Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and this is Matt and today we are doing a Clever or
Never where we're testing a bunch of gadgets from Wish so that you can see if they're any good or
not. Now normally as you'd know this would be Dave ... I think this gadget is wheely good 🤪 but Dave
actually has Covid so in Australia if you have Covid you have to isolate in one room away from
everyone else for 10 days so he is physically fine has no symptoms anymore and is totally frustrated
that he cannot leave the room and we keep just dropping things outside the door for him. So
sorry it can't be Dave but that means you get Matt and congratulations are in order because you
just got your school results today and ... i did ... and you got into Uni (university). I
did get into uni. Well done! 🎉 Let's get into this, so this first gadget Matt what
do you think this is? I have no idea it looks like you might inject it into the cake like it
kind of looks like a syringe. This is actually supposed to be for spraying the cake 🎂 Okay.
Let's give this thing a go so i think you just pump it just but i'm really worried it's gonna
put purple coloring all over the kitchen so i'm just gonna go like that just in case. Okay.
Can you color the cake purple or could you have just put the food coloring into the buttercream
and so you had the purple cake to start with. It's not very accurate. No it's okay
but it's not great i'm going to give this one a never for me i don't think i'll ever
use it again what would you say. I think it's a never as well it's kind of
bordering doing what it's supposed to do but it does waste a lot and looking at the cake
it's gotta be never 👎🏻 I think so too. For gadget number two we have the Potato Express.
Which does what? You put the potatoes in the bag i didn't get the potatoes off of Wish just the bag
and uh you put them in, then put them in the microwave and it's meant to make perfectly cooked
potatoes it says perfect results right here. And how long does it take? Four minutes for four
potatoes potatoes yeah i'll be impressed if i see that. I have seen most of these gadgets that we've
got from wish on AliExpress. Yeah i feel like i've seen a lot of the gadgets on Aliexpress as well
so i think that wish is just getting stuff drop shipped from Aliexpress and adding a few dollars
to each item but who knows. There's a lot of do nots on this back like do not heat on high
do not heat for more than four minutes it's been four minutes. On medium? Um i think so
i didn't really know how to change it so i hope it was on me it was probably on high okay four
minutes on high we broke one of the rules already are they done bag's pretty warm they're warm but
they're definitely not cooked that you feel all right oh yeah they're they're so solid all right
go check it back in the microwave one extra minute. Are they done now? Oh lots of steam
the bag's pretty wet as well so that does feel like it could be cooked
beyond the al dente side do you have potatoes as al dente?
I don't think you can have al dente potatoes. Maybe cut one in half so we can see
ah it's still very hot on the outside as well what do you think? Is it cooked all the way through?
I'll hold it up to the camera, what do you guys think? It looks pretty cooked to me.
My gadget is apparently supposed to melt cheese. In the microwave? No itself with candles that it
doesn't come with apparently ah i'm gonna have to go get candles. So it's a cheese melting
device that can't melt cheese let's hope i've got some tea light candles in the house because
the other rule in Australia is if someone in your house has covid and they're isolating in one room
the rest of the household is also not allowed to leave the house but all these phone calls going
it is unlawful for you to leave your home for seven days so yeah i can't go so i'll go check
if i have any tea light candles if we do we'll be cooking with candles if not we won't. I'll be
back ... tea light candles, we are in business. All right cheese melting time. I'll light those
sure now apparently for this you're supposed to have a specific type of cheese i think it's called
raclette have you heard of that? No i haven't heard of that. Neither had I and we can't get
it here well i couldn't get it online anyway and i can't leave the house so that's the only option
but apparently it's very similar to this type of cheese which is called uh Le Gruyere. It's a
type of Swiss cheese and it is apparently designed for melting not so much for just eating how it is.
So you pop this on top yeah i think i'm gonna have to break it in half okay put that on top
very cheesy pretty pungent cheese how long do you reckon it's gonna take? Quite a while there's only
three little candles there so yeah it does look to be melting a little bit on the sides already.
Here is the super slow cheese melter these probably aren't hot anymore yeah they're
pretty warm they're fairly warm still. You gotta allow more time for the oh ... wow it
all just came out in one thing all just in one thing yeah that was pretty cool i would
never put that much cheese on something. It's like a blanket a blanket of cheese pretty good
that is pretty good. For me i kind of think it's cute and i think it melted the cheese beautifully
but i honestly think i'll never use it again so i'm gonna give it a never what about you matt?
