5 Salad Kitchen Gadgets Tested By Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2024
- Design and usability guru Dan Formosa returns to test and improve upon 5 gadgets made for serving the perfect salad at home. Watch as he puts each salad gadget through the gauntlet, weighing in on what works, what doesn't, and what he'd do to make each gadget better.
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Chef’n Emulsifier
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Easy Pull Food Chopper and Manual Food Processor
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Spent half an acid trip watching this guy, he's a genius, he's my grandad, he's a kind soul who cares about the disabled, he oils his hands, he's funny, he's a king and he's the reason why keyboards have indentations.
Sounds like you spent the other half coming up with the perfect description of this guy! Most underated comment on the video.
@Royally Confused i thing he meant "people like him"
And how did you spend the other half of the time
@@aA-hq4kmuh idk
4 hours well spent
For a future video, they need to include one of his own gadgets he made. I want to see his reaction.
"oh God whoever designed this needs to be fired"
He would probably know
He might dead
@@bodinroo3897 english please? Wtf is "He might dead" did you mean 'Died'?
@Buferin El mejor explain? Its 'Died' as in 'He died' not Dyed as in 'I dyed my hair'
"Ok so lets try the left hand oil test on the mandolin"
*I see you have chosen death*
I was so worried he was going to injure himself on that!
yeah that made me nervous. I was like "ok so how about let's don't?"
I have some wicked scars from a similar mandolin.
I literally cringed with my entire body watching that
Dan's getting sassier with every review/roast. I'm here for it.
I noticed it but I decided to let it Slide
He's probably getting more and more confortable with beeing in front of the camera
Right! I could hear it in the way he said “...PITTED olives” I was taken aback - but he has a point lol
He's probably also tired of these subpar ideas, but it's so hilarious seeing him subtly roast every part of these inventions even the good ones.
The dry humor is under rated
666 likes
“Ok imagine in your wildest dreams that you don’t have a salad spinner” hahaha
He is like the coolest physics teacher who uses practical examples rather than boring textbook ones
I mean.. Something like this you can actually use practical examples, with physics most of the times you can't
@@andreramos148 yeah true that!!
I used to be scared of my physics teacher but now I’m dating his 2nd cousin(that is my age)😂
I had a science teacher that had the same energy as him xD
@@daniellehassell9369 omg😂😂
“Let’s add some honey!” Or “let’s add some, honey” made me laugh so much more than I would like to admit.
The power of the comma.
Example:
Let’s eat, kids!
Let’s eat kids!
"Kenaif"
@@hide..run.
Let’s eat out, mom!
Let’s eat out mom!
@@COLMECTIGAMINGANDMORE FBI OPEN UP
@@hide..run. True, that's why commas are vital.
"so much less crying involved!"
now THAT'S a tagline for a food chopping gadget!
😂 .... I mean 😆
I love how the left hand oil test shows how accessible the gadgets actually are, a lot of these are made for people with disabilities but if theyre not easily usable it defeats the point
Same, my thoughts too
My dad gave my mum a salad spinner for their first wedding anniversary. This resulted in a conversation where my mother explained the fine art of gift buying to him. Namely, that kitchen gadgets are not anniversary gifts, especially stupid ones. It became a classic family story and dad got way better at gift buying after that, bless him.
But tools are seen as great gifts for guys
@@LeglessWonder I think a lot of it depends on what it is and how you spend your time. I like cooking, and special little cookie presses, a high quality knife or a stand mixer would make me unspeakably happy. Someone who enjoys working with their hands would appreciate a tool used in their specific hobby. I think it misses the mark when it is a cheap tool that is given to someone who would only use it because they had to in order to accomplish some mundane chore.
Your mom sounds like a Karen
And now everytime i go into a mall to buy kitchen gadgets...i go with a left oily hand.
😅 Laughed at loud at that!!
loool
@@justalittlebitmo out*
Yeah, you use a oily hand to beat it off and use the gadgets at the same time...
