ON POINT or POINTLESS?! Chef Reviews Kitchen Gadgets
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Today Chef Ben and normal home cook Jamie, test and review some of the most 'interesting' kitchen gadgets on the market. Question is... are they on point, or completely pointless?!
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Ben getting immediately annoyed at gadgets like that pestle and mortar will always be entertaining!
It can be a bit awkward when friends know you love cooking, but they buy you an awful cooking gift. I hate being ungrateful & feel bad, so I always say thank you. I remember a girlfriend's parents bought us one of those evil glass chopping-boards when they were a thing. I could feel my partner stiffen beside me as she knew my views on them. (I did re-purpose it as a stand for one of the mixers as the suckers stuck to it & they didn't on the worktops).
@Getpojke glass chopping boards I swear we're invented by the devil.
I live with a colleague during covid, for .... legitimate and illegitimate reasons. She had a glass cutting board and the dullest knives I have ever had the miss fortune of owning.
@@tmarritt I'm very picky about my knives & keeping them really, really sharp. Its one of the reasons I keep an Opinel folding knife in my pocket/bag in case I have to help prep food an friends houses who don't sharpen. I'd rather use it than a dull blade. I remember sharpening all my mothers knives. I visited again a week or so later & they were blunt again. I asked why & she said she was scared as they were "too sharp"! 🙄I just gave up at that point.
I originally bought the tube squeezer from the art store to use on my acrylic paint tubes but I use it for all tubes.
Nice, we bet that works well and saves you a lot of paint!
That seems like a far better use scenario. Tons of tubes and expensive content.
Oooooo. I was originally not for it, but I was only thinking of the kitchen (because of the channel), but I have paint tubes that could really use that to get all the paint I can out of them. Thank you.
I have oil paints and I really want one now.
I've seen them in the papercraft section as well for crimping paper
Jamie's look into the camera and then off-camera while Ben was talking about the mortar and pestle was everything I didn't know I needed to brighten my day. Y'all are just consistently the most genuine, relatable, and entertaining creators on this platform.
Wake me up when you find the gadget that breaks open a garlic bulb, strips and finely chops all of the cloves. Now _that_ would be worth hitting the credit card for!
I actually have a grinder plate that comes with a bulb-breaker tube for that exact purpose, though it's more of a mince.
Just buy jarred minced garlic. 10/1 says you couldn't tell the difference.
@@TravelingStacker people always say this so i finally tried it, and i would say the garlic tastes slightly pickly and doesnt sautee down as well, also i used about half the jar before it went bad, since i was still using fresh garlic for at least 50% of meals. i’ve almost never had raw bulb garlic go bad before i can use it. so jarred garlic is helpful in a really lazy cook, but kinda feels like a waste of money when cooking for one
Get your neighbour's wife😂
Uh oh, another video where my bank card runs and hides in fear and my kitchen cupboard grown at the thought of more gadgets coming to live and be forgotten about 😂
How many gadgets have you bought so far do you reckon? Whats been your favourite to use?
@@SortedFoodI have resisted in recent months as I did a big cull and eBayed lots. I did buy a cool knife that made cutting crusty bread feel like cutting butter, it is that easy.
i love that stir frier. just looks like a childs version of a concrede mixer
Thank you Exactly my first thought when Jamie flipped it over. A cement mixer.
Holy hell I was not expecting Ebbers to say that at the intro, I spat out my steak I was that surprised. Then I proceeded to start crying in laughter for about a minute.
Ebbers! 🙈
Jamies eyes as Ebbers is cleaning that pestle. So cheeky ^^
Tube squeezer: Can't you do the same thing with a heavy rolling pin?
Salt mortar & pestle: I thought they had already tested it, and Ben didn't like it. I remember a previous video where Ben used one, and he "accidentally" broke it.
No that was a salt slab for cooking in the oven and it broke after the first use
Maybe you're thinking of the himalayan salg block that Jamie and James had to test? They don't have an open fire so Ben used an oven which broke it I think.
I definitely remember Ben using a salty pestle and mortar and banging down with the pestle so it broke the mortar
Yep they definitely broke that mortar and pestle. Seems like this might be an old review that they're just uploading now.
@@ktmerlin775 Yeah, they definitely had it before, maybe made from different salt. And I still think it's as useful as a margarine lamp.
Ooh that portable washing machines looks cool...
Bens look when Barry said "Meatball Maker".. the perfect mix of dissapointed Parent/Teacher and "iam so done with this" xD
The look Ben had at 8:59 was priceless!
Oh, I'd be salty too about that mortar and pestle! They are so right!
