Chef BLUNTLY Reviews TEMU Kitchen Gadgets 2 | Sorted Food 

That's exactly what they do

Just don't buy plastic C E crap

Nah there's definitely first worlder "tax" added, because 1,5£ for a peeler or anything similar is a pretty normal store price (like physical store) in the second world

That's definitely a major problem... Knowing how/where the products and food we buy are sourced from is sometimes an impossible task!

I was gonna say the same! If I may add, they've been doing it for the past 30-40 years, actually.

they've done one now they have to do the other

And that wheel of Grana Padano

Budget is low😅

Lololol

but still a basic challenges between normal and chef would have created the same nummbers. without the will to change and the people thinking about it

I swear that was the closest I've seen to real magic!

Great idea! I hate wasting plastic bags.

I was thinking keeping something like a soup or stew in a bowl while you transport it to a pot luck or something. Sort of put the bag in a bowl, then pour the soup/stew in it and then sealing it. If it only had the fastener like the Stasher bags do.

Now that does seem to make sense.

Now I just need to be able to trust it actually is food safe.

@@MumrikDK That is my concern with everything Temu and food contact. A microplane you get there for pennies on the dollar is made from stainless steel - nothing they can mess up. A plastic item? I wouldn't buy that if it was made around the corner of my house since I try to avoid plastic in general, but I would be double suspicious with Temu products although in reality that is probably unfounded because the expensive product in your local store has a very good chance to come from the same manufacturer in China...

You also have to love risotto and wine.

Two words: Fish pie.

let's not forget the quiche

Just be Ebbers, since he's clearly in love with himself already.

​@@naomiarram5187I've only got a fish pie if it's that time of the month 😂

If either head was in it, just stick it in the dishwasher

A contagious excited giggle, love it :D

Literally so obsessed with him he makes me laugh so much just being himself!

Yes! It made my day 😂

Absolutely! 🤣 I've never seen him so excited!

I had to watch that part several times. His giggle is contagious.

It's not a hot topic, temu uses cheap low quality, mass produced products to provide customers a seemingly "catchless" cheap shopping experience. Sorted are SUPPORTING TEMU. Every time they recommend a product they say TEMU and every time one doesn't work they blame the INDIVIDUAL product and not the platform that is EXPLOITIVE. Sorted need to do better, as you said they hinted at it but clearly cut it or didn't bother, part of sorted's brand is it's progressive stance on the food industry yet this seems like chasing trends and skipping important safety over youtube engagement. ----Here is a statement from the EU.--- Commenting in a statement, Monique Goyens, director general at BEUC, accused the marketplace of being “rife with manipulative techniques” designed to push consumers to spend more, and claimed insufficient information about traders “frequently leav[es] consumers in the dark about who they are purchasing products from.” “This lack of traceability prevents consumers from taking an informed decision or to know if a product complies with EU safety rules,” she added. The consumer protection groups are also raising concerns about minor safety, pointing out the extreme price discounting and gamification features baked into Temu’s platform are likely to be attractive to children. “Temu does not guarantee its users a safe, predictable, and trustworthy online environment as the law requires,” they argue in the complaint. “Among other things, we have strong concerns that consumers are falling prey to manipulative techniques, that Temu fails to ensure the traceability of the traders operating on its platform, or that its overall functioning remains opaque, all of which breach the Digital Services Act.” “Ultimately, the high number of dangerous products sold on Temu by untraceable traders, through manipulative practices and opaque recommender systems, are ingredients of a toxic cocktail likely to impair minors’ privacy, safety, and security,” the groups also warn. The coordinated complaints follow some individual actions by consumer groups concerned about the safety and legality of products for sale on Temu’s marketplace. For example, last fall, Italian consumer group Altroconsumo ran a test of cosmetics purchased on the platform and found the vast majority failed to list (or fully list) ingredients.

To be fair, they did talk about the prices later...

@@aknee3042 I agree it was mentioned briefly however it was more an offhand comment, compared to usual format they do. The whole thing for Temu is literally "look at all these products at unethically low prices" and it was quite clearly scripted to be something of a main topic to bring up instead of the offhand comment shown on the video, just feels missing from the video.

