It's absolutely pretentious. All it does is measure the recipe for you, you still have to mix/shake it yourself if you want it chilled over ice. It's not even the beverage equivalent of a stand mixer.
@Sune Wallentin Goettler too true, i actually bought a 20 dollar bottle capper, saved a bunch of beer bottles up, cleaned them out got a 10 dollar sack of caps and just got to mixing a big bowl of alcohol, poured it into the bottles and capped them, no fancy capsules but man is it nice to pull out a negrino from the fridge and pop it into a glass with some soda water and an icecube. scorpion as well, that one ran out real quick :P really anything with orgeau syrup or amaretto i fawn over.
AHHH! The cabbage cutter! As a proud German-from-Russia, my family makes roughly 300 pounds of cabbage into sauerkraut every year. Our cabbage cutter has been in the family for generations, and this was just so cool to see..
@@nancylindsay4255 Oh dear, I'm sure it's just lost in trans-Atlantic translation but "knocking shop" has quite a different meaning in the UK. Casts a whole other light on your otherwise charmingly wholesome comment.
Hi from Russia! Yeah, cabbage cutters are wery handy, but as often on this show price is absurd. Same thing but in plastic with many diffirent blades from normal brand costs like 10$...
@@НикитаПыко Hello to you in Russia from US! Best wishes for good health and joy. I'm happy to need only as much chopped cabbage as I can cut with a simple, space-saving, multi-purpose knife 😊
The last gadget I have a slight problem with. It doesn't ALLOW you to do anything. All it does is remove the necessity to measure ingredients. You still have to procure the liquor, you still need ice, you still need a strainer, you still need any garnishes, and unless I'm mistaken the cost of a dozen or so of those pods for old fashions is likely equal to or greater than getting yourself a bottle of bitters and a jar of cherries
My understanding is that there is a real convenience to being able to switch from 1 drink to another without having to clean out drinkware and minimizing the number of ingredients required. If you are hosting a gettogether with friends, this is a way to have a wide variety of cocktails without someone becoming a full time bartender. Pods can be annoying and wasteful, but this also not juicero.
The thing with the cocktail maker is that, as a former bartender, when you are someone who makes a lot of cocktails you realize that the bulk of them use the same ingredients main with different flourishes and in slightly different proportions. Personally, I would just buy ingredients for the cocktails I happen to like over time as I feel like making them, then the majority of them keep for a really long time. If I was having a cocktail party, personally, I’d love to infuse a thing of liquor or make my own flavored syrup ahead (it’s not hard nor is it expensive) to make something really special for my guests that actually wasn’t that big of a deal for me to put together.
Yeah, part of the fun of a cocktail party is in actually making the cocktails IMO. But I'm not a bartender, so it's more like a fun thing every once in a while rather than doing work stuff at home. Alternatively for non-cocktail parties, sometimes I've just mixed up a bigger batch (like bottle sized) and just put the bottle out with pre-mixed cocktails. Not as showy, but it at least is convenient.
@@mattgopack7395 Just making a pitcher of cocktails is a great idea depending on the size of the party. I do find though that with things where the natural oil or essence from the ingredient is the primary flavor component (a traditional old fashioned or a mint julep for example) it's better to make them immediately prior to serving. Or show your guests how to make them themselves, which can also be quite fun. Bloody mary's make a particularly good pitcher party cocktail and if you infuse the vodka itself with fresh tomatoes you can get a really great flavor and aroma because some flavor compounds dissolve better in water and some dissolve better in alcohol (like dissolves like, polar vs nonpolar compounds). Takes a few days of waiting but doesn't take much work.
I’m learning how to create my own simple syrups and mixers. It is SO damn fun. As someone just getting into cocktails and building my bar, I would never buy this gadget. The fun is learning how to mix! And while some recipes might be a bit time consuming, sure, most of the ones I’ve been going for take less than five minutes. Definitely not worth the price tag. I’ll invest that in my booze instead 😝
I think if you are not any good at making cocktails yourself but often have dinner parties than this might be a novel gadget to entertain your guests. However I don't know how many drinks it will make in one pre-load, so I'm not sure how many guests it would cater for.
@@VixeyTeh Its very very simple to make a wide variety of different cocktails. Get yourself a jigger, a cocktail shaker, a bottle of booze and a couple mix ins and you're good to go. My argument is that it's a lot of money for something that is, ultimately, not that difficult and not that complicated unless you want to make it so. You can buy a decent cocktail making set for $50 tops and bottles of booze for however much you care to spend. This thing and the cartridges that go with it just seems very very pricey for what it is. Fundamentally I suppose that it's the same issue I have with a lot of these electronic gadgets, you're taking a simple thing and making it way more complicated than it needs to be.
@@SortedFood I expected you to give Jamie a steak and have him smoke half of it to compare the differences. I know that's probably what I'd use the thing for the most.
As a bartender myself, the biggest issue for me with the cocktail machine is having to buy the liquor (gin/vodka/etc) and the pods in addition to the machine at £300. Like... you’re shelling out probably £500+ just to get the thing ready to use, let alone to replace the liquors and pods as you use them
Plus, if the company ever dies or stops supporting that machine you are left with 300 pounds worth of trash because you need the capsules to make anything.
Also those pods are just a scam. Think about an Old-Fashioned. You have to supply the bourbon yourself. So it's a £2-3 pod for... a bit of sugar, and a couple dashes of bitters? That wouldn't even cost you 50 cents. I doubt it'd even cost you 25 cents. But now you need to pay £2-3 for a pod and a £300 machine to stick it in. On top of that you can't play around with different types/flavours of bitters or the amount of bitters. And then in the end the result is only "passable" and not as good as a handmade cocktail. 🤷🏻♀️ (Not even touching on the fact that it creates plastic waste with every cocktail.)
@@TheMrVengeance Also it doesn't really fit anyone. Those who like mixing drinks as a hobby, will have no need for this. Those who occasionally mix some drinks, like on New Year's, don't need it. And even in the scenario of "I wanna do multiple drinks for a big party in one night, without having to do it myself", you don't need it. At that point just hire a bartender. That'll supply you for the night, provide a little bit of spectacle and it'll probably be cheaper than the machine.
not to mention....since you have all of that booze coming out of a single nozzle youll have all those spirits mixing in the maschine (unless you purge all the lines after every use) .......and idk bout yall but i really dont want gin in my old fashioned XD not even a little
Tbh I think Ebbers may be too paranoid on the daily to add any actual chemical reasons for his hyper sensitivity. He’d be like a long tailed cat in a room of rocking chairs - horrific.
