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- It's mushy.
(laughing)
- It's mashed potato.
Hi, it's Marisa.
- And I'm Lauren.
We're testing inventions to see
if they live up to expectations.
- We're here to answer the most important question.
- It's cool.
- But does it really work?
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- In this box right here is the potato spiralizer.
What it basically does is you put a potato
on a stick and it feeds it through
this machine that will make it into a spiral.
And you pull the whole potato down the spiral.
It's really cool and really interesting.
- People always love weird looking foods.
- Yeah.
- So, it looks so awesome when you just like
spread it apart and you see all those potatoes.
And also, you can use like zucchinis right?
- Yeah, carrots any kind of vegetables, I guess,
that you want to use.
I also think something about America that is unique
is we like food on sticks.
- We do.
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Oh, it's so cute.
Oh my God.
- This is a little baby.
- Oh and it comes with skewers.
- Oh.
So this lever is to suction cup
this entire machine onto the table.
- That's awesome.
- So you just, kind of, push down
and then bring this over.
It's just like there.
It won't slide.
- I could pick up this table with this.
- I don't know how strong it is.
- I don't think this product is gonna work.
I have three reasons.
One, I think it'll be really difficult
to spin around, especially with a raw potato.
Two, I think that this product
can only fit one type of potato.
It can't fit, like, a larger zucchini,
or a bigger eggplant, so I think
it's very specific to a certain size of potato.
And then, finally, I feel like these skewers
are really brittle, especially when you're trying
to put it into, like, a hard, raw potato.
I don't think it's practical.
- I'm not about practical.
I'm about fun, and I think this
is a really fun product and a really great idea.
This would be great if you were hosting.
You wanted to do something unique and different.
Or just to eat a potato on a stick.
I think it'll work.
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- We have our potatoes here.
We have sweet potato and regular potato.
These two are raw and then ...
- These two are cooked.
- Those two are cooked.
- In the microwave for just five minutes.
So, the directions say just to cut,
like, the top half so it can stick
in this little end part right here.
Okay.
Then put those over there.
Oh, she dropped it.
- Let's start with the raw potato
to see if it'll actually skew.
- Oh, God.
These skewers seem very fragile.
- I'm sorry. (laughing)
This is the problem we thought we would have.
These skewers are like really fragile.
We don't want to break them.
- We're gonna move on to the sweet potato instead,
because we completely, um, Marisa, actually,
completely messed it up.
- It was hard.
You saw the struggle.
- She broke it again.
She broke the skewer again.
So, now that we have broken two skewers.
We are going to move on to our softer,
microwave baked potatoes.
- I think this should be a lot easier.
- Oh, my God, so easy. - Look at that.
It went right through.
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- Do you think it's gonna be mush,
or do you think it's gonna spiral?
- I think it's going to spiral.
- It's mushing.
- It's mashed potato.
No.
- We cooked both of these for, like,
two and a half minutes.
- Yeah.
It's soft enough, we think,
for the skewer to fit all the way through.
- Whoa, she didn't break something.
- Is it going?
Will it go?
Round 17.
- Yeah, so we have this sweet potato.
It's slightly cooked.
It was a little bit more firm in the middle,
so we're hoping this is gonna work out.
(screaming) I just poked myself.
(laughing)
See.
It's working!
It stopped.
I'm just gonna do it with my hands.
- So, we're not doing it the way that
it's intended to be done,
but it's working.
Kind of.
Uh, that's ugly.
- It did, kind of spiral.
This is a raw potato.
'Cause it's so small,
the stick actually goes through it.
So, we're gonna try to spiralize this little guy.
- Ooh, that sound is so satisfying.
- Oh, man.
- This is how it's supposed to be done.
- I see.
But that's as much as it's gonna go.
- Yeah, you have no potato.
- I'm trying to pull it.
- Aww.
It's still too hard and too raw.
Oh, there you go.
- But that's really small.
- But you're supposed to keep
the skewer on it, though.
- But it wouldn't even move with
the skewer, 'cause it was still all,
like, stuck to each other.
- This is going to be our, like,
30th time doing this,
but now we're gonna to it with zucchini,
which I think will work,
because it's soft in the center,
but firm on the outside.
- Yeah, we don't have to cook it.
- It's beautiful.
I can go really (mumbles).
- Oh my God.
That's really nice.
- Forget potatoes.
Only vegetables.
So, this is really not for potatoes.
The skewers were too brittle,
so it wouldn't fit through the potato.
I think if we had, like, stainless steel,
or, like, steel skewers,
it probably would work a lot better.
- A lot better.
- Only certain, like length. - Sizes.
- Yeah, certain sizes of vegetables
can fit in here.
- It's cute, though.
It's fun if you're into
experimenting. - Cute, fun gadgets.
- Cute, fun gadgets.
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So was the invention a disaster,
or a huge success?
- Or something in between?
Let us know in the comments.
(gasping)
- That's cool.
- This is a struggle.
- Just two girls and two potatoes.
- That sounds like a really bad YouTube title.
It does.
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- Two girls trying to cook a potato.