 90g.
@@HeartTheBaconI cut off my fingertip with one, can confirm. Was too embarrassed to go to the doctor so just stuck it back on and taped it. Somehow it worked and you can’t tell i can’t it but I now have a healthy fear of mandolines and cut proof glove.
I wanted to let your boys know you had a great gadget a few weeks ago. It was the veg peeler that fits in the palm of your hand. I have limited mobility, and I bought one after seeing your review of it. I absolutely love it! Thank you for the help! (I know At 63, I am not your target audience, but I love watching you all.)
Yeah I saw that one, as someone who has arthritis but not as bad yet I definitely added it to my mental library for the future. Glad it's helping you out now!
13:04 About a year ago I took a chunk out of my right middle finger with a kitchen mandolin, and when we went to urgent care they told us they see several mandolin injuries every day. This thing is like someone looked at the mandolin and said, "nah, that's way too safe."
There should really be some sort of regulation REQUIRING a hand guard for mandolines, because without one, it's far too easy for even professionals to add slices of the pink carrots to their food. With a hand guard it's not impossible to still slice yourself, but your chances go way, way down, and generally speaking, you've got to be pretty klutzy to manage to injure yourself while properly using the safety equipment as designed.
@@muyyek Yeah, I was doing a couple questionable things when I had my accident. The biggest mistake I made was that I didn't think to grab the cutproof glove.
@@lordmuhehe4605 Cutproof gloves do not need to be chainmail there are cheaper alternatives. In most professional kitchens they are required whenever mandolines are used whether guides are used or not.
It's funny, the oil powder is a common and cheap item in Japan (even sold at their version of dollar stores). Companies like fry away add in some English packaging and quadruple the price. It works well, but it definitely isn't a new product.
I love the Japanese product! A store started carrying it as some off time ago last year. Super inexpensive. Other good Japanese products that I now see as "new" in the States (including some as "new as seen on tv" rip offs). So silly.
The density of whiskey is 0.94. That means 100ml = 94 grammes. 45 ml is 42 grammes. So the gadget was measuring it correctly. Water density is 1, so 100ml = 100grammes.
Thank you, that was bugging me and I didn't want to google densities! A volume of alcohol has less mass that the same volume of water would. The gadget likely has a peristaltic pump inside of it, so it measures how much is dispensed by the flow rate of the pump or how many rotations the pump shaft makes.
Interesting, but why then is it calibrated just to water? Is this adjustable. Because for that price, it better be able to get calibrated to different types of alcohols and liquids. It's pretty pointless in practice otherwise in my opinion.
@VtheHAPPYLURKER it is not calibrated for water. Ben and Jamie are measuring weight and not accounting for density difference. To check for accuracy they should have used a measuring cup instead. Volume (mL) = mass / density. So for the same volume, if density is different, its mass would be different too.
@@VtheHAPPYLURKERit's calculated to a measurement not a weight. Different liquids have different densities which in turn then have different weights. Water is the default for weight. So if you have a litre of water it's 1kg. If you have 1000l it's is 1m2 and also 1ton. Weight is specifically aligned with water.
For cooking oil, we add cheap rolled oats to absorb the oil/fat, and a bit of honey, then put it outside on bird feeders in the garden. You can also add a little bird seed to the oats.
That seems okay for the winter locations I think if you live in a hot location you probably don't want to be giving garbage fat to birds as this can actually cause them to overheat and get this really nasty liver condition when it's hot out. I can't remember what it's called but I used to keep pet chickens and this was a thing that we had to watch out for and adjust their diet according to the time of year appropriately. It's basically similar to giving Suit to birds.
I have a version of this, but it doesn’t have the V cutter in it. I use it for shredding, cabbage, and carrots. I use two attachments on it. I don’t use the other one. It’s really great for getting vegetables cut small quickly. I can turn it in less than five minutes, and I only skinned a knuckle the first time I used it.
I don't think you can even buy a mandolin style slicer in the US without a holder/pusher guard. Sure most people are idiots that don't use them, but the liability of not supplying one would be astronomical.
For FryAway, use pure stearic acid (it's a fatty acid) instead. It's made from plants, usually by adding hydrogenating fats from soy or palm, but is also a naturally occurring saturated fat in meat products, like beef tallow. It's an ingredient in make up, and some processed foods, to solidify fats or act as an emulsifier. The solidified fat can be composted. The more you use, the more solid the fat will be at room temperature. Use less, and the fry oil becomes more like an animal fat that kind of sets up at room temperature. Some place very common you see this behavior is when a small bit of palm oil is added to peanut butter for a no-stir peanut butter.
Just wanted to mention about the "sipper" gadget. You were measuring weight and the machine was pouring mL (volume). The density of alcohol is not the same as water. 100 mL of whisky is not 100 grams on balance.
I wonder if they where to measure water, I presume the 45 ml would have been 45 g. But as you say Alcohol is less dense than water so it should have been a bit less than 45 g which indeed it was.
Yep, most spirits are about 95% as dense as water, so 45mL of them would only have a mass of around 42.75g, which is pretty much spot on what they got.
Rather than buying branded oil solidifiers like FryAway, it's much cheaper to just buy stearic acid. It's commonly used in candle-making and soap-making, so it's readily available both online and at hobby stores. As an added bonus, it's typically packaged with less waste. That's what companies like National Geographic and Consumer Reports recommend.
I love that Ben and Barry were cringing when Jamie was using the mandolin and then Jamie and Barry were cringing when Ben was using it and I was cringing 😬🫣through the whole process 😂, I hate mandolins and this one was atrocious and not worth the stress of watching some of our favourite people trying to use it ❤❤
Maybe try the "cornstarch slurry to clean oil trick" or others to show folks how they can clean & reuse oil. Or show what kind of meat drippings you can save, and how they should be stored and used. It seems simple, but I bet lots of folks could use pointers.
You can always still use mangled proteins, as long as you're already going to prepare or cook it in a way where presentation isn't as important. Fish stew, curry or chowder, or if the fish is wrapped in anything like Malaysian fish "puddings" (packed with rice, wrapped in banana leaf or ti leaves and steamed like a tamale), or if you mince/grind the fish up fine for something like a fish cake. Or you could always bread and fry them, and then it doesn't matter what the surface looks like (have to admit, I've never had Dover sole fish and chips before, so I don't know what that would be like...)
Fry Away: To disposse oil, you can put it in the refergerator and solidify it before you put it in a bag for disposal. Also flour helps to solidify oil, or make it a paste, and it is much cheaper. This I only do in an emergency, because it is wasting food.
The alcohol dispenser is very similar to something from my past. Many, many years ago, I worked at a mechanical/electrical engineering company. A potential client came to us with a request to design and build something for him. He was the owner of a several very large and popular bars and clubs in the area. He said he was losing lots of money due to his bar and waitstaff over-pouring drinks - or even giving away free ones. He wanted us to design toppers for alcohol bottles that would poor exact measurements of drinks, as well as only pour if it was rung up. It was definitely doable, but the cost of engineering the product to a professional standard was too high and it never happened.
