Infomercialism: Ultimate Chopper
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.พ. 2015
- The Ultimate Chopper - does it really do what the infomercial says it can?
Can it make peanut butter out of nothing but peanuts? Can it make ice cream? Can it make concrete into powder?
Follow Mike on Twitter theonlymikej and tweet him some recipes to try out in an upcoming video! - ตลก
In case you're wondering about that burning smell, it's the same reason they can claim "750 watts" - they intentionally make the motors in appliances as cheap and inefficient as possible, wasting all the watts as noise and heat. You could probably do the same job with a quality 250 watt motor.
I had one of these in college. Used it a lot. Where it really shines, honestly, is turning leftovers into breakfast or lunch.
I mean, the basic formula of mayonnaise, a pickled gherkin, a slice of onion, salt and pepper, and then whatever meat you have left over? Almost always makes a great sandwich. Roast beef. Chicken or turkey of any description. Tuna. A boiled egg, even. You can tailor it a bit to what you're doing - a bit of horseradish for beef, some mustard if you're using ham, etc, but you don't have to. The thing will fit enough ingredients for one rather hearty sandwich, or two modest ones.
You can make a pretty good potato pancake if you have a leftover baked potato - put in about half of a medium-sized baked potato, an egg, a wedge or slice of onion (about as much as you would use on a sandwich), a thick slice of cheese, and some salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste. Pulse a couple of times until it's a thick batter, spoon onto an oiled pan heated to medium heat, dividing the batter between two cakes. Fry for 3-5 minutes per side, or until nicely golden brown. Eat plain or garnish with sour cream. Makes a good side for a larger meal, or a nice light lunch in their own right.
And yeah, the little bowl gets stained pretty bad by carrots, beetroot, or anything with much color. I don't know if it's something about the plastic they used, or what.
So... it's an ordinary food processor, except smaller and made out of cheap plastic.
Spend the extra money and get a Ninja. It will last longer and work better.
For a second there i thought you advising to get actual assassin from feudal japan to chop your food for you.
Then i realised that Ninja is a brand of food processors.
Funny you should mention it. I actually employ a Fruit Ninja to chop my food for me.
Turns out they're very reasonable with their salary and the results are amazing.
ninjas cost 30 gold though
Do you not realize how old this goddamned machine is? Of course innovations have been made since the time this infomercial first aired. I remember watching this late at night in elementary and middle school; I'm 30 now. You could've saved that damn comment...
But will it produce that wonderful BURNING smell?
And Cher Tony is Chef Excellence's evil cousin
God damn, I was gonna make a chef excellence joke.
An Excellent First Joke
A Tony Product just isn't as excellent.
Stay fresh, cheese bags!
*****
How'd you find out my secret identity?!
Of course it smells of burning. Just like fire, the second to best kitchen item, it has to smell of burning.
PaladinusSP But wait! Order now and we’ll include a free fire extinguisher. Just pay separate handling
8:29 can't you smell that smell?
Ooh, that smell
The smell of burning cheap electrical appliances surrounds you! (Guitar solo)
YLW Pyro Yep, that's exactly what went through my head.
YLW Pyro I love you for your lynyrd skynyrd reference
Chef Tony keeps mentioning "mega power"
that is a meaningless combination of words
+ChaosSandwhich
I sinceely doubt it's rated for a million watts,
meaningless for anything but a SEGA Genesis cartridge.
@@JohnSmithAprilMay or a 90s wrestling tag team
Fack you. Chef tony is god. What he says always means something
Recipe: Milksteak
1. Boil a steak till done.
2. Pour 1 Cup of milk into the Ultimate Chopper
3. Cut up steak and drop into Ultimate Chopper
4. Chop it up!
5. Enjoy your MilkSteak
i would add salt and pepper and maybe a bit of garlic butter.
freshFerdinand No you fool, only the finest raw jelly beans can adorn such a masterpiece!
They should have asked Arnold to do the commercial, it would sell like hot cakes. "Get the Ultimate Choppa NOW!"
