- Danger of suffocation, burns and short circuits.
What a gadget.
(upbeat music)
(logo popping)
Hello everybody.
It's Barry here.
Hope you are well, wherever you are in the world.
Today's video is a little bit quirky
and potentially unnecessary.
This is an electronic s'more maker.
You see that?
Now, if you watched the last video I put up,
which was the homemade Heinz Baked Bean clone,
you will see one of the last scenes
I genuinely came home, after getting some milk
and toothpaste, with this. (laughs)
I did that classic thing
when you go into one of those supermarkets
and I got distracted.
I came out with milk, toothpaste
and an electronic s'more maker.
Such a Barry thing.
I mean, I don't think that is a Barry thing.
Do you go into Aldi and end up coming back
with a shovel and like, I don't know,
a tent or something like that?
That's what genuinely happened yesterday.
I'm like, a s'more maker, amazing!
Such was my franticness to acquire
said milk and toothpaste,
I just saw the word s'more maker and I scooped it.
I just put it under my arm.
I was at the till and before I knew it,
it was in the back of my transportation of choice,
which is not a DeLorean, yet.
One day.
And here it jolly well is.
However, this is literally a very good description
of what it does from just the photo.
I mean, you don't even need to see.
I think it just looks like a heater,
like a hot plate.
It's not a s'more maker.
This is a s'more maker.
It makes s'mores.
Look, let me show you how this works.
You fill this with water.
You lift the arms. (sings)
Put down a biscuit.
Thin piece of chocolate.
Marshmallow.
Place the biscuits on top.
Hands back on.
You know where this is going.
(microwave beeping)
It is genuinely May the 4th as I film this video.
Look, Chewbacca.
(gadget squeaking)
Look, that is 30 seconds in there.
Perfect.
That, my friends, is a s'more,
and if you don't know what a s'more is,
very British of us.
But we had them at our wedding, actually.
It's basically in essence a toasted marshmallow
that warms up chocolate, melts it between a biscuit,
and as you can see like that, oh my gosh.
(Barry grunting)
Generally, a s'more should be cooked outside,
like when you're camping and you get that
real taste of twig when you're eating it.
You can make it indoors.
(upbeat music)
Oh yeah.
See, you're getting that charring on there.
Beautiful.
But if you do that, obviously open a window,
but you know what I mean?
You're getting that flame from the gas hob hitting it.
You're getting that char that you get from a fire outside.
My house does actually smell
like a campfire right now, yeah.
So then, is this a s'more maker?
Or is it a marshmallow warmer?
Let's find out.
"Make s'mores anywhere.
Bring your favourite campfire experience
right to your kitchen with the electric S'more Maker.
Versatile and portable."
But if you wanna take it anywhere,
generally that would be outdoors, right?
Unless you're going to a house party.
Hey.
Did you bring beers?
No, I brought my s'more maker.
I don't know.
"Includes four stainless steel roasting forks
to make the s'mores with friends
and keep hands a safe distance from the heater."
It's a heater.
That's where we're going with this.
Right.
For 29.99, that is what you get.
You know, Ambiano,
that sausage roll maker was phenomenal.
It was brilliant.
And the user manual.
I like that.
Not even instructions, it's just the manual,
like you've bought a car.
Okay.
This is the tablet, all right?
My kids want a tablet for Christmas.
Here they go.
Oh crikey, these are the forks.
Plastic ended. (moans)
I was gonna say, it feels very cheap,
but you're handling a 29.99 s'more maker.
Now, there is a little indent here
where we would put the cord through.
(groans) Like that.
That's a bit easier.
And then it will just tuck in there like that.
So all in all, with that down,
once we just find the feet,
that is actually, to be fair to it, quite rigid.
Oh, I left it on.
There we go.
The indicator light is coming on.
I don't know if it'll emit some smoke
like new appliances generally do,
so we'll let it.
Oh yeah.
You're giving off some factory smell.
Yeah, I'm not sure if you can see,
but there is some serious factory scent coming off that.
You see that?
Oh my gosh.
That's some burning.
So much so that I think my smoke alarm might go off,
so I've opened the back door just in case.
Look at this guy living the dream in the sun, huh?
That nice?
(machine whirring)
Can you hear that high pitched noise?
(machine cracking)
Gee, what the?
I've been looking through all the instructions,
and there are about, I don't know, 10 pages.
You know when something is a little bit worrying
when most of it is basically hazards and warnings.
