Hello folks it is barry welcome to my virgin kitchen hope you are well loads of you guys
have been asking for ever since time began for food hacks, kitchen hacks whatever you
want to call them here are 5 attempts at food hacks.
Lets go.
Number one hulling a strawberry using a straw.
This is quite a simple concept you take a standard drinking straw and insert it through
the buttocks of a strawberry and remove the hull so you hull the strawberry I have a food
gadget that does this really well but the straw did indeed work and my kids found it
amazing too.
It is not working, oh my gosh, what are you doing, you are just stabbing a strawberry
well chloe was kind of making holes in it but it is a pretty good food hack that one,
so hulling strawberries with a straw does work.
Number 2 separating an egg with a plastic bottle I have done this before with many different
food gadgets but by finishing off a bottle of water from a plastic beverage containing
device you can apparently separate an egg yolk so we gave this one a try.
Water bottle, egg, well that one is a bit funny so we will go for that one, huh!
Oh my gosh it has worked, what do you think chloe, good, and we just put it in there,
wow you did not try the other one, shall I try the other one?
And again quite a success there and chloe was quite keen to use the fish egg separator
wahey squeeze it out, squeeze, there we go.
Many egg separating gadgets are available I have reviewed a lot of them.
Number 3 watermelon on sticks, the concept of this one is slicing a watermelon, haha
lengthways then back on itself which does look kind of cool but as you begin to do it,
it wants to blossom like a flower and that is what happened oh no.
Do not worry.
But by the end we did not really mind and could insert the sticks into our watermelon
and it did work it is just the fact that we just all sort of hate watermelon in this house.
Number 4 slicing multiple tomatoes at once, the concept of this food hack is that your
life is so busy you cannot slice a cherry tomato individually but there are gadgets
that do it, but what you do is get one plate pour tomatoes onto it place another plate
on top, slice horizontally the first time I did it I used one of my standard kitchen
knives and it was sharp but just not biting.
But then I tried it with a serrated bread knife and boy did that slice through like
a knife through butter of cherry tomatoes in this case and wow we have halved tomatoes
pretty good but I do not like raw tomatoes, do you boston?
It works.
Number 5 mango peeler I forgot what this one was supposed to be so I got Mrs Barry to help
me something about peeling a mango or something.
Use a glass as an easy way to peel a mango, I do not think that is going to work, only
one way to find out.
It is done lengthways like that, no it is not, do not think it matters which way you
cut it, ok, you cannot cut through the core, you have to take the side off, this seems
like a lot of effort, look try and cut, yeah that is the thing you have to go around the
core, slice the sides off of it, and you just told me to stop, there has got to be an easier
way, no you are going through the top bit, you are going too near the middle that is
why it is tough you want the soft bit, there is a core running through the middle of a
mango, you are trying to rip it off, no because you are squishing it, I am trying to get it
off, how else do you get it off, you would not eat that bit anyway it is too hard, I
do not think I am doing this right, just cut the soft bit go around the core, just cut
the soft bit, see I told you, it does not look like that in the picture, that is the
core there right, lets just try it, that is not going to work, what are you doing, that
is the core bit I am peeling the skin, this is the skin I am not peeling the core, oh
I got it, what , look, no you are supposed to scoop it out, peel a mango look but he
has slices, no he is peeling the skin off you still have to get past the naughty bit
in the middle I know you are peeling a mango that is all it says, not doing this right,
can we just use a peeler, he has a thin slice like that, look lets get a thin slice, he
has not even got any skin on his anyway, he is not peeling his anyway, yeah he has look
he scoops it off, with a little glass in lets take a little bit so maybe what this guy is
doing, like this through there, try that.
Oh actually yeah I think you are right penny dropped I do not say that very often there
we go that is what you do, well I cannot afford another mango right now we do not get them
very often but yeah, that makes a lot more sense, fair to say we had quite the discussion
over that mango one as you may have seen there we nearly got divorced over a mango can you
believe that it would have been a pretty interesting story I guess it kind of worked but there
are much easier ways to do that just peel it and slice it, just do that please, so that
is 5 kitchen hacks for you to try out with a variety of success you guys have sent loads
more in the past so thought I would chuck a quick video together to show you if you
have any other food hacks you want to see leave a message or suggestion below do not
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there are no lens in these but, yeah, see ya.