Watching you open, assemble and operate devices is very helpful. Im legally blind, had multiple strokes and must use assistive devices. So, your videos help me decide which products I can use and which ones I can't. I could not operate most of those devices. That saves me time, money and lots of frustration. Thanks
@mrbarrylewis also does a lot of kitchen gadget reviews if you haven't discovered him. I don't mean to advertise other channels on this fellas video, but if this sorta thing helps you out, I'd hate for you to not know about it.
@@thumbsarehandy.I got a jar key or whatever it's called for my mum after seeing it on a video from the guy. It helped her out so many times with her arthritis.
Ricers are OLD, even my great grandmother had one. But you were making it harder than it needed. You set it on a pan or bowl, fill it then hold the bottom handle with one hand and use the other to push down on the other handle instead of trying to squeeze it together with both hands.
@@SilvaDreams oh that's how I use my chompers when cutting really thick weeds/trees. Place one side on the ground for better leverage and push down with my whole body.
Yes, it is easier. But take into account, he has to do things so we, as viewers who may be seeing this thing for the first time, can see what is happening. So even if he knew that, he has to make it so the camera gets what is happening. But good to educate those that didn't grow up using these. (My older brother used to tell me it was making potato worms or potato maggots 😮)
Yup, I have been using a ricer for years. I bought mine @ TJ Maxx for 5.99. If you want to make smooth mashed potatoes for a crowd, then use a food mill instead. Ricers are also good for squeezing liquid out of foods such a spinach.
I've had one of those bagel slicers for 15+ years. Love it. Perfectly sliced every time so your bagel is always even. For whatever reason, I seem physically incapable to slicing a bagel with a knife without making it extra wide on one side and paper thin on the other.
I think the cattywampus slicing is actually baked into a bagel when it sees a knife coming. It's good to know about the the guillotine though because I think that it's going to be on my Christmas list this year
...or slicing your hand! Had one of these forever. I inherited my mother's ricer - I'm guessing now it's close to 70 years old, and like me, not terribly shiny any more 😉 but it's invaluable for mashed potatoes.
That potato ricer looks just like the one my Grandma had but shinier. It's a great device. My Grandma used it to make baby food too. Just put the cooked veg or fruit in and it mushed it just right for the baby.
My grandmother had a potato ricer. There were holes all around the side also. It cut out that difficult start because the potatoes would come out the sides to start off with.
Thanks. Now I know what is wrong with my new potato ricer. My old one that my mom used years ago had holes all round as well as the bottom. My new one only has holes on the bottom. It also has 2 different size discs for the bottom. If I overload or push too hard, the disc will actually pop out. I hate it but until now couldn’t put my finger on why it was so different from the original my mom had.
Potato ricers are relatively old food tech from the late 1800's, lumpyness will depend on the variety of spud used. Useful for folk who might not have the mobility to mash by hand
Bagel guillotine has been around for years. I remember seeing it and using it on bagels in my company's cafeteria during breakfast. This was back in the 1990's too.
Potato ricers are great. They are also a really easy way to “rice” veggies such as cauliflower. Some of them also come with interchangeable plates so you can adjust how fine the “rice” is. I feel like it is a decent non uni-tasker kitchen gadget since its use extends beyond just potatoes.
I use my ricer to remove excess water from thawed frozen spinach as well as zucchini for recipes. So much easier than wringing it through a kitchen towel!
that Al Dente is a funny name, but man that HAS to be in the running for Worst product of the Year, a piece of plastic with a battery!? that I put in boiling water to let me know when my pasta is done, sounds like a fake product for a Robocop remake.
😂 ditto. If you know the times already, why not set a timer on your phone, your microwave or your oven? Not to mention… wouldn’t this put micro plastics in your pasta water?
My grandmother had one, my mother had one, I have one 😁 Mine has a loose bottom with several inserts with different hole sizes. The biggest one is for a specific kind of noodles (Spätzle).
I have used my bagel guillotine for years and it is well-made. The blade does get dull after a lot of slicing and then smashes bagels. Rather than throw it away, I stuck a small file up into the blade area from below and filed the blade sharp at the tip on both sides. Filing does take off the protective coating, but that didn't seem to matter. I have refiled a sharp tip on the blade twice and it is still worth keeping and using. You can wash it out in the sink or pop it into the dishwasher.
He mentioned muffins are one of the things it could be used to slice. Have you tried muffins in yours? I don’t see any way a muffin is fitting in there!
You know you're not supposed to put knives in the dishwasher? It makes them dull. So by washing your bagel guillotine in the dishwasher that's most likely adding to the dullness. Just some information
We had a potato ricer like that one when I was growing up. I think it's still around somewhere. My mother used it all the time. The other gadgets I wouldn't bother with.
I have one of those ricers. I actually put potatoes with skins in it, and it actually skins to potatoes, just don't overfill it.The skins will be in the bottom. And the potatoes will be perfectly riced
That's how I use mine. It also works lovely for baked squash. Due to complications from cancer I'm on a feeding tube. All my food must be pureed and pushed through a sieve so no clogging of tube. So I bake several squashes and potatoes and sweet potatoes and they all go in my ricer. The skins stay right in the ricer nicely. Then I freeze in 1/2 cup cubes for easy food prep for me. I have also used it to make a form of spatzle. I put the batter in and slowly squeeze it into the boiling water. Beautiful little spatzle
You had the donut stand base upside down. Frosted side up, shiny side down. The screw then sits flush to the bottom and the feet stick better. Won't wobble then.
