I think a pasta shape masterclass would be a nice idea for a video. What shapes go with what kind of sauce, and when to use different ingredients in the pasta dough like whole-wheat or lentil etc. It'd be great! :)
@@SortedFood Maybe after teaching the boys, give them some interesting sauces and make them choose the pasta/accoutrements that they'd put with it. I'm thinking give one demi glace and the other katsu sauce and see what mayhem they come up with
@@SortedFood Maybe a team up the the excellent Vicky Bennison who runs the Pasta Grannies channel on YT? Her videos with 80+ year old grannies & two books took the fear out of making pasta from scratch for me.
Oh wow, the Wemo-band. I work in a home with people with physical disabilities, and they love to help make their food in the kitchen. So we use a lot of gadgets in these situations, and I've commented on some of them in other episodes, so the residents can participate as much as possible. We have a couple of people with serious memory-dysfunctions, and that Wemo-band would really help them. They could work more independent, and the personel coulp make different guides to them. I looks amazing. THANK YOU. We've just seen this episode in our living room, and the residents were happy as always! :)
yeah, i was also thinking while watching that it could be really helpful for people who aren't as comfortable using electronics for lists, like seniors. and younger disabled people are also ofc a group this could help also i'm glad gadgets are helping the residents at your job do more things they want to do!
Worked with kids with disabilities and Definitely thought it was for kids, people with mental disabilities and really scatterbrained people. Not a kitchen gadget but a lifestyle gadget.
Honestly, with the bracelet list, first thing I thought of was to use it for counting rows/stitches in my crochet projects on the go. Maybe not a product for everybody, but I could see genuine uses for it
for me I see it as useful for children when you are on the go. The more when that on the go also involves water. They can be very good at just slipping out of sight or at just the age that you do trust them to go on there own in a pretty safe area. That memo could help if they might get lost or others might wonder if he/she is lost. I know I needed that as a kid. I walked away constantly. with just no care.
Oh that's a brilliant idea for it. The bracelet really did feel like a item with some useful potential, but the marketing hasn't figured out for what yet.
thanks for finishing the Cuisinart review. Cuisinart is famous for selling a lot of reconditioned returns, so when we see a ton of these on the secondary market we will have a good idea of why they were returned.
The basic version is the way to go for those ice cream makers anyway. Same exact bowl but just a spinning base and churning paddle. Can get them on sale for like $20 and are good enough for a small batch of good ice cream. Going up in price It is insane how cheap compressor machines are now. For the same capacity it is only around $100usd and no pre-freezing is required. I remember years ago the cheapest you could get was still $300-400usd.
@@NitroDragon I have 2 of the basic machines. That's plenty of ice cream in one day. If I was young and had kids one of the little desk top ones with a built in compressor would be very tempting though. Make your own any time you want, control all the ingredients at such good prices.
I suspect it's because they're using too good a freezer. The bowl is getting cold enough that it's freezing the ice cream in contact with it so quickly that the churner can't scrape is off the sides and mix it back in. The most successful ice cream makers I've seen (excluding the ones that do the freezing themselves) are the traditional bucket inside a bucket, where you put salt on ice between them to do the chilling. That means the "cold" comes from water at about about -2c (with the ice providing a buffer). Looking at the gel-lined bucket they're using, it's probably under -15c!
@@HaralHeisto It better be under -15c. Most freezers, especially industrial/professional ones, are set to -18c as standard because thats how cold the food-safety reg want it. And I know from personal experience that some people/places set them to -20c or lower, just to be safe. In fact, I do believe that the boys at Sorted keep their freezer around -20c. Still, doesn't change the fact that it was a crap product. It should not stall out like that, nor make that horrible sound when it got stuck. The motor very hard was trying to burn itself out. That thing would die within 10 normal uses, guaranteed. Cuisinart has a bit of a strange rep in the business. Some of their products are absolutely worth every penny, and others are complete and utter trash. And there is no middle ground between, they don't have any "ok" products, just great ones and terrible ones.
Very much appreciate still showing a good attempt at using a machine and it just not functioning when following the instructions. It's much better than just welp didn't work cool idea. Seeing the attempt drives home the fact that it just didn't function as designed.
I have ADHD and was looking at those slap memo bracelets as reminder bracelets for me and my husband for our daily "to do" lists. THANK YOU for reviewing them! Even though you guys didn't approve, hearing that they are easy to write on and don't smudge easy has verified our decision to get them! :D
It was a bit of a shock seeing/recognizing the cavatelli maker immediately; my grandma had one just like it! Though hers was all metal (and presumably much older), I remember helping her make massive batches of "cavatils" as she always called them that we'd give out in old tupperware to family/friends/anyone who happened to walk too close to the house.
"who happened to walk too close to the house." gives me the image of a nona lying in wait in the bushes, ready to pounce with a container full of pasta 😂
I have one of those memo bands and it has saved me loads of times in the workshop. I'm often building things where I need to jot down quick measurements and that's what I use it for instead of writing on the item itself.
Honestly the memo band would be brilliant for medication list for through out the day, a chores list for kids or people who struggle with out of sight out of mind, if your a caregiver for multiple people a different band either on each person or on your self
It just feels about 3 decades too late. It would have been much more helpful and more successful pre-phone era (and when slap bracelets were more popular)
@@MishenNikara I understand that, but when I was taking care of all my grandparents in their final years seeing new technology really disrupted their calm so I kept to pen and paper or dry erase boards when ever I could. And for things like medication I try to have physical records whenever possible in case my battery runs out or there's a glitch somewhere that wipes my phone.
@@MishenNikara As others are saying in the comments, actually for someone with ADHD, for example, a phone isn't all that helpful because it's just one big distraction. And generally phones seem to be giving a lot of people attention deficit these days, because they're one big distraction. So I'm thinking actually this is sometimes _exactly_ the right time for some low-tech solutions. There is far too much digital noise and anything that helps lower it does in fact have the potential to be a hit, _right now._ The big rise of popularity of cooking and fibre crafts also suggests that people sometimes need something much more physical than a phone...
Good to see the Cuisinart soft serve maker replicates the experience of trying to run a soft serve machine in a proper store and breaks down / doesn't work on a regular basis.
I like the bracelet idea. I hate having to constantly dig out and open my phone to check my list when I have a lot to buy. Kudos to the commenter who re-named it Shopping Wrist!😂
I don’t know if it’s just a Texas thing, but shopping carts at my grocery (H-E-B) have cup holders. I make my list on the H-E-B app, which sorts the list by aisle, and set my phone in the cup holder to shop. Super easy to just tap the screen to tick off items as I put them in the cart.
My sister has the cuisinart soft serve machine. She ran into the same issue multiple times when she invited my kids over for ice cream. The way she was able to make it work was by not freezing the bowl as long.The paddle can’t keep up with the freezing and move everything around fast enough. Her reference for use was that the liquid inside should still be liquid rather than completely frozen. Kind of like the old ice cream making hack of salt and ice inside a large freezer bag then a smaller bag inside with your ice cream mix that you would shake around and mix by hand for homemade ice cream .
I appreciate that hack but that just makes it even more time sensitive. Eeesh. You’re having to check the bowl as it’s freezing. Carefully watch it while it makes ice cream. It’s a lot.
@@CordeliaRavenwood the issues for these machines is they skimp out on the motor and and paddle, even the ones you buy at Walmart, they need a sturdier motor. but also thats how the old hack work, you have to make the ice cream usually in advance. in normal ice cream maker, you put the bowl in another bowl 13:47, then you add add ice and and salt between the outside bowl and inside bowl and you keep repeating till the ice cream gets hard i just don't think those machines don't have regulated temperature to keep them at a certain temperature as well no Compressor, meaning the ice cream will only get as hard as the bowl temperature. the Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker Machine seems to work great but i think just soft serve machines has to many flaws for them to work properly
I can't remember - have they reviewed the Ninja Creami? I picked one up after my (very expensive, internal compressor) Breville icecream maker died. The Creami was half the price of getting the old unit repaired, and I honestly can't say enough positive things about it. It works fantastically, is incredibly easy to clean (and the Breville truly was a nighmare, so this is a huge plus for me), it's a LOT cheaper (without feeling like the quality is). Only slight downside is you have to freeze your mix ahead of time, but I just keep a couple different pints in the freezer so I can still make it at a moment's notice.
Working in catering and events I’d 100% use the wrist memo gadget. I’m considering getting a couple for my children when I need them to remember something when they’re away. I like that one!!
I'm a professional ice cream manufacturer and I will never recommend an ice cream machine with a freezer bowl. If you want to make ice cream at home, spend the extra money for a unit with a compressor. The freezer bowl units, besides being inconvenient, just don't have the motor power needed for an excellent freeze.
Totally agree. I waited for the sales & bought one with a compressor & what a difference it made. Plus you can make ice-cream on the spur of the moment, rather than planning the day before.
Yup either go with a machine with a compressor for any and all classic ice cream or buy a ninja creami, if you want to make low calorie ice cream without much hassle.
