Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and this is Dave Reardon and this is an episode of
Clever or Never where we test a whole heap of gadgets to see if they are any good and if you
should get them or not! So let's start with this one I asked you to get a big fat juicy
burger so that we could test this. Sure! This is supposed to make it not be messy
when you eat okay look at that Burger that's a good looking burger right there does it
even fit? Yeah it does with a stretch go for it okay this is great I like my job!
So far we're getting crumbs but no drips is any juice dripping out of the burger at all has it
caught any? If you take it out. Okay like a little ... or was it not a juicy burger? Well oh no a
little bit yeah a bit in there can you see that? Take another bite and we'll see was it protecting
anything from falling or not at all I feel like ... I'm I feel like ... okay did you just make
that no I didn't actually it was already on its way right did you help it oh look look okay okay
so it was actually working, it was stopping all of that juice dripping out of the bottom
of the burger. Question is clever or never? For functionality I'm gonna give it a clever it works
but for practicality would you take this with you to a restaurant and use it. Just whip it out of
your pocket and I've got my burger drip catcher! So cool. So is it getting a clever or a never?
Yeah I'm I'm ambivalent halfway because it's it's kind of clever but I never use it yeah so what
do we do with that? Well it's functional but we wouldn't actually use it so it's getting a one of
those. Gadget number two is this little thing wow clever do you know what it does no it looks like
a uh it looks like it used to be a bottle. It's supposed to go over the top of the top of a can
there you go. Ah come on. Now you can open and close your can and drink out of it who's
making this stuff up? give it a go. They're just inventing issues that aren't problems
but you can close it and you can't close a can okay then let's see how it goes ...
I've had enough.
And put it in the fridge for later. Wow!
I actually don't think that's too bad only because I'm not a big soft drink drinker
so I find a whole can is way too much for me. If this is your jam to put a lid on a can Ann
says bam. I think it's clever, you think it's never. Oh I'll give it a clever I don't mind the
concept and it actually does seal it doesn't seem to leak at all what if you knock it?
what if you tap it? Oh oh there's a drip there's two drips but they're
out at the top I don't think I screwed it on very well okay let's try now...
Yeah we've got some drips If I bang the top of it...
Bound to happen. Don't bang it upside down that's probably partially because we're shaking it and
putting pressure from the bubbles so it's making the top come off but yeah apart from
that I still think it's clever despite you trying to sabotage. Yeah it was probably operator error.
I ordered this next Gadget off today's sponsor TEMU which is an online Marketplace which has all
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the free TEMU app you can Browse by category or search for what you're after I got this miniature
rice cooker which if you know me I love my minis. It pretty cute. And I also got these piping bags
which work out at about five cents each Australian so that's pretty cheap and then on to this weird
looking thing which is actually a Japanese siphon coffee maker. As a special offer for How To Cook
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of eighty dollars it's only 14.45 Australian to get that offer you need to use the special
link that I'll put in the description below for you. Let me pour you a coffee dave. Oh please.
Smells good
How is it? It's great.
So if you go to the TEMU app you can get 50% off whatever you choose to purchase as your
first purchase on the app. Okay moving on to the next Gadget this next one calls itself an ancient
Chinese corn popper but from the research I've done it was actually originally used for puffing
rice rather than corn but apparently it works for popping corn so let's give it a go. Now before we
do this I have to give a warning it's using an alcohol burner it gets extremely hot and
very loud so I'm giving you hearing protection and warning that this should not be used by children
ever at all I would not recommend that for safety reasons. It also came with a set of gloves which
I pretty soon realised were not heat proof gloves look at that it just melts when you put anything
hot on it which is the opposite of what you want so I'm going to get rid of those gloves
and use my own leather gloves even if you put heat on leather it gets hot on the inside but
it doesn't burn a hole through it doesn't melt onto your hands so that is far preferable. Okay
so first of all let's tip the corn in we put that on see how that can easily come off yep you want
to turn it until it feels tight and then loosen it off a little bit but you shouldn't be able
to just move it off easily with your hand okay there we go then we're going to put this on here
like that and you have to keep turning it so it doesn't burn on one side and it's got a little
pressure gauge here and apparently you have to heat it up all the way up until it gets close
to the red but not in the red. So that could take some time. It's crazy. So is this like a pressure
cooker? Yes essentially you're putting the corn Under Pressure so it can't pop increasing the
temperature and then what we're going to do is we're going to release it and so that Rush of
air and decrease the pressure is going to mean the corn is going to pop all at once. Cool!
