I don’t know what’s stranger: Him not knowing what a garlic press is or the sellers feeling confident that there are enough people who don’t know what a garlic press is to act like they invented it.
tbf, it seemed like what they were advertising was specifically a garlic press that peels the garlic for you and then cleans itself, which would have been cool if it was real
I can confirm what he said about clicking ads to waste the companies money. The business I work for runs ads online and on social media and we have to pay a set fee to whoever runs our ads every single time someone clicks on one of those ads. The only bad thing about this is that while yes, you are wasting the money of the company the ad is for, you are also giving huge companies like Google money because they are the ones running those ads.
I think this series started as “how bad are the products from these terrible Instagram ads” and has warped into us all enabling Drew’s impulse purchases
@JoeTaz same, I now have the anxious need to click on people’s profile before commenting because maybe they’re not real. Btw it’s better to report the channel instead of a single comment.
Damn Drew, I had a mouthful of coffee when your “berating my cat” part of the skit brought me the closest Ive ever been to doing a spit take not on purpose.
I love how drew doesn’t know what a garlic press is I love that this made some Europeans genuinely concerned that Americans don’t have the modern luxury of being able to mince garlic quicker I just love this video in general, but especially that part I guess garlic presses are as common as salad tossers? As in, it’s not some niche thing, but is only really something you have if you make a specific dish all the time
@That V8 Life just checked- and sadly I do not. I do have pre-minced garlic in my fridge? I don’t cook much garlic-based foods so Idk if everyone has one. I feel like a can opener is more of a thing everyone has, rather than a garlic press.
Firstly, I had one of those slushy making cups as a kid. Obviously they work but are _horrible_ to clean and my siblings and I slowly stopped using it because of the possibility of it not being completely clean. Second, that bag in a bag thing is common place in Europe or at least where I have been because some countries charge extra for a plastic bag. Cool, small, and helps the environment
The most bizarre and funny part of this video wasn't any of the items he bought, it was the fact that he had never heard of a garlic press and was tricked into buying one for twice as much as they usually cost
@BrightAwake That's interesting! But I maintain that I'm right anyway _(purely from a love of truth there is no bias here at all)_ - chopping the garlic and then chewing it is surely not that far behind a garlic press, re: allicin produced... and it's neither a *nutrient* nor even known to be otherwise more beneficial than its precursor (as far as, uh, my 5-min.-of-Googling expertise goes).
Throughout this video I kept asking myself "Has Drew never used garlic press before?" and "Has Drew never seen these folding fruit bags before?" and judging by comments I wasn't the only one
Also, a nice tip for peeling garlic first is to just smash it. I usually just use a large knife and press down on the garlic with the flat side on the cutting board. It almost completely separates the peel from the rest and it'll be mostly in tact so you can just pull it off.
“You can just resell some cheap bullshit you found on Aliexpress and make up an entirely fake narrative to go along it?” Yes, It's called dropshipping and every douche on RU-vid does it. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if like 80% of that crap started out as dropshipping products from Aliexpress.
dropshipping is a specific thing that osnt just reselling dropshipping specifically means you sell something but somebody else has the products dropshipping doesnt inherently mean reselling somebody else's products
Funny story: My grandpa used to be an inventor on the side and had patents on a couple ideas but let them expire after a few years. One of those patents was for a product pretty much exactly like that Upright posture thing. If he had kept paying the annual fee we coulda had some extra pocket money I guess
About the powersave video, I looked it up and found another very similar ad with a "Nathan Gilroy", 18, entrepreneur who didn't want to sell his invention to a big tech company because he cares about the people. Almost the same narrative but with a different name and face. My suspicion is that it's simply stock footage, I'm having trouble finding who exactly these guys are.