Ryu Hayabusa
GET TO DA CHOPPA
I’m sure they did. Arnie has more integrity than this.
"as dry as arseholes"
If there's one thing that infomercialism has taught me, it's that pretty much all of these products are very good cheese graters! XD
Edit: Except, ironically, almost anything that claims to be primarily a cheese grater! XD
As for the suggestions, what about Top Gear's v8 brick smoothie?! :p
except the cheese grater plate, oddly enough.
kirbynat493
HAHA! I forgot about that stupid thing! XD
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An excellent observation! XD Sorry, I couldn't resist! XD
Starter: Potato skins, could grate the cheese in it as well as the bacon ;) also could use that potato bag thing for the potato.
Main: Curry, can use it to cut all the veg and small pieces of meat and maybe even finely grind the spices
Dessert: Chunky Chocolate Ice-Cream cause I am curious how chocolate would fair in this machine :P maybe add some biscuit chucks to make it like rocky road a bit?
ice cream melts really fast in deserts.
ooops my bad
Aaron Gosselin not necessarily, deserts are classified as areas devoid of water, not heat. many deserts get very cold, especially at night.
I want to see if they're actually replacing the blade for free
Kya blade replace ho jaye hi
The concrete test was bound to fail because in the infomercial, they clearly used a breeze block (also known as cinder block) which can be used as a cheap alternative to bricks in the construction industry (the estate I grew up on was constantly under construction, building sites were my playgrounds, you tend to pick up on a few things when you play footie on a pitch dotted with rubble, mud and drainpipes)
Yup, and by the way, they enver said it would dull the blades, they said it would "never dull the blades, OR well replace them!".
But they knew that no one was going to pay a bunch of shipping to get new blades.
Hey Mike, just wanted to say thanks for these videos. They bring me great pleasure at my job, cubicles can be so drab if not for a little infomercialism and reviews. Good job mate, keep up the great work.
Cauliflower fried rice: process cauliflower in your food processor (or ultimate chopper) until it resembles rice. Cut up about 7 button mushrooms and 2 spring onions (using a knife). In pan with a bit of oil, fry mushrooms and onions until just soft, add cauliflower rice (about 2 cups per person) and Cook until cooked. Add soy sauce for singer extra flavor. We make this using a tiny chopper with not much power and it takes about 20 lots to process a head of cauliflower.
As a kid, I saw the infomercial for this thing dozens upon dozens of times, and I always wondered. Can it really make concrete into powder? Thanks for making this video and helping answer a question I've had for years.
I love his cutting board because I can always chuckle when something cover's the L in Peel.
Yup, I am that immature...
+Catty Mintgum And I appreciate you for it, keep it up.
+Catty Mintgum Or when the S in Slice gets covered up.
+Catty Mintgum Hey, at least you admit it. lol
Jennilee Harrison was Cindy on Three's Company. Now she's in a crappy infomercial. Work is work I guess.
"More cream" is Godzilla 1998, right? Jean Reno bitches about the coffee, someone says "It's French Roast", so he replies "more cream." I think, dunno.
+ZergrushEddie LOL, I remember that, the guy suspects that it isn't the real French Roast, but just a cheap American rip-off, so asks for more cream. The funny part was that the coffee was genuine French Roast and he still needed more cream.
I actually have TWO of these (mother-in-law gave us one, and we found one with the blender attachment at a Goodwill store for really cheap). The blender attachment is REALLY good for making bigger things thing milkshakes or mixed drinks, etc. As for the original cup, it's pretty good at chopping garlic and removing the skin (like they show in the infomercial), but what the wife and I have used it for the most is making hummus.
More watts = higher electricity cost. They always advertise that wrong.
If you use your mixer 24/7, you are right :D
How many Watts means nothing for performance. What is the torque rating of the motor?
All the Watts rating tells you is how much power it draws. The amps rating is much more useful in telling how much work it can pull off.
