Went a bit soft on the bread bin I'd say. Was hoping to get a similar experiment to the one with the wine-sealer! Bread that's been in the box for 5 days vs bread that's stayed in the plastic it came in for 5 days. Right now you're basically just saying that it is indeed a container that holds bread, when that's a very low bar to set.
I used to work at a liquor store and we used those vacuum sealers all the time for tasting bottles of wine. If you really want to get fancy maybe for the next pretentious or not do its big brother something like the Coravin Timeless gas system. It uses a needle to draw up wine out of a bottle and push argon gas in through the cork to near completely limit oxidation. Allows you to draw off a glass of very fancy wine and save it for much much longer than the vacuum systems.
One of the big wineries I've gone to has that needle gas system for testing and tasting wine. Very cool but I think this little gadget would be great at home. But my daughter and myself must be horribly glutinous gals as in, we never have left over wine lol 😆
Like your gadget reviews but one area I think you could improve is by also testing how easy it is to clean gadgets after use. One of the main isues I have with gadgets especialy those which claim to save time often just add time on to washing up taking away any time saved cooking. The chainmail would be a good example of this.
Exactly - when I first saw the chainmail in a pile I thought it would be a butcher's glove (which still needs washing, but not as much as a fat-impregnated, sugary sauce-basted 'foil replacement'). I think I'll stick to wasting 0.000000001% of the global aluminium reserve and still use foil rather than wash that thing.
Think that chainmail you could just drop to the bottom of your sink, grab your brush and go to town for a bit with some running water. Or just rub it together with itself and most stuff should come off, might still need a brush if you let stuff burn on to it. Also since its stainless steel, could just leave it in some warm water with soap for an hour or so then rinse off with water.
@@Tilion462 I agree. I feel like washing the chainmail wastes more water and doesn't really solve a problem but creates a different one. Also, many countries recycle aluminium so it's not really as bad as it seems. Aluminium is incredibly expensive energy wise to produce from the start so recycling is encouraged
It would be interesting to have roasted another chicken without covering it as a sort of control chicken. Maybe the foil and chainmail are actually both entirely unnecessary.
They are both completely unnecessary; I've never roasted a chicken covered with whatever and am still able to produce a juicy bird. Maybe a turkey's breast after two hours, but else....naaaa.
I only use foil if something needs to cook slightly better inside without overburning the upper crust (e.g. with an almost-ready cake, it would shield the upper part from the extra direct heat). Chainmail (in theory) should speed things up a little bit, since metal is WAY better at transmitting the heat compared to the air, it basically grills the chicken.... but they did not mention it. I've never ever used foil on the chicken or meat for the "juiciness", didn't even know that it's a thing (using a ~10yrs old electric oven with convection). Wrapping something up entirely so that it stews in the oven - yes, but I'd rather use a silicon bag or suitable pan with a lid.
I love these gadget reviews. The guys reviewed a battery-powered jar opener some time ago. Based on their review that it would be useful for people with hand/grip problems, I bought one. They were right.....it does the job for people like me who have arthritic hands or joint/muscle problems. Thanks guys!!!
That was the best thing about the series. In thr start they were totally dismissive of the gadgets not even concidering if a non completely able bodied person might have a use for them, but then they realised that was an awful attitude to have especially towards some gadgets that were almost certainly specifically made for disabled ppl and started actually taking that into consideration
I think you really should have had some kind of comparison with the see through bread box and a normal one after a few days to see how it prevented staleness or mold
Heck, with what they DID test the bread box for, it did what it said it would AND was a fair bit less expensive than a standard bread box which DOESN'T have a slicing guide OR allow you to easily see the bread without opening the box and yet STILL Ebbers called it superfluous! Sure wouldn't be for someone who felt they could use a decent bread box to keep their bread from getting moldy in the plastic bag package...or, quite frankly, just to perhaps KEEP homemade bread in...and DOESN'T have the budget for a regular bread box just on its OWN! How is that superfluous, unless you're saying that a bread box ALONE is superfluous?
Out of Context Barry Taylor: “But if that dragon were to burn you or to cook you, you’d be cooked to perfection.” Barry is literally the Phoebe of this channel and I’m here for it 😂
Blind tasting really needs to be used more to remove bias. Taste first, reveal which is which after. Also, letting wine breathe vs being out of breath was perfect!
I'm curious if "we" actually requested it, or if Jamey found it on his own but had doubts and thought it best to cover himself. You'll notice there were no snippets of social media comments overlaid onto the video like they often have when folks make suggestions. Suspicious! 😅 Now, I know that Jamey is a shining example of model citizenship, so he would *never* do anything like that... But I must confess, the thought did pop into my little pea brain for a moment or two there. 😉
Quote of the Day: “What we can guarantee though, is that we will all be whelmed. Perhaps over, perhaps under. We’ll find out!” This literally sounds like my academic career lol
I feel like it would have been better if the wine saver had had a blind taste test instead of the taste test they gave. As it was in the video, there's a part of me that questions how much placebo/wanting it to work was affecting Barry's test.
It's a handheld version of the Verre de Vin machine that's used in a lot of wine bars/restaurants and whilst I feel the seal on the handheld sucker would **fail fairly fast, the concept of decreasing the amount of gas in an open bottle with suction does indeed improve/retain flavour compared to not suctioning it.
I was hoping they had secretly switched the corks before the video, and Barry was enthusing over the normal-corked wine. Sadly, they're far less devious than I am.
There's also some product placement, i suppose. They get paid to say something is usefull (like who really believes one needs a kebab machine?) They have to earn something to keep doing the show so it is a necessary evil to keep in mind when pondering on their evaluations of products.
