Alcohol (ethanol) is less dense than water, so 50mL of pure alcohol weight about 40g. Wine has 12% alcohol, so 98g for 100mL seems pretty realistic. With the whisky its even greater of a gap cause its around 40% alc.
Came here to say this - gotta use density conversions if you're trying to find the volume of (pretty much) any liquid other than water using only a gram scale
I don’t have a good measuring jug so whenever I bake something that uses oil in the batter I have to weigh it after googling the density of vegetable oil, if I remember correctly 100 ml of oil weigh about 90g.
13:04 About a year ago I took a chunk out of my right middle finger with a kitchen mandolin, and when we went to urgent care they told us they see several mandolin injuries every day. This thing is like someone looked at the mandolin and said, "nah, that's way too safe."
There should really be some sort of regulation REQUIRING a hand guard for mandolines, because without one, it's far too easy for even professionals to add slices of the pink carrots to their food. With a hand guard it's not impossible to still slice yourself, but your chances go way, way down, and generally speaking, you've got to be pretty klutzy to manage to injure yourself while properly using the safety equipment as designed.
@@muyyek Yeah, I was doing a couple questionable things when I had my accident. The biggest mistake I made was that I didn't think to grab the cutproof glove.
@@lordmuhehe4605 Cutproof gloves do not need to be chainmail there are cheaper alternatives. In most professional kitchens they are required whenever mandolines are used whether guides are used or not.
@@HeartTheBaconI cut off my fingertip with one, can confirm. Was too embarrassed to go to the doctor so just stuck it back on and taped it. Somehow it worked and you can’t tell i can’t it but I now have a healthy fear of mandolines and cut proof glove.
I wanted to let your boys know you had a great gadget a few weeks ago. It was the veg peeler that fits in the palm of your hand. I have limited mobility, and I bought one after seeing your review of it. I absolutely love it! Thank you for the help! (I know At 63, I am not your target audience, but I love watching you all.)
Yeah I saw that one, as someone who has arthritis but not as bad yet I definitely added it to my mental library for the future. Glad it's helping you out now!
The density of whiskey is 0.94. That means 100ml = 94 grammes. 45 ml is 42 grammes. So the gadget was measuring it correctly. Water density is 1, so 100ml = 100grammes.
Thank you, that was bugging me and I didn't want to google densities! A volume of alcohol has less mass that the same volume of water would. The gadget likely has a peristaltic pump inside of it, so it measures how much is dispensed by the flow rate of the pump or how many rotations the pump shaft makes.
Interesting, but why then is it calibrated just to water? Is this adjustable. Because for that price, it better be able to get calibrated to different types of alcohols and liquids. It's pretty pointless in practice otherwise in my opinion.
@VtheHAPPYLURKER it is not calibrated for water. Ben and Jamie are measuring weight and not accounting for density difference. To check for accuracy they should have used a measuring cup instead. Volume (mL) = mass / density. So for the same volume, if density is different, its mass would be different too.
@@VtheHAPPYLURKERit's calculated to a measurement not a weight. Different liquids have different densities which in turn then have different weights. Water is the default for weight. So if you have a litre of water it's 1kg. If you have 1000l it's is 1m2 and also 1ton. Weight is specifically aligned with water.
For cooking oil, we add cheap rolled oats to absorb the oil/fat, and a bit of honey, then put it outside on bird feeders in the garden. You can also add a little bird seed to the oats.
That seems okay for the winter locations I think if you live in a hot location you probably don't want to be giving garbage fat to birds as this can actually cause them to overheat and get this really nasty liver condition when it's hot out. I can't remember what it's called but I used to keep pet chickens and this was a thing that we had to watch out for and adjust their diet according to the time of year appropriately. It's basically similar to giving Suit to birds.
It's funny, the oil powder is a common and cheap item in Japan (even sold at their version of dollar stores). Companies like fry away add in some English packaging and quadruple the price. It works well, but it definitely isn't a new product.
I love the Japanese product! A store started carrying it as some off time ago last year. Super inexpensive. Other good Japanese products that I now see as "new" in the States (including some as "new as seen on tv" rip offs). So silly.
For FryAway, use pure stearic acid (it's a fatty acid) instead. It's made from plants, usually by adding hydrogenating fats from soy or palm, but is also a naturally occurring saturated fat in meat products, like beef tallow. It's an ingredient in make up, and some processed foods, to solidify fats or act as an emulsifier. The solidified fat can be composted. The more you use, the more solid the fat will be at room temperature. Use less, and the fry oil becomes more like an animal fat that kind of sets up at room temperature. Some place very common you see this behavior is when a small bit of palm oil is added to peanut butter for a no-stir peanut butter.
I love that Ben and Barry were cringing when Jamie was using the mandolin and then Jamie and Barry were cringing when Ben was using it and I was cringing 😬🫣through the whole process 😂, I hate mandolins and this one was atrocious and not worth the stress of watching some of our favourite people trying to use it ❤❤
I have a version of this, but it doesn’t have the V cutter in it. I use it for shredding, cabbage, and carrots. I use two attachments on it. I don’t use the other one. It’s really great for getting vegetables cut small quickly. I can turn it in less than five minutes, and I only skinned a knuckle the first time I used it.
I don't think you can even buy a mandolin style slicer in the US without a holder/pusher guard. Sure most people are idiots that don't use them, but the liability of not supplying one would be astronomical.
You can always still use mangled proteins, as long as you're already going to prepare or cook it in a way where presentation isn't as important. Fish stew, curry or chowder, or if the fish is wrapped in anything like Malaysian fish "puddings" (packed with rice, wrapped in banana leaf or ti leaves and steamed like a tamale), or if you mince/grind the fish up fine for something like a fish cake. Or you could always bread and fry them, and then it doesn't matter what the surface looks like (have to admit, I've never had Dover sole fish and chips before, so I don't know what that would be like...)
Rather than buying branded oil solidifiers like FryAway, it's much cheaper to just buy stearic acid. It's commonly used in candle-making and soap-making, so it's readily available both online and at hobby stores. As an added bonus, it's typically packaged with less waste. That's what companies like National Geographic and Consumer Reports recommend.
Maybe try the "cornstarch slurry to clean oil trick" or others to show folks how they can clean & reuse oil. Or show what kind of meat drippings you can save, and how they should be stored and used. It seems simple, but I bet lots of folks could use pointers.
Just wanted to mention about the "sipper" gadget. You were measuring weight and the machine was pouring mL (volume). The density of alcohol is not the same as water. 100 mL of whisky is not 100 grams on balance.
I wonder if they where to measure water, I presume the 45 ml would have been 45 g. But as you say Alcohol is less dense than water so it should have been a bit less than 45 g which indeed it was.
Yep, most spirits are about 95% as dense as water, so 45mL of them would only have a mass of around 42.75g, which is pretty much spot on what they got.