Yes, and that's what we heard on the second go - the motor issues. I think the first failure could be argued to be user error, but the second failure was strictly the gadget not being fit for purpose. Realistically I don't think the first error should be glossed over either even though it was user error, the machine really didn't help them avoid it very well.
I quite like the "MEMO". For those with memory problems, the fact it's on your wrist means it'll always catch your eye. It also reminds me of being a kid & being given a list by a parent to go to the shops with to get groceries. (getting a written list is why we call going shopping, "going for the messages" in Scotland BTW.)
I've got shopping lists in my phone from 2018 that still haven't been shopped. Something like MEMO would be great for me, tho I wouldn't set out to buy it myself, especially at the price it's marketed at.
It's also great for the elderly! My mom is going to 76 this month and is notorious for leaving the shopping list either at home or in the car. This way she can just put it on once she's finished making the list.
I have a shopping list on my phone, but still I manage to forget buying most of it because it's so much of a hassle having your phone in one hand, the shopping basket in another, and then no hand for getting the actual product, that most of the time I forget the shopping list when I'm actually in the store. This thing would be brilliant for me!
More often than not, when we make lists for big groceries we forget to bring the list. So maybe it could help with that. Or also for putting on a young kid to remind them of things at school like bring home stuff.
Haha, not that I'm much of a club person, but if you make it glow in the dark, you've got a fun way to collect new friends. Let people sign it like a yearbook and leave a phone number ;)
As someone who used to clean McDonalds machines (years ago when they actually worked), the amount of cheap plastic in that Cuisinart soft serve machine was a sure sign it wasn't going to work.
The only acceptable plastic parts are the blade and the lid, everything else should be metal. And that is BEFORE accounting for the lack of refrigerating unit...
@@Beregorn88 Not even the blade/auger. I used to work in a little snack booth at my local zoo way back in the day and also had to take apart/clean the soft serve ice cream machine daily. My kiosk had an older model Electrofreeze machine and it was vast majority steel. Only problem it ever had was when the compressor needed to be repaired. Otherwise, so long as you kept it cleaned and maintained correctly, it was perfect. Another kiosk had some other brand machines that had plastic churning blades and those damned blades straight up chipped/broke. One broke when somebody dropped it during cleaning and the other had bits chip off into the ice cream during use. I feel much more confident with a steel part as opposed to plastic.
@@mokko759 they both have their advantages: a steel one would have a better longevity, and probably easier to clean and sterilize at an industrial standard. A plastic one can flex, and if built accordingly it can perfectly scrape the surface of the bowl; in addition, it is an engineered breaking point, so in case of accidents you just replace the (relatively) cheap blade, and not the engine.
My son worked at McDonalds a few years ago and said the ice cream machine always worked. No one wanted to clean it so they would say it's broken and not use it.
@@Beregorn88 Problem with it is plastic can snap in two or even when bending leave small splinters, its less resistant to the pressure when it thickens. However in their case it seems the motor gave the ghost, Mokko made a good point i honestly think. Since the lid needs to keep it in place making that part out of plastic could even have the hole and pin connection snap on the lid side. From a very amateuristic perspective, moving parts in kitchen machienes, even more so when electric, should never have plastic parts moving or holding a moving part in its place. The only one in few rare execptions i feel confident enough about is a Blender, But those are of a different design style that limits friction and warping issues. Plastic that can warp under pressure or heat, is never a reliable component, the scraping you say does make for a fair point, though. I think its just a very heavily failed piece of novelty trash the entire design.
That memo band would be extremely useful for elders with memory problems... countless time my mom forget to have her list written down and just buy random things that she uses daily and totally forget to get the other items until she figure out back at home and I have to go get it... for me is worth a try .
Worth a try, but from experience I can say it will probably not work. It is another thing to keep track of. My tip is to create a habit early on to always make a shopping list so that it is part of your routine when you get old and forgetful.
@nagoyakuroi6353 not to be mean, but she needs a caretaker and someone handling her finances... she's ideal target for scams and swindlers if she's doing that. Hope it doesn't happen, but my grandma lost a lot overnight, and she was still very sharp and physically independent. It damaged her so badly because her kids didn't trust her to handle anything on her own after that.
An ice cream machine for home use is such an insane luxury. You often talk about the environment in these episodes which I love and this definitely falls into the 'waste of plastic & energy to make' category. Good vid though again guys, love that pasta shaper thing!
I'm really glad you showed a gadget (especially from a well established brand like Cuisine Art) that just doesn't work, i bet there's loads of people who bought it thinking it's their fault that it didn't work (i assume it was that the freezing bowl was just too cold but that doesn't matter)
@@krippkeeper You did hear the noise the gadget made, especially in the second try, right? That didn't sound like 'working as intended'. Leaving it on probably would start an electric fire or completely wreck the motor at best. And this time they didn't even use their own recipe, they did it completely by the book and it didn't work. And for that amount of money, it absolutely should work imho
It’s exactly that the bowl was too cold. My sister has this machine and through trial and error while we had a family event with all our kids together that the liquid inside the bowl needs to remain liquid rather than a solid state. The freezing occurs too fast for the paddle to keep up. Edit: for clarification for anyone who has. No first hand knowledge the bowl has layers with a freezing liquid (salt water is my guess) between the layers and if you let it freeze solid this is always the result but we found by only freezing it for an hour (in her deep freeze) the liquid was very cold but still liquid.
A few years ago, there were charts at the end of your hospital bed. There even was a standardised NHS chart (2019). Then it became all computerised, but the hospitals cannot afford devices for each nurse; so they jot the data on scraps of paper, and later on type results into the computer. The silicone memo bracelet(s) would be a far better cheap solution to the back of envelope they resort to.
@@SortedFood Thanks for this great video. I like gadget 1, eat oysters only in restaurants (gadget 2), for gadget 3 - is it just me - but what is wrong with a piece of paper and a pen for this ? and gadget 4 is a big expensive piece of garbage. Ben and Mike are being so polite about this piece of crap. How nicely british.
The cavatelli machine actually makes 3 shapes of pasta "sardi gnocchetti, cavatelli and orecchiette" that particular machine was one of the cheap mass produced ones there are better made machines available. Best to roll the pasta much thinner (about the same diameter as tinned hotdogs) then you will see 3 distinct sections on the rollers each produces a different shape as you feed the dough through. You can also roll it even thinner but use different colours and/or flavours of dough. Feeding 2 or more strings of coloured dough through at the same time will produce uniquely coloured pasta shapes. Also great fun for kids learning to cook as they get instant results.
A similar item possibly worth reviewing would be a torchietto.... looks similar to a mincer. You make a dryer dough with a breadcrumb texture that will just hold its shape if you squeeze it (same as the commercial electric extruders use). Feed that through and it extrudes it into various shapes depending which die you use. Or if you could find one of the antique torkios they are also a manual extruder but you use a normal pasta dough for it and it would typically be bolted onto a bench rather than clamped to a table but they are much harder to find outside of Italy. I have been looking for one for years unsuccessfully (if you did find one you would be welcome to send it in my direction after reviewing it).
Can you recommend any better machines? I have been looking for a cavatelli/gnocchi machine for a while but they all look fairly similar and a bit cheap
@@jwoolyful i use the Divina machine you can make smooth cavatelli, striped cavatelli, sardi gnocchetti and occhiette with it. Limited options for buying new machines in the UK though mostly it is only Chinese imports available. The USA has a lot more brands available, cavatelli must be more popular there, i do keep an eye out in case a Vitantonio cavatelli maker comes up second hand as they were made to last. If you have an imperia pasta machine there is a cavatelli attachment which is very well made they call it a gnocchi attachment though. Unfortunately Marcato don't make one for their machines though.
with those cranking devices I always wonder why not make the crank easily removable so you can use either a powerdrill or the motor of some solid kitchen machine (kenwood kmix, kitchenaid ore something similar). Would even make sense to create a high torque low speed generic motor for such devices, with a foot switch so you have both hands for the dough...
@@christianstorms3950 With many hand crank gadgets you can use a drill to power them but you do need to stick to low speeds or you risk damaging them. The one that bugs me is the wondermill junior grain mill as it is designed specifically for that but they use a very specific socket in the drill which you can only buy from them at a vastly inflated price no standard socket i have found will fit and grinding flour or nut butters with it by hand is a serious workout.
The first thing that annoyed me about the ice cream maker was that they designed a special slide to put a QR code. They could have just printed it on the back and saved the cost of engineering and tool design for molds to add that useless feature. Would have been better to put a paper recipe because I would bet money in a few years that QR code will go to a dead link.
> They could have just printed it on the back I sort of agree, but also not. I have seen even quite expensive kitchen tools lose their prints over time. Also, on the back is silly - then you need to remember that it's there etc. Just put it on the front.
Printing a QR code on the device could be very expensive comparatively. It also leaves 0 flexibility in changing it. Maybe there's a different QR code for different for different regions for different legal requirements?