This is exactly the scenario I envisioned this gadget for. This, to me, is where it makes the most sense. Busy bar/restaurant and a sipvault for each open bottle. Measurements are precise and no one is cheated out of anything
For me, at 54, a mandolin is not about skills I haven't learned but about helping me work faster in the kitchen despite having an autoimmune joint disorder. Definitely MANY other options available that are better and easier to use than the one you tested today. That one was dangerous!
Y'all should do a compilation of all the dangerous gadgets you have tested with a round table discussion. That would be a lot of fun for y'all and for your audience! Love the show!
Just a point about the last gadget, both wine and whiskey have a lower density than water (0.99 and 0.94 g/mL from what I can find) so the device was pretty much spot on in both tests with the volume of liquid it had dispensed.
I can easily envision someone managing to get their fingers in there (I'm in an industry where they actually REQUIRE us to see examples where people went wrong with their various power tools, so I'm mentally damaged in that I can now see worst-case-scenarios for pretty much everything... "Let's see, how can this go horribly wrong? Oh yes, I see, complete digital evulsion. Let's call this device ' The Mangler.'"
I've seen plenty of reviewers who rated it pretty highly. The trick is to use a reviewer with lower standards, ideally one who neither knows how to skin a fish nor has a properly skinned fish for comparison.
One of the iron chefs used one (I'm pretty sure I saw morimoto use it after an injury that made wielding a knife difficult (I think it was a palm burn)) but his is obviously a superior brand from Japan because it was beautifully skinned (also helps that it was in the hands of a double iron chef)
Have used the Fry Away when I deep fried once. Works exactly as advertised. I could see the sipper device, not in a bar but in chain coffee shops for the non barista trained staff to measure out milks, iced teas, mixes..etc for consistency and to keep food cost down.Thanks for extra video today along with the Washed Up weekend.
"Fry Away" is not new, but I am happy it's spreading to more markets. I personally don't know how well "fry away" specifially works, but the brand I've used for years is from Japan and works amazingly well. This concept has been around for a long time.
I’m fortunate in having chickens to recycle most of my organic wastes through. Surplus cooking oil just gets mixed with the other organics that I feed them. However, I rarely or never indulge in deep fat frying, so I don’t have large quantities to dispose of.
exactly my thought- also if you have dogs you can put it on their dry dog food and it will make their fur coat healthy and shiny! As others have mentioned, oats are also a great way to dispose of oil.
22 quid for a packet of flakes to turn make oil more easy to throw in the trash... I don't know about over in the UK, but lye sells for about 2 euro a kilo here. Pass that oil through a strainer with a bit of paper kitchen towel in it, to get out the solid bits. Then add it to 300ml of water and 200gr of lye per litre of oil, mix it properly and voila soap. Also turning it into soap can be done with cold oil and cold water. Just put it in a lye-safe bucket and leave it to sit. The last and most convenient option for me, is to just take it to my neighbours who have a Vietnamese food truck and they get paid by the litre of used oil by a company that then turns it into "bio" diesel.
@@gozerthegozarian9500 overpriced is very accurate - the people behind it specifically said that they sell it for 10-15 bucks while it only costs about 1 buck to make... overcharging by a factor of 10 is pretty egregious and im willing to bet its just something very close to stearic acid (or precisely that)
Several comments already about arthritis users needing some kind of mandolin type thing to help. I would love to see you guys review a few of the best options maybe with a disabled guest, it would be super helpful and wholesome!
The millilitre function on a scale generally just works from the density of water, which effectively means the "ml" mode is just the same as "g" at low volumes. Wine has a density of about 99% that of water, so 100ml would read 99m. So combined with the dribble, it was probably more accurate than you made out. Whiskey and Tequila have a density that is about 94-95% that of water, so 45ml of whiskey would measure about 42-43ml on a conventional scale. So reading 43ml on a scale would be about accurate. In the future I would recommend using a measuring jug/cylinder if making measurements of volume, scales will only be accurate with room temp water. (If you wanted to be super accurate, a burette would be best, but is a bit overkill in a kitchen environment)
There is one gadget that I have never seen on any „gadget show“ ever and I remember that when I was a child I thought it must be the most ingenious idea ever: This powdered sugar mill thing my grandmother constantly used to use when she made waffles or cakes or pancakes. It was a Tupperware item and you could dust everything you wanted with a very consistent layer of powdered sugar or cocoa. It is the only kitchen item I kept when she died and I have never seen it anywhere else. I would love to see it tested somewhere (although it would probably be a very boring test…)
There is a small company here in Sweden who upcycles discarded frying oil into soft soap. I love it! Oily and buttery utensils, bowls, you name it, are so easily cleaned and leaves no residue behind. Ovens, bathrooms - tiled in particular - are a breeze to clean. It’s perfect for massive wood floors, decks and, to a degree, flagstone floorings, as it can be used to impregnate them. They have just launched their detergents as well. And they smell nice. Yup, I love their products 👌🏼
I didn’t see anyone say anything, but they are likely wrong about the measurements of the last product being off. Alcohol is less dense than water, which would lead to a lower weight per mL. So, when they wanted 45 mL and got a weight of 43 it was likely close to being correct. It would need to be tested with water if they wanted to do weights easily or with a graduated container.
So the fryaway, can it go to the oil recycling? There are companies that make diesel, soap and other products, so can it still be used like that? Also it would be great to take camping! It’s hard to handle oil when you are trying to pack out! The oil from bacon for example!
fry in lard which automatically solidifies into a solid. in belgium we have fry oil disposal bins near most shops so we just pour our oil warmly into a plastic bottle and drop it there when we go shopping
Most councils in the uk take a bit of used oil soaked into kitchen roll in the composting waste. For large amounts you can take it to the dump (where it’s used to make biofuel) but it is biodegradable and will breakdown over time in a composter.
You can use spent oil to proof wood, i.e. for garden use, or you can pour it into your oyster mushrooms substrate (if you are growing oyster mushrooms at home). Easy and - in my opinion - much better ecologically.
Ben's talk of taking used oil to the dump must be a British thing. Here in my part of America, I just keep an old pasta sauce jar around, and when it's filled up, wrap it in plastic grocery bags _then_ add it to the trash. Though to be fair, I only shallow fry and put bacon grease in the jar.
Yeah, I've never had this problem. I deep fry like once a year, maybe, and even then, I let the oil cool down and just put it back into the empty container I poured it out of. Paying 20 pounds to take that oil and put into some other container makes zero sense to me.
I was taught to just throw some paper towels in the trash and pour the cooled oil on top. Still a bit messy I guess, but not that difficult to deal with. If I am deep frying I'll just pour it back into the bottle it came in.
There is a big difference in recycling laws between america and most european countries so understandable that it's a bit different. Here in Sweden we are adviced to do the same as Ben describes.