Potato ricers are one of those gadgets that people are re-discovering, when they've been around for well over a century. My parents got one as a wedding gift back in the 60's.
Dude, put the butter directly into the ricer. Smaller pieces of potatoes if you want an easier start. You don’t need an electric mixer to make perfect mashed potatoes. Also the riser will stand upright if you put it on the bowl. This is not a new gadget, it’s three days older than dirt.
"Perfect" mashed potatoes have some texture. If you have teeth or don't have a sore throat that requires you to eat mush, why would you want potatoes with zero texture? Gives me lumps.
Potato ricers are what they use to fix Spaghetti-Eis in Germany. It's a small layer of frozen whipped cream on a plate, topped with vanilla soft serve put through the ricer, which makes it look like spaghetti. That's then topped with strawberry puree (for the "sauce"), white chocolate shavings ("cheese"), and occasionally, Ferrero Rocher candies, for a "spaghetti and meatballs" look.
Here's my question. The Al dente pasta timer you gave me something to think about. When you said it ran on a battery. That made me kind of weary about eating pasta that was boiled with a battery.🤔🤐
When I first visited my American Aunt in Palm Springs 20 years ago, I stayed at a hotel that had a Bagel cutter . It was the one thing i bought and brought back to Britain!
There's another kitchen tool called a food mill that might be a little easier to use, and a little more versatile than a potato ricer. Does the same thing, forcing soft food through small holes, but with a handle that you turn, while setting the whole unit on a pot or bowl. Nice thing is you can also process foods with skin and seeds, like cooked apples and tomatoes, to make apple and tomato sauce. And with the potatoes you can leave the skins on, and the mill will separate them out.
@@woodstream6137 The ricer. New ones are dishwasher safe. Food mills don't always separate in to the mesh strainer and the smoosher with handle. Mesh strainers are a pain in the sass even with a dishwasher.
We had one of these at an office I worked at in the 90's. What we found was that if the bagels were grocery store bought or a day old, this thing worked great. But at our office, a production assistant would go to a real bagel shop on the way into work, so our bagels were super fresh, and often the blade would just smoosh down the bagel rather than cut it. The dough was too fresh for it and they just got mangled. But for a grocery story/CostCo/WalMart bagel, these things are great.
Ricers are way over a hundred years old....Chefs have always used them...for mashed potatoes, do not use a mixer, the starch will make them gummy. Ricers give a much better texture.
I have the bagel slicer and love it. It’s cuts firm rolls not soft rolls. Bagels bought from different bakers also makes a difference. Some make big bagels and not so round.
@@kathiecrocker1118Then everyone moves the donuts around to get the one they want, with a box your just grabbing the one donut you want. Also the donuts with frosting on them will stick to one another, in a box they don’t.
The potato masher is also really great for making homemade spetzel or however you spell it. It’s a German pasta. We used it for the first time on my brother’s birthday. Used to be we’d have a person holding a colander over a pot of boiling water as another person smashed the paste through the colander’s holes with a round glass bottom. It was a pain. The potato smasher made it so easy.
I love my potato ricer, same model you tested. Haven't thought about using it for carrots and squash, but now I will definitely do it. I liked the bagel guillotine and will possibly buy one. I like to buy bagels and rolls, cut them, put wax paper between the halves and freeze them. They're always ready for the toaster and this device will make that production go much faster. I probably wouldn't use it for single use applications. Just get the bread knife.
Ricers and food mills are also used for baby food. My husband likes instant potatoes, so that’s what we mostly use. I cook Yukon Gold and use a potato masher as I like small pieces of potato. Many years ago we ate at a restaurant on Lake Cowichan in BC that mashed potatoes the same way; that was wonderful
I can vouch for the potato ricer. I use mine every time I make mashed potatoes...don't know if I have the same brand or not but I had mine for quite a few years.
i have a bagel guitine. fast downward motion is best. firmer bagels are also best. the potato ricer is great. i use it for ricing potatoes used in recipes other than mashed potatoes. if you have a meat grinder, the smallest thingy does the same thing.
I got a similar bagel cutter. It works very well. I might have gotten it from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Mine has a white frame. Thanks for your work. I've had a potato ricer too. Very good. Only issue is closing it can be a bit tricky on the size of the potato. It's like a big garlic press. On the bagel cutter, be careful when cleaning with soap and water as the blade is a little sharp!
I grew up with a wall mounted can opener in the kitchen that was quite similar to the Swing A-Way can openers sold on Amazon. (It might have been a Dazey Deluxe, not sure since the 1950s were a long time ago.) The hand crank was much easier to use than the key on the side of the hand held openers. Never had to search for a can opener, and the crank was easy for even a child to operate.
I'm amazed that people still don't know about potato ricers. I have used one for mashed potatoes for at least two decades now and cringe if I'm forced to use a masher.
