The issue with gadgets such as the chef'n yolkster is that it's easy to forget what its for. We have drawers full of oddly shaped plastic kitchen gadgets and it's impossible to tell what half of them do.
I've got the Chef'n'Go garlic crusher. That works really well and fast. Minces the garlic up brilliantly. Just watch your fingers on the blades as they are razor sharp when you clean it but that said rinse it as soon as you use it and it cleans easily.
The spill guard reminds me of those stupid videos of people cutting the milk carton for like an entire minute and then it completely just spills in like two streams when they pour the milk
The Zpillsafe is an interesting gadget, but I can't think of any time in my life I needed to add a spout to a glass or mug. The only time I can think of just pouring liquid out of those is to dump them in sink! I suspect they spelled it with a Z instead of an S to make it easier to trademark. Eggs come equipped with an egg separator; the shell. My mother taught me how to separate with the two halves of the shell and that's the way I've always done. But, I've seen quite a few egg separating gadgets over the year and all of them worked better than one.
It can be useful if you pour compote from a decently-sized jar to a reasonably small glass...provided it does not spill on said jars. Of course, you could just move the entire contents of said jar to a jug and no longer need this... This is the only common use for it that I can think of, though.
Great for camping when boiling water having to pour into the dehydrated meal bags or coffee, is tricky to maneuver hot pots when they don’t have regular handles (to save space and weight) this makes it a breeze to pour without burning yourself.
That’s such a good point, I remember finding out why all the amazon sellers have weird names. I don’t think it was to trademark exactly but something along the lines of making it easier to register as a business entity
I'd be more curious on the Zpillsafe if you used it with a saucepan or skillet to empty fluid or grease. As to what you read, the glass and martini glass were sloped shaped and not totally straight.
@@Got2bescene they don’t have to be 2 to 4” my camping pots are bigger than that and this is not a gadget for me but a game changer for boiling water. I’ve had it for a few years and use it every camping trip.
For 30+ years, I've seen tons of all types of wacky "infomercial inventions". Ultimately, every single one seemed to be a complicated solution to a simple problem which was almost always easily solved by something 12x more basic and far, far cheaper. SUCH AS CRADLING AN EGG IN ITS SHELL (to separate yolks).
Not really, I mean as a cup sure but if you wanted to pour it often does that thing where it falls down the side. I know they say pour with confidence but it really means you gotta get a steep enough angle that gravity prevents it from doing that thing. Kinda a pain in the ass because that means you’re basically dumping it, granted most people just avoid pouring from cups that do that but maybe if that spill safe thing was a dollar or two it’d be worth having around in a drawer for the occasional moments
the biggest issue I have with all arc lighters is that for whatever reason they don't make the lid flip all the way, there's some things I want to light and that gets in the way and I end up needing to light something else first or grab a regular lighter/match. It's been years and it's STILL a problem. why hasn't a single company fixed this?
I think a lot of these have a safety mechanism connected to the lid to prevent activation while closed and that prevents it from flipping all the way open.
I have one that is about the length and shape of a pencil with the 4 prongs at one end. I can light a candle in a can with the wick at the bottom with no issues. These fliptop designs are basically for cigarettes or joints or something similar.
@@frds_skce I use gloves at work I’m just saying in general u can just pick it up no problem (plus I got all the dumb food safety licenses crap but if ur hands are washed it’s better then wearing gloves due to the fact you are washing ur hands more without the gloves in the first place)
I have exactly the same blue plastic cup you used in the ZpilllSafe test. It's a great cup that I purchased at WalMart. I found that I could use the cup for water and it works almost as well with a few other liquids. It's truly multi-dimensional. I haven't tried the cup with pineapple juice yet but I'm optimistic. Thanks!
He's got that; Project Farm has "We're gonna test that!"; and TheLockPickingLawyer has "gonna do that again to to see if it was a fluke." The fluke one is my drinking game.
