Chef Reviews CROWDFUNDED Kitchen Gadgets 

I would LOVE to see that.

The Apple-only bit would be a problem there, though.

@@carmenclemons2556 I checked, it IS available on Google Play, Ebbers was wrong.

That has to be why they got it, because it has no reason to be among the kitchen gadgets.

@@Binidj I just looked and it said, This app isn's available for your device because is was made for an older version of Android. It might be my location is in Canada.

YEAH THIS

The bags were great. The price was a bit steep but I thought they were a bit quick to ditch them.

@@Trendyflute Agreed. They were still thinking of them like traditional but strong bags. They can go from storing raw food, to cooking inside of it, to serving at the table, to the fridge. They're more like flexible Pyrex containers than anything else, and 10 quid for a small Pyrex container that you'll be using forever is reasonable.

I tried drinking my weird shaped soups from that bag but you need to clutch the scalding satchel right against your face and neck or it spills all down into your seat and clothes when you're on public transportation😕

I kind if like the flexible lid idea but for different reasons. One of the biggest enemies of most tupperware containers is lid sag. When you put a hot food in the fridge or a cold food in the microwave the tupperware always ends up warping due to the temperature change, and often times the lid will get hard to close or just stop working all together. I also feel like it might be feasible to microwave these tupperware without having to crack them for steep to escape, because the flexible top can expand with the steam. If you let the tupperware cool a little and wait for the steam bulge to go down the water will return into the dish instead of escaping as steam and drying out the food. However, I wouldn’t want this tupperware to have clips. If you are going to microwave it you want the steam to be able to lift the lid for safety reasons, and I’m really not a fan of clipped tupperware in general, its too much messing around to use clips, and clipped lids are usually harder to clean and a lot harder to store. Plus this type of lid is something I’d only want to pay for if it was competitive to some of the cheaper alternatives. I find that most tupperware is just way too expensive and never really fixes the durability issues.

It's too specific for what it wants to do...

Yeah just use an immersion circulator or a steamer

Yeah, you go to singapore or malaysia and get the eggs, they will just giv it to you in a plastic bowl with hot water with a plate covering it and tell you to wait for 5min. Never seems to fail. This seems like and over elaborated design for that and doesn’t necessarily works well.

There is already similar things to JoTo that I think operate better. They aren’t optimised for network applications like this but that’s a lot of money for what is basically a toy thing that will be forgotten pretty quickly.

I’m gonna go big on this - I’ve never seen a good egg gadget

YUP!

Thats half the fun of this format

I would have been really interested in that aspect. I'd have liked to see them frozen too.

They do get stained for sure after contact with tomatoes or curry.

Spray the inside of your containers with oil before you put things like curry or tomato based sauces in them......I cant imagine that these silicone bags are any more resistant to staining than others I own.

Seriously. Just wait until that soap flavor leeches into the silicone and then gets transferred to the food.

I was wondering exactly this too and was going to comment on this before I seen your comment.

Until the marker stops working or the internet disconnects just call them

@@1992djg yea seems to unrelyable for that use.

I was mainly impressed at how neat the font was because it perfectly replicates images. I could see it being useful for writing out recipes while cooking, especially if you have bad handwriting. You don't have to print out recipes and you're not playing with a device while you're cooking.

To me that gadget has more of a place in a small business like a cafe rather than at home.

@@LordDragox412 Yeah that's a "Today's Special" or "Heads up we're closing early" type board than a thing for home.

That was the first thing I thought of too! Man, that's a blast from the past!

Oh yeah I remember that one!

I rewatched that episode fairly recently. Doesn't seem so long ago but actually is a good few years ago. What is time? 😅

Exactly

I've always wanted the flat lunchbox. Looked cool.

idk a phone, a screen, printer or fax machine are probably better options.

There’s so many of those kind of products and most r more fun than some random board sadly

What are they called?

Can I ask what country you're in?

And they have been around for at least 25 years. You can take anything from a different country and mark it up with a silly logo for the UK.

I'd also like to know the name for this, would love to try them and not use that piece of garbage that was croudfunded

It is called half boiled egg maker....well at least that's how it is listed in Malaysia online shopping platform. We don't need an overpriced crowd funded version of it...

100 agree. Those stupid silicone bags and tupperware, talk about reinventing the wheel.

The selling point is sustainability not innovation 😂. While not a new idea the fact there is 0 plastic, and micro plastic are a huge problem right now, it has value.

Which is honestly good. If everything they showed was "great", it'd leave you with the feeling that they're just being paid to show things.

@@MrMartinSchou True, and frankly ever since James left, there was a time in which they had become too generous in their opinions, as far as I was concerned. So I agree it's a good thing that they actually show when they're not convinced.

@@bochapman1058 True, and I'd be totally fine if a product presented a useful spin on something that already existed, but when the products don't even properly do what they're supposed to do and yet are advertised like the best thing since sliced bread, that's when it gets disappointing.