7:53 looks like a little car you’d see in London 😍 It’s adorbs! 9:21 I thought this little guy would be one of those safety openers. Idk why. It just looked like it would be one that takes the whole top off
Been using a potato ricer for literally decades! THE BEST way to make mashed potatoes. No question. The real issue is clean up when finished. The ability to disassemble and clean is an important feature that should be strongly considered.
I've had the bagel guillotine for over 15 years now and it's great because for the life of me, I cannot cut a straight line and always end up with weird looking pieces 😂 It might be unnecessary for some but I've found it really useful and it's also stood the test of time and I'm able to just toss it in the dishwasher.
I'm impressed with the Bagel Guillotine. Might have to get one. I have a similar potato ricer somewhere in my kitchen. I prefer to mash my potatoes with a potato masher. The car can opener is cute, but if it takes more effort, then I'll stick with my regular one. Thanks for the reviews! 👍
A note about the potato ricer. You can also use it to make spaetzle (german pasta, very good) and something else they do in Germany is they run vanilla ice cream through it and make something called "Spaghetti Ice". Basically, you run vanilla ice cream through the ricer, that makes ice cream noodles. Then you put on a strawberry or cherry (normally strawberry) topping as the "sauce". If you want to get really fancy with it, you add crumbles of brownies as the "meatballs" and shaved white chocolate on top as the parm. As a kid, it was literally something you could order from the ice cream truck. German ice cream trucks were a lot different than american ones. :P
I still use my grandmother's potato ricer. It's probably almost 100 years old. You can eat riced potatoes just as they are - just butter and salt on top, no mixing.
Man I'm glad I found this channel , I've been a routine follower and watcher of this channel since 2015 or 2016-ish can't remember exactly when but I was buying something and I was like well I might as well look it up see if there's a video about it and sure enough there was your channel now I find myself watching every video even if it's something that I'm never going to buy Great job
I have the bagel guillotine, potato ricer,and can do can opener and I love them. A got some bagels from Panera and they cut them. The cut was so off center. I like them to be even and the guillotine does that.
Me as well. I have lots of old kitchen devices,bowls etc that were my Grandmother's and Granny's. I don't buy a lot of kitchen gadgets. I'm more old school
, we use a similar thing but instead of pressing you have a handle to turn... its like a grinder... I always made mash potatoes like that and before my mom and grandmother. I don't like mash potatoes that are done with a mixer. Do you have a pestle? Masher? Or don't you use that? I see there are different utensils in the USA than in Europe. Always nice to watch it... ❤
I bought a potato ricer but only used it a couple of times. It wasn't as easy to use as you would think. You have to do small batches and requires significant effort. Cleaning it was a pain. Pre mashing with a manual masher then using a hand mixer produced good results.
5:24 😂 The complaint about lumpy texture is people eating riced potatoes as mashed potatoes. If you want them fully mashed, you have 1 extra step that's been massively simplified
We have had a bagel guillotine in our office for years. It's very handy for our Bagel/Donut Club. I don't think we'd enjoy the donut display as much, for the very reasons you stated.
had a similar potato press, but it was probably a little thinner material so the handle twisted. works just as well with an electric whisk, there are no lumps if you have floury potatoes. but i gonna by me a sturdier one.
The ricer I have, from the 50's, has smaller holes but many more of them and the holes are along the side of the basket as well. It doesn't take much effort to "squeeze" it. :)
With the potato ricer, if you overload it, some of the potato doesnt get riced and lumps can come out when you open the ricer. Donut holder you could use a bulk toilet roll holder (un-used) of the same design, and even then only if your a competitive eater doing a donut challenge.
For the potato ricer we never mixed it up, just scooped it out of the bowl on our plates and poured gravy over them. I like electric can openers better.
I love my potato ricer! It was my grandmother’s and is still great! About the bagel cutter, would have been nice to see how it cuts real bagels since they are firmer 😢
The leaning Tower of donuts LOL. Okay concept like who really needs it. I think it's great. Maybe for bakeries or donut shops? Maybe restaurants who wants to display donuts or bagels. Whatever is around or square whatever shape LOL
I've owned a bagel guillotine for many years. As long as the bagel is firm, it works like a champ. And I wash it on the top rack of my dishwasher without any issues.
Bagel Guillotine/Slicer has been available for 50+ years under many brands and has commercial versions with NSF rated to keep local Heath Dept and OSHA happy.
Tips for best mashed potatoes: *Rest your ricer over a warmed stainless steel bowl & press down on 1 handle of ricer. *Always add hot milk/cream & melted butter - to maintain heat of potatoes. For extra yumminess use warmed sour cream *Season to your liking. * Work fast & cover your mash to retain heat. *For mash that's next level - swap out ⅓ of potatoes for sweet potatoe, boil together in same pot & rice/mash as usual. * Using a ricer makes mashed potatoes- lump free & aerated.
Ideally with that potato ricer, you have butter and milk (or mayo in the south😎) and put that riced potato straight into the bowl. The reason that you do this in the first place is because if you over mix your potatoes they get gluey. With this all your potatoes are mashed and once you put those hot potatoes on top of that butter, all you need to do is stir It two or three times and it's mixed. Silky smooth
I have a very old ricer-and it has holes on the sides about 2" from bottom as well as on the bottom. Only fill it half full-easier to squeeze. It is a pain to wash-soak immediately after mashing!!