You should be sure to mention that many of those electronic lighters are VERY Painful for animals! They give out a high frequency sound that humans can't hear but dogs and cats can. My cat ran in terror when I first lit a candle. 😱 I no longer use it when she's in the room.😸 I used a spectrum analyzer program on my phone to find this high frequency that I suspected and it's like standing next to an air raid siren to a human. Very Painful.😭
"VERY" painful? You said it twice and put VERY in caps. Quick question.. how do you know it's VERY painful? Did you ask them? Did they tell you this? 🥴 It's a lighter.. you use it for 1-2 seconds at a time. 😐 Your not lighting your animals on fire. VERY painful 😔
@@IceTTom Have you ever stood next to an air raid siren RIGHT next to it, or a megaphone and it squeals loudly right in your ears? It's painful and can permanently damage your hearing. I have measured the sound of these electronic lighters. A sound frequency so high we humans can't hear but animals can. And it's such a high level for them ITS PAINFUL! The equivalent of that air raid siren. Painful enough they run and hide. So YES I know it's painful to them The end.
Plasma lighter (tho a different one) was one of the best purchases I've ever made. 🙈 I have a (probably irrational) fear of wind blowing a regular lighter's fire away and lighting the flat up, so I rarely lit up candles (even tho I adore them) on my own. Life changing, haha 💗
You hit it right, that egg thing probably cost them about 10 cents or so. I have spent my life in the plastics industry. You wouldn't believe the profit margins! The packaging always costs more for small items than the item itself.
It actually looks like an old necklace separater/hook thing I had when i was younger it was on a stick that stuck into a bowl. Legs up tho. Then the bowl heald your rings or earrings, and you hung necklace on the legs lol
it looked like the Stanley cup was leaking, only very slowly. Also, if you are sensitive to high frequencies, those electronic lighters typically produce a pretty loud high pitch noise when they are running.
For the egg thingy, I think the freshness of the egg (Im vegan so don't know which would be better, fresh or older) and if they were in a fridge would make a big difference to how the white acts.
I have the same spider leg contraption, though I have just 6 legs instead of so many. And the centre circle is much smaller. That works well because the egg whites have space to fall off and the circle in the centre is only small enough to support the yellow. The con for it is, when you try to remove the spider from a bowl or glass, the yolk sometimes falls off.
The lighter has a safety featyre that shuts the arc off, to keep it frim getting toooo hot. Otherwise, it could possibly blow up in your face, or something similarly drastic 10:47
If I had the egg separator, I'd clip half the legs off. I'd bet a Happy Meal, that half the legs would space it out better, and allow the egg whites to separate easier.
It could be the reason they spell it with a Z in spill guard instead of with an S is probably because spill guard is probably copy written in which case they wouldn’t be allowed to use that as the name of their product.
Your Stanley cup was about to leak. In the video you can see the water filling the inside of the grip portion of the device. You just didn’t pour long enough in that one for it to spill down the back of the cup.
When you separate your eggs you need to let them get the room temperature otherwise the yolk and the white kind of stay together. Or you can try just putting One on one side of the room and the other on the other side of the room that will keep them separate😅
If those eggs came out a fridge you might want to check the temps because that white looked like it was pretty cold. Probably better just placing the separator onto a saucer and having a pair of bowls for the yolk and white instead of trying to hook legs and having it at an odd angle.
I had a lighter with the same design; it lasted a long time but eventually the electric parts got covered in soot and it became difficult to light things. Also the angle made some things difficult to light. Might've been human error, but it did still work for a long time.
I don't think you should discount the entertainment factor of the egg separator. It looked like you were having fun trying to get the egg white to fall through!!!!
Mandela Effect because I would’ve sworn that James already reviewed that egg separater. Btw were those eggs cold? I wonder if it works better with room temp eggs?
The issue with gadgets such as the chef'n yolkster is that it's easy to forget what its for. We have drawers full of oddly shaped plastic kitchen gadgets and it's impossible to tell what half of them do.
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Post photos and I'll figure it out. Sounds like a fun challenge! 😂
I've got the Chef'n'Go garlic crusher. That works really well and fast. Minces the garlic up brilliantly. Just watch your fingers on the blades as they are razor sharp when you clean it but that said rinse it as soon as you use it and it cleans easily.
Google may help.