It's not really a common British thing. I think Ben is just being responsible. Most Brits will soak up the oil in kitchen paper and bin it. If there is a lot of it folks dump it down the sink, sometimes with some washing up liquid. By using Fray Away (or Stearic acid powder at a fraction of the price) you can just throw it in the rubbish. Back in the day before cooking oil was really available in the UK most frying was done in lard, which solidified when cool. Disposing of cooking oil is a fairly modern problem.
On the topic of properly disposing of oil, Ben is right on saying fry less at home. We're taught the "Three R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" because that's all quick and catchy, easy to remember etc. Rarely do people go into more detail and point out, that is also the order of preference. Reducing usage in the first place has the great positive impact, reusing something as it is after helps too, and recycling is still good but of the 3 it's the least impactful in terms of helping the environment.
We've always just used an old can (usually from canned tomatoes) and put our used cooking oil and excess fat skimmed off of cooked ground beef into it and kept it in the freezer. When it's full you pull it out, throw it in the trash and off it goes. No mess, no muss, no fuss!
I wanted to jump in and comment about the FryAway. I've used it a couple of times already at home and it is amazing. But something that they got wrong is FryAway is designed to go into your household trash in addition it is compostable. Here in the states its about $15 for the 20 scoops basically. I used to shy away from any recipe that required frying because I never wanted to deal with the fry oil afterwards. It hasn't driven me to fry a significant amount more but now when I do fry I have the confidence that cleanup will be easy, safe and environmentally sound.
The problems they have with it is that it's not really compostable. The size of your compost heap to break down that amount of oil and be useable is far larger than would have. And while it makes it easier to put into your home bin, it doesn't help in terms of recycling the oil at the dump. All in all this is better than oil going down the drain, but it could be better, especially for the price. It's apparently a very similar product to an Asian dollar store item that does the same thing. Ways I think this process could be better? If it would be feasible to to add an extra bin next to the recyclable and non recyclables, or community compost centres. Both are unlikely, but we can hope.
"whats wrong with a knife and a board" AMEN! The amount of gadgets that come out to 'solve' issues that a knife has been doing for hundreds of years blows my mind. I understand accessibility tools are glad they exist, but your average joe can just use a knife.
10:35 I have a multi-function mandolin with attachments for dicing, slicing, grating, and spiralizing, which admittedly did cost twice what this thing did, but it's got a flat work surface, sits stably on a bench top, and has it's own attached bowl to catch the stuff that goes through it. I love mine and literally paid double what this horrible gadget cost to get a better experience
i owned the mandoline and used it when I was at uni while learning to cook, (brought by my parents as it was a multi function tool) my hand slipped cutting potatots it took off a large cut of my palm below my thumb that had to have eighteen stitches to hold the flesh onto my hand, a good section of flesh was removed.
Bruh, for the first product, you are being scammed! Japan has had this product for at least 20 years, and it's cheap af, like 5 pounds top. Someone just took the same product rebranded it with an eco-friendly logo and english, and sold it at a premium.
Household sewage systems are not meant to process non digested food stuffs. Dumping things in your household drain is a good way to promote vermin in your city sewers and increase biological load on your local sewage plants remediation systems. Furthermore all oils and fats are subject to becoming solid in a sewar system leading to "fatbergs" which can and do regularly cause blockages. Collect your used oils in the containter in which you purchased them and take them to the dump yourself, or purchase an oil rememdiation kit like the one being shown. Others include powdered milkweed fibres and corn starches.
So just an FYI about Fryaway, you get the same result using just simple stearic acid because that's basically what it is. It's 1 TBS per cup of hot liquid to solidify it the big difference is you can get a full 3 lbs/1.36 Kg of steric acid for about $20, or abt £15.40. It's uses for candle making, soap & other body products so as far as I know it's completely safe
I have literally never heard of a cooking oil disposal site, so that was super interesting to hear about. Everyone I know uses old spaghetti sauce jars to hold the old oil and when the jars get full we close the jars up tight and toss them in the trash can.
There are a ton of brands. However, the cheaper approach is to just buy it unbranded. Specifically, the product to buy is "stearic acid flakes." Very easy to find, since it's also used to harden soaps and candles.
We have oil collecting bins next to the paper, plastic, carton (paper-plastic-foil for drinks etc), glass and metal ones. You just collect your used oil in a PET bottle and leave it in the bin for the professional company to deal with. I have also heard strories of people using oatflakes to soak the oil or rather solid frying fat and leaving them for birds to nibble on.
@@The_Joy_Finder Can confirm. I used to know a couple who farmed emus before retiring, and they gave me an egg before. We wound up grabbing the drill and pouring it out through a hole we made in the top. It's more like opening a coconut than an egg.
Regarding the oil, my grandmother always thought me to use a pinch of gelatin in the frying pan right after cooking. She would keep packs of like strawberry gello next to the stove for just that purpose. Then scoop right into the trash. 20 years later I've changed to lemon. It doesn't smell as bad as the strawberry mixes into the oil. 😂
@@IlkaWaffy Yeah, I didn't think gelatin would even work on fat, so I don't have a clue. One option is to just absorb it instead. The solutions that are available are likely the cheapest (to make) though...
Using a wok to minimize the amount of oil needed to deepfry is a good first step. The wide round shape allows a higher ratio of food to oil. After the oil cools it is easy to slowly pour into a bowl to filter out the bits. After using the oil a few times & letting it fully cool I pour it into a plastic shopping bag . Tie the bag tightly toss in general trash. If using natural oil like peanut oil it has zero effect in a landfill.
We use the last gagdet in our bakery. We have one for each liquor we need and have it set to the amounts that we need. (or a division for whiskey so we can just multi pump). It's quicker and it keeps the bottles clean. (Might be another version because ours has an button beloow the output that you can hit with a glass to dispense a portion)
You guys are getting hosed wherever you got the oil solidifier. I’ve been using a different brand for about 2 years. $15 (£12) on Amazon for enough for 50 cups of oil.
That's still insane. Here in Japan you can get a pack that's for about 25 cups for $2. So $4 for 50 cups. And that's from Amazon, you can probably get even cheaper if you actually look in brick stores. The brand is Johnson.
@@VokocaI’ve tried the Japanese branded stuff available on Amazon in the U.S., doesn’t work as well as the EZ Fry. The stuff you get over there is probably way better.
Oil disposal: Pour cooled oil into used paper coffee cups or ice cream tubs and freeze, then toss. For smaller amounts, wipe with kitchen paper and toss.
Yeah... I lost a corner of my thumb to a mandolin and when I had to go to urgent care and then explain to my primary care, she mumbled "those thing should be illegal".
I never deep fry at home but if i have leftover bacon grease I'll heat the pan up again until it's liquid then CAREFULLY tip it into a jar to store in the fridge. Use it for searing chicken, vegetables etc, it lasts for ages and makes anything you pan fry ruddy delicious
Guys,if you have some bacon grease/or fat left over that you wont' use (but i doubt you wouldn't) you can mix in rolled oats and feed to the birds in your garden or balcony etc,the birds love it,especially in the winter when food is more scarce !
