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.
18:40 I bet the inventor of this machine was a construction worker with a love for cooking because that, gentlemen, is a cement mixer converted to cooking pan.
Im pretty sure some years ago i seen a video of some chinese restaurant using literal concrete mixers with slower motors and obviously deep cleaned to do this same thing. If i recall right it was heated with several gas lights to the bottom.
About the tube squeezer: I got a similar one when my arthritis started making it difficult to empty tubes without pain. ANY kind of tube. In fact, I have 1 for the kitchen, 1 for my craft room, 1 for the bathroom. I use it on tomato paste, garlic, several Asian condiments, paint tubes, glue tubes, toothpaste, hair products, etc. They're worth it for the pain and frustration alleviation!
I think the reason the squeezer leaves you a bit flat is because there's relatively few uses for it in the kitchen. However, when you think about all the kinds of tubes you use in your home in general, you immediately expand its use. Toothpaste, paint, makeup, medicine...? I think it's a bit pricey, but it does work very well out of different kinds I've seen. It's simply not just a kitchen gadget, more of a home gadget.
A lot of these things are actually home aids for peope with issues with manua dexterity issues. People who cant pinch and slide, but could turn a handle. But these companies also need to make money to stay in business, so they also market to able bodied people as a sort of side hustle to make up the numbers
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.
@@msfoodiediva If somebody has arthritis they also won't be able to turn that tiny dial with enough torque. It would need to have a large handle that you could operate without a thumb.
Proper tools designed for people with arthritis and disabilities are things like large handles on faucets and doors, foot operated water fountains, etc. A disabled person could not operate that gadget. Somebody with stumps instead of hands could use their stumps like a rolling pin to squeeze a tube but that tiny dial is way too small to operate and even holding onto the gadget is too awkward for somebody that has arthritis. Like how a pair of roller skates would make movement even harder for somebody without feet.
Exactly what i was just thinking. Yes it might take a little getting used to, but what i do at the moment is put the tube on a plate, and kinda crush it with the palm of my hand to get it out. Then i just have to waste the excess, so i would probably benefit greatly from it. I think it's worth a go at that price
The stir fry machine makes me excited for a singular reason: You could use it to candy anything, safely, far more neatly. And if the temperature gets low enough, you could temper chocolate with it as well. If not, you could still use that angled rotation to chocolate-coat a bunch of fiddly things, like blueberries, doughnut holes, almonds, caramel chews. That alone makes it worth the price for me, considering how much even small candying drums run these days.
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.
it's funny because if that gadget was only the pestle, it would have probably been better. would have done the same job of seasoning, without having a consumable bowl that shifts dimensions over time and can't be cleaned, and due to the shape of the pestle, much easier to grate it when it's too small to do its regular job.
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.
I think it would be great for you guys to do a series where people with various disabilities talk you through how they set upt heir kitchen and different considerations and hacks they use to make cooking accessible for them.
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!!
to be fare the normal cement mixers are being used for that when cooking really large badges. (no the cement mixer is not used for cement before). you can even stick a gas burner below it and get a very good soup out of them. works really well on a cold day out.
That tube squeezer would be good for someone’s gift wish list. “I wouldn’t buy it for myself, but…”. There you go;now you have one. I know people have offered their other tricks, but if someone has manual dexterity issues, this would be really helpful.
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!
@@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
@@TravelingStackerjarred garlic is terrible compared to fresh. If you buy any processed, "fresh" garlic, go for prepeeled cloves. Those don't taste terrible, but they will spoil quickly compared to whole bulbs.
@@adams8763 I buy the bags of pre-peeled cloves and keep them in the freezer for when I need them so they don't go bad. I grate them on a microplane grater when they're frozen, straight into the pan. Started doing this when I was dealing with a nerve injury in my knife hand.
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.
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.
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.
I 100% agree that since the auto stir fryer is also several different machines, it's value is more than just that. For someone that is really busy, or just hates cooking, 200 bucks is NOT a bad price for what it offers, but you really are limited by that wall socket. I've seen the commercial ones in action and they work wonderfully.
