Kitchen gadgets can be super fun and quirky, and some are just plain daft. But today
I'm going to recommend some of my favorite kitchen gadgets I just can't live without.
And we're going to start with this microplane grater. You can use it for grating
all sorts of things. It works really well for hard cheese.
It just takes a few passes up and down and we've got a whole heap of lovely fluffy parmesan.
It's brilliant for things like nutmeg, but you do need to be careful with your fingers.
It works really well for ginger with the peel still on, and you can just scrape any
off the back. And it's also a really good zester for lemons and limes. You can also
use is it for grating chocolate, maybe over a desert or into a drink. And because
the cutting blades all face one direction, it's easy to wash. You just wipe it over
with a soapy sponge under some water, then give it a dry and refit the protective
cover, and is really easy to store. Now, here's another one of my favorite gadgets,
this seven and one mandolin food cutter. It comes with quite an array of attachments.
There's this plastic catch tray which feels solid and well-built. It's got these
rubber grips on the base to make it non slip when it's on a surface. And we sit on top one of two things.
First, there's this pusher attachment, it's hinged at the back and opens up.
And there's this kind of spiky plate at the top, which is used for pushing through
the produce. Then just select one of the cutting tools. They are very sharp, so do
be careful and they just clip into the base here and lock in with this slider. To
use it, you just place on your produce and give the top a good sharp push. And hey presto, instant chips or fries.
They're all nice and uniform and you can just put them on an oven tray and cook them with some oil.
If you want to make cubes, you can just drop the potato in half and push them through
like this. It's really nice and quick and you can just change the insert by unclipping
the old one, and place in a different one. It also comes with this fine dicer, if
I test it out with this onion, it shreds it into little bits instantly. That's perfect for cooking.
I pushed through a couple of mushrooms and some courgette and pieces of carrot, and I'll be using this for a stir-fry.
Here's another one of the attachments are ribbon blade spiralizer. You can use it
for things like cucumber. And if you're worried about your hands getting close to
the blade, they also supply a cut proof glove. It's made from a strong polyethylene
fiber and it looks and feels pretty much like a normal glove, but it's actually very
good at withstanding cuts and abrasions. So if you're worried about your hands getting
close to the blades, you can use the glove.
And they also supply you with this spiky grip, and check it out, its cut the whole
thing into this long impressive ribbon, perfect for a display.
There's other attachments to cut long thin strands. And if we place on the mandolin
base, there's different inserts for that one too, like this ordinary greater which
we can use with this clever finger guard, this julienne insert, which gives lovely
matchstick like cuttings or this straight slicer, which I'm using with this apple.
It's quick and simple and gives these beautiful even slices. For cleaning, they give
you this little brush to help get into the tight spots and a little tool for combing out food from the pusher.
And it also comes with a little blade housing caddy to store all the attachments together.
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I used it to chop up a load of potato, carrot, and leek, which I used to make a nice soup.
First i fried them off a little, then added some hot water. Now here's another one
of my favorite kitchen tools, the immersion blender. It's got a nice molded comfortable
hand grip at the top, with this little push button on the other side and is really
good for making sauces or drinks. And if we take a quick look at the blade and the
bottom, you can see it's a little bit like a propeller and that's because it draws
the food into the blade, then pushes out from the back, to keep her circulating.
I'm going to use it to blend up the soup I just made.
Just place it into the pan and it makes really light work of it. And if we take a
closer look, you can see how it draws it down into the blade. And once you're done,
you can just disconnect the bottom part to make it easy to wash, but i also really
like this electric milk frother. Now this one comes with two different attachments,
the frother and a small whisk, and its a rechargeable unit from a USB socket.
It's got three different speed settings and it does actually spin very fast.
So if you want a bit of a frothy milk for a nice cup of coffee, just pour some into
a glass, froth it up, and add it to your drink. You can also use it to help you make
a really nice chocolate milk drink. It mixes all in and froth is it up slightly.
Then just add a little it more milk to bring it to the top.
But if you remove the frother and replace it with a whisk, you can use it for things like beating up an egg.
It's also good for just whisking egg whites or making a dressing. And I really like
the fact it's battery-operated, but USB rechargeable. Next on the list is this garlic
press. Open it up and remove the packaging and we've got the press, a little brush
for cleaning, and this silicon tube. Now this in itself is a handy little gadget.
To use it, we just slide inside a clove of garlic, then roll it back and forward
with your hand. After just a couple of seconds, you can tip it out, and your clothes should be nicely peeled.
That really is super easy. It saves trying to peel it with your fingers and getting it all under your nails.
And i really like this garlic press. It feels nice and substantial and there's nothing
complicated about it. Just sit on top of the garlic and mash it through. If you like
cooking with garlic, I find this gadget really helpful and it's dead simple to clean.
Now here's another one of my favorite gadgets this any sharp world's best knife sharpener.
It feels really well built and there's this lever on the top which activates the sucker
pad base. The idea is we put it down onto the work surface, and suction it down to
hold it firmly in place while we use it. And I'm going to sharpen this knife. But
first of all, I'm going to try a paper test so I can show you just how blunt it is,
rather than cutting the paper, it just tears it. It hasn't been sharpened for years.