Barry lewis out of the uk reviewd al dente years ago and loves it uses it in videos often. If the thought of boiling a battery operated bit of plastic wasnt a deterant the vast range in product quality sure should be.
I've used a potato ricer for 50+ years. My grandparents used them before that. Makes great fluffy potatoes. Not the same consistency as whipped or mashed, better.
I always wanted to try the potato ricer to make mashed potatoes but every time I've watched videos about them people say they make the potatoes grainy. I'm glad you had a different result
Potato Ricer, that's quite a funny name for that thing. We have one of those things from my grandma, which she bought in the 60s. It's such a sturdy, heavy thing, it'll probably last another 60 years.
I have the bagel slicer, but I haven't found a bagel that slices well with it yet. It always seems to crush or flatten the bagel instead of giving me a clean cut.
The donut holder seemed like a solution looking for a problem - I’m wondering if you could pull a donut from the middle without removing the ones above it ? It would mess up the donut you were going to eat, if pulling even works, but it may prevent having to touch the other donuts. Not sure if pulling a bagel from the middle of the stack would work as bagels are sturdier
I have a potato ricer handed down from my mother. Mine has the holes on the side and bottom. We boiled the potatoes with the peel. The peel stays in the ricer while the potatoes come out the holes. It is a bit messy as the potatoes come through the side holes. I pour melted butter over the potatoes and add salt and pepper. Tastes more like baked.
Watching you open, assemble and operate devices is very helpful. Im legally blind, had multiple strokes and must use assistive devices. So, your videos help me decide which products I can use and which ones I can't.
I could not operate most of those devices. That saves me time, money and lots of frustration.
Thanks
You may also like the product review videos from Barry Lewis. He's British, but most (if not all) of the products are available online.
@mrbarrylewis also does a lot of kitchen gadget reviews if you haven't discovered him. I don't mean to advertise other channels on this fellas video, but if this sorta thing helps you out, I'd hate for you to not know about it.
@@thumbsarehandy. Lol, you barely beat me. Great minds think alike.
@@thumbsarehandy.I got a jar key or whatever it's called for my mum after seeing it on a video from the guy. It helped her out so many times with her arthritis.
Yes, much easier to put it on the edge of the bowl.
Ricers are OLD, even my great grandmother had one. But you were making it harder than it needed. You set it on a pan or bowl, fill it then hold the bottom handle with one hand and use the other to push down on the other handle instead of trying to squeeze it together with both hands.
@@SilvaDreams oh that's how I use my chompers when cutting really thick weeds/trees. Place one side on the ground for better leverage and push down with my whole body.
Yes, it is easier. But take into account, he has to do things so we, as viewers who may be seeing this thing for the first time, can see what is happening. So even if he knew that, he has to make it so the camera gets what is happening. But good to educate those that didn't grow up using these. (My older brother used to tell me it was making potato worms or potato maggots 😮)
This is how my grandmother made potato pie
I really like riced potatoes. It was a stable of my mother familly gatherings
Yup, I have been using a ricer for years.
I bought mine @ TJ Maxx for 5.99.
If you want to make smooth mashed potatoes for a crowd, then use a food mill instead.
Ricers are also good for squeezing liquid out of foods such a spinach.
I've had one of those bagel slicers for 15+ years. Love it. Perfectly sliced every time so your bagel is always even. For whatever reason, I seem physically incapable to slicing a bagel with a knife without making it extra wide on one side and paper thin on the other.
I was wondering if it would cut English muffins or would they be too small? I can never get those cut right.
I bought one for my mother several decades ago, but it was called a Bagel Biter.
I think the cattywampus slicing is actually baked into a bagel when it sees a knife coming. It's good to know about the the guillotine though because I think that it's going to be on my Christmas list this year
...or slicing your hand! Had one of these forever.
I inherited my mother's ricer - I'm guessing now it's close to 70 years old, and like me, not terribly shiny any more 😉 but it's invaluable for mashed potatoes.
@@zsigzsag Easier to just get fork split ones I reckon. The toast up nicer with that nice bumpy surface.
That potato ricer looks just like the one my Grandma had but shinier. It's a great device. My Grandma used it to make baby food too. Just put the cooked veg or fruit in and it mushed it just right for the baby.
My grandmother had a potato ricer. There were holes all around the side also. It cut out that difficult start because the potatoes would come out the sides to start off with.
I still use my grandma's ricer, and it's like yours with holes on the sides, too.
Yes! That's what was different!
Our ricer is new and has holes on the sides and bottom too. All the ones I have seen are that way to. So strange.
Thanks. Now I know what is wrong with my new potato ricer. My old one that my mom used years ago had holes all round as well as the bottom. My new one only has holes on the bottom. It also has 2 different size discs for the bottom. If I overload or push too hard, the disc will actually pop out. I hate it but until now couldn’t put my finger on why it was so different from the original my mom had.
0:25 OMG for a second there it looked like James hand THREE hands!
Really?!
That was crazy!!! I was like....wth am I 👀
I thought the same thing
I am so glad I wasn't the only one!😂
I had to go back and replay it.