The pot thingo would be amazing for people with arthritis. I have many clients that want to cook and have a sense of achievement in that area. Although not as great as a genuine wok or pan, they’d be able to manage that machine during our cooking time. I think it’s a big win.
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.
@@Cationna I don't think Ebbers added enough oil. Wok cooking takes a relatively large amount of oil for proper heat transference to the food, and he couldn't have added more than a half teaspoon of olive oil with that tiny squirt. A dry wok is a sad wok, and most restaurant settings have large vats of oil that they will liberally splash through the woks then dump out between dishes to ensure proper cooking and flavor. He likely would have gotten a lot more of the "colour" he was looking for with more of a heavier oil (like vegetable or avocado.)
How much power do the commercial machines draw? I've seen restaurant-grade induction stoves that can get a wok hot enough to produce wok hei, but a single burner draws a similar amount of power to an electric clothes dryer.
@@lmpeters Induction doesn't draw anywhere near that much power. A 120v-1500W-12.5A burner will EASILY produce Wok Hay: the problem is the uneven heating of a flat induction surface on the curved surface (which is why they now make bowl-shaped induction burners for woks so that the magnetic field can completely envelop the bowl of the wok. A hair dryer or space heater, yes, but not a clothes dryer. The commercial machines are probably a 220V connection (to make sure they aren't overloading a 15-20 amp circuit if another device is turned on) but an induction coil is typically 15-20% more efficient than a resistance/calrod coil (10% energy loss for Induction vs 25-30% for Resistance Heating.)
The stirfry pot would be a good item for someone like me who sometimes just wants to throw something into a self cooking or slow cooking device and then focus on other things. Like the Adobo Pork I have in a slow cooker right now as I then go out to get a picture taken and then watch this video.
The Mortar and pestle would maybe work in anyone's witchy shelving or craft space. Ben's right, it's definitely pretty, but very impractical for a regular kitchen. Though my favourite was the meatball maker. Ben looking at the Camera incredulously with 'A bloody WOT' look was killer 😂
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
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.
1 I have one of those! Works really well with my painful and weak hands. Arthritis! they don't tell you about the weak part. It needs to be big because I can't hold tiny things. Bonus over most tube squeezers is that you can take the tube out at any stage, don't have to wind it out. Still I cut the very last top bit of the tubes off and scoop out quite a lot more.
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.
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.
A gadget redemption episode would be a good video. Returning to things like the Dolmade maker, and the meatball thing once you've done the research and had the practise.
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.
As Someone who is from the southern half of North America all I can think of when looking at that himalayan salt pestle and mortar is all of the cooking utensils that are traditionally passed down. Thinks like cast iron and mortar and pestles here in the American South but also the Mexican cousin the Molcajete and how part of what makes passing that kind of cooking equipment down is all the seasoning and flavor that has built up over the years that helps your food taste better. Having a disposable mortar and pestle, even one that is made out of seasoning like salt) seems like such a wwaste of opportunity to add some really great depth to your cooking that doesn't exist if you are constantly getting a new one...
As someone who has used that exact tube squeezer on tomato paste tubes, big caveat: it will create tiny tears in the tubing, and tomato water will slowly leak out over time. Yes, they’re satisfying to use. But they leave a big mess when used on food products. It’s better to cut open the spent tube and scrape out the remains. They still work well for cosmetics and paint tubes though, given that those are thicker, more homogenous, and less likely to weep.
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.
To be fair using only the salt pestle with a normal mortar might actually work decently. It saves it from beein overly salty, you dont get the double reduction and the pestle is much easier to clean then the mortar bit so the limitations are much less pronounced.
I have seen one of those automatic stir fry machines. Here is a bit of information that I gathered. It is for businesses with multiple outlets. It is there for consistency. Instead of having different members of staff (who most likely did not receive adequate training) trying to cook the same dish again and again at different shops, they just have to put the ingredients in at the instructed times. Then, you will get a similar-ish product to deliver to every order.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@nguyenhoangphuc4050 The pronounciation of it is definitely a bit misleading, English isn't my native language and I can see how one could think that's how it's spelled lol
A tip for all metal tubes is to drag it across a straight edge (like the top of a drawer, cabinet door or anything similar) from the bottom end towards the opening and you'll achieve squeezing all the content to the opening for free. It doesn't crimp it and seal it but it's free so..