Time to waggle the google lens at them XD.
That egg separator reminds of how Jim Davis draws a spider in Garfield comics. I personally don't think any in this group are useful to me.
❤. You're right, it sure does.😊 5:19
He draws a spider with 11 legs?
One of these days I’m going to make a compilation video of you wobbling/shaking something going “blawwwublalubwahlawbulbwalb”
I was kinda wondering how to spell that particular noise.
Please do 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahahahaha, I can picture/hear that!
Better yet: Add some music and make it a banger
Do it!
The old standby tried and true cracking the egg passing it from one egg shell half to the other, back and forth works every time.
I'm always surprised there are so many products to separate eggs when the shell to shell or hand method is faster and more efficient.
I literally just pour the egg into my hand. Nothing easier. Unless I’m doing a lot of eggs then the simple suction method is quicker.
Works every time. I don't understand why there has to be gadgets to do the same thing. Not much simpler than separating an egg.
Ditto ! Apparently , some people never received basic kitchen training .
wanna blow your mind? Take a clove of garlic and rub it on your fingers, you can pick up the yolk by pinching it without breaking it.
The spill guard reminds me of those stupid videos of people cutting the milk carton for like an entire minute and then it completely just spills in like two streams when they pour the milk
That's the worst egg separator I have seen. Thanks for the video.
The Zpillsafe is an interesting gadget, but I can't think of any time in my life I needed to add a spout to a glass or mug. The only time I can think of just pouring liquid out of those is to dump them in sink! I suspect they spelled it with a Z instead of an S to make it easier to trademark.
Eggs come equipped with an egg separator; the shell. My mother taught me how to separate with the two halves of the shell and that's the way I've always done. But, I've seen quite a few egg separating gadgets over the year and all of them worked better than one.
It can be useful if you pour compote from a decently-sized jar to a reasonably small glass...provided it does not spill on said jars. Of course, you could just move the entire contents of said jar to a jug and no longer need this...
This is the only common use for it that I can think of, though.
Great for camping when boiling water having to pour into the dehydrated meal bags or coffee, is tricky to maneuver hot pots when they don’t have regular handles (to save space and weight) this makes it a breeze to pour without burning yourself.
That’s such a good point, I remember finding out why all the amazon sellers have weird names. I don’t think it was to trademark exactly but something along the lines of making it easier to register as a business entity
The thumbnail gave me a right fright, 'cause for a second I thought you were holding a weirdly shiny spider.
Forget TruckNuts, we got Egg-Spider Nutz 10:58
Make this egg separator black, add some googly eyes and you got a Halloween egg separator :D
IMO: All junk that ends up in a drawer some place. Thanks for the fun although no
Bailey. ☹
The egg seperater would only be out out/ used during spooky season. It looks just like a mad scientist type spider.❤😊 13:23
I love your sound effects with the egg separator!😂
I'd be more curious on the Zpillsafe if you used it with a saucepan or skillet to empty fluid or grease. As to what you read, the glass and martini glass were sloped shaped and not totally straight.
Do you have many saucepans in the 2 to 4 inch diameter range?
I'm thinking something like a Mason jar 🫙
@@Got2bescene they don’t have to be 2 to 4” my camping pots are bigger than that and this is not a gadget for me but a game changer for boiling water. I’ve had it for a few years and use it every camping trip.
You need "I digress" merch lol
Ok... I NEED that Back to the Future mug lol
Me too haha
Yeah, me too. 😂
is pouring water from a glass a problem now
😂 must be! 😂
For 30+ years, I've seen tons of all types of wacky "infomercial inventions". Ultimately, every single one seemed to be a complicated solution to a simple problem which was almost always easily solved by something 12x more basic and far, far cheaper. SUCH AS CRADLING AN EGG IN ITS SHELL (to separate yolks).
Do you have to let it linger? LOL
For the egg separater, did you use cold eggs or room temperature eggs?
I'm not usually separating eggs, but if I should find myself having to do so, what version should I use? Thank you.
If you are afraid to use the shell or your fingers to separate an egg yolk, go to your utensile drawer and grab a slotted spoon.
