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- Hello and welcome back to SORTEDfood.
- Now, when it comes to crowdfunded kitchen gadgets,
we love to explore why these things exist,
what problem they're trying to solve
and who in their right mind would go about buying them.
- So for that reason, and on the topic of welcoming back,
we're gonna put three of these gadgets to the test.
Guess who's back?
It's our very own chef James Currie.
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- Thank you, thank you.
That was nice
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- Gadget number one, lift the cloche.
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- [Ben] He hasn't forgotten how to do that.
- [Ben] But what is it?
- Something to do with beer.
- Designed because the best way to drink beer is topless.
- Sorry, not quite what you think.
- No, I agree.
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- So the Draught Top is designed
to safely take the top off an entire can of beer.
So that you can drink from it like a glass
and get all of the extra roamers
that are otherwise trapped inside
and you don't really get through a single ring pull.
- That sounds terrifying.
- It does, don't it?
- Shall we try it?
- Think we should.
So you need to pull your handle out,
then push down on top, clamp shut.
And you need to twist it about 180 degrees or so.
But the thing to watch for is,
as you're holding the can, hold the can
from the bottom so that the can doesn't squeeze
when you release the pressure
- Then push it in?
- And then release the lever.
- I totally understand what it's doing right now.
So it's like that, right?
- Job done.
- What's annoying is he's actually done quite well there,
'cause Ben and I tried to do this before we started filming
and we made a right old mess.
But essentially what you've ended up with,
is a safe drinking vessel.
And the reason for that is it kind of cuts
and folds or shreds and folds at the same time.
So it's actually turning the sharp edges in on itself.
- It's cool, like it worked.
It did exactly what it said it would.
- We've very deliberately given you
an aromatic, hoppy, citrusy ale.
Does drinking like that help?
- It's been a while since I've had a beer.
I don't think I've had a beer this year.
- Does that mean that we are the bad influence?
- Maybe.
- If I did want to have the drinking experience
of drinking it without a ring pull type situation,
I'd prefer to pour into a glass
because then you can kind of control the head
and make sure there is a head.
Being British, I like a head.
- He's back.
- What they say about this
is that with the top taken off completely,
it is much easier to pour if you want,
rather than chugging out
where it's fighting against air, trying to get in.
So it's a much easier pour to control.
The other thing that's kinda useful is,
if your beer or any can drink, you prefer it with a garnish.
For example, a bit of lime, some orange in a Blue Moon.
Then you certainly can't be that into a ring pull,
but now you have the option of doing that.
If you're out and about picnicking, barbecue and camping
and you haven't got glasses, but you have got cans
then the draught top slips into your pocket easy.
- I'm not a massive beer drinker,
but I do like her rum and Coke.
- You could take the top of your Coke
and you could pop in your miniature rum.
- That would actually be really good.
- I imagine it will get a reaction from people.
And if you think about the reaction as a crowdfunded thing
this got a huge reaction.
So this was massively overfunded,
over $600,000 worth of funding on the platform originally.
And as of yesterday, from when we filmed this,
it was actually backed by Shark Tank.
One of the sharks.
So it has got proper backing.
It is, a new approach
- But bearing in mind that this has been created
by normal people, trying to get this idea off the ground.
These aren't mass produced yet.
How much do you think it costs to back this?
- I'm gonna say like $20.
- It's $24.99, which is about £18.
- So we've seen it in action.
We've heard the price.
The question is, did this open your mind
or is it not worth the find?
- It does what it says it does.
It has opened my mind.
I'm open to it.
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- Number two, James, please lift it.
- Feels nice.
- Pretty tactile, isn't it?
- Yeah, it's very tactile.
Well, it's sticky.
So maybe it's like a worktop saver.
- This is Scrubbio, the latest generation
of environmentally friendly silicon brush
for kitchen and bathroom.
Magic for your daily life
and ultra durable to preserve nature.
It's eight in one multifunctional uses
and is recyclable ultra durable and high quality silicon.
In fact, it's magic.
- But can you name all eight functions?
- Scrubbing.
- It can scrub vegetables, pans or plates.