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 😂
@@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 just split my sides laughing at Jamie's expressions while Ben cleaned the grease off of the salt mortar and pestle!!!!!!! Too too funny, thanks!!!!!!!💖💖🎃🎃🧛♂🧛♂🤣🤣💋💋
Great video guys! I think that first one would be great if they designed it like a speed peeler. It seems too bulky. I think all you need is the roller/crank part and a handle. Maybe loosen the rollers apart a bit so you can feed it in.
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
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.
I recently commented about my idea of an electronic stir fry mixer, like the commercial open-flame ones that I've seen, on someone else's channel who was discussing induction woks. Apparently somebody made something similar, but unfortunately did a low-end job of it.
Instead of the tube squeezer, try using the handle of a wooden spoon to squeeze the tube against a worksurface. It works a treat and saves having a separate tool.
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.
@@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?
On the Himalayan salt pestle and mortar, why not use the pestle on a regular mortar? That way you still get the benefit of grinding with half the salt and no worry about the bowl being more concave.
For the stir frying pot, I think it could be great once you get the ratio and ingredients correct, then prep all of it into separate containers for the week and when its almost lunch time you can toss it all in and let it do its thing while you're back to work. I think the fact that they are actively watching and waiting for it kills off the experience, but great for multi-tasking, and as mentioned it can be used for soups and other things as well.
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.
#1 probably left Jamie a little flat because he's got all his mobility and manual dexterity. I know some people who have hand dexterity issues and a roller like that is AMAZING for them.
I have a tube squeezer but made in plastic and quite small, like the size and shape of a marker pen. Extremely handy since I suffer from arthritis and struggle with a lot of kitchen containers like tubes, jars, bottle caps etc, it's great since it works on both hard and soft types of tubes.
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? 😂🙈
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
The auto stir fry I could see work well with rice dishes or noodles that were made shorter in length, the set and forget probably be handy especially if you're cooking something else at the same time
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.
Feel like stir fry is a tall order for that thing, would love to see you test it other ways. I'm imagining a bolognese, throw in your mince and set it off, come back a few minutes later and chuck in prechopped veg, wait a bit and then seasoning, tomatoes, and stock, then let it simmer. Theoretically home made bolognese with almost no active time!
I think the last one would be great for me because I hate standing and stirring my stews and stuff and end up with a bunch of burnt stuff down the bottom. But also in the disability space that might be handy to increase independence for people that might not be able to stir for long periods of time or something....but it is EXTREMELY heavy 😅
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.
@TF_NowWithExtraCharacters thanks for that Its nice to get a good answer that explains things as you have as I have no idea about cooking stirfrys. No Chinese shop near me. If I want any it's an hours drive there. I can't stir-fry for myself. Osteoarthritis makes using a wok difficult and I don't want to burn myself 😁👃
@@MazzyJC All good! Honestly though, a lot of the wok-tossing is restaurant technique, most home cooks (i.e. a lot of stay home wives, traditionally) don't have the strength or training to be doing that daily. If you're keen to see more, check out Chinese Cooking Demystified, they show typical homecooking setup, plus a variety of common every day dishes a local eatery might have. All in English. Only downside is that they are more instructional and less entertaining than our boys here.
That stir-fry widget would be good for things that need frequent stirring, like Risotto or, if it had an agitator of some sort, like a shaker-cup whisk for protein shakes, could be used for reducing stocks quickly due to the agitation and high surface area
The big roller seems more at home in a salon or studio with lots of big tubes to squeeze and economize supplies. Tube keys are small and cheap and great for metal tubes like tomato paste, super glue, and a lot of expensive art paints. For most other kitchen needs, the back of a butter knife, a spoon, or your bench scraper can do the job to empty a plastic tube of a cheap ingredient. There are a ton of other small, cheap solutions for toothpaste and other plastic tubes that don't require using a binder clip to keep the tube rolled up after use.
