Lisa's Favorite Gadgets You Didn't Know You Needed
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2020
- Gadget critic Lisa McManus reviews the gadgets you didn’t know you needed.
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I like these types of videos. More to come I hope!
I love those flexible cutting mats! They don't replace my regular boards but they add some *flexibility* to ingredient prep 😉
You're an ingredient.
@@enbardis 🤔
They don't have to. I use them on top of my board.
@@GaelinW I use one underneath my cutting board so it doesn't slip, and one on top so I can funnel the ingredient afterwards. I also stand on one so I don't personally slip.
I bought mats in different colors for diifferent foods - red for raw meat, blue for uncooked fish, and white for vegetables and cooked meats.
Duuuude, I have had that tiny spatula for a few years now (it was a stocking stuffer from my mommy one year) and not even kidding it's my favorite of all my cooking utensils. I never thought I'd feel that strongly about anything like this, but that thing is fabulous.
Please do more of videos like these. I’d be curious to know what each ATK members favourite kitchen gadget is
Didn't they just do that this past month? -Oh maybe it was Epicurious or some other half crap channel I follow.
GOOD idea
Love your videos!! There is always good info coming from your kitchen. God bless and stay safe and healthy
Cheese planes are very common in Denmark. I have to say, having owned many of them, even some vintage ones, the best ones are made of plastic. If the cheese is just a little bit sticky, it works right off the bat, where the metal ones need to be 'broken in' with a couple of slices of cheese :)
As a Swede, one of the most surprising things I encountered was learning that not everyone around the world uses those types of cheese slicers.
I believe it was invented in Norway.
And has entirely taken over all of Scandinavia.
Everyone has multiple ones here, and it’s the only way people slice cheese.
They also stay sharp for decades, because all you use them for is cutting cheese, and the sharp edge is pretty well protected.
Even though they are often pretty roughly handled and tossed into a full kitchen drawer, banging around. And washed in the dishwasher multiple times a week.
A tip is that after you sliced the slices of cheese, you can use the slicer to cut some cucumber slices to top off the cheese sandwich with. It works surprisingly well, and saves on dishes.
Not very efficient if you are going to slice up a whole cucumber, but if you want just a couple for a sandwich it’s pretty great.
yeah netherlands and germany also. Even my grandma one when i was young ahah
I really enjoy this segment. The gadgets you mentioned are great. The flexible cutting boards are wonderful. They are light, durable and make cleanup a breeze. I use mine as covers over my wooden boards. Really like.
I liked learning thinner slices of cheese release flavor. I have found smaller spatulas and like them better for certain jobs.
100% agree! All 3 are great, we use them almost every day!
Good recommends. Thank you.
I appreciate you actually making a decision and recommendation. Thank you.
Lisa's AT Kitchen videos are my favorite...very informative and straightforward....
My absolute favorite spatula big or small (i even have the normal size recommended atk pick) is the $1.50 mini spatulas from Daiso. Absolutely love those things. Small enough to get into little jars but big enough to use to stir things in pots.
I was pleasantly surprised that I own and enjoy the same spatula for exactly those reasons!! Thanks for spreading the word!!
This is the most useful kind of video, thank you.
Bridgett is a doll I like her personality. Great at what she does.
Nice! I’ve got the OXO Spatula at home, it’s been my go-to for years. 👍
As always, great suggestions. Thanks!
Yay!! More gadgets. I was just saying to hubby what a bummer--I had EVERYTHING I needed for the kitchen.
I love when the world proves me wrong..........
: )
How about a frier.
Is it a good purchase
Great Video and thank you for the links. Keep these type of videos coming!!
Wow good content in under 2 minutes. Just ordered the mats!
From where?
@@loubartkiw3536 The link in the description takes you to Amazon. I just ordered the mats as well.
Hi ladies, have a super year. Thanks for the great content.🙏🏻
Short and useful. Great vid, thanks.
We love you Lisa!
Miss you guys. Will be glad when you're back full steam. ❣️
Cheese plane. Hey, I have that one! Flexible cutting board. Been using them for over 10 years. Mini-spatula. Who doesn't have one of these? Drat. Lucky me, I have those gadgets and they are useful!
