(egg cracking into pan and sizzling)
- Hello and welcome to SORTEDfood!
Now, Mike and I
- [Barry] have been out buying some crowdfunded
gadgets and we're here to see whether or not
they're worth the backing or they're severely lacking.
- Plenty more top quality gold like that to come.
- (laughs) Should we get started?
(drum music)
- Okay. Baz, number one,
give the closh a lift.
- Whapow! Oooo!
- What is it?
- [Barry] It's a bit of... it's like, half a rubber slinky.
Oh, hello.
The Burger Buddy.
What?
- [Mike] This is the Burger Buddy.
Hygienic, eco-friendly, mess-free, dishwasher-safe,
expandable, less mess, less stress.
And for more than just burgers.
- [Mike] So yeah, essentially you stick a burger in it
and it stops you getting messy.
I think this has showing our age because
this is a problem that I have.
And you know what?
I wouldn't be averse to eating a burger in one of those
if it were to work.
- Oh, no, no-
- [Mike] And solve that problem.
- I have been known to go, you know what?
It's a really messy one.
I had to get someone to have a little napkin
- Or fold the paper around and then it goes everywhere.
- And you get a particular takeaway burger,
then I like to get the box and kind of
catch any like lettuce leaves or juices that fall,
so I can use that as well to eat later,
or to dip my chips in.
- If you eat a burger,
and you haven't got dirty hands afterwards,
have you really eaten a burger?
- I've got half a burger!
- I like to cut my burgers in half
so I don't get dirty hands.
(laughter)
- Hmm. So we've identified there is an issue.
- It's an issue and I'm...
- [Barry] How has this not been invented already?
- [Mike] Well, Baz, it's not just you and I,
who clearly have this issue.
This has been backed by 1,045 backers on Indiegogo.
Raising 18,909 pounds.
There clearly is a need. Question is:
does it live up to the expectation?
Do you want to make some burgers?
- Oh, another making?
- It's a cooking show!
- Oh, okay.
(laughing)
- Baz, in front of you is everything required
to make your burger of choice.
(sizzling)
Smashed burgers. Nice.
Oh, very nice, Baz, very nice!
- YES!
- It's self-balancing. So you can just grab it, pop it up.
- [Mike] So there's, no putting the burger
on another surface that might be dirty.
- I'm not going to say this is just reinventing the napkin.
- It's even more specific.
- Yeah.
- For circular objects, I guess.
So it's not just for burgers.
They claim it can be used on donuts, bagels, et cetera.
- [Mike] So the team behind the Burger Buddy
are Ismael and Muhammad, the co-founders.
It's eco-friendly because the Burger Buddy
saves you from using excessive napkins.
On average, two to three paper napkins per burger,
which saves you money and saves the planet.
- That is a touch.
- Adapted design, easy for children, the elderly
and people with disabilities,
such as arthritis, Parkinson's,
or any type of ailment
that may keep them from holding food steady.
- Yeah! I kind of guess that's a thing as well.
That does make sense.
- Oh, lovely.
Every good burger has a name.
- It's Barry's Banger.
- Barry's Banger, nice.
- Barry's banging Burger Buddy.
- Barry's Banger, brought to you by the Burger Buddy.
- I am excited.
(rock music)
- Oh, whoa. Okay.
- [Mike] I mean, we have to use it within reason.
Oh my goodness, it might just work.
(upbeat music)
- Right, we're pushing it.
- [Mike] You're pushing it.
I mean, the whole point of this
is to push these gadgets to their limits
and I feel you really are.
- Look at that!
- YES!
- [Mike] Right, now, does it do what it's supposed to do,
which is, stop the mess?
Is it a good burger?
- Well, firstly,
I didn't realize what a good burger I could make.
And secondly,
it's a completely different burger experience
and it's one that makes so much sense.
It's what you try to do every time you eat a burger.
But you know full well that you're going into it,
you're fighting a losing battle.
- Yeah. It's going to go everywhere.
Especially like, if you bought it from, you know,
like a food market or street food or whatever,
chances are, you're gonna have to stand up
eating that thing.
So actually
it's great, innit?
- I've made a bold burger, a ridiculous burger.
They're fat patties with loads of sauce
and look at me.
- [Barry] I'm spotless.
- So, are we saying it works?
- I mean, I know we're meant to be reviewing it,
but now I just felt like we're advertising this.
- Same! I feel like this needs a hashtag ad,
because I love the Burger Buddy so much.
It comes in a range of colors,
(laughing)
- [Mike] You've got premium green, ocean blue,
sunset orange or majestic pink.
And this was a two-pack.
- Okay, good.
- [Mike] So a twin pack.
- It wouldn't be a Burger Buddy without a buddy,
would it?
- I had mine here just waiting for my burger.
- I've got half a bun to give you, mate.