Potato ricers are relatively old food tech from the late 1800's, lumpyness will depend on the variety of spud used. Useful for folk who might not have the mobility to mash by hand
Aaand potatoes must be perfectly cooked. If they're under..it's a disaster.
Also if you like ultra smooth mashed potatoes plus other soft veggies.
@@andybrown4284 if you can squeeze potatoes through that thing then you have the mobility to mash by hand.
It would be easier to mash by hand than try and squeeze that thing .
@@alisonb4898 that would defeat the whole purpose of this.
Bagel guillotine has been around for years. I remember seeing it and using it on bagels in my company's cafeteria during breakfast. This was back in the 1990's too.
Potato ricers are great. They are also a really easy way to “rice” veggies such as cauliflower. Some of them also come with interchangeable plates so you can adjust how fine the “rice” is. I feel like it is a decent non uni-tasker kitchen gadget since its use extends beyond just potatoes.
I use my ricer to remove excess water from thawed frozen spinach as well as zucchini for recipes. So much easier than wringing it through a kitchen towel!
Good for mass quantity of garlic 😂😂
What’s better than cooked pasta? Cooked pasta with a leeching toxic plastic electronic timer!
And one that does not give the correct timing
that Al Dente is a funny name, but man that HAS to be in the running for Worst product of the Year, a piece of plastic with a battery!? that I put in boiling water to let me know when my pasta is done, sounds like a fake product for a Robocop remake.
😂 ditto. If you know the times already, why not set a timer on your phone, your microwave or your oven? Not to mention… wouldn’t this put micro plastics in your pasta water?
Yeah let's boil the electronics, what a good idea 🙄.
@@TheRealNormanBates But why use any of those things when you can season your pasta with plastic and heavy metals?
I'd buy that for a dollar.
@@jamesbyrd3740indeed!
I can't believe that while testing a bagle slicer, you said "We are on a roll here" and never even cracked a smile, lol!
🤣
I knew he was gonna “HI-YAH!” One of them bagels 😂
The potato ricer is very good for making Mashed Faux-tatoes. Mashed up cauliflower instead of potatoes. Low carb substitute.
Ricers have been around forever. I either use a mixer or a food mill. I don’t have any room for a tool that only has one use.
My grandmother had one, my mother had one, I have one 😁
Mine has a loose bottom with several inserts with different hole sizes. The biggest one is for a specific kind of noodles (Spätzle).
Pretty sure ricers didn't exist in the Stone Age.
@@Okurka.Probably one of the earliest advances of the iron age, though.
Al Dente needs to sleep with the fishes.
Useless product anyway better to just use a timer or the one your phone. One less item to wash.
@@9TailsfanI wouldn't put that plastic crap in my water. I don't understand putting extra plastic in your food. I use timer on my phone
I have used my bagel guillotine for years and it is well-made. The blade does get dull after a lot of slicing and then smashes bagels. Rather than throw it away, I stuck a small file up into the blade area from below and filed the blade sharp at the tip on both sides. Filing does take off the protective coating, but that didn't seem to matter. I have refiled a sharp tip on the blade twice and it is still worth keeping and using. You can wash it out in the sink or pop it into the dishwasher.
He mentioned muffins are one of the things it could be used to slice. Have you tried muffins in yours? I don’t see any way a muffin is fitting in there!
@@andrews2296I think they meant crumpets and English muffins.
You know you're not supposed to put knives in the dishwasher? It makes them dull. So by washing your bagel guillotine in the dishwasher that's most likely adding to the dullness. Just some information
We had a potato ricer like that one when I was growing up. I think it's still around somewhere. My mother used it all the time. The other gadgets I wouldn't bother with.
I have one of those ricers. I actually put potatoes with skins in it, and it actually skins to potatoes, just don't overfill it.The skins will be in the bottom. And the potatoes will be perfectly riced
That's how I use mine. It also works lovely for baked squash.
Due to complications from cancer I'm on a feeding tube. All my food must be pureed and pushed through a sieve so no clogging of tube.
So I bake several squashes and potatoes and sweet potatoes and they all go in my ricer. The skins stay right in the ricer nicely.
Then I freeze in 1/2 cup cubes for easy food prep for me.
I have also used it to make a form of spatzle. I put the batter in and slowly squeeze it into the boiling water. Beautiful little spatzle
@Emeraldwitch30 good to know.
You had the donut stand base upside down. Frosted side up, shiny side down. The screw then sits flush to the bottom and the feet stick better. Won't wobble then.
Yes, the rage bait is too obvious as it has been lately 😂
So you actually bought one?
... it's 2 pieces of plastic and a screw... for a problem nobody has.
Don't care if it was or wasn't wobbly... it's a crappy product.
😂
@@Zardox2 yeh
I do agree there.
I just can't unsee the backwards handle on your pot lol
Haha I didn't even notice that! Hopefully that wasn't too triggering for anyone!
Love your channel. Your reviews help me so much. You r honest with your reviews. Tyfs. Take care James n Bailey
Potato ricers are one of those gadgets that people are re-discovering, when they've been around for well over a century. My parents got one as a wedding gift back in the 60's.
@ 3:12 funny...."we are on a ROLL here....." good one !!
