hello and welcome to salted food it's
kitchen gadget time and we've got a very
exciting lineup today we are going to
test review and explore whether any of
these are worthy of a spot in your
kitchen
ebber's our personal chef is in the hot
seat first are you ready so ready
may i
of course i always have mixed feelings
about these come on this is the fun
ebbers oh
fresh out the box
quite quite a good hinge and a great
snap
and i like the engraving of the brand
name
the name gives it away this is the sushi
maker the sushi comes with all you need
to get started on your journey from
humble beginner to master sushi prepper
made completely from clean smooth wood
berry
don't don't die look what you've done
made completely from clean smooth wood
this sushi maker contains a mold for
your sticky rice and filling of your
choosing and a prod to ensure the rice
is evenly pushed in and pushed out can i
make some sushi please oh calls so step
one is to soak the machine or make up
give it give it a dip give it a dip make
sure it's very wet
so you want to pack the rice into the
maker
i'm intrigued to see if this genuinely
does work because i don't make sushi
often so when i do i always mess it up
and think i could have done that better
because i'm out of practice
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that goes on here
we definitely need some pressing
yeah what did there been we didn't wet
it properly i don't know how much wetter
it can be than stuck in water
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squelching
that
a little clumsy but then
if you've ever tried hard on yourself
if you've ever tried to actually roll it
that's quite clumsy too so now we get to
put our filling in now this is a bit for
me that i find very satisfying because
usually i find it very hard to get my
salmon bang in the middle
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oh my gosh wow
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that makes you got a firm grip
oh god and then
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that's how the sausage gets made wow
wow so at this point you could serve it
as is or you could roll it in some
sesame seeds
or you can wrap it in the nori shape
which we've got here let's do that
now you always want to allow the nori
sheet to absorb some of the moisture
from the rice
we could try one more while we wait do
another one
surprisingly satisfying to just see how
it all works and tessellate
it's a great bit of carpentry let's step
behind and get my weight behind it and
then no he's cocked his leg up
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i know about you guys if they came out
of my kitchen
in that consistency i'd be proud if they
came out of your kitchen i would be very
proud and very impressed and quite
questionable about how that happened
they are very uniform
i think as i was cutting them you could
tell they're not quite as tightly packed
i think when i typically roll with a mat
you're kind of pulling it back on itself
and it is a little on the wet side but
but uniformality and simplicity
it absolutely works i was quite
surprised
okay shall we have a stab at the price
i'm going to go
19.99
27 pounds 99
oh okay
fair bit more than i thought if you do
make sushi
often you'd probably have the knack and
not need it but if you've never tried it
and want to get into it it's a good
stepping stone no it does work doesn't
it yeah it works
number two basil lift the cloth okay
a
hexagonal
toasty machine
oh you've gone
for
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i'm sorry
close it i'm scared does this just make
a lot of mini toasties
barry
this is the smart
samosa maker
this samosa maker gives you a way of
making healthier samosas quickly and
easily instead of frying them and making
them oilier than a spa massage this
machine bakes them
it also gives you a way of making
batches up to 24 deep-filled samosas at
once meaning you don't have to spend all
day in the kitchen just to clarify
because sometimes we do need to have
this transparency are they your words or
the manufacturers i they are the
manufacturer's words right i want to
know which spy you can go to and get
massaged in ghee
barry what do you think
first up
grease up my samosa
machine
this bit doesn't tessellate so well
the pre-made
fila pastry
you have to lay on
so that there is the pea and potato
recipe actually from the manual that
we've made for you mate
so already i'm doing it
and the filo is cracking so
traditionally
as i have been told by kush
you would take your um specific
samosa dough you'd roll that out and
then you'd fill that with your
filling and then you'd fold it over in a
triangle shape and then you basically go
up and down and up and down folding it
over into a samosa
they can be deep fried but cushy's mum
actually just brushes them with a little
bit of oil and bakes them in the oven so
this is not too far away how some people
are doing it
well it's quite very it's very far away
isn't it look at it we haven't seen the
results yet but if these work then i'd