I have that spatula! It's one of my favorites
I need those gadgets because I have cheese to cut up now and the cheese slicer would be great to have. I do need those mats to when working with meat also and the spatula would be great to have also. Thanks for sharing this information with us all.
Those cheese plainers work so well, they hardly sell sliced cheese in Sweden. Pre covid days, cheese would just be as a chunk of cheese with a cheese plainer . They are great for slicing cucumbers super thin, and peeling bigger veg like daicon radish, and squashes.
I have the cutting mats and love them. Thanks Lisa!
I use red for meat, green for vegetables, white for fruits, and brown for onion/garlic/ginger.
Thanks Lisa, as always great info. Oh, & yes I didn't know I needed all 3 of these items but your video is SOooo persuasive. RMH/Ohio
Love these reviews. Thanks
I bought flexible cutting mats 11.5 x 14 size. They don't fit on the bottom rack (horizontally) of the dishwasher without hitting the sprayer arm. If you put it at an angle the mat gets warped in the dishwasher. Once they warp they don't lay well when you start chopping. Back to drawing board ATK, or recommend the 8 x 11 size.
I buy anything you tell me to and I always love it!
OXO is my Favorite go to company for things to make life in my kitchen easier, more organized and prettier to look at!! Their can openers, and Pop containers, spatulas are all great and well worth the price.
I'm just saying hello. I love your channel. All the comparisons with reasons why each is best. The food science episodes are my favorites!
I like Lisa as the gadget guru.
I trust Lisa completely. Her videos are always super informative.
Oxo has certainly come up in the world and I am happy to see it! It is also still affordable. When I began to have nerve damage in my hands my mother purchased me and also good grips can opener and a couple of other items one was a vegetable peeler. Now I pretty much have no feeling in my hands except a lot of pain and I can still use that vegetable peeler! A handheld can opener is no longer an option for me but that peeler is still with me and I still use it! :-)
Love these kind of videos
Lisa is the best thing about America's test kitchen
Love the cheese slice . My next gadget! I just bought the flexible fish spatula from another video ❤️ it ❤️ it ❤️ it!
Nice job Lisa!
I found those flexible mats months ago and am thankful every time I grab one.
That OXO cookie spatula is something that I REALLY didn't know I needed. However, being left-handed I cannot use it as designed for working the edges of my pans.
I don't understand why people limit themselves to single handedness.
Good reviews and reasons to buy the winners
It's amazing how quick some of these companies up the prices after your show.
damn right! very piss -ofing
The oxo good grips spatula is nice initially but two things bother me about it -
1. If you get a color other than the dark grey/black shown, it fades over time. Was I eating that silicone color or washing it away?
2. The square interior base of the spatula is hard with the silicone surrounding it. There is a little bit of room on the perimeter ( less than 1/4”) that is not reenforced by this base and is free to flex. This also wears over time and we’ve had a portion break off. The break was disappointing.
I like the brand oxo as they make good products but I wish this spatula held up better. We always hand wash things as well and never subject them to the dishwasher.
How long have you had it for?
@@suede_mx - We've had it now for 2+ years, but it tore after a couple of months. We just haven't replaced it. Also worth noting, the neck of the spatula is metal which joins to a handle that is NOT made of a heat resistant silicone. I think it's rubber. So if you leave your spatula in a hot pan and rest the handle on the rim, your handle will score. Probably my fault (user error), but it's annoying. If I have to walk away momentarily to fetch some extra seasonings or tend to something else around the kitchen, I really don't want to have to use an extra plate or a resting spoon for a spatula . I would have thought that Oxo of all companies would have considered something heat-resistant for the handle.
Lisa! Yay!
1) any speed peeler
2) flexible chopping boards last weeks instead of years as a solid wooden one
3) VictorInox offset spatula aka Swiss-classic = 17$
The cheese cutter works fine for cold butter and vegetables in a pinch (slice, not peel).
The cheese plainer, doris so well it's hard to find sliced cheese in Sweden.
Gotta say, I love Lisa. She’s very knowledgeable, down-to-earth, and talks to the camera like she’s talking to a friend. And yes, she sounds completely like Darlene from Roseanne - so you get that same no BS feeling you do from that character... :) She’s a v different personality from Julia, but they are both incredibly natural presenters and the stars of ATK online.