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.
I’d love to see videos a couple weeks after their gadget reviews. Of seeing if they can get them to work and to also see how good the good ones work by testing its proper limits and using them in other videos.
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 use a chopping board and the handle of a knife, not rocket science. And NO that tube squeezer is NOT good for the planet, it will be bought never used after the novelty has worn off and end up in the bin., causing more landfill.
Beauty supply has a small metal key shaped device for pushing hair dye out of tubes. It’s designed to slide over the crimped end of the tube & rolls out the product. Works perfectly, takes little space & costs about a dollar.
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
18:40 I bet the inventor of this machine was a construction worker with a love for cooking because that, gentlemen, is a cement mixer converted to cooking pan.
Once you're done making stir fry you can re-point the tiles in the kitchen
Im pretty sure some years ago i seen a video of some chinese restaurant using literal concrete mixers with slower motors and obviously deep cleaned to do this same thing. If i recall right it was heated with several gas lights to the bottom.
OMG you are totally right!!! 😅
thats the first thing i thought of when i saw this as well. lol
those things are for restaurant who want to a gimmick for the customer to see, there's plenty of these in china
About the tube squeezer: I got a similar one when my arthritis started making it difficult to empty tubes without pain. ANY kind of tube. In fact, I have 1 for the kitchen, 1 for my craft room, 1 for the bathroom. I use it on tomato paste, garlic, several Asian condiments, paint tubes, glue tubes, toothpaste, hair products, etc. They're worth it for the pain and frustration alleviation!
I sometimes get joint pains in my hands (no idea why, maybe period related, maybe weather idk) and those tube squeezers do come in handy then too
Yeah I was thinking that it’d most benefit those with dexterity issues.
I think the reason the squeezer leaves you a bit flat is because there's relatively few uses for it in the kitchen. However, when you think about all the kinds of tubes you use in your home in general, you immediately expand its use. Toothpaste, paint, makeup, medicine...? I think it's a bit pricey, but it does work very well out of different kinds I've seen. It's simply not just a kitchen gadget, more of a home gadget.
A lot of these things are actually home aids for peope with issues with manua dexterity issues. People who cant pinch and slide, but could turn a handle. But these companies also need to make money to stay in business, so they also market to able bodied people as a sort of side hustle to make up the numbers
There are cheaper ones also, so cheap that they sometimes give then away in supermarkets here in Sweden (for caviar tubes mostly).
Not me getting excited to roll up the creams in my medicine cabinet 😂 I think it’s a great gadget and agree that it has many uses in the home!
I'd love one just to keep my toothpaste tubes easy to use over time. The food applications would be a bonus.
It would totally save money in the long run too
Ben‘s ”I don’t like it Barry!“ while furiously wiping the mortar was gold 😂
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
@@msfoodiediva If somebody has arthritis they also won't be able to turn that tiny dial with enough torque. It would need to have a large handle that you could operate without a thumb.
Proper tools designed for people with arthritis and disabilities are things like large handles on faucets and doors, foot operated water fountains, etc.
A disabled person could not operate that gadget. Somebody with stumps instead of hands could use their stumps like a rolling pin to squeeze a tube but that tiny dial is way too small to operate and even holding onto the gadget is too awkward for somebody that has arthritis. Like how a pair of roller skates would make movement even harder for somebody without feet.
It's only good for weaker people, not disabled people.
Exactly what i was just thinking. Yes it might take a little getting used to, but what i do at the moment is put the tube on a plate, and kinda crush it with the palm of my hand to get it out. Then i just have to waste the excess, so i would probably benefit greatly from it. I think it's worth a go at that price
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
Or soups, risotos and stuff like that.
Things that go on a low/medium heat and need constant stiring.
@@vyran7044Right? How did Ben not immediately think of risotto? That's his go to move isn't it?