For the silicone memo wrist band, I think it’d be great for kids because my daughter (age 4) loves to draw on herself, so she could wear it and write on it, and it’s reusable, and she loves to grocery shop with me so it’d give her a job she could do. Or if you always forget your lists at home when you go somewhere or in your purse or lose them.
also you could write on said memo also where they can find you. at that very shopping mall. children can always find a way to just wander off. (I know I was that kid) then they could look at the memo or go to a staff and ask where said location is. We did when I was young with a note said when lost go to x fountain in x mall. (mobile phones where not a thing really) Often worked well enough that if they do wander of they know where to go and so do you as the parent.
The wrist memo band immediately strikes me as good for measuring things, especially when tailoring or building something. Easy to simply note down the numbers and check them at a glance rather than get your phone or notebook out each time!
O in nursing I can see even more use for them. not only vitals but even trias if the memos come in multiple colours. like green light care. yellow some urgent . Red full emergency. and then you can still use them for vitals or medication use. Sure you have the there card at there bed. bud sometimes patients can get out of bed. so the most vital (short time) info is on that wrist.
I reckon very often the actual answer to, "How much do you think we paid for it?" is, "TOO MUCH!!" (it has to be shouted at the screen, that's the only acceptable response)
We’re getting some great gadget videos these past few days and weeks and yes, we get so excited to see Ben’s “I’m done” energy 🔥 Happy Wednesday, everyone!
Trying out different icecream machines would be a fun episode, i feel like there's other options thatd be fun to try like the ninja creami or something.
They did the ninja creami with Poppy. I was just rewatching it It would be cool to get a bunch of them in one video. Barry could bring his. Not sure if Poppy actually did take the creami home. They’ve done some others as well. ua-cam.com/video/dneSgw3fmhg/v-deo.htmlsi=XSpvp_TKTzuMKJbc
I’d love to see a video about cooking with food allergies/dietary restrictions in mind! As someone with a lot of rarer food allergies, I know it definitely stresses my friends out to cook for me, even if the recipes they normally make don’t have any of my allergens. It turns out that sometimes, when you tell a normal person that someone is allergic to something, the only things they can remember how to make suddenly become the things you CAN’T eat! Think it would be both useful and chaotic to watch the normals try to navigate that!
Lots of food allergies in my family. Most are pretty obvious and easy to avoid. Soy is the sneaky one, you have to read labels carefully to make sure you are avoiding it.
Yes! I'd love to see them doing some kind of recipe challenge where they're given a common "it's in everything" allergy they have to work around to produce a dish (or three!) without it--things like dairy/it's byproducts, grains, or anything derived from corn! Or maybe draw a few each of the easier-to-avoid ones like shellfish or peanuts from a hat to add a bit more difficulty by working around a few in combination. And ofc bonus points if they also have to avoid any cross-contamination!
Several at once is so hard to manage. None of the apps including their own are even slightly capable of dealing with the basic allergens they have on there. I put wheat free and it was recommending pasta dishes.
@@JayneDragon Omg! That's some very broken filtering, that's a shame! I'm sure you've already explored all sorts of different wheat-free alternatives to things so please don't mind me if I'm beating a dead horse, but I will say if you're not allergic to corn I found corn pasta to be a very agreeable substitute for wheat pasta as far as like opening up "normal" recipes as an option (I found the alternative flour pastas more miss than hit, personally, but even people without allergies I offered it to thought corn pasta was alright).
9:26 Had bands like those as a kid! Had the shoping list on it too! That piece of paper was safe there! Saved my parents many going backs! It works guys
I’d say that’s a good take though it might not be something he would get but as a product it does what it says it does. So if a person wants that specific problem solved here is the tool to help
I don't have the Ice Cream maker, but anytime you are doing something with heat (or cold) and the temperature is not controlled by the machine, it is important to have the correct temperature first. As y'all are a cooking channel, I imagine you have industrial freezers that are kept colder than traditional at home freezers. This would cause the part of the ice cream in contact with the bowl to freeze too quickly and get stuck while the rest stays a liquid. If you try it again, I would recommend a slightly warmer bowl.
Why do people think commercial freezers would necessarily be colder than domestic freezers? Some might be set as such, but I’ve never worked in a kitchen that’s deviated from the norm set by health standards (which domestic freezers have to be able to keep to, obviously). Why would a business spaf money down the drain by running such an energy intense machine at an unnecessarily low temperature? Even if they did have a blast freezer, which I think is unlikely given the scope of their cooking, the chefs at sorred aren’t so stupid as to put a freezer bowl into a freezer at -40° two times in a row and be surprised that the motor can’t keep up. The machine’s just plastic shite.
0:49 I recognized the gadget right away, because I am of Lebanese descent living in Canada, and we use this to make the noodles for maacroon bil toum, which is one of our favourite meals for birthdays and holidays, but will leave you smelling like garlic for days. Highly recommend!
funny thing my family has the cuisinart icecream machine and honestly it stalling was a major problem fairly often with it compared to any other icecream maker we have had since
@@justjan1 The takeaway isn't about brand per se, the takeaway is to avoid these types of machines altogether. You want an ice cream maker that has a built in compressor, like that model that Barry has at home. None of the brands avoid this issue when it comes to the ones with freezer bowls.
@@justjan1 If you want no hassle perfect icecream (although with rather poor aeration) go with ninja creami. You freeze the mix and the device is basically an elaborate blender, but it works really really well and can make edible ice-cream with a mix that would be impossible to churn to a satisfying consistency (think no sugar low calorie ice-cream for example) Otherwise I have Cecotec Gelacy 1200 Touch and for the price I paid (approx. 110 pounds when converting from my currency) it's really good. It makes perfect ice-cream (if the mix is well balanced, but that's why you should always use an ice cream calculator) is easy to clean. Makes an ice-cream in 30 to 60 minutes depending on volume and is ready to go again after 30 minutes of compressor resting time. All in all almost any machine with built in compressor will be adequate if you use proper proportions of ingredients. Check out polar ice creamery on youtube for more info on ingredients and recipes.
I had an opposite problem, where it worked fine, but within 5 minutes of being able to make the ice cream, overchurned it to the point of making sweet butter instead.
You should have somehow shown Ben making Cavatelli with the standard Cavatelli making board from a previous Kitchen gadget episode saying 'this is probably the only way of making this type of pasta'... in the same episode mike did had a tagliatelle rollling pin
That Memo strap could actually be kinda useful for waiting staff A quick water proof note pad But Paper blocks do exist and do the job mostly fine, but is disposable
also staff at or around a swimming pool. like a lifeguard. they can write down whatever they want to keep track of but if they suddenly have to dive in to the water that info is still save.
I suspect the issue with the ice cream machine may be your freezer, you guys likely have professional equipment that’s colder than the typical -17c, so it’s freezing too quickly and too firmly.
@@fabe61 oh it’s pretty crappy, plastic gearing on anything is gonna fail. But to not get it to work at all, and the way it’s failing, maybe it’s not just the machine. Commercial freezers are usually much colder and they had a similar problem a few years ago with a different gadget if I’m remembering correctly that turned out to be due to colder temp.
O_O My dad is getting older, and developing some serious short-term memory problems. An easily-editable list he could WEAR so he can remember what he was supposed to get from the next room sounds like a godsend, honestly.
That memo thing, at least to me, sounds super useful. I usually keep a list of groceries on paper, and it's a pain to put my hand in my pocket to get the list. especially if you carry a heavy basket
I wonder if the professional Sorted Freezer is colder than a normal household one, and that screwed up the ice cream machine? Mind, it might just be a bad gadget, but Cuisineart are usually quite reliable... Anyway, I enjoyed the video, and I appreciate the honesty of the reviews!
You guys are one of the only channels i trust when it comes to this sort of thing because you never sugar coat it and always say if things dont work. Also you buy the stuff yourself so there is no reason to say it works when it doesnt.
My grandparents definitely had one of those first ones that was used once per year to make the homemade gnocchi we had for Christmas Eve dinner every year. It was one of my favorite things to help with when I was kid. It does in fact work a lot better when clamped to something that can't move around.
One of the local popular events that many organizations around here (US - MD) is a Bull and Oyster Roast, which will feature pit beef and oysters, among other items. I have occasionally seen an oyster shucker use a steel glove, but most go at it bare handed. Good shuckers can do a dozen in 2 minutes pretty easily and do it for a couple of hours with short breaks.
I bought a chain-mail glove years back when I was teaching myself to butcher whole large animals. They work for slashes, but poking/stabbing movements not so well. I also had a set of mail for battle reenactments & the same principle applied. Better than nowt for oyster shucking though.
I'm not sure about everyone else but I just use a butter knife to shuck oysters, and I have never injured myself. Just stick the end in the hinge joint then turn the knife it will pop right open.
@@Nilboggen The entire "secret" that those not familiar with shucking don't know is that there's a top (flatish side) and bottom (the belly curveish), grab the oyster in a towel belly side down and push your knife in at the hinge (poke around a bit until you get it in a little and twist. I guess a butter knife works, but a stiffer, thinner, shorter actual oyster knife works better, IMHO. You can also put the oyster (works for just about any shellfish) in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds and they'll pop open enough to easily get a knife in.
