Chef DESPAIRINGLY Reviews Kitchen Gadgets | S3 E8

Using YOUR suggestions, we're giving 4 kitchen gadgets to a chef and a normal home cook to test and review... What will they think?!
Find out more about the gadgets:
1) Tissting Cavatelli Machine - amzn.to/3YkjqEo
2) Wemo Band - bungu.store/pr...
3) Oyster Clamp 2.0 - oysterclamp.shop/
4) Cuisinart Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker - amzn.to/3NiwJyB
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[@Jcoolgirl3]

I think a pasta shape masterclass would be a nice idea for a video. What shapes go with what kind of sauce, and when to use different ingredients in the pasta dough like whole-wheat or lentil etc. It'd be great! :)

[@SortedFood]

Oooooh YES! Great idea.

[@gregfloyd2059]

An on the spot pasta challenge for would brilliant

[@42moosejaw89]

As an Italian American, I agree

[@jettnash5217]

@@SortedFood Maybe after teaching the boys, give them some interesting sauces and make them choose the pasta/accoutrements that they'd put with it. I'm thinking give one demi glace and the other katsu sauce and see what mayhem they come up with

[@Getpojke]

@@SortedFood Maybe a team up the the excellent Vicky Bennison who runs the Pasta Grannies channel on YT? Her videos with 80+ year old grannies & two books took the fear out of making pasta from scratch for me.

[@geddybear9108]

The Shopping Wrist was right there...

[@MikeTotem]

Oh wow, the Wemo-band. I work in a home with people with physical disabilities, and they love to help make their food in the kitchen. So we use a lot of gadgets in these situations, and I've commented on some of them in other episodes, so the residents can participate as much as possible. We have a couple of people with serious memory-dysfunctions, and that Wemo-band would really help them. They could work more independent, and the personel coulp make different guides to them. I looks amazing. THANK YOU. We've just seen this episode in our living room, and the residents were happy as always! :)

[@ashleyserraglio5548]

Honestly, with the bracelet list, first thing I thought of was to use it for counting rows/stitches in my crochet projects on the go. Maybe not a product for everybody, but I could see genuine uses for it

[@sirBrouwer]

for me I see it as useful for children when you are on the go. The more when that on the go also involves water. They can be very good at just slipping out of sight or at just the age that you do trust them to go on there own in a pretty safe area. That memo could help if they might get lost or others might wonder if he/she is lost. I know I needed that as a kid. I walked away constantly. with just no care.

[@lovely_poekie]

I immediately went: aah any ADHD brain would love this, if only it came with a pen attached 😂

[@Getpojke]

I quite like the "MEMO". For those with memory problems, the fact it's on your wrist means it'll always catch your eye. It also reminds me of being a kid & being given a list by a parent to go to the shops with to get groceries. (getting a written list is why we call going shopping, "going for the messages" in Scotland BTW.)

[@MsIchigo93]

I've got shopping lists in my phone from 2018 that still haven't been shopped. Something like MEMO would be great for me, tho I wouldn't set out to buy it myself, especially at the price it's marketed at.

[@Ashtari]

It's also great for the elderly! My mom is going to 76 this month and is notorious for leaving the shopping list either at home or in the car. This way she can just put it on once she's finished making the list.

[@goldenghostinc]

I have a shopping list on my phone, but still I manage to forget buying most of it because it's so much of a hassle having your phone in one hand, the shopping basket in another, and then no hand for getting the actual product, that most of the time I forget the shopping list when I'm actually in the store. This thing would be brilliant for me!

[@ispellitjustg]

More often than not, when we make lists for big groceries we forget to bring the list. So maybe it could help with that. Or also for putting on a young kid to remind them of things at school like bring home stuff.

[@sassygamers]

Haha, not that I'm much of a club person, but if you make it glow in the dark, you've got a fun way to collect new friends. Let people sign it like a yearbook and leave a phone number ;)

[@sandy1653]

Staring down a massive hurricane. Just the lighthearted distraction I needed. As always, thank you Sorted.

