I Tested Viral Kitchen Gadgets ft a Pepper Corer! 

My Virgin Kitchen old school soda streams are always on eBay Australia. Also do you use the FB buy sell feature? Soda Streams are on that a lot as well.

You get soda streams and refills from Argos. New style and retro style. I have the retro one just like when I was a kid.😜

Barry, maybe with the silicone chocolate melting device, try letting it sit on warm/hot water rather than microwaving it?

You can get soda stream from the range but not an old one I guess

You washed the chocolate maker, right? I think there was still water inside it, which caused it to burn and seize.

MrsInAbox very cool! I’m disabled too and am always looking for new gadgets to help me. ☺️

To be fair, the slappy chopper is useful for literally everyone but it's a point well made. I get annoyed when people make fun of supermarket pre-chopped stuff, because there's people who really need that stuff. Or at least that stuff means they can make meals solo they otherwise couldn't. Incidentally, if you look on Amazon, Barry's slappy chopper is about £20. If you go up to about £26 there are ones that also have a bunch of replaceable stuff on the lid so you can do grating, chopping and even juicing straight into tub. As an added bonus, none of the blades have fallen out of mine yet :P

Gillian Miller THE FAM!! Also stirring it.

AttackRunRepeat I think it's mostly stirring because of how uneven microwaves heat up stuff

RedstonerD Chocolate seizes when it comes in contact with water because chocolate is just oil (and thus doesn't mix with water lol). You're right about the microwave being uneven, which is why it's important to stir often and melt in short blasts to make sure it doesn't overheat and burn or seize. Maybe next time, Barry

Massaging the chocolate in the thing is necessary for even heating. Just like you have to stir chocolate in a bowl, you have to move it around and mix it in the silicone thing

Chocolate isn't "just oil", it contains over 100 different substances, and only 10-30% (depending on the type of chocolate) is oil or cocoa butter. Sugar typically makes up more than 40%, and the rest is mostly cocoa solids (and powdered milk, if you're using milk chocolate). Although water can indeed turn chocolate "lumpy" (by combining with the _sugar_ - the issue isn't the oil), what seems to be happening here is the chocolate is getting burned by microwave nodes (i.e., places where the wave is static). Fun fact: you can actually use this effect with a large bar of chocolate to measure the length of microwaves (approximately 12 cm)! Well-designed ovens have less nodes, but there's often one near the centre. You can reduce that effect by putting the chocolate off-centre on the dish (which rotates precisely to avoid those nodes) or using containers that absorb part of the microwaves and then radiate the heat more evenly (typically thick glass or ceramics). With the right set-up you can even go full bast for a couple of minutes, and melt it just fine. Putting chocolate inside a thin plastic container right in the middle of a microwave is just asking for trouble.

yeah my mum still has one of those old cheese graders and it still works.

My gran had one, they sold the old metal version in wilko a few years back so you can probably still get them

My mum also has a metal one. When we used it back then, it always left metal shavings in the cheese

My mum also had one.

Yeah that seemed to be the issue. I recently watched The After Prison Show where the guys made prison candy where they melted stuff like jolly ranchers and tootsie rolls in a microwave and warned about such things.

ThulsaVerda love APS!

I think if he stopped at 45 seconds it would have been enough because the food carries on cooking for about 30 seconds after you stop microwaving

Louise You have to lower your power setting, also. You need to be below 50 percent or use the defrost setting.

Yess! Thank you! Glad someone said it

Could do but that may involve some ive already done

Thats a great idea!

could do some kinda of battle royale between new and old gadgets to find the ultimate amount them

yeah i dont think reusing previous gadgets would be an issue - it's not meant to introduce new gadgets, it's meant to decide which gadget is best out of a category of (old or new) gadgets that do the same thing. you could also test the gadgets vs the ungadgeted form - for example, if you were testing various avocado slicers, you would also have a regular knife and you would cut the avocado the normal way without any assistance from gadgets

bringing out old gadgets wouldn't bother most of us... but also it would help you get through alot of the gadgets you have in storage

Joanne Gray Don’t forget - he’s also the polisher of carrots!

I did but then it was the sheer weight of everything added, maybe tie it up after

My Virgin Kitchen if you put the ketchup and mustard into the little squirt bottles, it would probably be a little more manageable.

that dang gabbie maybe little bottles... Cuz the normal squirt bottles arent that much smaller or weigh much less...

I think so too bc u can see the tab thing and it was raised in the pan. But he got it work anyway so thats surprising

I noticed that also

I used one of those when I was in culinary school.

I saw it and was like, "I have one of those!" I don't really use it as a guide. But occasionally as a reference for the size of cuts. I bought a few more on sale and have to various friends as novelty/serious gifts.

keriezy, you realize the barrel comes out.... so you could just flip it yo the other side, and abracadabra....left handed

Nope dried it thoroughly both times!

My Virgin Kitchen i assume the lid would hold in any steam the chocolate produces while being melted which could’ve condensed/combined with the chocolate when you shook it?

Jess Kendall oh yes! Possibly.

What? Lol Water doesn't ruin melted chocolate! Adding water to melted chocolate is what makes it super shiney. Adding water also aids in making it runny and really easy to pour or use for decorating.

Jamie Reid no no no!! water makes the chocolate seize, adding more cocoa butter makes the chocolate runnier and tempering makes the chocolate shiny!

twocvbloke yes, nothing new, my gran had one... (Need to find one for myself, it's great (haha) for carrots too )

The waiters at olive gardens have used them for years lol

Are they truly grate, or just gouda?

*grate

Sophie W you’re right. If he’d stopped before it was fully melted, the residual heat would have finished the job without burning.