Yep, felt a bit cheap. Don't think it would have been difficult to call it a disgusting and unethical business and why that is, I don't think that's even controversial. Sweatshops, unreasonably cheap trash etc

@@noahgray5229 problem is all the junk on Amazon is just the same stuff resold at even higher prices. So paying more isn't ethically better. Sigh.

It's true. When you wear gloves, it's harder to tell when the gloves are dirty because you can't feel it on your hands. So many things, especially in a kitchen, can make your hands dirty but aren't readily visible (like pretty much every cooking oil or related product.)

When am doing pre work I change gloves between every task. You have to change them every time you clean you work area for then next job.

Then people didn't wash their hands enough either. The only difference is people bring dirt from other rooms in on their hands and only transfer kitchen stuff on gloves. So gloves are that little bit better for pure safety.

@@blairhoughton7918 When you don't do anything in a kitchen and only look at it on paper, sure. But when you see how real people behave, it doesn't actually work out that way.

I agree with Ben too. Seen too many cooks (even on TV cooking shows) wearing gloves and touching hair, etc. I only wear gloves when handling raw meat.

The original creator most likely is using the same factory. They handed them the design.

Temu don't make anything. It's just an Asian / Chinese market place

What they said. Temu is a better-organized Alibaba. It operates as a reseller site, so it's even less conflicted than Amazon, which has resellers but also resells for itself and makes its own brands.

And how do you propose doing that?

@@inh415 as well they tell the factories what to sell there products, so they can force the factories to sell at a loss to gain consumers. so it's not just a marketplace but a controlled one

Then why is the channel supporting the company by buying their products.

@@Potatoooo--18 Why do reviewers buy bad things to write a review? To discourage people from buying the thing, Karen. It's net positive.

​@@Potatoooo--18 such a Karen thing to say

That's just how much stuff costs in Asia without western middle man companies and certification.

@@inh415 and, y'know, morals and ethics regarding workers, handling, nature, waste, etc. etc. etc.

papa smurf

it's only dirt cheap in your country and salary/earning condition. I understand that you cannot see what it means to have a well-built supply chain and industrialised mass production and how it helps to reduce cost, as it may be very far from your life in the country you are from. But do not just sum it all to "people being exploited" when you have no real evidence.

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I'm not sure whether "knock up a dough" was intentional or not.

At least they got a bun in the oven at the end ;)

Perverted joke

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Oof, on the palms is rough! But the bag wouldn't help with that, right?

@@shllybkwrm maybe if it's peeling(flaky?) and they don't want skin in their dough?

@@kristin123a They could wear gloves. Although, I suppose that the bag would be more comfortable than gloves, and also would be reusable. But you'd still probably need gloves to remove it from the bag too. As ebbers showed, you can't get that folding motion in the bag anyway, so you still can't kneed it entirely in the bag.

@@xBrokenMirror2010x just because Ben looked at it skeptically for a couple of minutes and didn't figure it out, doesn't mean it can't be done.

@@shllybkwrm the bag is reusable and gloves are not. But more than that, gloves are on the hand and restrict airflow and hold moisture. Gloves might make the eczema worse. Handling the bag is much less stressful on the hands than wearing gloves.

I use one or my arthritic hands only last two minutes of peeling before I have to give up and use skin-on veg. It has a bit of a learning curve for smaller round things, though. Took me ages and lots of wonky potatoes.

Even without arthritis, my first job after culinary school frequently involved peeling hundreds of pounds of vegetables in a day, for stock and house made fries. After several hours of peeling carrots of spuds my hands cramped pretty hard even with an "ergonomic" peeler. If there had been a palm peeler the, or if I'd known about it back then if it already existed, I'd have been all over it. Doing some searching there are better quality ones out there from other sources.

Also in fairness to Ben, they did kinda get around to that later and he was like "oh yeah" so he probably just spaced here. I may have jumped the gun a little but maybe the reminder will be helpful to others here!

"Too cheap to believe" is such a great way to put it

​@@SortedFoodTemu/PDD are incredibly sketchy. Subsidizing shipping etc by more than price of items, using malware techniques against other apps on your phone, forced labor, forcing factories to price under cost to manufacture, dangerous materials in things used for food....

One of the most frustrating things is when you're in a small country that can be easily missed when things are invented. I'm in NZ and despite being a first world country we're so often forgotten or seen as not worth the effort when companies make things. My mum has bad arthritis and that peeler sounds like it could be really good for her but when I try and search for one in NZ the only places suggested to me are temu or obvious dropshippers who would then take the additional money as profit and just order it from temu anyway. I won't order from temu due to the moral issues but it also really cuts down on the number of things you can buy when places just simply forget your country.

