Chef Reviews TEMU Kitchen Gadgets
– James, Barry, lift the cloche. – Together. (Barry laughing) Yes, yes, yes. – Oh. Oh. It’s a, it’s a mould. It’s a mould. It’s a mould or is it? – Why is it in the shape of a duck? – Today it’s time for one of your most requested
videos ever. We are putting kitchen gadgets from Temu to the test. – We have a chef James and a normal Barry. And there could be rage, there could be intrigue, there could be mind blowing moments. Let’s see what they make of these gadgets that you’ve recommended. – Dare
I say, I’ve got something very similar already. But for the beach, you put sand in them and you make it instant, whatever shape it may be. You’ve got a little crab one and so on. But I did not think this should be used for anything food based. –
Well, you’ve guessed it. It is a duck mould. Now this has taken- – Duck mould? That’s what it is. It’s a duck. – Thanks. Thanks for the clarity. – It’s taken the internet by storm. – No it hasn’t. – It has. – Come on. – They are every,
there are so many different sellers on Temu, selling these, not just in duck shapes. – Yes. – Snowball shapes. – Snowballs? – That’s just a ball. It’s just a ball. – No, no. It’s
mashed potatoes. The options are endless. – And it’s a great way of engaging children in food. – Because we don’t believe in that rule: you should never play with your food. – Always play with your food. – Always play with your food. – Especially if it really pisses
off a chef. (Barry laughing) So there’s a range of foods in which you can test this, but one of the ones that we’ve been recommended is mashed potato. – I think we air on the side of caution and spray the (beep) out of it. – Yeah. Is it
good to be back James? – Cooking is my secondary skill. (everyone laughing) This is a, yeah. – Make sure it’s got a pond of gravy to swim on. – Oh, that’s- – That did work well. – So a pond of gravy. – There you go lovely. – Oh!
– Oh! – James, why have you killed it? (Jamie laughing) – Face down! – Right, that’s your fault. – Why you saying that’s anything to do with me? It’s a dead duck. (Jamie and Mike laughing) – That looks so bad. – See, it’s hard. – Is it though?
– It still looks pretty sad. – So the description on Temu for this talks about how it can make mealtimes fun for kids or for grownup normals and chefs. It can help you make sushi easily at home and save you time and effort, and helps to encourage outdoor
play even in the wintertime. – Well, I don’t get that. (Barry laughing) I think this has been made for something completely different, akin to the way Barry was talking about it with wet sand. – Yeah. – And I think people on the internet have used it to shape
food. – Maybe. – Did you want a thumbnail? (everyone laughing) (upbeat music) – Right. Well now it’s just a mound of mashed potato. – It’s a mound of ducks. – What are your thoughts? – I’m sure with the right consistency of potato or rice, you could get a
better duck effect. My question is, why? – No, I just told you. – I think we’ve just had a lovely time, haven’t we? – Yeah. – In the last couple minutes. – For kids. – We have. I have. But also it’s a waste of plastic. It’s, you don’t
need this in the world. – Would you be able to shape a duck easier without it? – No- – True. You wouldn’t be able to do that. You might be able to shape a staple. – I think this is better for the beach. – So how much do
you reckon we paid for the duck mould? – Okay. Right. So the game here is, this is Temu. So unlike pretentious where you pick a price and then you triple it. It makes you pick a price and then you go, what is the most unbearably cheap price you
could imagine? – Oh. I’m saying 99 P. – I’m thinking 10 P. – 10 P? – Temu is so cheap. It’s ridiculous. No, 30 P. – £1.49. – Outrageously expensive. – Worth pointing out, available in a range of colours as well as shapes. – Ah, well there you
go. – Cool. Next one. – He’s more annoyed than I am. – Yeah, I don’t get it. I don’t, it’s annoyed me. – I know you’re begging to answer the question. It’s just a quacking gadget or not worth a bill? (Barry chuckling) – Oh, that’s better than Jamie’s.
– Well done. Not worth the bill. – Not worth the bill. – At all. – I thought it’d be more fun. – Hey lads. Gadget number two. Lift the cloche. – Do it. – My turn. – Oh. A man- – Looks like some kind of juicer. – Yeah.
– Or some kind of like something’s going through that. – I kinda, my instant reaction is I wanna put a lemon on it and smack it with that. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – But I- – But that’s not what it is. – No, it can’t be. Oh. –
What do you need to hit? – Oh my god. Is it a pomegranate? – Absolutely. This is a pomegranate opener and seed removal device. – This is a genuine problem ’cause I’m lazy and I end up buying, going to supermarket and I buy the pre- – Pomegranate seeds.