100%
I just gave up at wok in my kitchen.
Say hello to my new gas powered wok on my balcony. Joining his friends grill and pizza oven.
The is no end of BBQ season, it’s a myth.
The auto stir-fry machine reminded me of that video of people cooking a massive stir-fry in a new cement-mixer. Was pretty cool to see.
Aaaaah yes, we've seen that! Awesome video and you're totally right 😆
First thing I thought when I saw that thing was "hmm do I want a cement mixer in my kitchen? Probably not." 😂😂
@@metalpuppet5798 I think the dinner ladies at my old school may have made custard in one. It certainly came out like cement. 😆
@@SortedFood Kush mayhem episode where he can only cook with tools incoming?
Absolutely love the tube squeezer. I love the smaller ones that you can leave on the tubes. It is so satisfying to use them every time.
Also it helps me to put tubes away in a nice way instead of just somewhere in the fridge.
Are the leave on versions easy to use? I tried a tube squeezer that was like a key with a hollow cylinder and you had to pressure while turning. It was fine for us but the intended relative couldn’t use at all as they couldn’t apply pressure while turning.
But $15 (yes, yes, I'm Canadian) is really overpriced.
@@elif6908 It is a bit tricky to get them into the holder. That is the biggest struggle. However you still need to hold the holder steady before you can squeeze it out.
Edit. The pressure stays on. The empty bit stays rolled up tightly!
Not sure if that answers your question?
@@FHL-Devils I was lucky I guess. Bought them years ago from Alibaba. I have ten of them. Maybe costs 15 euro all together.
@@Steakylover123The pressure comes from the device, right? I should look for those then, they might be useful. Thanks 😊
In Norway we eat a lot of caviar paste and mayo also comes in tubes. We also have multiflavour cheese spreads. This could be useful, but I prefer to lie the almost empty tube on a chopping board and push all the content to the top of the tune with a knife handle and just squeaze it out. Not a gram left inside. And I use the knife that I spread it with, so no need for more useless gadgets.
Excellent work 👏
I use the grip of a wooden spoon, works really well too (you can even roll it along) and I don't have to worry about cutting myself. ^^
@@rolfs2165 I use the bytter knife, which is not sharp.
These tube squeezes are very popular with artists for oils so look in an art supply store 🎨
Oh hey, it's the salt thing ebbers destroyed
Nordic countries have a lot of things in tubes, some pretty expensive. So the tube squeezer might be a good buy here... Like Kalle's kaviar. The tube does not seem that expensive, but you want a lot of it on your bread, so that adds up quick... 🤔
I feel like you could just as easily use the back of a knife or a spatula or bench scraper or literally anything rigid and flat the scrape down the outside of the tube and achieve the same result
@@elden446 I've always just used the edge of a table to get the same result
and if there's repeat-use and you save that extra portion or two each time, eventually the tool has saved up more than it cost. And you can easily hamme a nail in the wall at an angle and hang it from it. plenty of wallspace in most kitchens that dun culturally do that already.
Sitting here in Sweden thinking the same thing!
Yup. And while it's relatively big, I don't think it can be smaller. I NEEDS to be able to fit your hand.
Automatic stir frying machines are quite commonly used to make big batches of stir fried noodles in asian restaurants where I live, so they definitely seem to be of use in a busy kitchen.
Finally that pestle and mortar, we get to see what urked Ben so much in that previous video😂
irked*
@@ia79661 thanks for the correction, i always thought it was "urked" :)
What a way to start my Sunday morning ❤️ getting to see Ben progressively irritated with each gadget and Jamie’s snarky comments adding on 😂
4:51 Jamie's face during this part is pure gold :'D
That tube squeezer would be amazing for someone with hands that don’t work well anymore.
Definitely!
And great for medicine in tubes like antibiotics etc
It might need more designing for that purpose.
Or if the stuff inside is hard to get out, like cat treats for instance
I always struggle with malt in tubes
Edit: I just ordered two 😂
Not really, I have one and the key takes quite a bit of force to turn, especially if you squeeze the handle tight to really crimp stubborn tubes. But other than that, it works wonders.
That meatball maker has got to be the most useless gadget ive seen in a while
It's crazy huh? Imagine taking that to manufacture and thinking that it's a good idea 😆
9:00 that was the look on my face when it was revealed as well. You know those As Seen on TV ads for items that are stupid but the people doing the simple task are ridiculously bad at it to make it seem like a reasonable and needed product? Big that vibes.
Hilarious!
The first gadget is the best gadget. Every kitchen should have one.