[@01gtbdaily30]

My sister has the cuisinart soft serve machine. She ran into the same issue multiple times when she invited my kids over for ice cream. The way she was able to make it work was by not freezing the bowl as long.The paddle can’t keep up with the freezing and move everything around fast enough. Her reference for use was that the liquid inside should still be liquid rather than completely frozen. Kind of like the old ice cream making hack of salt and ice inside a large freezer bag then a smaller bag inside with your ice cream mix that you would shake around and mix by hand for homemade ice cream .

[@CordeliaRavenwood]

I appreciate that hack but that just makes it even more time sensitive. Eeesh. You’re having to check the bowl as it’s freezing. Carefully watch it while it makes ice cream. It’s a lot.

[@kjyost]

@@CordeliaRavenwood Agreed, but once one has bought it & chosen not to return it, you make the best of it.

[@knightwolf3511]

​@@CordeliaRavenwood the issues for these machines is they skimp out on the motor and and paddle, even the ones you buy at Walmart, they need a sturdier motor. but also thats how the old hack work, you have to make the ice cream usually in advance

[@Gimp2288]

Very much appreciate still showing a good attempt at using a machine and it just not functioning when following the instructions. It's much better than just welp didn't work cool idea. Seeing the attempt drives home the fact that it just didn't function as designed.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

I'm really glad you showed a gadget (especially from a well established brand like Cuisine Art) that just doesn't work, i bet there's loads of people who bought it thinking it's their fault that it didn't work (i assume it was that the freezing bowl was just too cold but that doesn't matter)

[@et_9554]

was thinking that also

[@krippkeeper]

Well instead of testing it at 15 minutes they just kept turning it off. The instructions didn't say that though, so it was kind of frustrating.

[@Pharenir]

@@krippkeeper You did hear the noise the gadget made, especially in the second try, right? That didn't sound like 'working as intended'. Leaving it on probably would start an electric fire or completely wreck the motor at best. And this time they didn't even use their own recipe, they did it completely by the book and it didn't work. And for that amount of money, it absolutely should work imho

[@vampire847]

@@krippkeeper The churner was literally stalled out the second time around.

[@01gtbdaily30]

It’s exactly that the bowl was too cold. My sister has this machine and through trial and error while we had a family event with all our kids together that the liquid inside the bowl needs to remain liquid rather than a solid state. The freezing occurs too fast for the paddle to keep up. Edit: for clarification for anyone who has. No first hand knowledge the bowl has layers with a freezing liquid (salt water is my guess) between the layers and if you let it freeze solid this is always the result but we found by only freezing it for an hour (in her deep freeze) the liquid was very cold but still liquid.

[@theoryquery]

I have ADHD and was looking at those slap memo bracelets as reminder bracelets for me and my husband for our daily "to do" lists. THANK YOU for reviewing them! Even though you guys didn't approve, hearing that they are easy to write on and don't smudge easy has verified our decision to get them! :D

[@SortedFood]

Amazing, thanks so good to hear that they'll help you both :)

[@Weylane]

Never heard of it but I IMMEDIATLY thought, damn that would probably help my ADHD !

[@thejunglekitchen]

100%! My husband has ADHD, and I want to get them too!

[@Shelsight]

My exact thought soon as I saw them! Getting some...

[@mr.strider6497]

It was a bit of a shock seeing/recognizing the cavatelli maker immediately; my grandma had one just like it! Though hers was all metal (and presumably much older), I remember helping her make massive batches of "cavatils" as she always called them that we'd give out in old tupperware to family/friends/anyone who happened to walk too close to the house.

[@treesnl]

I like the bracelet idea. I hate having to constantly dig out and open my phone to check my list when I have a lot to buy. Kudos to the commenter who re-named it Shopping Wrist!😂

[@coz1866]

The wrist memo band immediately strikes me as good for measuring things, especially when tailoring or building something. Easy to simply note down the numbers and check them at a glance rather than get your phone or notebook out each time!

[@apparition668]

I'm a professional ice cream manufacturer and I will never recommend an ice cream machine with a freezer bowl. If you want to make ice cream at home, spend the extra money for a unit with a compressor. The freezer bowl units, besides being inconvenient, just don't have the motor power needed for an excellent freeze.