The alcohol dispenser is very similar to something from my past. Many, many years ago, I worked at a mechanical/electrical engineering company. A potential client came to us with a request to design and build something for him. He was the owner of a several very large and popular bars and clubs in the area. He said he was losing lots of money due to his bar and waitstaff over-pouring drinks - or even giving away free ones. He wanted us to design toppers for alcohol bottles that would poor exact measurements of drinks, as well as only pour if it was rung up. It was definitely doable, but the cost of engineering the product to a professional standard was too high and it never happened.
This is exactly the scenario I envisioned this gadget for. This, to me, is where it makes the most sense. Busy bar/restaurant and a sipvault for each open bottle. Measurements are precise and no one is cheated out of anything
I can easily envision someone managing to get their fingers in there (I'm in an industry where they actually REQUIRE us to see examples where people went wrong with their various power tools, so I'm mentally damaged in that I can now see worst-case-scenarios for pretty much everything... "Let's see, how can this go horribly wrong? Oh yes, I see, complete digital evulsion. Let's call this device ' The Mangler.'"
I've seen plenty of reviewers who rated it pretty highly. The trick is to use a reviewer with lower standards, ideally one who neither knows how to skin a fish nor has a properly skinned fish for comparison.
One of the iron chefs used one (I'm pretty sure I saw morimoto use it after an injury that made wielding a knife difficult (I think it was a palm burn)) but his is obviously a superior brand from Japan because it was beautifully skinned (also helps that it was in the hands of a double iron chef)
Bruh, for the first product, you are being scammed! Japan has had this product for at least 20 years, and it's cheap af, like 5 pounds top. Someone just took the same product rebranded it with an eco-friendly logo and english, and sold it at a premium.
Fry Away: To disposse oil, you can put it in the refergerator and solidify it before you put it in a bag for disposal. Also flour helps to solidify oil, or make it a paste, and it is much cheaper. This I only do in an emergency, because it is wasting food.
Just a point about the last gadget, both wine and whiskey have a lower density than water (0.99 and 0.94 g/mL from what I can find) so the device was pretty much spot on in both tests with the volume of liquid it had dispensed.
For me, at 54, a mandolin is not about skills I haven't learned but about helping me work faster in the kitchen despite having an autoimmune joint disorder. Definitely MANY other options available that are better and easier to use than the one you tested today. That one was dangerous!
I’m fortunate in having chickens to recycle most of my organic wastes through. Surplus cooking oil just gets mixed with the other organics that I feed them. However, I rarely or never indulge in deep fat frying, so I don’t have large quantities to dispose of.
exactly my thought- also if you have dogs you can put it on their dry dog food and it will make their fur coat healthy and shiny! As others have mentioned, oats are also a great way to dispose of oil.
22 quid for a packet of flakes to turn make oil more easy to throw in the trash... I don't know about over in the UK, but lye sells for about 2 euro a kilo here. Pass that oil through a strainer with a bit of paper kitchen towel in it, to get out the solid bits. Then add it to 300ml of water and 200gr of lye per litre of oil, mix it properly and voila soap. Also turning it into soap can be done with cold oil and cold water. Just put it in a lye-safe bucket and leave it to sit. The last and most convenient option for me, is to just take it to my neighbours who have a Vietnamese food truck and they get paid by the litre of used oil by a company that then turns it into "bio" diesel.
@@gozerthegozarian9500 overpriced is very accurate - the people behind it specifically said that they sell it for 10-15 bucks while it only costs about 1 buck to make... overcharging by a factor of 10 is pretty egregious and im willing to bet its just something very close to stearic acid (or precisely that)
Y'all should do a compilation of all the dangerous gadgets you have tested with a round table discussion. That would be a lot of fun for y'all and for your audience! Love the show!
I didn’t see anyone say anything, but they are likely wrong about the measurements of the last product being off. Alcohol is less dense than water, which would lead to a lower weight per mL. So, when they wanted 45 mL and got a weight of 43 it was likely close to being correct. It would need to be tested with water if they wanted to do weights easily or with a graduated container.
17:50 no. Why? If your friends want to taste the wine before pouring an entire glass, they can do that-pour a tiny amount. This product is silly. It is a bit of a con.
So the fryaway, can it go to the oil recycling? There are companies that make diesel, soap and other products, so can it still be used like that? Also it would be great to take camping! It’s hard to handle oil when you are trying to pack out! The oil from bacon for example!
Several comments already about arthritis users needing some kind of mandolin type thing to help. I would love to see you guys review a few of the best options maybe with a disabled guest, it would be super helpful and wholesome!
The millilitre function on a scale generally just works from the density of water, which effectively means the "ml" mode is just the same as "g" at low volumes. Wine has a density of about 99% that of water, so 100ml would read 99m. So combined with the dribble, it was probably more accurate than you made out. Whiskey and Tequila have a density that is about 94-95% that of water, so 45ml of whiskey would measure about 42-43ml on a conventional scale. So reading 43ml on a scale would be about accurate. In the future I would recommend using a measuring jug/cylinder if making measurements of volume, scales will only be accurate with room temp water. (If you wanted to be super accurate, a burette would be best, but is a bit overkill in a kitchen environment)
Maybe my local council (in England) is unusual, but we can just put used cooking oil in a container (eg the plastic bottle it came in) and pop that in the food waste recycling bin for collection each week. Just like the big tanks at the recycling centres, it goes to make biodiesel.
Holy shit number 3 was a nightmare! All three faces had extreme looks of concern. I've cut a finger on a mandolin before and this seems like an enhanced blade that's hungry for blood. Get it the hell out of here!
Yeah... I lost a corner of my thumb to a mandolin and when I had to go to urgent care and then explain to my primary care, she mumbled "those thing should be illegal".
You guys are getting hosed wherever you got the oil solidifier. I’ve been using a different brand for about 2 years. $15 (£12) on Amazon for enough for 50 cups of oil.
That's still insane. Here in Japan you can get a pack that's for about 25 cups for $2. So $4 for 50 cups. And that's from Amazon, you can probably get even cheaper if you actually look in brick stores. The brand is Johnson.
@@VokocaI’ve tried the Japanese branded stuff available on Amazon in the U.S., doesn’t work as well as the EZ Fry. The stuff you get over there is probably way better.
That oil solidifying product is vastly overpriced. Small amount can be mopped up with paper towels and put in food waste. Larger amount, if you can't be bothered to take it to your local recycling centre - just pour the oil back in the bottle it came in (or another spare plastic one, NOT GLASS!) and put in general waste. If I wanted to use mandoline, I would pay more than £26 to not use that one. How much exactly? The cost of buying a good quality one (Börner) plus cut resistant glove - BTW you should test that!
There are a ton of brands. However, the cheaper approach is to just buy it unbranded. Specifically, the product to buy is "stearic acid flakes." Very easy to find, since it's also used to harden soaps and candles.