- My next point was that you don't wanna
be scrubbing vegetables with the same scrubber
that you wanna scrub pans with, right?
- Given that it's silicon and easy to clean,
it wouldn't actually make any difference.
Unlike a dish cloth, you wouldn't want to have
a dish cloth you've necessarily done soil and then stuff,
but actually once you've used that it will be like new.
It's indest...
You won't break it.
And you've got two different strengths of scrubber.
One on each side.
- It works.
- Well, let's move on.
- With the pan specifically,
it's very gentle, especially on non-stick pans.
- In fairness, if it is gentle on pans
then that's a good thing.
It seems to be working well.
- The good thing is, it is indeed magnetic.
So it can stick onto anything nearby
and if that thing isn't magnetic
then it comes with its own magnetic thing,
so that you can put that next to the sink
or next to whichever place you scrubbed your veggies.
I don't know.
- We've given you a few more clues now James.
Can you guess the rest of the functions?
- A coaster.
- Check.
- A spoon holder.
- Check.
- Are you serious?
- A spoon rest, yeah, it's handy, right?
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- Trivet or worktop saver, you're absolutely right.
- Check.
- five.
- ooooh, what if that lid's hot.
- Good point.
- Like that.
- Yes, six.
Also this thing is just as useful
in the bathroom as it is the kitchen.
- Okay.
- So you could put your soap in there,
you could scrub your back with it.
- Yeah, scrubs someone else's back with it.
- Oh, now we're talking.
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- I like it.
I think the important thing is to focus on
the environmental impact.
And that's its selling feature,
rather than the eight in one,
which makes it feel a little bit ridiculous.
- And I think that's the bit
that caught everyone's attention
it's been backed by over 2000 backers.
It's raised over €.70,000.
So let's talk price.
This came as a set of two, for €.21.
That's about 18 quid.
And the question is, would you put one in your kitchen?
- I would put in my kitchen
as a replacement for scarring pads and cloths.
If it works and if it stays clean, then it's a good product.
I don't think I'd use it for anything else.
- And therefore, the question, will you join the club
or is it not worth the scrub?
- I will join the club, for sure.
And they're a little bit expensive,
but I guess you're gonna save in the long term, right?
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- Okay James, not in its original box,
but gadget number three.
- The cloche is doing its job.
I can't see what it is.
- Oh.
- First impression, what is it?
- Heavy.
It's good quality.
Does heavy mean quality?
Not in Jamie's case.
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Touché ebbers, but I will have my vengeance.
- What, what goes in here?
- Open your own you're laundry, maybe.
- it's a rotisserie thing, but there's no heat element.
- So where's the heat going to come from?
- The oven?
- [Ben] James, this is the Roto-Q360.
The world's first non-electric, self rotating rotisserie,
cook smart, eat smart.
- Non-electric maybe it can go in the oven,
but how does it rotate?
Oh, is that wind up?
- You're a windup
- Kinetic energy, stored with a winded twist.
- I miss you just saying random sentences.
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- Got some distructions for you.
James, you'll notice as you construct it,
it means that it stores flat pack
and therefore it takes up minimal space.
- Guys, I think I've put it together.
- It doesn't require
any electricity, gas or batteries to run.
It's been engineered to fit into any home.
If you own an oven, you can put it into your kitchen.
- Have you ever felt you needed this in your life?
- Once we tried to make Peking duck.
And you want it to hang in the oven, this might have helped.
- So you've chosen the basket there.
You can imagine that's useful for any number of things.
From roasting coffee beans, nuts seeds...
- Or playing bingo.
- Or tombola.
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- Utilising a gearbox, stores kinetic energy
when the knob of the device is turned.
Three minutes equals one turn.
And therefore the maximum number of turns is 20.
And can give you an hour of cooking.
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- What are we gonna cook with it?
- Glad you asked.
- Okay, so you've now got in front of you
all the ingredients you need to make our roast beetroot,
with spiced yoghurt recipe from my meal packs app.
We're keen to see how the beetroot roasts
in this spinny tumble dryer thing.
- Okay, I have the app.
Should I go for it?
- [Barry] Please.
- Cool.
- [Barry] Thousands of people have backed this.
