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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.
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.
Your disclaimer at the start makes me so pleased and happy. I have disabilities, and it's because of your reviews that I went and got myself a slappy chopper. It's made a world of difference. But that disclaimer means a lot, so thanks Barry :)
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
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
Hey Barry. The cheese grater is not new. I’m a 54 year old Australian and my mother had a metal version of this before I started school. The grater could be clamped to a table edge and small blocks of cheese would be put into the hopper. As you turned the handle the cheese would fall from the side into a bowl that was placed beside the grater. I really enjoy your videos. (Especially the ones where Mrs Barry joins in). Keep making great entertaining videos!
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.
Chocolate requires agitation/stirring to melt smoothly when microwaved due to how microwaves heat unevenly, ie:it doesn't transfer heat well and if it gets too hot in one particular spot that one spot will burn and appear seized, while chocolate around it will melt. Try gently squeezing/massaging the container between bursts rather than shaking. After two 30 second bursts swap to 15 or 10 seconds, your second attempt of chocolate looked good before the final burst, it just needed some stirring to equalise the temperature through the whole mixture. Also make sure the container is bone dry because water will seize it.
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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.
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?
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.
That salter grater is basically a copy of the Moulinex Mouli Grater, and not a very good copy either, Mouli graters, particularly the metal ones, are great, pardon the pun... :P
For the chocolate melting one, I think you may have done it for too long! I've tried to melt chocolate in the microwave and if you do it for a few seconds too long it can burn really easily! Hope this helps!!
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
I just recently found your channel and LOVE it!!! It's great how you demonstrate using a product like most of us would, instead of piecing together short clips that fake how difficult (and often useless) they are. And OMG... watching you with that cutting board and finely dicing celery was priceless! Hope you have a wonderful day and take care!
If you do manage to get one of the old Soda Streams - They changed the size of the gas bottles a while back and the new bottles don't fit in the old machines, That said - There's really no difference between the old and new machines and you can easily get a new one
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.
Barry, just a tip on your microwave use: lots of us make the mistake of putting stuff dead center in the microwave. You'll do better moving things off-center, thus moving round & round as the microwave plate rotates.
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
I love this series lmao. I don’t watch many 20+ minute videos, but I always watch these through the entire way. As always (won’t ever change), great stuff Barry! 👍
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.
"Where's Bert?" "He's in the shed, scrubbin' 'Is carrots." (Fnar fnar, Oo-er Missus, etc.) That board might be of use to you when you're doing miniature food, but frankly, there aren't enough hours in the day to justify it. There can't be many people bothered by not having millimetre perfect Julienne sticks in their salad, I don't think. It does look very cool, though. Maybe that's the point of it.
The cloud and sun looked the wrong way round Barry. Swear it's the other way as the silicone sun and cloud are directly on the pan and stops the white from leaking.
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.
@@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.
A brand new kitchen gadget testing video is the best way to start a Sunday 😊🍴. I remember my mum bought a soda stream when I was a child,and all my sister and wanted to do was to make soda all day long, but the machine made so much noise that we couldn’t use it without mum finding out😂
A rotary cheese grater can be very useful, but that particular model is absolute junk and you used the wrong cheese. You need to get a much better quality model and use a hard cheese, like a Parmesan style.
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.
Remember, chocolate melts in a child’s pocket, as Mary Berry says, so you don’t need a lot of heat. I would suggest just putting it in for 30 seconds, and taking it out and shaking it every 10 seconds.
Regarding temperature, IMO, no one should be hacking at another person for their temperature preferences. We all acclimate differently, and some never acclimate properly to heat or cold. I spent 23 years in a hot area, I still can't take what I consider hot temperatures. A person from like, Texas or Florida, or any other routinely hot country would consider my idea of hot a cool spring day most likely. However, what I consider a truly cold winter day would have them running for the heater. It's all a matter of what each person can take.