He usually does the left handed oil test to show an example of how people with something like arthritis would use it to show how its use can be used to make it people for people with problems
I came for salad gadgets,
I stayed for the “woah”
🤣🤣
Me too! 😂
Lmao same
I miss this series
Agrees
Same
Was thinking the exact same thing
Luckly we got this vid at least
Prices points too
The people who made these: "write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN"
They, or their competitors, SHOULD be writing that down; it's essentially free improvement advice/instructions!
@@strivingformindfulness2356 ikr lol
Charles the French eh
@@wania5610 no
@@wania5610 no
He’s giving me Bob Ross vibes
“Boy, it just feels cheap”
“We should flare this up a bit”
have the same number as there were Pokémon in 1999
With quotes like that, maybe he should consider reviewing sex toys.
Like the Bob Ross of kitchen gadgets
Every time I see someone use a Mandolin I get extremely anxious.
I had a chef that lost a finger tip to a mandoline ... I refuse to use one without a cut glove
I've used it many times a tip I would give it to keep your fingers griped on the top of the vegetable , and to stop when you're scared
I start using my hand when the vegetable is large. The guards never have worked on large vegetables on the 3 I have had. But when you are down to a small piece they do the job and save your fingers.
My first was a 20 dollar one from Giant Tiger. Over 20 years. My husband sharpened the blades a few times, but it hit the point of no more sharpening.
The second was a very expensive one given to me second hand. About 180 in the stores. Useless.
The one I have now is I bought second hand for 5 dollars. Star something. Works great.
Yeah, a mandolin was involved in more than one trip to the hospital for my ex. One was on Christmas Day. I am worried right from the get-go, when I see or hear of a mandolin!
@@rohithbaliga This is exactly it. I don't try to get every last bit cut, I stop when I feel like it'd be unsafe to continue, and just get another vegetable. The "waste" part of the stub can just be sliced with a knife or used in a stock or something, and worst case you're out $0.05.
They should add a break resistance aspect to the test.
yeah like just knocking it off the counter a couple times
@@jacobjenkins7362 maybe anything with moving parts, pulling to see if it pops open when It shouldnt
and possibly the keel test?
A cleaning test too !! Sometimes these gadgets are hard to clean properly
@@lorea3478 just like you
i really love how he takes into about accessibility for the gadgets. its something the generally abled public doesn’t consider, but it’s what these gadgets are usually made for. thank you :)
That's my favourite part as well. I wish he did a "thumbless test" too depending on the gadget, though.
which is ironic given how a lot of these gadgets are meant for people with disabilities. I mean that's the entire reason the gaddget market exists really is to sell things that claim to make people's lives easier while dropping the ball 9/10 times
I was actually looking to buy a food processor and I think I may buy that hand pulled one. Thanks for this series, I've made a few purchase based on these recommendations.
It is not that good and it needs more power, an electronic one does more things and is easier, there are also some cheap ones.
He's really kind on that olive pitter. In inside he actually said, "just buy the goddamn pitted olives at the goddamn supermarket".
The pitter is more for people who have a olive tree in their yard.
but.. with what gadget does the guy at the supermarket pit those olives?
@@lastyhopper2792 im pretty sure the pitted olives on the supermarket were made with some machine, or smt
at 10:30 is a hint that literally has changed my life! The need: How to dry a single (or two) serving of washed lettuce without the benefit of a salad spinner...Voila! Use a hand towel and swinging action! Thank you Dan, I use this idea at least once a week when I make salad for myself and my dad. I love these videos, have watched all of them! Thank you Dan and Epicurious!
I used to have that mandolin slicer... it broke, then I got one from Ziless, (the company that made the hand food processor) its so much better.
Pro tip: to emulsify your dressing easy, just add a emulsifier like a teaspoon of mustard. tastes great and really helps the emulsion to be stable
time and resources spent in washing, plus counter or kitchen space, I’d still go for the knife in cutting ingredients.
I agree for most but the hand pull chopper. That thing is super useful and fast.
I would imagine a lot of those gadgets are dishwasher safe
He is like the coolest physics teacher who uses practical examples rather than boring textbook ones
That Easy-Pull food processor looks awesome I want one
I love these videos, but there's a few mistakes in the subtitles I wanted to point out - hopefully community subtitling comes back so we can edit them if we see them, because as a transcriber I know it's easy to miss a few things.