@@sykessaul123 It's called a Vac-U-Vin and it still works perfectly after 30 years and 10,000's uses. It will never fail. And on top of that it is made by people with a distance to the 'market'. So it's socially responisble also.
I work at a winery and we use the vacuum corks on our bottles in the tasting room. Extends the life 2-3 days depending on how much wine is left in a bottle. Super nice gadget.
I really enjoyed this kind of fun return to form with gadgets that aren't all perfect, sustainable, working, expensive gadgets. This is like back to the days of the self-twirling fork where everyone can have a laugh but maybe discover a gadget that works surprisingly well
I love that they are surprised by the wine saver...in my house, we've been using it or variations of it for almost 2 decades and I believe the original was released in the 80s.
Ditto - used it for years and it comes into it's own at Christmas where it allows you to have a couple of nice wines with your meal without having to glug the lot. A very simple well executed concept which really works.
I make chainmaille, so I understand the price because it would have to be hand crafted and the amount of work that goes into handcrafting chainmail is more than most people might understand. However having said that, I think the design could be improved. Smaller ring diametre and possibly a different tighter weave to get more coverage and more surface area. Maybe areas where a slightly larger diametre ring is included so you can more easily get a thermometre into your meat. I don't know that having such a large diametre for the rings would help with any of its claims. Also don't just buy any old chainmail and try this, it needs to be food grade stainless.
Indeed you can move the rings, but imaging having to scrub hundreds of tiny rings with chicken bits stuck to it. I have a stainless steel air fryer basket which is basically a very wide mesh, it is hell on wheels to scrub that sucker and must be attended to immediately or I risk the fats becoming sticky as it cools.
The bread bin might be superfluous for many but not for my family. My 11 year old has cerebral palsy and cutting a slice of bread evenly is near impossible for him. But this allows him to do so independently which is great for his self esteem. If you could see the joy and pride he gets from being able to do things on his own, I think you would agree that it is one of the greatest things...well...since sliced bread! Very near priceless.
PSA: Bread is best kept in the plastic bag in the fridge. Not a joke - this was tested. Bread kept a lot fresher (~10 days) than with ANY other method. Bread tends to get "hard" in the cold, this is because how starch molecules behave. Just heat it up a bit (60+ °C) and it will get fluffy again. You can also freeze white bread - and simply toast it directly.
Can second this, I learnt the trick whilst visiting family in Kentucky. Leave ANYTHING out on the side and the insects will be on it in seconds, so they put their bread in the fridge. Came back home to England and tried it, my loaf stays fresh for at least 10 days!
Good news for me. I use this method because my counter has no room for bread binnery. I have little to no science know-how so it's a pure coincidence that it's the best way.
The Vacuvin is great. I don't just use it for wine. It prolongs the shelflife of Vermouth. I have a bottle of dry Vermouth in my fridge, that is more than six month old an still tastes great.
I was honestly thinking about that application - I'm not a wine drinker, but the vermouth I had in once for some cocktails was just undrinkable the next time I opened it XD
Reminder that most things you don’t understand the use for is made for disabled people, like the bread slicer can be useful for blind and dexterity limited people
So for the bread bin, I actually recently bought something similar for myself because I make fresh bread every week. The vent is nice for when I put the bread away too warm and unlike this one, the end is a flap that is a cutting board when open. I'm actually quite happy with mine!
I know you’ve seen my comment in the past about the automatic beer brewer, so there’s no need to request the gadget again. You no doubt have a batch brewing for the next Kitchen Gadgets episode 😉
Given that my parents had vac-u-vin stoppers for wine bottles and the little pump back in the 90's when I was a kid, I have to say the product must've proven itself numerous times over the past three decades. Brilliant selection of 'gadg' as always, and it's honestly really entertaining to watch gadgets that kind of straddle the line between 'oh come on, that's obvious gimmick and a piece of tat' and 'oh hey, it's actually doing a thing and doing it pretty well!'.
I got the wine vacuum gadget at xmas because I like red wine and my partner doesn't. So now if i open a bottle of wine, i dont have to be concerned about it going bad before i finish it. It also works on Foodsaver vacuum containers which i use to extend the shelf life of deli meats and ground coffee. So overall i highly recommend the product. But glad to see you found similar results as I for the wine.
Kitchen Gadget to review: Misto oil sprayer! I have been looking for a reusable oil spray that produces a fine mist and came across this but the reviews are all mixed. It would be great if you got your hands on it and tested it with different oils.
I tried it on a whim and finally tossed it. It did work okayish, but how often do you need to mist oils? I realized it was more of a gimmick and trashed it. Really didn't like olive oils. Vinegars will eat away at the seals.
Ah, I can help! I had a Misto for years. It did okay. You have to pump the lid up and down on the can to build up pressure, and release the extra pressure when you’re done. I found that if the nozzle was at all ‘dirty’ (i.e. a bit if oil still in it), I would get just a thin steam of oil no matter what I did. It was also a huge pain to clean. Finally, I bought something else. I got a trigger sprayer from a brand called Mistifi, from Amazon. I frickin’ love this thing. No pumping. No pressure release. Literally just squeeze the trigger. Fully depress for a large spray, lightly depress for a gentle spray. So much easier to use. I had olive oil in both for context, although I do have a Misto with safflower oil. It does even worse with this very lightweight oil, so I’ll probably get another Mistifi. I *do* use it several times a week.
@@s_nunyabiznez thanks for the tip! I took a quick look and the mistifi spray bottle is not intended for oil though, as I have seen. Do you have something food-specific from the brand or is it a generic trigger spray bottle?