Great video! I'm heading off to college and renting a apt with no kitchen, it's a steal though. $400 usd for 1 bedroom (sharing) 1 bathroom, 1 living room and free internet, paid bills for water/electricity. What is a must need gadget or tech for me since I have no kitchen but still need to cook?
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
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
Your Salter looks like a knockoff of the Zyliss cheese grater, fab to have on hand for pasta night, with a chunk of hard parmesan or romano cheese, to pass around for everyone to use.
wow your knife is incredibly dull (it shouldn't make that tapping noise) you really need to sharpen it and i belive you have the silicone egg mold upside down
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.
That Salter cheese grater model has been around since the 80's. I used to grate all the cheese my parents bought because I enjoyed the mechanic. I also remember it getting clogged up, although not as much as with the Salter :)
Honestly it's kinda cute that a vegetable brush is a gadget for you when my millenial hands had to scrub root vegetables in the sink since I could reach said sink. I literally never thought it could be considered a gadget.
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
I went back to the first video to start from the beginning. I noticed you joked with the strawberry about people being lazy. I love that you announce it in every video straight in the beginning, “before comments remember this could help with someone with disabilities” cheers on the growth mate 🍻🍻
I have a soda stream, not an 80s one though. I got it like 3 years ago. I use it all the time, it is by far my favourite kitchen gadget. Especially since I love soda water. For anyone who likes anything carbonated, they are really useful, and highly practical.
That salter one existed for like forever... even my grand parents got it in their kitchen maybe 30 years ago or so... funny to see it didn’t poke in UK as it did in France 🤣
I have a cheese grater likes that. The handle is attached to the grater itself and it works like a charm. And that thing is 10+ years old and still works like a charm
Your microwave is so cool! It looks kinda retro but has cool buttons. I dont get how you'd set a specific time without a number pad though. And stirring or shaking chocolate is probably a good idea. Maybe was there some water left over in the silicone after washing? That could cause it to seize. Or also maybe get it mostly melted and then instead of putting it back in the microwave let it sit and shake or stir it until the rest is melted? Whenever I melt chocolate in a bowl I never microwave it fully to liquid. I get it mostly there then stir to let the residual heat melt the last bits!
We have a few of those cheese graters and find them super useful for Parmesan specifically! As it's a harder cheese it doesn't all stick, clog, and congeal. Plus with harder cheeses you have to use a lot of force to grate them with normal box graters - and so this gadget makes it much much easier!
I remember I had a similar kind of cheese grater a fair time ago, except for two crucial changes. It was entirely metal, and it was in two pieces instead of three, the handle was part of the grating... Barrel thing. That made it much more sturdy and durable, and many a cheese was grated so easily my seven year old self did it safely.
Yay!! Love these videos!! 😁🎉 I think I might be missing 1 bc I dont remember that peanut one u mentioned quickly (the one abt re trying) but ill go hunt it down afterwards! 😁
I am new and I wanted to also thank you. I have RA and some of you items I believe can be very useful to people who have difficulties using some items. So thanks
With regards to the carrot scrubber, we've just always had nailbrushes in the kitchen for potatoes and such. Recently we bought a twin-pack of nail brushes with good, solid handles, the green one is designated for veggies, and the clear one gets used to clean the purifier wicks.
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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.
The chocolate did that from ANY water that was in the gadget. Also, 5sec bursts would be better towards the end to stop it burning.
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.
Your disclaimer at the start makes me so pleased and happy.
I have disabilities, and it's because of your reviews that I went and got myself a slappy chopper. It's made a world of difference. But that disclaimer means a lot, so thanks Barry :)
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
have you thought of comparing gadgets? say having 5 or 6 that are meant to do the same thing but have their own quirks?
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
Hey Barry. The cheese grater is not new. I’m a 54 year old Australian and my mother had a metal version of this before I started school. The grater could be clamped to a table edge and small blocks of cheese would be put into the hopper. As you turned the handle the cheese would fall from the side into a bowl that was placed beside the grater.