That bartender machine is the kinda gift that gets oohs and aahs when you open it and don't know how to make a proper drink. Gets used twice at a party, and then just takes up space while you make better drinks without it. You could stock a home bar for that price
@@xSintex the idea sound dumb ngl, you definitely can make a large batch of drinks if your throwing a party, not to mention you're spending 300 for convenience in an event you host once a few months instead of getting better ingredient/food for your guest. if you're saying this could use in a bar, again that's dumb
@@xSintex Yes. In a jug. about same outcome as this machine at a fraction of the price. Also not really clear how the machine varies from premade cocktail mixes form the likes of Funkin Cocktails that provide the mix in a carton, which is probably a lot faster to pour and a lot cheaper than this machine can run. Especially for the high capacity you were trying to put forward. Honestly the cartridges also look kind of cheap. But IRL it all comes down to if they are any good. Advantages they might have like onboard cooling of water to potentially serve things like no ice super chilled drinks would be actually new and innovative. SOmething that seems lacking looking at the rendition of a Cosmo.....
Watching Greg from How to Drink literally tear into that Bartesian cocktail machine was super satisfying. I'm surprised ya'll were so impressed by a $300 set of plastic tubes and a pump.
I really love that we've been getting little moments when we can hear all the crew behind the camera! The fellows are great entertainment, but I also really appreciate getting to see/hear the interaction you all have with your support team!
It's so strange to see that the cabage slicer is considered gadget. I'm from Serbia and I've used it my whole life, my grandpa made it for us and tbh I can't imagine my kitchen without it. Here we call it 'ribez' 🥰
Can we have another normal v chef video where the chef gets almost no money and the normal has unlimited money to buy food from your “shop”. I love those videos.
the problem with the bartender machine nobody mentioned is: what happens when the company stops supporting it and you can't buy those little barcoded flavor packets anymore
It's a simple way to scam people into being forced to keep buying things, instead of just paying a one-time fee of a big thing, you now provide a "service" in the form of those capsules, which generates some constant income. Though, with it being this simple, you can be sure as shit that this machine has had its code cracked wide open, the barcodes easily deciphered and I'm pretty sure if I were to search up ways to make my own pods, I could do that.
Years ago I once deliver food to these guy and I can say without a shadow of a doubt some of the nicest people I’ve meet doing the job. Brought me to the channel and haven’t looked back since keep it going and hope all the best great video.
I'd say if you are a single person/ couple £300 would get you really far. At the moment my boyfriend and I have whiskey, rum, gin, vodka, triple sec, tequila, and kahlua, which costed us about £150. You can get very decent base liquor for even less from Aldi for £10-15 per bottle. Then a bottle of bitter, sugar cubes, ice, a cheap shaker. We always have citrus and coffee around. So just juice and mixers (tonics, gingerbeer) left to buy which are cheap too.
I could stock out a stellar bar with $300. There are some spectacular whiskeys for around $40. If you are willing to not have a scotch, you can get a very nice 6-8 bottle bar for that price.
My flatmate got that alcoholic kurig for her birthday. It’s took up an ungodly amount of counter space and she never used it once. It’s atrocious and hard to store. Make sure you’ll actually use it and have the space to store it.
As a tip for the smoking gun - if you actually want to infuse something, especially something thick like cream, you want to put your smoke in and seal it, once it is sealed let the smoke dissipate completely - depending on how much of the smoke flavour you want in your infusion you can repeat 2/3/4 times - but it's important to seal in the smoke and allow to dissipate on it's own, otherwise you are just losing all the flavour to the air! Enjoy playing around with it - haven't used a smoke gun in years (tobacco smoked honey is the best thing I ever created with a smoke gun!)
The bar-tending mixer, while interesting, appears to be more plastic pods to throw out, adding to our throwaway, convenience culture. Perhaps the pods are recyclable or compostable? Fingers crossed!
@@owlec5142 Plastic recycling is a scam, the majority of plastic that claims to be recyclable isn't. Because while it's "technically" *_able_* to be recycled, it's not financially viable to do so compared to making new plastic. So no one does it, and it ends up in landfill and the ocean regardless. On top of that each pod costs more than the ingredients would cost on their own, and then there's still the £300 on top of it for the machine. Giant waste-creating scam just so you don't have to measure out a bit of liquor.
@@TheMrVengeance Not to mention, most recycling plants won't take anything with food waste on it (same reason you can't recycle pizza boxes), so you potentially would also be making many things that could actually be recycled non-recyclable. And either way, recycling plastic is not an energy light process (though significantly better than things like iron and aluminum) so it's generally better to avoid single-use plastics (heavier duty plastics like what you see totes made out of and are used for things that are used a lot are generally fine though environmentally).
@@aarond9563 I like the sarcastic responses to the useless shit and then the occasional actually worth while things. Prententious Ingredients problem second then Pass it on.
For the kraut maker. We had one at home, lived in the garage but it was huge, instead of moving the cabbage to slice it, you'd wedge it on top and worked a handle which turned a disc with blades on it to shred. A bit like a food processor but man powered and DIYed. Still have flashbacks to peeling and grating 15kgs of carrots and coring 50+kgs of cabbage...😂
I bought the smoking gun as my first COVID “Guess we are never leaving the house again” splurge and I am so glad I did. I use it more than I thought, smoking bourbon and rum cocktails, popcorn, cheeses, leftover casseroles to punch them up a bit, even yogurt for a grilled corn and pepper salad. Happy it got the Sorted nod of approval,
I have to say I’m looking forward to this one! These kitchen gadget videos really do intrigue me, have to hold back from looking to buy so I don’t fill the kitchen with things I’ll probably never use 😅😂
Everytime I see these gadget videos, I can't help but think about that video you all did with the automatic plate/bowl washer that looked like a science experiment. I need more of those weird gadgets in my life.
This is the comment I was looking for because SAME!!! They pulled it out and I immediately thought "oh that's a smoke gun. Joshua Weissman uses one all the time"
I got a bartesian for my family as a christmas present last year and it has definitely been a hit! Everyone loves it and my parent's friends come round just to see it in action. My only criticism is that sometimes the drinks can verge on being a bit too bitter/sour, but that's easily adjusted with the strength setting.