It was flat side down? Isn’t that right

OMG BARRY REPLIED and hahah the parts which separate the yolk and white is supposed to be touching the base of the pan so how you placed it was upside down

I think it was the right way up. The idea is you crack the egg into the sun, the partial wall will hold the yolk while letting the white spread to fill the mold.

It was right.. If u look properly the way barry did was was flat side down. what a fellow commenter said previously is right.. The idea is to crack the egg into the sun area and the white will spread on its own leaving the yolk in placw

i agree with you, there's a reason why there is all flat side to it, yolk would seperate that wasy and would not sit on whites, which makes momre sense. Also there's the edge which you then hold to pick it up

Sadly it's made from bamboo. Bamboo boards split easily.

Thanks that’s really useful to know, maybe I’ll just get a new one then

The original soda stream had a glass bottle rather than plastic. My uncle had one when I was a kid and we liked going to his house for this reason.

We had one when I was a kid. Cost my parents a fortune replacing the "bomb" (Co2 cannister) every week but I was really popular with my friends during the summer when we needed to slake our thirst when playing out all day in the sun. I think they just liked the fart sound the Soda Stream made when you'd put enough gas in your bottle.

If I remember rightly the were called soda stream 101 or something like that with glass bottles. Much better than the new ones today imo

Keet Randling it moves round and round in the centre. the way microwaves are set up means things work best in the dead centre due to the standing waves that are formed

@@felicityaeh nah

Jackie Allum thank you!!!! Lol

No. He had it in the pan correctly. You’re supposed to just crack the egg in the sun area, the white runs into the cloud area under the edge and the yolk stays in the sun.

Melissa Blanchard Yep you’re right. He cracked it in the wrong bit! Straight into Sun which fills cloud. Spot on.

@@mellymb4131 nope, it even has a lip on the edge of the rubber which was meant to be on top so you could lift easy

@@xleaguex2655 if you use it the other way around, the yolk and whites would be disconnected and the channel for letting the whites flow into the cloud would be pointless. The lifting tabs are also _more_ functional when they're at the bottom so you can pull them away from the side of the egg to unstick it while you lift it up and the wider brim creates a far better seal on the pan to reduce white leakage that the thin bit would.

Jason Allen he didn't use the wrong cheese, the product said soft cheeses would be fine. So it really isn't his fault

Like Jason said, this model is terrible and this type of cheese grater can only be used on hard cheeses so it's the manufacturer of this particular model that messed up.

D0senpf4nd [Sigh] Regardless of what's claimed on the side of a package containing a piece of junk, a rotary grater does not perform well with softer cheeses. Someone who's never used a rotary grater before probably wouldn't know that unless they're warned, but it's common knowledge for those of us who have. I'm not placing "blame" or admonishing anyone. I'm just pointing out a simple fact. You can carve a turkey with a pocket knife, but that doesn't mean you should.

I dunno man, it's not a retro computer.

He did a review of the Sodastream a while back, so he certainly had it.

I was totally thinking about that... As soon as he said that, I thought, "Why don't you ask Ashens if you could have his?"

I think there's a Sodastream video with Barry & Stuart coming out on the Ashens channel soon, which will be a newer make, but also probably why Barry wants an older one, as the nostalgia will have kicked in.

He did a video about it, yes, with Cousin Dan. But i seem to remember it was a recent model.

Even that one, it seems to waste 20% of the flesh, and it's barely faster than using a knife.

It could be good for people who have poor knife skills, but want to make stuffed peppers?

Lucifer Bailey Or for letting kids help cook. Stuffed peppers would be a great recipe for getting kids cooking.

Ladderthief1 I'm mean it's winter here

Yup. I got winter...

It’s just Michigan here. We’re used to hell and we’re used to the North Pole, similarly to the elusive Canadians.

Quilted Dream For sure! I'm here in Flint where it's been in the high 70s low 80s all summer. I'm not use to this. Lived here all my life.

Is the water still all fucked up?

And I know this kind of grater mainly for parmesan cheese which is much firmer and dryer so might not stick together ad much!

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't return? A stick. What's brown and sticky? A stick. What's red and clumsy? A blood clot.

I think you're right about the mould--if he had it the other way up then he could crack the egg directly into the yolk hole, and the white would flow out into the rest of it and leave the yolk cooking. The way Barry had it I doubt the yolk cooked properly.

I think the egg mold was the right way because the yolk and white are joined at the bottom and then mold lifts off cleanly leaving them together but appearing to be separate. Besides, it matches the picture on the box. He could have skipped a few steps and cracked the egg right into the sun part though.

The silicone egg mold was fine. It's shaped like that so you don't need to separate the yolk, just pour the whole egg into the circle.

Scarfmonster it's not, the little edge needs to be on top to lift the mold up :)

Peppermint Princess Barry had it in the pan the correct way.

Daangelet 123 A pasta express could be useful all you need is boiling water , it's not just for pasta . You can do veggies and things like hot dogs ,and they are fairly cheap hope this help and good luck with college

Moomin Beveridge Thank you, I probably will buy one just need to work on my budget a bit 👍 it isn't expensive at all, just need a microwave or a burner to get boiling water

Instant pot! :-)

get a portable hot plate/stove and a few pots, and you could do your washing up in the bathroom also get a toaster oven, they are quite inexpensive

I second the instant pot. It's a sautee pot, slow cooker and pressure cooker in one. It can also make some bread/cakes, cook rice, and make yogurt! It can do so much for one little thing

Get we’ll soon

Toni Alves no he didn’t because what your supposed to do is crack the egg into the sun and the whites would go out underneath the overhang. Also the white going outside the edges of the mould is totally normal

Wow!

How are you still alive?

Lol yeah but my energy bill might kill me.