Man, I love you guys. It would be so easy to make these sorts of videos lazily. For views, you could over-exaggerate either the usefulness or the uselessness of these gadgets. But you take your time and rigorously test them, and then give measured, considered opinions. With the fish skin peeler, I really appreciate that you slowed down and kept looking at videos to see if you could work with it more easily instead of just dismissing it. That kind of thing makes me respect your opinion more because it's clear that you care and you're not just throwing out videos for more views.
So something we have always done to dispose of extra oil is 1 cup of oats per cup of oil. The oats absorb the oil overnight and then dispose in the morning in the garage.
That last one reminds me of a type of dispenser we have in a chemistry lab. There is some overlap between lab equipment and kitchen gadgets, you could do one of these episodes looking at lab equipment, and wether they would be useful in a home kitchen, an example could be a hotplate with magnetic stirring.
So for the Fry away, there are a couple other points to remember. If you are using a lot of oil to deep fry, you tend to reuse that oil several times (2-3 times). So to say it's more expensive than the oil is misleading, as you have to remember you are using the oil multiple times and the powder only once. Also if you are only deep frying once a blue moon in the home kitchen, then one bag might last you an entire year. So yea the price is high, but in context adding that price on your yearly budget to make getting rid of oil easier makes it much more affordable. And if it truly makes it possible to dispose of that amount of used and dirty oil by throwing it away, that is a ton more oil not causing damage.
I’ve watched the videos on IG of the shredder/slicer thing so many times and I really wanted to get it but I wasn’t sure it could possibly be as easy as they make it look. Thank goodness you guys tried it!
Maybe my local council (in England) is unusual, but we can just put used cooking oil in a container (eg the plastic bottle it came in) and pop that in the food waste recycling bin for collection each week. Just like the big tanks at the recycling centres, it goes to make biodiesel.
The solution to dispose of used cooking oil is, once cooled, pour into an old soda bottle. Then dispose of in the general waste bin. This is the advice our council has given us.
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Alcohol (ethanol) is less dense than water, so 50mL of pure alcohol weight about 40g. Wine has 12% alcohol, so 98g for 100mL seems pretty realistic. With the whisky its even greater of a gap cause its around 40% alc.
Came here to say this - gotta use density conversions if you're trying to find the volume of (pretty much) any liquid other than water using only a gram scale
I don’t have a good measuring jug so whenever I bake something that uses oil in the batter I have to weigh it after googling the density of vegetable oil, if I remember correctly 100 ml of oil weigh about 90g.
I came here to comment this too.
Very glad someone else came to say this. I'm very surprised Ebbers didn't start geeking out on this fact...
The densitiy of a mixture ethanol/water at 11.2% Alc. is 98,505 g per 100ml so it is accurate.
When Baz said "We've had some terribly dangerous gadgets" I was expecting a clip of the coconut shredder.
And yet I feel like that thing was more dangerous than the coconut shredder!
Even a standard mandolin with the proper safety equipment is scary enough.
@@Tannhauser42 yeah owning a mandolin and not owning cut proof gloves is a great way to have less fingerprints XD
@@HeartTheBaconI cut off my fingertip with one, can confirm. Was too embarrassed to go to the doctor so just stuck it back on and taped it. Somehow it worked and you can’t tell i can’t it but I now have a healthy fear of mandolines and cut proof glove.
That's where my mind went!!
I wanted to let your boys know you had a great gadget a few weeks ago. It was the veg peeler that fits in the palm of your hand. I have limited mobility, and I bought one after seeing your review of it. I absolutely love it! Thank you for the help! (I know At 63, I am not your target audience, but I love watching you all.)
Yeah I saw that one, as someone who has arthritis but not as bad yet I definitely added it to my mental library for the future. Glad it's helping you out now!
I got 1 too. I'm in my 50s but had a stroke after a bad reaction to a minor spider bite.
That’s seriously amazing to hear. So glad that it helped you out 💛
I definitely need to check that out as it sounds so useful for those of us with reduced dexterity and grip :D
How is 63 not an acceptable age to watch Sorted? I'm 60 and single. I need videos not only to help with cooking for one also to generate an appetite!
13:04 About a year ago I took a chunk out of my right middle finger with a kitchen mandolin, and when we went to urgent care they told us they see several mandolin injuries every day. This thing is like someone looked at the mandolin and said, "nah, that's way too safe."
There should really be some sort of regulation REQUIRING a hand guard for mandolines, because without one, it's far too easy for even professionals to add slices of the pink carrots to their food. With a hand guard it's not impossible to still slice yourself, but your chances go way, way down, and generally speaking, you've got to be pretty klutzy to manage to injure yourself while properly using the safety equipment as designed.
@@muyyek Yeah, I was doing a couple questionable things when I had my accident. The biggest mistake I made was that I didn't think to grab the cutproof glove.
@@muyyek Just get some proper cutproof gloves. Like the ones butchers use for example, even though butcher chainmail gloves can be pricy.
Yeah, a mandolin is one of those things that is very purposefully NOT handheld. A box grater would do the exact same thing and be infinitely safer.
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Cutproof gloves do not need to be chainmail there are cheaper alternatives. In most professional kitchens they are required whenever mandolines are used whether guides are used or not.
It's funny, the oil powder is a common and cheap item in Japan (even sold at their version of dollar stores). Companies like fry away add in some English packaging and quadruple the price. It works well, but it definitely isn't a new product.
We’ve heard this! Will have to take a look 👀
also seems like japanese version I've seen makes it more of a solid brick over what they got which was a bit more goopy.
That stuff is basically just stearic acid which you can buy for a lot less than that
I love the Japanese product! A store started carrying it as some off time ago last year. Super inexpensive. Other good Japanese products that I now see as "new" in the States (including some as "new as seen on tv" rip offs). So silly.
@@BaeBunni Yeah, the Japanese version I have makes a solid puck that can be lifted out in one piece.
The density of whiskey is 0.94. That means 100ml = 94 grammes. 45 ml is 42 grammes. So the gadget was measuring it correctly. Water density is 1, so 100ml = 100grammes.
Thank you, that was bugging me and I didn't want to google densities! A volume of alcohol has less mass that the same volume of water would. The gadget likely has a peristaltic pump inside of it, so it measures how much is dispensed by the flow rate of the pump or how many rotations the pump shaft makes.
Interesting, but why then is it calibrated just to water? Is this adjustable. Because for that price, it better be able to get calibrated to different types of alcohols and liquids. It's pretty pointless in practice otherwise in my opinion.
@VtheHAPPYLURKER it is not calibrated for water. Ben and Jamie are measuring weight and not accounting for density difference. To check for accuracy they should have used a measuring cup instead.
Volume (mL) = mass / density.
So for the same volume, if density is different, its mass would be different too.
@@VtheHAPPYLURKERit's calculated to a measurement not a weight. Different liquids have different densities which in turn then have different weights. Water is the default for weight. So if you have a litre of water it's 1kg. If you have 1000l it's is 1m2 and also 1ton. Weight is specifically aligned with water.
@@HA05GER Weight is a measurement, I think you meant to say it's measuring volume not weight.
