YoNanas - A review of the Healthy Banana-based Ice Cream Machine
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- I'm in the kitchen making 'ice-cream' out of bananas with the Yonanas.
The YoNanas is available from a number of stores including Costco in the UK, and available on Amazon UK: amzn.to/1fCKDtR
or Amazon US: amzn.to/1CB5Iik
RE comments about letting the bananas defrost a bit first.... I mentioned this in the video.
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Update - the YoNanas died this week and went in the recycling. It had probably been used less than a dozen times.
+Techmoan RIP
press f for respect
lol
+Techmoan To decent to last a long time ;)
+Techmoan It sounded like it was going to die the first day.
buy iscream
Re my lack of a sense of taste - this sometimes intrigues people, so I'll elaborate.
It's really Anosmia, which is a total lack of a sense of smell - but it also affects my taste as I now can only get the sensations from my tongue, it signals whether a food is sweet, sour, salty or spicy, but without any distinct flavour as this is 85% olfactory. It came on gradually a few years ago and now I can't smell anything or taste whether the food I'm eating is beef, or fish etc. A cure is very unlikely.
Hello Techmoan, it's a pity but you are not alone with this curse. Have you suffered of nasal polyposis ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_polyp
qbert you just read that from the comments..
so you got kicked in the head by horse, ummm... so how the fuck are you still alive.
Next time a horse is around dont insult it!
Ain't that a kick in the head?
For everyone wanting to know more about my lack of a sense of taste....it's not really relevant to this video but for some reason the condition seems to really interest people...the scientific information about it is in the very first comment I posted under this video....but the short(er) answer is that it just faded away and won't be coming back. So enjoy trying different foods while you can because sometimes these things can just happen.
Techmoan Hi There. Do you miss it? (the taste of food)
Big Guy Review of course, taking away taste and smell and makes life pretty miserable and much less interesting and involving. It's like watching TV rather than being there.
Techmoan Sorry about the taste issue. Great video review.
I guess you can enjoy the texture and temperature at least.
And better than losing some of your other senses.
Still a shame though.
I had a mate who lost his taste/smell after a mountain bike accident. Didn't tell his GF for years. Always lied and said her cooking was lovely. Then she guessed and poured a ton of salt into his food just to check. Busted!
biscuitsalive No "salty" is one of the few taste sensations sensed by the tongue.
IT IS CUSTOMARY TO SACRIFICE ON BANANA TO THE YONANA GOD BEFORE COMMUNING WITH THE GREAT MACHINE
Made in conjunction with Dole - says it all really.
😂😂😂
:-) I think I would scrape the "lost" banana out of the machine and use it before washing the machine parts.
Still the best comment, even two years later.
The omnissiah needs potassium
I've had this for a few years, but never tried it. I finally decided to do it today. I am very happy with the results. Delicious! 🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦 Of course, you have to let the fruits rest for 20 to 30 minutes on the counter, before you make the ice cream!!! No fruit got stuck in my appliance. Don't know why, yours did!
It's a great marketing trick by Dole. This machine turns n bananas into n-1 bananas, meaning that they're going to sell 1 more banana per serving sold.
only if you are unwilling to use some sort of rubber spatula to dig out the banana inside.
I had great difficulty getting this YoNanas dashcam attached to my car windshield and finding the appropriate power adapter. After several bottles of superglue, a roll of duct tape and several meters of supportive rope I finally managed to install the YoNanas in place. Despite several hours of rigging I never managed to get any test footage and instead ended up with bits of frozen fruit all over my gear shifter. Final rating: 2/10 at least my hand is cooler when shifting but its gross and sticky.
I know this comment is a year old, however.... Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Thank you for this :P
PovRayMan Did you take into account the frequency was 50Hz not 60?
BaconKiller360 I knew it, but I'm in America and mine works perfectly. The key is to put it on the dashboard and make sure that you have put a micro SD card in it
The step you missed out is that you are supposed to construct and wear a tin foil hat with an antenna on the top ,I find my Yonnana dash cam works far better when I'm wearing my tin hat .It also doubles up as a handy portal to visiting deceased relatives from the Victorian era...you should give it a go it's bloody marvellous!