£2 is a bargain!

Do you put water in from a kettle that has just boiled or cooler water.

@@wandereruk73 straight off the boil! typically i'd pour in the amount of water to the line according the to the number of eggs. i.e 2 eggs, 2nd line and so on forth

I immediately scroll down after seeing the eggbath to find malaysian 🤣🤣

as a Malaysian, I can confirm this comment. I grew up with the soft-boiled eggs maker as well and my family still have it.

Out of interest, what temperature would that be? The 18°C in the studio seems pretty chilly (and most likely affected the eggs cooking). I'd say that typical room temperature in the UK is 20-25°C, but that's with central heating and can be much colder or much hotter (especially as air con is rare here).

@@hannahk1306 I'm not sure what the "room" temperature is, after all, wall thermometers went out of fashion a while ago. But the climate in Malaysia is 25-32°C throughout the year, if that helps

​@@hannahk1306 I dunno in winter I guess it is about 16C in my kitchen (probably a fair bit lower overnight). In summer maybe upto 25C. No central heating in my kitchen.

@@hannahk1306 Here in the US i'd say its pretty typical for most houses to be between 22 and 25.5 C. You might get 18 in a really large building that's trying to pre-chill for a rush or 27ish during the summer at a place where the doors are being opened a lot, but those are going to be outliers. I had the same response as Ebbers to this gadget. I'd never want to cook an egg like this for myself. Even assuming this did work, I don't see why this gadget would be a thing anyway. If you're really going to do it why pay for something with only one function that you have to store somewhere when you could just use a bowl and a timer? Like OP said, ok maybe in a restaurant where they're trying to be fancy, but at home? Waste of space when a bowl would work just as well. That's ofc assuming you wasted enough eggs to figure out how to even get it to work in the first place since it clearly failed several times for them.

@@andyleighton3616 Winter isn't a thing in Southeast Asia

And the exertion Ebbers had to go through just to slide the bamboo over the silicone, makes me think they're not so great. The especially for people with grip/dexterity issues like arthritis. You can get ziploc bags with an actual zipper that are virtually effortless to close. We wash and reuse the standard 'single use' ones a few times before the plastic eventually gives up. But yeah your point about the stacking is a problem too. If I want to freeze something in a bag, it's because I can lay it flat and stack like ten of them in a freezer drawer. I'd get two of those in there, tops.

@@FyreflierI completely agree, fridge and freezer real estate is precious. I also wash ziplock bags and reuse them.

Yeah I have a set that I never use because they're annoying to use and clean.

@@kalliste01same - and it's not like tupperware wasn't already reusable

Had them too and then changed to „Stasher“ bags. They close without fiddling the ziplock part and they are dishwasher save, so very very easy to clean. Use them for everything!

I think it's aimed at kids...potentially...

If I was a kid when this existed, I can see my parents using it to ask for things done before they got home (like take out meat from the freezer, wash some veggies or water mom's plants cause she forgot again)

@@JennieOkami instead of just... calling/texting?

@The_Yukki there wasn't texting or wide spread cellphones to get calls when I was a kid and they couldn't drop what they were doing at work to call the house line and even if they could they had no idea when I would've been home. So notes left on the kitchen table was the best way of communication

I immediately put this on my list to check out for kitchen/hiking purposes

Thank you! I’m going to look them up right now.

These might be magic for molasses!

I think I have had something similar. They were as bad as you described

I have a few different brands of these silicone bags and some aren't great but I have the IKEA ones and I think they're wonderful. I use them for camping and for freezing items that I can then just pop out for school lunches. They're easy to clean by hand and sometimes I'll just throw them in the dishwasher and as long as I have them over a few tines, they stay open and come out clean. I haven't bought cling film in about 10 years and very rarely need to buy disposable bags

I agree.

The same 😂

Yeah bought a few also. They failed to mention that required plastic sealing strip. Felt scammed when they arrived as bought because not having to find lid was a major feature.

That's amazing! We hope he enjoyed it!

@@SortedFood He sure did guys! 👊👊👊❤️❤️❤️🤘

Have they done a pio where they have to use gadgets from the tested gadgets videos? They each have to add their choice of gadget?

​@@merrinatrixthey did a battle based on it a while back but not sure about a PIO. Agree though, its a really fun idea

We really are 😅

Aging like a fine wine.

Do you have stasher bags in the UK? They are the best, all silicone, reusable bags I've found in the US.

I inherited some Tupperware containers from my late Aunty. She bought them in the early 1960s and they're still going strong 60 years later.

I got excited because I found nice Tupperware with the snappy clip lids on sale yesterday. And I bought 3 of them.

Different brand, but I stored tomato sauce in one in our trailer and with the drive, it shifted and fell out of the fridge when we opened the door. Nothing spilled. Not all brands are created equal but some definitely are water tight.