When was the last time those scales were calibrated? Also, the density of 40% alcohol is 942kg/m3. Considering this, the 43 gramms you guys measured is indeed 45 ml (less than 1% devitaion) If you wanted to have accurate readings, it should have been made using water.
@@The_Joy_Finder Can confirm. I used to know a couple who farmed emus before retiring, and they gave me an egg before. We wound up grabbing the drill and pouring it out through a hole we made in the top. It's more like opening a coconut than an egg.
I've never had any need to precisely measure alcohol. If I'm drinking, I'm making a drink to taste. I don't care if there's "too much" alcohol in it as I'm also not going to be driving anywhere and I know how my body feels when I'm nearing the "too much" point and can switch to water, tea, or soda. And that veg slicer is just a cheap, flimsy mandolin without any safety features. Don't buy cheap trash and you'll generally be better off.
"Fry Away" is not new, but I am happy it's spreading to more markets. I personally don't know how well "fry away" specifially works, but the brand I've used for years is from Japan and works amazingly well. This concept has been around for a long time.
I understand why FryAway / Sipvault is so expensive. It's a great and novel idea that I think is going to take off globally. But China is going to figure out what you did and sell it for $1,5 for a pack of 10. So might as well cash in until then. Just like I am going to wait for the Chinese one.
Have used the Fry Away when I deep fried once. Works exactly as advertised. I could see the sipper device, not in a bar but in chain coffee shops for the non barista trained staff to measure out milks, iced teas, mixes..etc for consistency and to keep food cost down.Thanks for extra video today along with the Washed Up weekend.
There's a lot wrong with that fish skinner gadget. Primarily that it chews the fish up, also that it's ridiculously expensive, but what gets me most is that it's called "skinzit". Nothing that's touching food should have the word "zit" in it.
Coming from Belgium, and being a millennial, the fry away thing seems the opposite of planet friendly. I grew up with the government begging people to stop throwing used cooking oil with compostable waste, pouring it down drains and/or straight up burying it in a hole in their garden. Those pellets would be a step back. We had a spot in our yard near the neighbor's fence where they threw out used frying fats, solid and liquid alike, and it took several years after they stopped before anything grew there again. Not even grass could stand up to it. What actually helped was putting up more cost-free collection points, so that you don't have to wait between monthly or quarterly trips to the recycling center. In my hometown, there's one very-well thought out one next to the carts at an in-town supermarket, between three primary schools, close to the public library.
In my country we have a recycling bin for kitchen oils and fats. They're not everywhere (there's one 400m away from my apartment) but I think it's a better solution.
Actually a colleague of mine is head of waste disposal in a town here in Switzerrland. They love Oil because it keeps their oven burning, so instead of wiping pans with kitchen paper and throwing that away, this could be a total game changer. Looking at my waistline however, I think stopping deep fat frying in the first place is a better alternative.
You can use spent oil to proof wood, i.e. for garden use, or you can pour it into your oyster mushrooms substrate (if you are growing oyster mushrooms at home). Easy and - in my opinion - much better ecologically.
About the oil, I always give away used kitchen oil to people who make soap, and the school I work for has an oil bin to donate for a non profit who does the same thing... dont know how much this is common around the world (I'm from São Paulo, Brasil)
Household sewage systems are not meant to process non digested food stuffs. Dumping things in your household drain is a good way to promote vermin in your city sewers and increase biological load on your local sewage plants remediation systems. Furthermore all oils and fats are subject to becoming solid in a sewar system leading to "fatbergs" which can and do regularly cause blockages. Collect your used oils in the containter in which you purchased them and take them to the dump yourself, or purchase an oil rememdiation kit like the one being shown. Others include powdered milkweed fibres and corn starches.
So the fry away oil costs significantly less in North america about 15$ but their mark up is massive. The chemicals used to make it cost between 1 and 2$. No it could be cheaper but since it has investors they need to pay, greed wins again.
I wanted to jump in and comment about the FryAway. I've used it a couple of times already at home and it is amazing. But something that they got wrong is FryAway is designed to go into your household trash in addition it is compostable. Here in the states its about $15 for the 20 scoops basically. I used to shy away from any recipe that required frying because I never wanted to deal with the fry oil afterwards. It hasn't driven me to fry a significant amount more but now when I do fry I have the confidence that cleanup will be easy, safe and environmentally sound.
The problems they have with it is that it's not really compostable. The size of your compost heap to break down that amount of oil and be useable is far larger than would have. And while it makes it easier to put into your home bin, it doesn't help in terms of recycling the oil at the dump. All in all this is better than oil going down the drain, but it could be better, especially for the price. It's apparently a very similar product to an Asian dollar store item that does the same thing. Ways I think this process could be better? If it would be feasible to to add an extra bin next to the recyclable and non recyclables, or community compost centres. Both are unlikely, but we can hope.
"whats wrong with a knife and a board" AMEN! The amount of gadgets that come out to 'solve' issues that a knife has been doing for hundreds of years blows my mind. I understand accessibility tools are glad they exist, but your average joe can just use a knife.
Fry Away is a silly product.... cooking oil should be collected with household rubbish and turned into biodiesel, this just adds more waste to landfills and a missed opportunity!
Anyone else concerned about the reuseability of the Fryaway treated Oil? Regular frying Oil gets recycled once you dispose of it at the meant for places. But i doubt anyone is going to recycle blocks of frying Oil that just land in your regular garbage bin. So are we really doing the envoirment a favor?
Regarding the oil, my grandmother always thought me to use a pinch of gelatin in the frying pan right after cooking. She would keep packs of like strawberry gello next to the stove for just that purpose. Then scoop right into the trash. 20 years later I've changed to lemon. It doesn't smell as bad as the strawberry mixes into the oil. 😂
@@IlkaWaffy Yeah, I didn't think gelatin would even work on fat, so I don't have a clue. One option is to just absorb it instead. The solutions that are available are likely the cheapest (to make) though...
i owned the mandoline and used it when I was at uni while learning to cook, (brought by my parents as it was a multi function tool) my hand slipped cutting potatots it took off a large cut of my palm below my thumb that had to have eighteen stitches to hold the flesh onto my hand, a good section of flesh was removed.
Or you could do what my mother and grandmother did, and save the oil for future use. Much better to use the oil again, than throw it away. My father also used to use it to help start the grill, VS. using starter fluid. Soak a few charcoal briquets in used fry oil, and they light right up with a match. No petrochemicals needed. And a couple will start the entire grill.
We use the last gagdet in our bakery. We have one for each liquor we need and have it set to the amounts that we need. (or a division for whiskey so we can just multi pump). It's quicker and it keeps the bottles clean. (Might be another version because ours has an button beloow the output that you can hit with a glass to dispense a portion)
When Ben says the FryAway jelly needs to be taken to a cooking oil *recycling* facility, is he sure? If its not to be used again in cooking, can it be "recycled"?