I really enjoy your videos. (Especially the ones where Mrs Barry joins in). Keep making great entertaining videos!
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.
with the chocolate silicone thing, it looks like your microwaving it for too long. stop at 45 sec and let the residual heat melt the remaining chunks
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
Chocolate requires agitation/stirring to melt smoothly when microwaved due to how microwaves heat unevenly, ie:it doesn't transfer heat well and if it gets too hot in one particular spot that one spot will burn and appear seized, while chocolate around it will melt. Try gently squeezing/massaging the container between bursts rather than shaking. After two 30 second bursts swap to 15 or 10 seconds, your second attempt of chocolate looked good before the final burst, it just needed some stirring to equalise the temperature through the whole mixture.
Also make sure the container is bone dry because water will seize it.
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All aprons are made like that you tie a knot to fit your height. So many people don't know this.
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...
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BARRY....you had the egg one upside down I think!
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
The hood makes him look like a kitchen Assassin
The Obsessive Chef could be great for miniature food videos, to give a sense of scale :D
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.
Left handed problems! 🖐👍 that cheese grater was made for righties for sure.
keriezy, you realize the barrel comes out.... so you could just flip it yo the other side, and abracadabra....left handed
Was there still water droplets in there when u put the chocolate in? One drop will ruin the whole chocolate batch
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!
That salter grater is basically a copy of the Moulinex Mouli Grater, and not a very good copy either, Mouli graters, particularly the metal ones, are great, pardon the pun... :P
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
I just about choked when you said, "scrub a parrot"...
You should've stirred the chocolate to prevent burning. Its just like you would melt it in any other bowl except this one is silicone. :)
I haven't slept tonight due to the heat! Bring back the snow!
the cheese grater is extremely useful for grating cheese to top a dish! you just have to tilt the opening down a little bit to shake the cheese out.
That cutting board would be perfect for presentation.
For the chocolate melting one, I think you may have done it for too long! I've tried to melt chocolate in the microwave and if you do it for a few seconds too long it can burn really easily! Hope this helps!!
Sophie W you’re right. If he’d stopped before it was fully melted, the residual heat would have finished the job without burning.
i love how barry used the wrong side of the egg shaper
It was flat side down? Isn’t that right
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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
I just recently found your channel and LOVE it!!! It's great how you demonstrate using a product like most of us would, instead of piecing together short clips that fake how difficult (and often useless) they are. And OMG... watching you with that cutting board and finely dicing celery was priceless! Hope you have a wonderful day and take care!
If you do manage to get one of the old Soda Streams - They changed the size of the gas bottles a while back and the new bottles don't fit in the old machines, That said - There's really no difference between the old and new machines and you can easily get a new one
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
Barry, just a tip on your microwave use: lots of us make the mistake of putting stuff dead center in the microwave. You'll do better moving things off-center, thus moving round & round as the microwave plate rotates.
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
I love this series lmao. I don’t watch many 20+ minute videos, but I always watch these through the entire way.
As always (won’t ever change), great stuff Barry! 👍
I love all your product reviews! I just got the garlic press/thingy!
I'm quite sure Barshens Stuart has an 80s Sodastream.
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.
Love these videos! Saves idiots like me from buying all this junk on impulse haha
With that montage, Barry is clearly the hero we need.
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"Where's Bert?" "He's in the shed, scrubbin' 'Is carrots." (Fnar fnar, Oo-er Missus, etc.)
That board might be of use to you when you're doing miniature food, but frankly, there aren't enough hours in the day to justify it. There can't be many people bothered by not having millimetre perfect Julienne sticks in their salad, I don't think. It does look very cool, though. Maybe that's the point of it.
Sadly it's made from bamboo. Bamboo boards split easily.
The cloud and sun looked the wrong way round Barry. Swear it's the other way as the silicone sun and cloud are directly on the pan and stops the white from leaking.
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.
I really like that pepper corer!