I have absolutely no interest in this device, but I'm completely addicted to watching Techmoan reviews.
I have this machine and after running everything thru once, I run it thru again. It is easy and so good, my kids and I love it love it!
here is a easier way. take frozen bananas place in a food processor until smooth like ice cream.
Shayla C
Yeah, I've made plenty of "sorbets" and "gelatos" with nothing more than a blender and a bag of mixed frozen fruit.
Very easy to do, easy to clean up, and tasty.
@@RamLaska same here
Food CPU
Whenever I am sad or having a bad day I just watch yonanas videos. Its the most bizarre and yet hilarious appliance.
This has got to be, at least nearly, the perfect review. It has me thinking, what a ridiculous device, but also that I must buy one of these immediately.
I recently purchased one. I have a great granddaughter who is lactose intolerant, this is perfect for the whole family!
I never thought of enjoying a video about making sorbet and some generic fruit sorbet maker, but here I am even after 7 years later of this video :D
I enjoy your videos for years and thank you again. Each time I look forward to see what s next and I hope you ll never get tired of making them. The lack of smell is a reminder to all how the basic things in life are precious. All the best.
Got Anosmia myself and I've had it since before I remember anything... Guess that's better as if you'd lose it later on... Still sucks imo. There won't be a cure to it any time soon since people don't think it's a disability really but it really cuts down quality of life. However - love your reviews, keep it up!
InClausWeTrust sorry to hear that. You'll no doubt have experienced the situation when people ask you whether something takes good and you just have to say 'yes'. It's one of those times when it's a lot more polite to lie than bore/upset people with the truth.
Yes! What I mostly hate about that is when people accuse me of lying or when my relatives forget and ask "smells good, right?... oh yeah...sorry". Oh well - keep on being a phenomenon ;)
I can imagine how it would impact on quality of life, even though I've never heard of it before.
@@ShintogaDeathAngel I hadn't heard of it before either. Besides the frustrating loss of one of the five senses, I can see how that could be potentially hazardous to live with. That one could ingest something bad without knowing it, thus the purpose for the sense of taste. Good thing to be married! "Hey try this, how is it dear? Bleargh! Ah, alright, what else we got?" The only good trade off would be that one wouldn't be bothered if someone broke wind, or had B.O...
Now scientists say if the illness is not inborn/tied to brain damage, then it can be healed with the use of prednisone or with the use of even more modern treatments such as gene therapy. So while Cuberus probably can not recover his/her sense of taste, Techmoan could, even though it is not easy.
I don't understand. How do you attach it to the windscreen?
MrAtheHun Right, I'm also not sure I understand where the memory card goes, or is it internal memory with a Bluetooth type connection back the computer?
Doesn't the banana mess up the video quality?
with a paperclip and a glue stick. it records video in 0p, so you won't be able to use it as evidence.
LOL, Do-Lé. I laughed my ass off.
Thought it was just me.
Smushed frozen fruit is killer. My aunt made me a bowl of stuff smashed in that thing. Wasn't bad at all, and I didnt even want it at first but boy was I wrong lol
why wipe away the banana stuck in the inside and throw it away? Just use a bowl scraper and eat it.
Max Kinge i think he did just that
but he has no taste
I totally agree. No, no, no to pulling the banana inside the dome out with his fingers, use a spatula, ew yuk!
@@katythompson3428 You are a special kind of snowflake, aren't ya?
@@katythompson3428 I would use a spatula instead of my fingers.
I bought one of these for my parents. Absolutely love it! It makes a great healthy snack.
Vitamix + Frozen Bananas = Ice Cream in 30 seconds (not to mention it makes hot soup, smoothies, peanut butter, salsa, etc. as well)
Best single kitchen tool ever made.