- Well, I tell you what, why don't we clear this down?
Get you sitting down and we'll talk about price.
- [Mike] Still enjoying that?
- It's... it's not only satisfying to eat.
It's satisfying to like,
have control of what I'm doing as well.
- Do you want to know how much we paid for the twin pack,
Indiegogo special?
- I... do. And I...
That is a bloody good burger.
(laughter)
I'm going to say that it would have cost you
just shy of a tenner.
For two.
- Six pounds. For two.
That is 25% off the RRP.
So they're eight quid normally for two.
Four pounds, fits easily into a pocket.
Constantine is right up. Put it in a bag.
Anytime there's a burger on the street, BOW!
- Part of me goes, like,
spending that much on an item you will only ever use
for one type of food, seems ridiculous.
But at the same time, I've bought nice glassware
to suit certain drinks.
- [Barry] Why not?
There's nothing else out there that works like that.
- No. You know, you go into these videos
and you're like, right, gadgets, crowdfunded, catchy.
You're thinking like really high tech, like digital,
all sorts of really insane stuff.
And we've been wowed by a bit of plastic
that holds a burger.
Okay Baz, the Burger Buddy,
BFFs or FFS?
- BFF for ever and ever and ever and ever.
- Strong start.
- Right. Do you reckon we can keep this up?
- No, absolutely.
- Please, slosh it.
- It is like a screwdriver... Whoa.
- Ooooo.
- Okay, instantly, 'final press'?
What the...?
(chuckle)
- Come on.
You need to remove the black thing on the bottom.
- Okay.
- Spring loaded?
- Is it like a mini French-Press?
- It's like a mini cafeteria.
This is the Final Press.
- [Barry] A new way to brew perfect coffee and tea.
Press the plunger to brew your coffee anywhere.
So Final Press directly brews coffee or tea in your mug to
eliminate any mess.
You can be your own barista anywhere.
It doesn't require a professional barista equipment,
specialty brewing equipment or messy cleanups.
Simply add ground coffee or tea in the Final Press,
stir, wait, then press the plunger, as simple as that.
- I mean, I assume it's for on the go.
So you have to carry around
your ground coffee with you as well.
- Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
- Okay. Well, for camping, traveling, like yeah, yeah,
shut your face, Mike, and be open-minded.
- After terrible night's sleep,
there's only two things on people's mind.
Number one, coffee.
Number two, breakfast.
- I've used a very similar product in the past,
which is simply just a thing like that,
which you put your tea or coffee in and stir.
But the bit that makes this different,
is the press on the top and their patent-pending
funnel-press mechanism means you control the brewing
process from start to finish, stir for 10-30 seconds,
depending on the strength that you prefer.
And then by pushing the plunger a few times you can release
the rest of flavor into the coffee.
- Fine. Great. Let's try it.
I want to see if it works.
All right, Basil, where do I start?
- If you unscrew the bottom,
- I see.
- Half fill it with your ground coffee.
- Okay.
(upbeat music)
Something seems wrong.
- Then screw the lid back on.
- Screw the lid back on?
- [Barry] Yep.
Fill your glass or mug with the required amount of water.
And then, in say of Final Press,
stir it for 10 seconds and then leave it for four minutes.
- Yeah. Do you know what?
Where I can see this being useful is when you go away
and you're staying at a hotel or like, an Airbnb
and you do only want one coffee.
You don't want to put it in a big French press.
You don't want to take your French press because you also
don't want like four cups of coffee left in there.
You want one and then you're out.
So this could be useful for that. Genuinely.
- 9,898 people backed this on Indiegogo.
- [Mike] 9,000?
- And they raised over 470,000 pounds.
- Okay.
- It's popular.
- Well done Final Press.
- Well, it is popular.
- Oh! Four minutes!
- Right. So let's see if it works.
- So now I just plunge it?
- So you can plunge it a couple of times
to release the rest of the flavor.
You can kind of see it bellow out.
- Yeah.
Changing color.
- Yeah, push it like that,
and then basically one more time now.
Lift it out.
- It's really hot. Why've you?
I know why you've given
me the glass so that the audience can see it,
but I can't drink it now.
- Do you want a straw?
- No! I want a Burger Buddy so I can hold it.
- So many uses, as if I couldn't love this thing anymore.
Oh, look at that!
(laughter)
Perfect.
It's still going to burn my mouth.
But let's see if it makes good coffee.
- [Barry] One of the things that you can do,
it's very good, easy to make up a cold brew with the kit.
It comes with a lid that you can seal over a Kilner jar
and leave in the fridge.
You just put the coffee grounds in there.
- [Mike] Oh and just leave it soaking?
- Into their soaker overnight with the lid on
and then press the next morning when it's ready.
- Cool! I like it. I like it.
- But how much you think is worth?
- I would pay 30 pounds for it.