Consistently wrong by the same amount is not "accurate", you can say it is precise (closely grouped) but accurate means close to the correct result. That said, as others have mentioned because of the comparative densities of alcohol vs water it actually was fairly accurate after all!
That fry away stuff is completely pointless because they've priced it so high no one will ever use it, and now you probably can't use it as bio-diesel. Just put the used oil back in the bottle you bought it in and take it to the recycling centre.
oil is biodegradable. The issues with oil disposal are contamination of water, harm to animals, and damage done to infrastructure. Unless that gelatinisation is temporary, there's no issue with putting that in your organic waste.
I can't help but to think with the first item, why don't you just use gelatin to come up with the same result? That and it's edible just in case wildlife or something gets a hold of it. Because the smell of the oil is not going to lose the scent of whatever you cooked and it might still smell like meat if you're cooking meat in it therefore it would still attract wildlife and if it's inedible then we could be hurting the ecosystem way more than protecting it. Plus I feel like gelatin is cheaper
I dont know how many people do this but for used oil in my frying pan i usually throw a couple of hand fulls of oats in let them soak up the oil and feed it to the birds, they love it and my drain doesnt get blocked. Win, Win?
Surely once you’ve solidified that oil with the stuff that makes it longer food safe stuff, it can’t be taken to the section of the top where the recycle cooking oil??
The title isn't a click bait. The grating thing is my nightmare, I have sliced my finger n number of times and I hate it. I do not grate anything other than coconut which is easy and safe.
Depending on the recycle company, taking the oil solidified by the first product could be a bad thing. Used cooking oil is often rendered and added to animal feed or used to make biodiesel and burned.
My father used to own a butchers shop and he took the fat he cut off or used for frying etc. to a company that baught it from him to turn it into soap. If you are using lots of fat in your kitchen that would be a much better and ecofriendly solution as then your fat would be recycled to something usefull.
Instead of the Fry Away you could just buy Stearic acid powder online. I found a 2kg bag for £17.99 and that much would solidify over 260 cups of oil (66 litres). That works out at about 7p per cup over the £1.10 for fry away.
Alcohol (ethanol) is less dense than water, so 50mL of pure alcohol weight about 40g. Wine has 12% alcohol, so 98g for 100mL seems pretty realistic. With the whisky its even greater of a gap cause its around 40% alc.
Came here to say this - gotta use density conversions if you're trying to find the volume of (pretty much) any liquid other than water using only a gram scale
I don’t have a good measuring jug so whenever I bake something that uses oil in the batter I have to weigh it after googling the density of vegetable oil, if I remember correctly 100 ml of oil weigh about 90g.
I came here to comment this too.
Very glad someone else came to say this. I'm very surprised Ebbers didn't start geeking out on this fact...
The densitiy of a mixture ethanol/water at 11.2% Alc. is 98,505 g per 100ml so it is accurate.
13:04 About a year ago I took a chunk out of my right middle finger with a kitchen mandolin, and when we went to urgent care they told us they see several mandolin injuries every day. This thing is like someone looked at the mandolin and said, "nah, that's way too safe."
There should really be some sort of regulation REQUIRING a hand guard for mandolines, because without one, it's far too easy for even professionals to add slices of the pink carrots to their food. With a hand guard it's not impossible to still slice yourself, but your chances go way, way down, and generally speaking, you've got to be pretty klutzy to manage to injure yourself while properly using the safety equipment as designed.
@@muyyek Yeah, I was doing a couple questionable things when I had my accident. The biggest mistake I made was that I didn't think to grab the cutproof glove.
@@muyyek Just get some proper cutproof gloves. Like the ones butchers use for example, even though butcher chainmail gloves can be pricy.
Yeah, a mandolin is one of those things that is very purposefully NOT handheld. A box grater would do the exact same thing and be infinitely safer.
@@lordmuhehe4605
Cutproof gloves do not need to be chainmail there are cheaper alternatives. In most professional kitchens they are required whenever mandolines are used whether guides are used or not.
When Baz said "We've had some terribly dangerous gadgets" I was expecting a clip of the coconut shredder.
And yet I feel like that thing was more dangerous than the coconut shredder!
Even a standard mandolin with the proper safety equipment is scary enough.
@@Tannhauser42 yeah owning a mandolin and not owning cut proof gloves is a great way to have less fingerprints XD
@@HeartTheBaconI cut off my fingertip with one, can confirm. Was too embarrassed to go to the doctor so just stuck it back on and taped it. Somehow it worked and you can’t tell i can’t it but I now have a healthy fear of mandolines and cut proof glove.
That's where my mind went!!
I wanted to let your boys know you had a great gadget a few weeks ago. It was the veg peeler that fits in the palm of your hand. I have limited mobility, and I bought one after seeing your review of it. I absolutely love it! Thank you for the help! (I know At 63, I am not your target audience, but I love watching you all.)
Yeah I saw that one, as someone who has arthritis but not as bad yet I definitely added it to my mental library for the future. Glad it's helping you out now!
I got 1 too. I'm in my 50s but had a stroke after a bad reaction to a minor spider bite.
That’s seriously amazing to hear. So glad that it helped you out 💛
I definitely need to check that out as it sounds so useful for those of us with reduced dexterity and grip :D
How is 63 not an acceptable age to watch Sorted? I'm 60 and single. I need videos not only to help with cooking for one also to generate an appetite!
The density of whiskey is 0.94. That means 100ml = 94 grammes. 45 ml is 42 grammes. So the gadget was measuring it correctly. Water density is 1, so 100ml = 100grammes.
Thank you, that was bugging me and I didn't want to google densities! A volume of alcohol has less mass that the same volume of water would. The gadget likely has a peristaltic pump inside of it, so it measures how much is dispensed by the flow rate of the pump or how many rotations the pump shaft makes.
Interesting, but why then is it calibrated just to water? Is this adjustable. Because for that price, it better be able to get calibrated to different types of alcohols and liquids. It's pretty pointless in practice otherwise in my opinion.
@VtheHAPPYLURKER it is not calibrated for water. Ben and Jamie are measuring weight and not accounting for density difference. To check for accuracy they should have used a measuring cup instead.
Volume (mL) = mass / density.
So for the same volume, if density is different, its mass would be different too.
@@VtheHAPPYLURKERit's calculated to a measurement not a weight. Different liquids have different densities which in turn then have different weights. Water is the default for weight. So if you have a litre of water it's 1kg. If you have 1000l it's is 1m2 and also 1ton. Weight is specifically aligned with water.
@@HA05GER Weight is a measurement, I think you meant to say it's measuring volume not weight.
For cooking oil, we add cheap rolled oats to absorb the oil/fat, and a bit of honey, then put it outside on bird feeders in the garden. You can also add a little bird seed to the oats.