Lmao you people are hilarious, you'll pay for a ridiculous mark up and think it means things are more ethical when there's just as much, if not more human exploitation occurring.

@@lux0rd01 NZ is such a small market you often get left off maps! Definitely a problem for any small and remote country

Mine were from bed bath and beyond and are still in weekly use!

That is how I also do it. Pretty similar to how I start a sourdough. Quick couple of minutes with the spoon and maybe use a single hand quickly. Let it sit for 15 minutes and do some stretch and folds, then another 15 minutes and another set of stretch and folds and then it is basically conpletely kneeded and just needs time. Really doesnt need to be a messy or cumbersome endeavour to produce some solid bread or pizza dough. Pasta/noodle dough on the other hand is a bit more demanding.

Which have a high possibility of being produced by literal slave labour.

As if you only ever buy the original name brand product of everything

You have it backwards. They are what happens when the actual manufacturer sells direct. When you grow up and actually want to do something with your life you’ll realize that everything is mass produced in China and sold in your country for much much much more. The only possible complaint here is that the manufacturers are stealing ideas, but typically none of these companies will make anything for you with any sort of contract to not do this, unless you’re a massive corporation.

Temu is a marketplace

Yeah let me shell out hundreds of dollars for something I can get cheaper 🙄

It actually starts on 13:31

Yes - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jPhMY08A3Fk.html

A How To Cook That/Sorted collaboration would be epic!

I *knew* I’d seen somebody using this roller!!

Not to even mention the data stealing from users lol

Agreed! You're just giving then free advertisement. Besides that, I love the format!

Exactly this

Did you actually listen to what they were saying lol??

I was thinking there's nothing new about the palm peeler and I too have had one for 20 years.

I wouldn't let that bag anywhere near my food unless I knew it's actually food safe.

Well, it's about the same as my peeler in my kitchen drawer. Some times, I have had to put the blade back on. Having it in the palm of the hand sounds a bit iffy, but it's also covered by the palm plastic and when it pops off it would be blade down into a veggie.

The original one was better. This is a cheap Chinese knockoff.

While you might be right that it may not be secure being so cheap, keep in mind peelers often are more loose fitting by design, to allow it to conform to the shape of uneven produce.

Because it's freaking cool. The science of that fabric is amazing. When I use mine for bread it doesn't even leave residual flour on the peel. And you don't have to flour it to keep the dough from sticking. It takes a little practice (it doesn't need a jerk like a regular peel, even at the end Ben kept letting the flap move) but it's totally brilliant when you get used to the motion. Theirs looked smallish; you really don't want anything hanging off it.

A better reveal would be to compare the temu product vs the more expensive ones.

That's only one of the many big problems with them.

I must admit I’m disappointed that Sorted have repeated this concept. I love them in general but to me this completely undermines the great work they’ve been doing on food waste. How can you effectively convey that message whilst actively promoting a website that aggressively markets over-consumption and material waste?😮y The comments about ethics feel shallow - if you are uneasy about their business model, just stop buying more cr*p from them!! You have many great concepts on the channel…. You don’t need this. Please cease and desist!

What is the difference to the western countries and what can the CCP do with your datas? They have no influence on the politic in your country other than your own goverment and companies realy know everything about you.

There’s 200000 videos and articles about it. We know.

French bakeries use a similar mechanism, but the structure is steel and the fabric is cloth and the thing is huge, like 3 m long and 1 m wide. It looks like a hospital gurney. They array a couple of dozen loaves on it, push the table into the oven, then zip it back.

@@blairhoughton7918 i got to check that out!!! thanks for the cool tidbit!

Deeply unsafe to buy things from China that contact food or that ARE food. See arsenic in vegetables, melamine in dog food, melamine in baby formula, lead and cadmium in toys.... There's a reason why Chinese Nationals try to buy baby formula in Hong Kong, Australia, etc rather than relying on local Chinese products

Yeah reasonably high chance of this. Even if the materials are, there is a high chance of contamination with oils etc during manufacturing. No testing, CE ( not china engineering) or British standard / kite mark etc and no accountability with temu. Amazon's not much better in this regard though.