So I'll show you how to sharpen a works, you just sit the blade in the cutting groove and draw it backwards like this.
Do it three or four times and that's it.
It should be nice and sharp. Now you can actually see some steel filings here where
it's ground down the blade while sharpening it. And if I try the paper cutting test
now you can see it's done really well. It's cutting the paper now instead of just
tearing it and if I chop up this onion, I can tell it so much sharper than before.
I like it because it's so small and easy to store and it's so quick to use. Now I
also really like this citrus squeeze and mist gadget, its suitable for lemon or lime
juice, and it's a combined juicer and spray bottle.
First let's take a look at the spray bottle.
It's got this pump squirter on the top with a removable cover, and to open it to the
top part just clips off. There's this small filter on the bottom of the pipe to stop
it getting clogged, and it all dismantles to make it easier for cleaning. Now here's
the juicer, it clips on top of the filter tray, then the whole thing clips over the
bottle. So you can probably see how it works, you just take your lemon or lime then go ahead and juice it.
Although this gadget is on the smaller side, it does feel quite solid.
And look you can see it's extracting plenty of juice. And once we unclip it, you can
see I've got about 30ml. That's about six teaspoons or two tablespoons. And once
you're done, you can go ahead and clip on the sprayer. It's a nice small portable
size and I'm giving it a couple of pumps to prime it.
And there we go. Look, you get a beautiful mist of lemon juice, that smells amazing. You can use it
for things like spraying on your salad, a bit like a dressing. Its perfect if you
like some lemon juice on a bit of fish, maybe you like sugar and lemon juice as a
topping on a pancake or you can even use it for cleaning. This stainless steel tap is covered in water stains.
I do get heavy limescale here so I'm giving it a couple of squirts of lemon juice
then leaving it to sit for 5 minutes then wipe it off and check that out is cleaned it all off.
It's like new again! And once you've finish with your lemon sprayer, you can just
place on the pump cover and story the fridge. Now here's another one of my favorite kitchen appliances, digital scales.
These have got a really nice clear display.
Of course you can place a bowl or something on top, then zero the weight again before
you start filling it. You can change the units from ounces, pounds and ounces, grams,
milliliters, and fluid ounces, and its also got a hold button, so you can remove
whatever it is you're weighing, but it keeps the reading for a while so you don't
forget it while you're cooking. I think these scales are a really nice design, but
sometimes, of course they get a bit messy, but some of the key features are like
about these scales are there actually ipx6 waterproof, which means you can get them wet for
cleaning. Although the instruction manual does recommend you just wipe them off with a damp cloth.
And the other thing I really like is it's actually rechargeable. Behind this rubber
plug is a USB-C connector, so it's a nice robust up-to-date port. These traditional
weighing scales do look really nice, but the reality is, when it comes to storing
them, digital scales make life so much easier. Next, I want to show you this.
It's a silicon utensil rest, remove it from the packaging and we've got this really
cool design, brightly colored flexible holder and the idea is it stays on your work
surface next to where you cook, and whenever you're stirring something and need somewhere
to rest your utensil, you just sit it down on here.
It's got this tray behind to catch anything that might fall off, and there's room
for four large utensils. Because it's silicon and flexible, it's super easy to clean.
Even if the food's been left to dry on a little.
You can get it in a whole variety of different colors and it's definitely one of my
favorite gadgets. And while we're looking as silicone utensils, I think this has
got to be one of my other favorites, the flexible silicon spatula. Again its super
easy to clean and wash, but its really versatile. Use it for stirring or beating,
but it really excels when it comes to cleaning out bowls or pans. Because it's flexible,
it just bends to the curvature of this bowl, and it makes cleaning it out a dream.
After all, no one wants to waste cake mixture!
Here's another really cool gadget.
Quite simply, it's a digital timer, but I particularly like this one because it's
quite a decent size, and the displays really easy to see, even from quite far away.
It's actually got two different brightness, which is useful and really large simple
buttons on the top, stop start for the stopwatch, and clear, and hour, minutes and
seconds if you're using it as a countdown timer.
When it gets to zero, it starts beeping and the clock starts to count back up so you
know how much time has elapsed since the alarm went off.
There's two different sound levels, loud or quiet or you can have it so it just vibrates.
And if we take a look at the back, we've got three options for fixing it.
First of all, there's just a stand which pulls out and we can sit on the counter.
If you prefer there's this tab it folds up, which allows you to hang it on the wall.
Or the third option is using these there's four magnets. So if you like, you can stick it to something like your fridge.
And the other thing I really like about this gadget is it's also rechargeable.
This device also comes with a USB-C type connector. Just plug the lead in and the
other end into your USB charger to charge it up. It is really nice not having to
worry about batteries. In this next video our use this gadget to make a square egg
and I also tested out to load of other are gadgets as well. If you'd like to see
them and find out 'Do square eggs have square yolks?' you can click on the link here.
Have fun, stay safe and as always, thanks for watching.