I bought one of these cavatelli machines a few years ago and I am absolutely obsessed!!! I don’t really like long pasta, but I love homemade pasta. The extruder machines were all very pricing and this machine is so easy to use! I started buying them as a gift for people too 😋
This wristband looks amazing. I instantly went searching for them online and I'm geting one for me and one for my friend. The fact that I don't need a new pice of paper for every list is what I like the most
@@SortedFoodI think you guys are doing it right. Freezer bowl is not the best solution for an ice cream machine. Go for ones with compressors instead.
@SortedFood I feel like the bowl should be in the freezer for half the time they mentioned. Especially since their machine is pretty much just brittle cheap plastic. For use with kids, I'm guessing.
I've got an idea following your "Chef cooks from normals scraps" which is that each normal has to cook a dish (think ultimate battle) and then Kush and Ben has a battle with the leftover scraps! :D
I've never heard anyone pronounce "Cuisinart" as "Cuisine Art" before. Congrats to Barry for finding a way to be pretentious about a decidedly unpretentious brand!
Guys 👋 Get the Klarstein Sweet Sundae soft serve machine next time. I got mine for about £200, and it has a freezing unit inside (so no need to freeze a bucket). Makes 1L of soft serve in 30 minutes, and you can refill it to make another liter in like 15-20 minutes. Absolute steal. Also, you can make slushies and cocktails in it if you want. Try adding Coke to it, and you will get slush with a slight carbonation.
I feel the issue with the oyster shucker is that its made of wood and metal nails working in always wet environment. Wouldn't mold/bacteria and rust be a concern? I know plastic isn't great for the environment but wouldn't that be a better material for the given situation?
I have never shucked oysters, or even ate them but I would think with proper drying mold wouldn’t be a problem. Maybe rust but real wood doesn’t mold easily.
Wood is completely fine for these purposes. It's really not a problem. It's the same deal as a cutting board, you just have to wash it properly. Rust also really isn't a concern, just like it's not a concern with your steel pans. You'd have to replace virtually all of your kitchen tools if it was that easy for them to rust or mold.
My wife and I are big into cooking and hosting and both really enjoying the shopping part, too. We have a lot of fun going together. And having a list on a wrist that can just be wiped off with no need to have a phone in hand or a pen to mark off paper is brilliant. I already use my phone too much. I will be buying a slap list ASAP and making out shopping dates a little more relaxed and tech free!
I think the biggest pro of the wrist list thing is that its presence serves as a constant reminder of something. Getting older myself, so that's not a bad thing. I usually don't forget to follow my shopping list, but I do tend to get distracted from things while I'm at home, and having something to do with that on my wrist might help.
I was about to comment “why’s this titled ‘DESPAIRINGLY’ everything seemed to be great…then I got to the soft serve maker😂 but I do always appreciate when the boys are honest with the gadget reviews, it is genuinely helpful-especially when it is such an expense-and it makes the content feel all the more real and genuine because of it 🙂
I think the silicone memo pad would be great for elderly relatives because they often can't or won't be able to learn to use a phone and will forget to take a note so having a silicone thing you wear seems like a practical solution
I don't believe that honestly; for me, Cuisinart has always been a very plastic-y, discount brand, so that machine being hot garbage was kind of expected.
@@Hirotechnics I'm probably much older than you. There was a time that Cuisinart was cutting edge. They were the first company to bring the food processor to the USA. Looking up the company name just now I see that they're now owned by ConAir so they're no longer the same company they used to be.
Cavatelli is my favourite pasta shape to make with homemade pasta. It's just so unfussy and rugged. I use my butter paddles to make it but I might get one of those shapers to save my thumbs! (Sidenote, I love the way Barry says Cuisinart. Here in the US we're running it together so much that it's Cuisi-nart.)
‘That’s the second place I thought it would go,’ is such an odd comment, Ben. ‘The creepy guy with the music truck outside your door.’ Ahhhhh. This answers SO many questions!
I was at a pub dance/pseudo night club once, and a guy I was dancing with told me he was an Icecream guy. It was very awkward. He had my sympathy instantly.
I’ve got a cuisinart ice cream maker with a compressor. It works perfectly every time. As a child, we had a manual one with a freezer bowl like that. It was so sensitive, if you’ve left it a moment too long, it would freeze up. I’m surprised people are still trying to use them.
the pasta maker is genius, it’s the perfect entry to making fresh pasta (other than spaghetti and the like) without needing to invest in an expensive dough maker attachment
We really need a pass it on using only the gadgets that pissed off Ben.
Excellent idea 😆
Sounds like a perfect concept for the next live! 🤣
Yes, with a double go for poor old Ben 🤣 (orrrr sassy James!)
Microwaveable smore maker.
You mean the bacon express should be used in a pass it on ? xD
I think a pasta shape masterclass would be a nice idea for a video. What shapes go with what kind of sauce, and when to use different ingredients in the pasta dough like whole-wheat or lentil etc. It'd be great! :)
Oooooh YES! Great idea.
An on the spot pasta challenge for would brilliant
As an Italian American, I agree
@@SortedFood Maybe after teaching the boys, give them some interesting sauces and make them choose the pasta/accoutrements that they'd put with it. I'm thinking give one demi glace and the other katsu sauce and see what mayhem they come up with
@@SortedFood Maybe a team up the the excellent Vicky Bennison who runs the Pasta Grannies channel on YT? Her videos with 80+ year old grannies & two books took the fear out of making pasta from scratch for me.
Oh wow, the Wemo-band.
I work in a home with people with physical disabilities, and they love to help make their food in the kitchen. So we use a lot of gadgets in these situations, and I've commented on some of them in other episodes, so the residents can participate as much as possible.
We have a couple of people with serious memory-dysfunctions, and that Wemo-band would really help them. They could work more independent, and the personel coulp make different guides to them.
I looks amazing. THANK YOU. We've just seen this episode in our living room, and the residents were happy as always! :)
I thought it was Memo.
yeah, i was also thinking while watching that it could be really helpful for people who aren't as comfortable using electronics for lists, like seniors. and younger disabled people are also ofc a group this could help
also i'm glad gadgets are helping the residents at your job do more things they want to do!
I worked with kids with disabilities- This would be AMAZING especially for those needing a written out visual schedule.
Worked with kids with disabilities and Definitely thought it was for kids, people with mental disabilities and really scatterbrained people. Not a kitchen gadget but a lifestyle gadget.
@@karenneill9109that was my thought too - how many times my kid has forgotten to hand in things at school
Honestly, with the bracelet list, first thing I thought of was to use it for counting rows/stitches in my crochet projects on the go. Maybe not a product for everybody, but I could see genuine uses for it
for me I see it as useful for children when you are on the go. The more when that on the go also involves water.
They can be very good at just slipping out of sight or at just the age that you do trust them to go on there own in a pretty safe area.
That memo could help if they might get lost or others might wonder if he/she is lost.
I know I needed that as a kid. I walked away constantly. with just no care.
I immediately went: aah any ADHD brain would love this, if only it came with a pen attached 😂
Try a pop it square for counting rows. This would totally work as well
Oh that's a brilliant idea for it. The bracelet really did feel like a item with some useful potential, but the marketing hasn't figured out for what yet.
workmen noting down mesurements when the bench isnt next to them too lol
thanks for finishing the Cuisinart review. Cuisinart is famous for selling a lot of reconditioned returns, so when we see a ton of these on the secondary market we will have a good idea of why they were returned.
The basic version is the way to go for those ice cream makers anyway. Same exact bowl but just a spinning base and churning paddle. Can get them on sale for like $20 and are good enough for a small batch of good ice cream. Going up in price It is insane how cheap compressor machines are now. For the same capacity it is only around $100usd and no pre-freezing is required. I remember years ago the cheapest you could get was still $300-400usd.
@@NitroDragon I have 2 of the basic machines. That's plenty of ice cream in one day. If I was young and had kids one of the little desk top ones with a built in compressor would be very tempting though. Make your own any time you want, control all the ingredients at such good prices.
I suspect it's because they're using too good a freezer. The bowl is getting cold enough that it's freezing the ice cream in contact with it so quickly that the churner can't scrape is off the sides and mix it back in.
The most successful ice cream makers I've seen (excluding the ones that do the freezing themselves) are the traditional bucket inside a bucket, where you put salt on ice between them to do the chilling. That means the "cold" comes from water at about about -2c (with the ice providing a buffer). Looking at the gel-lined bucket they're using, it's probably under -15c!
@@HaralHeisto I think you're right, because they had the same issue before with the Ninja Creami, I believe.
@@HaralHeisto It better be under -15c.
Most freezers, especially industrial/professional ones, are set to -18c as standard because thats how cold the food-safety reg want it.
And I know from personal experience that some people/places set them to -20c or lower, just to be safe. In fact, I do believe that the boys at Sorted keep their freezer around -20c.
Still, doesn't change the fact that it was a crap product. It should not stall out like that, nor make that horrible sound when it got stuck.
The motor very hard was trying to burn itself out.
That thing would die within 10 normal uses, guaranteed.
Cuisinart has a bit of a strange rep in the business. Some of their products are absolutely worth every penny, and others are complete and utter trash.
And there is no middle ground between, they don't have any "ok" products, just great ones and terrible ones.
The Shopping Wrist was right there...