Isolder74 There is one place watts does mean something for performance... Microwaves.
Isolder74:Just, no. Watts=Amps*Voltage
Ondřej Dujka But 1 amp over 750 volts is 750W as well.
9:01 berries and cream, berries and cream, i'm a little lad who loves berries and cream.
Hey Mike J! Here's a drink idea for your Ultimate Chopper, a Strawberry and Banana Smoothie recipe that could be fun to try! You could also incorporate the Hutzler Banana Slicer lol! Enjoy! :) Ingredients you'll need are: 250 grams of hulled strawberries, 1 peeled and roughly chopped banana, 300 ml of 1% low fat milk, 150 ml natural yogurt, and a 15 ml spoon of clear honey. Then, place all the above ingredients into the Ultimate Chopper and blend it until it is smooth. If needed, adjust the sweetness according to taste and pour into serving glasses. Enjoy! Hope ya like it :)
Dude it's probably in a landfill now. There's no way he's keeping it. He destroyed it, and besides, the only thing he was impressed with was the cheese grating ability and I think he has about 20 other products that do that very well.
Watch the video from 14:11 and you'll see he's invited people to give him recipes to make in the Ultimate Chopper for a future video.
You're lacking concrete in your recipe.
James F Low fat Milk? Why not just use water then?
750W of MegaPower?
Wow, my existing food mixer only uses regular power. This must be better.
Mike whatever diet you're doing is working, you look a lot healthier now. Great job.
Even after coming back to this video years later, I have no idea what movie "More Cream" comes from.
Same.
Lol I never saw this channel before. This is cool. I like the idea a lot.
"I'm quite partial to horrible food myself..."
Not surprising when you live in Britain :D
wow ...what a sweeping generalisation!!..our food is good!!..i would rather eat British food compared to American food..which is just 96% Buuurggers 4% Candy......even "chocolate" there tastes like wax ffs!!
Four words. Cheese in a can.
British food is fantastic.
Cheeky
I remember seeing this infomercial years ago. They had two different versions of it, with different hosts. Looks like this product actually works fairly well. Not bad.
I am genuinely impressed by this thing
Mine has worked flawlessly for years. I like it and yes, it can decimate concrete and glass. I've tried it and it worked.
nice as always mike.
The smell is because they use underpowered motors, like a 110V one with 220V mains, so the smell you smell is the brushes sparking and making ozone because they are too small for the current its drawing and the motor wouldnt last 10 minutes continiously. Its all in all like a mix of a coffee grinder and a food processor.
I have a few ideas for recipes for you. Pico de gallo (fresh salsa like dip without the tomato paste base. I'm scaling the recipe down for obvious reasons.) Mince 1 clove of garlic, and set aside to mix in later. Chop 1/2 of a white onion set aside and add 5-6 table spoons of lime juice to the onions resting in the bowl. (The citric acid "cooks" the onion and takes away some pungency) Now in the chopper add 2 roma tomatoes or one medium tomato, half a bunch of fresh cilantro, or 3 table spoons dried cilantro and 1 jalepeno or 2 depending on tolerance and Chop. Now mix all the ingredients together add 1 table spoon of salt or salt and add lime to taste. Super easy and quick to make tastes great!
Try home-made spaghetti bolognese.
Mince the meat from bigger pieces (I suppose it's not big enough for more than diced meat like you'd use in stew).
Use it to mix the meat, tomatoes, mushrooms, sauce, etc, all together.
Use it to mix the dough for the spaghetti.
At this point you'd have to hand-roll the spaghetti from the dough. Can skip this and just buy ready made spaghetti but it'd be interesting to see if it can mix dough properly.
Finally use it to "powder" the parmesan for dusting over the top of the completed meal.
If you want bonus points, hand-make some garlic bread for the side. Again will require manually rolling it into shape once it's out of the chopper, but that's relatively easy and requires no tools.
U.S.= Chef Tony
U.K.= Chef Excellence
I want one about the Magic Bullet now.