[@Getpojke]

Totally agree. I waited for the sales & bought one with a compressor & what a difference it made. Plus you can make ice-cream on the spur of the moment, rather than planning the day before.

[@stuart207]

Thanks for saving Team Sorted money. You are a good human ❤️

[@lastnamefirstname850]

Yup either go with a machine with a compressor for any and all classic ice cream or buy a ninja creami, if you want to make low calorie ice cream without much hassle.

[@driverjayne]

Agree, there are plenty of no churn ice cream recipes that are quite good so there's no need to waste your money on rubbish machines

[@neruneri]

Yes, and that's what we heard on the second go - the motor issues. I think the first failure could be argued to be user error, but the second failure was strictly the gadget not being fit for purpose. Realistically I don't think the first error should be glossed over either even though it was user error, the machine really didn't help them avoid it very well.

[@olszewski422ify]

While sitting next to my wife when she is getting chemo, watching Ben be legit angry at the ice cream machine gave us just the laugh we both needed

[@swissfoodie3542]

I am hoping for kitchen gadgets who seriously annoy Ben ! Those make for a lot of fun and laughter ;-).

[@SortedFood]

Just you wait until later 👀

[@swissfoodie3542]

@@SortedFood Thanks for this great video. I like gadget 1, eat oysters only in restaurants (gadget 2), for gadget 3 - is it just me - but what is wrong with a piece of paper and a pen for this ? and gadget 4 is a big expensive piece of garbage. Ben and Mike are being so polite about this piece of crap. How nicely british.

[@pawpawg7358]

thanks for finishing the Cuisinart review. Cuisinart is famous for selling a lot of reconditioned returns, so when we see a ton of these on the secondary market we will have a good idea of why they were returned.

[@CasualSpud]

As someone who used to clean McDonalds machines (years ago when they actually worked), the amount of cheap plastic in that Cuisinart soft serve machine was a sure sign it wasn't going to work.

[@tlgibson97]

The first thing that annoyed me about the ice cream maker was that they designed a special slide to put a QR code. They could have just printed it on the back and saved the cost of engineering and tool design for molds to add that useless feature. Would have been better to put a paper recipe because I would bet money in a few years that QR code will go to a dead link.

[@SortedFood]

Very true.

[@TheCloudhopper]

@@SortedFood Or to a recipe behind a subscription paywall.

[@MrMartinSchou]

> They could have just printed it on the back I sort of agree, but also not. I have seen even quite expensive kitchen tools lose their prints over time. Also, on the back is silly - then you need to remember that it's there etc. Just put it on the front.

[@Xelopheris]

Printing a QR code on the device could be very expensive comparatively. It also leaves 0 flexibility in changing it. Maybe there's a different QR code for different for different regions for different legal requirements?

[@jama211]

oh phooey, the only thing that was a touch whimsical was the last thing that was wrong with it.

[@ro2670]

Working in catering and events I’d 100% use the wrist memo gadget. I’m considering getting a couple for my children when I need them to remember something when they’re away. I like that one!!

[@nagoyakuroi6353]

That memo band would be extremely useful for elders with memory problems... countless time my mom forget to have her list written down and just buy random things that she uses daily and totally forget to get the other items until she figure out back at home and I have to go get it... for me is worth a try .

[@snowysnowyriver]

Love it while the osyter shucker is getting discussed, Ben quietly carries on quaffing the actual oysters!! 😂

[@SortedFood]

Sneaky, sneaky 😆

[@Getpojke]

Someone was getting lucky that night! 🦪🦪💘😆

[@TKBarnes]

Noticed that too, man has got his priorities right. 😂

[@HweeTengLee]

The shucker has a smiley face!

[@in2darabbithole967]

C'mon! Ben was obviously doing it to not waste any food. I'm sure he took no pleasure gulping these down. 😏

[@JDMish]

I love that chapter "Too cold to churn"

[@icey123210]

I’d love to see a video about cooking with food allergies/dietary restrictions in mind! As someone with a lot of rarer food allergies, I know it definitely stresses my friends out to cook for me, even if the recipes they normally make don’t have any of my allergens. It turns out that sometimes, when you tell a normal person that someone is allergic to something, the only things they can remember how to make suddenly become the things you CAN’T eat! Think it would be both useful and chaotic to watch the normals try to navigate that!