I’m a bit late to the party on this video but I’d just like to give a thumbs up to the Vacu-Vin. I’ve had one of these for several years and wouldn’t be without it. If I open a bottle of red, I might have a couple of glasses and seal the bottle for three or four days, perfect when re-opened. White wine keeps even longer if kept in the fridge (the bottle has to be kept upright) and is fine for several weeks.
I want to see how easy the chain mail is to clean. It seems like it wouldn't be easy to keep clean, so I wonder if you would get more uses from it than a roll of foil. Also you wouldn't be able to use it to line trays, etc. so it isn't a complete replacement for foil. I also wonder how easy to clean the kabob maker is.
An hour an a half to cook the chicken and a day and a half to clean the chain mail painstakingly with a little brush is my guess. I usually cook chickens in my combi microwave which means I don’t need foil or chain mail… a fraction of the time, super moist and perfectly browned
having worn chainmail in multiple forms and done a few activities while wearing it (no not reenactment) I can assure you. Chainmail will leave you pretty well steamed and roasted at the same time!
I've very rarely been eating kebab straight from the skewer. Mostly it's on a plate or on a pita, so having it fall off isn't a problem. Also, I can only assume that the hand made one has less dense texture than the one made by the machine
When I worked at a popular italian chain restaurant, all wine bottles left open at the end of the night had the vacuum treatment. Pretty sure there are cheaper brands that do exactly the same thing too so it could be even less than £10!
Baz: Theory behind the aluminum foil is to “keep the *juiceness* in…” 3:02 Also Barry: Obsessed with food trends (hello, cloud eggs!) and creating new cooking goals. I somehow don’t see Mary Berry sharing any recipes where she wants to keep the juiceness in. ❤️❤️❤️ Love ya, Baz!
The chain mail has another use as well - I use it to clean my cast-iron frying pan with just a little water. It does a great job of removing anything that might have stuck without scratching or ruining the seasoning. I never thought of using it to cover a chicken, but I'll have to give it a go!
Well done gang , nice to get some honest reviews of cooking products and appliances . Cheers ! P.S. Jamie's demonstration of making a Kebab looked like rather like what happens after a good meal is ruminated . Maybe it needs little flashing lights and a beeper ?
'Arise, Sir Clucksalot' 🤣 The chain mail has to be worth it for the environmental factor. Have we not had something like the Easy Kebab maker on before or have I seen a similar gadget somewhere else? 🤔 James Spafford, I saw EXACTLY what you mouthed to Mike about item 4! 🤣🤣 😇
Here in florida its really humid... And we do get slight condensation on inside of bread bags just sitting out on counter if sealed tightly.. If loosely sealed not as bad so id get the bread bin
I would love to see "Umai Dry" dry cured sausage kits being tested. The idea of making dry cured sausage or salami in a regular fridge with a humidity controlling casing is really interesting.
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My parents used the wine vacuum thingy for decades. I don’t drink wine, so I ain’t judge but seems to work for them, though they usually finish a bottle in 2-3 days, not 10.
I liked that bread bin… if it works… what you didn’t mention it doesn’t take up as much space as a normal bin. I gave up on a breadbin as took too much space, would forget to look in it and just became full of crumbs as rarely moved due to putting things on top of it…
It would have been nice if they had put bread in the bin a couple of days before filming to test if it actually doesn't go stale. I think that was the main idea of the bread bin.
Intrigued by the idea of the chain mail. Not sure it would replace my uses of aluminum foil, where I want to seal something. And speaking of seals, I hate that the bread keeper DOESN'T have a seal, my bread is more likely to dry out than go moldy. Not sure my palate is refined enough for the wine corker for me to notice the difference, and the kebab maker was cool but I'd never use it. It was fun to see one of these where the guys actually liked the items, though.
i'd buy the bread bin if i had my own kitchen. whenever i slice bread it looks like a door wedge, and i always forget about things i can't see. all in all may be better for the neurodivergent audience rather than your average bread consumer
maybe a cutting maschine might be better, since you can adjust the thickness and also cut meat, cheece, etc. in accurate slices and also they're not that much more expensive but way more fexible
The wine thing should have been a blind taste test! Also no barry, the tinfoil isn't what makes meat juicy. It's temperature and time that define that.
I love Barry's explanation of how the chain mail protects you until you fight a dragon and you are cooked to perfection 😂 honestly I only use tin foil if I want to keep anything in that chain mail chicken wouldn't catch like garlic butter in a chicken Kiev. I'd like to see it used on a jacket potato in all honesty, that could be top tier
Not sure about that. If youre already so much into wine that you start caring about differences in taste, you probably already have a decent one that you keep using. And even a plastic pulltab that doesnt suck would at least double the price of the product.
Chainmail replacing Foil doesn't make sense... You don't wrap it in foil to add metal for browning you do it to keep the steam in... which chainmail obviously wont do. The Math adds up though, the chicken touching metal always browns better. better conduction to the meat should mean faster cooking so juicer meat.
I'm continuously taken aback by how cheap some of these are for them. They would be double the price here in Norway. Even the loaf of bread, that's a nice loaf, was £1.60? A nice loaf is at least £4 equivalent here.
The one with the chain mail put a thorn in my side because you also don't have to throw away tin foil after you use it, you can indeed just wash it and use it again. Smells like greenwashing to me!
@@ticketyboo2456 I am sure it has tons of preservatives. I am now gluten free so I buy gluten free bread and keep it in the freezer as I don't go through it very quickly. As for normal wheat based breads I am sure full of preservatives.