Thanks for the info!
Love this!! Definitely much better than trying to recycling ❤
I use it as weed killer lol
came here to say this 😊
That seems okay for the winter locations I think if you live in a hot location you probably don't want to be giving garbage fat to birds as this can actually cause them to overheat and get this really nasty liver condition when it's hot out. I can't remember what it's called but I used to keep pet chickens and this was a thing that we had to watch out for and adjust their diet according to the time of year appropriately. It's basically similar to giving Suit to birds.
It's funny, the oil powder is a common and cheap item in Japan (even sold at their version of dollar stores). Companies like fry away add in some English packaging and quadruple the price. It works well, but it definitely isn't a new product.
We’ve heard this! Will have to take a look 👀
also seems like japanese version I've seen makes it more of a solid brick over what they got which was a bit more goopy.
That stuff is basically just stearic acid which you can buy for a lot less than that
I love the Japanese product! A store started carrying it as some off time ago last year. Super inexpensive. Other good Japanese products that I now see as "new" in the States (including some as "new as seen on tv" rip offs). So silly.
@@BaeBunni Yeah, the Japanese version I have makes a solid puck that can be lifted out in one piece.
For FryAway, use pure stearic acid (it's a fatty acid) instead. It's made from plants, usually by adding hydrogenating fats from soy or palm, but is also a naturally occurring saturated fat in meat products, like beef tallow. It's an ingredient in make up, and some processed foods, to solidify fats or act as an emulsifier. The solidified fat can be composted. The more you use, the more solid the fat will be at room temperature. Use less, and the fry oil becomes more like an animal fat that kind of sets up at room temperature.
Some place very common you see this behavior is when a small bit of palm oil is added to peanut butter for a no-stir peanut butter.
That's exactly what I use. 21GBP for a packet of fryaway or a fiver for a big packet of stearic acid. I know what I went for
I've also used potato starch for smaller amounts of oil.
Fry away is simply marked up stearic acid with a brand name attached.
Steeric acid if you’re dealing with beef.
exactly. Also how tf are they charging £21 for little bit of powder. Mragins must be insane on that.
In a crisis, there are 2 wolves inside Jamie: “I don’t do colours” and “I’m left handed.”
"I'm using my RIGHT HAND!" 7:39
Except they're more like squirrels. And they're really useless.
And both are very hungry
First snipping the skinzit I laughed so hard thank you for not being a boring grown up
One is called Chorizo, the other is called Bacon.
I love that Ben and Barry were cringing when Jamie was using the mandolin and then Jamie and Barry were cringing when Ben was using it and I was cringing 😬🫣through the whole process 😂, I hate mandolins and this one was atrocious and not worth the stress of watching some of our favourite people trying to use it ❤❤
COCONUT SHREDDER! That will always be iconic. James "Ben is not worth it!" Is now on par with ramsay's WHERE IS THE LAMB SAUCE?!
Followed by his *“WHERE’S THE DISH?”*
“WHERES THE DISH?”
The fryaway spunds great but too expensive. The others are thumbs down! But it is always nice to see you guys try these
The coconut shredder was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of this episode.
@@marthawilson444 at least the last thing worked and for me, falls into the categorie of the fryaway: good but to expensive
The mandolin grater thing is actually terrifying! They’ve taken an already generally risky gadget and made it significantly more dangerous 😂
I have a version of this, but it doesn’t have the V cutter in it. I use it for shredding, cabbage, and carrots. I use two attachments on it. I don’t use the other one. It’s really great for getting vegetables cut small quickly. I can turn it in less than five minutes, and I only skinned a knuckle the first time I used it.
That is the worst mandolin I have ever seen.
I don't think you can even buy a mandolin style slicer in the US without a holder/pusher guard. Sure most people are idiots that don't use them, but the liability of not supplying one would be astronomical.
I was about to say "all that fish, we're gonna see some more fish recipes soon" but after seeing them 'skinned,' I'm less confident 😂
You can always still use mangled proteins, as long as you're already going to prepare or cook it in a way where presentation isn't as important. Fish stew, curry or chowder, or if the fish is wrapped in anything like Malaysian fish "puddings" (packed with rice, wrapped in banana leaf or ti leaves and steamed like a tamale), or if you mince/grind the fish up fine for something like a fish cake. Or you could always bread and fry them, and then it doesn't matter what the surface looks like (have to admit, I've never had Dover sole fish and chips before, so I don't know what that would be like...)
@@muyyek Like ben said. At least we have lots for our fish curry
Rather than buying branded oil solidifiers like FryAway, it's much cheaper to just buy stearic acid. It's commonly used in candle-making and soap-making, so it's readily available both online and at hobby stores. As an added bonus, it's typically packaged with less waste. That's what companies like National Geographic and Consumer Reports recommend.
Maybe try the "cornstarch slurry to clean oil trick" or others to show folks how they can clean & reuse oil. Or show what kind of meat drippings you can save, and how they should be stored and used.
It seems simple, but I bet lots of folks could use pointers.
The amount of things/concepts that everyone takes for granted but are completely unknown to me would fill my youtube fee for ages.
Baking soda works well, too.
I’d love to see an episode testing different ways to dispose of oil!
"Can we have a look at the box?" *slams box to the floor* 🤣
My favourite moment of the clip!
The look on Jamie's face as he does it. I almost wet myself. 5 stars.
Just wanted to mention about the "sipper" gadget. You were measuring weight and the machine was pouring mL (volume). The density of alcohol is not the same as water. 100 mL of whisky is not 100 grams on balance.
Thank you! I was wondering how come evern a professional chef doesn't know that. I thought the concept of density was common knowledge.
I wonder if they where to measure water,
I presume the 45 ml would have been 45 g.
But as you say Alcohol is less dense than water so it should have been a bit less than 45 g which indeed it was.
Yep, most spirits are about 95% as dense as water, so 45mL of them would only have a mass of around 42.75g, which is pretty much spot on what they got.
It’s also a dumb and absolutely not needed device.
If the wine was about 10% alcohol 100 ml would weigh about 98 grams. And that's what they got.
When the man who used the coconut shedder with little fear is scared of a gadget, you know it is a no go for me.
Time to use a James quote:
*”It’s the coconut shredder all over again…”*
My thoughts exactly when I saw the thumbnail haha
The alcohol dispenser is very similar to something from my past. Many, many years ago, I worked at a mechanical/electrical engineering company. A potential client came to us with a request to design and build something for him. He was the owner of a several very large and popular bars and clubs in the area. He said he was losing lots of money due to his bar and waitstaff over-pouring drinks - or even giving away free ones. He wanted us to design toppers for alcohol bottles that would poor exact measurements of drinks, as well as only pour if it was rung up. It was definitely doable, but the cost of engineering the product to a professional standard was too high and it never happened.
