It's such a shame really because this is actually a really neat idea. The two biggest flaws in this is that it's square pan with a really weak circular mixer that can barely even stir. I have no freaking clue how they thought this would work. They wanted this to look sleek and cool with zero care on actual performance. The other glaring problem is that the recipe book is a complete disaster. It's like they used the dumbest AI to write the recipes and didn't even bother trying any.
@@MasterThief117 guaranteed what they did. They just made random chat gpt recipes and they’re so bad. How can you mess up Mac and cheese?! Even if it had been a good recipe the texture was horrible. James was 100% right about how it spinning the whole time would break up the macaroni’s. 😂
That mac n cheese recipe was literally a recipe for home made stove top Mac n cheese which only takes 10 minutes to make. That was a classic solution for a problem that didn’t exist.
I can’t believe this machine made it from design to homes without a single human saying “why is it square?” Brains are becoming smoother and smoother, aren’t they?!?! 😂😂😂😂
I think it’s to differentiate from the instant pot, the crock pot, the food processor, and the regular cooking pot, all of which this replaces handily😂
It looks like a massive version of those bread machines with the tiny paddle at the bottom to stir the bread dough. After a period of time, that stirring paddle can become detached from the spinning rod. Then it no longer stirs the bread dough. Will that problem occur to this stirring cooker machine too?
1 and a half hours to cook Mac n Cheese!?!?! I know it was on slow cook but who the hell is cooking Mac n Cheese for that long 😂 I'm not surprised it turned into Mac n Cheese toothpaste lol!
@@RaynmanPlays YES, I KNOW THAT, never said it was. You leave uncooked noodles in water for 30 minutes and they start to take on water. So no reason to need 1h 30m, especially in a heated vessel. You're going to have MUSH for noodles. By the way, don't "cook" noodles like that outside of Egg Noodles. I've tried regular noodles before, turns out HEAT does do something extra.
@@tdata545 stirring + macaronis seems like a bad idea even at whatever minutes. it would make sense if it just stirred it once every 15 minutes or something
@ WHAT? Why are people adding context that's not anywhere in what I wrote? Also, the box of Pasta and Noodles tells you to stir occasionally, mostly since depending on heating method, gas or electric can burn the noodles. More of a problem with gas than electric.
James, thank you. I can't remember when I laughed as hard as when you showed the finished macaroni and cheese. I have literal tears rolling down my cheeks. Ok ok I paused the video - let's see how the rest of these recipes turn out.
Desperately poor engineering design. Good idea in theory, but bowl should be round and the distance from the stirrer to the edge should be a few millimeters not centimeters. The motor needs a lot more power. The excellent control design was wasted on a mechanical engineering fiasco.
I don't understand how they could make such a dumb mistake of not using a round bowl. The only thing I can think is that maybe that's an already patented design and somehow the square shape let them get around it.
I am sorry if I gave the impression that it was the engineers who came up with the design. I have deep respect for engineers. Most likely this was intended to be a slow cooker, but market research, determined that there was no market for those anymore, but that there may be a market for a self stirring slow cooker. So with 25,000 of these already manufactured, engineering was asked to convert this more or less square cook pot into a self stirring one. I would say the real question isn’t whether I have an engineering degree or not, but whether or not I have a business degree. And I definitely do not have a business degree.
I feel like the easiest solution to this would be to have 3 flexible silicone arms are short, medium, and long length. The long one should be longer than the center-to-corner of the pot, and it would just flex when it gets around to the sides of the pot when its "too long". I would never buy something like this, even if it worked well, but enjoy watching your reviews regardless lol
@@Naz_Nomad lol, if it results to a better product that people can enjoy then sure, not like I was ever going to take my idea, prototype it, and get it mass produced for sale 😅
I think they just needed to make the pot perfectly round rather than that squircle shape. Then they could have easily had a stirring arm that covers the entire edge of the pot.
Or you use a circular pot. why do mixers use bowls that are circular, because the beater is also circular, this idea of a rounded bowl could work ok for an entirely liquid meal, but for solid nah its horrible, even with the chicken the main reason it had chunks was likely because it shredded them small enough to hide in the corners then went im done.
The style of that paddle reminds me of bread machines. So this could literally just be the guts of a bread machine with a different shaped container and controls. When you look at the recipe book that comes with the bread machine, it shows that you can make jam in it.