I'm not hearing Darlene's monotone but I get your point. Lisa feels honest
Bob Vila seemed knowledgeable once.
@@madthumbs1564 what happened to Bob Villa?
JamesJ Fisk - She’s got a slight lisp and matter-of-fact delivery. I think that’s what the OP meant.
JamesJ Fisk - I was referring more to the sound of her voice being v like Darlene, and her accent and intonation. I’d never thought of Darlene (or Lisa) being monotone - just having a very direct, unaffected, way of speaking...
The cutting mats also make great mats for sorting picture puzzle pieces!
Short but is well packed with content
Just saying "Hello"! Love you guys!
I got the mats from ikea…lots cheaper, and there’s a grid on one side, that makes it possible to roll out naan, and they don’t retract!
Love these types of videos even tho I'm trying to slim down my kitchen, not add more. Hwr, the cheese plane & the small spatula. I've got one spatula my family has dubbed, 'the meatloaf spatula. I've had it for some 30-35yrs. An uncle cut down the metal section so it'd fit well inside my loaf pan. He made a sharp edge on the end so it'd slice thru meatloaf & anything else I cooked in that particular loaf pan & the pan is about 10yrs older than the adapted spatula. LOL
Cheese planers work great for slicing cucumbers, and can be used to peel veg too.
Yes. I need more useful clutter!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Lisa is the best
Love your videos. I've been watching America's Test Kitchen and reading Cook's Illustrated for decades. I have owned three different cheese planes over the last 30 or 40 years. But I must say Wuesthoff is my least favorite. I gave it away as a present but I still use the other two.
Best culinary channel!
Not by a long shot. The best thing about this channel is the comments. -Which if you'd read, you'd see that the OXO spatula is crap.
Great video!
When I was growing up, we called cheese planes “slicers.” When I moved out of my parents’ house, I couldn’t get my own for years because every search for a “cheese slicer” would return contraptions with wires with rollers that always cut too thick, and the wire would always end up bending after a month.
Lol they're adjustable based on the angle you approach the cheese at. Wire can be tightened and replaced.
I trust the recipes from ATK. Among my favorites are Boston cream pie and North Carolina lemon pie with crushed saltine crust. Keep it up, ladies. Love ya!
There are more kitchen's gadget I would like to know about , please give us more . I'm so tired of buying tools I never used and not having those I need . There has been such an evolution in kitchen in the last decades that what was recommend 20 years ago in a book : All what you need in your kitchen , is obsolete , today . What grandma used to used or my mother , it's out , today .
Please ask Lisa McManus to do a video about the virtues of the bird's beak pairing knife. A standard 4" or 5" pairing knife will do everything the bird's beak does. But the bird's beak is the best if you have a lot of strawberries to hull, or eyes to remove from potatoes or pineapples. Your wrist will thank you!
What is the best drip coffee makes. Thanks
By the way I was in need of cutting boards , 🤭☺️
The only cutting boards I use are those cutting mats. They don’t ruin my knives, they’re easy to sterilize, and they come in 4 or 5 packs so I can use one for meat, one for veggies, etc. Oh, and they really last a long time.
I have had 2 other Oxo spatulas that fall apart with delamination of silicone cover after multiple uses. Am skeptical about trying another oxo spatula product. Is this mini spatula different?
Could you please list product brands & style numbers when applicable. You could have a link that would make it as easy as your other SM platforms. I would like to know brand of flexible mats that were chosen.
I hated the flexible mats I've had in the past, but this one looks like it might win me back over, especially for veggie prep. For cheese, I have a 50's small cheese wire that works excellent on, say, a good cheddar, but I would like one that makes getting the wafer thin slices on harder cheese easier.
Yeah, I have the wire one also. Too thick for the cheddar's.
Thanks Lisa for sharing best gadgets/utensils for kitchen. Still searching for the Nesco vacuum sealer.
Lisa! Can you please do an equipment test on rolling pins? I need to buy one but there are so many materials to choose from... I could use your help!
I'm sold on that mat just by mousing-over the video before I clicked on it.
If Lisa thinks I need it, then I need it.