For cooking oil, we add cheap rolled oats to absorb the oil/fat, and a bit of honey, then put it outside on bird feeders in the garden. You can also add a little bird seed to the oats.
Thanks for the info!
Love this!! Definitely much better than trying to recycling ❤
I use it as weed killer lol
came here to say this 😊
That seems okay for the winter locations I think if you live in a hot location you probably don't want to be giving garbage fat to birds as this can actually cause them to overheat and get this really nasty liver condition when it's hot out. I can't remember what it's called but I used to keep pet chickens and this was a thing that we had to watch out for and adjust their diet according to the time of year appropriately. It's basically similar to giving Suit to birds.
The mandolin grater thing is actually terrifying! They’ve taken an already generally risky gadget and made it significantly more dangerous 😂
I have a version of this, but it doesn’t have the V cutter in it. I use it for shredding, cabbage, and carrots. I use two attachments on it. I don’t use the other one. It’s really great for getting vegetables cut small quickly. I can turn it in less than five minutes, and I only skinned a knuckle the first time I used it.
That is the worst mandolin I have ever seen.
I don't think you can even buy a mandolin style slicer in the US without a holder/pusher guard. Sure most people are idiots that don't use them, but the liability of not supplying one would be astronomical.
COCONUT SHREDDER! That will always be iconic. James "Ben is not worth it!" Is now on par with ramsay's WHERE IS THE LAMB SAUCE?!
Followed by his *“WHERE’S THE DISH?”*
“WHERES THE DISH?”
The fryaway spunds great but too expensive. The others are thumbs down! But it is always nice to see you guys try these
The coconut shredder was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of this episode.
@@marthawilson444 at least the last thing worked and for me, falls into the categorie of the fryaway: good but to expensive
In a crisis, there are 2 wolves inside Jamie: “I don’t do colours” and “I’m left handed.”
"I'm using my RIGHT HAND!" 7:39
Except they're more like squirrels. And they're really useless.
And both are very hungry
First snipping the skinzit I laughed so hard thank you for not being a boring grown up
One is called Chorizo, the other is called Bacon.
"Can we have a look at the box?" *slams box to the floor* 🤣
My favourite moment of the clip!
The look on Jamie's face as he does it. I almost wet myself. 5 stars.
For FryAway, use pure stearic acid (it's a fatty acid) instead. It's made from plants, usually by adding hydrogenating fats from soy or palm, but is also a naturally occurring saturated fat in meat products, like beef tallow. It's an ingredient in make up, and some processed foods, to solidify fats or act as an emulsifier. The solidified fat can be composted. The more you use, the more solid the fat will be at room temperature. Use less, and the fry oil becomes more like an animal fat that kind of sets up at room temperature.
Some place very common you see this behavior is when a small bit of palm oil is added to peanut butter for a no-stir peanut butter.
That's exactly what I use. 21GBP for a packet of fryaway or a fiver for a big packet of stearic acid. I know what I went for
I've also used potato starch for smaller amounts of oil.
Fry away is simply marked up stearic acid with a brand name attached.
Steeric acid if you’re dealing with beef.
exactly. Also how tf are they charging £21 for little bit of powder. Mragins must be insane on that.
Just wanted to mention about the "sipper" gadget. You were measuring weight and the machine was pouring mL (volume). The density of alcohol is not the same as water. 100 mL of whisky is not 100 grams on balance.
Thank you! I was wondering how come evern a professional chef doesn't know that. I thought the concept of density was common knowledge.
I wonder if they where to measure water,
I presume the 45 ml would have been 45 g.
But as you say Alcohol is less dense than water so it should have been a bit less than 45 g which indeed it was.
Yep, most spirits are about 95% as dense as water, so 45mL of them would only have a mass of around 42.75g, which is pretty much spot on what they got.
It’s also a dumb and absolutely not needed device.
If the wine was about 10% alcohol 100 ml would weigh about 98 grams. And that's what they got.
Rather than buying branded oil solidifiers like FryAway, it's much cheaper to just buy stearic acid. It's commonly used in candle-making and soap-making, so it's readily available both online and at hobby stores. As an added bonus, it's typically packaged with less waste. That's what companies like National Geographic and Consumer Reports recommend.
My dad just pours used oil onto birdfood and the birds thrive in his garden. He gets dozens of different species visiting ❤
I love that Ben and Barry were cringing when Jamie was using the mandolin and then Jamie and Barry were cringing when Ben was using it and I was cringing 😬🫣through the whole process 😂, I hate mandolins and this one was atrocious and not worth the stress of watching some of our favourite people trying to use it ❤❤
Maybe try the "cornstarch slurry to clean oil trick" or others to show folks how they can clean & reuse oil. Or show what kind of meat drippings you can save, and how they should be stored and used.
It seems simple, but I bet lots of folks could use pointers.
The amount of things/concepts that everyone takes for granted but are completely unknown to me would fill my youtube fee for ages.
Baking soda works well, too.
I’d love to see an episode testing different ways to dispose of oil!
I was about to say "all that fish, we're gonna see some more fish recipes soon" but after seeing them 'skinned,' I'm less confident 😂
You can always still use mangled proteins, as long as you're already going to prepare or cook it in a way where presentation isn't as important. Fish stew, curry or chowder, or if the fish is wrapped in anything like Malaysian fish "puddings" (packed with rice, wrapped in banana leaf or ti leaves and steamed like a tamale), or if you mince/grind the fish up fine for something like a fish cake. Or you could always bread and fry them, and then it doesn't matter what the surface looks like (have to admit, I've never had Dover sole fish and chips before, so I don't know what that would be like...)
@@muyyek Like ben said. At least we have lots for our fish curry
As somebody who's had a mandolin incident, that moment with the third gadget made my heart jump out of my mouth.
When the man who used the coconut shedder with little fear is scared of a gadget, you know it is a no go for me.
Fry Away: To disposse oil, you can put it in the refergerator and solidify it before you put it in a bag for disposal. Also flour helps to solidify oil, or make it a paste, and it is much cheaper. This I only do in an emergency, because it is wasting food.
The flour idea is good
That was my second thought? Unless the fry-away is very cheap per use, flour would likely cost less.
so make a motherload of roux
Flour and stale mouldy bread + newspapers or paper junk mail.
🎉
oats will also do the same thing. they absorb the oil and make it easy to dispose of.
Time to use a James quote:
*”It’s the coconut shredder all over again…”*
My thoughts exactly when I saw the thumbnail haha
The alcohol dispenser is very similar to something from my past. Many, many years ago, I worked at a mechanical/electrical engineering company. A potential client came to us with a request to design and build something for him. He was the owner of a several very large and popular bars and clubs in the area. He said he was losing lots of money due to his bar and waitstaff over-pouring drinks - or even giving away free ones. He wanted us to design toppers for alcohol bottles that would poor exact measurements of drinks, as well as only pour if it was rung up. It was definitely doable, but the cost of engineering the product to a professional standard was too high and it never happened.
