I Tested Viral Kitchen Gadgets ft a Microwave Proof Metal Lunchbox!

[@mrbarrylewis]

Kitchen Gadget Test Playlist kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnamcquGrdiXo9E&pp=gAQBiAQB If you'd like to get some of the gadgets, links can be found here: Charcoal water bottle sticks filter amzn.to/42NWqgI Microwaveable steel lunch box amzn.to/3Wn5WFe Garlic chopper amzn.to/3OhdeIx Spring onion knife amzn.to/3ogW96T Joseph Joseph Cut and Carve chopping board amzn.to/3MDIGiM KitchenCraft Baked Potato Stand amzn.to/41QtyTw

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks for this Barry! This Morning has been really difficult so this is just what i needed!

[@mrbarrylewis]

@@danielsantiagourtado3430 Cheers Daniel, sorry to hear that, glad the video helps in some way :)

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

@@mrbarrylewis They always do mate =)

[@Chefsantatravels]

Lol that garlic grind and be good to grind your marijuana lol🤷

[@bleukettu4521]

My dad just recently came home from the hospital from an injury and his mobility is severely limited and he's really bummed because he loves cooking and can't really do that now. I showed some of these videos to my mom and we bought quite a few of the Barry approved gadgets and woke up this morning to my dad making biscuits. So thank you, Mr and Mrs Lewis for helping get my dad back to what he loves!❤

[@alisonhughes7543]

I can completely understand him. I suffered a stroke to be years ago and have been left without the use of my right side so I am trying to do everything left-handed and one-handed so I’m looking for gadgets that I can use in the kitchen. Do hope your father is okay now and enjoying cooking.

[@TheWaffleGoo]

That spring onion knife looked lethal, any gadget that forces your hand towards a blade without a guard is insane!

[@MilwaukeeWoman]

If you pull it through then it's fine.

[@ShellyS2060]

​@@MilwaukeeWomanI wondered if he was using it backwards

[@dallasgrant]

I got the feeling it was supposed to be part of something else, like have a handle or something it attaches to to work safely as it was it just looked like an accident waiting to happen.

[@OpheliaDilantis]

From what I saw in the listings I found, Barry is using that thing exactly as its meant to be used, and honestly it just seems like a full on design failure on every level. Even if someone couldn't, for whatever reason, safely use a kitchen knife to cut a green onion lengthwise in a vaguely similar way to this - then there is no way they would be able to use this thing safely. I just can't imagine why this thing even exists.

[@ematise]

I was terrified while he tried it 😮

[@lamemechose7072]

The waters were at different temperatures. Cold mutes flavors and cold water tastes better to most people anyway. Not saying the gadget didn’t work, but maybe a fairer test would be to chill some unfiltered tap water and have Mrs B serve you both.

[@mrbarrylewis]

When I had them the temperatures were pretty close! I think Mrs B just doesn't like filtered water, apparently some folks just don't like the taste

[@JaegerDreadful]

@@mrbarrylewis I also don't like bottled water with minerals in it either. Gimme my tap water with the chemicals please!

[@disasterofalldisasters]

The fairest test would be to buy two bottles and only add the brick to one. Otherwise temperature, oxidation, the time of day it was drawn from the tap all play a role. Though I have tried the black and Blum bottle and thought it tasted awful 😂

[@cggc9510]

I hate bottled water because it tastes like rocks. Tap water has totally different taste and is kind of better.

[@littleowl22778]

Also learnt that water sounds different at different temperatures when being poured. Its slightly detectable but their is a different for sure. I prefer a good quality mineral balanced bottled water, if I could get match it taste wise by adding a water filtration system and getting similar results I'd definitely drink alot more water instead of squash as my primary liquid of choice.

[@dravenhouse9743]

I learned recently that a microwaving metal is actually fine as long as it doesn't have any defined edges. That's why I bought tin foilers so bad in the microwave cuz it's got so many sharp edges

[@tiago9977]

1:46 I love when gadgets and appliances consider limited storage space in their design

[@shiliela_rhymes_with_delilah]

My mom used to make baked potatoes with something similar except that it had 8 spikes on it. That was over 50+ years ago.

[@mrbarrylewis]

That's amazing, yeah I reckon you could get more on there! Octospud me up!

