- Welcome to Kitchen Gadget of the Week,
a segment that may or may not actually be of the week,
you know, there's nothing like reassurance, is there?
Truth be told, I have done lots
of kitchen gadget videos in the past
and some of them, as has been welcome,
is I haven't given them a fair crack
of the kitchen gadget testing whip,
so I plan to delve into it more, like,
some of them might be 20 seconds long,
some of them might be 20 minute epic, directors cut styly
and hopefully that's cool with you.
Let's also take into account
one of my most popular videos ever
was when I just reviewed a banana corer,
a banana corer that does not even have a core,
a banana doesn't have a core,
I don't know what that was, I still called it a core,
because I felt like a banana had a core,
that was why I did that.
Also, throw into the mix the fact
that I've got tonnes of kitchen gadgets still to review
and I just wanna get rid of them in a steady process,
I went live on YouTube the other day just testing it out,
it worked a charm, thank you to everyone, that watched that,
I plan to review a gadget every week hopefully
and then like literally give it away, that actual gadget,
maybe a day or two later on a Live Stream,
I just don't know how to do it,
maybe I'll just do like random MVK trivia,
I actually don't know, so you can tell me
if this is a thing.
Today we are looking at the Micro-Pop Popcorn Popper,
cha-ching, can you see that alright there?
Lush, this is made by a company called Ecolution,
which I think was a nightclub I went to in my teenage tears,
Cook Well, Do Good is their tagline right there,
which is a good motto in life,
Cook Well, Do Good,
Cook Well, Be Good,
Cook Well, Be Good.
- What?
Cook Well, Be Good?
What you on about? (laughs)
- [Barry] Sorry, it's Cook Well, Do Good.
- Cook Well, Do Good,
oh-oh, watch out for the cannon ball. (laughs)
- We're having it explode, whoa!
- It's got temperature-safe glass, piece of mind,
dishwasher-safe, of course, of course I use the dishwasher.
- This is the dishwasher,
you could try using it sometime, you know. (laughs)
- Alright. (laughs)
And a dual function silicon lid,
that measures the kernels and melts the butter,
that's like two things at once, I can't do that
and hopefully it's not just a Barry thing,
I can't do it, I can't do it.
How many things can you do at once?
- Two.
- That's good.
(laughs)
So why is this good?
Well apparently, it will pop the popcorn
without any oil or butter needed,
so it's kind of like healthy popcorn, that's good,
it's popping-tastic, pop-alicious,
pop-pop-poparooney, pop's your uncle.
Apparently another feature is the fact,
that it's Movie Night Snack Size,
well for me, when I'm having a movie night,
I want a bucketload of popcorn
and also I fall asleep anyway,
but I want a lot of popcorn and I will eat it all.
What does it replace?
Well, it replaces cooking popcorn in a pan, right,
in a saucepan, which is actually really, really easy
and I've done a few recipes on the channel,
which you should check out, if you want to, be a love
and it also replaces those microwave bag, poppy things,
which spin around and do actually burn quite a bit,
actually one of the first things I ever cooked,
when I was a teenager
was one of those microwave popcorn bags
and it just, it stank.
So what do the punters say?
Let's have a look at a good and bad review and opinion.
"I can't live without my Popcorn Popper,
"it makes the best." in capitals,
you know someone's serious when it's in capitals,
"My only complaint is this is my second one,
"because it is made of very fine glass
"and boy, does it break easy,
"if you aren't very careful washing it,
"I hit mine on the faucet and hence, got a second,
"however, I love it,"
that makes it sound like she actually struck it
on the faucet, what is a faucet?
Genuinely forgotten what a faucet is.
I just Googled what a faucet is and it's a plane,
look, no wonder she broke it,
she smashed the Popcorn maker on a plane,
but she still gave it five stars, nice one, Jan.
One on the negative side with the tagline,
"This is awful," by Nature Nut,
"as a corn popper," is that his job?
"Hi, I pop corn,"
"this makes a nice fishbowl."
(dynamic band music)
"It sure doesn't work for me
"and for all the reasons other reviewers mentioned,
"who also gave this product one or two stars.
"It's back to the air popper for me,
"this one's a real waste of my money
"and yes, I tried all different times and powers
"to try and make it work."
Sorry to hear that, Nature Nut,
incidentally, I do have an air popper upstairs,
it's in the gadget conveyor belt to review.
What other uses are there?
Well, here's two ideas,
one, you could use it as an instant filter for your dog
to make them look like they're an astronaut
or you could use it as a seashell,
ahh, I can hear the waves, legitimately this seashell thing,
oh, you can hear the sea, that is exactly it,
I can..
smell popcorn.
Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion,
but as a lot of Amazon sellers
use my name to endorse their product,
thank you to everyone that's sending me the links,
Endorsed by Barry Lewis, I don't even know these people,
alright, they're just, they're just doing it,
if you're gonna do that, that's fine,
but help me out, bit of cash machine, yeah?
Woo!
I headed out to the shops to get my pop on.
Alright, this is my rustic dog walking look,
I've literally just finished walking the dogs,
it's a horrible day, it's raining
and I am gonna go and get some popcorn kernels,
these kernels gotta stand to attention.
Here we go.
That's what we need,
stand to attention, kernel, nice.
I was getting some funny looks in the shop,
'cause I look like a Smurf with my hat,
I don't mind, you know, the corn is here, I'm so corny,
you are lucky, this guy's lucky,
he's not gonna be just any old corn,
you're gonna be gadget corn.
(laughs) Oh my gosh, look at that, it's like a big teapot,
better give it a quick wash, you know.
Fill the silicon lid with popcorn kernels to the Fill Line,
okay, this is my liddy thing and there's a line.
(pouring corn kernels)
That'll do, I think, seems pretty good.
(pouring corn kernels)
Optional, add desired amount of butter or margarine
to the silicon lid, so literally in here,
the perforation lid allows the butter or margarine
to melt onto the popcorn, butter is not necessary,
you butter believe I'm gonna do that one as well.
So this is the critical thing, as far as I can see,
it is not telling me the standard wattage of the microwave,
mine is an 800 watt microwave, as many of you know,
I tell you that a lot.
Heat the first batch for two minutes, 30 seconds
on subsequent batches, time may be added,
until the popping slows to two seconds apart.
So that's how many are in there,
let's do it.
(beeping microwave)
Do you think it's gonna work?
I don't know, here we go, right, let's grab it,
♪ Da da da da da ♪
Two minutes 30.
(beeping microwave)
Noises are happening, I just heard a psst,
this is a Snapchat territory.
(whirring microwave)
Smells like the cinema in my microwave,
it does, guys, honestly, it does.
This is great.
(whirring microwave)
I'm gonna take it out early.
(gasps) Oh my gosh, look at it.
Ooh crikey, I'm scared to touch it,
'cause everyone said the glass was so hot,
yeah, that's hot.
This shouldn't be hot though, this handle,
oh no, it's not, look, popcorn.
Ah-ah, it's hot, ooh!
Come on, out you come, oh, a few unpopped kernels,
it did warn about that.
(pouring popcorn)
Popcorn, oh yeah.
(pouring popcorn kernels)
Uh.
(pouring popcorn kernels)
You're gonna go all over my popcorn, mate.
(beeping microwave)
The butter is actually raining down on our popcorn.
(thudding of corn popping)
Look at it go, that's crazy.
Oh yes!
That smells both buttery and burnt. (laughs)
Well, we butter take your lid off.
(pouring popcorn)
I tell you what, it's worked though,
there is no burnt popcorn, I don't see any.
It's a little bit like the movie, Gremlins,
when they get water on them,
why does one kernel of popcorn
end up turning into like a whole bowl?
Why can't everything be like that?
Imagine if you clicked your fingers (clicks fingers)
and then another one of you appeared
(clicks fingers) and then another
(clicks fingers) and then another,
really bad Wayne's World reference,
I don't even know how I'm going to edit that.
This thing actually worked a charm for me,
no broken glass, Nature Nut would be upset with me,
tastes amazing!
Don't take my word for it though,
take the word of some expert popcorn tasters.
♪ Popcorn cam, popcorn cam, popcorn cam ♪
- Mm.
It's got a,
mm.
(laughing)
popcorn cam, popcorn cam.
- Ooh, smells amazing.
- [Barry] It's popcorn, it always smells amazing,
well, unless you've burned it, then it's like horrible.
- Oh yeah.
Ooh, nice.
- [Barry] You like it?
- Mm.
(jaunty orchestral music)
- Jeez, wow, nearly bit me hand off.
Well, I think that answered that question, didn't it?
In conclusion then, should you get this gadget?
Yes, you jolly well shall, I think you should.
If you wanna get it, I'll earn 2p or something like it,
if you click a link down below in the description,
I'm gonna go Live and give this actual one away,
I'm not even gonna wash it,
so you can have the actual stains from my house,
(laughs) that sounds wrong.
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and then you can laugh about it over a coffee and popcorn.
Seriously though, thanks for watching
and if you've seen any other cool gadgets,
let me know what they are down below
and I'll work my way through them, cheers, kernel.
(upbeat pop music)
Ugh!