This is exactly the scenario I envisioned this gadget for. This, to me, is where it makes the most sense. Busy bar/restaurant and a sipvault for each open bottle. Measurements are precise and no one is cheated out of anything
For me, at 54, a mandolin is not about skills I haven't learned but about helping me work faster in the kitchen despite having an autoimmune joint disorder. Definitely MANY other options available that are better and easier to use than the one you tested today. That one was dangerous!
I spent years going to the dump with my father and this is the first time I have ever heard of a cooking oil recycling place.
Have a look next time you go 😁
The fire department around me takes it. Much more convenient.
If you add the fry away and then take it to be recycled will it do anything to the oil that could harm/ change the recycling?
@@improvldy. Was just wondering the same thing. Surely it must contaminate the whole batch and make it useless for recycling.
@@improvldy No clue, we were always dumping construction remains, furniture or house trash. All of which you just dump into a pile or deep bin.
Y'all should do a compilation of all the dangerous gadgets you have tested with a round table discussion. That would be a lot of fun for y'all and for your audience! Love the show!
The fact that no one lost a hand to that janky mandolin is nothing short of a Christmas miracle
I found myself abruptly grateful to have a mandolin with a solid base and a hand guard! (That was terrifying.)
10:04 The pride on Barry's cheeky face during this line delivery is absolutely well deserved!! A+ Barry, A+. 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😂😂😂
Just a point about the last gadget, both wine and whiskey have a lower density than water (0.99 and 0.94 g/mL from what I can find) so the device was pretty much spot on in both tests with the volume of liquid it had dispensed.
That fish skinner thing is just a proper disaster 😂
😆👀
I can easily envision someone managing to get their fingers in there (I'm in an industry where they actually REQUIRE us to see examples where people went wrong with their various power tools, so I'm mentally damaged in that I can now see worst-case-scenarios for pretty much everything... "Let's see, how can this go horribly wrong? Oh yes, I see, complete digital evulsion. Let's call this device ' The Mangler.'"
I've seen plenty of reviewers who rated it pretty highly. The trick is to use a reviewer with lower standards, ideally one who neither knows how to skin a fish nor has a properly skinned fish for comparison.
One of the iron chefs used one (I'm pretty sure I saw morimoto use it after an injury that made wielding a knife difficult (I think it was a palm burn)) but his is obviously a superior brand from Japan because it was beautifully skinned (also helps that it was in the hands of a double iron chef)
I'm pretty certain the videos showing it "working perfectly" have scalded the fish with hot water or done some other trick first.
Have used the Fry Away when I deep fried once. Works exactly as advertised. I could see the sipper device, not in a bar but in chain coffee shops for the non barista trained staff to measure out milks, iced teas, mixes..etc for consistency and to keep food cost down.Thanks for extra video today along with the Washed Up weekend.
"Fry Away" is not new, but I am happy it's spreading to more markets. I personally don't know how well "fry away" specifially works, but the brand I've used for years is from Japan and works amazingly well. This concept has been around for a long time.
I’m fortunate in having chickens to recycle most of my organic wastes through. Surplus cooking oil just gets mixed with the other organics that I feed them. However, I rarely or never indulge in deep fat frying, so I don’t have large quantities to dispose of.
exactly my thought- also if you have dogs you can put it on their dry dog food and it will make their fur coat healthy and shiny! As others have mentioned, oats are also a great way to dispose of oil.
22 quid for a packet of flakes to turn make oil more easy to throw in the trash...
I don't know about over in the UK, but lye sells for about 2 euro a kilo here. Pass that oil through a strainer with a bit of paper kitchen towel in it, to get out the solid bits. Then add it to 300ml of water and 200gr of lye per litre of oil, mix it properly and voila soap.
Also turning it into soap can be done with cold oil and cold water. Just put it in a lye-safe bucket and leave it to sit.
The last and most convenient option for me, is to just take it to my neighbours who have a Vietnamese food truck and they get paid by the litre of used oil by a company that then turns it into "bio" diesel.
I vastly prefer your idea over that over-priced nonsense ngl
and that soap is freaking awesome, my mom do those and they clean dishes and hands really really good
@@gozerthegozarian9500 overpriced is very accurate - the people behind it specifically said that they sell it for 10-15 bucks while it only costs about 1 buck to make... overcharging by a factor of 10 is pretty egregious
and im willing to bet its just something very close to stearic acid (or precisely that)
@@SharienGaming Woooaaah! That is robbery!
Several comments already about arthritis users needing some kind of mandolin type thing to help. I would love to see you guys review a few of the best options maybe with a disabled guest, it would be super helpful and wholesome!
"4 blades that do clip in really easily..." immediately falls out.
The millilitre function on a scale generally just works from the density of water, which effectively means the "ml" mode is just the same as "g" at low volumes.
Wine has a density of about 99% that of water, so 100ml would read 99m. So combined with the dribble, it was probably more accurate than you made out.
Whiskey and Tequila have a density that is about 94-95% that of water, so 45ml of whiskey would measure about 42-43ml on a conventional scale. So reading 43ml on a scale would be about accurate.
In the future I would recommend using a measuring jug/cylinder if making measurements of volume, scales will only be accurate with room temp water.
(If you wanted to be super accurate, a burette would be best, but is a bit overkill in a kitchen environment)
Lol as a nurse, the 2nd gadget I instantly thought "skin grafting"..
There is one gadget that I have never seen on any „gadget show“ ever and I remember that when I was a child I thought it must be the most ingenious idea ever: This powdered sugar mill thing my grandmother constantly used to use when she made waffles or cakes or pancakes. It was a Tupperware item and you could dust everything you wanted with a very consistent layer of powdered sugar or cocoa. It is the only kitchen item I kept when she died and I have never seen it anywhere else. I would love to see it tested somewhere (although it would probably be a very boring test…)
the fact that there is a tool for idiots to remove the tastiest part of a fish tells me all i need to know about that tool.
Thank you for uploading videos for those of us who can't watch you live
Gadgets are my favorite format! Yay! Thanks For this Guys! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
There is a small company here in Sweden who upcycles discarded frying oil into soft soap. I love it! Oily and buttery utensils, bowls, you name it, are so easily cleaned and leaves no residue behind. Ovens, bathrooms - tiled in particular - are a breeze to clean. It’s perfect for massive wood floors, decks and, to a degree, flagstone floorings, as it can be used to impregnate them. They have just launched their detergents as well. And they smell nice. Yup, I love their products 👌🏼
I didn’t see anyone say anything, but they are likely wrong about the measurements of the last product being off. Alcohol is less dense than water, which would lead to a lower weight per mL. So, when they wanted 45 mL and got a weight of 43 it was likely close to being correct. It would need to be tested with water if they wanted to do weights easily or with a graduated container.
So the fryaway, can it go to the oil recycling? There are companies that make diesel, soap and other products, so can it still be used like that? Also it would be great to take camping! It’s hard to handle oil when you are trying to pack out! The oil from bacon for example!
fry in lard which automatically solidifies into a solid. in belgium we have fry oil disposal bins near most shops so we just pour our oil warmly into a plastic bottle and drop it there when we go shopping
Most councils in the uk take a bit of used oil soaked into kitchen roll in the composting waste. For large amounts you can take it to the dump (where it’s used to make biofuel) but it is biodegradable and will breakdown over time in a composter.