OH NO I'm not entering that contest for that Set & Don't Forget to throw in the trash can XL cooker. lol I can see kids coming home after school and seeing that mac & cheese that mom set and left for them while she not home yet. Soooo thankful for your honest reviews. Blessings Always
I'm so glad you tested this thing, it's pretty much what I expected. That mac n cheese looked scary 🤣🤣🤣... and you bravely tasted it anyway. Thank you for another great review James!
Glad you've done a FR2 channel. Watching your videos is always a highlight of my day. Now that you're doing a FR2, I know the next day is likely a FRqm1 channel review. Not a member, so the regular subscriber days are a treat for me
Tristar makes these products and their reliability is not good. Their customer service is the pits. Because of it we never purchased a Tristar product again. After a Emeril oven that blew out our circuit breakers, and a Montel Williams Healthmaster that started smoking after only two uses, we gave up lol. Great review thank you for posting.
@@skykitchen867weird my mother in law has one and she used it daily for like 8 years until it stopped working . Non stick was perfect on it. Maybe don’t use metal utensils?
@@rspurepk We used just the plastic utensil that was provided with the grill to slide the grease off. Maybe the stick surface was improved? We bought ours in the early 90's
I have an Emeril tower style air fryer oven with two trays that I got on sale at Costco for around $70 at least 5 years ago. I use it almost every day and it works great.
I love my bread machine, it does the job fine. It kneads the dough and cooks it. The only part I need to do is make sure the dough is the right consistency. I can't speak on modern bread machines though, the one I use is older than me, my Dad got it before I was even born and it still works.
While I'll admit to being a computer engineer, I didn't take mechanical engineering classes and I'm scratching my head at the designers using a squared cooking container with an underpowered motor. They need to go back to the drawing board and make it a cylindrical cone and add more liquid to their recipes. It obviously lost a lot of fluid via evaporation escaping around the lid.
I own one of these, so far it has worked for all the things I’ve tried. I’d cook the pasta first, with just boiling water, then add the ingredients and the pasta. I’ve cooked pasta in it many times. I love mine. I have changed the stir speed sometimes, if it doesn’t seem to move as much, I raise the speed to hi. In a regular risotto recipe it is constant stirring, I would ignore the recipe and turn on the stir to low for a little while then let it sit. I do agree a round bowl would work better, the hot plate could be round as well. I love how quickly it cleans up. Nothing sticks for me!
@ I use the stir max to cook the noodles. It stirs them around so they don’t stick. I use tortellini or ravioli mostly but I’ve used elbow pasta too to make goulash.
Same, I actually love mine but I feel like it depends on what you're using it for, we make a lot of homemade Indian food and this thing is amazing when it comes to making the sauces. It makes it easier to multitask, I can saute the chicken on the stove while cooking the sauces in the stirmax, dump the chicken in and let it shred the chicken into the sauce.
I've made this exact recipe in my CrockPot and it has come out perfectly... The key is not stirring it until just before the end. They also have you put the stuff in, in a specific order and a couple of them at a specific time... So I'm not surprised it didn't come out.
I remember Tefals 1st or 2nd gen Airfryer/Actifry, they also had a rotating arm, but anything you put in there, although cooked/baked through, ended up either smashed or curled up (depending on ingredients used)
With the s.ithe consistency, the chicken dish could be used as a dip. Container should ve round. A leaving feature needs to be added. A more powerful motor needs to be used.
@@thumbsarehandy. meh sums it up about right. the pot in this thing should have been round so the stirring arm could actually reach the whole thing as well as less aggressive or different shaped arms. like in the video I would mostly be using something like this for soups and stuff like that. things like he said it would work best on
I laughed really hard at that mac n cheese results. Funny thing was that it is not supposed to be funny! Great review and hope they go back to the drawing board (maybe a round bowl/pan and rewrite the recipes).
I suspect the square pot with a round stirrer, keeps the food from just going in circles if the pan was round. The corners are supposed to mix it up better?
Campbells cheddar cheese soup has been around forever. Just as long as the other cream soups. Back in the day we'd make nacho sauce in slow cookers with it, and sell nachos at school to fund the cheerleading squad. This is before they made cheese sauce like Tostitos or Fritos dip.
Instead of pitching the mac you could roll it in balls then coat it and deep fry it for deep fried mac and cheese balls. I've seen chefs on The Food Network channel do deep fried mac and cheese balls. Maybe it won't have the same texture but it will have the flavor and likely be more palatable than what you've got fresh out of the machine. What a joke of a recipe that one turned out to be.