be intrigued to try it time and time and
time again with different pastries filo
possibly puff
maybe even some short crust and mix up
the fillings like cheese like feta and
spinach and do kind of that do some
sweet ones we did the bouncy samosas
years ago literally crack a bit of
balance in the middle like job done
basically triangular pastries
so it's been about 10 minutes
i think it's about done the the paler
ones the middle
that's where i double wrapped
which might be why as well
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it's not what i'd expect from a samosa
but something new i'm quite excited by
this
right should we try some yeah they don't
look bad i mean they don't look like
traditional proper samosas but they
don't look
unappetizing cheers
i do the samosa thing they haven't got
the same
plaque and crunch well fido adds a
different texture to it
but it's not bad no i tell you what the
filling which is from the the booklet
tastes delicious
are we doing a terrible thing i don't
know
if someone said to me bad knock up 24
samosas i would
there would be a big sigh and a little
bit of panic sort of fussy maybe putting
together a christmas tree i think
exactly
the admin of making this samosa for me
midweek is a bit too much
with a machine like that
it's really simple and with pre-made
filo it's a wicked hack do you want to
take a guess at how much this cost i'm
going to go and say that is about
46 pounds
turn that six upside down 49. well done
very close
okay
yeah you can get really nice waffle
irons for 100 pounds
um
and that's
slightly low quality but a very specific
use
so 50 quilts alright
and if it was less than that i'd
question how didn't expect this but i
think i might take it home i don't think
that was the offer was it no no no
that's what i said about storing it back
so we can all use it when we walk
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time for number three mike lift the
clutch
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vacuum cleaner
slice the dicer french fry maker
mandolin there it is that's what i was
looking for that's it mike you've
guessed it this is the once for all
multifunctional vegetable slicer with
stainless steel blades manual food
cutter for chef and household once for
all so it's an all-in-one vegetable
chopper which performs perfectly for
slicing stripping julienning and dicing
there's no need to change blades you
just rotate the knobs press the handle
down and you can cut various veggies and
fruits into any shape and thickness that
you want it doesn't feel stable like
well mike that's because you haven't
found the collapsible feature and there
you go look at that now it's sturdy af
okay
cool let's try it
this hasn't been thought through
so on the back there mate you've got
three different knobs you've got a big
one at the bottom
that is your thickness the
two small knobs at the top
will then change the direction of the
blades so that you can have it as slices
you can have it as dices you can have it
as julienne is or batones right let's go
slices of cucumber
you want to make sure your little knobs
all the way around to the left and now
choose your thickness
excellent rhythm
well what's the consistency like it's
very consistent what i'd like you to do
is turn your big knob all the way around
to eight
and then your left knob
turn it 360 lock it back in
that's made the spikes go right out
let's use the potato yeah and make
strips of potato sounds like chips
lads
chips chips mate i did want chips but
i'm also now a little bit hungry for
like parmentier potatoes
so for this we need to start with thick
slices so you're going to want to turn
your left hand knob all the way back
around again 360 degrees lock it in
you've already got the big knob on the
thick slice a one a two a one two three
four
you can put your slices
back in
and you're going to want to rotate your
left knob
the ferocity of the spring like coming
back out flicks these forward watch
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hallelujah earlier
once for all you you're not going to get
like a perfectly
diced dice as if you were to trim the
edges off make a square and actually do
it by hand yourself i mean but look this
reminds me of like a sofrito uh let's do
a carrot
and let's julienne
yes
oh okay
so i think the thing with all of these
types of machines and we've tested
multiple of them in the last few years
they've been the backbone of our
advertising revenue let's be honest um
it does depend a lot
usually on the shape of your vegetable
or whatever it is that you're trying to
chop but when you get it right
this seems to work
normally they're absolute dog crap but
i'm pleasantly surprised can you see
yourself using something like this at
home
for things that require good
presentation or bulk
mostly i can actually imagine myself
using it here in battles like genuinely
to speed up like the time trials it will
make things quicker like bigger bigger
portion sizes doing stuff in bulk i
genuinely would use it for those things
