Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and this is ... Dave Reardon. We've had lots
of requests to do another Clever or Never and we've been collecting a few different
gadgets that we thought would be interesting. Some of which I think you've probably never
seen before and didn't know they existed. So starting with this one that you've brought
back... This one was from Sydney, our friends Mark
and Lauren, had one of these awesome apple peelers, which I don't know if it's old technology,
new technology but it's awesome technology. So it just peels the apple?
Pretty much but it's so cool. Does it spiralise it as well or it just takes
the peel off? I can't remember, it was a long time ago.
We have been collecting gadgets for some time, this has been sitting in a box for a while
... can you even figure out how to use it? I'll give it a go.
So this is going to be a cheap vs expensive version because when Dave came home with this
I said I think we have something that will do that already.
So we have this attachment for the KitchenAid which came in a box with spiralizers and everything
but this was $169 for the set of these gadgets ... how much was yours?
$22. So cheap vs expensive, let's see if it's worth
spending big on this one or if you should go for that one.
Okay. Alright, let's do it. Watch this, this is
cool. Locked!
What did that do? That was invented by NASA.
Oh I like that. So it's suction cupped to the bench?
Yep and then you go ... then you pull that back. Put your apple in. (mumble mumble)
And then on mine you just put the apple on the spike and line it up with that. Alright
I'm good to go. Well ...
You've got to spike your apple I assume because I had to spike mine. That looks a bit brutal,
what if you missed and spiked your hand? You would bleed.
Oh hang on. Wait a minute, the suction cup has failed.
Nah, it's good. Then what do you do?
I guess you wind ... I never actually used the one in Sydney so this is my first time
ever. Wow it is peeling it and it is cutting it
... it's taking a lot of peel off. That's pretty thick, you've got a lot of apple in
that peel. Yep but check this ... I'm just trying to
remember ... Wouldn't you just pull the apple off the other
end? Oh yeah maybe.
Look at this a Slinky Apple! Yep.
Okay let me turn mine on, ready? So I didn't have to wind the handle but winding
the handle didn't seem to be that hard. My slices are a little bit thinner.
They are thinner. Do they hold their shape?
No because they're a little bit too thin. It looks like a Chinese lantern.
Alright so what do you think? $169 or $22?
Gadget Number 2... a Stella fruit dessert maker so let's have a look, according to the
box it makes these beautiful looking all-natural no additives, no cholesterol, just straight
fruit. Boxes never lie!
I'll put a bowl underneath and I'll put some banana ... you have to freeze the fruit first,
so I did that yesterday. Mango, a bit of strawberry. Freeze fruit for 24 hours...
Done that. Put it in...
It says do not operate the unit for more than 5 minutes.
Really? Yes, allow the motor to rest for 5 minutes,
I don't know what happens after that. That could be indicative of quality.
A fruit-spotion! Okay I'll turn it on...
It's a pleasant sound. That's loud!
Is it working? Nothing seems to be happening. What happens
if I need to operate it for more than 5 minutes just to get it to work.
Let me turn it on again... Can you smell burning?
Wow! I must say that is a classic cake of 'not
as advertised'! This has that nice star-shaped pattern ... this
doesn't have a star-shaped nozzle, there's no way that could give you that.
That is false advertising. Expectation vs Reality.
We should taste it ... it might be good. It might be good, it looks terrible.
It tastes alright but if you've got a food processor you can just put it in the food
processor and then pipe it with a star shaped tip and you've actually get it looking like
that. I don't think it's worth having that much
footprint in your kitchen for something that does that.
What do you think? I'm with you.
It's a Never from us. Let us know what you think, Clever or Never?
Moving on to Gadget Number 3. I went to Singapore a little while ago with
James, our eldest. The first thing that I found was this ...
What is it? It is a peeler.
The picture doesn't look like it's peeling. Yeah I'm not sure about that, it might be
a Shredder. Very simple, I guess you just pop it in there
and ... It's not really a peeler it's like a pencil
sharpener. A carrot sharpener. Is it sharp?
That's dangerous. Disappointing.
You could assault someone with a deadly carrot. What is the purpose of this?
I guess you put it in your ... uhhh ... dinner. In your spaghetti.
Ow! Oh no did you cut yourself?
Almost. I think that's on the instructions isn't it.
Since the edge is very sharp please do not touch or play with the blade.