- If you'd got the early bird,
then that would have been 39 pounds.
- Okay.
And if you missed the early bird chance,
then it would've been 62 pounds.
- 62 pounds feels little bit steep for me.
However, it is all about justification
and how often you're going to use it.
Because if you're willing to part with 62 pounds,
I could say with quite a lot of confidence, it works.
- So Michael, for the Final Press, are you impressed?
Or is it the final straw?
- I have to say, I'm impressed.
I'm impressed.
- Get in there.
- I mean, this is a jewel.
(upbeat music)
- Last one, Basil, let's end strong.
We've had two crackers.
Lift the closh.
(record scratching)
- Shame.
That's not new, mate.
- Wait. I hope that this meek and humble object,
will blow our minds.
- So from what I can tell it's a spoon
With a little bit of metal in the scoop.
I don't know. Is there a light?
Another metal bit on the bottom.
It's weighted towards this end
which implies there's a battery in it.
- [Barry] Otherwise, from what I can tell,
that is this that has a plastic spoon, Michael.
Is this spoon electro charging my food?
- [Mike] This is SpoonTEK,
the spoon that elevates taste.
- Bull (beep)!
- You are such a narrow-minded swine.
- Come on! It's a spoon, mate.
- SpoonTEK excites the taste buds for enhanced flavor,
heightened taste and improved after-taste.
The built-in iron-sensory technology,
mildly excites the taste buds on your tongue,
like they've never been stimulated before.
- [Barry] Oh, I don't like it!
- [Mike] The immediate results are enhanced flavor,
heightened taste and improved after-taste.
- That's not a thing.
- [Mike] How is it not a thing?
- It can't be a thing.
- [Mike] People who said "The world is round"
wasn't a thing when everyone thought it was flat.
- Yeah, is it though?
- The internet wasn't a thing in the seventies.
- [Mike] I'm disappointed in you.
- No!
- [Mike] We bonded so much.
- Yeah but this is-
- This hasn't been rustled-up by a couple of schoolmates
who run a YouTube channel in East London.
- Okay.
- [Mike] This is from experts, a father and son duo,
who've been working in the food industry since 1999.
These are industry professionals.
So I don't think they're going to put their name
to something... poor.
Let's do a fair scientific test.
So, see if there's any difference.
What we're looking for is difference in flavor,
taste, after-taste and the eating experience.
- [Mike] So let's start with yogurt.
Okay.
- Sour. Creamy. Logged.
- Make contact with the silver active strip on the bottom of
the handle and on the inside of the spoon bowl,
there's a small silver colored emitter.
Make sure your food completely covers the emitter
as you eat.
The led light will light up to indicate
the technology is activated.
Go for it.
- Whatever is, it's terribly subtle.
I'm just double checking it's not placebo.
- I mean, I was just kind of being positive, but.
- For natural yogurt, there is a natural sourness to it,
but I don't know how, why,
but it tastes less sour with this spoon.
I'm not gonna sit here and go, oh my goodness,
the difference incredible!
But it's more palatable.
Like, I find myself going,
I can eat a lot more of that
with this spoon than I could on
that spoon.
- Right, move on.
- What's this one?
- It's a broth with Gallengal, soy, peanut.
I mean, it sounds, actually, delicious.
(guitar)
- Nice zing, refreshing zing to it.
- [Mike] See, it's lighting up.
- Exactly the same thing.
It feels like when it's electrified it's opening,
the thing up and the atoms are separating.
This is not science.
- Atoms. You said you've split the atoms!
- [Barry] I've split the atoms!
- It splits the atoms!
- It splits the atoms and leaves room
for flavor to escape in and mingle.
That is kind of what the sensation is,
but flavor-wise,
it only increases by probably 0.5 or 1%.
Like, it's minimal.
- Really interesting one.
Let's talk price.
How much do you think we paid for one of those?
- 12 pounds. Which is a lot for a spoon, a plastic spoon.
- We paid 21 pounds. And that was with, a 67% RRP.
- Really, you're not paying for a spoon.
You're paying to be part of an experiment.
The science must be proven for them to even enter
this realm.
It's just the fact that when they execute it
and it comes down to it,
it's a plastic spoon.
- [Barry] If what they say is true,
and by electrocuting your food,
you can release more flavor,
then whack some more volts through it.
Let's try that.
- So my question to you is,
the SpoonTEK,
a flavor sensation,
or a spoonful of frustration?
- You know what? Cock on.
It's a spoonful of frustration
because I want it to be good.
It's just not quite there.
You got a car battery handy?
- Yeah?
- Plug it in.
- Sure.
Well, over to you guys,
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Would you have backed them?
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(jazz music)
- Baz, in front of you,
is everything required to make your burger of choice.
- Any burger?
- You've got agadeen.
- Agadeen?
- Aga-do-do-deen.