I had that exact freezie maker from when I was a kid I bought it from a second-hand shop in a rural area of Australia, it was miserable and I don't think I made one decent drink from it, I'm pretty sure we threw it out after i decided to make a Vegemite freezie
I was so confused. I bought a garlic press for like three dollars. These things have been around and for cheap. Then I noticed the selling point is the supposed peel lever.
hey so i just went on your sub-reddit and saw amanda had asked everybody to stop with the afghanistan jokes, which i didnt really know she asked about until i downloaded reddit in the first place. i recommend you say something in a video about it just for the people who dont have reddit/arent in your subreddit. just because that is one of the most run-on jokes on your channel and im sure amanda would appreciate everybody getting the message. :)
Honestly though, that’s what MOST of these ads are. They’re trying to sell you stuff that already exists by rebranding it as some cool new gadget, and adding crazy markups because they have to make up for their ad budgets somehow.
My god right? They are sold at IKEA for like 50sek (whats that, 4 dollars?) I own two of them! The Tiny-Bag is also one of those items that can be bought anywhere. I have around 8 of them or so living permanently in my purse and jacket pockets. They costed around 10sek (1dollar) at my local supermarket and I don't see why anyone would spend more on them.
When asked if I’d prefer between the orange juice slush and garlic I did respond and was shocked how accurate that interaction was through video. I then felt guilty for sentencing Drew to a garlicky demise.
I've had had cozy headphones. They were a solid okay. As some who sleeps with headphones it was nice but they do get loose after a while qnd the quality isn't that great (but theyre cheap soooo). Mine got lost somewhere 😓 but yeah. I might buy again.
A collapsible grocery bag that isn't even cute, a magic cup crica 2007 and a plastic garlic crusher pretending its worth 25USD... you're really keeping these products alive Drew coz no one else is buying this
I saw that slushee thing during a commercial break on Nickelodeon when I was a kid. I wanted it so bad but idk why Also if anyone remembers seeing those two-in-one drink/snack holder things, I would very much like to discuss them and any other odd kid-targeted products from the 2000s.
BROO YOU JUST UNLOCKED A MEMORY, i remember i had a drink/snack holder thing- i cannot remember what it was called- but i remember mine had minions on it 😭
Lol the cosy band is literally $2 on aliexpress. $40 is definitely too much to pay for that. That being said for $2 it's a decent solution to being an alarm that doesn't wake up my wife.
Oh ya those tiny bags that fold up are great. I got a water resistant one for all my swim stuff, like swim suite and towel so if I go to the beach I don't really have to keep track of a huge bag, instead I could just put this apple-sized mini bag in my shoe.
I’ve used those sleep headphones for about 2 years, you can buy them for around $15 though which makes them way more worth it. I’m on pair 3 because since they’re so cheap they break the wire easily after a few months of daily wear.
I've had a slushie cup like one of those before, it's totally a gimmick. You essentially have to freeze the cup for the same amount of time you'd have to freeze the drink to make it a slushie anyway, might as well just freeze stuff in a cheap plastic cup.
no you are so right they had these but back then advertised on cartoon channels and i always wanted one i got one and they were so shit it barely worked (also nice pfp danger days is probably my favorite mcr album)
@MCRtrash#1 ok hands down best take. I just felt like your take on the cup was like, so one sided. I can’t really explain why I wanted to protect the cup. I don’t even have one.
I find it hilarious that the nanobag is supposed to be a great way to save space and use less bags when it’s literally just a grocery bag. Grocery bags were invented to help the deforestation that paper bags were causing and the idea was you get one from the store, bring it home, then crumble it up into a tiny ball when you’re done and put it in your pocket to use again. Instead us Americans just threw them into the trash or never used them again and now we have paper bags as a means to stop the waste that plastic bags were causing.
I like how there are three categories of products here: - straight-up scams - stuff that's probably meant for disabled people - completely normal items that Drew has somehow never seen before
@AyShway ohh okay thank you! i am disabled myself and never heard of soemthing obscure like that being for disabled people but it definitely makes sense! :)
@mibwu something ppl don't know is a lot of super niche/infomercial products are specifically meant for handling disabilities (especially the elderly since they tend to watch a lot of cable.) That definitely seems to be the case with the posture one, and possibly the headphones. I think there was also one awhile ago that was a cocoon type blanket thing, which could possibly be good for ppl with bad sleepwalking or night terrors. Basically if it seems weirdly specific or just reduces the mobility needs for certain tasks, then it's probably geared towards disabilities.