– Pomegranate seeds. – Yeah. – ‘Cause I can’t be bothered with this bit. – And they are expensive. – It’s such a funny way of doing it. – So expensive. – Yeah. Especially when all you do is drop ’em in a glass of prosecco. (Barry and James chuckling)
Do it. – Do you wanna do this opening and I’ll do the batching? – Never has opening and de-seeding your pomegranate been so easy. All you need to do is rotate the pomegranate against the middle blade, open, place a top the blade with the bowl underneath and strike
with the mallet. – That’s seems to be working. – Oh my goodness. I get my thumb in. – Go on, get in there. – There you go. – Okay. – That does work. Yeah, that does work. – Okay, so now face down. – Goes down. Yeah. – And
you hit it like you mean it. I like the fact that there’s very little splatter. – Okay, let’s try it. Let’s try it. – Okay. We’ve got a lot of pith in there, but we have an empty skin. – So I have a confession. This is not how
I de-seed the pomegranate. – How do you de-seed the pomegranate? – I open it up and then I just break it into segments. – Segments. Yeah. – Of course it’s ’cause you’re so bloody strong. – Yeah, I don’t, I don’t use a knife or anything. (everyone laughing) Tear
it open. So I don’t, I don’t do that ’cause it’s a lot easier to get around the pith and just like get nice clean jewels. – Please demonstrate. – Into these. (everyone laughing) This is not how I would start. – I’m glad you’ve invited the chef. – Point
proven. – This is, this is, this is what I would do. This is, this is just what I do and it takes a bit longer, but I’m always more pleased with the result. – Looks like your hands are getting messy there though. – They are. – But in
a way that they weren’t too much. – I can wash them. – Right. – I don’t know. I just don’t like doing it like that. But I know it’s not optimal. – We talk a lot about single use gadgets. How many pomegranates are you de-seeding in a week?
– Not many personally. – Maybe one every two months I would say. – Yeah. – Yeah about so. – Do you therefore need a gadget that does it for you? – No, but somebody might if they, if they are going through quite a few pomegranates. – Yeah. While
you finish doing that, let’s talk price and then you can give us a summary. How much do you think the pomegranate peeling tool set costs on Temu? – Two pounds and 15 pence. – Yeah. Let’s, three pounds. – Three pounds. – £6.79. – Okay. It’s a well made
product. It’s- – It is solid. – Yeah, it’s solid. It does the job. And if that’s your preferred way of opening the pomegranate, it does it well. – I agree. It does what it says it wants to do. It is doing nothing wrong. – We’re gonna black this.
Jamie’s got the beginning of the question, I’ve got the end of the question. – Okay, cool. Go. – Okay, so the pomegranate tool set, is it a decent de-seeder? – Or is it taking the pith? – Oh, nice. – Very nice. – Yes. – Decent. – I’ll go
with decent. – De-seeder. – Decent de-seeder. – Yup, yup. – There is a bit of pith. But it’s decent. – Lovely. – Number three. – Ready for another? – Yes. – Yes. – Give the cloche a lift. – It’s your turn my friend. – Oh. – Oh no.
(Jamie and Mike laughing) – Looks like- – This is gonna be bad, isn’t it? – It looks like the plastic version of something you find at the blacksmiths. – Don’t need to innovate in this space. (Mike laughing) – You scoop and you pinch. – I’m assuming so. Yeah.
Or- – So what? So like- – It’s like a multi-tool where you spice. – Under your steak. Hold the steak up. I get it. – Yeah. – Yeah. – For when your tongs aren’t wide enough but your spatula isn’t grippy enough. – But also the u-shape could come
in extra handy when moving fried eggs without breaking the yolk. – Oh. – Oh no. – So what they, what are they called? Spatula tongs? – No. – This is the grip and flip tongs. You grip ’em and you flip ’em. This tool has been created to provide
extra grip when frying unlike your regular spatula. This gadget features a gripping mechanism to give more control to your cooking. It combines the functionality of a pancake flipper and bread turner, making it convenient to flip and grab various foods with ease. – So when I was a young
chef, I used to work breakfast and I worked in America and they like a range of eggs. So sunny side up. – Yeah. Over easy. – Over easy, et cetera. And flipping an over easy egg. So we had to do it in front of customers and we had
to flip it so we couldn’t use a spatula. We’d have to flip it in the pan. And as it was in the air, you bring the pan up so that when it lands- – Cushion. – Yeah. And then cushion the blow so the yolk doesn’t break. – Oh
my goodness. – Now this. (James clicks spatula tong) My sous chef made me do this hundreds of times in a row because I could not do it. – Did you work at Ihop? – Well guess what we’re doing today, James. – No. (upbeat music) – That is, that
is an emoji egg there. – Yeah. At the moment, it’s the perfect egg. Don’t ruin it, James. – Okay. Ready, ready, ready. – Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. – Little bit of practise. – I’m warming up, I’m warming up. – Come up down. Clamp, flip. – Now
the real test is, I get it the other way as well. So you have to flip it back. – Do you? – You do. Oh. Oh no. I’m gonna have to say it works. – That’s, that’s an over easy egg. – I think that’s the best over easy
egg I’ve ever seen be flipped? Your experience at IHOP has rubbed off. – That is probably the best over easy egg I’ve ever made. (everyone cheering) – Yes! – That is, that is literally the perfect egg. – What I love about these videos is how unpredictable their reactions
are gonna be. – I know brilliant. It’s brilliant. (upbeat music) – What are your thoughts? – It worked. – In that instance. Yeah. Perfect. I’m struggling to work out where else we could use it effectively? – Well how much do you think we paid for the grip and
flip tongs? – I’ll go three pounds again. – One pound, 20. – Two pounds, and 38 pence. – I mean they last forever. It’s been a while since I’ve actually bought a kitchen utensil ’cause I don’t replace them ever. – I think that’s also part of the problem
with plastic stuff as it does last literally forever. – Forever. – That is a good thing if it lasts in your kitchen forever. – Yep. – Not a good thing for the environment if you throw it away. – Well, you know what we’re gonna ask you. – Is
it flipping good? – Or is it flipping terrible? (everyone laughing) – Oh, neither of us did very well. – We are so in sync. Yeah. – It’s flipping good at one thing. Terrible at the rest. – Yeah. I think it’s flipping terrible. – Yeah. – Even though it
helps me produce what might be the greatest egg of my career. – Wait, number four, lift the cloche. – Oh, so much going on. – Okay, wait a minute. And then you’re turning something. It’s just you are- – Do you think? – Shredding something up I think. You
could put a chicken breast in there and shred it I reckon. – So you are piercing something and then you’re turning it. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – This is the meat shredder. Say farewell to manual labour and embrace a new era of kitchen efficiency with the meat shredder.