Sounded like a similar consept that shouldn't stick to the side.
And of course its even tinier.
Processor/blender ice cream does work but it's more for something that blends with the blades facing upwards rather than sideways, as your experiment showed, since it tends to stick to the sides. If the blades face up the vibration can knock the frozen berries and cream back into them and spin them up, if it doesn't you can tap the container on the table a bit to shake them loose again.
Anyway as a small tip, add some sugar, vanilla and a tiny sprinkle of salt to it, helps the flavor a lot.
That’s exactly how natural peanut butter is made. You just need to keep spinning. It needed a little more time.
This is pretty entertaining. To me he also has that sort of Ashens vibe to everything.
Chef Tony makes a lot of infomercial apperances here in Spain :P oh, and to make a puree, it helps to add condensed milk and maybe a bit of soft cheese.
It seems pretty handy besides the whole burning smell.
Pesto!
30 g fresh basil leaves
45 g chopped walnuts or pine nuts
1 clove garlic, peeled
5 g grated Parmesan cheese
60 ml olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
1. Ulitimate Chop - nuts, garlic, parmesan
2. Add basil & olive oil - chop to desired pesto consistency
3. Add salt & pepper to taste
Ambrosia Salad
35g heavy whipping cream
35g shredded sweet coconut
10g chopped walnuts
30g fruit cocktail, drained
30g pineapple chunks, drained
30g mandarin oranges, drained
25g miniature marshmallows
35g maraschino cherries
1. Ultimate chop heavy whipping cream until foamy / puffy
2. add rest of ingredients to ultimate chop, chop until fruit incorporated with whipped cream
Get 200g of beef. Cut it, put it in into the machine. Add 1 tablespoon of salt, 1/2 tablespoon of pepper, 1 garlic clove and a egg yolk. Turn the machine on. Spread it on your bread with butter.
Starter: Salmon Tartare (can be served on toasted bread maybe) - smoked salmon, spring onions, salt, pepper, olive oil, chillies if you like it spicy, parsley, squeezed lemon juice, or grate the zest - all in the chopper to a slightly small chunky texture.
Main: Spaghetti with tomato & basil sauce - Blend chopped tomatoes (out of a tin) with salt, pepper, fresh basil leaves, garlic, red onion (if you want it in there) , hint of olive oil. Blend until liquidised then heat in pan and add spaghetti to mix (can also add chicken or fish afterwards if desired) can also add parmesan or capers etc to the blending if you like.
Dessert: Banana & biscuit crumb with wafers (I made this one up) - Blend bananas, bit of cream and digestive biscuits together with a hint of sugar. Serve on top of ice cream wafers.
Correct me if I am wrong but that's not exactly how powdered sugar works. What you made was ultra fine granulated sugar which is good for icings and other light desserts. POWDERED SUGAR has cornstarch in it to prevent caking and melting in moister so it won't clump up like it did in the video and is ground to an even finer texture than what it came out in. It would have been POWDER, not clumpy crystals.
Ok Chef Mike, here's a recipe straight from Poland for a dish called "Tatar".
Ingridients:
300g of veal (sirloin)
3 Egg yokes
1 shallot
1 not too large pickle
1 tsp mustard (not too spicy)
1 tbsp of olive oil
salt
pepper
You finely blend it all in and eat it raw, if you'd like you can spread on a piece of bread. It's commonly served as a starter in Poland.
Got a recipe that you can try out and you won't even need a measuring cup :)
Ingredients: 1 can tuna, 1 can cream of mushroom soup, one or two sticks of celery, 1/4 onion (optional), a handful of frozen peas (optional), one small bag of Chinese noodles (I use Farkay Chow Mein noodles, but I dunno if you can get those in Britain) 1/4 bay leaf, chili powder, thyme, rosemary and basil to taste. You will also need one small casserole dish.
Put the celery (and onion) in the chopper, chop finely. Add the tuna and spices just to mix. Put in the baking dish.