Right?? I use a mini bag for traveling all the time. I usually put clothes in it, either laundry, or just to make space in my suitcase for whatever trinkets I got.
I have had a similar garlic press for years and it's probably one of my most used specialized tools in the kitchen. I paid less than $10 for it, though. I also have a whole set of those mini bags but from a company called ChicoBags. They've lasted me for years and I get asked about where to buy them at least once a month.
@drew i need you to know i have tried to watch this video every single night it has been up and i keep falling asleep. a full month of me not finishing this video because i fall asleep (usually between “lie” and “try” it might be the soft jazz in the background. idk. i hope to make it to the end tonight, but i fear i’m in a groundhogs day situation at this point. ok goodnight. see you tomorrow.
@David Liu I’m not saying it’s easy but most small RU-vidrs aren’t doing it solely for the money, they have a job interview the side and by the time they’re big enough to rely on RU-vid solely they can drop a series they don’t enjoy and focus on things they do and most of their audience will stick around and they’ll gain new subs for the different content. There’s an audience for everything. But also many mainstream jobs consist of doing things we don’t enjoy for a pay check, I’m not saying it’s fun but it is what it is.
@Ember i know i just dont like watching videos i know youtubers hate to make you know they should be free to make whatever they want but algorithm and all
@DigitalHarmony they can't "just not" if RU-vid is their main source of income. of course someone is going to feel trapped if the only way earn revenue sustainably is to do something they don't enjoy
@DigitalHarmony Yeah they choose to do it but that choice might be financially necessary and if they don’t do it they’ll probably get comments demanding it which, combined with the worse performance of their other videos, could be really creatively demotivating. It also can be helpful for the audience to know how a creator feels about their own work so they can understand what is reasonable to except.
@Ember I think they meant RU-vidrs complain and act like we’re forcing them to do the thing when they could just not. If they do it because they know they get a ton of likes and views (ergo money), they shouldn’t make the fans feel Shitty for enjoying the content they’re actively choosing to make, ya know?
I have a cozy band (a different brand tho), it's pretty terrible except for one specific use that it's good at for me. I use it on winter hikes. It's good to keep your head and ears warm while listening to music. Having earbuds with a regular winter band can end up hurting the inside of my ears and blocks out the nosies of nature if I want to turn them off since they're in ear. This is better. But for sleeping, general audio quality, etc. They suck. Not very comfortable bc the speaker is a hard plastic piece inside that pushes against your head and slides around.
Hey Drew, I dunno about everyone else, but the flashing man cave sign isn’t as distracting as you think imo! I don’t think you have to leave it off every video!!
That slush cup, its got the principle down but there is a reason those machines have blades, aside from mixing the drink to create a homogenous mixture, the drink mostly freezes on the refrigerated surfaces, then the blades scrape the ice off that's what gives a slush that fine texture, this just agitates the drink to make it freeze faster and not in a solid chunk.
going back to watch this video is crazy because my family recently had some remodeling done in my house and now my kitchen looks just like drew's it's so uncanny
unsure how this man has not encountered an standard collapsible bag or garlic press before, but I was happy to go on this journey of discovery with him
I like that when drew was doing the ad read and showed a greenscreen of a grocery store and pov of someone pushing a cart it looked like Drew was riding around in the cart like a toddler
The powersave works in some regard, though not to the degree they show. It's literally just a capacitor you plug into your wall. It would save literal pennies, if not for power bills already not accounting fluctuating currents for households.
All garlic press tools are not made the same though - the metal one from the Zyliss brand is amazing and I’ll probably never use anything else (they make a plastic one too, it’s nowhere near as good). You don’t even have to peel your garlic before putting it in. So good🙌🏻
funnily enough, garlic skin is tough enough that you can microplane whole garlic cloves, and at the end, the skin will be whole, and stuck to your fingers, but the garlic is stuck to the grater.i literally dont even bother peeling, or chopping it anymore, unless i specifically need garlic slices, i just grate it into everything, its SO MUCH EASIER.