Probably depends on what you're cooking you have to be cooking specific things in it I'm sure it works really well for Soups and sauces and stuff like that. I just don't understand why they would make it square and make the handle or the steering mechanism so short. You would think they would make it round and make the mechanism the same size as the circumference of the inside of the pan. Also it would be really cool if you could set your own schedule and be very specific about how you want the stirring to be done. It's a good idea if they remake it and they put out a new model and fix all those issues it would actually be pretty cool
You actually nailed all the stuff i was thinking, it needs to be round, the stirrer needs to get closer to the walls and the bottom, and it needs much, much more control over the stirrer, what i also dont get is how it massacred the rice, it dried it out and burned it, the damn thing has a stirrer, if its going to nuke the rice the least it could have done was every 5 minutes or so send the paddle for a spin. but either way, ive used both rice cookers and cooked rice in a pressure cooker and neither one has needed stirring and produced perfectly fine not burned rice.
The problem with the first recipe is that you used Boxed Mac & Cheese. That uses PRE-Cooked Macaroni noodles. Anyone with an IQ above 10 would have known exactly how that would turn out if you cook it for OVER AN HOUR!!!
The mac & cheese sludge ... someone who knows about cooking let me know if this would work. Take the 'snowballs' and roll them in crumbs then deep fry? Like Mac 'n Cheese bites? Or would they just melt?
Having lived most of my life in the US and Canada, I get eating rice with a fork as that what I did growing up, but now that I have lived in Thailand the last two years, it makes more sense to do what they do, eat rice with a spoon so it doesn't have any slots to fall out of.
The cooking pot needs to be round, no corners. The stirrer needs to touch the pot, maybe with a silicone edge to prevent scratching. When you put the butter in, that blade just swiped above it all.
If the chicken shredding works, I just might have to buy this. I make my dogs food, which consists of chicken breast, cream of chicken soup, rice and chicken broth. Oh! And mixed veggies. So essentially, you are making my dog food! haha Pulled pork (shredded pork) would also be good. And anything made with ground hamburger. I don't know....seems pretty useful to me.
Your videos are entertaining & this one is one of the best! Food that comes out of that product looks like someone already ate it and...............uh......... it didn't stay down. When I first saw this type of product advertised, I thought: "How lazy are we getting?"
The idea is sound enough, as you could use it like a slow cooker where you set it then leave for work or something, lazy need not apply, however its horrible at even that job. Really the laziness seems to come from the designer of the darn thing.
Instructions say 40 mins for mac and cheese on the recipe book from the website. I had to look it up because I couldn’t believe it would be that long. Did you misread it as 90 mins?
I feel like if they make it circular instead of a square it would be way better. Also they should make attachments for it for different recipes so that mac and cheese wont be looking like mashed potatoes 🤣
I would add more flavor to the macaroni and cheese paste, roll them into balls, coat them in some kind of flour/egg/panko combination, and deep fry them.
Thanks for saving me money. Was gonna buy this but after watching this is a no go for me.. I think if it was a circle pot and not square it would alot better!
Well, that turned out exactly like I expected. In the commercial it talks about how it can shred meat, and stir meatballs... If it's strong enough to shred meat, how would it not obliterate meatballs?! (We won't talk about macaroni)
i have never even seen the commercials. but when he said it stirs and shreds i was like wait, what. how? like does it spin faster or some nonsense, nope turns out it shreds no matter what, yep makes total sense.
Maybe good for risotto or caramelizing onions. About 10 years ago, I was in desperate need of a slow cooker, and the only one available locally was a Crock Pot I Stir (I think that's what it was called) and my experience was as abysmal as yours. The motor isn't strong enough for many foods, the blades don't reach edges of pot, and I really couldn't see any use for it. The most ridiculous thing I tried making in it was Chex Mix - IDK where I got told to use this pot for it, maybe in the manual, who knows. It struggled to stir dry cereal! You had to dump the mix into oven pans and bake it anyway, so it was really useless.
I saw this advertised and didn't think it would work. I went with the Ninja Foodi multi cooker instead. Bought it six months ago and love every time I use it.
I mean what do you think will happen to a pasta being cooked for over an hour,. The problem with this that cant be corrected is that its a square pan with a stirrer that works circular motion. I could see this working better if it was a round pan.
Why would you make the string mechanism so small and not strong enough or close enough to the bottom of the pan to get things like butter? I noticed it just would go over all of the butter cuz it wasn't close enough to the pan to actually hit it. And then on top of that they made it Square I don't know why you would think they would make it round the exact circumference needed for the steering handle to hit all the way around? I don't know I'm not Ron Popeil I'm just saying it seems a little weird😂
I wonder how that mash n cheese would be if you formed it into balls and then maybe threw them in an oven or air fryer for a bit. Maybe even mash them down into discs for mac n cheese chips. My hopes aren't high, but it's an idea.