u3 might also need it for your next
shift in modeli
i heard that got shut down by the
environmental agency
so let's talk price how much do you
think we paid for the once for all
multi-functional vegetable slicer
do you know like this isn't the type of
gadget that strikes me that you'd buy
from amazon i'd imagine getting it from
something like a lakeland or like a
shopping
store and i therefore would say 25
pounds i'm not sure i pay more than 25
pounds okay well we bought this from
amazon
for
27 pounds 59 pence
again
if you can see a use for it i think
you'd get 27 pounds worth of usage out
of it if you were going to use it it
would be a waste of that money if you
bought it because you thought you'd use
it and you never did
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garbage i can't wait to lift the clutch
on this one
what could it be i've had a lot of fun
today but it's about to get more fun
oh
it looks like a coffee machine
except
you don't get this bit on a coffee
machine tell me that this is what i
think it is
this is indeed phillips the perfect
draft keg machine yeah come on beer
we have tested over the years a number
of devices that give you that draft feel
at home
actually can i
just stop you what we've done in the
past is cheap versions yeah
none of them have worked so we've just
gone screw it try the proper big
expensive one and see if that works am i
right you are right and we also got a
keg involved and we chilled that and i
pre-loaded it into the machine because
unlike the others this actually chills
it for you
oh okay nice gabriella chill me right
yeah
such a dad
their words
this pause perfectly cold draft beer
from tap to enjoy with friends or to
relax after stressful day
sturdy with a real bar tap handle that
fits perfectly in every kitchen man cave
or holiday house
everyone loves beer there will be any
person any person can like beer anybody
or cooking studios human cave now out of
the box there's some instructions you
have to follow the quick start up guide
and if i'm honest very easy to follow
lots of diagrams lots of telling you
when things should click in
the top pump kind of goes onto the keg
then you get this wobbly little tube
that goes down the front and clips in
again everything clips into place you
slide it into what is a base that is a
refrigerator inside the machine once
you've opened it up you clamp down the
blue and you leave it to chill
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perfect it's a barry one
they do say the first one you have to
run it through the pump because at this
point there was air in the
pipe so the second one should be better
ah here we go he's got it
no no he's got it he's got it
he's done it there you go mastered it on
the last oh wait hey that's my beer mask
for
it goes without saying it wouldn't be a
sorted pub
without some salted grubs we've got beer
snacks as well oh
the machine made
no we just have to keep the kitchen busy
cheers cheers cheers lovelies
that is wonderful
so if these beer glasses are 33
centiliters and you'll get about 18 out
of a keg if you use the continental 20
centiliters you get 30. the one we
bought was
37 quid it's about the same as buying
cans of beer yes
but obviously you're going to have the
machine on top of that
different but yeah this
is the closest to draft that's almost
actually indistinguishable from a draft
pint the head
is a bit more bitter it's creamy and a
bit more bitter than the actual beer
itself and that's what you want because
it provides the balance between the head
and the bit
and that provides a really good amount
of that bitterness with the airiness and
i like it
it's a bit extra isn't it it's a bit
big like is this thing on your worktop
where where is this going
you've got to have a big kitchen granted
yep i also think you have to have
immense
willpower yeah that is so true what not
to pour yourself on for breakfast yeah
if that was on my workshop and i knew
that there was cold beer in there and
i'm working from home why would i not be
having one at lunch time like that's not
good for me i know that how deep are you
willing to go to pay for this
300 pounds i'll throw in a keg and a
half as well
with the glasses
of which there were two yep 249.
this is
splurgeville that's what that is it's
splurge bill it's not
cop
i need to get this now i've been paid
mike during that last conversation i
discovered something about the machine
and i'm going to need your help
to
show what i think might be its best
feature so this is detachable so we can
just move that out of the way oh
what i'm thinking
there
and then live the dream
three
two
one
oh
this is the best job ever well whilst
mike is busy over to you guys which of
those gadgets would you love to get your
hands on comment down below
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one more
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it's really hard to swallow from this
angle
now you know what else i like i like
strips okay of
carrot no you've never said that i do
you've never done it i love strips of
carrots