This is exactly the scenario I envisioned this gadget for. This, to me, is where it makes the most sense. Busy bar/restaurant and a sipvault for each open bottle. Measurements are precise and no one is cheated out of anything
I spent years going to the dump with my father and this is the first time I have ever heard of a cooking oil recycling place.
Have a look next time you go 😁
The fire department around me takes it. Much more convenient.
If you add the fry away and then take it to be recycled will it do anything to the oil that could harm/ change the recycling?
@@improvldy. Was just wondering the same thing. Surely it must contaminate the whole batch and make it useless for recycling.
@@improvldy No clue, we were always dumping construction remains, furniture or house trash. All of which you just dump into a pile or deep bin.
My dad just pours used oil onto birdfood and the birds thrive in his garden. He gets dozens of different species visiting ❤
That fish skinner thing is just a proper disaster 😂
😆👀
I can easily envision someone managing to get their fingers in there (I'm in an industry where they actually REQUIRE us to see examples where people went wrong with their various power tools, so I'm mentally damaged in that I can now see worst-case-scenarios for pretty much everything... "Let's see, how can this go horribly wrong? Oh yes, I see, complete digital evulsion. Let's call this device ' The Mangler.'"
I've seen plenty of reviewers who rated it pretty highly. The trick is to use a reviewer with lower standards, ideally one who neither knows how to skin a fish nor has a properly skinned fish for comparison.
One of the iron chefs used one (I'm pretty sure I saw morimoto use it after an injury that made wielding a knife difficult (I think it was a palm burn)) but his is obviously a superior brand from Japan because it was beautifully skinned (also helps that it was in the hands of a double iron chef)
I'm pretty certain the videos showing it "working perfectly" have scalded the fish with hot water or done some other trick first.
Bruh, for the first product, you are being scammed! Japan has had this product for at least 20 years, and it's cheap af, like 5 pounds top. Someone just took the same product rebranded it with an eco-friendly logo and english, and sold it at a premium.
Fry Away: To disposse oil, you can put it in the refergerator and solidify it before you put it in a bag for disposal. Also flour helps to solidify oil, or make it a paste, and it is much cheaper. This I only do in an emergency, because it is wasting food.
The flour idea is good
That was my second thought? Unless the fry-away is very cheap per use, flour would likely cost less.
so make a motherload of roux
Flour and stale mouldy bread + newspapers or paper junk mail.
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oats will also do the same thing. they absorb the oil and make it easy to dispose of.
The fact that no one lost a hand to that janky mandolin is nothing short of a Christmas miracle
I found myself abruptly grateful to have a mandolin with a solid base and a hand guard! (That was terrifying.)
Just a point about the last gadget, both wine and whiskey have a lower density than water (0.99 and 0.94 g/mL from what I can find) so the device was pretty much spot on in both tests with the volume of liquid it had dispensed.
For me, at 54, a mandolin is not about skills I haven't learned but about helping me work faster in the kitchen despite having an autoimmune joint disorder. Definitely MANY other options available that are better and easier to use than the one you tested today. That one was dangerous!
I’m fortunate in having chickens to recycle most of my organic wastes through. Surplus cooking oil just gets mixed with the other organics that I feed them. However, I rarely or never indulge in deep fat frying, so I don’t have large quantities to dispose of.
exactly my thought- also if you have dogs you can put it on their dry dog food and it will make their fur coat healthy and shiny! As others have mentioned, oats are also a great way to dispose of oil.
As somebody who's had a mandolin incident, that moment with the third gadget made my heart jump out of my mouth.
22 quid for a packet of flakes to turn make oil more easy to throw in the trash...
I don't know about over in the UK, but lye sells for about 2 euro a kilo here. Pass that oil through a strainer with a bit of paper kitchen towel in it, to get out the solid bits. Then add it to 300ml of water and 200gr of lye per litre of oil, mix it properly and voila soap.
Also turning it into soap can be done with cold oil and cold water. Just put it in a lye-safe bucket and leave it to sit.
The last and most convenient option for me, is to just take it to my neighbours who have a Vietnamese food truck and they get paid by the litre of used oil by a company that then turns it into "bio" diesel.
I vastly prefer your idea over that over-priced nonsense ngl
and that soap is freaking awesome, my mom do those and they clean dishes and hands really really good
@@gozerthegozarian9500 overpriced is very accurate - the people behind it specifically said that they sell it for 10-15 bucks while it only costs about 1 buck to make... overcharging by a factor of 10 is pretty egregious
and im willing to bet its just something very close to stearic acid (or precisely that)
@@SharienGaming Woooaaah! That is robbery!
6:47 Jamie trying to tactfully dance around saying that it's for people who need their masculinity reassured by their cooking tools.
Y'all should do a compilation of all the dangerous gadgets you have tested with a round table discussion. That would be a lot of fun for y'all and for your audience! Love the show!
"4 blades that do clip in really easily..." immediately falls out.
I didn’t see anyone say anything, but they are likely wrong about the measurements of the last product being off. Alcohol is less dense than water, which would lead to a lower weight per mL. So, when they wanted 45 mL and got a weight of 43 it was likely close to being correct. It would need to be tested with water if they wanted to do weights easily or with a graduated container.
17:50 no. Why? If your friends want to taste the wine before pouring an entire glass, they can do that-pour a tiny amount. This product is silly. It is a bit of a con.
the fact that there is a tool for idiots to remove the tastiest part of a fish tells me all i need to know about that tool.
10:04 The pride on Barry's cheeky face during this line delivery is absolutely well deserved!! A+ Barry, A+. 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😂😂😂
this fry away stuff is just a new western rebranding of a relatively common product ive used in japan
So the fryaway, can it go to the oil recycling? There are companies that make diesel, soap and other products, so can it still be used like that? Also it would be great to take camping! It’s hard to handle oil when you are trying to pack out! The oil from bacon for example!
Can the oil still be recycled once it's solidified? If not surely this is just pushing the issue down the road.
Lol as a nurse, the 2nd gadget I instantly thought "skin grafting"..
Several comments already about arthritis users needing some kind of mandolin type thing to help. I would love to see you guys review a few of the best options maybe with a disabled guest, it would be super helpful and wholesome!
The millilitre function on a scale generally just works from the density of water, which effectively means the "ml" mode is just the same as "g" at low volumes.
Wine has a density of about 99% that of water, so 100ml would read 99m. So combined with the dribble, it was probably more accurate than you made out.
Whiskey and Tequila have a density that is about 94-95% that of water, so 45ml of whiskey would measure about 42-43ml on a conventional scale. So reading 43ml on a scale would be about accurate.
In the future I would recommend using a measuring jug/cylinder if making measurements of volume, scales will only be accurate with room temp water.