I’m pretty sure mugs and glasses are spill-safe enough as they are
I don’t understand the need to pour from a mug. And it only works on specific size mugs and glasses 🤨
@@happycamper4thewin camping pots don’t have spouts, you’re constantly boiling water and this works like a charm. I’ve had mine for years.
Not really, I mean as a cup sure but if you wanted to pour it often does that thing where it falls down the side. I know they say pour with confidence but it really means you gotta get a steep enough angle that gravity prevents it from doing that thing. Kinda a pain in the ass because that means you’re basically dumping it, granted most people just avoid pouring from cups that do that but maybe if that spill safe thing was a dollar or two it’d be worth having around in a drawer for the occasional moments
the biggest issue I have with all arc lighters is that for whatever reason they don't make the lid flip all the way, there's some things I want to light and that gets in the way and I end up needing to light something else first or grab a regular lighter/match. It's been years and it's STILL a problem. why hasn't a single company fixed this?
I think a lot of these have a safety mechanism connected to the lid to prevent activation while closed and that prevents it from flipping all the way open.
I bought a bbq style arc lighter. Works really well.
I have one that is about the length and shape of a pencil with the 4 prongs at one end. I can light a candle in a can with the wick at the bottom with no issues. These fliptop designs are basically for cigarettes or joints or something similar.
Egg separators are kinda silly. Take a very simple task. Make it seem like a problem, then sell you something that actually makes it more complicated.
Taking much longer. I think it's hilarious.
Literally u can grab it with ur hands when the egg is in the bowl
@@squireofvirgin1111Doesn't seem hygienic especially since you're probably going to serve food to people.
@@frds_skce I use gloves at work I’m just saying in general u can just pick it up no problem (plus I got all the dumb food safety licenses crap but if ur hands are washed it’s better then wearing gloves due to the fact you are washing ur hands more without the gloves in the first place)
@@squireofvirgin1111 Yeah, that works too if you use those plastic gloves but I prefer to separate yolk using the egg shells themselves
I have exactly the same blue plastic cup you used in the ZpilllSafe test. It's a great cup that I purchased at WalMart. I found that I could use the cup for water and it works almost as well with a few other liquids. It's truly multi-dimensional. I haven't tried the cup with pineapple juice yet but I'm optimistic. Thanks!
This is a two “but I digress” video!
He's got that; Project Farm has "We're gonna test that!"; and TheLockPickingLawyer has "gonna do that again to to see if it was a fluke." The fluke one is my drinking game.
"Come on maaaaaaan"
i do like the game boy lighter, and why do the make the instructions for things impossible to read by makin' them so small
To separate eggs, I just use my hands. I crack the egg into the bowl and go in after the yolk. Works every time.
You should be sure to mention that many of those electronic lighters are VERY Painful for animals!
They give out a high frequency sound that humans can't hear but dogs and cats can. My cat ran in terror when I first lit a candle. 😱
I no longer use it when she's in the room.😸
I used a spectrum analyzer program on my phone to find this high frequency that I suspected and it's like standing next to an air raid siren to a human. Very Painful.😭
Wow. Good to know, thanks.
I've never heard that, thanks for the info! I have a kitten and I hate the thought of ever hurting her!!
Great info, thanks
"VERY" painful? You said it twice and put VERY in caps.
Quick question.. how do you know it's VERY painful? Did you ask them? Did they tell you this?
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It's a lighter.. you use it for 1-2 seconds at a time. 😐 Your not lighting your animals on fire.
VERY painful
😔
@@IceTTom Have you ever stood next to an air raid siren RIGHT next to it, or a megaphone and it squeals loudly right in your ears? It's painful and can permanently damage your hearing.
I have measured the sound of these electronic lighters. A sound frequency so high we humans can't hear but animals can. And it's such a high level for them ITS PAINFUL! The equivalent of that air raid siren. Painful enough they run and hide.
So YES I know it's painful to them
The end.
$24.88 for a lighter that lasts a week.
I bought 3 BIC lighters for a dollar and they have lasted 10 years so far.
the spider egg seperater thing is stupid
No need to have a stupid gadget to wash!