They should try a risotto
It reminds me of those machines that they use to put candy coatings on candies like m&ms
Use a slow cooker / instapot on slow cooking mode
The stir fry machine makes me excited for a singular reason: You could use it to candy anything, safely, far more neatly. And if the temperature gets low enough, you could temper chocolate with it as well. If not, you could still use that angled rotation to chocolate-coat a bunch of fiddly things, like blueberries, doughnut holes, almonds, caramel chews. That alone makes it worth the price for me, considering how much even small candying drums run these days.
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.
Yep 😂
it's funny because if that gadget was only the pestle, it would have probably been better. would have done the same job of seasoning, without having a consumable bowl that shifts dimensions over time and can't be cleaned, and due to the shape of the pestle, much easier to grate it when it's too small to do its regular job.
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.
You've forgotten "wholesome".
I think it would be great for you guys to do a series where people with various disabilities talk you through how they set upt heir kitchen and different considerations and hacks they use to make cooking accessible for them.
A would love to see that!
Great Idea, @sortedfood
As someone with dexterity issues and a connective tissue disorder that means I dislocate easily that first gadget would be game changer
Agreed. As someone with MS, it looks much easier for me to use than the 70's vintage toothpaste squeezer I had.
I have Ehlers-Danlos, and finding a small version of this a decade ago was wonderful! I found it in a camping store, and other friends swear by it.
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!!
15:25 I can't help but feel that someone saw a cement mixer and thought "I could make a stir fry in that".
to be fare the normal cement mixers are being used for that when cooking really large badges. (no the cement mixer is not used for cement before).
you can even stick a gas burner below it and get a very good soup out of them. works really well on a cold day out.
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.
@@StormSower also my idea. I mean you can very much use a cement mixer (if never used before) t do the same job. for very big stew like soups.
@@sirBrouwer You can very much use a cement mixer for very big stew like *COLD* soups.
now i want a cement mixer. over a fire.
@@StormSower I've seen a miller/ bread baker/ restauranteur adapt a concrete mixer for bread kneading large quantities.
That tube squeezer would be good for someone’s gift wish list. “I wouldn’t buy it for myself, but…”. There you go;now you have one.
I know people have offered their other tricks, but if someone has manual dexterity issues, this would be really helpful.
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.
@@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😂
@@TravelingStackerjarred garlic is terrible compared to fresh. If you buy any processed, "fresh" garlic, go for prepeeled cloves. Those don't taste terrible, but they will spoil quickly compared to whole bulbs.
@@adams8763 I buy the bags of pre-peeled cloves and keep them in the freezer for when I need them so they don't go bad. I grate them on a microplane grater when they're frozen, straight into the pan. Started doing this when I was dealing with a nerve injury in my knife hand.
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 butter knife, which is not sharp.
These tube squeezes are very popular with artists for oils so look in an art supply store 🎨
I just pull them over the edge of the table/worktop like mum taught me😅
Jamies eyes as Ebbers is cleaning that pestle. So cheeky ^^
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.
What do you mean shatters it? Did I miss a episode that they put out before that shows it?
@@angelsinthewindow it was during the Kenya international foods episode, about 2 months ago.
@@maih600 thanks
Yeah. I've been waiting for that too and couldn't remember the episode. Thanks. I'm going to go and watch it again now. 😊
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?
@@PapiPetrou we already had that video. Ben could not guess that it was made with powertools.
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.
Just watch America’s test kitchen’s round up. More scientific and structured recommendations.
I don't know if it's in Britain, but I love my BOSCH mixer. It's awesome for bread.
Cupcake Jemma has done this
Look up Americas test kitchen.... they do all kinds of testing on kitchen products and machines
I 100% agree that since the auto stir fryer is also several different machines, it's value is more than just that. For someone that is really busy, or just hates cooking, 200 bucks is NOT a bad price for what it offers, but you really are limited by that wall socket. I've seen the commercial ones in action and they work wonderfully.
The pot thingo would be amazing for people with arthritis. I have many clients that want to cook and have a sense of achievement in that area. Although not as great as a genuine wok or pan, they’d be able to manage that machine during our cooking time. I think it’s a big win.
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.
Perhaps bigger, industrial-use ones get hotter?