Put 3/4 of the bag of noodles in the chopper, pulse once or twice. Add to tuna mix.
Stir in the soup (do not add water) and the peas. Sprinkle remaining noodles on top.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes. (You can turn on your broiler to brown the noodles on top, if you like)
Will it blend?
I absolutely love you lol you never fail to make me laugh x
I'm just guessing, but do dry roasted peanuts remove some/most of the oils? I think that's what's missing (you could add maybe a teaspoon of peanut oil to make it creamier).
The "Dry as arsehole" just kills me everytime haha
It actually sounds pretty good for a 1 person household.
Thats the first advertisement, I actually might buy!
Is this the CH-1? Do you know where to order a lid? Mine cracked.... every time I try to call them it rings once and then there's a busy signal.....I guess they had a few law suits against them too
Hummus: Chickpeas(recommend that you let them soak in water overnight), garlic, sesame seed paste, olive oil, and some spices(salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder).
Concrete puree
Yep. He should have just destroyed it. I was really looking forward to it.
He totally bitched out... safety glasses and work gloves, let the little bastard spin.
delicious
I've been watching these all night... I can't stop laughing
Here's a spiced ham spread you can make in a processor:
Take leftover ham, some mayonnaise, a small bit of hot sauce, and some mustard, and toss them in the processor. Blend 'til smooth. If it's too dry, add some more mayo. Should come out nice. I don't have estimates on the sauces, because it's really a "season to taste" sort of thing, the mayo is key for making it spreadable though.
I really love the show! But how do i mail you stuff to review?
I gotta say, of all the products you've tested, this looks like one of the most functional. The only thing that concerns me is the heat and burning smell described when in use-- could it be a potential fire hazard?
Chef Tony: A Terrible Product
*Chef excellence music*
Do you still have this device and could you cut plastics with it?
Are you using ceramic knife on glass chopping board?
The commercial was bang on about peanut butter though
I kind of wonder what Mike's opinion on the Magic Bullet would be.
My grandmother-in-law bought one of these for my husband and I. It sucks. the well for food is tiny, it got gummed up all the time and the lid broke really easily (much like your pre-broken one). It was terrible, replaced it within a few months with a full processor. Then ditched that for just chopping food
I dont think I'd ever buy anything with blades that my cat could activate.
.... what does it do to chocolate!?
I'm glad you used Cheese Mike.
I actually like the look of this... I tend to have a lot of smoothies, which is what the chopper made instead of ice cream... though obviously through using this, they'd have to be damn small smoothies lol.
Well, this youtuber seems funny. Liked and subscribed.
I love this
An excellent tiny blender.
So did they replace the blades for free?
So MikeJ, after the whole Ovengate fiasco, are you still interested in getting the Dump Cakes cookbook? Turns out it is quite well stocked at several of my local Walgreen's and CVS. I'd be more than willing to send it to you if you'd like.
Ugh, so what's the conversion of "bugger" ? Wasn't "stones" bad enough....?
I'm not a very experenced cook. Can somebody tell me if the Ultimate Chopper does anything a food proccesor can't? It looks like a cheaply constructed food proccesor to me.
As for the size, I guess it would work well if used to make things like salsa or pesto while something is cooking in the oven or on the stove.
Pretty sure I'm too late for the recipes, but here's my go:
Batch one: Potatoes and carrots
Makes: Mash
Batch two: Chicken filet, onion, cheese, sage, thyme, pepper and bell pepper
Makes: Meaty paste
Put the mash on the bottom of a oven proof tray, top with the paste and put in oven for 20 minutes on 220 degrees Celsius.
Oh yes, whenever I think of a food processor, I always think about sticking concrete in it.