Right, right okay so I guess that leaves you with a little bit of a a little dumpy carrot,
which is okay (crunch!) And a mess of chopped up carrots.
And I reckon that I will use this for spaghetti bolognaise so for me it's actually a Clever.
Let me know what you think in the comments, I think you can guess what I think...
Okay do you have more gadgets in your bag? Yes I do, this is not really a gadget but
it's cute. I saw it in Daiso, it's just an oven mit.
A duck oven mit. What is this?
A Peeking Duck (DADJOKE). You're quacking me up (DAD JOKE2).
If you like a good pun, now would be the time to share it.
And also this one is really cute. So this is actually just a little gadget.
It's not really a kitchen gadget... but James and I were in this market in Singapore and
we came across this funny guy and we just had to buy something.
That funny guy has ripped us off! Maybe it doesn't work with new phones.
Surely... This is also the speaker jack on the new phones
so it's probably different ... do you want to go get your phone?
*Disappears* There you go we'll see if it works on the
other phone. Random singing ... Ann entertaining herself
... Okay so this is James' phone ... it doesn't
work on the newer phones but on this one we plug it in ...
I thought it wasn't going to work then. Check that out!
It's a finger chopper! It's a phone helicopter. I'll let it go...
Nah. What happens if you do put your finger in
it? I think we'll call all of them Gadget Number
3 and go on to Gadget Number 4. I have some sushi gadgets.
Now I know in one of the Clever or Never's before we had a sushi one that made the traditional
sushi rolls but this one I found makes different shaped sushi.
So this one is supposed to make a cube and it's called 'Rice Cube' and this one is supposed
to make a ball and it's called ... Rice Ball.
Yes it is and you're one that you got from Daiso ... mine is called Rice Animal but I'm
going to call it Rice Bear because that's much cuter.
You can use rice you can use cous cous you can mix it up so I'm going to start with just
rice and see how that goes are you going to start with rice on yours?
Alright so it says to open the top and pull this bit back and then fill it up.
I don't think mine has a top so I'm just going to fill it up and squish it down nice and
firm. Once that is full you're supposed to close
the top and then push this bit across so it's kind of squishing the rice. Now we pull this
back out, slide this off and then open the top...
That's cool! And we have a cube of rice, it actually delivers.
Oh my gosh a gadget that does what it says it will do.
How good is Japan? Ohayo Gozaimasu!
I don't think this is from Japan... Surely? Well sushi is from Japan.
I know sushi is, well it's manufactured in China
Everything is... But who invented it, I think ... Australia.
Australia? I'm not joking, someone from Queensland Australia.
Queenslander! Good onya Aussies.
Go Stralya 🇦🇺
Doing well, delivering on what you promised, I like that.
We ready? Let's hope he works, Jedd will love this guy.
Hey! That's pretty good. Can I pick him up, will he stay together?
Aww a little teddy bear, what's the other thing that was in your packet?
Oh it's his little face, see that? Fancy.
I guess I cut it out of nori. If this makes a face I think it's pretty cute
but I am very impressed with this one. While you do that I'm just going to put some avocado
in here. I'm not sure I did that right...
Do I have to wet the nori? No then it will go all soggy if you wet it.
And a little bit of salmon, see how our cube handles having extra ingredients. Okay so
then we'll close the top, slide this off, lift it off and look at that Dave.
What do you think? I'm impressed. I'm impressed with yours, I
like the start of mine, I'm puzzled. Do you want to swap? Do you want to have a
go with this one and I'll see if I can get that to work.
Yep. I wasn't really watching closely.
Have you done the ball? No.
Oh well, I'll have a crack at the ball. What's your favourite Australian saying?
Flat out like a lizard drinking? That is not a saying that I've ever heard
anyone say other than you. Look at that.
Oh look you made a ball of rice. So cool, now that's my mistake because I've
overfilled it. It looks a little bit like the rings of Saturn there ... but that, I
think you would have to admit, is a fairly impressive ball of rice, sushi ball.
Alright let me put that one there... It won't stay.
You're making that so good ... you should start a cooking channel!
The only way I'm getting it to work is I'm pushing on the other side so it's like a ... stencil
... Banksy would be proud. Can you try?
Sure, hand it back to the 'master artist'. And now what you can do apparently is take
a piece of this stuff and wrap it around the cube.
Look at that, it's like a little present 🎁 That's awesome. I'm just going to have to
build a mouth. Should I try the cous cous?
