This is a behind the scenes video today we are not really going anywhere its ok do not
worry. Hello everyone it is barry here welcome to my virgin kitchen hope you are well today
we are testing some more kitchen gadgets, we have 3 today we have got the can colander
very excited by this one, we have got stir crazy, which is a hands free stirring thing,
which I think is going to be really weird, and also some of you guys have actually started
sending me kitchen gadgets which is amazing thanks so much we have this I was not sure
what it was but through the power of social media you guys have told me it is a microwave
crisp making bowl thing so we will have fun with that. Something I just want to say about
this gadget video I get some comments that say that is so pointless and what a load of
rubbish but yeah we do have some fun doing these videos and there are some that are awful
but there are others for me like the spiralizer the apple spiralizer that is amazing and it
has changed our life we make so many apples now and you have to remember there are people
with disabilities and stuff like that so things like opening tins they cannot do that so these
gadgets maybe help like that so maybe just have a little think about that before commenting
cheers. First thing we are going to look at by progressive
is this can colander I am super excited about this I think it is going to be really useful
actually, basically as it says it is a colander for tin cans and there is the example on the
back there with a tin of tuna which incidentally I do have and the last video recipe I did
was chocolate hummus which I think when I drained off the chickpeas for that it would
have been really awesome so I think I am going to use this one like it and keep it. So lets
bring you in a little closer and we will try it out, just removed it from its shackles
it may come in different colours I do not know if it does or not but it is rock hard,
I was thinking it was going to be more flexible and and bendy, but no rigid. We have a tin
of chickpeas and a tin of tuna here, lets try it in this bowl. Oh great already made
a spillage I will open both tins so I have an amazing fishy chickpea smell in the kitchen
that is not a smell I want in here right now so I will woft it down the microphone. Ok
so for tuna place the colander into the can and press down to drain other cans flip the
can colander over and place over the top of the can, so there is two different version
here, so for tuna there we go push in like that and press down you can see the fluid
wanting to come out, oh yeah. I am squeezing really hard with that, this is really useful
I think, real big squeeze there getting the guns on show. We are left with a tuna water
there but more importantly look our tuna is there this is an amazing gadget but lets try
it with the chickpeas too that stinks. There is the diagram for the tuna and the
tins as I say we do the opposite so put it on so the tin is like this so it has a lovely
fish residue too and then we turn it over our bowl oh my gosh. Is it me or is that amazing
can you hear that we can shake it up, apart from one chickpea trying to escape quick run
for your life chickpeas there all drained and we are left with chickpea tuna inspired
water love that gadget. Incidentally speaking of gadgets I love I have been approached by
a company to create my own kitchen gadgets but I would only do them of the ones I do
love and probably put them together in a set of four or five let me know if you would be
interested in that and perhaps I will give you more news on that in future. This next
gadget is called stir crazy automatic hands free sauce stirrer amazing sauces can be stirred
automatically leaving you free to do other things like watch it get stirred when you
could just be stirring it, high quality soft touch handle stir crazy works continuously
infusing more flavours now I am not going to go crazy with this or make a roux anything
like that I am just going to stir some soup I believe it needs some batteries because
I did get some these are energizer ones but other brands are available just get this box
open it does not feel that well packaged but none of these packages ever do, it is like
the longest instructions in the world it is Spanish this side but before using stir crazy
ensure the legs are fully pushed into the motor stir crazy works best used in a non
stick pan some splashing may occur, I love how they are putting that in there it probably
goes everywhere or it may just do nothing leave stir crazy in the pan until you reach
the stop position to avoid spraying sauce off the legs that sounds wrong, stir crazy
has 3 speed settings its lowest speeds are suitable for lower speeds and to avoid splashing
higher speeds work best for thicker sauces if this works you will probably see it in
future videos stir crazy should not be left unattended I love how there is this vision
of it escaping in the night when you are asleep like what was that, do not worry it is just
the stir crazy alright ok so this is basically it that feels a bit strange big old power
switch on the top right there white thing which looks like it slots into this thing
does not really want to join it very well there is a bit of a gap there and these are
our stirrer things what is that like a wing for it I think I need to put the batteries
in first so lets do that ok batteries go in this bit here it is very cheap looking lets
press the power button see if it works it works. So these are the three setting it goes
from low medium to high speed it is weird because if you are in low speed you want it
low but you have to get it to high speed to turn off I guess you do not take it out but
it goes low medium high it is a bit like a head massager lets try it out he is wondering
what it is too, he is freaked out by it, unless he can smell the chickpeas and the tuna.