I don't think I would attempt to light a BBQ with that lighter unless I wanted to burn my hand off.
Well, they didn't say that it was NoZpill. They just said that it would zpill safely.
Plasma lighter (tho a different one) was one of the best purchases I've ever made. 🙈 I have a (probably irrational) fear of wind blowing a regular lighter's fire away and lighting the flat up, so I rarely lit up candles (even tho I adore them) on my own. Life changing, haha 💗
Who's the girl in your dp?
@@jimrustle Me? 😄 Why? Haha
Edit: I mean, who else would it be? 😄
@mikaelastefkova you're gorgeous ❤
@@jimrustle Aww thank you! 🥺
@@mikaelastefkova how old are you?
I've been rewatching eureka lately and everytime the main actor talks I think you two sound exactly alike 😂
I have also been watching reruns of Eureka. Great show.
At 10:53 I almost spilled my tea. For a second there it looked like a spider with a magnificent pair of... (just watch it)
The lighter would be the only one that I would even keep if it were free. The other two are trying to fix problems that aren’t really problems.
Yikes!!! A white plastic spider. 🤣
3:16 Love your Back to the Future 2 mug❤!!
🖐🖐 love the lighter. You made me laugh when you were showing the egg separator!
You hit it right, that egg thing probably cost them about 10 cents or so. I have spent my life in the plastics industry. You wouldn't believe the profit margins! The packaging always costs more for small items than the item itself.
It actually looks like an old necklace separater/hook thing I had when i was younger it was on a stick that stuck into a bowl. Legs up tho. Then the bowl heald your rings or earrings, and you hung necklace on the legs lol
I give the egg separator 3 sound effects 10 😂 The lighter looks cool.
Try warming the eggs at room temperature for 30 to 60 minutes. That should make the egg whites more runny which should help the separation.
Yes agreed. Eggs need to be at room temp: also be nice to compare with traditional egg separator as comparison. Thanks
I was so confused but then i remembered that americans put their eggs in the fridge😂
@@somnia3423 Only Americans that get their eggs from the grocery. They kind of have to.
it looked like the Stanley cup was leaking, only very slowly. Also, if you are sensitive to high frequencies, those electronic lighters typically produce a pretty loud high pitch noise when they are running.
Yes on how you separate an egg! Works perfectly!!! Also,peeling a fresh egg is a mess, using a slightly older egg peels perfectly!
I get a kick out of when something fails. You get this voice thing happening that makes you sound victimized. Hilarious.
6:10 I got one of those off temu and it still works great only difference is it has a dragon design on it
Cool back to the future mug. 😎
I've never in my life seen eggs with balls, 10:56 will forever stay with me
Not the egg whites 😂😂 why did they look like that lol
13:20 Ten cents? Try about a tenth of a cent.
For the egg thingy, I think the freshness of the egg (Im vegan so don't know which would be better, fresh or older) and if they were in a fridge would make a big difference to how the white acts.
You'd be right. Really fresh eggs rather white is firmer. Old eggs the whites are runny
Nope, older eggs, farm fresh eggs, all work with the shell to shell method
I have the same spider leg contraption, though I have just 6 legs instead of so many. And the centre circle is much smaller. That works well because the egg whites have space to fall off and the circle in the centre is only small enough to support the yellow. The con for it is, when you try to remove the spider from a bowl or glass, the yolk sometimes falls off.
The lighter has a safety featyre that shuts the arc off, to keep it frim getting toooo hot. Otherwise, it could possibly blow up in your face, or something similarly drastic 10:47
A cigarette lighter designed to look like a kid's toy. Nice.
Spill guard reminded of teeth guards we had for football in junior high and high school
Probably got the idea from a slobberin' football player...😉
Hahahahaha that egg splitter gives the eggs egg-white balls.... It's like it's a spider with massive balls.
The egg separator might work better with room temperature eggs because cold eggs don't want to separate
Cool lighter and SD card case!
The very first glass you used or the Zpillsafe had a lip.
Awesome review. I really liked the lighter.