In a 15 minute video, I can figure out the main design flaw that the engineers appeared to miss: why is this square? If it has a circular stirring thing, wouldn’t you want a round pot? Looks like a cool concept that perhaps someone will make actually work.
Besides putting a circular stirring mechanism in a square vessel, I think the problem is that it's a stirrer that they're trying to get to do mixing duties. Stirring and mixing are not the same things. When you had the whole thing full, it was doing fine, because it could treat the whole thing like a liquid. But when it's not full, and it's dealing with solids, it doesn't move the food around well, because it can't depend on currents like it can when it's dealing with liquids. The solids just get pushed to the side, rather than getting swirled in.
I just looked at the recipe book on their website and it says 40 minutes for the mac and cheese. I don't know if maybe that's been changed since yours was printed or what, but 1.5 hours for mac and cheese is obviously way too long!
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Seems a bit useless to me to be honest
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Genius design! Let’s make a circular spinning device and put that inside of a square bowl! Yay!
My thoughts exactly!
It's such a shame really because this is actually a really neat idea. The two biggest flaws in this is that it's square pan with a really weak circular mixer that can barely even stir.
I have no freaking clue how they thought this would work. They wanted this to look sleek and cool with zero care on actual performance.
The other glaring problem is that the recipe book is a complete disaster. It's like they used the dumbest AI to write the recipes and didn't even bother trying any.
@@MasterThief117 guaranteed what they did. They just made random chat gpt recipes and they’re so bad. How can you mess up Mac and cheese?! Even if it had been a good recipe the texture was horrible. James was 100% right about how it spinning the whole time would break up the macaroni’s. 😂
Right?!? Why is it so hard to get a stirring gadget that works?? It would definitely be one of the most useful things ever.
That mac n cheese recipe was literally a recipe for home made stove top Mac n cheese which only takes 10 minutes to make. That was a classic solution for a problem that didn’t exist.
I can’t believe this machine made it from design to homes without a single human saying “why is it square?” Brains are becoming smoother and smoother, aren’t they?!?! 😂😂😂😂
Probably the motor would fail when something gets stuck between blade and edge
I think it’s to differentiate from the instant pot, the crock pot, the food processor, and the regular cooking pot, all of which this replaces handily😂
❤😂😂😂❤.
And it seems bowls are becoming squarer and squarer 😂
Worst Of 2025 video has its new front runner.
Exactly, terrible design
Starting off hot!
It looks like a massive version of those bread machines with the tiny paddle at the bottom to stir the bread dough. After a period of time, that stirring paddle can become detached from the spinning rod. Then it no longer stirs the bread dough. Will that problem occur to this stirring cooker machine too?
I was thinking that too
Lmao 🤣 I can’t wait!
1 and a half hours to cook Mac n Cheese!?!?!
I know it was on slow cook but who the hell is cooking Mac n Cheese for that long 😂 I'm not surprised it turned into Mac n Cheese toothpaste lol!
Right? Since I've bought those "MAC AND CHEESE" bowls for the microwave, which work great by the way, and I think that takes like 8 minutes max.
@@tdata545 A microwave is not a slow cooker.
@@RaynmanPlays YES, I KNOW THAT, never said it was. You leave uncooked noodles in water for 30 minutes and they start to take on water. So no reason to need 1h 30m, especially in a heated vessel. You're going to have MUSH for noodles. By the way, don't "cook" noodles like that outside of Egg Noodles. I've tried regular noodles before, turns out HEAT does do something extra.
@@tdata545 stirring + macaronis seems like a bad idea even at whatever minutes. it would make sense if it just stirred it once every 15 minutes or something
@ WHAT? Why are people adding context that's not anywhere in what I wrote? Also, the box of Pasta and Noodles tells you to stir occasionally, mostly since depending on heating method, gas or electric can burn the noodles. More of a problem with gas than electric.
James, thank you. I can't remember when I laughed as hard as when you showed the finished macaroni and cheese.
I have literal tears rolling down my cheeks.
Ok ok I paused the video - let's see how the rest of these recipes turn out.
Gotta love good ol mash and cheese 😂
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Haha it was so pasty after four hours that I could have remade it into spaghetti with my pasta maker🤣
That's one contraption I don't need! But I enjoyed the review.👍🏼
That crunchy caramelized rice is fought over in some households.