I only trust Chef Excellence. ;)
BTW, when you say recipes to make, does that mean they have to be ones that you at straight away or is cooking allowed? Because you could make nutella brownies, just put 280g of nutella, 62g of plain flour and 2 eggs all whizzed together and then baked for about ten minutes or so. Just keep an eye on if so it doesn't overcook and possibly put it on for less time if you've got a really hot oven. 160C to cook it at.
found this in my mom's cabinet --she must have fell for Chef Tony one night--anyway just used it to chop onions--it did work--but really it's for small things--and be careful not to over chop because you'll get a puree
can't believe this video is almost 2 years old.
souperman72 I can’t believe this comment is a year old.
You remind me of Ashens
The way you do this stuff is cool, +1 subscriber!
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Holy balls how did I not see this channel before?
So they say the blade is guaranteed forever? What if, theoretically, like in 90 or 150 years, you or someone who ended up with it wants the blade replaced? Do you really think they'll still be around replace it? No. Also, all these cheap choppers seem to have the same problem: You still have to chop up whatever it is so it'll fit in it as opposed to a real food processor where you just throw the food in it. Piece of junk.
where can i buy it? thanks
You could probably get away with a batch of hummus. One cup cooked or canned chickpeas, 1/4 cup tahini, one or two cloves garlic, a few tablespoons lemon juice, and some salt. Proportions are a bit open because hummus is kind of subjective: some people like tahini-heavy hummus, some like it more garlicky, some like very creamy hummus and some like it more coarse, and so on. About halfway through blending process, drizzle a little olive oil in the mix, then continue blending.
(If you've never used tahini, you're going to notice that some brands have a thick layer of oil above a layer of paste that's almost the density of modeling clay. You'll have to mix the two together before measuring, and it's a bit of a chore, so it might even be worth it to see how quickly the Ultimate Chopper can blend tahini paste.)
yummy hummus! :D
looks pretty good i want one
Mike see if you can churn cream into butter with that thing please, that would be awesome!
Am I the only one who thinks the berries with the cream looked like popcorn at 9:38?
I like how they keep bringing up the wattage like it's how powerful the machine is. Wattage is how much electricity it uses, not the strength of the motor. They're basically extolling the virtues of raising your electric bill!
that burning smell is the motor being overcharged and with break the motor if used too long at one time
13:18
"well... that's fucked."
lol
umm, how will you do it now that the blades are dull. Also it looked like it was smoking a tad.
If you want a simple recipe. You can try making pepper or tomato soup. You could also make pesto? I have no idea what is in pesto. Or Hummus which is pureed chickpeas.
The peanut butter is best made with about a tablespoon of peanut oil, and yes, the carrots either need to be lightly cooked, or put in about a tablespoon of water for extra liquidiness. These machines also require you to hold that button down a little longer, or not done in pulses. If you had held it down longer during the peanut butter trial and the carrot trial you may have reached the consistancy they showed in the informercial.
Um if ice cream had eggs in it wouldn't you have to cook it before eating it? I've cream has cream, flavoring, and I think maybe ice crystals or something
Hello! I enjoyed the episode Mike. Probably the most nostalgic for me since this thing had daily commercials on some stations when I was a kid.
I like to ponder which you dislike more in this video: your lacking culinary skills and the machines ineffective capacity. I'm sure the ice cream would have been better if you had added sugar and/or eggs (which you were aware) to actually bolster the flavor. But this machine had a lot of promise from its infomercial and it didn't perform as good as the machines that it was in competition to. Really you busted this infomercial with the ice cream maker claim, how could anyone buy that this device could compete with an ice cream maker?
Also, You really should wear gloves and/or at least safety goggles if you're going to destroy a food processor. Great video Mike!
Chef Tony!! Legend!! Also, how come all of the 'before' bits are in monochrome whilst the featured product is displayed in glorious colour....oh, yeah, advertising...
So, Mr. Frosty finally has a worthy rival for grating cheese.
I remember making a banana milkshake in the Ultimate Chopper. It blew up during mixing. Then I left that thing fried on the cupboard in fear and it almost killed my mum from electrical shock during her investigation.
I rushed to catch TopGear on time.
"more cream" - Godzilla? 1998 edition ? :)