Dude, put the butter directly into the ricer. Smaller pieces of potatoes if you want an easier start. You don’t need an electric mixer to make perfect mashed potatoes. Also the riser will stand upright if you put it on the bowl. This is not a new gadget, it’s three days older than dirt.
3 days older than dirt. 😂😂 Love it
"Perfect" mashed potatoes have some texture. If you have teeth or don't have a sore throat that requires you to eat mush, why would you want potatoes with zero texture? Gives me lumps.
@@englishatheartmy Mom doesn't like lumps in her mashed potatoes it's a texture thing for her.
You don't need to peel the taters either, the peel doesn't go through the holes
What's old is new again! I love my ricer.
Potato ricers are what they use to fix Spaghetti-Eis in Germany. It's a small layer of frozen whipped cream on a plate, topped with vanilla soft serve put through the ricer, which makes it look like spaghetti. That's then topped with strawberry puree (for the "sauce"), white chocolate shavings ("cheese"), and occasionally, Ferrero Rocher candies, for a "spaghetti and meatballs" look.
I have that same ricer...love that thing!
Here's my question.
The Al dente pasta timer you gave me something to think about. When you said it ran on a battery. That made me kind of weary about eating pasta that was boiled with a battery.🤔🤐
When I first visited my American Aunt in Palm Springs 20 years ago, I stayed at a hotel that had a Bagel cutter . It was the one thing i bought and brought back to Britain!
There's another kitchen tool called a food mill that might be a little easier to use, and a little more versatile than a potato ricer. Does the same thing, forcing soft food through small holes, but with a handle that you turn, while setting the whole unit on a pot or bowl. Nice thing is you can also process foods with skin and seeds, like cooked apples and tomatoes, to make apple and tomato sauce. And with the potatoes you can leave the skins on, and the mill will separate them out.
The ricer won't push the skin through either. Whoch do you think is easier to clean?
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The ricer. New ones are dishwasher safe. Food mills don't always separate in to the mesh strainer and the smoosher with handle. Mesh strainers are a pain in the sass even with a dishwasher.
@@rainsoakedpuppy thx. I'll stick to the ricer i have. Fam isn't imaginative with food and are always like what did you buy that for?
We had one of these at an office I worked at in the 90's. What we found was that if the bagels were grocery store bought or a day old, this thing worked great. But at our office, a production assistant would go to a real bagel shop on the way into work, so our bagels were super fresh, and often the blade would just smoosh down the bagel rather than cut it. The dough was too fresh for it and they just got mangled. But for a grocery story/CostCo/WalMart bagel, these things are great.
Ricers are way over a hundred years old....Chefs have always used them...for mashed potatoes, do not use a mixer, the starch will make them gummy. Ricers give a much better texture.
I believe he does product reviews. Not a historian or chef.
@@SALAMINIZER13Not knowing what your talking about doesn't make it a "Unique Kitchen Gadget"
@@davidyock6537 Perhaps unique for him?
Maybe he'll review lesser known product, a spoon or maybe a fork. Or this butter knife that guess what it spreads butter 😮
@@davidyock6537 He's reviewed pans, lights, fans, etc. All of which you've probably heard of. Why are you even here? 😂
I have the bagel slicer and love it. It’s cuts firm rolls not soft rolls. Bagels bought from different bakers also makes a difference. Some make big bagels and not so round.
A donut stand, because a box will keep them fresher, more sanitary, and easier to handle
I think they would be good if you're having people over for breakfast. Everyone can see what flavors you have
@@kathiecrocker1118 you can see them in a box too
I use a toilet roll holder to stack my donuts on.
@@Okurka. remind me never to accept a chocolate covered donut from you
@@kathiecrocker1118Then everyone moves the donuts around to get the one they want, with a box your just grabbing the one donut you want.
Also the donuts with frosting on them will stick to one another, in a box they don’t.
The potato masher is also really great for making homemade spetzel or however you spell it. It’s a German pasta. We used it for the first time on my brother’s birthday. Used to be we’d have a person holding a colander over a pot of boiling water as another person smashed the paste through the colander’s holes with a round glass bottom. It was a pain. The potato smasher made it so easy.
I love my potato ricer, same model you tested. Haven't thought about using it for carrots and squash, but now I will definitely do it. I liked the bagel guillotine and will possibly buy one. I like to buy bagels and rolls, cut them, put wax paper between the halves and freeze them. They're always ready for the toaster and this device will make that production go much faster. I probably wouldn't use it for single use applications. Just get the bread knife.
You could use 3 of those donut stackers to create a Tower of Hanoi to reduce handling.
Ricers and food mills are also used for baby food.
My husband likes instant potatoes, so that’s what we mostly use. I cook Yukon Gold and use a potato masher as I like small pieces of potato.
Many years ago we ate at a restaurant on Lake Cowichan in BC that mashed potatoes the same way; that was wonderful
I can vouch for the potato ricer. I use mine every time I make mashed potatoes...don't know if I have the same brand or not but I had mine for quite a few years.
i have a bagel guitine. fast downward motion is best. firmer bagels are also best. the potato ricer is great. i use it for ricing potatoes used in recipes other than mashed potatoes. if you have a meat grinder, the smallest thingy does the same thing.