[@lamemechose7072]

My grandparents (born in the 30s) all used regular metal skewers. They washed the potatoes and threaded (or “stabbed” as my one testy grandmother put it) the potatoes on, 2 or 3 per skewer, and laid it down right on the (absolutely immaculate) oven rack with a pan underneath to catch drips. Oil was optional, depending on who made them and for what occasion. I think the stand is just a cooler-looking “everything old is new again”.

[@cassandranegri2052]

That triggered a memory of my Nanna. She used this simple little tool with blades like the onion cutter but it was for green beans. It was hella sharp but had a better handle and the blades were encased all around the outside. Barry should try reviewing vintage gadgets!! ☺️

[@melissalambert7615]

@@cassandranegri2052 Green bean French cut tool. It's about the size of a peeler. I think you can still get them.

[@cassandranegri2052]

@@melissalambert7615 oooooh, thank you! I’ll check it out 😊

[@CarlGorn]

Fun Fact: And old, old hack for evenly baking potatoes(especially larger ones) is to drive a nail through the center. The metal conducts the oven heat to the core, allowing for more even heat distribution throughout the spud. There are still food-safe nails sold for this purpose, if you know where to look. Some are still made with aluminum despite the link between that metal and Alzheimer's, but others are made of stainless steel or other non-toxic, non-reactive metals.

[@YaaLFH]

Or just use stainless steel skewers.

[@TARDISJACKED]

[@LeighIR]

I grew up using potato nails and still do to this day. I didn't realize they weren't a common kitchen item until after I got married.

[@dronezoneessex5551]

I just shove a teaspoon into mine, no need for a gadget

[@sunnyscott4876]

I remember potato nails. I'm 75 years old!

[@PiksyMexxy]

That onion chopper was like a medieval torture device. It looks unfinished, there should at least be a finger guard at one end.

[@TheKingOfBeans]

That garlic twister thing reminds me of the time when Barry bought a cannabis grinder thinking it was for culinary herbs rather than medicinal herbs 😂😂😂

[@driverjayne]

My very first thought was "that's a weed grinder" 😂

[@chrisa2735-h3z]

Hes so innocent lmao😂

[@BrendanSmallButera]

@@chrisa2735-h3z Bless him.

[@ZakkandtheJ]

I cried laughing at that

[@jessgunn6639]

I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR PESTO

[@MrGazzw]

The jacket potato roasting rack took me straight back to my childhood (I'm 52 now) as my dad always made then on 2 of those back in the day. Plus when we were out hiking, he always took some tinfoil with us, he would borrow some freshly dug up potatoes and would wrap them in it put then in a fire (made safe in a stone circle) and cover them with the hit embers and then go for an hours walk. The potatoes were so good, with a nice slightly crunchier skin to it.

[@Afrieal]

My stepmother actually used that first Potato gadget in the 80's, it actually halved the time of baking them. Glad to see it's coming back.

[@Zuzzie62]

We used the potato rack ALL the time growing up! Works wonderfully

[@TheKingOfBeans]

My parents had one of those potato skewers, must have bought it back in the 70s or 80s 😂

[@cassandranegri2052]

My God was I clenching my bum cheeks every time you tried to push the spring onion onto the tool 😬😬😬

[@mrbarrylewis]

Yep, if it wasn't for the anti-cut gloves that would have been messy, literally pencil sharpener blades on a piece of thin metal!

[@alexdavis5766]

Ooo I’ve had a mare of a day and a gadget video is just what the doctor ordered. Thank you 🎉

[@mrbarrylewis]

Take care Alex :)

[@alexdavis5766]

@@mrbarrylewis I’m in your neck of the woods, currently in Exeter. Had a very eventful journey down including having to be taken over the rails with a broken lift… glad to be in my hotel 😂

[@ShellyS2060]

@ Alexdavis5766 "a mare of a day" resonated with me and I think I shall say it forever

[@just_a_stump]

If that garlic chopper had an insert for easy cleaning, it'd be perfect!

[@disasterofalldisasters]

It is a huge pain to clean tbh. I barely use mine as a result.