You can use spent oil to proof wood, i.e. for garden use, or you can pour it into your oyster mushrooms substrate (if you are growing oyster mushrooms at home). Easy and - in my opinion - much better ecologically.
Stearic Acid can be used to solidify oil as well for a fraction of the cost. Stearic Acid is often used in making bars of soap
I wonder if you could split the solidified oil to small squares and use it as a fire-starter. This would be neat lol
Ben's talk of taking used oil to the dump must be a British thing. Here in my part of America, I just keep an old pasta sauce jar around, and when it's filled up, wrap it in plastic grocery bags _then_ add it to the trash. Though to be fair, I only shallow fry and put bacon grease in the jar.
Yeah, I've never had this problem. I deep fry like once a year, maybe, and even then, I let the oil cool down and just put it back into the empty container I poured it out of.
Paying 20 pounds to take that oil and put into some other container makes zero sense to me.
Wicked waste of bacon fat.😊
I was taught to just throw some paper towels in the trash and pour the cooled oil on top. Still a bit messy I guess, but not that difficult to deal with. If I am deep frying I'll just pour it back into the bottle it came in.
There is a big difference in recycling laws between america and most european countries so understandable that it's a bit different. Here in Sweden we are adviced to do the same as Ben describes.
It's not really a common British thing. I think Ben is just being responsible. Most Brits will soak up the oil in kitchen paper and bin it. If there is a lot of it folks dump it down the sink, sometimes with some washing up liquid.
By using Fray Away (or Stearic acid powder at a fraction of the price) you can just throw it in the rubbish. Back in the day before cooking oil was really available in the UK most frying was done in lard, which solidified when cool. Disposing of cooking oil is a fairly modern problem.
I was so scared Ben was going to cut his palm open. I know he was being careful, but **shudders.**
On the topic of properly disposing of oil, Ben is right on saying fry less at home. We're taught the "Three R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" because that's all quick and catchy, easy to remember etc. Rarely do people go into more detail and point out, that is also the order of preference. Reducing usage in the first place has the great positive impact, reusing something as it is after helps too, and recycling is still good but of the 3 it's the least impactful in terms of helping the environment.
Never forget the skinny legend that started it all: The Electric Coconut Shredder
Happy Sunday, everyone!
6:17 "Skin Zit" is not the most appetizing brand names ...
after the state of the fishes, zits will be the least of your concerns
We've always just used an old can (usually from canned tomatoes) and put our used cooking oil and excess fat skimmed off of cooked ground beef into it and kept it in the freezer. When it's full you pull it out, throw it in the trash and off it goes. No mess, no muss, no fuss!
6:57 first frontal close up of that thing reminded me of the combines that farms use when harvesting crops on commercial farms 🚜
I wanted to jump in and comment about the FryAway. I've used it a couple of times already at home and it is amazing. But something that they got wrong is FryAway is designed to go into your household trash in addition it is compostable. Here in the states its about $15 for the 20 scoops basically. I used to shy away from any recipe that required frying because I never wanted to deal with the fry oil afterwards. It hasn't driven me to fry a significant amount more but now when I do fry I have the confidence that cleanup will be easy, safe and environmentally sound.
The problems they have with it is that it's not really compostable. The size of your compost heap to break down that amount of oil and be useable is far larger than would have. And while it makes it easier to put into your home bin, it doesn't help in terms of recycling the oil at the dump. All in all this is better than oil going down the drain, but it could be better, especially for the price. It's apparently a very similar product to an Asian dollar store item that does the same thing. Ways I think this process could be better? If it would be feasible to to add an extra bin next to the recyclable and non recyclables, or community compost centres. Both are unlikely, but we can hope.
Just read in the other comments that some places do have oil recycling bins, so yeah. That would be a great option.
Get stearic acid instead.
"whats wrong with a knife and a board" AMEN!
The amount of gadgets that come out to 'solve' issues that a knife has been doing for hundreds of years blows my mind. I understand accessibility tools are glad they exist, but your average joe can just use a knife.
10:35 I have a multi-function mandolin with attachments for dicing, slicing, grating, and spiralizing, which admittedly did cost twice what this thing did, but it's got a flat work surface, sits stably on a bench top, and has it's own attached bowl to catch the stuff that goes through it. I love mine and literally paid double what this horrible gadget cost to get a better experience
i owned the mandoline and used it when I was at uni while learning to cook, (brought by my parents as it was a multi function tool) my hand slipped cutting potatots it took off a large cut of my palm below my thumb that had to have eighteen stitches to hold the flesh onto my hand, a good section of flesh was removed.
Bruh, for the first product, you are being scammed! Japan has had this product for at least 20 years, and it's cheap af, like 5 pounds top. Someone just took the same product rebranded it with an eco-friendly logo and english, and sold it at a premium.
Exactly. It's just Stearic Acid (£4 - £5 a kilo online).
Household sewage systems are not meant to process non digested food stuffs. Dumping things in your household drain is a good way to promote vermin in your city sewers and increase biological load on your local sewage plants remediation systems.
Furthermore all oils and fats are subject to becoming solid in a sewar system leading to "fatbergs" which can and do regularly cause blockages. Collect your used oils in the containter in which you purchased them and take them to the dump yourself, or purchase an oil rememdiation kit like the one being shown. Others include powdered milkweed fibres and corn starches.
So just an FYI about Fryaway, you get the same result using just simple stearic acid because that's basically what it is. It's 1 TBS per cup of hot liquid to solidify it the big difference is you can get a full 3 lbs/1.36 Kg of steric acid for about $20, or abt £15.40. It's uses for candle making, soap & other body products so as far as I know it's completely safe
I have literally never heard of a cooking oil disposal site, so that was super interesting to hear about. Everyone I know uses old spaghetti sauce jars to hold the old oil and when the jars get full we close the jars up tight and toss them in the trash can.
Similar product to Fryaway have been used in japan for a long time. So might be able to find cheaper alternative
Ooooh interesting, we will take a look, thank you!
Yeah pretty sure daiso sells it, and there’s one almost everywhere.
There are a ton of brands. However, the cheaper approach is to just buy it unbranded. Specifically, the product to buy is "stearic acid flakes." Very easy to find, since it's also used to harden soaps and candles.
Jamie looks very GQ❤️
Love listening to Barry.
We have oil collecting bins next to the paper, plastic, carton (paper-plastic-foil for drinks etc), glass and metal ones. You just collect your used oil in a PET bottle and leave it in the bin for the professional company to deal with. I have also heard strories of people using oatflakes to soak the oil or rather solid frying fat and leaving them for birds to nibble on.
The sorted video I needed on my 55th birthday,thank you Ben,Baz Jay,James Kush Mike and sorted for being here today for me 🎉
happy birthday!! :)
@@romy7408 thank you so much. It really was 🫶
Video idea kush vs Ben vs a normal cooking an ostrich egg
Great idea. Have you cooked one before?