I got a similar bagel cutter. It works very well. I might have gotten it from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Mine has a white frame. Thanks for your work. I've had a potato ricer too. Very good. Only issue is closing it can be a bit tricky on the size of the potato. It's like a big garlic press. On the bagel cutter, be careful when cleaning with soap and water as the blade is a little sharp!
I grew up with a wall mounted can opener in the kitchen that was quite similar to the Swing A-Way can openers sold on Amazon. (It might have been a Dazey Deluxe, not sure since the 1950s were a long time ago.) The hand crank was much easier to use than the key on the side of the hand held openers. Never had to search for a can opener, and the crank was easy for even a child to operate.
You are my favorite creator ! I look forward to your videos each time you upload! ❤
I'm amazed that people still don't know about potato ricers. I have used one for mashed potatoes for at least two decades now and cringe if I'm forced to use a masher.
I actually prefer the lumpy, rustic style mashed potatoes and use a simple fork
7:53 looks like a little car you’d see in London 😍 It’s adorbs!
9:21 I thought this little guy would be one of those safety openers. Idk why. It just looked like it would be one that takes the whole top off
I've been a potato ricer fan for decades. Warning though, don't get a cheap one. The handles bend. Thanks, James, for another fun video!
Been using a potato ricer for literally decades! THE BEST way to make mashed potatoes. No question. The real issue is clean up when finished. The ability to disassemble and clean is an important feature that should be strongly considered.
Also the Donut holder would work great at parties or celebrations with a different stand for each type of donut.
3:48 Finagle the bagel 🥯
Yep, finagling a kaiser roll is an entirely wrong headed approach!
He uses a giant roll gets seeds all over and blames the product....ok
@@Davidbarnes55 I think he was just experimenting to see if it would work on that one
I've had the bagel guillotine for over 15 years now and it's great because for the life of me, I cannot cut a straight line and always end up with weird looking pieces 😂 It might be unnecessary for some but I've found it really useful and it's also stood the test of time and I'm able to just toss it in the dishwasher.
Roll the bagel. Don't try and go all the way through in one go, cut around the bagel only to the center hole.
I'm impressed with the Bagel Guillotine. Might have to get one.
I have a similar potato ricer somewhere in my kitchen. I prefer to mash my potatoes with a potato masher.
The car can opener is cute, but if it takes more effort, then I'll stick with my regular one.
Thanks for the reviews! 👍
A note about the potato ricer. You can also use it to make spaetzle (german pasta, very good) and something else they do in Germany is they run vanilla ice cream through it and make something called "Spaghetti Ice".
Basically, you run vanilla ice cream through the ricer, that makes ice cream noodles. Then you put on a strawberry or cherry (normally strawberry) topping as the "sauce". If you want to get really fancy with it, you add crumbles of brownies as the "meatballs" and shaved white chocolate on top as the parm.
As a kid, it was literally something you could order from the ice cream truck.
German ice cream trucks were a lot different than american ones. :P
I still use my grandmother's potato ricer. It's probably almost 100 years old. You can eat riced potatoes just as they are - just butter and salt on top, no mixing.
I have my grandma's potato ricer. I love it.
Potato ricers make awesome potatoes. They are smooth and fluffy, they don't get overworked like in mixers. It also makes great egg salad.
I will never get tired of your hi-ya!s.
My mom used a potato ricer religiously for sauerbraten, mashed potatoes, & potato dumplings. Gotta admit, creamiest mashed potatoes I've ever had
Man I'm glad I found this channel , I've been a routine follower and watcher of this channel since 2015 or 2016-ish can't remember exactly when but I was buying something and I was like well I might as well look it up see if there's a video about it and sure enough there was your channel now I find myself watching every video even if it's something that I'm never going to buy Great job
I have the bagel guillotine, potato ricer,and can do can opener and I love them. A got some bagels from Panera and they cut them. The cut was so off center. I like them to be even and the guillotine does that.
The potato ricer is a well known tool for ages in Europe. I remember my grandmother used it in the kitchen and I am 58 years old.
I still have, and regularly use, the potato ricer from my grandmother - I’m 72 years old.
Me as well. I have lots of old kitchen devices,bowls etc that were my Grandmother's and Granny's. I don't buy a lot of kitchen gadgets. I'm more old school
I had never really used one but I was pretty impressed by its simplicity and function.
, we use a similar thing but instead of pressing you have a handle to turn... its like a grinder... I always made mash potatoes like that and before my mom and grandmother. I don't like mash potatoes that are done with a mixer. Do you have a pestle? Masher? Or don't you use that? I see there are different utensils in the USA than in Europe. Always nice to watch it... ❤
I bought a potato ricer but only used it a couple of times. It wasn't as easy to use as you would think. You have to do small batches and requires significant effort. Cleaning it was a pain. Pre mashing with a manual masher then using a hand mixer produced good results.
LOL 11 Minutes for Rigatoni? Its still going to be CRUNCHY
5:24 😂 The complaint about lumpy texture is people eating riced potatoes as mashed potatoes. If you want them fully mashed, you have 1 extra step that's been massively simplified
We have had a bagel guillotine in our office for years. It's very handy for our Bagel/Donut Club. I don't think we'd enjoy the donut display as much, for the very reasons you stated.
had a similar potato press, but it was probably a little thinner material so the handle twisted. works just as well with an electric whisk, there are no lumps if you have floury potatoes. but i gonna by me a sturdier one.