[@imjustsaying7300]

There has got to be a trick with the onion cutter- that’s insane! New series option for you though “Barry tries bleeding”

[@liiset]

I can imagine the water taste very well. The tap water in the Netherlands is from a spring, and filtered very well. So basically it taste like “fancy bottle water”. Whenever I go abroad, all tap water taste so chlorinated and yukky so I can see how the charcoal can have a benefit there 😊

[@laurahubbard6906]

Our water has a funny undertaste, so I keep a Pur pitcher in my fridge and use the contents for drinking and cooking. Can't see having an individual filtered mug when I can just pour from my pitcher.

[@blakefox5643]

The potato rack is something my mum used back in the 80’s for jacket potatoes. An oldie but a goodie as it heats them inside out.

[@nyslmt]

The baked potato thing has been around for years ..... Used to be in our kitchen drawer when i was a kid...over 50 years ago....😅

[@commissionerjg]

Much like the "chicken grinder" from a few episodes ago, we can't tell Barry doesn't enjoy 420 when you see him use the "garlic grinder" ... Stokin mate

[@mandygriffin5241]

I’ve had one of those potato spikes for about 20 years. Makes a huge difference.

[@prizegotti]

Barry, basic knife safety should of come to mind. Once you've started the onion on the blades, don't keep pushing the blade towards your hand, move your hand so you can PULL the ends down as you push the blade up.

[@lamemechose7072]

Along the same theme as the outdoor gadgets, how about dorm/hotel and other limited cooking spaces? Limited to small tools & appliances like coolers, mini fridges (especially the really small ones that don’t get down to food safe temperatures without added ice), electric kettles, electric lunch box, electric sauce pans.

[@Goodiej17]

Thank you for showing the cutting board. I cook a whole chicken every week and just had put a board over the sink to cut it up. No matter how hard I tried, the juices would spill all over. I used the sloped one for the first time last night. It worked great.

[@damiaanwolters4739]

That garlic grinder looks a lot like the grinders they sell in dutch hallucegenic stored for certain types of mushrooms haha

[@twocvbloke]

That filter thing, makes me think that you could just get the same stuff from a pet shop as used in the filters for aquariums, and for a lot less than £9.95... :P

[@pintjockey4745]

The Garlic crusher is just a "Bud Buster" a thing for grinding up pot before you roll your joints

[@justpandora_x]

The baked potato thing is great for making shawarma in the oven 😊

[@Elizabeth-ju5dy]

My Mum had a potato baking thing. Picture something the size of a loaf tin, made up of 8 vertical aluminum spears, with a handle in tithe middle for moving it in and out of the oven. I also think I used to have one like Barry has. Now I just use (clean, specific for potatoes) tent pegs.

[@itskha1]

Barry! The green onion splitter you used should have a plastic ring around the blades for protection. It is a tool used in Vietnam to split water spinach! Look into it, it’s such an nifty tool! 🤗

[@aefinn]

I had so much anxiety going on when ytou used that spring onion cutter. Dear lord.

[@mrbarrylewis]

very dangerous thing that!

[@austindvarga9]

The potato cooker can double as a grappling hook too

[@ninjapwnsatlyfe]

I built an automation machine that makes something really similar to the potato holder. Barry hit the nail right on the head when he said they looked like standard farming nails. Those machines use the same dies/punches, as there is no need or even time to engineer something from scratch when a perfect solution exists

[@evavangel]

Barry: I'll put on an anti cut glove so I don't cut myself Also Barry: pushes blades towards ungloved hand 😣 That onion slicer thing made me so uncomfortable

[@martinputt6421]

It looks like an awful device and not at all safe

[@stephaniebattersby4556]

i have one of the potatoe thingys i bought in the 80.s still in great working order.

[@talltype]

weve been using the jacket potato holder since the 70s, we love them

[@fedupnow61859]

I have a folding cutting board by Joseph Joseph. I really love it. Had it about 3 years from a promotion at the super market. Its stonking.

[@acetop666]

We had some of the baked spud things in the 70;s !

[@MusingsFromTheDen]

I love Joseph Joseph because they combine style with accessibility in their products. 😊 I wonder if those potatoes cookers would fit in an air Fryer? 🤔

[@badcatbad]

A fast, crispy, baked potato hack. poke holes in the potato, microwave 3.5 min (1100W microwave). oil, salt, and pepper the potato, air fry on high 8 min. Not quite as crispy as 50 or more minutes in the oven but close enough for me.