(If you wanted to be super accurate, a burette would be best, but is a bit overkill in a kitchen environment)
Maybe my local council (in England) is unusual, but we can just put used cooking oil in a container (eg the plastic bottle it came in) and pop that in the food waste recycling bin for collection each week. Just like the big tanks at the recycling centres, it goes to make biodiesel.
Thank you for uploading videos for those of us who can't watch you live
Holy shit number 3 was a nightmare! All three faces had extreme looks of concern. I've cut a finger on a mandolin before and this seems like an enhanced blade that's hungry for blood. Get it the hell out of here!
6:17 "Skin Zit" is not the most appetizing brand names ...
after the state of the fishes, zits will be the least of your concerns
Yeah... I lost a corner of my thumb to a mandolin and when I had to go to urgent care and then explain to my primary care, she mumbled "those thing should be illegal".
You guys are getting hosed wherever you got the oil solidifier. I’ve been using a different brand for about 2 years. $15 (£12) on Amazon for enough for 50 cups of oil.
Brand? I need some of that.
That's still insane. Here in Japan you can get a pack that's for about 25 cups for $2. So $4 for 50 cups. And that's from Amazon, you can probably get even cheaper if you actually look in brick stores. The brand is Johnson.
@@ClockworkGFX EZ Fry oil solidifier.
@@VokocaI’ve tried the Japanese branded stuff available on Amazon in the U.S., doesn’t work as well as the EZ Fry. The stuff you get over there is probably way better.
That oil solidifying product is vastly overpriced. Small amount can be mopped up with paper towels and put in food waste. Larger amount, if you can't be bothered to take it to your local recycling centre - just pour the oil back in the bottle it came in (or another spare plastic one, NOT GLASS!) and put in general waste.
If I wanted to use mandoline, I would pay more than £26 to not use that one. How much exactly? The cost of buying a good quality one (Börner) plus cut resistant glove - BTW you should test that!
Remember guys, recycle your oil properly so Taylor Swift can fly her private jet.
Similar product to Fryaway have been used in japan for a long time. So might be able to find cheaper alternative
Ooooh interesting, we will take a look, thank you!
Yeah pretty sure daiso sells it, and there’s one almost everywhere.
There are a ton of brands. However, the cheaper approach is to just buy it unbranded. Specifically, the product to buy is "stearic acid flakes." Very easy to find, since it's also used to harden soaps and candles.
When was the last time those scales were calibrated? Also, the density of 40% alcohol is 942kg/m3. Considering this, the 43 gramms you guys measured is indeed 45 ml (less than 1% devitaion)
If you wanted to have accurate readings, it should have been made using water.
Video idea kush vs Ben vs a normal cooking an ostrich egg
Great idea. Have you cooked one before?
@@SortedFoodYes. They are almost impossible to soft boil. It would be an invitation for an hilarious disaster to make that the challenge. 🤣
The shell is so hard you need a hammer to open it, so it's not just equivalent to cooking an exponentially bigger egg.
@@The_Joy_Finder exponentially? so it gets bigger while you have it damn
@@The_Joy_Finder Can confirm. I used to know a couple who farmed emus before retiring, and they gave me an egg before. We wound up grabbing the drill and pouring it out through a hole we made in the top. It's more like opening a coconut than an egg.
I've never had any need to precisely measure alcohol. If I'm drinking, I'm making a drink to taste. I don't care if there's "too much" alcohol in it as I'm also not going to be driving anywhere and I know how my body feels when I'm nearing the "too much" point and can switch to water, tea, or soda.
And that veg slicer is just a cheap, flimsy mandolin without any safety features. Don't buy cheap trash and you'll generally be better off.
"Fry Away" is not new, but I am happy it's spreading to more markets. I personally don't know how well "fry away" specifially works, but the brand I've used for years is from Japan and works amazingly well. This concept has been around for a long time.
I understand why FryAway / Sipvault is so expensive. It's a great and novel idea that I think is going to take off globally. But China is going to figure out what you did and sell it for $1,5 for a pack of 10. So might as well cash in until then. Just like I am going to wait for the Chinese one.
Have used the Fry Away when I deep fried once. Works exactly as advertised. I could see the sipper device, not in a bar but in chain coffee shops for the non barista trained staff to measure out milks, iced teas, mixes..etc for consistency and to keep food cost down.Thanks for extra video today along with the Washed Up weekend.
There's a lot wrong with that fish skinner gadget. Primarily that it chews the fish up, also that it's ridiculously expensive, but what gets me most is that it's called "skinzit". Nothing that's touching food should have the word "zit" in it.
Coming from Belgium, and being a millennial, the fry away thing seems the opposite of planet friendly. I grew up with the government begging people to stop throwing used cooking oil with compostable waste, pouring it down drains and/or straight up burying it in a hole in their garden. Those pellets would be a step back. We had a spot in our yard near the neighbor's fence where they threw out used frying fats, solid and liquid alike, and it took several years after they stopped before anything grew there again. Not even grass could stand up to it.
What actually helped was putting up more cost-free collection points, so that you don't have to wait between monthly or quarterly trips to the recycling center. In my hometown, there's one very-well thought out one next to the carts at an in-town supermarket, between three primary schools, close to the public library.
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In my country we have a recycling bin for kitchen oils and fats. They're not everywhere (there's one 400m away from my apartment) but I think it's a better solution.
Put oatmeal in your fat or oil making suet and feed it to birds.
Great idea 👏
Actually a colleague of mine is head of waste disposal in a town here in Switzerrland. They love Oil because it keeps their oven burning, so instead of wiping pans with kitchen paper and throwing that away, this could be a total game changer. Looking at my waistline however, I think stopping deep fat frying in the first place is a better alternative.
You can use spent oil to proof wood, i.e. for garden use, or you can pour it into your oyster mushrooms substrate (if you are growing oyster mushrooms at home). Easy and - in my opinion - much better ecologically.
About the oil, I always give away used kitchen oil to people who make soap, and the school I work for has an oil bin to donate for a non profit who does the same thing... dont know how much this is common around the world (I'm from São Paulo, Brasil)
Household sewage systems are not meant to process non digested food stuffs. Dumping things in your household drain is a good way to promote vermin in your city sewers and increase biological load on your local sewage plants remediation systems.
Furthermore all oils and fats are subject to becoming solid in a sewar system leading to "fatbergs" which can and do regularly cause blockages. Collect your used oils in the containter in which you purchased them and take them to the dump yourself, or purchase an oil rememdiation kit like the one being shown. Others include powdered milkweed fibres and corn starches.
So the fry away oil costs significantly less in North america about 15$ but their mark up is massive. The chemicals used to make it cost between 1 and 2$. No it could be cheaper but since it has investors they need to pay, greed wins again.
Never forget the skinny legend that started it all: The Electric Coconut Shredder
Happy Sunday, everyone!
1 ml of WATER weights 1 g. Other liquids have different densities. I think alcohol is lighter.