@@inh415I agree. CE marking is wild as soon as you leave the EU (even inside of it).

Just like Grandma used; to roll her own. 🌿

Part of the Ebbrell Fetish Kitchen Wear Collection 👨‍🍳

Why is this company a nightmare for the environment? So much of what we buy wherever we buy it is made in Asia . Shipping happens from there anyway.

Chill out mother Teresa

Spelled wonderfully, 3/4 of the time that i do a reverse google search on a product on amazon or some other site, they bring straight to temu or aliexpress

Do they underpay? They pay to what the market can bare. The story of a shoe manufacture going into a village and paying 5 times as much as any other company. Ruined the economy because it made the price of basic shy rocket because there are people who could pay more and the other factories worker became poorer. Look at what happen with raising the minimum to quickly in the US. They are making workers do more and hiring less workers. They are automating their business and only need 2 people to work the fast food places. at the same time you are paying twice as much for a burger combo. If I told you that 4 years ago you will be paying $14 to $16 for a fast food combo. You would think I was a nuts. This is what happens when you think you are doing something good in forcing business to play more the market value for labor. People on limited income now have 1/2 the value of their dollar. We can't say they were underplayed because they need to live based on western values. Low cost manual labor mean more people in poorer counties can have a job that pays them a living wage. The value of a homes that are more expensive to build with AC insulation things that are not need to build a house in many other counties. You can not place a 1 to 1 value on products in other counties. As for the Chinese they work because they want something more then the basics. They are given a place to live and allotment of rice for the month, They have everything that is needed to live. Yet they choose to work. If you want a job the local government checks your skills or wants. The office tell you to go to an address and there will be a job for you. Even if they have more people then they need.

I think we should see if Ebbers has any apple products

Their products are so cheap and they underpay their workers because Temu's real business is being a data harvesting site. Do not buy from Temu if you value your digital privacy. They're worse than even the most egregious social media sites.

This is called "dumping" and is only one of the many dark marketing patterns they use to drive out competition.

In a small kitchen just use a bowl you already own.

@@YaaLFH For some types of dough I find it hard to use a bowl, doesn't allow much freedom of movement.

@@tastymedleys The bag doesn't allow much freedom of movement either.

@@YaaLFH I'd say more than a bowl, but I'm sure it depends on personal preference.

Nah, that's just how much stuff like that costs in Asia. It's only a silicone bag. Temu are probably taking a hit on the shipping or at least not making any profit.

@@inh415 Temu is losing the equivalent of about 500 milion dollars per year due to aggressive pricing. It's actually nothing new. Shein, Temu's Chinese version, has done the same. Aliexpress has done the same. Amazon in the USA has done the same. It's nothing new. But after they get enough market share prices will get normal again.

​@@inh415I'm sure the shipping cost is so low because to the shipper it's a bulk container, and the 2 week shipping time allows for efficient bulking, lowest cost cargo-flight scheduling, simpler customs processing, etc. Most people likely put several items into an order making it that much less overhead. There's no warehousing in the US* and they seem to have a great relationship with USPS. * - well, there wasn't until this month. Now some products can be shipped faster, but they're clearly 50-100% more expensive than is usual for Temu. The goods sold have to pay warehouse rent to cover the unsold goods, and each item gets more individual attention.

@@blairhoughton7918 No, they don't have "a good relationship with USPS" - they just abuse preferential rates for developing countries and avoid import tax.

​@@inh415 That's part of the issue though. What makes things just that cheap in Asia?

Yet here you are watching the video, causing video creators to continue to make these videos because they get views.

😂 could have been a great Goofy laugh too

It not better took because I have 2 types of the older peelers. nether one does the job perfect for every situation. If this style does the job better then the other 2 for me in most cases. Then it's a better peeler.

I have one of the original ones. I bought it about 15 years ago and it was hand made out of hickory wood and bakery linen in the US. It is still as good as the day I bought it. I believe he called it the super peel. Sadly he no longer makes them.😢

Also, at less than 1.50 I really wonder how food safe that bag is. Because they can't have used any quality silicone on it. That needs to be part of the discussion, too.

I don't think you'll be disappointed!

​@SortedFood wish Ben had gone into more depth. Instead it was like headlines.

@@SortedFood I am disappointed.

Me too!