[@Tiffany-vj1tv]

Ohhhhh my gosh! That spring onion blade! I couldn't watch thank God you still have your fingers!!!! I can't believe they allow that to be sold😳😳 should be so many warnings. Love you and the family Barry 💕👨‍🍳🙏thanks for another great video... you guys are the best fun ever.

[@lorraineannheron3515]

I'm laid in bed with a terrible virus feel awful, but I never thought kitchen utensils could be so funny, thanks you're nuts love it ❤

[@rachelmiller8323]

My family used that potato prong thing when I was a kid. I was shocked when I later found out not everyone had it. It had six prongs, making enough for the whole family.

[@anneroppel742]

I hope you and your cow had a great time at the pool! LOL!

[@ronaupton9328]

I liked the chopping board and the jacket potato holder. The microwave tub looked great to

[@DJKC]

Blimey, remember my folks having one of those potato skewers in the 70s. I bet they still have it.

[@galeem713]

To clean garlic from a full bulb, just poke a knife in a clove and push the knife down towards the floor. It comes out perfectly clean.

[@tenshiem7154]

We had two of those 4-prong jacket potato rack things, when I was growing up, so about 40yrs ago I remember them being used 😂

[@slc1161]

The scallion knife is started from the green end and stop at the bulb. Then put the green ends in cold water and it curls them for garnishes.

[@andrewcoates6641]

The potato baker is an old idea, but the biggest drawback with it is as you found for yourself if you’re only cooking one potato it is impossible to keep it upright, so you are forced to cook a minimum of two spuds. I have one that I inherited from my mother but I prefer to use a flat sided steel skewer that has a 90 degree twist halfway along it’s length, that prevents the potato from swivelling around. By supporting both ends of the skewer above a deep baking pan I can turn the potato over part way through the cooking time to encourage even baking, knowing that it won’t spin to leave the slightly heavier side sitting to the bottom and with the metal conducting the heat to the centre of the potato you’re guaranteed a fully cooked potato.

[@FittedSheet2000]

The way I JUMPED when Barry pushed his hand into the spring onion cutter

[@DanVR001]

10:50 Missed opportunity to expand the musical puns with "Take my bread way"

[@anniekochera]

I'm loving the baked potato vertical stand. I could use that in my pressure cooker, or Instant Pot. Thank you

[@Lornda]

Yeah thats not how activated carbon/charcoal works. it wont release anything back into the water, it will pull out/ filter stuff but thats it

[@garethbartlett]

Most impressive thing is this video was Barry’s bread slicing.

[@MaxStax1]

Man,i love Barry. I still have cable TV and Barry is way better than anything on TV.. ❤

[@Arlene-1313]

Love Mrs B! (and you too Barry of course!)

[@samhenwood5746]

Thanks Barry & Mrs B 😋👍

[@pollycatwoman]

Have you ever found a Joseph Joseph gadget to be bad? I’ve always liked what I’ve bought, I work in an independent cookshop in North Yorkshire and we have been up against them at awards them lots of times 😂😂

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

That garlic twister looks suspiciously like a weed grinder...😄

[@debraphillips1066]

I had one of those potato thingy 20 plus years ago they not new, but they do work!

[@annother3350]

That baked potato spike was the only thing i ever made in Metalwork at school!1

[@entorix4763]

That potato rack looks like a classic ninja grappling hook lmao

[@wmidds]

Garlic Chopper? More like a MaryJane Grinder! LOL

[@MiscToddley]

The spring onion cutter, is meant more for a different variety of spring onion(more leek like), but your also not supposed to pull it all the way thru the white part - it's supposed to be pulled out and then the threads cut off for uniform threads.

[@Groovebot3k]

I hate how excited I got about that sloped cutting board with the lip.

[@mrlor3d]

Try doing a blind tests. Like for that water filter. Ask Mrs. B to pour filtered and unfiltered water into 4 or more cups and than you try it. That way you will not bias yourself "oh that's filtered one so IT MUST be better".