I know Ben gets a little teased for making things like sauerkraut and Kombucha etc but I love to see it ☺️ makes me feel less weird for making my own Kombucha and kefir and pickling veg haha. Wouldn't mind to hear his take on doing it at home tbh !
I feel like I am missing something with that cocktail maker as it is soooo expensive for the machine then you have to buy the bits to make the cocktail on top of that. Perhaps if it did some really finicky cocktail that is difficult to perfect but syrup + spirit just doesn't appeal and I am pretty sure supermarkets already basically sell whatever comes in those pods....
I can only imagine the waste from those cartridges as well, much like single-serve coffee pods. Honestly, I'd just buy a shaker and jigger/pony for something like 1/10th the price. That way you can control the proportions too (e.g., maybe I want an extra dash or two of bitters). I can only imagine the single-serve cocktail maker being useful if you're already blitzed lol
@@Idiomatick I guess it's not as funny/intriguing as it was when it was illegal!!!!!!! Man, when we toked back in the 70s, you REALLY had to COMMIT to wanting to get high and face the music!!!!!!! It was a CHALLENGE!!!!!!! We were REAL REBELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😂😂✌✌😎😎
I love rewatching the reviewing kitchen gadgets series on random occasions because I like looking out for gadgets they get in this series that they’ve kept in the studio and have continued to use in videos later down the line! I reckon the gadget from this series they’ve used the most after reviewing it is the Waffle Iron, but we do see on occasion gadgets like the smoke gun come out of storage to be included in a video!
God that cocktail machine part is telling of the type of people the normals are. "Jamie, we've got you the sophisticated older gentlemen's refined Old Fashioned set" "Barry, we got you a cosmo"
Holly shit, the price though. The That's a lot of money before you even buy liquor, to make cocktails that won't be as good as what you can make yourself.
I love these videos. I wish they would do a video on the "gadgets" that they use mostly. As a help for some one trying to put together their kitchen, and what they could use.
If I were willing to miss it for a few weeks, I'd lend you guys my new 'seventeen different functions and a light show' rice cooker (Sorry, the Reishunger 1.5 liter digital PREMIUM rice cooker) and see what happens. Mostly because I have managed to make exactly three functions work, and one of them is the 'keep warm' that springs on automatically. Partially because I want to see James get really really upset over how much space can be taken up by a thing that is mostly there to do rice. Also, several of the normals might be into the space-shippiness of it all.
I love that you guys made sauerkraut! I have some on my counter next to my kimchi. Would love to see a fermented foods pass it on challenge or battle between the normals where Jamie, Barry and Mike could ferment their own ingredients and then incorporate it into their dish
My family have ine of those mandolins (only way bigger, you can put more than half a cabbage in it) and we use it every year to make fermented cabbage ( sorry if it's not the right term, English isn't my first language) we basically use it once a year to make whole barrel of fermented cabbage that don't go bad just getting stronger( in the spring (and summer if it last long enough) you have to rinse it before use) ETA: fermented cabbage seasoned with salt and pepper is one of the best salads you can serve with main dish
Only the smoking gun caught my eye, though I just got my new pampered chef mandolin - OMG! I love this thing so much - its not a traditional design because you move the blade rather than the food and its SO much safer! It has a chute you put the food in, and I guess a plunger is the best word for it (?) that you unlock and extend to push back down and that moves the blade to cut the food in the chute, of course there is a guard/pusher for the chute so everything gets cut even.
You guys gotta try the Japanese cabbage slicer machine! It features a handle that you turn, so feels more ergonomic to me than the slicing back and forth
@@SortedFood it would probably go really well with some scotches that are not smoked or Irish whiskeys depending on the wood and how long you smoked them
My dad got the smoker gun from my brother for his birthday one year. If make a homemade guacamole in a big bowl with space for smoke, it makes an amazingly smoked guacamole. May not taste it on the first chip but every chip thereafter it is amazingly filled with a Smokey flavor.
oh.my.lord. I still have my grandmother's antique slaw cutter. Same exact design!! Yes - quarts of sauerkraut but then, all summer, all sorts of chopped salads. It will also work for slicing pears, cooked beets, etc before putting canning.
Holy cow I got here first As for the bartending machine, I'll paraphrase Ben from the all in one breakfast maker toaster "buy a book of drinks and learn to mix" they taste SOOOO much better when hand made.
I was just as excited as Jamie when Ben asked if he wanted to try using the smoking gun, I really thought it was going to be some kind of meat and my face fell just like Jamie's did when Ben said cream... . Also randomly wanted to add that I was in awe when I first saw a smoking gun, it was a bar and the owner had it hooked up to a box and he used it to add smoke to an old fashioned. Coolest thing ever!
“EBBERS, what on Earth is that that you’ve smoked? I mean, I ask that a lot...” - Michael Brian Huttlestone, 2021. Mike, Ben is not the only person who gets told that 😂
Oh yeah, you can also take a partially set ice sphere, poke a hole in it with a hot injector, drain it and fill will smoke by attaching the injector tip to the gun hose. Then you serve a cocktail with a smoke filled ice ball and a little hammer to break it open in the drink with. So much fun!
That Bar machine was just soo unnecessary, but I feel when he said “I want one”.. I do, for 1 party, where everyone uses it for 1 drink and then goes back to G&T.
Would love to see the chefs play around with the Sage, Smoking Gun on different food using different ‘burnables’. Like what type of dried teas are good, and what they’d be used for. Barry said you could use hay and I am supper excited to find out what smoked hay goes well with. The use of hay for flavor is something I’ve never hear of before.
Cabbage Slicer... When I was a child, my mom used to make Sauerkraut every year, in one massive barrel, that would last the year. We needed to help to make that stuff then. The cabbage slicer was quite a bit bigger then that thing. You were able to fit 2-3 half cabbages in there, which was quite neccessary, if you were to slice up 50+++ cabbages at once.
"Jamie heres your bowl of smoekd cream, enjoy" "Barry we'd liek to present you with a perfectly cooked scallop thats ahd been smoked using only the finest of wood chips for you king" Lmao
I think its so funny seeing different people's reactions to that Bartending machine, people that have no experience making cocktails think its extremely convienant, but if you ask anyone who even bartends their home bar for fun whenever they have company over and they go "oh lord no its so wasteful" .