Gotta squeeze that efficiency. I'm getting one as well as a house warming gift for a friend. Seems a like a thing you will actually use if you have it, how often have you been in the situation that you though you had enough left of a tube for that one dish. It seems like easy money savings and good for the planet.
just consider the "salt pestle and mortar" as broken from the beginning, put it in a glass cabinet for display and just scratch off salt when you need it.
For the Tube squeezer, just use a rolling pin.
Good idea.... We will have to see how it compares.
I use a spoon 😂
this what i do. But the crimping does seem useful. because some stuff does end up going back with just a rolling pin
I mean, I normally just use the back of my kitchen knife.
If it's a plastic tub I can cut the bottom off and squeeze it the 'wrong' way
This is not a channel where I can often say this but when it comes to that first gadget: You could 3d print one pretty easily to get the job done. Less durable than metal but easily remade, and since it isn't in contact with food it doesn't need to be food safe in the way most of the gadgets do.
Of them all I like the principle of the tube squeezer the best. I have a few, much smaller ones at home. One that stands up for the toothpaste & the rest that stay on tubes of tomato paste, pesto, cheese...etc in the fridge. You can also get tubes you can fill yourself. I used to use Coghlan's squeeze tubes for things like butters, cooking pastes...etc when camping or on expeditions. You fill them through the bottom & they have their own clamp that slides on & seals it. Then you just unscrew the lid & squeeze. Easy to wash & refill countless times for only a few quid.
Surely, whenever the weather gets humid (or you get some steam in the kitchen) the rock salt that is exposed to it will start to "weep". The idea of making a mortar and pestle from it is creative, but to actually go ahead a make a product shows a lack of thinking things through.
You're totally right.
1:52 That is SO satisfying!
I think the larger size of the tube squeezer is a benefit, actually.
Anyone who has trouble squeezing tubes because of hand strength or disabilities has something larger and easier to hold than a small fiddly thing.
Agreed. If someone had arthritis this would be great for them
yay. more gadgets! Ben's face at the Meatball maker is a meme!
Wait. Haven't that mortar & pestle already been featured in a previous episode? I vividly remember Ben being so annoyed that he ended up breaking them...? Am I imagining things? Am I going mad? 😂🙈
Came here looking for someone else who remembered that, thought I was going mad
Wait wait...they have not heard of tube-squeezers before? 😅
When i was a kid, we used to have them tube squeezers at art class for squeezing out the last bit of paint. Always excited to use them🤣
to make a big batch of caramelized onions, the washing machine could be really useful, its a pain to constantly stir at relatively low heat
15:25 I can't help but feel that someone saw a cement mixer and thought "I could make a stir fry in that".
What a nice little concrete mixer for your everyday house repairs
Finally the salt mortar
For the squeezer, I've seen them before but they were targeted towards artists. Paint is *expensive*, so getting every last drop out of a tube actually matters.
Plus more expensive paints are usually in metal tubes, which are much harder to squeeze.
Ebbers is getting more and more bluntly honest in this review videos, and I love it!
Sidenote...Guys, have you changed the settings/editing of the counter-facing camera (the one that shows Ebbers and Jamie in this video)? It seemes somewhat darker recently and the saturation (?) is somehow off. I think this is the third video in a row where I had to check my quality settings because of this.
The Tube Squeezer is worth it. There are smaller Models but they are not as sturdy. If you cook alot with Tomato Paste, Mustard, Garlic Paste or you use other Tubes (like Tooth Paste or Glue for example) you safe quite some Money over the Years. I bought a similar model for 10€ some years ago and dont regret it one bit :D
I like the stir fry, once the gadget's heater stops working. We can use it as a cement mixer.
Or a candy tumbler for coating things evenly in chocolate or candy shells? A massive version of this (generally minus the heat) is what they use in factories to get candy that's coated in something but smooth all over like jelly beans, chocolate peanuts, M&Ms, etc.
I love how expressive Ben is during the second item review. Absolutely adore his blunt hard truths haha
Gadgets! Always a great time! Plus fun!
That automated stir fry thing could be really good for people with certain disabilities!
Is it though? I mean you have to cut stuff up anyway at least judging by the disabilities my family has thats the difficult part.
Well if they can't stir, they're gonna have a hard time setting this thing up and washing it as well.
@@Debilinside There's pre-cut bags of veggies for sale everywhere these days. I think, depending on the disability, it could be helpful. Ofc not in every case, but in some for sure!
@@tessadevocht3734 That and there are mashines to do the cutting.
Though at that point it gets to the question of cleaning the things which could be just as dificult if you have problems with dexterity/moving your hands...