@@SortedFoodYes. They are almost impossible to soft boil. It would be an invitation for an hilarious disaster to make that the challenge. 🤣
The shell is so hard you need a hammer to open it, so it's not just equivalent to cooking an exponentially bigger egg.
@@The_Joy_Finder exponentially? so it gets bigger while you have it damn
@@The_Joy_Finder Can confirm. I used to know a couple who farmed emus before retiring, and they gave me an egg before. We wound up grabbing the drill and pouring it out through a hole we made in the top. It's more like opening a coconut than an egg.
Regarding the oil, my grandmother always thought me to use a pinch of gelatin in the frying pan right after cooking. She would keep packs of like strawberry gello next to the stove for just that purpose. Then scoop right into the trash. 20 years later I've changed to lemon. It doesn't smell as bad as the strawberry mixes into the oil. 😂
When you say, "a pinch of gelatin" how much are we talking about?
Wouldn't it be funny if it turns out that magic powder is simply gelatine and a filler
Gelatin is animal based, and that doesn't sell so well nowadays.
@@mellertid I'd be interested to know if gelatin alternatives like agar agar would work the same. There's plenty of plant based binders
@@IlkaWaffy Yeah, I didn't think gelatin would even work on fat, so I don't have a clue. One option is to just absorb it instead. The solutions that are available are likely the cheapest (to make) though...
Using a wok to minimize the amount of oil needed to deepfry is a good first step. The wide round shape allows a higher ratio of food to oil. After the oil cools it is easy to slowly pour into a bowl to filter out the bits. After using the oil a few times & letting it fully cool I pour it into a plastic shopping bag . Tie the bag tightly toss in general trash. If using natural oil like peanut oil it has zero effect in a landfill.
We use the last gagdet in our bakery. We have one for each liquor we need and have it set to the amounts that we need. (or a division for whiskey so we can just multi pump). It's quicker and it keeps the bottles clean. (Might be another version because ours has an button beloow the output that you can hit with a glass to dispense a portion)
Put oatmeal in your fat or oil making suet and feed it to birds.
Great idea 👏
You guys are getting hosed wherever you got the oil solidifier. I’ve been using a different brand for about 2 years. $15 (£12) on Amazon for enough for 50 cups of oil.
Brand? I need some of that.
That's still insane. Here in Japan you can get a pack that's for about 25 cups for $2. So $4 for 50 cups. And that's from Amazon, you can probably get even cheaper if you actually look in brick stores. The brand is Johnson.
@@ClockworkGFX EZ Fry oil solidifier.
@@VokocaI’ve tried the Japanese branded stuff available on Amazon in the U.S., doesn’t work as well as the EZ Fry. The stuff you get over there is probably way better.
Oil disposal: Pour cooled oil into used paper coffee cups or ice cream tubs and freeze, then toss. For smaller amounts, wipe with kitchen paper and toss.
When you have a small amount of hot fat left, add oats. Let it cool, then mould and put out for the birds.
I don't thinking asking if it's a "cleaning product" is "miles away" when it's a product thats LITERALLY used to clean old oil 🙄
It’s not used to clean oil, it’s used to solidify it, to make it easier to dispose of.
Disposing of is.... cleaning it up lmao @SortedFood
@@jleighwolfethe distinction makes sense with the context of actually recycling (cleaning) the oil for reuse, as talked about in the video.
Video idea guys! Ben and kush battle using only Macdonalds products!
Not sure Ebbers would like that 😆
@@SortedFoodbut so funny 😂😂😂😂
Pretty sure Jamie would volunteer to judge 🤤
I've pressed Pause to compliment Jamie on giving it the snip humour
Yeah... I lost a corner of my thumb to a mandolin and when I had to go to urgent care and then explain to my primary care, she mumbled "those thing should be illegal".
For a small handheld mandolin to rival the industrial coconut “shaver” in danger levels is impressive.
I never deep fry at home but if i have leftover bacon grease I'll heat the pan up again until it's liquid then CAREFULLY tip it into a jar to store in the fridge. Use it for searing chicken, vegetables etc, it lasts for ages and makes anything you pan fry ruddy delicious
Guys,if you have some bacon grease/or fat left over that you wont' use (but i doubt you wouldn't) you can mix in rolled oats and feed to the birds in your garden or balcony etc,the birds love it,especially in the winter when food is more scarce !
Man, I love you guys. It would be so easy to make these sorts of videos lazily. For views, you could over-exaggerate either the usefulness or the uselessness of these gadgets. But you take your time and rigorously test them, and then give measured, considered opinions. With the fish skin peeler, I really appreciate that you slowed down and kept looking at videos to see if you could work with it more easily instead of just dismissing it. That kind of thing makes me respect your opinion more because it's clear that you care and you're not just throwing out videos for more views.
Empty glass jars have always been the go to for my family when discarding used cooking oils.
"I'd pay double to not use it" is iconic
Finally, a Gadget with a Greater Risk than that - Coconut shredder, and the Chinese popcorn maker
So something we have always done to dispose of extra oil is 1 cup of oats per cup of oil. The oats absorb the oil overnight and then dispose in the morning in the garage.
Grandma used to use oatmeal to soak up oil and then feed to the birds
Jamie: Redeem yourself!!! Barry: *gives Jamie and Ebbers the most dangerous gadget"
That last one reminds me of a type of dispenser we have in a chemistry lab.
There is some overlap between lab equipment and kitchen gadgets, you could do one of these episodes looking at lab equipment, and wether they would be useful in a home kitchen, an example could be a hotplate with magnetic stirring.
So for the Fry away, there are a couple other points to remember. If you are using a lot of oil to deep fry, you tend to reuse that oil several times (2-3 times). So to say it's more expensive than the oil is misleading, as you have to remember you are using the oil multiple times and the powder only once. Also if you are only deep frying once a blue moon in the home kitchen, then one bag might last you an entire year. So yea the price is high, but in context adding that price on your yearly budget to make getting rid of oil easier makes it much more affordable. And if it truly makes it possible to dispose of that amount of used and dirty oil by throwing it away, that is a ton more oil not causing damage.
I’ve watched the videos on IG of the shredder/slicer thing so many times and I really wanted to get it but I wasn’t sure it could possibly be as easy as they make it look. Thank goodness you guys tried it!
Maybe my local council (in England) is unusual, but we can just put used cooking oil in a container (eg the plastic bottle it came in) and pop that in the food waste recycling bin for collection each week. Just like the big tanks at the recycling centres, it goes to make biodiesel.
The fryaway stuff has been huge in Japan for years! What a great solution
"Does it suck, pump, or blow?" Bless you Ebbers.
(Yes, I never grew up, and never will.)
Also, need more 'Ben out of context' type videos.
Watching this during the Washed Up break!
The solution to dispose of used cooking oil is, once cooled, pour into an old soda bottle. Then dispose of in the general waste bin. This is the advice our council has given us.
Them weighing the alcohol is making me insane, screaming at the computer "alcohol is lighter than water!" like a madman