It was on clearance at my Walmart, and I wanted it so bad. So glad you reviewed it! Saved me $60
Desperately poor engineering design. Good idea in theory, but bowl should be round and the distance from the stirrer to the edge should be a few millimeters not centimeters. The motor needs a lot more power. The excellent control design was wasted on a mechanical engineering fiasco.
I don't understand how they could make such a dumb mistake of not using a round bowl. The only thing I can think is that maybe that's an already patented design and somehow the square shape let them get around it.
It's so easy to tell you have no engineering degree.
@@Feliphezolol what a lame comment. It's easy to tell you don't have a degree in communication.
@@Feliphezo Unlike you oh genius of geniuseseses.
I am sorry if I gave the impression that it was the engineers who came up with the design. I have deep respect for engineers. Most likely this was intended to be a slow cooker, but market research, determined that there was no market for those anymore, but that there may be a market for a self stirring slow cooker. So with 25,000 of these already manufactured, engineering was asked to convert this more or less square cook pot into a self stirring one.
I would say the real question isn’t whether I have an engineering degree or not, but whether or not I have a business degree. And I definitely do not have a business degree.
I feel like the easiest solution to this would be to have 3 flexible silicone arms are short, medium, and long length. The long one should be longer than the center-to-corner of the pot, and it would just flex when it gets around to the sides of the pot when its "too long". I would never buy something like this, even if it worked well, but enjoy watching your reviews regardless lol
Me neither. I prefer to stir my own pot of food...I still watched the video though. ..
It took some rando on the internet to fix their design, lol. They'll probably steal your idea and use it in their Mark 2 version.
@@Naz_Nomad lol, if it results to a better product that people can enjoy then sure, not like I was ever going to take my idea, prototype it, and get it mass produced for sale 😅
I think they just needed to make the pot perfectly round rather than that squircle shape. Then they could have easily had a stirring arm that covers the entire edge of the pot.
Or you use a circular pot. why do mixers use bowls that are circular, because the beater is also circular, this idea of a rounded bowl could work ok for an entirely liquid meal, but for solid nah its horrible, even with the chicken the main reason it had chunks was likely because it shredded them small enough to hide in the corners then went im done.
The style of that paddle reminds me of bread machines. So this could literally just be the guts of a bread machine with a different shaped container and controls. When you look at the recipe book that comes with the bread machine, it shows that you can make jam in it.
OH NO I'm not entering that contest for that Set & Don't Forget to throw in the trash can XL cooker. lol
I can see kids coming home after school and seeing that mac & cheese that mom set and left for them while she not home yet.
Soooo thankful for your honest reviews.
Blessings Always
Probably would've been ok if it wasn't set for an hour and a half of cooking, lol.
The contest isn't for THIS cooker. It's for a Ninja. Not the same brand.
I'm so glad you tested this thing, it's pretty much what I expected. That mac n cheese looked scary 🤣🤣🤣... and you bravely tasted it anyway. Thank you for another great review James!
Glad you've done a FR2 channel. Watching your videos is always a highlight of my day. Now that you're doing a FR2, I know the next day is likely a FRqm1 channel review.
Not a member, so the regular subscriber days are a treat for me
Who was the QA person that put that macaroni recipe LOL. Thanks for testing for the rest of us!
That wasn't even on my radar and now it never will be!😅 Thanks for that one
Tristar makes these products and their reliability is not good. Their customer service is the pits. Because of it we never purchased a Tristar product again. After a Emeril oven that blew out our circuit breakers, and a Montel Williams Healthmaster that started smoking after only two uses, we gave up lol. Great review thank you for posting.
Guess you gotta go back to the George foreman grill and Gordon Ramsey pans with the rachel ray cooking utensils
@@BobbyTheDogGuy The george foreman grill that the non stick quit working after about ten uses? LOL :)
@@skykitchen867weird my mother in law has one and she used it daily for like 8 years until it stopped working . Non stick was perfect on it. Maybe don’t use metal utensils?
@@rspurepk We used just the plastic utensil that was provided with the grill to slide the grease off. Maybe the stick surface was improved? We bought ours in the early 90's
I have an Emeril tower style air fryer oven with two trays that I got on sale at Costco for around $70 at least 5 years ago. I use it almost every day and it works great.
The stirrer design reminds me of a bread maker. It's an interesting idea, but it seems like this one is only truly useful for certain niche things.
It kinda reminded me of a popcorn popper.
My bread machine actually does its job though
I love my bread machine, it does the job fine. It kneads the dough and cooks it. The only part I need to do is make sure the dough is the right consistency.
I can't speak on modern bread machines though, the one I use is older than me, my Dad got it before I was even born and it still works.