That cabbage slicer... Here in Poland it used to be a thing in almost every household, since at the end of summer we would buy cabbage in tens of kilograms, slice it up, mix with spices, salt and other veggies and put them in a big barrels to pickle for couple months and take it out before Christmas. I remember buying 30kg of cabbage just to slice it the next morning.... I had sore arms afterwards for the next three days :D
I can't help but think that in a year, that bartending machine, that needs poss and barcodes, is going to be a paperweight. The moment those pods stop being made....
That smoke fun was several times cheaper than I thought it would be. Definitely intrigued me as I use smoked paprika for the smoked note in almost everything.
Cheers guys and glad you enjoyed the cocktails. BTW...capsules are fully recyclable (like a yogurt cup), the ingredients are all the real bitters, liqueurs and juices with no artificial colors or flavors. We have over 4k 5 STAR reviews and folks absolutely love it. We're a small startup (team of 10) founded by an ex-bartender. We work with professional bartenders and chefs to produce the perfect cocktail.
Barry's excited face over the bartender machine was priceless.... thats how you know it's a pretentious machine
100% 😂
When you hear "Oprah loves it" you instantly know it's not worth the money >:P
Too bad it's a gadget review video and not a pretentious gadgets video ;)
It's absolutely pretentious. All it does is measure the recipe for you, you still have to mix/shake it yourself if you want it chilled over ice.
It's not even the beverage equivalent of a stand mixer.
@Sune Wallentin Goettler too true, i actually bought a 20 dollar bottle capper, saved a bunch of beer bottles up, cleaned them out got a 10 dollar sack of caps and just got to mixing a big bowl of alcohol, poured it into the bottles and capped them, no fancy capsules but man is it nice to pull out a negrino from the fridge and pop it into a glass with some soda water and an icecube. scorpion as well, that one ran out real quick :P really anything with orgeau syrup or amaretto i fawn over.
AHHH! The cabbage cutter! As a proud German-from-Russia, my family makes roughly 300 pounds of cabbage into sauerkraut every year. Our cabbage cutter has been in the family for generations, and this was just so cool to see..
Indeed. But why it was bare birch, I wonder.
I've seen many old kraut cutters like that at knocking shops in Wisconsin (USA). An old tool that's having a comeback.
@@nancylindsay4255 Oh dear, I'm sure it's just lost in trans-Atlantic translation but "knocking shop" has quite a different meaning in the UK. Casts a whole other light on your otherwise charmingly wholesome comment.
Hi from Russia! Yeah, cabbage cutters are wery handy, but as often on this show price is absurd. Same thing but in plastic with many diffirent blades from normal brand costs like 10$...
@@НикитаПыко Hello to you in Russia from US! Best wishes for good health and joy. I'm happy to need only as much chopped cabbage as I can cut with a simple, space-saving, multi-purpose knife 😊
The last gadget I have a slight problem with. It doesn't ALLOW you to do anything. All it does is remove the necessity to measure ingredients. You still have to procure the liquor, you still need ice, you still need a strainer, you still need any garnishes, and unless I'm mistaken the cost of a dozen or so of those pods for old fashions is likely equal to or greater than getting yourself a bottle of bitters and a jar of cherries
I can't get behind it either.
Yeah, no idea why they were all fawning over it. Seems like a £300 measuring jug that pours itself
I'm utterly baffled at both their excitement and their lack of criticism... especially towards the wasteful pods.
@@yukononun just what we need, more plastic waste
My understanding is that there is a real convenience to being able to switch from 1 drink to another without having to clean out drinkware and minimizing the number of ingredients required. If you are hosting a gettogether with friends, this is a way to have a wide variety of cocktails without someone becoming a full time bartender. Pods can be annoying and wasteful, but this also not juicero.
The thing with the cocktail maker is that, as a former bartender, when you are someone who makes a lot of cocktails you realize that the bulk of them use the same ingredients main with different flourishes and in slightly different proportions. Personally, I would just buy ingredients for the cocktails I happen to like over time as I feel like making them, then the majority of them keep for a really long time. If I was having a cocktail party, personally, I’d love to infuse a thing of liquor or make my own flavored syrup ahead (it’s not hard nor is it expensive) to make something really special for my guests that actually wasn’t that big of a deal for me to put together.
Yeah, part of the fun of a cocktail party is in actually making the cocktails IMO. But I'm not a bartender, so it's more like a fun thing every once in a while rather than doing work stuff at home.
Alternatively for non-cocktail parties, sometimes I've just mixed up a bigger batch (like bottle sized) and just put the bottle out with pre-mixed cocktails. Not as showy, but it at least is convenient.
@@mattgopack7395 Just making a pitcher of cocktails is a great idea depending on the size of the party. I do find though that with things where the natural oil or essence from the ingredient is the primary flavor component (a traditional old fashioned or a mint julep for example) it's better to make them immediately prior to serving. Or show your guests how to make them themselves, which can also be quite fun. Bloody mary's make a particularly good pitcher party cocktail and if you infuse the vodka itself with fresh tomatoes you can get a really great flavor and aroma because some flavor compounds dissolve better in water and some dissolve better in alcohol (like dissolves like, polar vs nonpolar compounds). Takes a few days of waiting but doesn't take much work.
I’m learning how to create my own simple syrups and mixers. It is SO damn fun.
As someone just getting into cocktails and building my bar, I would never buy this gadget. The fun is learning how to mix! And while some recipes might be a bit time consuming, sure, most of the ones I’ve been going for take less than five minutes. Definitely not worth the price tag. I’ll invest that in my booze instead 😝
I think if you are not any good at making cocktails yourself but often have dinner parties than this might be a novel gadget to entertain your guests.
However I don't know how many drinks it will make in one pre-load, so I'm not sure how many guests it would cater for.
@@VixeyTeh Its very very simple to make a wide variety of different cocktails. Get yourself a jigger, a cocktail shaker, a bottle of booze and a couple mix ins and you're good to go. My argument is that it's a lot of money for something that is, ultimately, not that difficult and not that complicated unless you want to make it so. You can buy a decent cocktail making set for $50 tops and bottles of booze for however much you care to spend. This thing and the cartridges that go with it just seems very very pricey for what it is. Fundamentally I suppose that it's the same issue I have with a lot of these electronic gadgets, you're taking a simple thing and making it way more complicated than it needs to be.