@@Cationna I don't think Ebbers added enough oil.
Wok cooking takes a relatively large amount of oil for proper heat transference to the food, and he couldn't have added more than a half teaspoon of olive oil with that tiny squirt.
A dry wok is a sad wok, and most restaurant settings have large vats of oil that they will liberally splash through the woks then dump out between dishes to ensure proper cooking and flavor.
He likely would have gotten a lot more of the "colour" he was looking for with more of a heavier oil (like vegetable or avocado.)
Sure, if you make ten stir-fries an evening in a machine it's more useful than when you make one very ten days.
How much power do the commercial machines draw? I've seen restaurant-grade induction stoves that can get a wok hot enough to produce wok hei, but a single burner draws a similar amount of power to an electric clothes dryer.
@@lmpeters Induction doesn't draw anywhere near that much power.
A 120v-1500W-12.5A burner will EASILY produce Wok Hay: the problem is the uneven heating of a flat induction surface on the curved surface (which is why they now make bowl-shaped induction burners for woks so that the magnetic field can completely envelop the bowl of the wok.
A hair dryer or space heater, yes, but not a clothes dryer.
The commercial machines are probably a 220V connection (to make sure they aren't overloading a 15-20 amp circuit if another device is turned on) but an induction coil is typically 15-20% more efficient than a resistance/calrod coil (10% energy loss for Induction vs 25-30% for Resistance Heating.)
Ben's "are you JOKING" face at 9:01 has me cry-laughing
Same here! 😂 What a beautiful face that was!
Yes! I laughed for a good five minutes over that reaction!
Same. That face is everything. 😅
Same.
Oh hey, it's the salt thing ebbers destroyed
The stirfry pot would be a good item for someone like me who sometimes just wants to throw something into a self cooking or slow cooking device and then focus on other things. Like the Adobo Pork I have in a slow cooker right now as I then go out to get a picture taken and then watch this video.
Oh, I'd be salty too about that mortar and pestle! They are so right!
100%
The Mortar and pestle would maybe work in anyone's witchy shelving or craft space. Ben's right, it's definitely pretty, but very impractical for a regular kitchen.
Though my favourite was the meatball maker. Ben looking at the Camera incredulously with 'A bloody WOT' look was killer 😂
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.
1 I have one of those! Works really well with my painful and weak hands. Arthritis! they don't tell you about the weak part. It needs to be big because I can't hold tiny things.
Bonus over most tube squeezers is that you can take the tube out at any stage, don't have to wind it out. Still I cut the very last top bit of the tubes off and scoop out quite a lot more.
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! 🙈
Bens look when Barry said "Meatball Maker".. the perfect mix of dissapointed Parent/Teacher and "iam so done with this" xD
Absolutely best expression yet! What a idiotic gadget....
The look Ben had at 8:59 was priceless!
Thats the most shocked i have ever seen him and he has had to watch many things on this channel😂😂😂
Ooh that portable washing machines looks cool...
thats not a washing machine that is a cement mixer.
2:41 this is for me . I literally can't squeeze stuff because my hands are too weak
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.
That look after "the meatball maker" was so priceless XDXDXD
A gadget redemption episode would be a good video.
Returning to things like the Dolmade maker, and the meatball thing once you've done the research and had the practise.
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.
As Someone who is from the southern half of North America all I can think of when looking at that himalayan salt pestle and mortar is all of the cooking utensils that are traditionally passed down. Thinks like cast iron and mortar and pestles here in the American South but also the Mexican cousin the Molcajete and how part of what makes passing that kind of cooking equipment down is all the seasoning and flavor that has built up over the years that helps your food taste better. Having a disposable mortar and pestle, even one that is made out of seasoning like salt) seems like such a wwaste of opportunity to add some really great depth to your cooking that doesn't exist if you are constantly getting a new one...
and with the humidity here i Louisiana I doubt it would even last
As someone who has used that exact tube squeezer on tomato paste tubes, big caveat: it will create tiny tears in the tubing, and tomato water will slowly leak out over time.