[@Queen_Blood_Rose]

I know what you mean.

[@kateh7484]

So either they’re doing all these gadget vids to torture Ben for being gone on all his travels or they’re trying to annoy him into traveling again.

[@SortedFood]

Which do you think it is? 👀

[@attaggee]

Ebbers: I hate unitask/single-use gadgets and space is always an issue Also Ebbers: I like this, it does its task well

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="566">9:26</a> Had bands like those as a kid! Had the shoping list on it too! That piece of paper was safe there! Saved my parents many going backs! It works guys

[@SortedFood]

Haha amazing!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

@@SortedFood thanks For this

[@elif6908]

While I imagine it would be useful for me I think I would use it for a week then forget about after 😂😂😂

[@PokhrajRoy.]

We’re getting some great gadget videos these past few days and weeks and yes, we get so excited to see Ben’s “I’m done” energy 🔥 Happy Wednesday, everyone!

[@Unwinter]

i appreciate the honesty so very much! Cheers guys!

[@neil2796]

A good old oyster lead will always be my preferred method of stabilizing an oyster for shucking. It's what I grew up using.

[@heylolp9]

That Memo strap could actually be kinda useful for waiting staff A quick water proof note pad But Paper blocks do exist and do the job mostly fine, but is disposable

[@thejunglekitchen]

Great idea! I would have loved this when I was a waitress. I always hated those paper waitress notepads- such a waste!

[@sjkenfield]

I needed this video today, thanks for bringing a bright spot to those of us here in Florida waiting for the hurricane to make landfall tonight.

[@alexdavis5766]

Ebbers not being happy isn’t good for him but does make us happy with a great video!

[@demoskisame]

funny thing my family has the cuisinart icecream machine and honestly it stalling was a major problem fairly often with it compared to any other icecream maker we have had since

[@justjan1]

Thanks, what brands do you recommend

[@gurugurumawaru7869]

So it's confirmed to be garbage? Good thing I saw this video and your comment first.

[@neruneri]

@@justjan1 The takeaway isn't about brand per se, the takeaway is to avoid these types of machines altogether. You want an ice cream maker that has a built in compressor, like that model that Barry has at home. None of the brands avoid this issue when it comes to the ones with freezer bowls.

[@lastnamefirstname850]

@@justjan1 If you want no hassle perfect icecream (although with rather poor aeration) go with ninja creami. You freeze the mix and the device is basically an elaborate blender, but it works really really well and can make edible ice-cream with a mix that would be impossible to churn to a satisfying consistency (think no sugar low calorie ice-cream for example) Otherwise I have Cecotec Gelacy 1200 Touch and for the price I paid (approx. 110 pounds when converting from my currency) it's really good. It makes perfect ice-cream (if the mix is well balanced, but that's why you should always use an ice cream calculator) is easy to clean. Makes an ice-cream in 30 to 60 minutes depending on volume and is ready to go again after 30 minutes of compressor resting time. All in all almost any machine with built in compressor will be adequate if you use proper proportions of ingredients. Check out polar ice creamery on youtube for more info on ingredients and recipes.

[@casafu7]

The slap bracelet thing we use at the vet clinic i work at. It's helpful for medication and reminders when you can't get to a computer right away

[@katiecav9357]

With the wrist memo thing my brain went to nursing. This would be really useful for taking vitals on a hospital floor.

[@sirBrouwer]

O in nursing I can see even more use for them. not only vitals but even trias if the memos come in multiple colours. like green light care. yellow some urgent . Red full emergency. and then you can still use them for vitals or medication use. Sure you have the there card at there bed. bud sometimes patients can get out of bed. so the most vital (short time) info is on that wrist.

[@ashleyelizabeth9591]

For the silicone memo wrist band, I think it’d be great for kids because my daughter (age 4) loves to draw on herself, so she could wear it and write on it, and it’s reusable, and she loves to grocery shop with me so it’d give her a job she could do. Or if you always forget your lists at home when you go somewhere or in your purse or lose them.