[@juhaleskinen7383]

It's funny to taste water what we have here in Finland and expensive waters in the bottle, because our is much cleaner and better than those expensive waters. :D

[@riemi2689]

Your german is actually quite good, the way you pronounced "schmackhaft" was on point😅

[@CharlotteKandy]

The press for garlic looked extremely hard to get the garlic out of all those grooves.

[@Cloudx44]

Nothing gets passed you, Kandy. You're a truely an observant genius, keep it up.

[@CharlotteKandy]

@@Cloudx44 thanks

[@bigsteve9291]

The garlic crusher you will find in a carp anglers tackle box we use it for crushing carp boilies Korea tackle fetch it out years ago so no way his that new lol

[@jaspastritt1364]

I’m from Penzance Cornwall! And Hobbs is a great shop :D

[@Imru_gamer]

That was a really good Danhausen impression 2:58

[@neilashley416]

How many other people tried to close down the play list on the screen 😂😂😂 certainly not me ………..😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@natericketts]

Wow! Haven’t been on the channel in a couple years, great to see you’re doing well mate. This took me back, definitely got some binging to do haha

[@Kizzmycntryazz]

green on your knife Digit decapitator when reaching into a drawer lol

[@MaxStax1]

His Tee Shirt always makes me want to watch Jaws.

[@usagiimoon]

Yesss a gadget video early in the morning ❤

[@mrbarrylewis]

whoop whoop etc lol

[@kinagrill]

That spring onion tool should work the other way, where you pull over the far ind and then basically grip past the sharp blades so you just pull - hands thusly safe and NOT pressing TOWARDS the damn blades. Also I think the reason the baked potatoes were extra fluffy to eat could be due to a hot metal spike in the middle so as that metal heated up, the potato was baking from the outside-in AND from the inside-out as well, thus you dun have an under-baked center what so ever.

[@ilovestitch]

The charcoal water thing's experiment was faulted - water will lose some of its minerality/chemical taste when it's been stored overnight versus fresh from the tap. Store two bottles for the same length of time, one with, one without the charcoal bit, and test then!

[@AndyR072]

I've had that same chopping board for about 15 years

[@JK-zz4ip]

I need that Trivet from when he pulled out the potatoes!! I can't find it online though

[@JofromItaly]

I've had the baked potato thing for over 30 years, but it's much heavier than that one you've got.

[@juanvaldez4865]

wait a minute... did you really say you're taking your cow to the swimming pool? Never Change Barry! 😂 Kumbayaaaah

[@DankerTVTimeCapsule]

You have to consider a TEMU special in the coming future now that they ship in the UK.

[@arsenic3382]

Umm.. Barry… wrong kinda “herb” for the “herb grinder” 😅😅

[@sherrymackay3926]

Grinded? Sooo funny. I think you mean ground :)

[@trinidad2099]

One of my friends said that garlic gadget is not for garlic, something something other green stuff... I'm gonna believe him.

[@lisam2537]

Such fun! I love Joseph and Joseph gadgets. I’m ordering the cutting board for sure. Thanks great video 👍

[@alessiarose4924]

@BarryLewis: cornflower and cornstarch aren’t interchangeable; cornflower is made from the whole corn, whereas cornstarch is made from mostly the middle of the corn, the endosperm, which has more thickening properties

[@mathboy1066]

Great Video Barry. Do like the gadget videos!

[@mrbarrylewis]

thanks

[@samanthahughes7783]

Where did you get the bake in the bag chicken crown from? It’s perfect for my two person household.

[@suesparkling]

Im crying laughing right now with the scallion cutter....LOL

[@Justbeingme1980]

Hello barry. Hope you and the family are well 🩷

[@mrbarrylewis]

We are good thanks, how are you?

[@Justbeingme1980]

Doing okay. Thanks so much for asking 🩷

[@phylliswurm9473]

Good video on testing.The onion weapon should recommend safety gloves in Large Print. Or better yet save your money and possible injuries.

[@magicknight8412]

You can put metal in a microwave just as long its the right shape. All to do with angles.

[@paulboardman01]

had that jacket potato thing when i was a kid, im 60 next year

[@sarahhammond7133]

I was getting concerned about that metal microwave dish, really cool though