Shopping Wrist for the win!
Then you put it under one use,.
That's actually better!
They should have said "shuck right off" for the oyster gripper too!
I was thinking "the wrist list"
Very much appreciate still showing a good attempt at using a machine and it just not functioning when following the instructions. It's much better than just welp didn't work cool idea. Seeing the attempt drives home the fact that it just didn't function as designed.
integrity.
I have ADHD and was looking at those slap memo bracelets as reminder bracelets for me and my husband for our daily "to do" lists.
THANK YOU for reviewing them! Even though you guys didn't approve, hearing that they are easy to write on and don't smudge easy has verified our decision to get them! :D
Amazing, thanks so good to hear that they'll help you both :)
Never heard of it but I IMMEDIATLY thought, damn that would probably help my ADHD !
100%! My husband has ADHD, and I want to get them too!
My exact thought soon as I saw them! Getting some...
Why not set a to do list on your phone though?
Love it while the oyster shucker is getting discussed, Ben quietly carries on quaffing the actual oysters!! 😂
Sneaky, sneaky 😆
Someone was getting lucky that night! 🦪🦪💘😆
Noticed that too, man has got his priorities right. 😂
The shucker has a smiley face!
C'mon! Ben was obviously doing it to not waste any food. I'm sure he took no pleasure gulping these down. 😏
I prefer to see the failures because it shows you guys are more honest. Thanks for the honest review!
It was a bit of a shock seeing/recognizing the cavatelli maker immediately; my grandma had one just like it! Though hers was all metal (and presumably much older), I remember helping her make massive batches of "cavatils" as she always called them that we'd give out in old tupperware to family/friends/anyone who happened to walk too close to the house.
"who happened to walk too close to the house." gives me the image of a nona lying in wait in the bushes, ready to pounce with a container full of pasta 😂
I would have loved to be her neighbor ... she would get all my pickled/preserved experiments and I'd get PASTA!
suddenly it's ok for Ben to have single use tools that big if it's about pasta. So dumb
That sounds like me with pesto. My basil pant went bonkers this summer. Pasta and pesto, we would have made a good team.
Made me think about Monty Python and the sketch about gangsta granny's walking around town, beating up people😊
I have one of those memo bands and it has saved me loads of times in the workshop. I'm often building things where I need to jot down quick measurements and that's what I use it for instead of writing on the item itself.
Honestly the memo band would be brilliant for medication list for through out the day, a chores list for kids or people who struggle with out of sight out of mind, if your a caregiver for multiple people a different band either on each person or on your self
It just feels about 3 decades too late. It would have been much more helpful and more successful pre-phone era (and when slap bracelets were more popular)
@@MishenNikarafor old people who don't like phone it could be suitable
@@MishenNikara I understand that, but when I was taking care of all my grandparents in their final years seeing new technology really disrupted their calm so I kept to pen and paper or dry erase boards when ever I could. And for things like medication I try to have physical records whenever possible in case my battery runs out or there's a glitch somewhere that wipes my phone.
@@MishenNikara As others are saying in the comments, actually for someone with ADHD, for example, a phone isn't all that helpful because it's just one big distraction.
And generally phones seem to be giving a lot of people attention deficit these days, because they're one big distraction.
So I'm thinking actually this is sometimes _exactly_ the right time for some low-tech solutions. There is far too much digital noise and anything that helps lower it does in fact have the potential to be a hit, _right now._ The big rise of popularity of cooking and fibre crafts also suggests that people sometimes need something much more physical than a phone...
Good to see the Cuisinart soft serve maker replicates the experience of trying to run a soft serve machine in a proper store and breaks down / doesn't work on a regular basis.
I like the bracelet idea. I hate having to constantly dig out and open my phone to check my list when I have a lot to buy. Kudos to the commenter who re-named it Shopping Wrist!😂
I use post-it notes: you can stick them on the trolley handle and even tick things off
I don’t know if it’s just a Texas thing, but shopping carts at my grocery (H-E-B) have cup holders. I make my list on the H-E-B app, which sorts the list by aisle, and set my phone in the cup holder to shop. Super easy to just tap the screen to tick off items as I put them in the cart.
@BONNIEGRESHAM carts at heb just have a spot for your phone too. Left side has a little lipped notch
Yeah! Hands-free list checking! I would find that sooooo handy!
@@stalelemonproduction thanks, I’ll look for it next time I’m there.
My sister has the cuisinart soft serve machine. She ran into the same issue multiple times when she invited my kids over for ice cream. The way she was able to make it work was by not freezing the bowl as long.The paddle can’t keep up with the freezing and move everything around fast enough. Her reference for use was that the liquid inside should still be liquid rather than completely frozen.
Kind of like the old ice cream making hack of salt and ice inside a large freezer bag then a smaller bag inside with your ice cream mix that you would shake around and mix by hand for homemade ice cream .
I appreciate that hack but that just makes it even more time sensitive. Eeesh.
You’re having to check the bowl as it’s freezing. Carefully watch it while it makes ice cream.
It’s a lot.
@@CordeliaRavenwood Agreed, but once one has bought it & chosen not to return it, you make the best of it.
@@CordeliaRavenwood the issues for these machines is they skimp out on the motor and and paddle, even the ones you buy at Walmart, they need a sturdier motor.
but also thats how the old hack work, you have to make the ice cream usually in advance.
in normal ice cream maker, you put the bowl in another bowl 13:47, then you add add ice and and salt between the outside bowl and inside bowl and you keep repeating till the ice cream gets hard
i just don't think those machines don't have regulated temperature to keep them at a certain temperature as well no Compressor, meaning the ice cream will only get as hard as the bowl temperature.
the Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker Machine seems to work great but i think just soft serve machines has to many flaws for them to work properly
I can't remember - have they reviewed the Ninja Creami? I picked one up after my (very expensive, internal compressor) Breville icecream maker died. The Creami was half the price of getting the old unit repaired, and I honestly can't say enough positive things about it. It works fantastically, is incredibly easy to clean (and the Breville truly was a nighmare, so this is a huge plus for me), it's a LOT cheaper (without feeling like the quality is). Only slight downside is you have to freeze your mix ahead of time, but I just keep a couple different pints in the freezer so I can still make it at a moment's notice.
@@oggopia they did review the creami with Poppy
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Working in catering and events I’d 100% use the wrist memo gadget. I’m considering getting a couple for my children when I need them to remember something when they’re away. I like that one!!
I'm a professional ice cream manufacturer and I will never recommend an ice cream machine with a freezer bowl. If you want to make ice cream at home, spend the extra money for a unit with a compressor. The freezer bowl units, besides being inconvenient, just don't have the motor power needed for an excellent freeze.
Totally agree. I waited for the sales & bought one with a compressor & what a difference it made. Plus you can make ice-cream on the spur of the moment, rather than planning the day before.
Thanks for saving Team Sorted money. You are a good human ❤️
Yup either go with a machine with a compressor for any and all classic ice cream or buy a ninja creami, if you want to make low calorie ice cream without much hassle.
Agree, there are plenty of no churn ice cream recipes that are quite good so there's no need to waste your money on rubbish machines
Yes, and that's what we heard on the second go - the motor issues. I think the first failure could be argued to be user error, but the second failure was strictly the gadget not being fit for purpose. Realistically I don't think the first error should be glossed over either even though it was user error, the machine really didn't help them avoid it very well.
I quite like the "MEMO". For those with memory problems, the fact it's on your wrist means it'll always catch your eye. It also reminds me of being a kid & being given a list by a parent to go to the shops with to get groceries. (getting a written list is why we call going shopping, "going for the messages" in Scotland BTW.)
I've got shopping lists in my phone from 2018 that still haven't been shopped. Something like MEMO would be great for me, tho I wouldn't set out to buy it myself, especially at the price it's marketed at.
It's also great for the elderly! My mom is going to 76 this month and is notorious for leaving the shopping list either at home or in the car. This way she can just put it on once she's finished making the list.
I have a shopping list on my phone, but still I manage to forget buying most of it because it's so much of a hassle having your phone in one hand, the shopping basket in another, and then no hand for getting the actual product, that most of the time I forget the shopping list when I'm actually in the store. This thing would be brilliant for me!
More often than not, when we make lists for big groceries we forget to bring the list. So maybe it could help with that. Or also for putting on a young kid to remind them of things at school like bring home stuff.
Haha, not that I'm much of a club person, but if you make it glow in the dark, you've got a fun way to collect new friends. Let people sign it like a yearbook and leave a phone number ;)
As someone who used to clean McDonalds machines (years ago when they actually worked), the amount of cheap plastic in that Cuisinart soft serve machine was a sure sign it wasn't going to work.
The only acceptable plastic parts are the blade and the lid, everything else should be metal. And that is BEFORE accounting for the lack of refrigerating unit...
@@Beregorn88 Not even the blade/auger.
I used to work in a little snack booth at my local zoo way back in the day and also had to take apart/clean the soft serve ice cream machine daily. My kiosk had an older model Electrofreeze machine and it was vast majority steel. Only problem it ever had was when the compressor needed to be repaired. Otherwise, so long as you kept it cleaned and maintained correctly, it was perfect.