3:55 and 5:19 - 'fuzzy' should be 'fussy'
7:22 - 'then symmetric' should be 'asymmetric'
9:20 - 'filler up' should be 'fill her up' or maybe 'fill 'er up'
11:52 - 'finger' should be 'fingernail'
13:04 - 'draw' should be 'drawer;
13:20 - 'by' should be 'buy'
13:24 - 'it's' should be 'its'
13:41 "raise on the extra' should be 'raison d'être' (lol!)
17:34 - 'union' should be 'onion'
19:46 - 'pic' should be 'pit'
there might be more and that's just for this video, sorry if it seems pedantic but it can be confusing if you don't have the audio playing.
I owned that salad spinner (kids broke the outer bowl). I had the same issues with it that he pointed out - wobbly and hard to store.
Not planning on buying another as a replacement. Would like to see more gadgets he DOES recommend.
I'm not the expert he is, but I like the Oxo salad spinner a lot. My first one lasted something like 15 years, and the replacement is at least 7 or 8 years old at this point and going strong.
@@lexica510 can you describe how it looks please?
@@nicolenunya984 I'll try! The bowl is made of clear plastic and is large enough to be able to fit a head or two of lettuce at a time. The basket is a milky-white plastic. The lid is mostly clear plastic with a large plunger in the middle (press the plunger repeatedly to get it spun up to speed) which retracts down for easy storage. The lid also has a small button that slows and stops the spinning basket when pressed.
If you search for "OXO Good Grips Salad Spinner", it should come up. I have the large version.
@@nicolenunya984 picture of it on the oxo website:. www.oxo.com/salad-spinner.html
I have to second the OXO spinner. I have one and it works great.
*Eats one bite of salad*
"Im getting skinnier already!"
lmaoooo, if that isn't me to a T. XDDDDD
I loved that line!
I loved that so much!!🤣🤣
"Oh, yeah, he's totally right about the salad spinner. The best one by far is…oh. Yeah. The Oxo stainless steel salad spinner. That he probably designed." Thanks, Dan, for all you've done for making kitchens accessible for people like me!
0:06: me when my friend explains a story but I act like I’m interested
😂😂😂
🤣
Omg i could clip tht part and send it to that friend😂😂
Me when my little brothers start rambling about their day at school💀💀
He should review crowd funded kitchen gadgets
Especially those that get delayed for years because they just cannot get it to work properly and then panic produce something since investors have started to complain.
"I'm getting skinnier already" honestly, that's such a mood
*Spins "woah!"
Everybody loved that
"kuh-nife"
Why is no one talking about this😂😂😂 made me laugh so hard for some reason 🤣🤣
I have that exact salad spinner, and I use it for EVERYTHING. Granted, most of the time when I'm washing vegetables, I wash them in the spinner with water and vinegar and then just lift the basket out before tipping the water. No lid needed. I can't stress enough how much of a difference a salad spinner makes in having lettuce dry enough to store, though. I can tell a huge difference - so much so that I took my salad spinner with me to my mom's house so I could make a salad there without it being watery and wilted.
I missed this!! Glad you brought it back
I needed this today. Dan has given me a bright spot in this miserable year. I’m so happy to see a kind face telling me about kitchen items.
Gadget expert "the left hand oil test was difficult with the gadget"
Me a lefty- "I don't have such weaknesses"
Right ganded oil test: hello
I think it’s more to see if disabled or older people could use it
I have the easy pull food processor, made by Tefal, it's a bit different than your - the cover can be locked with the bottom for safety. It's great for quickly chopping some onion + garlic to start out a dish but it will jam itself if you put too much inside at one time.
Dan's "I'm getting skinnier" is sending meeeee. HAHAHAHA
Dan! So you're the reason my kitchen is filled with semi useless kitchen gadgets! 🤣
I would say he's the reason the useful gadgets are useful.
Online school: am I a joke to you
Me: yes
Ahahahahaha
Meanwhile, Frank is inventing his own kitchen.