I like how Barry gets that immaculate scallop dish and Jamie gets a big bowl of cream
Yup - we know our normals 😂
@@SortedFood I expected you to give Jamie a steak and have him smoke half of it to compare the differences. I know that's probably what I'd use the thing for the most.
HE KNOWS WHAT HE DID
@@stone5against1 I'd use it on homemade burgers. Apple wood smoked turkey burger with cheddar sounds amazing right now...
@@stone5against1 well that's what you would do. But these are people that know each other personally, not just through a one-sided e-relationship.
As a bartender myself, the biggest issue for me with the cocktail machine is having to buy the liquor (gin/vodka/etc) and the pods in addition to the machine at £300. Like... you’re shelling out probably £500+ just to get the thing ready to use, let alone to replace the liquors and pods as you use them
Plus, if the company ever dies or stops supporting that machine you are left with 300 pounds worth of trash because you need the capsules to make anything.
Can't even begin to wrap my head around the logic needed to justify a £300 machine to make an old fashioned :|
Also those pods are just a scam. Think about an Old-Fashioned. You have to supply the bourbon yourself. So it's a £2-3 pod for... a bit of sugar, and a couple dashes of bitters? That wouldn't even cost you 50 cents. I doubt it'd even cost you 25 cents. But now you need to pay £2-3 for a pod and a £300 machine to stick it in.
On top of that you can't play around with different types/flavours of bitters or the amount of bitters.
And then in the end the result is only "passable" and not as good as a handmade cocktail. 🤷🏻♀️
(Not even touching on the fact that it creates plastic waste with every cocktail.)
@@TheMrVengeance Also it doesn't really fit anyone. Those who like mixing drinks as a hobby, will have no need for this. Those who occasionally mix some drinks, like on New Year's, don't need it.
And even in the scenario of "I wanna do multiple drinks for a big party in one night, without having to do it myself", you don't need it. At that point just hire a bartender. That'll supply you for the night, provide a little bit of spectacle and it'll probably be cheaper than the machine.
not to mention....since you have all of that booze coming out of a single nozzle youll have all those spirits mixing in the maschine (unless you purge all the lines after every use) .......and idk bout yall but i really dont want gin in my old fashioned XD not even a little
"Ebbers what on earth did you smoke... I ask that a lot" 😂😂😂
LOLLLL
And where can I get it? And how much is it? Is it pretentious smok--- naah it's Ebbers, not Barry, it's not going to be pretentious
Tbh I think Ebbers may be too paranoid on the daily to add any actual chemical reasons for his hyper sensitivity.
He’d be like a long tailed cat in a room of rocking chairs - horrific.
That was my fav line of the day.
@@PoppyCorn144 It's funny, getting paranoid has never ever happened to me in uh that uh ..uhm....frame of mind?? yeah, lets go with that.:P
That bartender machine is the kinda gift that gets oohs and aahs when you open it and don't know how to make a proper drink. Gets used twice at a party, and then just takes up space while you make better drinks without it. You could stock a home bar for that price
But can you make enough drinks for 30 people in 10 minutes? I didn't think so. That machine however, can.
@@xSintex
Depends on the drink, really.
30 cosmopolitans? You absolutely can.
Especially if you make 3 or 4 at a time.
@@xSintex How often do you make drinks for 30 people?
@@xSintex the idea sound dumb ngl,
you definitely can make a large batch of drinks if your throwing a party, not to mention you're spending 300 for convenience in an event you host once a few months instead of getting better ingredient/food for your guest.
if you're saying this could use in a bar, again that's dumb
@@xSintex Yes. In a jug. about same outcome as this machine at a fraction of the price.
Also not really clear how the machine varies from premade cocktail mixes form the likes of Funkin Cocktails that provide the mix in a carton, which is probably a lot faster to pour and a lot cheaper than this machine can run. Especially for the high capacity you were trying to put forward.
Honestly the cartridges also look kind of cheap. But IRL it all comes down to if they are any good. Advantages they might have like onboard cooling of water to potentially serve things like no ice super chilled drinks would be actually new and innovative. SOmething that seems lacking looking at the rendition of a Cosmo.....
Jamie straight away going to drink straight from the bowl is exactly the sort of quality content I’ve come to expect from this channel. 🙂😂
Watching Greg from How to Drink literally tear into that Bartesian cocktail machine was super satisfying. I'm surprised ya'll were so impressed by a $300 set of plastic tubes and a pump.
Came here to say this!
Came here to say this too. Wasn't there some leftover liquid and/or sanitation issues?
I really love that we've been getting little moments when we can hear all the crew behind the camera! The fellows are great entertainment, but I also really appreciate getting to see/hear the interaction you all have with your support team!
Jamie drinks cream out of the bowl and Mike "ah, he's like a cat" just gave me the biggest laugh, thanks I really needed that.....keep them coming.
2:17 “you can pretty much smoke anything.” The way he perked up and his face was priceless
This 😁💕
Why did he not smoke his drink?
Ironic that he hates smoked salmon; I'd go straight for that!
Cheech and Chong would be so proud.
Pretty sure he took it home for some herbs...
It's so strange to see that the cabage slicer is considered gadget. I'm from Serbia and I've used it my whole life, my grandpa made it for us and tbh I can't imagine my kitchen without it. Here we call it 'ribez' 🥰
Can we have another normal v chef video where the chef gets almost no money and the normal has unlimited money to buy food from your “shop”. I love those videos.
the problem with the bartender machine nobody mentioned is: what happens when the company stops supporting it and you can't buy those little barcoded flavor packets anymore
On top of the fact that the pods are more expensive than the ingredients inside them, as well as the plastic waste it creates.
It's a simple way to scam people into being forced to keep buying things, instead of just paying a one-time fee of a big thing, you now provide a "service" in the form of those capsules, which generates some constant income.
Though, with it being this simple, you can be sure as shit that this machine has had its code cracked wide open, the barcodes easily deciphered and I'm pretty sure if I were to search up ways to make my own pods, I could do that.
Years ago I once deliver food to these guy and I can say without a shadow of a doubt some of the nicest people I’ve meet doing the job. Brought me to the channel and haven’t looked back since keep it going and hope all the best great video.