Another kiosk had some other brand machines that had plastic churning blades and those damned blades straight up chipped/broke. One broke when somebody dropped it during cleaning and the other had bits chip off into the ice cream during use.
I feel much more confident with a steel part as opposed to plastic.
@@mokko759 they both have their advantages: a steel one would have a better longevity, and probably easier to clean and sterilize at an industrial standard. A plastic one can flex, and if built accordingly it can perfectly scrape the surface of the bowl; in addition, it is an engineered breaking point, so in case of accidents you just replace the (relatively) cheap blade, and not the engine.
My son worked at McDonalds a few years ago and said the ice cream machine always worked. No one wanted to clean it so they would say it's broken and not use it.
@@Beregorn88 Problem with it is plastic can snap in two or even when bending leave small splinters, its less resistant to the pressure when it thickens.
However in their case it seems the motor gave the ghost, Mokko made a good point i honestly think.
Since the lid needs to keep it in place making that part out of plastic could even have the hole and pin connection snap on the lid side.
From a very amateuristic perspective, moving parts in kitchen machienes, even more so when electric, should never have plastic parts moving or holding a moving part in its place.
The only one in few rare execptions i feel confident enough about is a Blender, But those are of a different design style that limits friction and warping issues.
Plastic that can warp under pressure or heat, is never a reliable component, the scraping you say does make for a fair point, though.
I think its just a very heavily failed piece of novelty trash the entire design.
That memo band would be extremely useful for elders with memory problems... countless time my mom forget to have her list written down and just buy random things that she uses daily and totally forget to get the other items until she figure out back at home and I have to go get it... for me is worth a try .
Worth a try, but from experience I can say it will probably not work. It is another thing to keep track of. My tip is to create a habit early on to always make a shopping list so that it is part of your routine when you get old and forgetful.
@nagoyakuroi6353 not to be mean, but she needs a caretaker and someone handling her finances... she's ideal target for scams and swindlers if she's doing that. Hope it doesn't happen, but my grandma lost a lot overnight, and she was still very sharp and physically independent. It damaged her so badly because her kids didn't trust her to handle anything on her own after that.
An ice cream machine for home use is such an insane luxury. You often talk about the environment in these episodes which I love and this definitely falls into the 'waste of plastic & energy to make' category. Good vid though again guys, love that pasta shaper thing!
I'm really glad you showed a gadget (especially from a well established brand like Cuisine Art) that just doesn't work, i bet there's loads of people who bought it thinking it's their fault that it didn't work (i assume it was that the freezing bowl was just too cold but that doesn't matter)
was thinking that also
Well instead of testing it at 15 minutes they just kept turning it off. The instructions didn't say that though, so it was kind of frustrating.
@@krippkeeper You did hear the noise the gadget made, especially in the second try, right? That didn't sound like 'working as intended'.
Leaving it on probably would start an electric fire or completely wreck the motor at best.
And this time they didn't even use their own recipe, they did it completely by the book and it didn't work. And for that amount of money, it absolutely should work imho
@@krippkeeper The churner was literally stalled out the second time around.
It’s exactly that the bowl was too cold. My sister has this machine and through trial and error while we had a family event with all our kids together that the liquid inside the bowl needs to remain liquid rather than a solid state. The freezing occurs too fast for the paddle to keep up.
Edit: for clarification for anyone who has. No first hand knowledge the bowl has layers with a freezing liquid (salt water is my guess) between the layers and if you let it freeze solid this is always the result but we found by only freezing it for an hour (in her deep freeze) the liquid was very cold but still liquid.
The slap bracelet thing we use at the vet clinic i work at. It's helpful for medication and reminders when you can't get to a computer right away
A few years ago, there were charts at the end of your hospital bed. There even was a standardised NHS chart (2019). Then it became all computerised, but the hospitals cannot afford devices for each nurse; so they jot the data on scraps of paper, and later on type results into the computer. The silicone memo bracelet(s) would be a far better cheap solution to the back of envelope they resort to.
I am hoping for kitchen gadgets who seriously annoy Ben ! Those make for a lot of fun and laughter ;-).
Just you wait until later 👀
@@SortedFood Thanks for this great video. I like gadget 1, eat oysters only in restaurants (gadget 2), for gadget 3 - is it just me - but what is wrong with a piece of paper and a pen for this ? and gadget 4 is a big expensive piece of garbage. Ben and Mike are being so polite about this piece of crap. How nicely british.
While sitting next to my wife when she is getting chemo, watching Ben be legit angry at the ice cream machine gave us just the laugh we both needed
Nothing like laughter as medicine!
I hope she'll feel better soon!
wishing u bothe a speedy recovery
Best wishes
Best of luck!
The cavatelli machine actually makes 3 shapes of pasta "sardi gnocchetti, cavatelli and orecchiette" that particular machine was one of the cheap mass produced ones there are better made machines available.
Best to roll the pasta much thinner (about the same diameter as tinned hotdogs) then you will see 3 distinct sections on the rollers each produces a different shape as you feed the dough through. You can also roll it even thinner but use different colours and/or flavours of dough. Feeding 2 or more strings of coloured dough through at the same time will produce uniquely coloured pasta shapes.
Also great fun for kids learning to cook as they get instant results.
A similar item possibly worth reviewing would be a torchietto.... looks similar to a mincer. You make a dryer dough with a breadcrumb texture that will just hold its shape if you squeeze it (same as the commercial electric extruders use). Feed that through and it extrudes it into various shapes depending which die you use.
Or if you could find one of the antique torkios they are also a manual extruder but you use a normal pasta dough for it and it would typically be bolted onto a bench rather than clamped to a table but they are much harder to find outside of Italy. I have been looking for one for years unsuccessfully (if you did find one you would be welcome to send it in my direction after reviewing it).
Can you recommend any better machines? I have been looking for a cavatelli/gnocchi machine for a while but they all look fairly similar and a bit cheap
@@jwoolyful i use the Divina machine you can make smooth cavatelli, striped cavatelli, sardi gnocchetti and occhiette with it. Limited options for buying new machines in the UK though mostly it is only Chinese imports available.
The USA has a lot more brands available, cavatelli must be more popular there, i do keep an eye out in case a Vitantonio cavatelli maker comes up second hand as they were made to last.
If you have an imperia pasta machine there is a cavatelli attachment which is very well made they call it a gnocchi attachment though. Unfortunately Marcato don't make one for their machines though.
with those cranking devices I always wonder why not make the crank easily removable so you can use either a powerdrill or the motor of some solid kitchen machine (kenwood kmix, kitchenaid ore something similar).
Would even make sense to create a high torque low speed generic motor for such devices, with a foot switch so you have both hands for the dough...
@@christianstorms3950
With many hand crank gadgets you can use a drill to power them but you do need to stick to low speeds or you risk damaging them.
The one that bugs me is the wondermill junior grain mill as it is designed specifically for that but they use a very specific socket in the drill which you can only buy from them at a vastly inflated price no standard socket i have found will fit and grinding flour or nut butters with it by hand is a serious workout.
The first thing that annoyed me about the ice cream maker was that they designed a special slide to put a QR code. They could have just printed it on the back and saved the cost of engineering and tool design for molds to add that useless feature. Would have been better to put a paper recipe because I would bet money in a few years that QR code will go to a dead link.
Very true.
@@SortedFood Or to a recipe behind a subscription paywall.
> They could have just printed it on the back
I sort of agree, but also not. I have seen even quite expensive kitchen tools lose their prints over time. Also, on the back is silly - then you need to remember that it's there etc. Just put it on the front.
Printing a QR code on the device could be very expensive comparatively. It also leaves 0 flexibility in changing it. Maybe there's a different QR code for different for different regions for different legal requirements?
oh phooey, the only thing that was a touch whimsical was the last thing that was wrong with it.
I love that Ben started off the first few episodes of this giving things a chance, but now we're witnessing his descent into madness as these progress
After the tongs a few episodes back and the salt mortar and pestle last week I agree... the man is going through it 😅
For the silicone memo wrist band, I think it’d be great for kids because my daughter (age 4) loves to draw on herself, so she could wear it and write on it, and it’s reusable, and she loves to grocery shop with me so it’d give her a job she could do. Or if you always forget your lists at home when you go somewhere or in your purse or lose them.
also you could write on said memo also where they can find you. at that very shopping mall. children can always find a way to just wander off. (I know I was that kid) then they could look at the memo or go to a staff and ask where said location is.
We did when I was young with a note said when lost go to x fountain in x mall. (mobile phones where not a thing really)
Often worked well enough that if they do wander of they know where to go and so do you as the parent.
I can see it being used for reminding children of their after school/before bed routines - some pics on vinyl stickers for the younger ones
So either they’re doing all these gadget vids to torture Ben for being gone on all his travels or they’re trying to annoy him into traveling again.
Which do you think it is? 👀
@@SortedFood Yes.
@@SortedFood I say both! Make Ben review cooking gadgets for people on the go.
The wrist memo band immediately strikes me as good for measuring things, especially when tailoring or building something. Easy to simply note down the numbers and check them at a glance rather than get your phone or notebook out each time!