[@sirBrouwer]

also you could write on said memo also where they can find you. at that very shopping mall. children can always find a way to just wander off. (I know I was that kid) then they could look at the memo or go to a staff and ask where said location is. We did when I was young with a note said when lost go to x fountain in x mall. (mobile phones where not a thing really) Often worked well enough that if they do wander of they know where to go and so do you as the parent.

[@aymiewalshe982]

Cavatelli is my favourite pasta shape to make with homemade pasta. It's just so unfussy and rugged. I use my butter paddles to make it but I might get one of those shapers to save my thumbs! (Sidenote, I love the way Barry says Cuisinart. Here in the US we're running it together so much that it's Cuisi-nart.)

[@BransRants]

im with Ben i usually have mixed feelings about these episodes but i will always watch no matter what! sorted makes my day!

[@acidhelm]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="561">9:21</a> So, um, Ben... where is the best place for it? 😆

[@sirBrouwer]

around his Big Ben 😉

[@JoannaHiggins-nr1ky]

You always know how to keep it exciting!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

We're getting more angry ebbers! Nice! 🤣🤣🤣

[@ylk1444]

That clamped device reminds me of the violent coconut shredder

[@gregfloyd2059]

I thought that

[@Athenclenna]

I love this channel so much, y'all have such amazing vibes and always seem to have so much fun

[@Proxoa]

I work in a lab where my plastic gloves often get dirty. Having a memo pad around your wrist that is reusable, would actually be a genius fix.

[@ThePancoon]

Trying out different icecream machines would be a fun episode, i feel like there's other options thatd be fun to try like the ninja creami or something.

[@CordeliaRavenwood]

They did the ninja creami with Poppy. I was just rewatching it It would be cool to get a bunch of them in one video. Barry could bring his. Not sure if Poppy actually did take the creami home. They’ve done some others as well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mp_IhJqtaMugnsksi=XSpvp_TKTzuMKJbc

[@BlackHoleEye]

If you're making an ice cream machine, at least make sure the motor and churner can actually churn the ice cream, for however long it takes for the ice to melt again.

[@ayrtonenrique4447]

That memo thing, at least to me, sounds super useful. I usually keep a list of groceries on paper, and it's a pain to put my hand in my pocket to get the list. especially if you carry a heavy basket

[@thegodinfinite]

You got these 100% but I think a fun video series would be trying to use the kitchen gadgets that have had miss guesses for the incorrect guesses.

[@drjonbear7517]

Hahahahaha! Would love to be a fly on the wall in Cuisinart's PR office right now!

[@SortedFood]

If we were doing it wrong we'd love to know!

[@gurugurumawaru7869]

​@@SortedFoodI think you guys are doing it right. Freezer bowl is not the best solution for an ice cream machine. Go for ones with compressors instead.

[@JamesRook]

One of the local popular events that many organizations around here (US - MD) is a Bull and Oyster Roast, which will feature pit beef and oysters, among other items. I have occasionally seen an oyster shucker use a steel glove, but most go at it bare handed. Good shuckers can do a dozen in 2 minutes pretty easily and do it for a couple of hours with short breaks.

[@Getpojke]

I bought a chain-mail glove years back when I was teaching myself to butcher whole large animals. They work for slashes, but poking/stabbing movements not so well. I also had a set of mail for battle reenactments & the same principle applied. Better than nowt for oyster shucking though.

[@Nilboggen]

I'm not sure about everyone else but I just use a butter knife to shuck oysters, and I have never injured myself. Just stick the end in the hinge joint then turn the knife it will pop right open.

[@sirBrouwer]

I can see that if you are confident there is not a problem. it might be when you are not (yet) confident. then a tool like this in the video can help.

[@maih600]

I suspect the issue with the ice cream machine may be your freezer, you guys likely have professional equipment that’s colder than the typical -17c, so it’s freezing too quickly and too firmly.

[@toscirafanshaw9735]

I wonder if the professional Sorted Freezer is colder than a normal household one, and that screwed up the ice cream machine? Mind, it might just be a bad gadget, but Cuisineart are usually quite reliable... Anyway, I enjoyed the video, and I appreciate the honesty of the reviews!

