- Welcome back to Kitchen Gadgets.
I got a call from a very special someone
that you guys all miss,
saying that he wants to test
a kitchen gadget of his own.
- Hi, Hi everyone.
- Do you remember this guy?
- You may remember me.
Some of you missed me,
some of you, really pissed to see me right now.
(laughs)
- But we're back.
I have something I wanna test
that nobody believes could be a thing
except for me.
- What do you think that I'm gonna think?
- I think you're gonna hate it,
just like everybody else.
I wanna introduce you to the Clever Kebab.
Right? This thing claims that
it can do 16 perfect shish kebabs.
You line it up,
you put your knife through,
done!
At first look, I laughed
very hard at this thing.
But, when you're making shish kebabs,
you're gonna have to cut all the things,
and then you gotta go one at a time.
You gotta go one of this, one of this, one of this.
- But it's so easy.
Do you really need a gadget to do that for you?
- If's a probability that it can save me time,
then yes.
Use as a cutting board,
you also can put your veggies in here,
wash them.
- So it's like a strainer as well?
- Yeah. Juicer.
Let's say you wanna do a little marinade.
Bang, bang, bang.
Also on top, be able to do this you'll probably need
a really sharp knife, which I brought.
But, if you don't have that,
little knife sharpener.
- It's always questionable when a gadget like this,
has all these different weird random elements to it,
because it's trying to make up for what it is.
- We're gonna figure this thing out,
and then we're gonna race.
Boom, boom,
a la cuisine.
- Done.
- You wanna line stuff up,
you wanna be able to fit it in here.
Handy dandy,
we can just use this as a guide.
- [Esther] Okay. - [Clifford] Right.
- [Esther] And cut it.
Look at this,
you have to trim the ends and you have some waste.
- Well, I'm gonna do the squish method,
where I'm just gonna jam it in there.
Because I feel like,
if I do that,
if I just jam it in there, right?
It fills up.
- I'm getting skeptical already because that's just like.
- [Clifford] It's a little bit like a puzzle,
which is fine.
- See, I feel like this is gonna take longer,
it's like I already made five skewers,
you know what I mean?
- [Clifford] Well, no,
at this point you're still cubing up.
- [Esther] You don't know that.
- [Clifford] You're still cubing.
- [Esther] I might be really fast.
- [Clifford] Yes, listen,
we worked together before,
you are very fast with a knife.
But I'm also considering that maybe,
not everybody is as fast.
- [Esther] Okay.
- So you put it through in the guide, just like so.
Make sure you're hitting the bottom.
- [Esther] How do you know that you're hitting
the bottom circular thing?
I can't tell.
- It goes through.
See, I think you're trying to throw me right now.
- See, right now,
this one obviously didn't go through the whole little hole.
- All these skewers right now are not absolutely perfect.
- You know what,
this is kind of fun though,
it's like a weird.
- [Clifford] Look, the knife goes through really easy.
Helps that I'm using a Japanese sushi knife.
- Yes, it does help.
- Does help a little bit.
We're gonna see it.
So, are you ready for the big reveal here?
- No that's here, look at this.
_ Pull this off.
This isn't terrible, that's okay
it didn't cut all the way through.
So there, somewhat of a shish kebab.
The challenge, 16 skewers, this does 16 at once.
Three layers of chicken, one layer of onion,
and one layer of bell pepper.
On your marks, get set,
go!
(fast-paced music)
I'm starting with my chicken.
Oh, one there, already done.
And it's done.
- [Esther] You like beating me already?
- 100%, I'm already on the onion layer.
- Really, and I'm still cubing right now.
- [Clifford] This thing is incredibly fast.
That's the thing.
- Yeah, but you might get really crappy skewers.
Oh my God, I'm still cutting bell peppers.
- I'm gonna do one of these.
One of these.
- [Clifford] Oh, (beep).
- [Esther] What?
- You're already skewering?
- [Esther] Well yeah.
- [Clifford] Oh God, I gotta hustle.
I shouldn't have done that stupid little dance.
- Do you do a dance in the middle of it?
- I did a dance behind you.
I shouldn't have done the stupid dance.
- See, this is what happens when you get too cocky.
You know what I mean?
- [Clifford] Done!
- Oh my God.
Okay, done, done!
That was only a few seconds behind.
- I was being a goofball and look.
- Okay, that's one skewer.
Let's look at all of them together.
See--
- [Clifford] I had a couple fall.
- [Esther] You missed a few.
- But that's negligible.
You're always gonna lose a little bit
of skewer to the grill.
Here's the result.
Is the Clever Kebab faster than a human hand?
Yes.
But what I will give you.
I have a couple that are nice, very nice,
but then I have some that are a little off,
a little skewed.
Would I be happier getting your shish kebabs over mine?
100%
- The problem is with this is that
you have really thick chunks of chicken
and then really small chunks and
that's gonna cook unevenly.
So, you're just gonna get
really overcooked chicken - That's very true.
- on one skewer and then really undercooked chicken.
Is it worth it?
$25 for this.
- [Clifford] 25 bucks.
- It's totally not worth it because it's something
that you can do by hand that's a better result.
And that's what we're always looking for.
I just don't get it. - It did save you time
but there's too much of a sacrifice
on everything else for it to be worth it.
Thank you for having me back once again.
I'll go back in the storage room where I've been
for the last six months.
- This is why your kitchen gadgets don't work.
Bye, Cliff.
Thank you very much.
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