Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and this is ... Dave Reardon ... and I
thought it was time for another clever or never which is where we get a whole
bunch of gadgets and test them out to see if they are indeed clever or
if you should never buy them. So let's start with one Dave you picked up. It's something
very special got it at a garage sale or a yard sale. What is it? This is a potato chip maker
or a french fry maker ... it looks like it might have seen better days. Made in about 1950s
when potatoes are smaller. We'd better chop it. Okay this is a -1 already.
no yeah we have to chop it. No it's not
this device's fault that potatoes
have grown larger in the last 50 years. Okay so your put it in and you put
it up against the edge here like this and then you're magically ... oh! Did you test this? No I never
tested it before. Oh. Maybe you do need a really little potato ... and go
oh it works now that's pretty cool don't try and pull it out let's
just put another one in see if that pushes it through.
There you go, now it's actually working really well. Right let's do a race. Go!
Wait! Why do I have to wait? Yours is going to be much faster because you've done a whole potato and I've only done half.
I think you actually do win although my fries are gonna be long slender fries and show
me the last fries you put through ...
But everybody loves the last little chip. I do actually go for the crispy little ones.
I think it's clever. Thumbs up for yard sales! Okay on to
gadget number two. I have a cake server it got a bit squashed in the mail as you
can see the box is rather squashed now this promises to slice and carry it
over to my plate. So much promise! So much promise I haven't tried it I've
prepared two cakes... one single layer and then if it passes that the double layer
so we can see how it goes. Predictions? Not a chance!
Okay let's try with this one so I'm going to cut. It cuts through the cake
that's a good start we'll see how we go ... oh oh ... will it drop it?
It actually worked. I eat my words and my cake. It is a bit of a rounded slice.
Instead of exactly straight but it's alright. Should I do it on the
bigger cake? I'm interested I'm curious now. All right let me see go around the
strawberries, turn it so you can see. okay we'll push down it's very good for
portion control they're very skinny slices it's not very sharp so it's
compacting the cake. We've got it, now can it take it out?
I might have to give it a finger to help here we go. Oh it actually did, now can it
loosen the cake and let it go? I think it's gonna fall let's just put it on its
side. What are you gonna give it? I'm gonna give it a clever because
it works. It did work but I'm just never gonna use it because a knife
is easier. Gadget number three ... gadget number three, I have right here we
bought this one in Paris. It's a fork! The purpose of this fork is to surreptitiously just steal
food from the other side of the table without anybody noticing. Oh where did that
strawberry go!? It's like a Troom Troom video ... want to steal your friend's strawberry?
Is that clever or never? So clever, thanks Paris! Culinary center of the universe. I'm struggling to
give any of these gadgets a clever but that one kind of gives a laugh
and I think that was the purpose of it so I'm gonna give it a clever. Either
or the purpose is retrieving things that you've dropped just out of reach.
Backscratcher? No. Unhygienic!
Moving on to gadget number four. I have this thing contraption which actually
cut circles, now at home I already had this contraption that cuts circles so I
thought we'd put them to the test against each other and see which one's
better. Bags this one. You want this one? Alright so we have a sheet of
store-bought puff pastry, what we're gonna do is cut the as many circles as
you can out of it using your cutter and I will do the same.
I've chosen a cutter that's about same size really as always we have not
pre-tested these gadgets before filming so no promises of what's
going to happen. I'm pretty sure mine will cut a circle. Are you ready?
get set, go! Mine's not a perfect circle after starting too close to the edge. oh wow
look at yours go! Hang on I've got to speed up here.
Did you press hard enough to peel the pastry off in between? Sure.
This one actually cut well enough
to do it in between. Yeah I'm not sure if this is a bit blunt. You reckon?
the metal cutter is blunt or you just didn't press hard enough. Do you
think we should swap? Please no! You can do this one really well you just have to
push hard and go like that. Tell me when you're ready ... go ... you've already started
you cheater. You're doing really well Ann.
Right now can you move the pastry from around the outside? That is the real test to see
whether it actually cut. Yes Wow. The key with a circle cutter is just
to push and give a little wiggle. Mine is working. Your's worked too.
yeah it's a clever definitely clever. On to gadget number ... unknown. Five five okay
so I have baked these little puff pastry circles and just put some Chantilly
cream in between them and I think they need some strawberries on top which
should work well for your gadget which is which is a strawberry cutter. Which
yes you could use a knife for but I'm assuming this is gonna be more evenly
perfect and fast so I hope so here we go. Dave is gonna decorate these
desserts with strawberries using the gadget that he cannot get open out of
the packet. Speaking of knives I'm gonna need a knife. Let me get you one. Knife.
Alright do we take the green off? I would hull the strawberries. Hull the strawberry.
I'm gonna move this so everyone can see. My hulling skills.
Your slicing gadget. Look at this. You didn't even look. Have we got a beautiful strawberry
or mashed strawberry? Beautiful strawberry! Don't cut your finger on
the blade. Beautiful. Beautiful? Beautiful slightly mashed I'm not convinced.
I'm going to do another one and then I'll do these two. Do you think it'll look different when
you do it? Yeah. Cuz you're the world famous pastry chef. I just wouldn't mash
the strawberry. I'm not doing with the gadget I'll do it with a knife. Well
in that case I don't take it personally.
No I don't think it'll look any different if I do it with the same gadget. I think if I look at it I've got
more control. Right so you can do it, that does look a lot neater. Move it. Oh that is actually
very neat. And then you Wow you did that Thanks, thanks very much.