[@Grimmance]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="584">9:44</a> this product is a revitalized version of a vintage product, the original had a tiny list with a toggle beside it with staple products like flour eggs butter.

[@morganmcallister2001]

If you get enough gadgets that fail and then due to more research, practice, or information you fix the issue, you should do a failed gadgets revisited episode. Show the failure, show the fix, and re-review.

[@MaikNL]

So many gadgets lately ! love it

[@Excludos]

My experience, having tried three different ones, is that cheap ice cream makers where you freeze the bowl yourself just does not work. You're much better off either getting a proper one with its own freezing element, or just make a recipe that doesn't need churning (Of which there are loads of great ones out there)

[@keeperofthegood]

The pastas cavatelli, orecchiette and fricelli (yes, there are many others) are still made by hand by Nona and her neighboring Nona's and sold on the streets :) There had been, 15 or more years ago, here on the tubes a great historical recount of recovery post WW2 Italy that involved the making and selling of these pasta's. Yes, a deep - dive into pasta would be good also from the History point of view :) either from the past century or from antiquity :)

[@Getpojke]

I was saying elsewhere a team up with Vicky Bennison who owns the Pasta Grannies YT channel would be great. Her shows/books go into the history & methods with proper Italian grannies. Taught me a lot.

[@cathygallivan8553]

Have you already done a video on making "nice cream" with frozen bananas in a food processor? I had a bit of instant coffee powder for flavoring but vanilla and some pecans is also good. It's also dairy-free with no added sugar. If you try it, peel the bananas and cut them into chunks before you freeze them.

[@AlexinWales]

The cavatelli machine actually makes 3 shapes of pasta "sardi gnocchetti, cavatelli and orecchiette" that particular machine was one of the cheap mass produced ones there are better made machines available. Best to roll the pasta much thinner (about the same diameter as tinned hotdogs) then you will see 3 distinct sections on the rollers each produces a different shape as you feed the dough through. You can also roll it even thinner but use different colours and/or flavours of dough. Feeding 2 or more strings of coloured dough through at the same time will produce uniquely coloured pasta shapes. Also great fun for kids learning to cook as they get instant results.

[@AlexinWales]

A similar item possibly worth reviewing would be a torchietto.... looks similar to a mincer. You make a dryer dough with a breadcrumb texture that will just hold its shape if you squeeze it (same as the commercial electric extruders use). Feed that through and it extrudes it into various shapes depending which die you use. Or if you could find one of the antique torkios they are also a manual extruder but you use a normal pasta dough for it and it would typically be bolted onto a bench rather than clamped to a table but they are much harder to find outside of Italy. I have been looking for one for years unsuccessfully (if you did find one you would be welcome to send it in my direction after reviewing it).

[@joeyc5879]

So the oyster shucker caught my eye. I've worked in one of the top ten beach bars in florida, and probably shucked close to a hundred thousand oysters in my lifetime. While I don't think it will ever catch on in a restaurant or environment where serious speed is required (tickets for a dozen oysters would get rung in during happy hour about every 2 seconds, or as fast as the printer could handle) When you're doing that much that fast, it won't be of use but for a home cook who's nervous about shucking, i'd recommend it but I would like to see them address ben's point of the juice dripping unless you have a towel under it

[@arothmanmusic]

I'm surprised that the guys hadn't seen cavatelli before! We get that all the time at our house. I also was surprised to hear Barry pronounce the brand Cuisinart as "kwi-ZINE ART", which makes perfect sense but is quite different from the common American pronunciation I'm used to, which is "KWEEZ-un-art".

[@MattHamChasing]

Gotta love waking up to a sorted notification

[@dataterminal]

The Wemo Band might actually be useful for electricians/plumbers etc. We tend to write on our hands and arms quite a lot in the trade, more than we care to admit. They just need rebrand it to Dewalt, Makita, Milwaukee, etc

[@thebladesman]

Where I am in the States, cavatelli is fairly common. Though it's usually made with ricotta in the dough here. Wild to hear it's unheard of in the UK.