If your country claims to have invented cous cous, let us know because I feel as though
it's from Africa but I don't know about that. Really? I thought it was from Italy because
it is pasta, I'd just assumed but maybe not. Push it across.
Cous Cous sounds like an Italian word. Alright let's see if it works with cous cous.
Lift it up, open it up ... oh my goodness, we have a cube of cous cous.
Look at that 💥 My cube of cous cous from out of my hand.
Okay cous cous is not really sticky enough to do it so no cous cous.
How's your teddy bear looking? It is so cute, what do you think the chances
are of me holding it up and it not falling face first?
Let's see... Tadahh.
That is super cute and it is definitely a Clever.
I think Jeddy would like that one so I'm going to give that one a Clever.
These 2, I don't think I would actually make rice balls, I think they're fine, I just don't
love them ... but the cube, I think they look really good, I would use that.
I think that is definitely a Clever! Go Aussies.
And now we should move on to the next Gadget. I did a video that showed different gadgets
for covering a cake in buttercream and getting that perfect straight corner but after doing
that video I had a few comments of people telling me there was another gadget that I'd
never heard of. So I ordered that. It came in this cool packaging, like seriously
these guys understand packaging. It says 'Frosting will never be the same again'.
Loving a little bit of fluffy stuff in there and there it is.
Fluffy stuff :) All recyclable.
Of course recyclable, save the trees, save the dolphins.
Is this an Aussie business, where are they from?
I think this is from America. Proudly made in the USA.
Yes I could tell that one was American, do you know why? Because it cost a fortune to
get it sent to Australia, shipping was a lot. So this is a very expensive way of making
your cake level. Hopefully this gadget does what it says.
You can adjust here how high this piece is so if you have a really tall cake vs a shorter
cake, you can adjust it. So obviously we don't want it that high so I'll move it down a bit.
We'll try that height. I don't really want to do it in case it doesn't
work. Having given such a good shout out...
Just do it, make a mess! Alright so I'm going to put it like that,
I assume. Hold it flat against my cake board. I can already see I don't have enough frosting
at the top. And we're going to spin it ... not looking
great so far but we'll work with it until we get it looking good.
I've got heaps of extra frosting there so I'm going to put that into a bowl and then
you can see here I've got big gaps where I need extra frosting.
You can't add frosting unfortunately if you could add frosting as it went then that would
be a bit of a miracle thing. That would be like one of those robots ... have
you seen those robot piping videos where they pipe the exact amount onto a cake, it's done
in 2 seconds. Yep, they're awesome.
It's nice and straight, I can see that. It's straight I'm just not loving it. I think
because normally when you use a scraper you don't hold it straight, you hold it on a bit
of an angle so all of this that's building up can fill in the gaps.
So it's a bit tricky, I'll try holding it on more of an angle but that's not going to
work with the top of it, it's sort of ruining the top.
Our top is not perfect by any means but our sides are looking good.
I'll use the old spatula and try smoothing out the top a little bit. What do you think
of that Dave? I'm impressed.
It's pretty good. Now who would like to see if Dave can make
a nicely covered cake. Oh come on!
No one! If you hold it on an angle this way...
Oh I see. Then see how that build up of icing, tends
to smooth itself onto the cake which is what everyone using a scraper does.
See how that's now looking good? Is it?
Sweet ... check out this! But see how that's now ruining the top so
that's where I think that's a little bit of a gadget tweak that needs to happen there.
Well if this gadget can make my frosting look smooth then I've got to give it a thumbs up
because that is seriously my first time ever frosting a cake.
And if anyone's ever tried to get a nice straight side with buttercream then you'll know it's
actually quite tricky to do, so that's actually a really good job.
So which one was your favourite gadget out of all the ones that we did today?
I really like the sushi teddy bear, I thought that was really cute for Jedd.
It was cute. I think I preferred the rice cube that was
call. The pro froster was good, just needed a little
bit of a design tweak to make it a little bit better.
Some of them were terrible though so let us know in the comments, just put a 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 like that and put a thumbs up for Clever and a thumbs down for Never.
I might even put a poll in the top corner so you can vote for which one was your favourite
gadget today. Click here for the other Clever or Never videos,
here for my cake decorating videos and here Chocolate.
Make it a great week and I'll see you all on Friday.
Bye. What did you think of the pro froster?
Not bad. It was pretty good hey.
You frosted like a pro. Uh huh.