Well it didn't say express in the name like the potato express so i think it has to be a clever
for me because that cheese was really good. It was it was beautifully done so clever for you
never for me let me know in the comments if it's a clever or never for you for each of the gadgets.
These cutters on Wish they don't look like anything particularly special
we'll dip them in the flower and
cut and it seems to be a bit stuck on mine i probably needed some
more flour all right oh there it is. You launched that one 🚀 It's a bit misshapen
traditionally when you're making donuts or normally you have a yeast dough which is
a bit like a bread dough but a bit got a bit more sugar and stuff in it and you have to let
that rise you have to knead it let it rise once which is what it already done then you cut out
your shapes and then you leave it to rise again so it's quite a lengthy process making donuts.
So then the other option if you don't want to do that is to use the next gadget.
Matt. Yes?
You're up what's the next gadget? I've no idea what is the next gadget?
Huh?
This is not gonna work.
Apparently you can just make a thick pancake like batter and put it in here and then fry it straight
away. I think it's all just going to come out in one big blob and become a bit of a fried pancake.
All right well let's give it a go. Here comes the the pancake blob that i said.
Yeah it's not a donut it's a bowl i think you could have done that with the spoon
it's like a round little blob and we did not need a gadget to make a round little blob.
I did tell you that it was gonna turn out as a round little bob now you said fried pancakes this
does not look like a fried pancake. No it doesn't look like either a fried pancake or a doughnut.
And it's coming out the bottom quick stop it coming up ah I touched the fryer! Stop it
coming out the bottom right use the gadget to stop again ah but i'm not your hands!
Right. Oh my goodness all right can you squeeze it to stop it there we go we have a mess 😂
Okay try it now...
And squeeze oh i think that's too big a blob i think you need just a tiny bit
no this is not working. Are you sure it's not just meant to make blobs? No it's supposed to
make donuts are you sure don't do anymore it's definitely not meant to make donuts there's
no way that someone looked at this and went ah yes donut maker. Well they tastes pretty good.
But you made the batter and it's our fryer it's nothing to do with the gadget. That's true
i don't think it's going to work i think that is an epic failure of a
of a never. That is definitely another there is no way that you should ever use that.
For the last gadget we've got a dolmade rolling thing which uh we make these at my work
but uh we don't use a gadget there just our hands so we'll see how the gadget does. And do you use
fresh leaves from the grapevine? No we don't we uh get them from a can it's a winery so there'd
be so many great leaves there uh we use yeah i don't know maybe because yours gets sprayed
these have not been sprayed with anything and put them in to some hot water for 10 minutes.
So we're going to have a race i still have never made these in my life before so technically i
still think you'll win but we'll try we'll see if this makes it easy for a newbie like me to do it
and Matthew's gonna do them by hand all right on your max get set go...
Already adding stuff and i'm just getting a spoonful and shoving it in there i'm not
shaping it or doing anything just shoving it and then i'm gonna push and I'm stuck maybe i've added
too much stuff what have i done wrong did it work? Wow! That looks awesome. That's a clever.
Yeah definitely. Okay just in case it was a fluke and i can't repeat let's see shove it there
shove some stuff in there push it down into the little hole here we go...
Oh these are awesome that is awesome and they're all exactly the same
shape and the same size you might have to take this to work
Matt. They're not on the menu anymore. Are they probably because they take so long to roll uh-huh
there we go. I kind of feel like a winery should have these because they have grape
leaves in them. I'm impressed it works a gadget that works this is a winner. I've got four,
ah i already had done one done. You cheater you had that oh now now it really is a race okay
here we go shoving it in i might have put too much in this time and i think i put too much in
but there it is it's still there done for perfect finish. I was trying to go faster mine are not
perfect. But i think this is most definitely a clever that. Yeah definitely that was awesome the
first one that you put through is surprising yeah because it got a bit stuck as well so i was like
oh it's just gonna mash it. It was really stuck and i thought the leaf was going to get ripped but
wow look at that now if you've never had these before you have to pack them
all into a pan add hot water put a weight and a plate on top and then simmer it up so that
that rice and the meat can cook and that's dinner how cool is that? That is awesome
thank you so much Matt for filling in for Dave today. Let me know in the comments if you want
Matt to be in more videos and congratulate him on his success in his schooling well done very
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