[@AlexinWales]

Not unheard of just not as common as other pasta shapes. I have been making it for years although if i wanted to buy it ready made i would have to go to an Italian deli rather than a supermarket.

[@jonlee1112]

I feel the issue with the oyster shucker is that its made of wood and metal nails working in always wet environment. Wouldn't mold/bacteria and rust be a concern? I know plastic isn't great for the environment but wouldn't that be a better material for the given situation?

[@ladyofthewittyremark]

or perhaps metal of some kind if you want to still avoid plastic

[@elif6908]

@@ladyofthewittyremarkI don’t think metal would have enough give to provide support

[@elif6908]

I have never shucked oysters, or even ate them but I would think with proper drying mold wouldn’t be a problem. Maybe rust but real wood doesn’t mold easily.

[@neruneri]

Wood is completely fine for these purposes. It's really not a problem. It's the same deal as a cutting board, you just have to wash it properly. Rust also really isn't a concern, just like it's not a concern with your steel pans. You'd have to replace virtually all of your kitchen tools if it was that easy for them to rust or mold.

[@gingergamer1142]

Always happy to see a new video, earliest Iv ever been to a new upload. 😁

[@stone5against1]

The wrist memo thing.. as Barry said, I have list apps on my phone, but I can see a few uses for it, mostly at work honestly.. if I have a few things to do and dont want to forget.. but I always carry pen and paper on myself, and I can write on my hand/arm haha

[@mslizwood]

I've a cuisinart small/cheap $30 tabletop device where you still have the refrigerate the bowl (not as fancy as Barry's). It still is inconsistent if it'll work or not so I was not surprised when this one didn't hold up.

[@smaakjeks]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="317">5:17</a> - it's straight up sporting a Disney smile

[@emolass16]

back when Andrew james was still operating my mum bought a digital ice cream maker that we use twice twice before getting rid of it as it was such a hassle to use plus the motor packed in on the second use of it and you only could use it if you planned in advance as you jad to freeze the bowel which took up some much space in the freezer so i go for the more expensive one that does it for you

[@Daveko35]

Mike sounded genuinely devastated at the end there!

[@ElvenSpellmaker]

_"You just thumb it off"_ Ebbers! 😂

[@Alex-to8es]

I am glad you showed it completely failing and then gave it another go, plenty of things are just Ads attempting to pretend not to be, if a chef, food team, and several normals (with experience) can't get something to work easily out the box, how is anyone going to get it to work on a Summers day or kids birthday party! What I think might be the issue is your freezers is possibly too cold/good compared to a basic home freezer, which need to be mentioned in the manual if it is going to cause this bigger issue.

[@ExhaustedElox]

I think the shucking block is meant to hang over the lip of the oyster bin so any drips fall back in and you can drive down into it.

[@margowsky]

Wow! It's rare that you guys get a fail on a new (not vintage) gadget. Cuisinart is one of the last names I would expect that from.

[@Hirotechnics]

I don't believe that honestly; for me, Cuisinart has always been a very plastic-y, discount brand, so that machine being hot garbage was kind of expected.

[@margowsky]

@@Hirotechnics I'm probably much older than you. There was a time that Cuisinart was cutting edge. They were the first company to bring the food processor to the USA. Looking up the company name just now I see that they're now owned by ConAir so they're no longer the same company they used to be.

[@Getpojke]

Cavatelli is the 2ⁿᵈ pasta shape I taught myself to make when I was learning pasta. Garganelli was the 1ˢᵗ as it's slightly easier. Personally I think cavatelli looks like cowrie shells when properly made. With a rigagnocchi board & a stick/umbrella spoke you can turn them out by hand really quickly.

[@AlexinWales]

A ridged butter paddle also works perfectly as a gnocchi board. Once you get going you start knocking them out really fast.

[@Getpojke]

@@AlexinWales To be honest I wonder if the butter paddle is what gave them the idea for the rigagnocchi in the first place? I found making these shapes quite a social thing. Two people sitting, chatting at a table can soon churn out a whole heap of garganelli or cavatelli to feed a large crowd/family.

