Hello folks it is Barry hope you are well welcome to my virgin kitchen today we are
going to be reviewing some food gadgets I have been sent in I have got quite a lot to
get through so we will try to figure out if they are pointless and we do not want to ever
use them again or pretty worthwhile so so lets get cracking and start with the first
one.
This one is shaped like a heart but actually it is supposed to be a strawberry I have made
an incision in the plastic so lets get it straight out this my friends is a strawberry
slicer for the ultimate in laziness if you do not want to slice a strawberry you open
it up like so apparently, those are some razor sharp blades right there, there are rows of
blades I do not want to put my finger in there it could be quite an interesting torture trap
but I guess we just stick a strawberry in there and I do have a strawberry right now
I have not washed it we are going straight in shall I take the stem off the hull I may
just pull that out to make it tidy do not want to make strawberry herbs wow that nearly
came down and cut my finger right so our strawberry is in there, the packaging is quite bland
on this there is nothing really else to tell you about it and I guess we just push down,
oh yes crikey I am glad my finger did not get caught in that, that last click it really
did pop into place you lift it out and what I have a little bit of strawberry here lets
get this out on the board, ok again I nearly cut my finger off you have some nice strawberry
slices they are cut nice and flush that would be pretty darn cool for a cake or something
like that and it is quite hard to get a strawberry cut accurately so maybe they also double up
as earrings like that, I may use that again I will let you know if I do but it is not
the worst of the batch.
Now this is one of the ones I have sort of seen before this is basically a pineapple
corer and slicer by flagship as seen on tv also as seen on youtube now pretty cool and
basically we are going to take off the lid of the pineapple I have a feeling that my
pineapple may be too big but we will just go with that so cut it to reveal the top there
then get the flagship pineapple cutter to work.
Lets get it out the box now, oh wow you can see they put a lot of effort into the packaging
of that thing is that like some sort of razor sharp pizza blade yeah and there is a handle
that looks like one of those lawn cutter things, so just push that in there is that right,
yes quite a sharp blade here, and in there so imagine this goes through the whole thing
in we go so push this in so pushed it in and now it has bit so I am just turning this and
the handle has just broken the handle has just broken on this I am going to just do
it by the stem so to speak that is working I do not know when I am supposed to stop is
it when I hit my chopping board or damage the work surface I kind of want to do a dance
with it.
Here it comes oh my gosh it is like childbirth, did you see that that is amazing so we have
pineapple slices right there all cut into nice little strips like this it is like one
of those slides or helter skelter I really like that plus if you have that you have an
amazing pina colada style drinking cup, if you like pina colada that is a good gadget
like that one, there is actually some fresh pineapple juice in the bottom of it too wow
that is good.
This one to me does seem a bit pointless this is a silicone garlic peeler so it peels cloves
of garlic not to be confused with bulbs of garlic just the cloves this is not the only
garlic peeler gadget I have I also randomly have this thing too which is shaped more like
a bulb of garlic and I have never used it so we can put one in this one, and then one
in this one and apparently all we do is rub them this is the official quote from amazon
rub them until you hear a crinkly sound and it could take a couple of minutes so lets
go, little update my chopping board is going everywhere you should put a wet cloth underneath
it to stop it moving and my kitchen is starting to smell of garlic.
I can hear paper noises but I am going to give it wow this angle looks so wrong, I will
give it a little longer.
Right now I am changing my mind I will do a bit of force on each one there we go check
that out it has just popped out again a bit like childbirth all these gadgets are replicating
childbirth if you have ever wondered what it is like, I have experienced it twice and
now for a third time with a garlic clove so my other one this garlic thing no that is
rubbish just stick with the tube thing kind of works we have a bald garlic clove but even
now you have to pick it up so you will stink of garlic anyway.
Alright so we have a damp teatowel on there now so hopefully the board will not move as
much this is a jar of olives I hate olives for your information and this is pretty much
how it arrived it was loose in the box some of the packaging was terrible an olive and
cherry pitter I do not know why I did not buy cherries because I love cherries but olives
I am not such a fan that is pretty much it I do not know if there are any instructions
on the back use the tool for pitting both olives and cherries fast and easy ergonomically
designed and dishwasher safe I can feel the ergonomics in that they have done a good effort
so it has a little safety latch we will let that go and you can see again that could be
some sort of medieval tool too so I am going to take out an olive may have to eat it on
camera just to justify this and the olives hope they are not too big or not already pitted
that would defeat the point of the gadget perhaps it makes them disappear so we have
an olive in there and I guess we line it up quite a fat olive hope it fits in there we
go is it going to work I do not know I will have to really push that in if it is going
to work that well but we are just going to go for it so here we go olive pitter push
it through is that a stone, no, has it left the stone in there yeah it has yeah that has
not worked lets try it again lets get another olive and do it the other end with a bumhole
facing upwards no it is just taking the lid off it and revealing the stone maybe that
is what it is I am a tool that embraces the pits in olives, yeah great!