While I'll admit to being a computer engineer, I didn't take mechanical engineering classes and I'm scratching my head at the designers using a squared cooking container with an underpowered motor. They need to go back to the drawing board and make it a cylindrical cone and add more liquid to their recipes. It obviously lost a lot of fluid via evaporation escaping around the lid.
Add a few butter pats to your soups/chili/stews/fruit pie filling....it adds savor to the flavor! 😊
I own one of these, so far it has worked for all the things I’ve tried. I’d cook the pasta first, with just boiling water, then add the ingredients and the pasta. I’ve cooked pasta in it many times. I love mine. I have changed the stir speed sometimes, if it doesn’t seem to move as much, I raise the speed to hi. In a regular risotto recipe it is constant stirring, I would ignore the recipe and turn on the stir to low for a little while then let it sit. I do agree a round bowl would work better, the hot plate could be round as well. I love how quickly it cleans up. Nothing sticks for me!
If you've already dirtied a pot to cook the noodles, why bother moving them to this gadget just to stir in the cheese?
@ I use the stir max to cook the noodles. It stirs them around so they don’t stick. I use tortellini or ravioli mostly but I’ve used elbow pasta too to make goulash.
Same, I actually love mine but I feel like it depends on what you're using it for, we make a lot of homemade Indian food and this thing is amazing when it comes to making the sauces. It makes it easier to multitask, I can saute the chicken on the stove while cooking the sauces in the stirmax, dump the chicken in and let it shred the chicken into the sauce.
Only thing I would imagine using something like this would be for making caramelized onions.
Gotdayum that thing EVISCERATED the chicken
I mean if it doesnt stir properly, a $20 used old crock pot is WAY more worth it.
Twice Mechanically separated chicken. Like a deluxe slim Jim
I've made this exact recipe in my CrockPot and it has come out perfectly... The key is not stirring it until just before the end. They also have you put the stuff in, in a specific order and a couple of them at a specific time... So I'm not surprised it didn't come out.
Their Slogan should be "Set It and Forg ...HEY STOP LOOKING AT THE CORNERS!"
LOL when I saw the thumbnail I thought that you were making peanut butter or made like peanut butter ice cream😂😂😂😂
That macaroni and cheese would be good for making balls/discs to coat and fry! LOL. That was crazy.
I thought the same thing
Wow, this is the earliest I've been here! Entering the giveaway now, thx!
EDIT: That mac and cheese is atrocious. It looks like a hardened rice ball.
Chili recipe is pretty bland too.
The moment you saw that it was breaking up the macaroni told me the pasta was cooked, time to stop cooking.
30 minutes would have been enough time for the Mac and Cheese.
I saw a commercial for this at the bar 3 months ago and was definitley curious about it. Glad to see a video on it.
I remember Tefals 1st or 2nd gen Airfryer/Actifry, they also had a rotating arm, but anything you put in there, although cooked/baked through, ended up either smashed or curled up (depending on ingredients used)
With the s.ithe consistency, the chicken dish could be used as a dip.
Container should ve round. A leaving feature needs to be added.
A more powerful motor needs to be used.
ive been looking forward to this video for months after first seeing it on tv. this thing looks like a really cool idea
Now that you've seen the video, what do you think?
@@thumbsarehandy. meh sums it up about right. the pot in this thing should have been round so the stirring arm could actually reach the whole thing as well as less aggressive or different shaped arms. like in the video I would mostly be using something like this for soups and stuff like that. things like he said it would work best on
@@aarontrupiano9328 yeah why is it square?? lol
Round stirrer in a square pot, its pretty obvious where this is going.
I laughed really hard at that mac n cheese results. Funny thing was that it is not supposed to be funny! Great review and hope they go back to the drawing board (maybe a round bowl/pan and rewrite the recipes).
I think the Stir Crazy popcorn popper could make these recipes at least as well!
Usually these combo gadgets don’t work, better off going the traditional route or if you have the money, a thermomix is an awesome gadget
*MISTAKE?* The Mac and Cheese recipe says to cook for *40 mins* , not 1.5 hrs. After the Mac cooked, I think you stirred it into a paste.
I suspect the square pot with a round stirrer, keeps the food from just going in circles if the pan was round. The corners are supposed to mix it up better?
I think this could be good for some dips. A dip that comes to mind: 1 lb ground sausage (browned & drained), 1lb cream cheese, 1 can Rotel.
I just saw this item at Walmart a day or so ago - not that I need or want it but I’m looking forward to actually see how it works. 😊
Campbell's makes cheddar cheese soup? I've never heard of that before.