I feel like you could start a pretty well stocked bar with $300. Not anything super fancy, but a good solid base.
I'd say if you are a single person/ couple £300 would get you really far. At the moment my boyfriend and I have whiskey, rum, gin, vodka, triple sec, tequila, and kahlua, which costed us about £150. You can get very decent base liquor for even less from Aldi for £10-15 per bottle. Then a bottle of bitter, sugar cubes, ice, a cheap shaker. We always have citrus and coffee around. So just juice and mixers (tonics, gingerbeer) left to buy which are cheap too.
I could stock out a stellar bar with $300. There are some spectacular whiskeys for around $40. If you are willing to not have a scotch, you can get a very nice 6-8 bottle bar for that price.
Not gonna lie, I'm surprised you guys didn't make Jamie a smoked old fashioned with the smoke gun and bar machine.
You'd need a conical flask for it. They make them at The Alchemist (at least, they used to)
What a brilliant idea
My flatmate got that alcoholic kurig for her birthday. It’s took up an ungodly amount of counter space and she never used it once. It’s atrocious and hard to store. Make sure you’ll actually use it and have the space to store it.
How are the drinks?
@@pauljones9150 not worth the price. Especially since getting the pods are such a pain
As a tip for the smoking gun - if you actually want to infuse something, especially something thick like cream, you want to put your smoke in and seal it, once it is sealed let the smoke dissipate completely - depending on how much of the smoke flavour you want in your infusion you can repeat 2/3/4 times - but it's important to seal in the smoke and allow to dissipate on it's own, otherwise you are just losing all the flavour to the air! Enjoy playing around with it - haven't used a smoke gun in years (tobacco smoked honey is the best thing I ever created with a smoke gun!)
I love these guys. Can't find a more sincere and relatable group of people with such a shared joy of cooking and food.
Sorted is always great and I'm assuming for this one they just got everything from Barry's kitchen. "Ben I'm rolling"
Barry wishes he had this lot in his kitchen 😂
@@SortedFood well let's hope his kitchen will not getting bigger in any time soon
The bar-tending mixer, while interesting, appears to be more plastic pods to throw out, adding to our throwaway, convenience culture. Perhaps the pods are recyclable or compostable? Fingers crossed!
The pods are recyclable. I have one and love it. The machine will actually come up with a message sometimes reminding you to recycle them.
@@owlec5142 Plastic recycling is a scam, the majority of plastic that claims to be recyclable isn't. Because while it's "technically" *_able_* to be recycled, it's not financially viable to do so compared to making new plastic. So no one does it, and it ends up in landfill and the ocean regardless.
On top of that each pod costs more than the ingredients would cost on their own, and then there's still the £300 on top of it for the machine.
Giant waste-creating scam just so you don't have to measure out a bit of liquor.
@@TheMrVengeance Not to mention, most recycling plants won't take anything with food waste on it (same reason you can't recycle pizza boxes), so you potentially would also be making many things that could actually be recycled non-recyclable.
And either way, recycling plastic is not an energy light process (though significantly better than things like iron and aluminum) so it's generally better to avoid single-use plastics (heavier duty plastics like what you see totes made out of and are used for things that are used a lot are generally fine though environmentally).
Kitchen Gadgets is by far my favourite series!
Really? Over pass it on? Over kitchen battles? Over badge competitions? That's interesting. Please say more... why is that?
You and me both.
@@aarond9563 I like the sarcastic responses to the useless shit and then the occasional actually worth while things. Prententious Ingredients problem second then Pass it on.
PIO for me but to each his own. My favorite kitchen gadgets are still pressure cooker and the kebab thingy
@@RedditStorytime I completely agree. So many of the things they find just fascinate me.
Ben’s insane. How he makes an innuendo and then doesn’t even make a little bit of a smile afterwards. Like how 😂
I love how ‘Tyrannical Judges’ cuts to a visual of Ben and James 😂
The least surprising part of this was that Mr. Gin and Tonic (or Mr. G&T for short) puts juniper in his homemade sauerkraut.
can we get a video where we get to meet the food team and see their process in coming up with a dish?
For the kraut maker. We had one at home, lived in the garage but it was huge, instead of moving the cabbage to slice it, you'd wedge it on top and worked a handle which turned a disc with blades on it to shred. A bit like a food processor but man powered and DIYed. Still have flashbacks to peeling and grating 15kgs of carrots and coring 50+kgs of cabbage...😂
Smoke gun: remember the cocktail battle on a hill with the “smoked rosemary”? 😂
Hello, hello, hello
One of the TOP 5 funniest videos ever hahaha "HELLO!"
Omg of course I remember that video 😂
I do! I remember! Mind you, I can’t remember what I have for breakfast today but I remember that!
@@rulitossimplyrulitos1088 Wow! 😂
I bought the smoking gun as my first COVID “Guess we are never leaving the house again” splurge and I am so glad I did. I use it more than I thought, smoking bourbon and rum cocktails, popcorn, cheeses, leftover casseroles to punch them up a bit, even yogurt for a grilled corn and pepper salad. Happy it got the Sorted nod of approval,
Watching the normals listen to teacher Ben is adorable and hilarious
The face Jamie made when he learned he's gotta smoke cream instead of anything meaty... it broke my heart.
I have to say I’m looking forward to this one!
These kitchen gadget videos really do intrigue me, have to hold back from looking to buy so I don’t fill the kitchen with things I’ll probably never use 😅😂
Everytime I see these gadget videos, I can't help but think about that video you all did with the automatic plate/bowl washer that looked like a science experiment. I need more of those weird gadgets in my life.
I’ve watched enough Joshua Weissman to recognise the smoke gun pretty much instantly 😂
same here lol
This is the comment I was looking for because SAME!!! They pulled it out and I immediately thought "oh that's a smoke gun. Joshua Weissman uses one all the time"
Joshua is awesome but yeah, called the smoke gun the second I saw it.
SAME I was like oh that's a cold smoker, I recognized it immediately lmao
I got a bartesian for my family as a christmas present last year and it has definitely been a hit! Everyone loves it and my parent's friends come round just to see it in action. My only criticism is that sometimes the drinks can verge on being a bit too bitter/sour, but that's easily adjusted with the strength setting.