I've got that bread bin thingy, because like everyone else I was baking bread during the pandemic and I didn't have bags to keep my bread. I still use it because it is simple and it works like it's supposed to.
Please review the ninja non-stick pans. Also, could you guys do specifically a Japanese (or other country specific) kitchen gadget video? That'd be kind of fun to see all gadgets from a particular place. Also I just really want another one of those dish scrubber contraptions that james reviewed a long time ago. As an engineer I greatly appreciate anything overengineered like that.
You can easily recycle aluminum foil. Wash it off and put it in the recycling bin. That chainmail is never going to get clean. All of the oil and grease is going to get caught in the junctions, and eventually go rancid--Or you are going to have to spend hours after each use with a brush gently polishing every ring.
I definitely think the cutting guide with the bread bin has "useful for people with disabilities" appeal if someone with lower motor function still wants to slice fresh bread themselves
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Went a bit soft on the bread bin I'd say. Was hoping to get a similar experiment to the one with the wine-sealer! Bread that's been in the box for 5 days vs bread that's stayed in the plastic it came in for 5 days. Right now you're basically just saying that it is indeed a container that holds bread, when that's a very low bar to set.
agreed, I live in a place with ants, that would be a colony by morning.
Yup! Very true.
@@ashnodmtg I have found that a lemon rind in the bread box is a pretty good deterrent to ants
Would have been great if you would have looked at moulds over days under a microscope to check impact as well
"... that it is indeed a container that holds bread." Hahahahahaha 😆 🤣 😂 😹
I used to work at a liquor store and we used those vacuum sealers all the time for tasting bottles of wine. If you really want to get fancy maybe for the next pretentious or not do its big brother something like the Coravin Timeless gas system. It uses a needle to draw up wine out of a bottle and push argon gas in through the cork to near completely limit oxidation. Allows you to draw off a glass of very fancy wine and save it for much much longer than the vacuum systems.
Coravin is fantastic. I hate myself for having one, but it’s so useful I can almost handle feeling like a pretentious fop 😂
One of the big wineries I've gone to has that needle gas system for testing and tasting wine. Very cool but I think this little gadget would be great at home. But my daughter and myself must be horribly glutinous gals as in, we never have left over wine lol 😆
@@holybird0079 As long as you're truly enjoying yourself and not to impress others, it's not pretentious.
We’ve got the vac thing at home and it really works, which is fine for an ordinary wine.
Coravins are amazing
Like your gadget reviews but one area I think you could improve is by also testing how easy it is to clean gadgets after use. One of the main isues I have with gadgets especialy those which claim to save time often just add time on to washing up taking away any time saved cooking. The chainmail would be a good example of this.
I wonder how safe it would be in a dishwasher
Oh! That's a good one! I never thought of that even though I hate washing up 👍🏼
Exactly - when I first saw the chainmail in a pile I thought it would be a butcher's glove (which still needs washing, but not as much as a fat-impregnated, sugary sauce-basted 'foil replacement'). I think I'll stick to wasting 0.000000001% of the global aluminium reserve and still use foil rather than wash that thing.
Think that chainmail you could just drop to the bottom of your sink, grab your brush and go to town for a bit with some running water.
Or just rub it together with itself and most stuff should come off, might still need a brush if you let stuff burn on to it.
Also since its stainless steel, could just leave it in some warm water with soap for an hour or so then rinse off with water.
@@Tilion462 I agree. I feel like washing the chainmail wastes more water and doesn't really solve a problem but creates a different one. Also, many countries recycle aluminium so it's not really as bad as it seems. Aluminium is incredibly expensive energy wise to produce from the start so recycling is encouraged
It would be interesting to have roasted another chicken without covering it as a sort of control chicken. Maybe the foil and chainmail are actually both entirely unnecessary.
They are both completely unnecessary; I've never roasted a chicken covered with whatever and am still able to produce a juicy bird. Maybe a turkey's breast after two hours, but else....naaaa.
@@danielahitstheroad yeah it think the foil usage is from pre-fan ovens, so you'd want to trap the heat more
I have never covered my roast chicken with foil. I do, however, line my roasting pan with foil for easier clean up.
Skin sticks to foil, I've never used it, my chicken is crispy and moist every time.
I only use foil if something needs to cook slightly better inside without overburning the upper crust (e.g. with an almost-ready cake, it would shield the upper part from the extra direct heat). Chainmail (in theory) should speed things up a little bit, since metal is WAY better at transmitting the heat compared to the air, it basically grills the chicken.... but they did not mention it.
I've never ever used foil on the chicken or meat for the "juiciness", didn't even know that it's a thing (using a ~10yrs old electric oven with convection). Wrapping something up entirely so that it stews in the oven - yes, but I'd rather use a silicon bag or suitable pan with a lid.
I love these gadget reviews. The guys reviewed a battery-powered jar opener some time ago. Based on their review that it would be useful for people with hand/grip problems, I bought one. They were right.....it does the job for people like me who have arthritic hands or joint/muscle problems. Thanks guys!!!
That was the best thing about the series. In thr start they were totally dismissive of the gadgets not even concidering if a non completely able bodied person might have a use for them, but then they realised that was an awful attitude to have especially towards some gadgets that were almost certainly specifically made for disabled ppl and started actually taking that into consideration
If been thinking of getting one for my mum since she’s having real trouble with jars
I bought one, and it not only works fantastically well (even on huge, heavy jars), it's fun to watch. Color me amazed and happy.
@@marymaryquitecontrary I remember that episode but forgot which one. Do you remember? I think my mother might need one now.