Yeah, not in oz.
Campbells cheddar cheese soup has been around forever. Just as long as the other cream soups. Back in the day we'd make nacho sauce in slow cookers with it, and sell nachos at school to fund the cheerleading squad. This is before they made cheese sauce like Tostitos or Fritos dip.
13:05 "It's trying to stir but it can't do it!" -- In other words, "Your powers are weak, old pan!"
Instead of pitching the mac you could roll it in balls then coat it and deep fry it for deep fried mac and cheese balls. I've seen chefs on The Food Network channel do deep fried mac and cheese balls. Maybe it won't have the same texture but it will have the flavor and likely be more palatable than what you've got fresh out of the machine. What a joke of a recipe that one turned out to be.
For the mac & cheese, did they include a recipe they never tested? Or did they think this was an acceptable result?
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What this thing needs is to be round and for the stirring paddle to reach all the way to the side of the vessel
Probably depends on what you're cooking you have to be cooking specific things in it I'm sure it works really well for Soups and sauces and stuff like that. I just don't understand why they would make it square and make the handle or the steering mechanism so short. You would think they would make it round and make the mechanism the same size as the circumference of the inside of the pan. Also it would be really cool if you could set your own schedule and be very specific about how you want the stirring to be done. It's a good idea if they remake it and they put out a new model and fix all those issues it would actually be pretty cool
You actually nailed all the stuff i was thinking, it needs to be round, the stirrer needs to get closer to the walls and the bottom, and it needs much, much more control over the stirrer, what i also dont get is how it massacred the rice, it dried it out and burned it, the damn thing has a stirrer, if its going to nuke the rice the least it could have done was every 5 minutes or so send the paddle for a spin. but either way, ive used both rice cookers and cooked rice in a pressure cooker and neither one has needed stirring and produced perfectly fine not burned rice.
After seeing this Pilaf, everyone who loves Pilaf went out of the window!
So, do you think you could add more cheese, then bread and fry the mac and cheese gloop into fried bites? Or was it just too horrible?
4:00 looks like wet cornbread.
The problem with the first recipe is that you used Boxed Mac & Cheese. That uses PRE-Cooked Macaroni noodles. Anyone with an IQ above 10 would have known exactly how that would turn out if you cook it for OVER AN HOUR!!!
The wheel is round changed the planet,still works quit well.
Feels like someone cooked with a bread maker and was like why wasn’t this marketed as a food stirrer?!
The Mac and Cheese kind of looks like Masa for Tamales.
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Thank you so very much. I love your reviews.
when I saw the Mac and cheese at the halfway point I already suspected that you would end up with Mac and cheese paste at the end😂
If the pot was circular instead of square, the stirer would be enabled to stir on the edges.
The mac & cheese sludge ... someone who knows about cooking let me know if this would work. Take the 'snowballs' and roll them in crumbs then deep fry? Like Mac 'n Cheese bites? Or would they just melt?
The stirring arm should have been longer
A better design would be to have a circular bowl instead of a square. Then the stirring paddle would be able to go to the edge
Having lived most of my life in the US and Canada, I get eating rice with a fork as that what I did growing up, but now that I have lived in Thailand the last two years, it makes more sense to do what they do, eat rice with a spoon so it doesn't have any slots to fall out of.
The cooking pot needs to be round, no corners. The stirrer needs to touch the pot, maybe with a silicone edge to prevent scratching. When you put the butter in, that blade just swiped above it all.
If the chicken shredding works, I just might have to buy this. I make my dogs food, which consists of chicken breast, cream of chicken soup, rice and chicken broth. Oh! And mixed veggies. So essentially, you are making my dog food! haha
Pulled pork (shredded pork) would also be good. And anything made with ground hamburger. I don't know....seems pretty useful to me.
Your videos are entertaining & this one is one of the best! Food that comes out of that product looks like someone already ate it and...............uh......... it didn't stay down. When I first saw this type of product advertised, I thought: "How lazy are we getting?"
Thus the question, "are you going to eat that, or did you just throw up?"
The idea is sound enough, as you could use it like a slow cooker where you set it then leave for work or something, lazy need not apply, however its horrible at even that job. Really the laziness seems to come from the designer of the darn thing.
Instructions say 40 mins for mac and cheese on the recipe book from the website. I had to look it up because I couldn’t believe it would be that long. Did you misread it as 90 mins?
That’s what I went to do as well. 90 mins seemed like too long of a time
30 to 40 minutes would have been enough time.