Yes, they’re satisfying to use. But they leave a big mess when used on food products. It’s better to cut open the spent tube and scrape out the remains. They still work well for cosmetics and paint tubes though, given that those are thicker, more homogenous, and less likely to weep.
Isn't the turning mechanism a bit fiddley?
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.
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.
To be fair using only the salt pestle with a normal mortar might actually work decently.
It saves it from beein overly salty, you dont get the double reduction and the pestle is much easier to clean then the mortar bit so the limitations are much less pronounced.
i wonder how long it would take for normal air humidity to dissolve that pestle and mortar. that salt is going to attract it like a moth to a flame.
I have seen one of those automatic stir fry machines. Here is a bit of information that I gathered. It is for businesses with multiple outlets. It is there for consistency. Instead of having different members of staff (who most likely did not receive adequate training) trying to cook the same dish again and again at different shops, they just have to put the ingredients in at the instructed times. Then, you will get a similar-ish product to deliver to every order.
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!
From usage videos I've seen it depends on a fluffier loose meat mixture, not exactly sure how to get that but yeah :D
I actually just searched ti see if someone else has used it correctly 😂 could only find 1 video
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.
Finally we get to see the Pink Salt Pestle & Mortar from the Kenya cooking challenge video! Love Ben's reaction both then and now.
ooooh I knew I had seen it before!
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" :)
@@nguyenhoangphuc4050 The pronounciation of it is definitely a bit misleading, English isn't my native language and I can see how one could think that's how it's spelled lol
Which video did he break a salt one?
Which video did he break one
A tip for all metal tubes is to drag it across a straight edge (like the top of a drawer, cabinet door or anything similar) from the bottom end towards the opening and you'll achieve squeezing all the content to the opening for free. It doesn't crimp it and seal it but it's free so..
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 just split my sides laughing at Jamie's expressions while Ben cleaned the grease off of the salt mortar and pestle!!!!!!! Too too funny, thanks!!!!!!!💖💖🎃🎃🧛♂🧛♂🤣🤣💋💋
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
Great video guys! I think that first one would be great if they designed it like a speed peeler. It seems too bulky. I think all you need is the roller/crank part and a handle. Maybe loosen the rollers apart a bit so you can feed it in.
They exist! They’re not as strong as this one but still work. Get a metal one though, the plastic ones break too easily.
7:40 dirty minds....you are welcome 😂
I thought I was the only one who caught that cheeky grin!
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
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!
I think the stir fryer would be good for popcorn or candied nuts.
yay. more gadgets! Ben's face at the Meatball maker is a meme!
I recently commented about my idea of an electronic stir fry mixer, like the commercial open-flame ones that I've seen, on someone else's channel who was discussing induction woks. Apparently somebody made something similar, but unfortunately did a low-end job of it.
9:00 that look !!! 🤣 Ebbers, you killed me..
Instead of the tube squeezer, try using the handle of a wooden spoon to squeeze the tube against a worksurface.
It works a treat and saves having a separate tool.
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 😊
On the Himalayan salt pestle and mortar, why not use the pestle on a regular mortar? That way you still get the benefit of grinding with half the salt and no worry about the bowl being more concave.
4:51 Jamie's face during this part is pure gold :'D
I came here just to be sure someone else had commented this
For the stir frying pot, I think it could be great once you get the ratio and ingredients correct, then prep all of it into separate containers for the week and when its almost lunch time you can toss it all in and let it do its thing while you're back to work. I think the fact that they are actively watching and waiting for it kills off the experience, but great for multi-tasking, and as mentioned it can be used for soups and other things as well.
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.
It's as useful as the rock salt fork.
#1 probably left Jamie a little flat because he's got all his mobility and manual dexterity. I know some people who have hand dexterity issues and a roller like that is AMAZING for them.
13:50
I guarantee a bunch of dudes were hungry, drinking Sake, and watching the laundry tumble dry when they came up with this idea.
Honestly tube squeezers are great for my work 😂 as a pharmacist where we compound a lot of creams and ointments, it's an absolute game changer
What a nice little concrete mixer for your everyday house repairs
I love how expressive Ben is during the second item review. Absolutely adore his blunt hard truths haha
8:05 Ebbers is feeling saltier than usual😂😂😂😂😂
Especially after that pestle and mortar.