A brand new kitchen gadget testing video is the best way to start a Sunday 😊🍴. I remember my mum bought a soda stream when I was a child,and all my sister and wanted to do was to make soda all day long, but the machine made so much noise that we couldn’t use it without mum finding out😂
The pepper core remover could be helpful. All the others not so much! It was fun watching you try them though 👍😄💚
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.
A rotary cheese grater can be very useful, but that particular model is absolute junk and you used the wrong cheese. You need to get a much better quality model and use a hard cheese, like a Parmesan style.
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.
The pepper thing would be awesome to make stuffed peppers! And cheese stuff jalapeño And so much easier lol
Remember, chocolate melts in a child’s pocket, as Mary Berry says, so you don’t need a lot of heat. I would suggest just putting it in for 30 seconds, and taking it out and shaking it every 10 seconds.
"Salter"? I hardly know 'er!!
The cheese was melting in the grater because it's so warm today.
And I know this kind of grater mainly for parmesan cheese which is much firmer and dryer so might not stick together ad much!
I really appreciate these videos. Thank you. It saves me from wasting money on items not worth it.
These are always my favorite videos. These videos are how I found u and became a fan! Always look forward to these!!!!!
Regarding temperature, IMO, no one should be hacking at another person for their temperature preferences. We all acclimate differently, and some never acclimate properly to heat or cold. I spent 23 years in a hot area, I still can't take what I consider hot temperatures. A person from like, Texas or Florida, or any other routinely hot country would consider my idea of hot a cool spring day most likely. However, what I consider a truly cold winter day would have them running for the heater. It's all a matter of what each person can take.
Great video! I'm heading off to college and renting a apt with no kitchen, it's a steal though. $400 usd for 1 bedroom (sharing) 1 bathroom, 1 living room and free internet, paid bills for water/electricity. What is a must need gadget or tech for me since I have no kitchen but still need to cook?
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
Love my Fred The Obsessive Chef cutting board!
The capsicum one would definitely be perfect for stuffed capsicums! Think that's my fave of this video
On bed rest doing a Baratheon
Get we’ll soon
Your Salter looks like a knockoff of the Zyliss cheese grater, fab to have on hand for pasta night, with a chunk of hard parmesan or romano cheese, to pass around for everyone to use.
Barry I love your videos!! They have gotten me back into cooking!
Barry I absolutely love these series. Definitely need myself a barathon 😂
wow your knife is incredibly dull (it shouldn't make that tapping noise) you really need to sharpen it and i belive you have the silicone egg mold upside down
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.
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
A carrot!
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.
That Salter cheese grater model has been around since the 80's. I used to grate all the cheese my parents bought because I enjoyed the mechanic. I also remember it getting clogged up, although not as much as with the Salter :)
The obsessive chef cutting board makes me so happy!
No Barry, it's hot everywhere. You're not alone in suffering taking a trip through Satan's bum, we suffer right along with you. :)
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?
It was 110f (43c) where I live today.
Wow!
How are you still alive?
Lol yeah but my energy bill might kill me.
Honestly it's kinda cute that a vegetable brush is a gadget for you when my millenial hands had to scrub root vegetables in the sink since I could reach said sink. I literally never thought it could be considered a gadget.
Love your videos! Love your goofiness and your puns!
The egg thing u had upside down
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
Love these gadget videos! As usual, love the puns! 😂
That capsicum one would be so good for making stuffed capsicums !! So easy.
that pug is so cute
I love that cutting board!
I found your channel a few days ago and it’s been so dang enjoyable!
OHMYGOD!!!!! I neeeeeed that obsessive chef board!!!!!!
Watching Barry chop the vegetables was so soothing! I think I'm the type of person who needs that cutting board XD
That cutting board would be perfect for your miniature food series
For the cheese grayer I recommend the pampered chef one, and using a harder cheese--I use Parmesan--and it works perfectly.
That cutting board might be a help for all of the mini food videos! Would love to see more of those if it's something you still enjoy doing!