Hoping to find these items on Amazon. Thanks
They're already paired up on Amazon's "Frequently bought together" list. Well done.
Small spatula is currently unavailable at Amazon and the notation says they don't know if they will ever be back in stock :(
I'm in the market for a new turner/backup silicone spatula. Might look for that cookie spatula to fill that niche.
Some commentors are saying they're delicate and broke on them.
Question on the flexible cutting mats: If you use them on a granite surface instead of a wood cutting board, what happens to the blade of your knife?
No worries, David, these are thick enough to protect your fine kitchen cutlery!
Please, Lisa more of these!
Hi like all of them
That Wusthof cheese plane is now $35 on Amazon - is there a runner-up that comes closer to the $20 range? Thanks.
Do those dexa flexible cutting mats stay flat? I have a set of a different brand of flexible cutting mats that don't stay flat! It's very frustrating because they are unsafe 2 use now. They are only about a year old!
Hi i love your show!! Where can I buy these. Besides Amazon?. I did make your recipe Korean chicken. It was great. Bridget, Julia & Dan souza and all you are fabulous.. im from Boston too lol thanku for making a great show. Stay safe
Try the brand websites. Oxo.com - for instance.
@@su8483 thanku. Happy holidays. Stay safe
I have an adjustable wire cheese cutter that works great, don't think I need a plane. Edge grain cutting board ever since my first Tojiro knife sunk into a plastic board and micro chipped. I'll pass on another spatula.
That cute little spatula is for right handed specific people. Lefties beware
Exactly what I was thinking!
I've, also, been searching for a deep, spouted ladle for a lefty (if anyone knows of any, I'd love to know). Thanks!
I would recommend get a silicon spatula made for higher temperatures instead. No corners. I use these to stir minced meat and stuff like that, and yes, some patience, practice, I can loosen and flip eggs. If I need to flip something more delicate, I use thongs, or a combo. Both would be good for either hand I guess.
What makes it left hand specific?
@@memdy7452 Exactly right.
O no! Looks good...
you can find those cheese slicers in basically every Dutch household.
Nordic countries, too.
next time I'm in a Dutch household, I'll be sure to buy one
These were very common in American households too. They were often given as gifts, so just about everybody had one. The current generation might not recognize them though.
And NOT for $19 either.
Insane price.
Please do placemats and coasters
I really didn't know I needed them. I'll probably buy the mats for sure. Way to keep the economy running!
Sometime worth getting lies in this link. Thank you for doing the work, that makes my life simpler.
I have all these, lol!
How are those flexible cutting mats for knife longevity - compared to wood?
When I use a cheese plane as she showed, it always breaks off a messy and thick edge when I get to the end of the slice. How do you stop that from happening? The plane seems sharp enough UP to that point. I sometimes hold my finger back there trying to reinforce the last bit, but that's a bit too close to the edge to be called safe. The video examples did not show the tail end.
I know this comment is super late but since you got no responses at the time: when close to the edge, change direction slightly so that you cut the edge at a 45 degree angle or so. That helps avoiding what you experience. You will get an extra cm or half inch on one side of the slice but hopefully not a piece breaking off. Some cheeses are just crumbly though and not all cheese planes are good, even when bought new. Good luck!
these black and white shots give me major infomercial vibes...
I have been a fan since PBS time on Saturdays. I used to wait to watch the show. If I may ask where Mr Campbelle? ( hope I remember the name right)
He left over a contract dispute. I always enjoyed watching him but some people hated his guts for some reason.
He created his own show. Think it’s called Milk street. That’s where his kitchen is in Boston. I heard also it was a contract dispute. Money! He has his own show on PBS. Aired on Saturday mornings after ATK.
Mr Kimball is busy shoving bowties on his bunghole and hate-watching old episodes of ATK
ATK team, please test some grain mills for us folks who bake our bread daily, there are so many of them out there and no real pro reviews. Thanks.
would liked for the mats to have a juice catch
There's your million dollar idea. You should pitch with Lisa and Oxo to design that for the rest of us.
Then you'd lose flexibility. Just get a good end grain board.
@@madthumbs1564 not entirely. And if you were following ATK, you would know that they busted the myth on end grain boards and that the added maintenance yielded no extra benefit to edge retention.
more of this :)