So the concept's obviously really strong,
but personally, I don't know how much difference
it actually makes to say a rotisserie chicken.
- All we grew up with is roast chicken.
So that's what we know in love.
But that's always done on a baking tray
and it's very different to roasting anything in rotation,
'cause it's much more even
the juices kind of drip and self-baste
what you're cooking.
And then the excess drips into a tray.
So they are different.
I think we're more used
to roast chicken in an oven on a tray.
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- [James] Goes in the oven, 200 degrees
for 15 minutes or so.
- [Ben] I think we should stress that the gearbox
is particularly noisy... until of course
you put it into your hot sound chamber.
- It makes me think that something's
like sizzling, or hitting the bottom of the oven.
So I've got to remember that everything's fine, hopefully.
- Because we were so forward-thinking
we crowdfunded two of these.
And therefore we have another one in the other kitchen
with chicken, going round and round and round.
And we'll compare both at the end.
- [Barry] Did we solely back this one?
- [Ben] It had over 9,000 backers.
- [Barry] We were two of them.
- Does it work under a grill?
'Cause that's what I be excited about.
Using under a grill, like the same as the kebabs.
- I think if you've got space to put under your grill.
- Yeah.
- Grubs up James.
Big day.
Oh, hello.
- Ta-da.
Ouch.
- You've burned yourself more than once on that
haven't you, so far?
- It's a bit difficult when it's hot, because this is heavy.
- [Barry] Oh that way.
- I'm liking the kale crisps.
Even better, if you had something in the basket
that was dripping onto them.
Yeah, it really lands itself
to stuff that has its own fat involved.
Meat basically.
So the beetroot is cooked.
I'm plating up with my yoghurt dressing quinoa and kale.
- So the beetroot you've tossed back
in that kind of balsamic oil seasoned dressing.
How is it looking?
Is it an evenly roast?
Is it good?
Is it bad?
How's it working for you?
- It is definitely even.
I think something like nuts would be really good.
' Cause pine nuts, you put in the oven
and five minutes later, they're black.
If you're cooking like big batches of nuts
or more likely coffee beans, that'd be great.
- [Ben] Fancy, wholesome, yummy
and can be done with or without rotisserie.
- [James] Loving it.
- [Barry] Well, while you're finishing that,
we've also got a rotisserie chicken in the other kitchen.
We'll bring in, we'll plate up and we'll taste them all.
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- [Ben] Certainly smells good.
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- That was easy.
- [Ben] I am as excited for those potatoes
in the bottom drip tray as I am for the chicken.
- [Barry] Without calling me.
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- [James] This has done everything I would expect
of a rotisserie chicken.
It's really even, it's really succulent, breast looks great.
What a good day?
- [Ben] What a great day, welcome back.
- You've got really nice even colour.
It's nice chicken, but the potatoes are incredible.
That's why I went for that first 'cause,
they are better than what you could do otherwise.
If I'm comparing it to a rotisserie chicken
that would buy from a shop.
It's as good, it's the same.
- But surely the best bet for that machine
is over the barbecue, where there is one heat source
coming from the bottom.
I think what it is, remove that tray
and you can put on the barbe.
- Yeah, I'd be great on a barbe.
- So we paid kind of the early bird price, the bundle price.
And it was $99, for that with all of the attachments.
- If I had a hundred dollars to spend
on kitchen equipment,
I'd probably go for something else above this.
But if you've got all of that stuff, then go for it.
- So, is it a clever rotation or a strange creation?
- A clever rotation... it's a clever rotation.
- Well, it's over to you guys.
Can you see yourselves back in any of these gadgets?
- And keep your eyes peeled,
if you see other kitchen gadgets
that are currently being crowdfunded,
that you think we should jump on the proverbial back off?
Comment down below
- And tweet us @sortedfood with a hashtag sorted gadgets.
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- It is a fridge magnet,
so it's really easy to...
On top of all of its uses
it's really easy to store because...
Not even close.
I'm giving you a bloopers.
Let's put it that way.
It's also a fridge mag...
On top it's environmentally friendly design, eight uses...
- [Barry] Bloody hell.
- The question is James, worth a scrub?
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