I love how at 6:12 the chocolate was melted already and he put it back in the microwave and complained about it being burnt! 😂😂
You said that melter looks like so many things, but the first thing I thought was "It looks like a health potion!" XD
Everytime I get ready to watch these kitchen gadgets videos I always need a snack 🍿
Why do I sit here watching hours of gadgets? 😂 keep up the good work x
I have the melting chocolate thing, but I find that it is only useful for small amounts because so much gets stuck on the inside walls!
I went back to the first video to start from the beginning. I noticed you joked with the strawberry about people being lazy. I love that you announce it in every video straight in the beginning, “before comments remember this could help with someone with disabilities” cheers on the growth mate 🍻🍻
That cutting board would be great for a chef in training. Great to practice on, Loved the pepper corer too.
I have a soda stream, not an 80s one though. I got it like 3 years ago. I use it all the time, it is by far my favourite kitchen gadget. Especially since I love soda water. For anyone who likes anything carbonated, they are really useful, and highly practical.
I love stuffed pepers! That little gadget for coring them looks like a good way to have kids help in the kitchen. Fun video!
That salter one existed for like forever... even my grand parents got it in their kitchen maybe 30 years ago or so...
funny to see it didn’t poke in UK as it did in France 🤣
I have a cheese grater likes that. The handle is attached to the grater itself and it works like a charm. And that thing is 10+ years old and still works like a charm
Your microwave is so cool! It looks kinda retro but has cool buttons. I dont get how you'd set a specific time without a number pad though.
And stirring or shaking chocolate is probably a good idea. Maybe was there some water left over in the silicone after washing? That could cause it to seize.
Or also maybe get it mostly melted and then instead of putting it back in the microwave let it sit and shake or stir it until the rest is melted? Whenever I melt chocolate in a bowl I never microwave it fully to liquid. I get it mostly there then stir to let the residual heat melt the last bits!
That chopping board definitely looks like something I would adore, then spend too long preparing things on.
We have a few of those cheese graters and find them super useful for Parmesan specifically! As it's a harder cheese it doesn't all stick, clog, and congeal. Plus with harder cheeses you have to use a lot of force to grate them with normal box graters - and so this gadget makes it much much easier!
I really like that chopping board
Love your reviews!
I remember I had a similar kind of cheese grater a fair time ago, except for two crucial changes. It was entirely metal, and it was in two pieces instead of three, the handle was part of the grating... Barrel thing. That made it much more sturdy and durable, and many a cheese was grated so easily my seven year old self did it safely.
Yay!! Love these videos!! 😁🎉
I think I might be missing 1 bc I dont remember that peanut one u mentioned quickly (the one abt re trying) but ill go hunt it down afterwards! 😁
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I wish it was hot here in Wales! It rained all day and night!
Wow hey berry thanks for the vlogs. I love them💗
I am new and I wanted to also thank you. I have RA and some of you items I believe can be very useful to people who have difficulties using some items. So thanks
Omg I love the cutting board
What made me laugh is you were getting frustrated with it but in the camera view it shows you a picture on the box of how to assemble it 😂
Man you make me laugh so much. Perfect celery!!! Crazy
That Obsessive Chef Cutting Board bit was oddly relaxing to watch, You are right, you could do an ASMR video with it :D
Barry! 33 degrees is a normal day here in Australia 😂
Veggie brushes have been like a standard in every Finnish kitchen for decades... And you should scrub it under running water... :D
With regards to the carrot scrubber, we've just always had nailbrushes in the kitchen for potatoes and such. Recently we bought a twin-pack of nail brushes with good, solid handles, the green one is designated for veggies, and the clear one gets used to clean the purifier wicks.
“It’ll get up to 37”
Me: 37 degrees that’s so cold!!!
3mins later* maybe the English don’t use Fahrenheit. Looks up* he meant Celsius 37C is 98F ... that’s awful hot.