"Risk of damage.
Danger of burns."
And look, that's literally the steps
to make the s'mores.
Danger of suffocation, burns and short circuits.
What a gadget.
Oh, and the other thing is,
you can't use this outdoors with that electric.
You can't, can you?
It's dangerous.
So it is literally an indoor thing.
Oh, look, we can put our biscuits in here.
Some marshmallows in here,
which are kind of congealed together, but that's fine.
Our chocolate around the front here.
Now, this is a very thin chocolate, okay?
I mean, this bag says giant marshmallow
but we all know that I made
a giant marshmallow years ago, which was epic.
Well, to be fair, that's a pretty good size marshmallow.
I didn't really need these.
It's just I kind of raved about them
in previous videos, and it's like, well,
I finally managed to get hold of them in the shop.
Yeah, so that heating element is not getting bright red.
I want that vibrancy.
In fact, like how it is on the packaging.
You see, look at that.
It's not, it just stinks.
But this is what we're supposed to do.
We take a marshmallow.
We put our prong there, and then we just hover it
over the top of this heater.
I don't really wanna touch the metal
because then it'll cling.
Oh my gosh, I just did.
Look.
That little spec there already.
That is just.
That is so hot.
Oh my gosh.
That is just a little bit of burnt sugar,
the minute of just touching that metal plate.
So it is seriously giving out some heat.
You just can't really tell,
and it's not as exciting.
That's why I've always liked having a gas hob.
I like cooking with a flame generally.
I was around at a friend's once
cooking some dinner on his electric hob,
and I said to him, "Hey, is this hot?
This is on number four."
He's like, "Turn it up to five."
Yeah, I don't know why.
I've always, I like seeing a flame, you know?
Man like flame.
This is taking a very, very, very long time.
The weight's like, oh, just rest me down on there.
I'm not doing it.
We're gonna go, and it's been about two minutes so far.
It says the heating element should glow red.
It's not.
Oh my gosh, look.
Oh my God.
I'm so glad I spot that.
It's warming up, but it's just gonna fall off.
It's not going red, like I say.
It says to prepare a s'more,
put a chocolate on a cookie.
There we go.
My tablet is helping me here.
Only hold the skewer by the plastic handle.
Oh. (groans)
Oh no, no, no.
It's all sticking to the. (gasps)
Oh my gosh.
It said for me to only hold it by the plastic handle,
and that's what I'm doing,
'cause I don't wanna electrocute myself.
But look at all this burnt sugar now.
That's gonna get really hot and then stink.
Oh no.
It was ready here as well.
We'll try another one.
"Hold the marshmallow over the heat
without touching the cover."
I tried.
"It takes approximately two minutes to roast a marshmallow.
Do not overheat the marshmallow
'cause it could melt and drop onto the heating element."
I didn't get to that bit, but I hope you'll agree
we didn't really push the brownage very much.
In fact, not at all.
It warms the middle, but I have got no hopes.
If I just get one, I'm gonna be really happy.
But I think the weight of it
with the heat is just pushing it off the fork.
As a bit of a tease, as I look out of the corner of my eye,
look at that toasted marshmallow there. (laughs)
That is amazing packaging.
Fair play.
- [Narrator] A few moments later.
- I've been rotating this now quite steadily
and evenly for a solid four minutes.
It's starting to droop a little bit,
but I'm getting no signs of colour whatsoever.
At contact, that surface that you're hitting to brown,
you're not hitting that at all.
You're just melting new marshmallow as it stretches.
It's not doing it.
It's looking more like I'm meringue.
Yeah, look, look, look, look, look, look, look.
Oh my gosh.
Look at that.
I mean it's warm.
Pull that out, okay.
I mean you've probably got the same amount of warmth
as that microwave maker, but that is seriously bad.
Let me try it with a big marshmallow.
This might take about half an hour.
I'm going as close as I can to that surface there.
Oh wow.
Oh wow, that's brilliant.
I wonder if it has to be bigger marshmallows.
These are really unusual to find standardly in the UK,
but perhaps because it's got a bigger middle,
it's not suddenly going (groans), you know?
(Barry groaning)
It's still taking a blooming long time though.
If it had a rotisserie kind of thing there
and it did it for you, that would be brilliant.
But we are getting some colour,
I can't deny that.
But in comparison, how much quicker
was it doing it on my hob?
Don't have to set it on fire like I did.
That's just what I like doing, actually,
when I make marshmallows.
Blow it out quick.