Lol
When he said “Mandolin blades can be sharp” it brought back an old memory of my completely slicing open my finger with one back when I was young, it was really bad and for like a week or two I needed superglue on it daily to help it heal
Dan is a precious cinnamon roll and needs to be protected at all costs.
I feel I should warn you that I cannot be trusted near cinnamon rolls. Not even for a second. Don't even blink.
Thank you
This dude is the Bob Ross of the product universe
Plot twist:
He is his long lost bro
I either read or heard some where that Dan has designed things for OXO. I have the smaller OXO salad spinner and I love it! Works every time, it's stable, safe and reliable. It has a plunger dead center on top of the lid you push down to make the basket spin, and it can spin quite fast and throws the water off nicely. Because the plunger is in the center the bowl wont wobble and you're pushing straight up and down, not around having your hand off center making the bowl rock around. Under the outer bowl is a ring of silicone so the spinner stays put on the table and doesn't skid around. The top of the plunger is also capped in tough silicone for a non-slip grip and does not bite into your hand, it's comfortable to use. The plastics used are of nice and durable quality. For storage you can push the plunger down and lock it into place so it takes up less space and makes it easier to store away. The components are all easy to wash too. I also have a pair of OXO tongs that I like very much.
Judging how he redesigns gadgets here, I'm willing to bet he did design OXO's salad spinner. (they come in 2 sizes. I have the smaller one)
I'd love to know what he has designed for OXO and other companies.
19:29 I wasn’t paying attention and I thought he pulled out a gun
Yes. The special bonus😭💀
LOL
Left hand oil test with a gun
Hear that world!? FLARE! Almost every change he makes on almost every item in this series... FLARE!
i always love the left handed oil test, cause it really shows how sometimes when you design you forget what environment you might be using it and who your design is made for.
I have a salad spinner that just requires pushing instead of cranking (like the onion slasher) and it works really well. But of course, its usefulness depends on the amount of lettuce one wants to wash. It's not worth it for small amounts. Also it's made of pretty cheap plastic, I wish it were much more sturdy.
“The entrails hanging out”- so essentially olive hemorrhoids. I like this engineer. Smart and funny.
For the salad spinner, I would just design it to be like the OXO version, it's probably the most well designed salad spinner out there.
I had use of one of those for a while, since an ex-housemate owned one. I was sad when she took the Oxo salad spinner away, it was a great one. I have one from Tupperware that works pretty well. But the Oxo one was better - which, as a former Tupperware sales person, is really painful to say!
That's because Dan designed it.
Imagin being a company and epicurious tests your product with “non dominant hand with oil”
🤣😂😂🤣🤣
MY FAVORITE DESIGNER IS BACK!
God, I'm addicted to these vids atm.
For the salad spinner, I have a similar model except it has a push-to-spin mechanism. You wash/rinse the lettuce in the basket in the sink, then put it into the spinner to dry. Giving it a few pumps spins the lettuce fast enough to be nearly completely dry. I think you've kind-of misrepresented the product a bit, as I've lived with and without one and I couldn't go without it again.
I have that mini processor. It's awesome, especially if you live in an apartment or small living space and it gets the job done.
quaratine can't be fun
Dan- "uploads a vid" me- "i could be writting but dan is more fun"
I've been waiting for another video with this man, found it a little late but I'm so happy!
I love this guy, could watch this all day
This is my favorite series. Stay at it Dan
This man's experience with a mandolin is my experience with every one I have ever tried to use. I have no idea why people believe in this gadget because to me it seems like an easy and expensive way to flay your skin or remove digits from your hands.
Designed by hand surgeons perhaps?
I love these videos! It's so interesting to me how he instantly sees ways to make the products better. And his dry sense of humor is so entertaining!
From personal restaurant experience, the salad spinner is never really used for washing, mainly for drying.
I am so happy he showed the towel, I don’t have a salad spinner. I’ve been having trouble getting lettuce dry enough to eat.
I'm thinking about cutting an old towel into a circle and adding a draw string on the edge. Would take up less space in the kitchen drawer.