@@marymaryquitecontrarythat thing is just amazing, a must have for those difficult jars.
I think you really should have had some kind of comparison with the see through bread box and a normal one after a few days to see how it prevented staleness or mold
Agreed! They didn't test its main function!
And the chicken should have had a control chicken that was treated the same, but without the foil or chainmail to see if they were different
Heck, with what they DID test the bread box for, it did what it said it would AND was a fair bit less expensive than a standard bread box which DOESN'T have a slicing guide OR allow you to easily see the bread without opening the box and yet STILL Ebbers called it superfluous!
Sure wouldn't be for someone who felt they could use a decent bread box to keep their bread from getting moldy in the plastic bag package...or, quite frankly, just to perhaps KEEP homemade bread in...and DOESN'T have the budget for a regular bread box just on its OWN! How is that superfluous, unless you're saying that a bread box ALONE is superfluous?
Out of Context Barry Taylor: “But if that dragon were to burn you or to cook you, you’d be cooked to perfection.”
Barry is literally the Phoebe of this channel and I’m here for it 😂
He so is 😂
I think Barry is so random and naive and he doesn’t try to be funny he is just pure Barry and that’s what we love him
I have such a crush on Barry. He is such a cutie pie & that accent!! We Americans are such suckered for ANY accent other than our own.
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup.
@@templarw20 I had this on a bumper sticker on my favorite car!
Blind tasting really needs to be used more to remove bias. Taste first, reveal which is which after.
Also, letting wine breathe vs being out of breath was perfect!
I think Jamie demonstrating the kebob thingie might be some kind of new low for the channel. Congratulations! 🤣
Can't believe they didn't censor it
That looks utterly disgusting
Hilarious!! 😍
That was POOrfect!
you should go and watch their sausage-making video from years ago, LOADS of innuendos 😂
Whoever requested Ben to review the bread bin 🤣🤣 thank you, you're a genius.
LOLLLLL
I'm curious if "we" actually requested it, or if Jamey found it on his own but had doubts and thought it best to cover himself. You'll notice there were no snippets of social media comments overlaid onto the video like they often have when folks make suggestions. Suspicious! 😅
Now, I know that Jamey is a shining example of model citizenship, so he would *never* do anything like that... But I must confess, the thought did pop into my little pea brain for a moment or two there. 😉
Quote of the Day: “What we can guarantee though, is that we will all be whelmed. Perhaps over, perhaps under. We’ll find out!”
This literally sounds like my academic career lol
Were you over or under?
@@SortedFood Overwhelmed because it was awesome lmao
@@SortedFood This is pedantic, but I find it interesting: to whelm and to overwhelm historically meant the same thing!
I feel like it would have been better if the wine saver had had a blind taste test instead of the taste test they gave. As it was in the video, there's a part of me that questions how much placebo/wanting it to work was affecting Barry's test.
It's a handheld version of the Verre de Vin machine that's used in a lot of wine bars/restaurants and whilst I feel the seal on the handheld sucker would **fail fairly fast, the concept of decreasing the amount of gas in an open bottle with suction does indeed improve/retain flavour compared to not suctioning it.
I was hoping they had secretly switched the corks before the video, and Barry was enthusing over the normal-corked wine. Sadly, they're far less devious than I am.
There's also some product placement, i suppose.
They get paid to say something is usefull (like who really believes one needs a kebab machine?)
They have to earn something to keep doing the show so it is a necessary evil to keep in mind when pondering on their evaluations of products.
@@sykessaul123 It's called a Vac-U-Vin and it still works perfectly after 30 years and 10,000's uses. It will never fail. And on top of that it is made by people with a distance to the 'market'. So it's socially responisble also.
Barry: “You know what this is: Chefs, gadgets.”
Me: “Au contraire, you never really know what this is.”
I work at a winery and we use the vacuum corks on our bottles in the tasting room. Extends the life 2-3 days depending on how much wine is left in a bottle. Super nice gadget.
They last forever too, I have some from when they first came out, they still work great,
This was the most fun episode in a while. The boys were in rare form. I laughed out loud on several occassions. 10/10
Agree, the banter was top notch!
I really enjoyed this kind of fun return to form with gadgets that aren't all perfect, sustainable, working, expensive gadgets. This is like back to the days of the self-twirling fork where everyone can have a laugh but maybe discover a gadget that works surprisingly well
Lol! James picking up the twirly fork and responding in defeat, "just bring the spaghetti."
One of my favorites.
It's for people who accessibility problems
I love that they are surprised by the wine saver...in my house, we've been using it or variations of it for almost 2 decades and I believe the original was released in the 80s.
Same here, I kinda thought it was a basic gadget, that at least every wine drinker has🤔
Ditto - used it for years and it comes into it's own at Christmas where it allows you to have a couple of nice wines with your meal without having to glug the lot. A very simple well executed concept which really works.
I make chainmaille, so I understand the price because it would have to be hand crafted and the amount of work that goes into handcrafting chainmail is more than most people might understand. However having said that, I think the design could be improved. Smaller ring diametre and possibly a different tighter weave to get more coverage and more surface area. Maybe areas where a slightly larger diametre ring is included so you can more easily get a thermometre into your meat. I don't know that having such a large diametre for the rings would help with any of its claims. Also don't just buy any old chainmail and try this, it needs to be food grade stainless.
It seems like it would be a massive pain to clean though. Suppose some of the skin gets stuck to it or something?
@@aimeem I was thinking the same thing.
Chainmail isn't rigid so nothing is going to get "stuck" as you can simply move the ring and clean the bit that's got the skin on.