@@SortedFood YEP 😁😁
I have a tube squeezer but made in plastic and quite small, like the size and shape of a marker pen. Extremely handy since I suffer from arthritis and struggle with a lot of kitchen containers like tubes, jars, bottle caps etc, it's great since it works on both hard and soft types of tubes.
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
Yes!!! Same!!
I think it was some kind of hot plate to cook your food on, not a mortar and pestle, but basically the same thing
@@lucys.artchat Yes.
It was a salt "sizzle plate."
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
13:36 If cement mixers could cook food
The auto stir fry I could see work well with rice dishes or noodles that were made shorter in length, the set and forget probably be handy especially if you're cooking something else at the same time
1:52 That is SO satisfying!
As someone who has issues with squeezing tubes due to dexterity issues, the tube squeezer is a great idea! I need to get one
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.
I honestly don't think that PLA would survive very many Mutti tubes...
Feel like stir fry is a tall order for that thing, would love to see you test it other ways.
I'm imagining a bolognese, throw in your mince and set it off, come back a few minutes later and chuck in prechopped veg, wait a bit and then seasoning, tomatoes, and stock, then let it simmer. Theoretically home made bolognese with almost no active time!
Finally the salt mortar
I think the last one would be great for me because I hate standing and stirring my stews and stuff and end up with a bunch of burnt stuff down the bottom. But also in the disability space that might be handy to increase independence for people that might not be able to stir for long periods of time or something....but it is EXTREMELY heavy 😅
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.
@TF_NowWithExtraCharacters thanks for that Its nice to get a good answer that explains things as you have as I have no idea about cooking stirfrys. No Chinese shop near me. If I want any it's an hours drive there. I can't stir-fry for myself. Osteoarthritis makes using a wok difficult and I don't want to burn myself 😁👃
@@MazzyJC All good! Honestly though, a lot of the wok-tossing is restaurant technique, most home cooks (i.e. a lot of stay home wives, traditionally) don't have the strength or training to be doing that daily. If you're keen to see more, check out Chinese Cooking Demystified, they show typical homecooking setup, plus a variety of common every day dishes a local eatery might have. All in English. Only downside is that they are more instructional and less entertaining than our boys here.
That stir-fry widget would be good for things that need frequent stirring, like Risotto or, if it had an agitator of some sort, like a shaker-cup whisk for protein shakes, could be used for reducing stocks quickly due to the agitation and high surface area
Wait wait...they have not heard of tube-squeezers before? 😅
I had a small plastic tube squeezer which also worked great but I was sad that it broke very quickly. So I think it’s worth it to get that heavy one!
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
@@jd2792 doesn't* than*
The big roller seems more at home in a salon or studio with lots of big tubes to squeeze and economize supplies. Tube keys are small and cheap and great for metal tubes like tomato paste, super glue, and a lot of expensive art paints. For most other kitchen needs, the back of a butter knife, a spoon, or your bench scraper can do the job to empty a plastic tube of a cheap ingredient. There are a ton of other small, cheap solutions for toothpaste and other plastic tubes that don't require using a binder clip to keep the tube rolled up after use.
1700 on a sunday, always a treat
Cheap Tip: Instead of the tube squeezer you can use a pair of wooden chopsticks (the ones that stick together) ideal for squeezing out tubes
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 want to see you try a giant risotto in the stir fry maker!
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.
I’d love to see videos a couple weeks after their gadget reviews. Of seeing if they can get them to work and to also see how good the good ones work by testing its proper limits and using them in other videos.
I love that idea!
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 use a chopping board and the handle of a knife, not rocket science. And NO that tube squeezer is NOT good for the planet, it will be bought never used after the novelty has worn off and end up in the bin., causing more landfill.
Beauty supply has a small metal key shaped device for pushing hair dye out of tubes. It’s designed to slide over the crimped end of the tube & rolls out the product. Works perfectly, takes little space & costs about a dollar.