I would have used it more for soups, risotos and stuff like that.
Just chuck it in there and save yourself the constant stiring.
Ebber's face once he heard the name and reason for the meatball maker, has killed me! He genuinely looks both exasperated and shocked. I've been waiting for this episode, ever since the pestle and mortar made an appearance in a video a few months back. I love these videos!!
"Barry! There's no way to get my balls out!" And it was directly after filming that Jamie once again found himself questioning how his career got to this point. lmao
Ben's "are you JOKING" face at 9:01 has me cry-laughing
1700 on a sunday, always a treat
Ben, your face and Jamie's laugh at 8:59 had me smiling so big :) Very "WTF?" and also "I need to try thing immediately".
Automated cooking that is actually good and affordable will very likely be a thing within my lifetime and I think it's awesome.
the tube squeezer is 'big and cumbersome' because it's an accessability tool- it's easier to grip that way
The part that you wind looks like it could be challenging if you have dexterity issues, though.
I don't think its more accessible than giving a tube a squeeze.
Much more Dexterity involved
Nah its worth it I dont get the size problem its dosent take more space then a knife and is great for both kitchen and daliy life use
8:05 Ebbers is feeling saltier than usual😂😂😂😂😂
Especially after that pestle and mortar.
@@SortedFood YEP 😁😁
The stir fryer might be another one of those things that was made with the elderly and disabled in mind, because frying up a big pan of rice or noods can be pretty intense.
True, even just standing at a stove for 10 minutes stirring without any sit breaks can be a barrier for some folks.
I can imagine the stir fryer being used by someone who doesn't have a kitchen. E.g. someone in a dorm room. But it'd need something other than noodles.
I have always just used a chopstick and the counter edge to squeeze tubes of stuff. Works great and didn't cost anything extra.
Sea salt pestle & morter? It is humid here. Even our salt lamps disintegrated. No way this would last a year! No thank you.
A much better idea 👌
And you're right about the humidity!
Here in the UK, many years ago, there was a magazine of random gadgets for all sorts called "The Innovations catalogue"
It had UTTERLY useless stuff that filled non-existent holes in the proverbial "I need one of those" markets with things such as teabags squeezers, pan lip spoons, left handed screwdrivers, sky hooks and other utter nonsense.
These gadgets would have fit PERFECTLY into that catalogue. The EXTORTIONATE prices for these things are either marketed as a loss-leader in order to try to claw back the cost of RnD for an already failed product or they're priced in a way that makes people think "it must be good if it costs that much" to turn out that it's just completely useless.
The salt mortar and pestle is the kind of gift a non-cooker would give to their friend who cooks a lot and they don't know what to give them.
Ebbers face when Barry said 'the meatball maker' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I like it when Ben does these. He really thinks through all aspects. I was rooting for the stir-fry "robot" but it did look like a kitty litter robot.
I'd love to see a kitchen stand mixer stand-off. Put different kinds of machines in a head to head with heavy bread dough, cake batter, and maybe some pasta dough. Compare and contrast the accessories that you can buy alongside them, and see which stand mixer can stand the tests and stay in the mix.
Gadgets, Always fun!
ENJOY! 😀 Let us know which one, if any, that you like best?
9:00 that look !!! 🤣 Ebbers, you killed me..
Ebbers with your innuendos 😂 cant help himself
It wouldn't be Sorted Food without them right? 😆
I feel like they really miss out on the accessibility aspects of a lot of the gadgets presented. If you struggle lifting things, have any motor skill impairment, don’t have access to gas or a full kitchen, then these gadgets can bring a lot of opportunity.
It’s fully fair that it doesn’t produce a great result, I entirely agree there, but when passing final judgement I find they take a lot of ‘maybe if you’re someone who’s X, then it could be useful’ but they never include the accessibility aspects. Had the same feeling for the single press water cooker gadget a while back.
I’ve been waiting for that mortar and pestle, knowing that Ben absolutely shatters the thing later is really satisfying while watching him get angry at it here.
Jamie looked so dissapointed when he found out the last gadgets price
My grandma had a tube squeezer like that 30 years ago, I recognized it immediately. It was the yellow one from Tupperware, everybody in my family owned one of those at one point 😂😂
Maybe you need the lid on the stir fryer as it heats up to get it hotter. I was thinking it might be ok for like a market where there is only 1 or 2 of you on a food stall. Maybe noodles the shape of spaghetti would have worked better.
I liked the morter and pestle but I would never use it.