Indeed you can move the rings, but imaging having to scrub hundreds of tiny rings with chicken bits stuck to it. I have a stainless steel air fryer basket which is basically a very wide mesh, it is hell on wheels to scrub that sucker and must be attended to immediately or I risk the fats becoming sticky as it cools.
The chain mail looks like it would make great pie weight too! More durable/heavier than beans or rice!
And all in one piece, too 🤔
The bread bin might be superfluous for many but not for my family. My 11 year old has cerebral palsy and cutting a slice of bread evenly is near impossible for him. But this allows him to do so independently which is great for his self esteem. If you could see the joy and pride he gets from being able to do things on his own, I think you would agree that it is one of the greatest things...well...since sliced bread! Very near priceless.
PSA: Bread is best kept in the plastic bag in the fridge. Not a joke - this was tested. Bread kept a lot fresher (~10 days) than with ANY other method.
Bread tends to get "hard" in the cold, this is because how starch molecules behave. Just heat it up a bit (60+ °C) and it will get fluffy again.
You can also freeze white bread - and simply toast it directly.
Can second this, I learnt the trick whilst visiting family in Kentucky. Leave ANYTHING out on the side and the insects will be on it in seconds, so they put their bread in the fridge. Came back home to England and tried it, my loaf stays fresh for at least 10 days!
Was there not a thing about it affecting the gluten and therefore taste of it?
Yeah. If it's sliced bread, freeze it. A toaster can defrost or toast it as needed.
Huh. If really so, then I've accidentally been doing something right for a while.
Good news for me. I use this method because my counter has no room for bread binnery. I have little to no science know-how so it's a pure coincidence that it's the best way.
The Vacuvin is great. I don't just use it for wine. It prolongs the shelflife of Vermouth. I have a bottle of dry Vermouth in my fridge, that is more than six month old an still tastes great.
Hate to break it to you, but Vermouth is a wine.
@@sheerluckholmes5468 Genuinely thought it was a wine based liqueur, thanks for educating me.
So you could say your vermouth is not out of breath?
@@sykessaul123 not sure I would call it a liqueur, more of an aperitif but its main component is wine.
I was honestly thinking about that application - I'm not a wine drinker, but the vermouth I had in once for some cocktails was just undrinkable the next time I opened it XD
Reminder that most things you don’t understand the use for is made for disabled people, like the bread slicer can be useful for blind and dexterity limited people
Can I just say thank you for the video, I have very mild cerebral palsy and all serious the bread guide thing would really help me ☺️
this is so timely bc i bought a chainmail headpiece for a play i'm in and the last show is on saturday... i guess i know what to do with it after 😂
So for the bread bin, I actually recently bought something similar for myself because I make fresh bread every week. The vent is nice for when I put the bread away too warm and unlike this one, the end is a flap that is a cutting board when open. I'm actually quite happy with mine!
Haha now currently waiting for the sorted childrens book of Sir Clucks a Lot 🤣
Now there's an idea! 💡
“A really nice bread bin would set you back 20-30 pounds, this is not a really nice bread bin so….” 😂😂😂😂 best quote so far.
I know you’ve seen my comment in the past about the automatic beer brewer, so there’s no need to request the gadget again. You no doubt have a batch brewing for the next Kitchen Gadgets episode 😉
Given that my parents had vac-u-vin stoppers for wine bottles and the little pump back in the 90's when I was a kid, I have to say the product must've proven itself numerous times over the past three decades.
Brilliant selection of 'gadg' as always, and it's honestly really entertaining to watch gadgets that kind of straddle the line between 'oh come on, that's obvious gimmick and a piece of tat' and 'oh hey, it's actually doing a thing and doing it pretty well!'.
i can't think of a polite way to say the opposite of thank you, but that is what you deserve for reminding me the 90s were 3 decades ago.
Literally to the 1% reading this, God bless you, and may your dreams come true stay home and stay safe and have a wonderful day 🧡
The benuendos that were missed with the kebab maker. I wouldn't have been able to stop myself.
Bin Collector if the Chain Mail hadn’t worked: “Is that chain Mail? Who throws it in a bin? Why does it smell like a Sunday roast?”
I would like to see the guys redo the wine part as a blind taste test to remove any bias in the results.
Oh my god. That first thing would be a pain in the butt to adequately clean.
You're not wrong.
I got the wine vacuum gadget at xmas because I like red wine and my partner doesn't. So now if i open a bottle of wine, i dont have to be concerned about it going bad before i finish it. It also works on Foodsaver vacuum containers which i use to extend the shelf life of deli meats and ground coffee. So overall i highly recommend the product. But glad to see you found similar results as I for the wine.
Interesting gadgets all around! ...although, admittedly, I'm not sure the meat coming out of the kebab maker was the best visual in a food video...!
Kitchen Gadget to review: Misto oil sprayer! I have been looking for a reusable oil spray that produces a fine mist and came across this but the reviews are all mixed. It would be great if you got your hands on it and tested it with different oils.
I tried it on a whim and finally tossed it. It did work okayish, but how often do you need to mist oils? I realized it was more of a gimmick and trashed it. Really didn't like olive oils. Vinegars will eat away at the seals.
Ah, I can help! I had a Misto for years. It did okay. You have to pump the lid up and down on the can to build up pressure, and release the extra pressure when you’re done. I found that if the nozzle was at all ‘dirty’ (i.e. a bit if oil still in it), I would get just a thin steam of oil no matter what I did. It was also a huge pain to clean.
Finally, I bought something else. I got a trigger sprayer from a brand called Mistifi, from Amazon. I frickin’ love this thing. No pumping. No pressure release. Literally just squeeze the trigger. Fully depress for a large spray, lightly depress for a gentle spray. So much easier to use.