As someone who makes dairy free icecream with frozen banana frequently. My parents old blender from the 80s does a great job and I can add a little soy/almond milk to make it less sticky and closer to soft serve.
After watching this video I purchased a VonShef Frozen Fruit Dessert Maker, it was much cheaper than the Yonana and not as wastful. It's 6 months old and I used it regulary during summer.
I bought one of these last summer after tasting some banana mush in a Costo demonstration. Like you I wondered what had happened to most of the fruit at first until it came to cleaning it afterwards and discovered the colossal amount of waste hidden inside - it went straight back!
A much more robust, easier-to-clean take on the same mechanism, though very pricey, is a Champion juicer with the blank/puree-ing plate over the opening where the juice would come out and a bowl or cone below the pulp spout.
That thing will turn bananas into soft serve with ease (it's advertised as being suitable for making nut butter and has a coffee grinder attachment), easy to scrape the extra banana out of, my mother's lasted for two decades of active use, and, in hindsight, we could have easily ordered replacement parts rather than throwing it out.
(But, hey, it was the early 2000s and "check the company's website" wasn't a habit then.)
I have one of these and I love it! It doesn't "waste" the first banana. It is still in the machine. Just scrape it out when you are done putting in your fruit. You have to take it apart to clean it anyway. Might as well not waste the fruit. Another tip, mix up fruit before you put it in the machine (banana, strawberry, mango, banana, strawberry,...) instead of putting all the fruit of one type in at once. This will allow the fruit to mix up in the machine and come out already blended together. Also, you don't need to use bananas. I think Dole wants you to because they are a banana company but It works just fine without bananas too.
Where I live (Belgium) Dole doesn't really sell fresh fruit apart from, maybe, oranges. They are quite big in terms of canned fruits in syrup, though.
I have a machine like that, the ice cream doesn't come out that "creamy". If the fruit is very frozen like ice, the ice cream comes out as if the fruit were "crushed ice". But I discovered a trick to make the ice cream creamier: I cut the fruit into small pieces and don't let it freeze completely. I freeze it only half-frozen, and it's still a little malleable, and I mix natural yogurt, to make it more "creamy".
I want to get ALL of the kitchen gadgets that you have demonstrated and combine them into one super device that will prepare a 3 course meal while I take a nap.
don't know why but I find that kitchen gadgets always make for comedy gold!
i laughed when you said "yonanas" with a serious voice. :)
***** its the call used to gather grandmothers together
YONANA!
YoNana: Yes dear?
The bananas should be spotted (so that they are very sweet) and after freezing them, they should be taken out and left outside to thaw for 4-5 minutes so that the ice cream has the right consistency.
Thanks for the warning video :) In my experience its easier to get an immersion blender with a few attachments. You can get them for 30 quid and the results are just as good as with this contraption. And you can use the blender for many other things.
An immersion blender rather than a regular one?
Yep. I've got one with the traditional enclosed container attachment (I really don't know how to describe it) but I still find it to be way easier to just use the immersion attachment with a tall container to make smoothies and sorbets.
How about 'hand-held'?
Sebastian Climent I think that it's what we're talking about here.
this is one of those devices where the prototypes work fantastic, then it gets cost reduced and mass produced, and doesn't work for toffee.
This is a cool machine. Bought it last year (2014) when I first heard about it. I like it.
My mother bought something similar to this (same idea, different design) and it worked almost perfectly. There was a bit of a cleanup, but all in all, it worked flawlessly.
Thanks for the heads up about the hum, thought I was sitting on my guitar lead again.
Why is there a buzz?
(pauses video, buzzing stops)
Ah.
Your voice reminds me sooooo much of Thomas the Tank Engine-era Ringo Starr. This is pleasing to me, and only serves to enhance the coolness of your channel. Keep up the awesomeness! :)
rule of thumb: every kitchen device that can be used for one purpose only, is a useless kitchen device.
But what about my grilled cheese mak--oh, wow... Your so right.
What about a can opener? ;)
Rafael Gomes open stubborn blister packs.