How bout y'all have him review some of his past inventions
The salad dressing thingy... I'd have designed it with a pump pusher on top. you just push down and it makes the plastic thingies inside spin and mix the dressing. you can use more bodymass, for more effect, with less strain to individual digits and whatnot.
Love Dan, every product should be passed by this man. So practical.
It took him 5 mins to chop an onion? Damn
Two whole onions, man. Five minutes seems reasonable. He was also trying to chop them as finely as the chopper did to make it an even comparison.
I’m actually surprised i had to scroll so far to find this. I am far from being chef and I’m pretty sure i can chop an onion in less than a minute.
less than 30 seconds, that's what it takes to chop an onion, and you don't need to be a chef.
You guys, he was trying to chop both onions as finely as the chopper did. It would take you less than a minute if you're not a chef?? Come on...
@@danielleking262 yes, definitely.
5 minutes is just a lot of time.
Dan the gadget man is back with a side salad to boot!
The return of the king
I missed this so much!! This show is too interesting huhu keep making more episodes pleeeaaase
Lol when he says the full name of the mandoline cutter
For the last gadget theres a lock and unlock button that you can easily visibly see that was always unlocked when he was using it. I imagine it would have been much easier if he had locked the lid in place when pressing down.
It doesn't lock the lid.
It locks the blades. It makes it so the blades don't turn. Why do you think it's on the blade stalk?
What mechanism do you see when it's open or even turned to lock the lid? There isn't one.
I'm not a huge fan of this channel, but I absolutely love this dude, he radiates cool older uncle vibes.
Thank GOD this man has made it through 2020 so far unscathed
"Welcome to my laboratory." Someone's been watching Crazy Russian Hacker.
Ha! 😆
I was just thinking of this the other day! I missed Dan!
I love this series! Keep it up!
Thanks to this gentleman i bought the express food chopper with the pump; its helped me so much. onions. Done easy. i love it. glad i found these videos.
One of my favorite series along with 50 people try
HE'S BACK LET'S GOOOO
He makes me miss my papa. Love his humor and his knowledge. ❤
Mr Formosa is a gas with great logical ideas.
"With a couple changes I think it would be easier to use"
Ok so a couple means 2 so I have 2 changes!
1) Use your dominate hand
2) Don't put oil on said hand
All fixed :D
The first example is me with my mother when i see those kind of gadgets like: "Mom you can do that in a regular BLANK". Or a "we already have that kind of thing".
It's good to see you back, I've enjoyed this series.
I love how Dan calls every gadget by its full name
I would love to see a video where a chef cooks a meal with all of the good gadgets or something like that
13:34 my mom has one of these. They're pretty dang efficient, just a bit annoying to clean up the blades and all, but overall a great product.
This guy is hysterical!!!love him
The cherry/olive pitter comes in real handy for making cherry pie and cherry jams. I wouldn’t get it out for a few olives though. :)
I've cut my hand open, had to get stitches on one of these I don't remember which they... All look familiar
The design god has descended down to earth once again to teach us how to make the perfect kitchen gadget.
Someone's heard my prayers 😭😍 yesterday I was just thinking how cool would it be for a new video of this series to come out and HERE IT IS THAK YOU EPICURIOUS I LOVE YOU I WORSHIP YOU
I've been a professional cook for years now and pride my knife skills and often try to "Mark Henry" machines in the kitchen and out chop them lol I coulda done that onion in about 45 sec... not AS fast but still not slow enough to invest in a gadget. And it was multiple onions. And my cuts would be more uniform.
17:02 who needs more than 5 minutes to chop an onion?😅
i know right lmao i came here looking for someone who commented about that!
Maybe it’s because of the type of knife he used?
Me, I'm horrible at chopping unions xD
Why am I watching this instead of doing my homework?
I used to have one of those pull choppers. Amazing for making salsa!
I have a really great salad spinner with gearing and a flywheel. No hole either. You just wash in the clear bit and then strain it into the cage bit. The spinner is just used to dry.
It's a really high quality one my grandma had, she bought it in the 70s.