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- Wait, do you start with the button pushed?
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- Today we're answering the age old question,
Jordan, should you use a knife?
- We're gonna find out.
We're gonna compare the knife to
a lot of these contraptions that are trying to replace it.
- So you do not need a slicer, just get a knife.
Why?
- [Woman] I love this grape slicing tool--
- Why do you need to slice grapes? Just eat the grapes.
Strawberry de-what?
- So, Jordan, I got us some of the exact gadgets
that were in the video.
Let's start with the banana slicer.
Slicing a banana is so easy. (chuckling)
You can do it with a spoon.
You can do it with a butter knife.
You could do it with the side of a yogurt container.
So, I'm never like, "Oh, this is so dangerous.
"I need something to help me with it."
- You sacrifice the versatility of a knife
for maybe it slicing faster?
But I don't even know.
How much faster is it going to be?
One, two, three.
- Okay, didn't smash the sides.
- [Jordan] Boom.
And then to get it out, you just, I tapped mine out.
If you were putting this on a platter or something,
then you've got brayed edges
that are not going to be as good
as if you were cutting it on a knife.
But, if you were doing this for yourself,
then yeah, I guess it's working
and it saves you about two seconds.
- I don't know how much time you save.
'Cause I think cutting a banana is incredibly easy.
I'm just gonna, let's just try it for the same effect.
(cutting board clanking)
And I'm done.
- Yeah, hard to beat a knife on this one.
Hard to beat a knife.
- This is definitely whack.
I hate this.
- Yeah, banana slicer, this is pretty whack.
(whooshing)
- Next test is the zip slicer.
So, this is for cutting small spherical foods
perfectly in half.
So let's fill up the tube with our grapes.
Oops. Oh.
I'm so uncoordinated that I literally missed one.
- I can fit eight of them in here.
How many do you have in there?
- I have 10.
Maybe they're a little too small.
These are very uneven slices.
Can you, you see that?
- I've got some sides that are this thin
and then some sides that are this thick.
- Yeah.
- If for some reason you're making a very large fruit salad
and you're gonna be making a ton of grape tomato
or a ton of grapes that you need to sliced,
then I guess it makes sense to be able to do 10 at a time.
But even so, a serrated knife,
might be just as good.
- Do you want me to show you the lid trick?
So you line up one lid with a bunch of grapes,
take the second lid,
put it on top, upside down.
You're just gonna saw all the way across.
Done.
And now we have perfectly cut in half grapes.
- I think we're O for two right now.
I'm thinking this is equally whack.
- This is whack.
Doing the two lids.
That's a hack.
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- Strawberry de-what?
Strawberry de-what?
- (chuckling) Seems like something from a SCIFI movie
that you would use to remove someone's brains.
- Well, we're removing the strawberries brains.
The huller, you twist it in
and then you push this release
and it drops it out. (laughing)
- Okay, wait.
Do you start with the button pushed?
- Did you pull the leaves off?
- Nope.
We're gonna try this again
because apparently this is not so easy
that an idiot can do because I am failing.
Okay.
- Mine worked really well.
- Do you get to save a lot more
than if you were the type to, just for speed sake,
hack off the top of the strawberry,
which is what I find myself doing pretty often?
And also good for a really neat look.
If ever you are doing this for aesthetics--
- Yeah so, I just did one.
I made a tiny hole with a big knife.
It was doable, but I wouldn't wanna do that
with a bunch of strawberries.
And it was a little bit scary with my big knife.
So I like it.
I wanna say hack?
(choir singing)
- I will give it a reluctant hack as well.
(choir singing)
I think the strawberry huller was the one
that we would have guessed might've been
the most useful out of the three.
- And now we have a lot of fruit
for a delicious fruit salad. (laughing)
- Yeah, yogurt and granola on deck.
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