Corkscrew
☢ SNICKERS 5+2 GRATIS ☢ If it can't also open crown cap bottles, it's useless
I use my Champion juicer that I've had for years to do the same thing. More expensive but worth it. I've done blueberries, strawberries, watermelon, raspberries, melon, pitted cherries, and even made peanut butter and bread crumbs with it.
My parents had a Yonanas machine and it also packed up after a few dozen uses. A few years later, we bought a Ninja Creami Deluxe, and it's a far better machine, especially for ice cream made from frozen mashed bananas. You ought to review one of those.
I wouldn't call this an ice cream machine in any capacity, it's literally just mashing frozen bananas. Although this might be a good way to give your kids a treat without it being too bad for them.
A great device if you like eating food that looks like snowman shit. :D
hi guru larry
lol
+Larry Bundy Jr You are everywhere
+Larry Bundy Jr Yeeaahh I was a little upset by the consistency myself haha
Wouldn't chocolate soft-serve be more like that?
Any other Americans love the eloquence and grace displayed with the pronunciation of the word "dole"?
D'ohlé!
Hi, I have a question, where did you buy those cubed frozen mango packs? I'm also from the UK but the only place where I find frozen mango is Aldi, they are in small trays though and I'd rather buy a big bag. Thanks.
In the US, does “Tar’jé” carry the “Dolé” brand? ;)
I am in the US but don't remember ever seeing Tar'je. do you have a link?
@@Goofy2Max he was being funny. Sometimes people refer to the store Target, as Tar’je.
Haha “feeding tune” made me feel sick too. I love the range of tech you review and take apart and fix. 🇨🇦❤️
But can it do 60fps?
I always thought how cool it would be to have a soft serve ice cream maker in your house.
Well.... Yonanas was just what it said it would do.
I took it to work the other day and made a big batch with bananas and strawberry's and bananas with blue berries. The office workers couldn't believe how this machine could turn fruit into flavored soft serve.
Everyone got a bowl to enjoy and we had two plastic freezer tubs to put in the freezer.
When I got back in the office two ladies were on the computer ordering them one!
On these HOT summer days this taste soooooo good !
I really have to tell you I was laughing my head off with the banana machine. I really enjoyed your video and of course fruit is a good thing and if this helps people eat more fruit, then great! Thanks for another great video! !!
Would feeding shaved (or thin/soft) ice through the machine displace the food material inside without damaging the blades?
In America they sell this product on those home shopping channels. It's nice to see it actually works. Nice review.
The Elite model is much better -quiet and more powerful. Great way to make home made sorbet and healthy too.
No offense, but you should read the instructions if you are going review something. The fruit needs to be thawed for 10 mins before use.. it was too hard, that's why you 'lost' a banana and also, probably why your machine broke. It works like a charm when used properly.
Womp womp
Banana grower invents banana-eating machine. Genius.
that was a very reliable review.. one without the sense of taste reviewing kitchen tools.. that is genius!
missed your channel, Google region locked my account glad to finally see your channel again
What I'm wondering is since you don't have a sense of taste or smell, does that make some of your other senses sharper? That would be handy considering a large chunk of your videos are audio and video equipment.
lolwut, do you think he's the Daredevil of the A/V nerd community?!
Throwing out the fruit stuck inside is so unnecessary! Just scrape it off with a small spatula!
"kind of makes me a bit ill thinking about 'feeding tube', makes me think a bit like hospitals"
great stuff
you really can't script this stuff, pure comedy
lonephantom09 replying to your own comment?
you would think a food processor or ninja blender would do just as good... and you wouldn't have to sacrifice a banana to a bin.
You don't lose any fruit, all you have to do is scrape it out at the end. Simple.
And you can mix them all at once, not to mention all the other things you can use it for. This thing is a massive waste of money.
the problem with most of these crazy kitchen gadgets tends to be that the time it takes to wash the machine out is more than it would if you were to just do it normally.