With the wrist memo thing my brain went to nursing. This would be really useful for taking vitals on a hospital floor.
O in nursing I can see even more use for them. not only vitals but even trias if the memos come in multiple colours.
like green light care. yellow some urgent . Red full emergency. and then you can still use them for vitals or medication use.
Sure you have the there card at there bed. bud sometimes patients can get out of bed. so the most vital (short time) info is on that wrist.
I would use it all the time for writing down obs etc!
Gosh yes, instead of worrying obs on hand/ scrap paper/ paper towel... this would be such a time saver
Infection control would say no - bare below the elbows….
@@le6297 that would depend on your unit though. Many units aren’t as strict. Since it’s silicon and washable it’s safer than most other methods…
17:36 this thing is going to be so expensive for how bad it works.
I reckon very often the actual answer to, "How much do you think we paid for it?" is, "TOO MUCH!!" (it has to be shouted at the screen, that's the only acceptable response)
Staring down a massive hurricane. Just the lighthearted distraction I needed. As always, thank you Sorted.
Good luck mate, I was in hurricane Ivan and it was hard. I hope all goes well.
Same! Good luck wherever you are!
Please be safe x
hang in there, be safe!
Stay safe and take care... good luck
I love that you boys are so honest in your reviews.
We’re getting some great gadget videos these past few days and weeks and yes, we get so excited to see Ben’s “I’m done” energy 🔥
Happy Wednesday, everyone!
Trying out different icecream machines would be a fun episode, i feel like there's other options thatd be fun to try like the ninja creami or something.
They did the ninja creami with Poppy. I was just rewatching it
It would be cool to get a bunch of them in one video. Barry could bring his. Not sure if Poppy actually did take the creami home. They’ve done some others as well.
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Think it was that video that persuaded me to buy a Creami.
I’d love to see a video about cooking with food allergies/dietary restrictions in mind! As someone with a lot of rarer food allergies, I know it definitely stresses my friends out to cook for me, even if the recipes they normally make don’t have any of my allergens. It turns out that sometimes, when you tell a normal person that someone is allergic to something, the only things they can remember how to make suddenly become the things you CAN’T eat!
Think it would be both useful and chaotic to watch the normals try to navigate that!
I know what you mean.
Lots of food allergies in my family. Most are pretty obvious and easy to avoid. Soy is the sneaky one, you have to read labels carefully to make sure you are avoiding it.
Yes! I'd love to see them doing some kind of recipe challenge where they're given a common "it's in everything" allergy they have to work around to produce a dish (or three!) without it--things like dairy/it's byproducts, grains, or anything derived from corn! Or maybe draw a few each of the easier-to-avoid ones like shellfish or peanuts from a hat to add a bit more difficulty by working around a few in combination. And ofc bonus points if they also have to avoid any cross-contamination!
Several at once is so hard to manage. None of the apps including their own are even slightly capable of dealing with the basic allergens they have on there. I put wheat free and it was recommending pasta dishes.
@@JayneDragon Omg! That's some very broken filtering, that's a shame! I'm sure you've already explored all sorts of different wheat-free alternatives to things so please don't mind me if I'm beating a dead horse, but I will say if you're not allergic to corn I found corn pasta to be a very agreeable substitute for wheat pasta as far as like opening up "normal" recipes as an option (I found the alternative flour pastas more miss than hit, personally, but even people without allergies I offered it to thought corn pasta was alright).
I like to think that somewhere in the studio is a library of gadgets that the crew get to “check out” and use at home
8:14 I’m not an oyster shucker, I’m an oyster shuckers son, but I’ll keep on shucking till the oyster shucker comes
9:26 Had bands like those as a kid! Had the shoping list on it too! That piece of paper was safe there! Saved my parents many going backs! It works guys
Haha amazing!
@@SortedFood thanks For this
While I imagine it would be useful for me I think I would use it for a week then forget about after 😂😂😂
ever unwrapped a slap band? they're just measuring tape offcuts 😆
im with Ben i usually have mixed feelings about these episodes but i will always watch no matter what! sorted makes my day!
Ebbers: I hate unitask/single-use gadgets and space is always an issue
Also Ebbers: I like this, it does its task well
I’d say that’s a good take though it might not be something he would get but as a product it does what it says it does. So if a person wants that specific problem solved here is the tool to help
I don't have the Ice Cream maker, but anytime you are doing something with heat (or cold) and the temperature is not controlled by the machine, it is important to have the correct temperature first. As y'all are a cooking channel, I imagine you have industrial freezers that are kept colder than traditional at home freezers. This would cause the part of the ice cream in contact with the bowl to freeze too quickly and get stuck while the rest stays a liquid. If you try it again, I would recommend a slightly warmer bowl.
Why do people think commercial freezers would necessarily be colder than domestic freezers? Some might be set as such, but I’ve never worked in a kitchen that’s deviated from the norm set by health standards (which domestic freezers have to be able to keep to, obviously). Why would a business spaf money down the drain by running such an energy intense machine at an unnecessarily low temperature? Even if they did have a blast freezer, which I think is unlikely given the scope of their cooking, the chefs at sorred aren’t so stupid as to put a freezer bowl into a freezer at -40° two times in a row and be surprised that the motor can’t keep up.
The machine’s just plastic shite.
0:49 I recognized the gadget right away, because I am of Lebanese descent living in Canada, and we use this to make the noodles for maacroon bil toum, which is one of our favourite meals for birthdays and holidays, but will leave you smelling like garlic for days. Highly recommend!
Ebbers not being happy isn’t good for him but does make us happy with a great video!
funny thing my family has the cuisinart icecream machine and honestly it stalling was a major problem fairly often with it compared to any other icecream maker we have had since
Thanks, what brands do you recommend
So it's confirmed to be garbage? Good thing I saw this video and your comment first.
@@justjan1 The takeaway isn't about brand per se, the takeaway is to avoid these types of machines altogether. You want an ice cream maker that has a built in compressor, like that model that Barry has at home. None of the brands avoid this issue when it comes to the ones with freezer bowls.
@@justjan1 If you want no hassle perfect icecream (although with rather poor aeration) go with ninja creami. You freeze the mix and the device is basically an elaborate blender, but it works really really well and can make edible ice-cream with a mix that would be impossible to churn to a satisfying consistency (think no sugar low calorie ice-cream for example) Otherwise I have Cecotec Gelacy 1200 Touch and for the price I paid (approx. 110 pounds when converting from my currency) it's really good. It makes perfect ice-cream (if the mix is well balanced, but that's why you should always use an ice cream calculator) is easy to clean. Makes an ice-cream in 30 to 60 minutes depending on volume and is ready to go again after 30 minutes of compressor resting time. All in all almost any machine with built in compressor will be adequate if you use proper proportions of ingredients. Check out polar ice creamery on youtube for more info on ingredients and recipes.
I had an opposite problem, where it worked fine, but within 5 minutes of being able to make the ice cream, overchurned it to the point of making sweet butter instead.
i appreciate the honesty so very much! Cheers guys!
The memo gadget should absolutely be called the Shopping Wrist
That clamped device reminds me of the violent coconut shredder
I thought that
The oyster chucker looks *so happy* in the glamor shot at the start of the segment.
I needed this video today, thanks for bringing a bright spot to those of us here in Florida waiting for the hurricane to make landfall tonight.
stay safe!
I am constantly praying for you, as are so many. May you all come through safely.
I like that you guys show when things do not work well.
19:00 A good old fashioned ice+salt ice cream churner is still way less work and fool-proof compared to the freezer-ice based ice cream makers.
I love that chapter "Too cold to churn"
You should have somehow shown Ben making Cavatelli with the standard Cavatelli making board from a previous Kitchen gadget episode saying 'this is probably the only way of making this type of pasta'... in the same episode mike did had a tagliatelle rollling pin
That Memo strap could actually be kinda useful for waiting staff
A quick water proof note pad
But Paper blocks do exist and do the job mostly fine, but is disposable
Great idea! I would have loved this when I was a waitress. I always hated those paper waitress notepads- such a waste!
also staff at or around a swimming pool. like a lifeguard. they can write down whatever they want to keep track of but if they suddenly have to dive in to the water that info is still save.
I suspect the issue with the ice cream machine may be your freezer, you guys likely have professional equipment that’s colder than the typical -17c, so it’s freezing too quickly and too firmly.
A professional freezer?
The issue is that the machine sucks. It’s obvious enough from the creaking plastic.
@@fabe61 oh it’s pretty crappy, plastic gearing on anything is gonna fail. But to not get it to work at all, and the way it’s failing, maybe it’s not just the machine.
Commercial freezers are usually much colder and they had a similar problem a few years ago with a different gadget if I’m remembering correctly that turned out to be due to colder temp.
Mike getting lost in the sauce
And that oyster holder has the happiest face in its design, i love it. Like a big lizard!
O_O My dad is getting older, and developing some serious short-term memory problems. An easily-editable list he could WEAR so he can remember what he was supposed to get from the next room sounds like a godsend, honestly.
Ahh...but would he remember to LOOK AT HIS LIST??