[@MisNorm98]

As a wheelchair user, I love the wrist thing…I don’t have to carry a list or phone while pushing

[@Silentgrace11]

While I can see the memo working well for me (and I certainly don’t mind having a slap bracelet on) the main caveat is that I 100% would lose track of either the bracelet itself or the oil based pen that’s specifically needed for it lol

[@Gametherapist]

What annoys me in every recipe ever that requires something to be cold: Put in the freezer. What temperature are you expecting it to be? A freezer can be from -10°C all the way to -30°C. I'd say that makes A HUGE difference!

[@MarkJones-by6xv]

Oh god, the cavatelli is giving me ptsd flashbacks. ^.^ We made over a thousand pounds of it for a fundraiser for our culinary class one year, so much dough, so much time.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I need the Soft Serve Ice-Cream maker. It looks awesome!

[@kritan84]

That ice-cream makers creaky, cheap plastics sort of told the story even before the fails 😅

[@hmoham]

I've been seeing a few Ninja Slushie maker reviews on KZbin recently, where the cooling element is built into the system and that's what I was expecting for the last item considering it's size, but for the size of the unit alone and basic funtionality I'd expect most would be disappointed with it, and that's if they can get it to work. Edit: Also £17 for a large version of those band rulers we had as a hid that cost 20p is equally surprising to me. It's a good idea but way to expensive for what it is.

[@AndreVandal]

The only ice-cream maker that worked for me was the one that adapts to my Kitchen aid, but even that eventually the plastic arm mixer broke

[@MartinAhlman]

My parents had a cheap icecream maker, and it worked. My fav was an icecream with spiced cheese (yes, it exists and you need to try that cheese) served with madeira or some other sweet wine. Tasty!

[@CordeliaRavenwood]

The oyster thing looks useful but I question how many professional kitchens could or would use it. Wood is often a contentious choice for food safety, particularly for something as dangerous as oysters. Even if it were allowed if you’re running it through a commercial dish washer, or even three sink method, every hour or so: would it hold up?

[@brinagotsued]

First gadget: I'm a bit disappointed in not getting a single Benuendo for the ribbed pasta maker.

[@TraceyOfficial]

thank you for the honest review on the ice cream machine. I would have happily spent money on it but the motor seems to be its major downfall.

[@SortedFood]

100%

[@westdallasbutterfly]

I wonder if my EMT friend would like the wristband for writing down information on a call to bring back to the ER.

[@jordanmc9015]

Huh. Have that ice cream maker. No issues with it. Works great. Easy to clean as well.

[@cusa8714]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1070">17:50</a> I think your freezer is way to cold. This way the mixture already freezes to early and to strong.

[@cam8868]

I buy cavatelli pasta all the time. Maybe it’s just the supermarket I go to but I was shocked they haven’t heard of it

[@PokhrajRoy.]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="546">9:06</a> Omg it’s like the early 2000s where having snapbands was a status symbol

[@SortedFood]

You're right! haha!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Oh! Ebbers is NOT happy! 😂😂😂😂

[@JAF30]

I can see a use case or two for the slap memo bracelet, but outside of the kitchen or shopping so I don't think anyone from Sorted would think of it. I work in IT and for those times when your in a network closet and can't have your laptop or phone handy, that bracelet would be great to write down things like port numbers and so on. Thinking it might be useful in similar ways outside of IT as well.

[@NassiLove]

I thought I didn’t recognize this one, it’s a new video!

[@jarvisrein9318]

Had the same problems as them with this machine. one time I started pouting before turning it on, and in 30 seconds had to toss the batch.

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="904">15:04</a> I have a question, about the recipe. In the States, “icing sugar” is known as powdered sugar, and there is a bit of cornstarch in it, to prevent caking. Is that the sort of sugar their recipe calls for?

[@TKBarnes]

Add a ruler, maybe some measures like tsp to the wrist thing, maybe a tiny clip on pen, and it'd be 1) worth the 17 quid, and 2) be useful for DIY, camping, etc. Measure sth out, jot down the value, speed up workflow. Ebber is right, though, and you would absolutely still get laughed at by your peers. 😂