But we are, we are actually getting there.
I will say this, if it is designed
for massive marshmallows, it's working,
but this has been a solid 10 minutes
and it's quite demotivating.
I'm doing this and I look round
and Boston's quite literally living the dream.
Don't fall on me now.
Just a little bit more.
Look, it's just about to break that top bit.
Okay, here we go.
Ready?
Down.
Push.
(Barry groaning)
Oh my gosh.
That's a s'more.
It's warm and gooey.
You're kind of missing that char, you know?
That's the only thing.
But perfectly acceptable.
So you might notice I've gone back
to one of the smaller ones
and I'm gonna do exactly the same
as I did with that big one then,
but get it as close to that heating element as I can,
just to see if it really does impact
if you're using slightly smaller marshmallows.
Come on.
Come on, mate.
We can do this.
I'm talking to a marshmallow.
What the heck is going on?
Come on, baby, come on.
Talk to me, goose.
Come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
No.
It is just, look at that.
It is starting to droop again.
That is literally it.
Ooh.
Double stacked s'more.
The neatness of this gadget in comparison,
which it kind of creates the same thing.
I mean there's a little bit
of browning on that, to be fair.
I don't know.
Mrs. B's working from home.
She had a really important Skype call upstairs.
I could hear you talking
and I'm like freaking out
in the background going, "S'more maker!"
It's a very serious world,
the world of biscuit design, isn't it?
That's what Mrs. B doesn't.
That'd be your dream job, wouldn't it?
Design biscuits. - That'd be cool.
- Folks, to be fair, this marshmallow,
I don't know if it's got better sugar content.
That is, that's holding up pretty darn well.
I would never buy these marshmallows standard,
but if you can get the big ones,
I'm actually gonna say this is okay.
I don't think I can refund it now,
so I will definitely give it away to Patreon,
that is if you want it.
It will come with the burn marks
and we're not done yet.
I've got a little plan here.
I'm on the fence still.
The only way to find out
if I truly like it is to try it with some other bits.
Let's start with cheese.
So if I can just melt this cheese a little bit,
kind of like a reverse fondue,
you could melt the cheese
and then have bread crumbs or sauces,
something like that.
You could do a savoury s'more.
You could have crackers there, right?
Now I am expecting that biscuit to burn quite quickly.
Oh, it's really burning. (groans)
(yells) That's hot.
Oh my gosh.
I think we'll stop there.
But that, hope you'll agree, see how glossy it is?
You can see the colour difference.
It's melted cheese.
Oh, it's cold in the middle still.
I think cheese, we'll avoid the cracker option, is a pass.
This is a tortilla,
and I think this is gonna be perfect for it.
(Barry laughing)
Yes.
With an essence of burnt sugar on there too.
Safely then put your chocolate on there like that,
'cause it's protecting it.
(gasps) Look at that.
Wax on, wax off.
Couple of marshmallows
We made a s'more taco on it.
All right, well this should work if that worked,
but obviously with the tortilla,
it's quite easy to char.
It's normally very quick in a pan anyway.
It's a direct bit of heat for it.
Yeah.
I'm not sure if this will burn.
Look at that.
That is toast that I can hold on the crust,
'cause the heat wasn't over it.
That's toast.
Last thing I wanna try and do is blister a pepper.
I want to be a little bit careful
because obviously this has moisture in it.
Now, I could just stick it straight on there
like the bread, but the moisture from it
will get right in that heating element,
and I would like one of you to enjoy this.
15 minutes later. (laughs)
It's definitely getting softer and wilting.
Look, a blistered pepper.
I'm turning that off.
It's had a good session.
I've got to try and clean this thing. (laughs)
Love a blistered pepper.
So there we go.
The Ambiano S'mores Maker.
Remember, I do two different
kitchen gadget testing playlists.
One's where I test multiple ones together,
or bigger ones like this
and indeed the sausage roll maker by the same company.
If you've seen any cool ones,
do let me know down below.
I know there's another stonking one that they do
that I will genuinely try and get hold of.
But that has actually changed my mind.
It's not something that I would use
because I tend to use my hob,
but as a little bit of a party thing.
It's dangerous.
I don't think it's fully kid friendly.
I think it does still work though.
We proved that it can do other things.
Is it a s'mores maker?
Yeah.
Is it a massive hot melting thing?
Indeed it is.
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- Boom.
(Barry laughing)
Pudding is served.
Love it. Cheers, guys.