Rather than using a saucepan to show it working I am using a shallow frying pan and a chunky
soup so lets get that in there oh yeah hopefully you will be able to see it moving around and
stuff I could just do it cold but by heating it up it will make it a little more manouverable
so lets stick this in the soup and press the power button you see that, got to say that
it is sort of working it is sort of working I just feel like I want to help it though
but it is defeating the point of it really lets put it on medium speed, getting a bit
crazier, someone is at my door I am just going to leave the camera rolling I think it is
the postman hang on I will just leave this to keep going
yeah that was the postman he was a lovely postman hope this one has been going alright oh it is my new microphone I
have been talking about lets see how it goes, and that is the high speed setting to be honest
guys if you want to be lazy when it comes to cooking this is pretty much the gadget
for you but it does look a little biased so my conclusion with this is it is not as bad
as it could be it is working like a bumper car and bumping off the sides of the pan it
is pretty fascinating to look at, but just stir.
Now this is a gadget I was sent in from you guys and if you want to send in random gadgets
do get in touch, at first someone suggested it may be a pie shaper but you guys did work
out that it is for microwaving and making your own crisps and the heart shape in the
middle you can do dips and put stuff in the middle there. Just before we do that some
shoutouts to my 4 social media handles I love the best Twitter Taylor hole hello taylor,
facebook Melissa hole hi Melissa snapchat Alysha lowe and Instagram abbey ghostie so
thanks for following guys and if you do not follow please do for behind the scenes bits
and a shout out so lets make these chips. Here is the bad news whoever sent me this
there is supposed to be a really thin style julienne slicer so you get really thin potato
slices with it I did used to have one of those but mrs barry decided to throw it out so I
am going to get some potatoes slice them nice and thinly then place in the rack. So I am
just thinly slicing some potatoes Vivaldi ones really nice potatoes and this would be
so much easier if I still had my mandolin we will talk to mrs barry about that later
but I am going to get them nice and thin and we will try it out. Just given this a quick
wash and I was tempted to brush in oil as that is what I did in my video years ago but
is says online not to do that but to give it justice I am going to fill this whole rack
up so we put the potatoes in there and we have some slicing to do, there we go theres
something you do not see everyday lets get it in the microwave apparently it needs 6
minutes. Ok 6 minutes does feel like an awful long time so I am going to keep my eye on
it. 2 minutes in a little heat coming out I was expecting to hear sizzling so we keep
going this is an 800watt microwave on high power if you are interested for those microwave
geeks out there press the button its there, 2 minutes left can you smell anything lets
find out, oh wow so again do not know if you saw that bit of steam coming but nothing really
coming in another 2 minutes is needed. Yeah still nothing happening guys yeah so I am
just going to microwave as long as they take I have a real gut feeling I should have used
spray oil and gone with my instincts but the instructions online said no oil baby. Microwave
update it has been ten minutes and I have managed to reheat that soup and eat it in
that time we are starting to get some tinges of brown on the potatoes so I think it is
nearly there, I hope. Just passed the fifteen minute mark and still
waiting for it ok, folks they are done at last check this. It is not too hot but by
letting it stand it has cooled a bit as we can see we have made some crisps so I will
fill my heart areas here with some dip. These little heart areas are really tiny you need
quite a bit more area for that amount of chips really big fan of quacamole so will spread
that over 2 hearts but there we are lets see what they taste like apparently you can also
use it for pumpkin carrot sweet potato and apple which is peace of mind I guess instead
of potatoes so all the root veg dunky dunky dunk it worked. Not kidding guys this has
worked although they have expanded in the microwave , hmmm maybe a little healthier
too as no oil we are just microwaving a potato as it is but you could go to town on it and
rub all different things on it oh my gosh like paprika some of you guys know how much
I love paprika so I wanted to put that out there, there we are then so the can colander
which I think was my favourite the stir crazy and the microwave crisp maker if you have
a fun kitchen gadget you want to send me get in touch via my website or if you have seen�.
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they do get a bit fat, see you next time