Silicone*

The once you can buy in the supermarket are also the same size per pack, what the boys meant is that you can get the 4 mentioned sizes, which varies the cook time

I was going to say once I saw what it was for I immediately thought “hang on how’s that new, I’ve had one of those for well over a decade now at least”.

what are they called? tried searching for "egg bath" and didn't see anything relevant. would like to see if i could get them where i live.

@@betaich Yeah I got that, it's just new to me as we don't do sizes over here. All eggs are the same size from most brands that are stocked in supermarkets. There's no such thing as S, M, L, XL for eggs lol.

@@icyheart80 SG here too, actually we do have different sizes for eggs, but it's mostly the 10-pack cartons that do it. Even then, the difference between sizes is like 5g per egg, which really isn't noticeable visually (the only reason I found out was cos I was trying to bake some recipe that stated the eggs in weight, so I started kaypohing in NTUC).

I have this set and they're great at home but they're heavy. I love silicone bags when camping. They take up less space when empty, weigh less and are easier to "shove" into a cooler or rv fridge. You can remove the air from it to make it take less room if it's not full (vs a container which takes up the same amount of space if it's 10% full or 100% full

Thats a genius use...

With how long it took to draw the chilli, it'd be a 5minute penalty for 1 command.

For a smaller price a small TV and something like a chromecast will do the job far better.

I have a printer.

Stasher is another great silicone bag. It doesn’t have the bamboo slider but it’s a certified B corporation which is pretty cool.

It's not as bad with cooked food, the flavor is easily covered up. The bigger taste can be that it retains some from the previous contents, which can transfer. But for most cooking that's not noticeable at all. But I guess you'd want to avoid using it with delicate flavors.

@@stanvanillo9831 like I said, I think they’re a bit useless in general. But you’re right, they don’t have a setting for half-boiled.

​@@glockenreinours has that in it's instructions, for big Sunday family breakfast it's more important than a toaster, I appreciate having one

@@fionafiona1146 my concern is mostly how much space they take up in a cupboard. A pot I have anyway and I can fit 8 eggs into my pot (I know that because my egg salad recipe calls for 8 eggs 😅).

@@glockenrein the more people are in your household the simpler it is to justify, especially when it's a "set and forget" situation and you can get 40 eggs to salad consistency with 5 itterarions

So did I any liquid ended up everywhere. Try zip top they are brilliant

So did I. But if those bags work as well as it looks like they look, I would buy them in a heartbeat!

Ooh! Yes I'd love to see the guys try that. I can't really think of a way to justify a purchase like the Joto when you can get a magnetic white board to pop on your fridge - no where near as cool obviously

@@ashbunny2645 Or you could buy a tablet or Amazon device and have several other functions for 1/4 the price.

I liked the stretchy lid too, particularly if you don't have much storage space and can't really be doing with lots of different sizes of container. I like the fact they work as regular sized containers and then when you get a weird thing.... Still the same container. I felt they were rather harsh on the imagined use case there.

Try them out, they already exist!!

@@outogetyougotyou5250 i have seen them online. Will see if a version is available in my country

@@elizabethheyn5365 Best of luck :)

The Soggy Bottom Boys - "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" is now playing over & over in my head...thank you 😆

Now when u mentioned him, where has Tyrone gone? 🤔We never hear of him anymore 😂

I forgot about Tyrone. Apparently so did Ben!

@@erinhowett3630 He's just a bad man who has abandoned Tyrone & let him go feral in the kitchens of London as a pot washer!😆

I hope Tyrone is doing well wherever he is. Ben you need to do better. This is how parents end up abandoned in retirement homes.

Definitely!

That's CRAZY!

@@SortedFood and that was the sales price at -15% 😱😱😱

I know! Spanish is My first language and these subtitles help si much! You're the Best girl❤❤❤❤❤

@@danielsantiagourtado3430I so wish other big RU-vid channels knew how much human written subtitles help a range of people! They are so much better than auto subs but seeing how fiddly it is to do, I have a renewed appreciation for sorted doing them.

​@@alexdavis5766i always have! They are the Best For a reason!

We totally should keep calling him Berry.

@@zoekm Thank lol!

i mean, i get that it's a bit of a joke n such but i honestly fail to see how it's the proper way, it's not exactly a traditional cooking equipment.. how old can a rice cooker be? not much older than ww2 i'd say if even close to that old. and to be frank, i find that doing it the regular way we usually do it in western countries works perfectly if you actually know what you're doing or atleast dont run away from the kitchen (then there's also the whole indian part of the arguement aswell, think it was northern indians but i might be wrong there i remember it being somewhere in that region tho, where they cook rice like we would pasta roiling boil then drain off and it works for them so) a rice cooker does nothing cooking-wise that a pot with a lid cant do, it at most turns itself off so it doesnt burn, that's the one thing it does that you couldnt get from a regular ol pot with a lid