That memo thing, at least to me, sounds super useful.
I usually keep a list of groceries on paper, and it's a pain to put my hand in my pocket to get the list. especially if you carry a heavy basket
I wonder if the professional Sorted Freezer is colder than a normal household one, and that screwed up the ice cream machine? Mind, it might just be a bad gadget, but Cuisineart are usually quite reliable...
Anyway, I enjoyed the video, and I appreciate the honesty of the reviews!
You guys are one of the only channels i trust when it comes to this sort of thing because you never sugar coat it and always say if things dont work. Also you buy the stuff yourself so there is no reason to say it works when it doesnt.
2:38 man farts in agreement
My grandparents definitely had one of those first ones that was used once per year to make the homemade gnocchi we had for Christmas Eve dinner every year. It was one of my favorite things to help with when I was kid. It does in fact work a lot better when clamped to something that can't move around.
One of the local popular events that many organizations around here (US - MD) is a Bull and Oyster Roast, which will feature pit beef and oysters, among other items. I have occasionally seen an oyster shucker use a steel glove, but most go at it bare handed. Good shuckers can do a dozen in 2 minutes pretty easily and do it for a couple of hours with short breaks.
I bought a chain-mail glove years back when I was teaching myself to butcher whole large animals. They work for slashes, but poking/stabbing movements not so well. I also had a set of mail for battle reenactments & the same principle applied. Better than nowt for oyster shucking though.
I'm not sure about everyone else but I just use a butter knife to shuck oysters, and I have never injured myself. Just stick the end in the hinge joint then turn the knife it will pop right open.
I can see that if you are confident there is not a problem. it might be when you are not (yet) confident. then a tool like this in the video can help.
@@Nilboggen The entire "secret" that those not familiar with shucking don't know is that there's a top (flatish side) and bottom (the belly curveish), grab the oyster in a towel belly side down and push your knife in at the hinge (poke around a bit until you get it in a little and twist. I guess a butter knife works, but a stiffer, thinner, shorter actual oyster knife works better, IMHO. You can also put the oyster (works for just about any shellfish) in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds and they'll pop open enough to easily get a knife in.
I bought one of these cavatelli machines a few years ago and I am absolutely obsessed!!! I don’t really like long pasta, but I love homemade pasta. The extruder machines were all very pricing and this machine is so easy to use! I started buying them as a gift for people too 😋
9:21 So, um, Ben... where is the best place for it? 😆
around his Big Ben 😉
I’ve been rewatching old videos because I love you guys and my biggest takeaway is that I’m so glad mikes stopped wearing caps 🤣🤣🤣
We're getting more angry ebbers! Nice! 🤣🤣🤣
This wristband looks amazing. I instantly went searching for them online and I'm geting one for me and one for my friend. The fact that I don't need a new pice of paper for every list is what I like the most
Hahahahaha! Would love to be a fly on the wall in Cuisinart's PR office right now!
If we were doing it wrong we'd love to know!
@@SortedFoodI think you guys are doing it right. Freezer bowl is not the best solution for an ice cream machine. Go for ones with compressors instead.
@@SortedFood no, I don't think you were, just a wimpy motor. And, I judge their recipe too because it isn't egg based ice cream. The best kind.
@SortedFood I feel like the bowl should be in the freezer for half the time they mentioned. Especially since their machine is pretty much just brittle cheap plastic. For use with kids, I'm guessing.
@@drjonbear7517 Soft serve is not egg based.
A good old oyster lead will always be my preferred method of stabilizing an oyster for shucking. It's what I grew up using.
Oh wow that just brought back some great memories of my Nan, she had one! Thank you!
The way I answered "Pizza Hut" and felt so validated that I wasn't alone. Best sweet and syrup selection!!
17:50 I think your freezer is way to cold. This way the mixture already freezes to early and to strong.
I was surprised that the boys, especially Ben, were not familiar with Cavatelli pasta. It is rather common in the US, even here in Texas.
Oh! Ebbers is NOT happy! 😂😂😂😂
I've got an idea following your "Chef cooks from normals scraps" which is that each normal has to cook a dish (think ultimate battle) and then Kush and Ben has a battle with the leftover scraps! :D
I've never heard anyone pronounce "Cuisinart" as "Cuisine Art" before. Congrats to Barry for finding a way to be pretentious about a decidedly unpretentious brand!
it's funny because until very recently that's the only way i'd ever heard it pronounced (Cuisine Art)
@@ladyofthewittyremark Haha same, wonder how others pronounce it now (quiz-in-art?)
Guys 👋 Get the Klarstein Sweet Sundae soft serve machine next time. I got mine for about £200, and it has a freezing unit inside (so no need to freeze a bucket). Makes 1L of soft serve in 30 minutes, and you can refill it to make another liter in like 15-20 minutes. Absolute steal. Also, you can make slushies and cocktails in it if you want. Try adding Coke to it, and you will get slush with a slight carbonation.
I feel the issue with the oyster shucker is that its made of wood and metal nails working in always wet environment. Wouldn't mold/bacteria and rust be a concern? I know plastic isn't great for the environment but wouldn't that be a better material for the given situation?
or perhaps metal of some kind if you want to still avoid plastic
@@ladyofthewittyremarkI don’t think metal would have enough give to provide support
I have never shucked oysters, or even ate them but I would think with proper drying mold wouldn’t be a problem. Maybe rust but real wood doesn’t mold easily.
Wood is completely fine for these purposes. It's really not a problem. It's the same deal as a cutting board, you just have to wash it properly. Rust also really isn't a concern, just like it's not a concern with your steel pans. You'd have to replace virtually all of your kitchen tools if it was that easy for them to rust or mold.
Have not be recommended any videos in months. Glad to see you guys are still active.
I love this channel so much, y'all have such amazing vibes and always seem to have so much fun
Watching Sorted while I'm eating Mac and cheese with hot dogs cut up in it has become one of my favorite times of day.
My wife and I are big into cooking and hosting and both really enjoying the shopping part, too. We have a lot of fun going together. And having a list on a wrist that can just be wiped off with no need to have a phone in hand or a pen to mark off paper is brilliant. I already use my phone too much. I will be buying a slap list ASAP and making out shopping dates a little more relaxed and tech free!
That pasta roller, if it had multiple bits for different shapes, would 10/10 have a place in my kitchen.
I think the biggest pro of the wrist list thing is that its presence serves as a constant reminder of something. Getting older myself, so that's not a bad thing. I usually don't forget to follow my shopping list, but I do tend to get distracted from things while I'm at home, and having something to do with that on my wrist might help.
Yes, "call Ms ABC at 10am" or "Joan's Birthday today!" Post-it notes tend to get covered with other things, I've learnt.
I was about to comment “why’s this titled ‘DESPAIRINGLY’ everything seemed to be great…then I got to the soft serve maker😂 but I do always appreciate when the boys are honest with the gadget reviews, it is genuinely helpful-especially when it is such an expense-and it makes the content feel all the more real and genuine because of it 🙂
I think the silicone memo pad would be great for elderly relatives because they often can't or won't be able to learn to use a phone and will forget to take a note so having a silicone thing you wear seems like a practical solution
The memo wrist band would be great for my little kids to remember things for school, like turn in the HW, bring water bottle left in school, etc.
The app to do is fantastic. I'm never somewhere where I would have that wristband without having my phone. To do all the way!
thank you for the honest review on the ice cream machine. I would have happily spent money on it but the motor seems to be its major downfall.
100%
Wow! It's rare that you guys get a fail on a new (not vintage) gadget. Cuisinart is one of the last names I would expect that from.
I don't believe that honestly; for me, Cuisinart has always been a very plastic-y, discount brand, so that machine being hot garbage was kind of expected.
@@Hirotechnics I'm probably much older than you. There was a time that Cuisinart was cutting edge. They were the first company to bring the food processor to the USA. Looking up the company name just now I see that they're now owned by ConAir so they're no longer the same company they used to be.
Cavatelli is my favourite pasta shape to make with homemade pasta. It's just so unfussy and rugged. I use my butter paddles to make it but I might get one of those shapers to save my thumbs! (Sidenote, I love the way Barry says Cuisinart. Here in the US we're running it together so much that it's Cuisi-nart.)
I screamed noooooo to the ice cream maker. It raised my expectations so high only to crash them into the ground 😂
‘That’s the second place I thought it would go,’ is such an odd comment, Ben.
‘The creepy guy with the music truck outside your door.’ Ahhhhh. This answers SO many questions!
I was at a pub dance/pseudo night club once, and a guy I was dancing with told me he was an Icecream guy. It was very awkward. He had my sympathy instantly.
Those ice cream makers where you have to freeze the bowl always get me. I had one like that and would always forget to put it in the freezer!
I’ve got a cuisinart ice cream maker with a compressor. It works perfectly every time. As a child, we had a manual one with a freezer bowl like that. It was so sensitive, if you’ve left it a moment too long, it would freeze up. I’m surprised people are still trying to use them.
the pasta maker is genius, it’s the perfect entry to making fresh pasta (other than spaghetti and the like) without needing to invest in an expensive dough maker attachment