All of you are dressed wonderfully (even Ebbers with the same outfit he wears every time 🤣)
Omg you right
Why thank you kindly.
I'd really like to see Sorted try out products used for bento boxes, and see what bento boxes Ben would put together! XD
2:29 why do I have the feeling that’s NOT where Jamie thought that’s where Ebber’s sentence was going 😂
😂
He was very loudly thinking BACON!
@@drdrdrk I heard steak... but yes! He wanted meat!
I know Ben gets a little teased for making things like sauerkraut and Kombucha etc but I love to see it ☺️ makes me feel less weird for making my own Kombucha and kefir and pickling veg haha. Wouldn't mind to hear his take on doing it at home tbh !
I feel like I am missing something with that cocktail maker as it is soooo expensive for the machine then you have to buy the bits to make the cocktail on top of that. Perhaps if it did some really finicky cocktail that is difficult to perfect but syrup + spirit just doesn't appeal and I am pretty sure supermarkets already basically sell whatever comes in those pods....
I can only imagine the waste from those cartridges as well, much like single-serve coffee pods. Honestly, I'd just buy a shaker and jigger/pony for something like 1/10th the price. That way you can control the proportions too (e.g., maybe I want an extra dash or two of bitters). I can only imagine the single-serve cocktail maker being useful if you're already blitzed lol
Jamie's giggle at "smoke anything" was a great bit of insight haha
I'm shocked to see no comments about weed.
@@Idiomatick I guess it's not as funny/intriguing as it was when it was illegal!!!!!!! Man, when we toked back in the 70s, you REALLY had to COMMIT to wanting to get high and face the music!!!!!!! It was a CHALLENGE!!!!!!! We were REAL REBELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😂😂✌✌😎😎
“What on earth is that that you smoked!” 🤣🤣
Delightful! Jamie's face when told that he would smoke cream? Priceless and noteworthy LOL
I love how sorted's intro went from channel name, to seizure inducing bs, to an explanation of who they are and what they do, to EGG
Fun fact: homestuck taught me that anything that resembles an egg has a specific sound effect when crashing down loudlyt: EGG!
IM GOOEY IN THE MIDDLE BABY LET ME BAKE
@@siriisonline l really miss that opening
The current intro is so bad
@@siriisonline the memories flooding back, where was that song from? The 3 recipe comparison thing?
Jamie's eyes when he said "I'd very much like to take that home." were legit begging the team to let him 🤣
Barry: gets a delicious smoked scallop
Jamie: SMOKED CREAM
Hahaha.
@@SortedFood I see you have your favorites
I love rewatching the reviewing kitchen gadgets series on random occasions because I like looking out for gadgets they get in this series that they’ve kept in the studio and have continued to use in videos later down the line! I reckon the gadget from this series they’ve used the most after reviewing it is the Waffle Iron, but we do see on occasion gadgets like the smoke gun come out of storage to be included in a video!
Right off the bat, I love that Ben clapped and startled himself
Love sorted. Everyone's personalities are so great.
Watching sorted whiles cooking is simply at another level 😍
God that cocktail machine part is telling of the type of people the normals are. "Jamie, we've got you the sophisticated older gentlemen's refined Old Fashioned set"
"Barry, we got you a cosmo"
Jamie mixing up ‘Mandarin’ and ‘Mandoline’ is like me doing a Crossword. #RelatableContent
At least he didnt say mandalorian
I LOVED when he said that!
@@richidraykat 😂
I once had a smoke gun like that used in an old fashioned cocktail. Best cocktail I’ve ever tried
I loved the cocktail maker but i also find theres a certain joy you get of making a cocktail yourself and mastering each one
Absolutely right. And tweaking the recipe to how you like it.
300!
Holly shit, the price though.
The That's a lot of money before you even buy liquor, to make cocktails that won't be as good as what you can make yourself.
@@dblackdrake oh couldnt agree more
I love these videos. I wish they would do a video on the "gadgets" that they use mostly. As a help for some one trying to put together their kitchen, and what they could use.
If I were willing to miss it for a few weeks, I'd lend you guys my new 'seventeen different functions and a light show' rice cooker (Sorry, the Reishunger 1.5 liter digital PREMIUM rice cooker) and see what happens.
Mostly because I have managed to make exactly three functions work, and one of them is the 'keep warm' that springs on automatically. Partially because I want to see James get really really upset over how much space can be taken up by a thing that is mostly there to do rice. Also, several of the normals might be into the space-shippiness of it all.
I love that you guys made sauerkraut! I have some on my counter next to my kimchi. Would love to see a fermented foods pass it on challenge or battle between the normals where Jamie, Barry and Mike could ferment their own ingredients and then incorporate it into their dish
2:24 that Jamie's face...he's definitely expecting some meat to smoke XD
I think he was expecting something else to smoke, but not necessarily meat... 🤣
Ikr
I've had my eye on that bartesian for a hot minute. The fact that you guys reviewed it, makes me want it even more.
Just sat down with my breakfast and ready to be influenced! Let's go! 😊
Oh enjoy your breakfast
i just sat down for dinner 😅
I have a Sorted with breakfast habit too 😂
Same, I sat down with my lunch 😂
My family have ine of those mandolins (only way bigger, you can put more than half a cabbage in it) and we use it every year to make fermented cabbage ( sorry if it's not the right term, English isn't my first language) we basically use it once a year to make whole barrel of fermented cabbage that don't go bad just getting stronger( in the spring (and summer if it last long enough) you have to rinse it before use)
ETA: fermented cabbage seasoned with salt and pepper is one of the best salads you can serve with main dish
Just a suggestion...can we use this smoking gadget on future video as a one off like we had with pizza oven to see what can we more or do with smoke
Yes! And another cookbook review!
Only the smoking gun caught my eye, though I just got my new pampered chef mandolin - OMG! I love this thing so much - its not a traditional design because you move the blade rather than the food and its SO much safer! It has a chute you put the food in, and I guess a plunger is the best word for it (?) that you unlock and extend to push back down and that moves the blade to cut the food in the chute, of course there is a guard/pusher for the chute so everything gets cut even.
Cabbage slicer is a household staple in austrian farmer families.
You guys gotta try the Japanese cabbage slicer machine! It features a handle that you turn, so feels more ergonomic to me than the slicing back and forth
I worked in a bar a while back where we used smokers on some of the cocktails, might be worth a try on bens G+T
Oh nice
Nice! What tips do you have for us?