The ricer I have, from the 50's, has smaller holes but many more of them and the holes are along the side of the basket as well. It doesn't take much effort to "squeeze" it. :)
With the potato ricer, if you overload it, some of the potato doesnt get riced and lumps can come out when you open the ricer. Donut holder you could use a bulk toilet roll holder (un-used) of the same design, and even then only if your a competitive eater doing a donut challenge.
The potato ricer works good for squeezing moisture out of grated raw potatoes when making hash browns.
The donut stand could always be used as a paper towel holder in a pinch...great video as always James 👍 Happy Saturday 🎉
Shoutout to the Gotham pasta pot. I bought it years ago when you reviewed it. Weekly use.
Got a Super Saver can opener as seen on tv over 30 yrs ago, and still works fine.
Favorite channel on TH-cam!!! Hands down. 👍
For the potato ricer we never mixed it up, just scooped it out of the bowl on our plates and poured gravy over them. I like electric can openers better.
I love my potato ricer! It was my grandmother’s and is still great!
About the bagel cutter, would have been nice to see how it cuts real bagels since they are firmer 😢
When i worked at starbucks we would use the bagel guillotine but we just called it the bagel slicer. That was almost 10 years ago
The leaning Tower of donuts LOL. Okay concept like who really needs it. I think it's great. Maybe for bakeries or donut shops? Maybe restaurants who wants to display donuts or bagels. Whatever is around or square whatever shape LOL
I've owned a bagel guillotine for many years. As long as the bagel is firm, it works like a champ. And I wash it on the top rack of my dishwasher without any issues.
I use my ricer to make egg salad. You can drop as many as three peeled eggs in the basket at one time. It saves TONS of time.
The potato ricer is also good to use to make homeade rice noodles. Done it many times.
We sold that bagel guillotine at Bed Bath and Beyond. Never bought one while I worked there but it did seem pretty solid.
Bagel Guillotine/Slicer has been available for 50+ years under many brands and has commercial versions with NSF rated to keep local Heath Dept and OSHA happy.
For the donut holder, because of the curvature of the base plate, putting the stick-on feet closer to the middle would probably stabilize it.
Tips for best mashed potatoes:
*Rest your ricer over a warmed stainless steel bowl & press down on 1 handle of ricer.
*Always add hot milk/cream & melted butter - to maintain heat of potatoes.
For extra yumminess use warmed sour cream
*Season to your liking.
* Work fast & cover your mash to retain heat.
*For mash that's next level - swap out ⅓ of potatoes for sweet potatoe, boil together in same pot & rice/mash as usual.
* Using a ricer makes mashed potatoes- lump free & aerated.
Ideally with that potato ricer, you have butter and milk (or mayo in the south😎) and put that riced potato straight into the bowl. The reason that you do this in the first place is because if you over mix your potatoes they get gluey. With this all your potatoes are mashed and once you put those hot potatoes on top of that butter, all you need to do is stir It two or three times and it's mixed. Silky smooth
I have a very old ricer-and it has holes on the sides about 2" from bottom as well as on the bottom. Only fill it half full-easier to squeeze. It is a pain to wash-soak immediately after mashing!!
Barry lewis out of the uk reviewd al dente years ago and loves it uses it in videos often. If the thought of boiling a battery operated bit of plastic wasnt a deterant the vast range in product quality sure should be.
The donut/bagel holder. You could cut a slice in each donut, that way you could just slide the donut/bagel out.
I've used a potato ricer for 50+ years. My grandparents used them before that. Makes great fluffy potatoes. Not the same consistency as whipped or mashed, better.
I've had my potato ricer for over a decade. I love it and bought one for everyone I know
I just bought the bagel guillotine because it worked flawlessly in the video.
I'm sure I won't be disappointed.
I always wanted to try the potato ricer to make mashed potatoes but every time I've watched videos about them people say they make the potatoes grainy. I'm glad you had a different result
Wow, I had a bagel slicer years ago. At the time bagels were really trendy and bagel slicing injuries were actually pretty common!
Potato Ricer, that's quite a funny name for that thing. We have one of those things from my grandma, which she bought in the 60s. It's such a sturdy, heavy thing, it'll probably last another 60 years.
Re: Donut holder, at least you could put a couple rolls of TP on them.
I have the bagel slicer, but I haven't found a bagel that slices well with it yet. It always seems to crush or flatten the bagel instead of giving me a clean cut.
The donut holder seemed like a solution looking for a problem - I’m wondering if you could pull a donut from the middle without removing the ones above it ? It would mess up the donut you were going to eat, if pulling even works, but it may prevent having to touch the other donuts. Not sure if pulling a bagel from the middle of the stack would work as bagels are sturdier
I have a potato ricer handed down from my mother. Mine has the holes on the side and bottom. We boiled the potatoes with the peel. The peel stays in the ricer while the potatoes come out the holes. It is a bit messy as the potatoes come through the side holes. I pour melted butter over the potatoes and add salt and pepper. Tastes more like baked.