U have to let them thaw for 10min!! This machine works great
Thanks. I've come to really wnjoy your videos; no matter what you do. Thank you for doing some wonderful stuff, I'll continue to watch.
The Yonana hungers. *Insert the sacrificial banana* !
No.
I make banana ice cream in my Vitamix and it works like a dream every time.
it would help if you followed the instructions
you leave the bananas to defrost for 10-15 minutes and the bananas you freeze should be spotted, being slightly overripe
I followed those steps and it worked really well
Update on Yonanas!
Today I decided to try something different and that is to break up some peppermint candy, some butterscotch candy and some of these mints you get when you leave the restaurant.
I didn’t mix them all together. What I did is take about 10 peppermint balls, put them in a zip lock bag, get a wooden rolling pin and crush them up.
I did the same with the butterscotch and the after dinner mints.
I have to admit the peppermint was GREAT!
I put ½ banana in the Yonanas followed by a teaspoon of the peppermint followed by another ½ banana.
It tasted like peppermint ice cream! As one person said “Taste like Christmas”!
I also ran some of the peanut butter logs through. They didn’t need breaking up as they were not hard. It was like eating peanut butter ice cream. This was an interesting taste sensation.
Its basically a food processor, but not as good and less useful.
Today was looking for this Yonanas machine I found on the internet and looking on youtube for some videos. Guess my surprise when I found my most viewed and favourite youtuber has a review of that machine!
I really like your videos, and this is one of the best.
When you see your friend named Nanas
I don't think ill be rushing out to buy one.
Is it cold ?
I suggest you contact Colin Furze and review the jettle.
This just seems like something you could do with a quality blender and frozen fruits to be honest.
Hindsight yea but this is cheaper than having a good quality blender
My thoughts exactly. This thing might be cheaper than some blenders, but blenders are more versatile.
Do you think this would work in a food mixer with those attachments on the top that allow you to feed things through and it grates them up???
I had genuine flashbacks to the "Juice Loosener" from The Simpsons. This thing is basically just a less useful food processor.
IT'S WHISPER QUIET!!
These videos are so relaxing
I love the way you present your reviews. Great work.
Banana is a funny word to begin with, but your pronunciation of it makes it hilarious. Thanks for posting :)
Smushed up frozen fruit actually sounds pretty good
I like banana "ice-cream" and do a fine job using my good old blender to mix up frozen banana. It's nice to not need another machine.
Hello can i just ask , how long did you put the fruits in the freezer?
bit of a magic trick: one banana is sacrificed to "prime" it before anything starts to come out. couldn't a big cuisinart chop the hell out of fruit chunks? then, wipe on a cookie sheet, freeze and eat cold. who needs this weird thing, the potatoe-go-round that shoots potatoe spooge all over, as it bounces around was more of adventure in culinary procedure!
It would be much more effective and a whole lot easier to use a potato masher. Not an electric mixer, just the old handle with a metal grate pattern on the end.
how did you lost your taste ?? :(
The frozen banana must be thawed a bit or else it will break cause problems
Interesting idea, I love banana ice cream.
I think it would have been more successful if the green logo started spinning when you turn it on.
6:01 Techmoan using his supersonic powers to improve the device's efficiency. We all know it: time machine notwithstanding, he's also a superhero during his free time.
okay, after watching this I find it dumb. what is the difference of it and using a blender or food processor?
What did that homemade fruit sorbet actually taste like? I haven't eaten a fruit sorbet in a long time, so I would like to try some of that.
That first banana and what came out reminds me of the Juice Loosener from the Simpsons.
best review for this product by far
Standard blender would do better.
I'd also want to add some cream and sugar for a better taste and texture.
Lol haven't seen a food based review in a while. Keep them coming!
I can't say as I've ever heard "Dole" pronounced that way. Is that a common UK variant?
videojomo Nope!
I bought one last year and I hate it! Was a complete waste of money. The blender works much better. Yonanas is bagged up ready for Goodwill.
Can you use this as a veggie juicer?