It cracks me up that he doesn't seem aware that garlic presses are like-- normal, or that collapsible bags are sold at every single organic store. They even sell them at Safeway
same - ever since he said in that one video that he uploads near the end of the month bc he procrastinates until the end, i always get hyped for when the month closes out bc i know there’s new content coming 💀 i’ve noticed other channels doing it too now
tip for ppl who wear headphones to sleep: get a circle doughnut pillow, its more comfortable to rest your head on while wearing headphons (a firm airplane neck pillow works too)
I actually use a "cozy band". I like to do guided meditations and hypnosis at night. It's the only way I can actually sleep with a headset on. Anyways, mine was $10 on Amazon. I bought it 3 years ago. The sound isn't perfect but for what I need it serves it's purpose. If someone actually made a really good pair of sleep headphones that cost $100 or so I'd probably buy them.
is it really common household kitchenware? like i feel like home cooks might have one but . idk I use garlic all the time and I know what a garlic press is but I have never used one either
We did an office white elephant gift thing last Christmas and when I put "garlic press" on the list of things I would like, everyone was confused. We're talking several women in their 30s-40s, all of them have kids, and none of them had ever used one. It was really strange, I thought they were just as common as like, a citrus squeezer or cheese grater.
Just use a micro-plane grater and grate your garlic with the skin on. You'll get basically the same result as mincing it in a press but without having to peel it at all.
I always find these scamy power savers idiotic. Even if they actually would work as they promise, as a domestic customers you are not even charged for the reactive power you waste.
@TheEtherny Could I ask you to point me in the right direction for something like this? I'd be genuinely interested in something like that if I can find a slightly cheaper alternative.
I actually owned something like the first thing, the headphones, although it wasn't actually that one specifically. Bought it for the advertised reason, listening to music in bed with no wires and no pressure on my ears from headphones (which is especially bad since I have a hard memory foam pillow with little give) The product I received was bulky (the Bluetooth module was massive and the speaker in it were just ones out of a crappy speaker, so too big to comfortably lay on and sounded washed out and crappy. It broke after a week because the thin speaker wire snapped when I stretched it to put it on
I had one like those but instead of a sleep mask it was a headband with headphones inside. I liked them. The charge lasted for about three days without having to charge them again and they were comfortable to wear. Also headphones and AirPods(they’d ask you to move your hair to check if you had them in) were banned in my school and they were a good way to get around it, since my hair covered the buttons and the part that said “Bluetooth” (and who would ask someone to move their hair to check if their headband were headphones). They broke after about 3 months but they were only 7 dollars so I’m fine with just buying them again. Also they were a good conversation starter. People would stop and ask about them and if they actually played music. Honestly I just really liked them.
Did you not end up buying that power saving device? The one created by the guy at MIT that doesn't actually go to MIT. Did you not end up buying? Or did you buy it and it worked fantastically. In fact, it worked so well that big energy called you up and told you not to include it in this video.
since you have to peel it anyways, the Garject is LITERALLY just a garlic press. a machine that has been around forever and pretty much every chef uses. but you can buy a nice garlic press for like $20-30 if you want it to be a stainless enamel. instead you got... that
@Alisaishere a professional chef who chooses to use a garlic press at home is still a chef who thinks garlic presses are helpful, even if its not the preferred tool in a restaurant kitchen. how the hell did i manage to start an argument with multiple ppl "well actually"ing in the comments over whether or not chefs use garlic presses man. the point was "garlic presses already exist this is just a more expensive one that doesnt even do what it says itll do" lmao.
@internalhabaneros From my years working BOH, no cook is mincing garlic a la minute. It's already done ahead of time. If a chef cooks at home, they're just a home cook. Just like a doctor at home cleaning up their kid's scrapped knee is just a parent. And you would be surprised how much equipment even small restaurants have. Time is money, so spend a few bucks on a multipurpose tool and find 101 uses for it.
@Alisaishere chefs cook at home too. And not every one is on a big production line. Most restaurants have garlic cloves peeled and ready, but not chopped because it oxidizes quickly
PowerSave's device is literally just an LED with some resistors and a capacitor in a plastic case. Ken from Computer Clan looked at the scam product which comes in a number of names and cases.