Alright we are going to try it one last time and try to line this up as much as I can just
push it, no would you look at that, it is terrible that is a terrible gadget.
Why have a knife when you can have a jialong msc sounds like they have been to college
and put letters after their name perfectly sliced tomatoes also good for potatoes and
onion this is a lazy mans tomato slicer we have to get this out and have a little look,
do not think there is much on the box, wow that is a firm thing, looks like a hair clip,
in fact that is it someone has just bought a hair clip maybe some sort of fish that does
look like a goldfish from that angle doesn�t it maybe hair clip we will go for that.
Basically all someone has done is got a hair clip and said if we stick a tomato in that
and clamp it you can slice tomatoes I would love to be the person that realised that,
all we do is get our sharp knife I want to hold it and grip it more but will just hold
it down here and then we just slice down where are they going, we just slice down like this
ok yeah that is cool it is holding it at first near the spring and it want to escape so do
not hold it there if you happen to buy one of these tomato slicers lets do one last slice.
And then if we open it up wahey look at that, that is how you slice a tomato.
But you have got a free hair clip.
We are on the home straight now folks now this and again this is exactly how it came
in packaging like that very loose as seen on tv once again is a cucumber slicer and
on the back over the sticky label bit it looks like you are spiralising a cucumber which
is all the rage at the moment hey I just spiralised my salad just eat the salad it will not make
it any better, anyhow cucumber is going to go in a minute this has a disc thing like
a semi circle clear plastic angled slightly not too sharp this bit a little bit more and
the other end where I presume I push the cucumber in it has like an angled stem, kind of like
a slide again in the middle so it is all like a corkscrew effect right now so we push the
cucumber into there oh wow ok that kind of felt too good and then we just turn it, can
you see if anything is happening, oh yes it is yes it is my friends we are making slices
of cucumber now there is a gadget that I reviewed recently with my daughter phoebe I have done
some other gadget videos I will put a little playlist link up above it is a carrot sharpener
and that was terrible a lot of you said it needs to be a blunt end I did that in fact
it is right here, if I can open my drawer, there it is a carrot sharpener bit pointless
(intentional pun) I had two of those in the end but this one is working.
And I hate cucumber so this is a bit pointless mrs barry is going to have a whole cucumber
protest when she gets home but lets have a little taste I hate cucumber.
I am going to leave my 2 personal favourites til the end and this is one of them it is
called stem again as seen on TV and basically it is a lemon or citrus spray there is a lime
there and it comes with a base they have 2 different sizes depending on the size of a
lemon or lime and it has a lid on it so you can get your lemon and be like aftershave
lemon for men all that kind of stuff there is a famous celebrity chef called Heston Blumenthal
he did fish and chips in a restaurant is was a quirky thing not sure if he still does it
where he would spray the smell of chips in the air to incentivise it they are saying
you spray it on salads and in water and stuff like that so lets make some lemon aftershave
taking the lid off and it says on the other side the freshest mist and actually already
I am getting a good woft of lemon so we are going for the smaller lid and push that right
into the lemon maybe screw it around get it to bite ok cool apart from this this must
be our base that holds it leaning tower of lemon so yeah I have screwed that down so
the silicone bit has gripped it and it now really is aftershave for men do not print
screen that so here we go we are just going to spray oh my gosh I got some spray out then
here we go yeah I am just spraying lemon randomly around my kitchen quite a good air freshener
actually you do get lemon air freshener just buy a lemon stick one of these in it and do
that but you are supposed to spray it on a salad so lets pretend we have a nice salad
there yum yum that is alright it will do just spray lemon on someone.
It can also work if you want to freshen your breath but of course you can use a watermelon
or an orange hey your breath smells like orange anyhow last gadget is this thing now I posted
a picture on my snapchat Instagram all that stuff saying guess what this thing is guys
that kind of looks like a shoe horn well let me reveal it for you because if I bring in
this cake guess what this does to this ok, you are probably getting it right now some
of you did guess it online this is a cake slicer now it is weird as it has a funny curve
on it but what we do is basically press down on here it has got slightly sharper edges
on one side slice down take it out and that is a slice of cake and you are left with a
weird ninja slice in the cake too, I just dropped the cake doh.
Yeah I have done another slice of the cake as long as you grip it unlike I did and the
slice went everywhere it does hold it quite well so there we are nice bit of portion control
too because you know when you go to a kids party it is the incentive for kids going right
you get a big slice so here we go, cake.
There we are then folks that is all the food gadgets reviewed for today I have done other
gadgets in the past so please check them out my favourite one today was the good old lemon
spray I feel that lemon aftershave is the way forward do not forget to subscribe and
let me know on social media any cool food gadgets you have seen see you next time, that
was a sound effect but that is actually lemon aftershave