I wanted to jump in and comment about the FryAway. I've used it a couple of times already at home and it is amazing. But something that they got wrong is FryAway is designed to go into your household trash in addition it is compostable. Here in the states its about $15 for the 20 scoops basically. I used to shy away from any recipe that required frying because I never wanted to deal with the fry oil afterwards. It hasn't driven me to fry a significant amount more but now when I do fry I have the confidence that cleanup will be easy, safe and environmentally sound.
The problems they have with it is that it's not really compostable. The size of your compost heap to break down that amount of oil and be useable is far larger than would have. And while it makes it easier to put into your home bin, it doesn't help in terms of recycling the oil at the dump. All in all this is better than oil going down the drain, but it could be better, especially for the price. It's apparently a very similar product to an Asian dollar store item that does the same thing. Ways I think this process could be better? If it would be feasible to to add an extra bin next to the recyclable and non recyclables, or community compost centres. Both are unlikely, but we can hope.
Just read in the other comments that some places do have oil recycling bins, so yeah. That would be a great option.
Get stearic acid instead.
recycle used cooking oil.....just mix in some oatmeal, let sit then put out for the birds. effectively making suet for them.
"whats wrong with a knife and a board" AMEN!
The amount of gadgets that come out to 'solve' issues that a knife has been doing for hundreds of years blows my mind. I understand accessibility tools are glad they exist, but your average joe can just use a knife.
Fry Away is a silly product.... cooking oil should be collected with household rubbish and turned into biodiesel, this just adds more waste to landfills and a missed opportunity!
I don't thinking asking if it's a "cleaning product" is "miles away" when it's a product thats LITERALLY used to clean old oil 🙄
It’s not used to clean oil, it’s used to solidify it, to make it easier to dispose of.
Disposing of is.... cleaning it up lmao @SortedFood
@@jleighwolfethe distinction makes sense with the context of actually recycling (cleaning) the oil for reuse, as talked about in the video.
Anyone else concerned about the reuseability of the Fryaway treated Oil? Regular frying Oil gets recycled once you dispose of it at the meant for places. But i doubt anyone is going to recycle blocks of frying Oil that just land in your regular garbage bin. So are we really doing the envoirment a favor?
Regarding the oil, my grandmother always thought me to use a pinch of gelatin in the frying pan right after cooking. She would keep packs of like strawberry gello next to the stove for just that purpose. Then scoop right into the trash. 20 years later I've changed to lemon. It doesn't smell as bad as the strawberry mixes into the oil. 😂
When you say, "a pinch of gelatin" how much are we talking about?
Wouldn't it be funny if it turns out that magic powder is simply gelatine and a filler
Gelatin is animal based, and that doesn't sell so well nowadays.
@@mellertid I'd be interested to know if gelatin alternatives like agar agar would work the same. There's plenty of plant based binders
@@IlkaWaffy Yeah, I didn't think gelatin would even work on fat, so I don't have a clue. One option is to just absorb it instead. The solutions that are available are likely the cheapest (to make) though...
i owned the mandoline and used it when I was at uni while learning to cook, (brought by my parents as it was a multi function tool) my hand slipped cutting potatots it took off a large cut of my palm below my thumb that had to have eighteen stitches to hold the flesh onto my hand, a good section of flesh was removed.
Or you could do what my mother and grandmother did, and save the oil for future use. Much better to use the oil again, than throw it away. My father also used to use it to help start the grill, VS. using starter fluid. Soak a few charcoal briquets in used fry oil, and they light right up with a match. No petrochemicals needed. And a couple will start the entire grill.
We use the last gagdet in our bakery. We have one for each liquor we need and have it set to the amounts that we need. (or a division for whiskey so we can just multi pump). It's quicker and it keeps the bottles clean. (Might be another version because ours has an button beloow the output that you can hit with a glass to dispense a portion)
When Ben says the FryAway jelly needs to be taken to a cooking oil *recycling* facility, is he sure?
If its not to be used again in cooking, can it be "recycled"?
Consistently wrong by the same amount is not "accurate", you can say it is precise (closely grouped) but accurate means close to the correct result. That said, as others have mentioned because of the comparative densities of alcohol vs water it actually was fairly accurate after all!
That fry away stuff is completely pointless because they've priced it so high no one will ever use it, and now you probably can't use it as bio-diesel. Just put the used oil back in the bottle you bought it in and take it to the recycling centre.
oil is biodegradable. The issues with oil disposal are contamination of water, harm to animals, and damage done to infrastructure. Unless that gelatinisation is temporary, there's no issue with putting that in your organic waste.
I can't help but to think with the first item, why don't you just use gelatin to come up with the same result? That and it's edible just in case wildlife or something gets a hold of it. Because the smell of the oil is not going to lose the scent of whatever you cooked and it might still smell like meat if you're cooking meat in it therefore it would still attract wildlife and if it's inedible then we could be hurting the ecosystem way more than protecting it. Plus I feel like gelatin is cheaper
I dont know how many people do this but for used oil in my frying pan i usually throw a couple of hand fulls of oats in let them soak up the oil and feed it to the birds, they love it and my drain doesnt get blocked. Win, Win?
Surely once you’ve solidified that oil with the stuff that makes it longer food safe stuff, it can’t be taken to the section of the top where the recycle cooking oil??
I'm pretty certain the videos where the fish skinner works "perfectly" the skin has been scalded with boiling water or smth to losen it from the fish.
The title isn't a click bait. The grating thing is my nightmare, I have sliced my finger n number of times and I hate it. I do not grate anything other than coconut which is easy and safe.
Depending on the recycle company, taking the oil solidified by the first product could be a bad thing. Used cooking oil is often rendered and added to animal feed or used to make biodiesel and burned.
My father used to own a butchers shop and he took the fat he cut off or used for frying etc. to a company that baught it from him to turn it into soap. If you are using lots of fat in your kitchen that would be a much better and ecofriendly solution as then your fat would be recycled to something usefull.
Swappable bits on the grater.....
OR JUST BUY A BOX GRATER
The fry away "gadget" has existed in Japan for years and costs 100 yen ( less than £1 with the current exchange rates)
They were right on the first one. Definitely a cleaning product. Also, no one recycles cooking oil.
Instead of the Fry Away you could just buy Stearic acid powder online. I found a 2kg bag for £17.99 and that much would solidify over 260 cups of oil (66 litres). That works out at about 7p per cup over the £1.10 for fry away.
Now that is the answer I was looking for. I would pay 11p per cup for a smaller bag.
In austria you get buckets for old frying oil... and bring it to a recycling plant for free...
That hand held mandolin should be called the hand mutilator, jesus 😬
Can't imagine trying to get that fish skinner clean enough to not stink up the kitchen in a few hours. No thanks. A knife is so much easier to clean.
For the first product, can't you just use cheap gelatine powder?