I had olive oil in both for context, although I do have a Misto with safflower oil. It does even worse with this very lightweight oil, so I’ll probably get another Mistifi. I *do* use it several times a week.
@@s_nunyabiznez thanks for the tip! I took a quick look and the mistifi spray bottle is not intended for oil though, as I have seen. Do you have something food-specific from the brand or is it a generic trigger spray bottle?
"It fell off the stick", that's some Janice sass right there
I’m a bit late to the party on this video but I’d just like to give a thumbs up to the Vacu-Vin. I’ve had one of these for several years and wouldn’t be without it. If I open a bottle of red, I might have a couple of glasses and seal the bottle for three or four days, perfect when re-opened. White wine keeps even longer if kept in the fridge (the bottle has to be kept upright) and is fine for several weeks.
"Sir Clucks-alot".
I'm dead.
😂
I want to see how easy the chain mail is to clean. It seems like it wouldn't be easy to keep clean, so I wonder if you would get more uses from it than a roll of foil. Also you wouldn't be able to use it to line trays, etc. so it isn't a complete replacement for foil.
I also wonder how easy to clean the kabob maker is.
An hour an a half to cook the chicken and a day and a half to clean the chain mail painstakingly with a little brush is my guess. I usually cook chickens in my combi microwave which means I don’t need foil or chain mail… a fraction of the time, super moist and perfectly browned
barry slowly losing his mind over the course of the video is my fav thing
having worn chainmail in multiple forms and done a few activities while wearing it (no not reenactment) I can assure you. Chainmail will leave you pretty well steamed and roasted at the same time!
I'm with Mike....the hand made one fell off the skewer! That one advantage is brilliant! Of course that is why I use metal formed skewers!
I've very rarely been eating kebab straight from the skewer. Mostly it's on a plate or on a pita, so having it fall off isn't a problem. Also, I can only assume that the hand made one has less dense texture than the one made by the machine
When I worked at a popular italian chain restaurant, all wine bottles left open at the end of the night had the vacuum treatment. Pretty sure there are cheaper brands that do exactly the same thing too so it could be even less than £10!
Y'all should do a follow up video about any gadgets reviewed that were continued to be used either in the Sorted kitchen or at home. 😁
Man, I haven't laughed this hard while watching a Sorted video in a while! I'm friggin crying over here! X'D
Baz: Theory behind the aluminum foil is to “keep the *juiceness* in…” 3:02
Also Barry: Obsessed with food trends (hello, cloud eggs!) and creating new cooking goals. I somehow don’t see Mary Berry sharing any recipes where she wants to keep the juiceness in.
❤️❤️❤️ Love ya, Baz!
Who are these people who have bottles of wine they take 10 days to drink?
The chain mail has another use as well - I use it to clean my cast-iron frying pan with just a little water. It does a great job of removing anything that might have stuck without scratching or ruining the seasoning. I never thought of using it to cover a chicken, but I'll have to give it a go!
Steve Elves Great name. I thought you were meant to allow skillets to season or something but I'm ultra normal so ignore me.
16:53 Haha! Mike's face vs Ebbers.
We have a small piece of chain mail at my house for cleaning my dad's precious cast iron pans.
Cant believe they ignored the #1 way chain mail is used in the kitchen = to clean cast iron pans.
Well done gang , nice to get some honest reviews of cooking products and appliances . Cheers !
P.S. Jamie's demonstration of making a Kebab looked like rather like what happens after a good meal is ruminated . Maybe it needs little flashing lights and a beeper ?
The holes arguement for the chain mail reminded me of the "how is an afghan warmer when it's full of holes?!" debate in our house.
“It’s plastic enough to be a kitchen gadget.”
Yep, that’s a pre-requisite for kitchen gadgets. 😂
'Arise, Sir Clucksalot' 🤣 The chain mail has to be worth it for the environmental factor.
Have we not had something like the Easy Kebab maker on before or have I seen a similar gadget somewhere else? 🤔
James Spafford, I saw EXACTLY what you mouthed to Mike about item 4! 🤣🤣 😇
I use chain mail to clean my cast iron. Works beautifully.
Nice!
Here in florida its really humid... And we do get slight condensation on inside of bread bags just sitting out on counter if sealed tightly.. If loosely sealed not as bad so id get the bread bin
“So where’s the line between letting wine breathe and being out of breath?” Is Food Journalism Level 1000. 🔥
That chain mail looks like a pain in the ass to clean. I’d rather just not use either of them.
I would love to see "Umai Dry" dry cured sausage kits being tested. The idea of making dry cured sausage or salami in a regular fridge with a humidity controlling casing is really interesting.
Man, my parents had one of those Vacu Vins ages ago. I had no idea they still made them.
"It fell off the stick." The indignation was palpable.
9:04-9:17 is a secret look into Ebbers mind...
Is that how he comes up with his guesses on price?? By doing doing quick math in his head?
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I've had Vacu Vin for at least twenty years. Including two corks. Great stuff
They've been around since the late 80s, iirc. I first bought one in 1990 or 91.
My parents used the wine vacuum thingy for decades. I don’t drink wine, so I ain’t judge but seems to work for them, though they usually finish a bottle in 2-3 days, not 10.
Someone else in the comments said their dry vermouth stood the test of time for six months so it apparently exceeds that 10 day goal lol
Thanks - love seeing these. Love the kabob maker but wouldn't want to clean it.