Thanks for the giggles guys ❤
On one hand, that's a decent idea for a market stall in theory... On the other hand, a competent cook can quite easily manage 5-10 different dish options easily and get them out much faster (+ accumulate orders to cook some of them in a large batch). And if it's since it's not delivering on the char, it's getting outcompeted in flavour as well. I could see it being used for (non-stir fry) dishes that require constant stirring though.
Also, there are other commercial small-stall machines that actually mimic a stir fry (the attachments move the wok and have a flat spatula part, the cooking process is handsfree). From what I heard, results are only average.
You should do a segment where you go to a hardware store to find tools that can actually replace silly single use gadgets. Like... A brick can replace that pointless tube=squeezing waste of cash.
The stir fry machine looks like it is designed to pour boiling oil off the walls of your castle.
9:01 the expressions on Ben's and Jamie's faces are priceless
Back of your knife for kitchen tubes, back of your brush for toothpaste.
3:14: I just flatten them out over the edge of a countertop or table. Works well enough.
For my toothpaste, I have an old glass bottle I use as a rolling pin. Very effective, and free.
I use the flat edge of a butter knife
I think that the stir fry machine would be very helpful to an elderly asian person with dexterity issues. Once planted on the counter or a table, no heavy lifting would be required. It also eliminates all the actual stirring with a wok spatula, and I have one carbon steel wok that is quite heavy.
9:01 that look from Ben🤣
Right!? I was like, "Oh, he's already freaking done"
Someone almost broke character at 4:50. Dirty boy! 😂
Yes another video from my favorite guys. Luv their reaction when being told it was meatball maker The only one i would get would be tube squeezer. Do wish it was narrower and need klunky looking though
Finally we get to see the Pink Salt Pestle & Mortar from the Kenya cooking challenge video! Love Ben's reaction both then and now.
This is the second time you've done a salt pestle and mortar. Ben hated it the last time as well. The stir pot would be great for banana pudding. My mom hated spending hours stirring the pot to do her home made banana pudding, its intended function is wrong but for things that are milk based that you don't want to scald, its great
As someone with dexterity issues and a connective tissue disorder that means I dislocate easily that first gadget would be game changer
Jamie, PLEASE don’t take your balls our 😂 (around 18:20 🤭)
Idea for a video, we've all seen turning Fast Food Gourmet....what if you turned a Gourmet Meal into Fast Food? Imagine a fast food Wellington....the Big McWellington if you will.
That last gadget seems like it would work phenomenally for cooking soup. It's basically a slow-cooker that stirs for you. Dunno why they're trying to bill it as a stir-fry appliance when it clearly isn't hot nor fast enough to get the job done.
Idea off the back of that meatball thing and the dolma comment. Gadgets revisited. Gadgets that haven't worked when tested out of the box, have been researched and tested more, and then given another review from a more experienced viewpoint, and then you can judge on how much time it took to work out how to use it etc
What if you added some oil on the bottom of the meatball white thing you turn , so the meat won't stick on the bottom, and you have the round meatballs without the minced meat sticking on the bottom. Give it a try.
I challenge Ben to actually put the tube squeezer into his kitchen.
If I bought the tube squeezer I’d then feel obliged to go around the supermarket and find as many tube-d products as possible 😂
The tube squeezer … how many of these do you have/need? Is everything done in a single application or do you have to keep it on the tube?
You only need one, single application 👍
I honestly never thought the tubbe squeezer could be used on anything other than paint tubes 😂
I have never seen such a large tube squeezer 😂
Mine are all a single metal cylinder that you roll using a little key.
Takes up no more space in my drawer than a baby spoon
As an artist I’ve been using those tube squeezers for years….
the stir fry thing looks like that cat litter tray thing you can buy haha
I had give the automated stir fry (a bit different from the video) to my uncle who had lost an arm due to accident and it help him a lot because he used to love cooking and after the accident he never touched any cooking utensils. But, after I give him the automated stir fry it slowly ignite his passion for cooking once more.
You can achieve basically the same result as the tube squeezer by pulling the tube over a somewhat sharp edge like the edge of your kitchen table or countertop and then just roll or fold up the empty end. I do this with all of my tubes and it works every time.
That tube squeezer is 40 times better than the toothpaste savers I know. It looks solid and big enough to work with any tube and the krimping makes just sense. Great tool.
The tube squeezer started in the art space. When a tube of fine oil paint can cost $40, it was well worth the price. I bought one years ago when in college, and I definitely use it occasionally in the kitchen, but saving 0.20 on tomato paste is a while different matter than saving $1.2 per tube of paint (not to mention having to mix a color you are almost out of)is a total difference in usefulness.