That is actually pretty cool I am thinking that it should actually get it
clever. We got a lot of clevers today. yeah moving onto
number six. It is something to do with lemons
it is this little thing that according to the directions on the back which are
not in English but it has a picture this screws in to the top of the lemon and
then you spray it onto salad or wherever else you want your lemon juice.
Screw this in ... this is certainly not that easy. Lot of juice in there, that's a good sign then I assume
this will screw back on. Alright so it supposed to look like that then you
come along and you go okay I'd like some lemon juice on my salad please. I'd like
some lemon juice on my salad please. And you give it a spray ... nothing it might
just be coming through the pump. Hey! a little bit ... lots ... look at that.
It's dripping lemon. Maybe it needs to be upright to spray you know how
some spray things need to be upright to spray. Maybe we need to squeeze the lemon
Lemon juice is coming out of the lemon. Who knew?
Whoever knew where lemon juice came from? Okay I'm verging on never but it could be
user error so let's um ... no I'm just verging on never. Gadget seven
fits on any smooth bowl creates an airtight seal. No! Safe in high
temperature, look at that. Whoa!
How long for is my question. Long enough. All right let's see is it gonna
hold for very long? let's count, well just let me get a good seal. okay let's see
hey that's pretty cool ... three four five ... eight ... twelve seconds!
I knew that was gonna happen but it still gave me a fright. So do you reckon it does
actually seal it though in the fridge because that feels like it's so flimsy
on there. I don't know, well it must make it good seal because it is able to lift it
up. But that's when your that's when you're pushing down to you like
compressing the air and they're creating a vacuum and then trying to extend it up
but when it's just on there relaxed is it a good seal or is it not?
Has it got gaps in there where it's letting air in? I'm gonna put this to
further testing over a few days compare something that has plastic wrap versus
something that has this and see which one stays fresher longer. Are you just
gonna give it a clever straight out? No I I'm very big on science.
So wait till the end of the video whether we decided clever or never for
that one because I'm not sure. This next gadget is the smallest one that we have
ever had on clever or never. And yes because I have an orange in
front of me you can tell it is for helping you peel an orange so you put it
on your finger like a ring and then you run it around the orange and peel off
the orange peel so I thought to test it fairly like we do with all the gadgets
we'd have race and you can see if you can peel the orange faster or if I can
peel the orange faster. Are you ready? I was born ready.
On your marks, get sets, go!
It goes all the way around and then around my finger. I reckon I've got this.
Oh but maybe you're just strong and it was brute strength. Maybe. Maybe you're just amazing.
Yeah I think that that was much quicker the way you did it. Maybe I
shouldn't have cut the whole thing maybe I should just use it to start but then
it seems a bit of a useless gadget. Hmm imagine that. Oh I so wanted it to
be clever but I think it's actually gonna be a never. At least it doesn't
take up much room in your gadget drawer though. Alright moving on to the next one
you have two gadgets what are they? I've got a silicon skull and I think
this is like an egg separator. Do you even need to separate them to do the
skull or not? How would I know? Well it's your gadget. I assume the yolks with the yolks go in the eyes.
would that be cool? That would be cool!
So maybe see if you can crack it
straight in right I'll give it a crack on the George Foreman you know that I
had a friend who badly hurt he's put on a George Foreman grill. How? Well his
name's Michael Scott and he burned it Michael Scott as in from The Office? yeah.
Today I got up I stepped on to the grill and I clamped down on my foot. Oh no it's not in
the eye. Oh dear I think we should quickly move
this and you should use the separator. Right do you want me to hold it?
Sure. Team effort. Team Reardon!
Do you want to take over? Oh wow, did that go through or did you tip it out? It went through.
Let's watch a slow motion replay.
Oh surprising result! I don't know if it went through or not, you do clearly :)
It's the evil eye! all right straight on in ... there's a bit of egg shell.
okay so now I've just got to wait we'll get rid of the excess around the teeth
now we just have to wait and see what happens. I'm gonna freeze frame let's see
if we can do it Ready Steady Go wow that was quick
should we see if we can get it off yes
there we go that's pretty cool yeah getting a clever. gadget number
eleven is an old one I've never had one of these as a kid did you have one? I
think we did I think we had one of those is it you you're one of those families I
was jealous of when I was little because I went to a friend's house and they had
one of those now that that is so cool but we never had one. Now it comes with
all these different discs which I'm throwing on the floor clearly. Which one do you
wanna try? This one yeah let's try the snow petal.
Chuck it in there, put this on. Does it need two?
yeah okay two squeezes. Ooh that look like ... a mollusk.
Liquorice or pasta. That's pretty cool yeah enough playing we'll bake those up
for the kids and they will enjoy them this one definitely gets a clever
because this good fun to play with and it actually works it actually functions
as promised so Ithink that's a definite clever, what do you reckon? I
think so I think the old-school gadgets are working for us. Now back to check in
on number seven. I put thin snakes of fondant into three bowls I covered one
with the silicon strawberry cover one with plastic wrap and left the other one
open. One day later and the uncovered one was drying out as you would expect and
starting to go quite hard it just snaps if you try and bend it. The one covered
in plastic wrap was also quite dry and fragile it wasn't as dry as the first
one but it was still quite crumbly. Now for the one with the silicon lid ...wow
that's actually softer than both of the other two it's actually quite
surprisingly still soft. Let me show you look at that you can still bend it
without it breaking... it's definitely airtight that answered
that question and because it's thicker than a plastic wrap it does a better job
of keeping the fondant from drying out so it's keeping the moisture in the bowl.
That's a clever for sure well that's enough from us for clever or never, I'd
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