I'm a big fan of yours. I've been watching your video's for a few years now. I literally just bought the rolls Gameboy lighter.
Who’s pouring stuff out of glasses😂
And even if the need arises I know I can pour from a glass without a problem!!!
That egg separator looks like a candidate for the worst of the year list
If I had the egg separator, I'd clip half the legs off.
I'd bet a Happy Meal, that half the legs would space it out better, and allow the egg whites to separate easier.
Spill thing reminds me of that pan one you did a while back. Maybe the pan was supposed to be thicker, as well?
if you need a gadget to separate egg yolks stay out of the kitchen. Grandma's have been using their fingers for hundreds of years.
I see cooks on TV use their hands all the time.🥚
The white is clinging because your eggs are really fresh, any method or hard get would require a bit more effort to get it to break away.
Need to use the Zpill Safe on the lighter to make it stand up
Make that sound again!
Maybe the whites of Chinese eggs are a lot runnier than American ones?
I remember way back just using my two hands to separate eggs - actually kind if fun😁😁
Not going to lie...I just recently saw the new alien movie and I thought that item in the thumbnail was a facehugger. 😂
James, you need to make up some Freakin' Reviews T Shirts with your logo that say But I Digress. I'll put in my pre-order!
I’d be more curious with the spill guard if you tried it on a can or other thing that you’re more likely to use it on.
The lighter looks too enticing for kids. In other words, some kid could pick it up thinking it's a game, then set the house on fire!
It could be the reason they spell it with a Z in spill guard instead of with an S is probably because spill guard is probably copy written in which case they wouldn’t be allowed to use that as the name of their product.
The Zpillsafe is just to rim thickness specific to be useful.
I have that same Back To The Future Part 2 mug. It's my Go-to coffee mug
Your Stanley cup was about to leak. In the video you can see the water filling the inside of the grip portion of the device. You just didn’t pour long enough in that one for it to spill down the back of the cup.
When you separate your eggs you need to let them get the room temperature otherwise the yolk and the white kind of stay together. Or you can try just putting One on one side of the room and the other on the other side of the room that will keep them separate😅
Omg what a waist of plastic making all these egg separaters ,we have the best one's on the end of our hand's 👍
Warning: Don't watch this while needing to go to the restroom haha.
Spill guard $17+? Does no one have a set or two of funnels anymore?
The reason the whites did not readily separate from the yolks is that you were lucky to buy very fresh eggs. Older eggs separate easier. 🙂
If those eggs came out a fridge you might want to check the temps because that white looked like it was pretty cold. Probably better just placing the separator onto a saucer and having a pair of bowls for the yolk and white instead of trying to hook legs and having it at an odd angle.
Not sure about anyone else, but I’ve never had a problem with pouring a liquid from a cup, glass, etc.
3:47 damn you, that song is going to be stuck in my head all night
Me too!!
Do you have to?
@@anniem8656 Grrr!!!!!! damn you too now :P
The egg separator: it's cute but it does NOT work - you should have said. 😊
Thinking back, I wonder if it would work if I cut off every other leg. Hmm..
I had a lighter with the same design; it lasted a long time but eventually the electric parts got covered in soot and it became difficult to light things. Also the angle made some things difficult to light. Might've been human error, but it did still work for a long time.
If you mean where the plasma arcs come out you probably could have cleaned them with isopropyl alcohol.
I don't think you should discount the entertainment factor of the egg separator. It looked like you were having fun trying to get the egg white to fall through!!!!
I hoped that James would light up a reefer for us with the lighter. I like the dog shirt.
Mandela Effect because I would’ve sworn that James already reviewed that egg separater. Btw were those eggs cold? I wonder if it works better with room temp eggs?
10:55 aw nuts!
Man if it had been me testing those Zpillsafe things I'd have been running to the bathroom too much.
Eggs separate better when they are room temperature, coming from a baker! 😉
Re: the egg separator, was the egg cold and just out of the fridge? If so, I think you'll get better results if the egg is at room temperature.
How often do you pour from a glass, don’t you just drink?
Best egg seperator, fingers.
That lighter is definitely using the the same circuit as a vape battery. lol