I feel like if they make it circular instead of a square it would be way better. Also they should make attachments for it for different recipes so that mac and cheese wont be looking like mashed potatoes 🤣
I would add more flavor to the macaroni and cheese paste, roll them into balls, coat them in some kind of flour/egg/panko combination, and deep fry them.
I couldn’t risk 2 days worth of raw ingredients and hope it would come out like I wanted
It not only needs to be round, but it needs a fin on the outer edge that flips the food inward. And the stir arm doesn't even touch the bottom.
Thanks for saving me money. Was gonna buy this but after watching this is a no go for me.. I think if it was a circle pot and not square it would alot better!
how does this guy not have a million subs yet
Well, that turned out exactly like I expected. In the commercial it talks about how it can shred meat, and stir meatballs... If it's strong enough to shred meat, how would it not obliterate meatballs?! (We won't talk about macaroni)
i have never even seen the commercials. but when he said it stirs and shreds i was like wait, what. how? like does it spin faster or some nonsense, nope turns out it shreds no matter what, yep makes total sense.
6:39 3 cans of soup!? Think of the sodium! 🧂🧂🧂🧂
Get the low sodium kind.
This had me dying of laughter 😂
The simple solution would've been to keep the pot round. Why is it square? That just makes it impossible for the arms to stir properly.
Just stir it initially in the beginning
Maybe good for risotto or caramelizing onions. About 10 years ago, I was in desperate need of a slow cooker, and the only one available locally was a Crock Pot I Stir (I think that's what it was called) and my experience was as abysmal as yours. The motor isn't strong enough for many foods, the blades don't reach edges of pot, and I really couldn't see any use for it. The most ridiculous thing I tried making in it was Chex Mix - IDK where I got told to use this pot for it, maybe in the manual, who knows. It struggled to stir dry cereal! You had to dump the mix into oven pans and bake it anyway, so it was really useless.
I saw this advertised and didn't think it would work. I went with the Ninja Foodi multi cooker instead. Bought it six months ago and love every time I use it.
The macaroni had me in tears 😂 lmao
Did it say “One half hour” or “One and a half hour”?!
That mid-time check on the Mac n Cheese looked good.
Yeah, there is absolutely no reason to cook pasta for 2 hours, that would always turn it into paste, not the machine's fault
I got level side to side what about back and fourth lol love the reviews ❤
Oh man, I haven't laughed this hard in a long time ~ that mac 'n' cheese!
I mean what do you think will happen to a pasta being cooked for over an hour,. The problem with this that cant be corrected is that its a square pan with a stirrer that works circular motion. I could see this working better if it was a round pan.
Why would you make the string mechanism so small and not strong enough or close enough to the bottom of the pan to get things like butter? I noticed it just would go over all of the butter cuz it wasn't close enough to the pan to actually hit it. And then on top of that they made it Square I don't know why you would think they would make it round the exact circumference needed for the steering handle to hit all the way around? I don't know I'm not Ron Popeil I'm just saying it seems a little weird😂
I wonder how that mash n cheese would be if you formed it into balls and then maybe threw them in an oven or air fryer for a bit. Maybe even mash them down into discs for mac n cheese chips.
My hopes aren't high, but it's an idea.
In a 15 minute video, I can figure out the main design flaw that the engineers appeared to miss: why is this square? If it has a circular stirring thing, wouldn’t you want a round pot? Looks like a cool concept that perhaps someone will make actually work.
Pretty soon our arms will hang useless like noodles, Imma just stir my own cooking! 🤓🍲🍝
Besides putting a circular stirring mechanism in a square vessel, I think the problem is that it's a stirrer that they're trying to get to do mixing duties. Stirring and mixing are not the same things. When you had the whole thing full, it was doing fine, because it could treat the whole thing like a liquid. But when it's not full, and it's dealing with solids, it doesn't move the food around well, because it can't depend on currents like it can when it's dealing with liquids. The solids just get pushed to the side, rather than getting swirled in.
You really wanted to believe in this product. Extensive product review and appreciated!
4:00 for when your normal macaroni and cheese is too crunchy for you
4:21 Ngl...i'll still eat it, lol
Imagine bringing this to Thanksgiving
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I just looked at the recipe book on their website and it says 40 minutes for the mac and cheese. I don't know if maybe that's been changed since yours was printed or what, but 1.5 hours for mac and cheese is obviously way too long!
30 to 40 minutes would have been enough time for the Mac and Cheese 🧀
It would make sense for pasta sauce & other sauces that need constant stirring on low heat for extended periods but thats about it imo.