Smoked negroni is usually a decent starting place, or any oak smoked whisky cocktail, like an old fashioned
@@SortedFood it would probably go really well with some scotches that are not smoked or Irish whiskeys depending on the wood and how long you smoked them
@@SortedFood I commented this before watching till the cocktail gadget had been showcased, match them up 😅
My dad got the smoker gun from my brother for his birthday one year. If make a homemade guacamole in a big bowl with space for smoke, it makes an amazingly smoked guacamole. May not taste it on the first chip but every chip thereafter it is amazingly filled with a Smokey flavor.
5:34 oh i love Jamie's throwback to the idiot brain Mandarin/Mandolin conversation from the chef v chef sandwich battle!
oh.my.lord. I still have my grandmother's antique slaw cutter. Same exact design!! Yes - quarts of sauerkraut but then, all summer, all sorts of chopped salads. It will also work for slicing pears, cooked beets, etc before putting canning.
Holy cow I got here first As for the bartending machine, I'll paraphrase Ben from the all in one breakfast maker toaster "buy a book of drinks and learn to mix" they taste SOOOO much better when hand made.
Congratulations! you win nothing
wow, im actually in the first 100
👋🏽
You'll be fighting off the girls, be careful not to tell them all.
Holey moley!
I was just as excited as Jamie when Ben asked if he wanted to try using the smoking gun, I really thought it was going to be some kind of meat and my face fell just like Jamie's did when Ben said cream...
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Also randomly wanted to add that I was in awe when I first saw a smoking gun, it was a bar and the owner had it hooked up to a box and he used it to add smoke to an old fashioned. Coolest thing ever!
“EBBERS, what on Earth is that that you’ve smoked? I mean, I ask that a lot...” - Michael Brian Huttlestone, 2021.
Mike, Ben is not the only person who gets told that 😂
The only one talking about playing with meat when asked though
@@StabbyJoe135 😂
I know others said it but you guys have helped make this quarantine bearable.
Why do I feel like the Sage gun is going to be sold in dispensaries in the US for unintended purposes....
If it's being sold in a US dispensary, it's gonna be marked up about 400% more than it already is
I figured the vaping market would already be all over that by now.
I did wonder if it could be used that way. LOL
As a US stoner, we have better products for the ganj already.
Ideal for hotboxing though!
No need, you can literally get it in gummi bear form and all sorts of other format.
My parents use the cabbage shredder every year when they make sauerkraut to can. They absolutely love it!
This ‘EBBERS Private Collection’ is such a running gag. I love it 😂
Imagine a whole video series. Ebbers in a Hefner-esqe robe, leather arm chair, reviewing all if his "personal collection"
We could call it.... CHEF'S KISS
Oh yeah, you can also take a partially set ice sphere, poke a hole in it with a hot injector, drain it and fill will smoke by attaching the injector tip to the gun hose. Then you serve a cocktail with a smoke filled ice ball and a little hammer to break it open in the drink with. So much fun!
That Bar machine was just soo unnecessary, but I feel when he said “I want one”.. I do, for 1 party, where everyone uses it for 1 drink and then goes back to G&T.
Smoked whisky cocktails, and smoked butter are my top two fave things in the cold smoker
I was literally just listening to boom boom boom boom after remembering the time Jamie and Barry danced to it 😂😂😂
Would love to see the chefs play around with the Sage, Smoking Gun on different food using different ‘burnables’. Like what type of dried teas are good, and what they’d be used for. Barry said you could use hay and I am supper excited to find out what smoked hay goes well with. The use of hay for flavor is something I’ve never hear of before.
I'd like you to try other youtuber brand cookware... Binging with Babish just brought out some cookery equipment that look super high quality.
You normally also put carrots (diced or sliced) in the Sauerkraut and some people also put smoked ham in it. it's freaking delicious
I feel like the drinks machine takes the fun out of making cocktails!
Cabbage Slicer... When I was a child, my mom used to make Sauerkraut every year, in one massive barrel, that would last the year. We needed to help to make that stuff then.
The cabbage slicer was quite a bit bigger then that thing. You were able to fit 2-3 half cabbages in there, which was quite neccessary, if you were to slice up 50+++ cabbages at once.
"Jamie heres your bowl of smoekd cream, enjoy"
"Barry we'd liek to present you with a perfectly cooked scallop thats ahd been smoked using only the finest of wood chips for you king" Lmao
I never get tired of the innuendos
Aw. Jamie's guilty student-like grin when Ben says, "So you can pretty much smoke anything..." 😉
I think its so funny seeing different people's reactions to that Bartending machine, people that have no experience making cocktails think its extremely convienant, but if you ask anyone who even bartends their home bar for fun whenever they have company over and they go "oh lord no its so wasteful" .
Only a minute in, but loving the editing on this!!! Keeps my ADHD brain focused
Very ADHD friendly editing
That cabbage slicer... Here in Poland it used to be a thing in almost every household, since at the end of summer we would buy cabbage in tens of kilograms, slice it up, mix with spices, salt and other veggies and put them in a big barrels to pickle for couple months and take it out before Christmas. I remember buying 30kg of cabbage just to slice it the next morning.... I had sore arms afterwards for the next three days :D
I can't help but think that in a year, that bartending machine, that needs poss and barcodes, is going to be a paperweight. The moment those pods stop being made....
That smoke fun was several times cheaper than I thought it would be. Definitely intrigued me as I use smoked paprika for the smoked note in almost everything.
Cheers guys and glad you enjoyed the cocktails. BTW...capsules are fully recyclable (like a yogurt cup), the ingredients are all the real bitters, liqueurs and juices with no artificial colors or flavors. We have over 4k 5 STAR reviews and folks absolutely love it. We're a small startup (team of 10) founded by an ex-bartender. We work with professional bartenders and chefs to produce the perfect cocktail.
What would you say is the purpose of your product? Especially considering how much bar supplies I could buy for that money.
the bartender at our favorite cocktail bar Loves to smoke his cocktails. def adds a thematic component as well as the flavour/smell.
New Poker Face Challenge idea! Insects!
Haha, great idea!
I've had a smoked dark rum made using one of those gadgets, possibly one of the best drinks I've ever had!