I liked that bread bin… if it works… what you didn’t mention it doesn’t take up as much space as a normal bin. I gave up on a breadbin as took too much space, would forget to look in it and just became full of crumbs as rarely moved due to putting things on top of it…
It would have been nice if they had put bread in the bin a couple of days before filming to test if it actually doesn't go stale. I think that was the main idea of the bread bin.
Hmmmm.. I might have to make myself a chain mail covering and give the first one a try
Intrigued by the idea of the chain mail. Not sure it would replace my uses of aluminum foil, where I want to seal something.
And speaking of seals, I hate that the bread keeper DOESN'T have a seal, my bread is more likely to dry out than go moldy.
Not sure my palate is refined enough for the wine corker for me to notice the difference, and the kebab maker was cool but I'd never use it. It was fun to see one of these where the guys actually liked the items, though.
For wine-related kitchen gadgets, you should try the coravin, which is hella more fancy (or pretentious if you like) than this one!
i'd buy the bread bin if i had my own kitchen. whenever i slice bread it looks like a door wedge, and i always forget about things i can't see. all in all may be better for the neurodivergent audience rather than your average bread consumer
maybe a cutting maschine might be better, since you can adjust the thickness and also cut meat, cheece, etc. in accurate slices
and also they're not that much more expensive but way more fexible
For the kabob maker, you don’t even need the skewers just make big or small ones..cut to length that you desire.
I want to see them retest the wine stoppers in a blind taste test to see if they can actually taste the difference
The wine thing should have been a blind taste test!
Also no barry, the tinfoil isn't what makes meat juicy. It's temperature and time that define that.
I love Barry's explanation of how the chain mail protects you until you fight a dragon and you are cooked to perfection 😂 honestly I only use tin foil if I want to keep anything in that chain mail chicken wouldn't catch like garlic butter in a chicken Kiev. I'd like to see it used on a jacket potato in all honesty, that could be top tier
Oh god, I have that wine vacuum in the house. I use it with my Sake. I've had it for YEARS. Got it from my mam when I moved out.
I feel like the wine vacuumer should include a corkscrew, so you'd have a complete package.
There are sets that include an electric opener on Amazon, priced not too badly for such useful gadgets.
Not sure about that. If youre already so much into wine that you start caring about differences in taste, you probably already have a decent one that you keep using. And even a plastic pulltab that doesnt suck would at least double the price of the product.
Chainmail replacing Foil doesn't make sense... You don't wrap it in foil to add metal for browning you do it to keep the steam in... which chainmail obviously wont do.
The Math adds up though, the chicken touching metal always browns better. better conduction to the meat should mean faster cooking so juicer meat.
Sometimes you can’t help but to find Ben adorable lol him with that bread bin 😂
“Has it doner good job?” HAHAHAHA this is a T-Shirt and also, I ‘seekh’ (a type of kebab) validation in case the line is announced 😂
Ok the wine vacuum thing is something I remember around 20 years ago being in my parents kitchen drawer xD
I'm continuously taken aback by how cheap some of these are for them. They would be double the price here in Norway. Even the loaf of bread, that's a nice loaf, was £1.60? A nice loaf is at least £4 equivalent here.
I can't wait to try the orzo carbonara from the Twisted pack for dinner tonight!
Yuuuuum! Let us know what you think?
@@SortedFood you bet!
a similar mail - also quite pricey - is sold as a scrubber for cast iron pans. this could do double duty?
YES, I came here to say this!!!
Mike being Salty 101: “I know how to do it, Ebbers! I’ve got a badge for it!”
The one with the chain mail put a thorn in my side because you also don't have to throw away tin foil after you use it, you can indeed just wash it and use it again. Smells like greenwashing to me!
I love how other countries seem to buy fresh bread from a bakery every week. Definitely doesn’t happen where I live but I love the idea.
Kelsey Betsey I'm genuinely curious; how long does the bread you buy last? Does it have extra preservatives and/ or do you freeze it?
@@ticketyboo2456 I am sure it has tons of preservatives. I am now gluten free so I buy gluten free bread and keep it in the freezer as I don't go through it very quickly. As for normal wheat based breads I am sure full of preservatives.
I've got that bread bin thingy, because like everyone else I was baking bread during the pandemic and I didn't have bags to keep my bread. I still use it because it is simple and it works like it's supposed to.
Just started watching and I already know you’ve nailed it with the first gadget. An incredible one to review!
The wine saver might work, but since 2020 when does anyone ever have wine left in a bottle, amirite?
I've always done that. If I open a bottle I plan to drink it. 2020 didn't effect that.
11 seconds within the notification is one of my top records.
You're getting quicker Pokhraj!
Please review the ninja non-stick pans. Also, could you guys do specifically a Japanese (or other country specific) kitchen gadget video? That'd be kind of fun to see all gadgets from a particular place.
Also I just really want another one of those dish scrubber contraptions that james reviewed a long time ago. As an engineer I greatly appreciate anything overengineered like that.
You can easily recycle aluminum foil. Wash it off and put it in the recycling bin. That chainmail is never going to get clean. All of the oil and grease is going to get caught in the junctions, and eventually go rancid--Or you are going to have to spend hours after each use with a brush gently polishing every ring.
Dish washer. Or just soak in hot soapy water.
Recycling is terrible when compared with reusing.
No one:
Ben: “Cheeky little crab sandwich.”
I love cheeky crab sandwich so much :)
@@jarzz3601 So do I but it sounds funny 😂
“What’s happening? These things are impressing us!” THAT IS THE POINT 😂
I definitely think the cutting guide with the bread bin has "useful for people with disabilities" appeal if someone with lower motor function still wants to slice fresh bread themselves