So now what we're going to do is we're going to first of all turn the flame off. yes.
Put it in the bag which is heat proof all right are we ready yep three to one ... 💥
And that's steam not smoke. Wow
that was cool. And this super hot and yep look how much popcorn is stuck inside it. Yep
so you sort of what do you tap that to get it out? Oh it came with tweezers so you can use tweezers
to get all of that out and it's easier to get it out while it's hot have a look we have wow
Tastes like popcorn. So the bag kind of covers what's happening could you film it in slow-mo?
Three two one...
Let's try some wild rice! Yes.
So the wild rice went from grains like this to puffed some of them really puffed they
look a bit like worms. Yep. And lots of them didn't puff at all but let's give it a taste.
Tastes alright maybe a little overcooked on mine maybe I should have left it for not quite as long
A little bit like a rice bubbles or uh what do they call it those Rice Krispies. We call it
rice bubbles here rice bubbles is a good name. A bit like that but they do look a bit like worms as
well don't they. They do maggots. Hmmm Delicious 🤔 And a bit nutty. Let's try quinoa. Oh quinoa.
Oh did it Puff? I think if you look at an individual grain it's bigger than it was
but they're so tiny to start with let's taste it it's like bird seed. Hmm
I think that would be okay sprinkled over a salad but it definitely just tastes toasted
rather than puffed it might have puffed very slightly but definitely not dramatic
no. Unlikely to have a big bowl of quinoa for dinner. Puffed quinoa. Probably not in this
machine. Or this lifetime. What else might Puff? Wheat let's give it a try.
It puffed really well look at that. Ah that's not bad that's not bad. Let's see what it tastes like.
Um I think it's a little overcooked again I think you would have to figure out
exactly what pressure to pull it off for for the different types of grains because it does taste
tinge burnt. It does it tastes a bit like cereal you know it's like pour milk on slice up a
banana. You do get puffed wheat cereal that's probably what it's tasting like. probably why.
Let's try millet. Millet. Oh okay wow this is my favorite how cute it's like a mini popcorn. Tiny
oh no come on now. If I was going to see a a short film this would be what I would take 😉
That is so cute, they should sell Millet popcorn, or pop Millet. It tastes just like popcorn,
oh I want pop Millet next time it's so cute. If you did go to get this at the at the cinema
this would only cost you four or five dollars. 🍿 Is popcorn ridiculously expensive at the movies
worldwide is it just an Australian phenomenon or is it everywhere it's so expensive what did Jedd
say the other day like a thousand percent markup on the cost of corn versus what you pay for at the
cinema. It's huge! It's working for them. It is. Very cute I like this gadget. I think I'm going
to give it a Clever but with a safety warning ... it is super hot, Under Pressure, definitely not
for kids wear safety protection and get your own safety protection don't just trust what they send
with it. All of that is good advice I also give it a clever. these next two gadgets I thought would
do together because they have the same function they are both supposed to protect your fingers
from getting cut when you're chopping incidentally if you're chopping you're not supposed to have
your fingers sticking out you're supposed to tuck it under so the blade can go along your
knuckle like that and you don't have any risk of chopping your finger. Are You Ready Set Go...
Is this a race because you're a much better carrot Chopper than I am? Not with this weird
shield on my fingers I'm not. I feel like this one did actually work and it did actually kind
of train you to do the right thing because you've got your two fingers there and you
have to bend them under so it's kind of training the correct position of having your knuckle in
front of the knife so it's not actually a bad product in that way. How was yours practically?
Peace of mind was at an all-time high and as a bonus I looked really cool. Okay let's test
the functionality of your one obviously this is solid metal so knife's not getting through it.
It didn't protect the finger at all. Well I had to saw through it
like it would protect from little nicks. I think the only way to do it is to try it
all right fair enough I'm not that dumb. You can do the outro ... three two one
go ... thanks for watching Clever or Never with Ann and Dave. Thanks to our patrons. Farewell.
Make it a great week.
Good outro? That'll be fine