– No, no, no. – Easily create pulled pork, beef, or chicken by placing the meat into the spiked base and placing the top container on top. Rotate the top container using the convenient handles to shred your meat. There’s a chicken, a board and a knife. Whip off a
breast and get shredding. One of the selling points for this shredder is that the enhanced simplicity and precision compared to the common fork method, results in a uniform shredding. – Well that chicken, if I’m not mistaken, has two breasts and I wonder whether we put one in the
shredder and one gets shredded manually. – Yes, let’s do that. – Okay. It feels kind of wrong. Just like- – It’s a non-skid base. – The amount of force you have to put through it, it doesn’t really matter what the base is like I think. This, this is
so bad. – Oh, so it’s like teamwork. – There you go. – It’s a two man job. – I reckon you must have go again. Like move, move, move the breast into different position. – Really? – Yeah. – That shouldn’t have to happen. – That shouldn’t have to
happen. (Jamie laughing) – Okay. It needed a bit of getting going but. – Now you’ve got that. – It looks less pulled and more chewed. – This is awful. (Jamie laughing) – My turn. (upbeat funky music) – Look at that perfect. – Yeah. – Oh it’s so gross.
– That anti-skid base seems to be working now. – It is now. – I’m done. – Okay. And stop there. – Pulling meat is not that difficult. And the nice thing about doing it yourself is that you can choose the size of your, your tears and the shape.
And you know, it’s nice. – You can do it with two forks, which are, you are likely to already have in your kitchen. – You can do it your fingers. – You do it with two forks. It was very difficult to start it, to actually like start pulling
it and then once it was pulling it, it’s really like shredded. I guess it’d be fine for something like a chicken mayo sandwich or something, but I’d still want that over this. – Okay. Let’s talk price. How much do you think we’d purchased this for? – 4.50? –
Yeah. I’d say like a fiver. – £9.89. – Oh wow. – Such a waste on so many levels. – Awful. – So pointless. – Talking about plastic waste. That’s just terrible. – We all know the question. Does it meet your expectations? – Or is it absolutely shreadful? (Barry
laughing) – Pretty good. – Wait, it’s shredded. – Shredful, yeah. – Absolutely shredded. – Shredful. – Shredders. (Barry laughing) Last one. Keep the lock, loft a cliche. (Barry laughing) – What the heck? – Oh no. – I’m so excited. So excited. – Tell you what it is. –
Oh no. It’s like an extruder or something. (drilling sound) Oh. – You think it’s pushing? – Yeah. – Pasta outta that or. – Yeah. Noodles. Noodles. – Really? – Let’s go with noodle. – Nah. – This is a cordless noodle gun. – Well done. – I got it.
– Well done. – I got it straight away. – The Seabroad noodle maker. You can achieve. (drilling sound) You can achieve freshly extruded noodles in just 30 seconds with this gadget. Simply insert the dough into the pressing barrel, attach to the machine and switch on to start making
noodles. – This feels like it’s gonna be one of the most satisfying things we’ll ever do. – This could be great. – So in order to give this a full test, not only are you testing the noodle gun, but the noodle gun page is where we got the
recipe for the dough that’s in front of you. – Select the surface mould. I’ve gone for wide noodles. – Oh. – Oh you wanna go wide? – Are we happy with wide? – Yeah, I’d love to see that shape. – Yeah excellent. – Put 200 grammes of dough
into the dough press bucket. Do not put too much dough. (drilling sound) (Barry vocalising) Otherwise it cannot be assembled onto the main machine. – That’s great for you guys. But on camera that looks like you (beep). – Oh, sorry! (everyone laughing) – I thought that’s what you were
going for. I was like what is he doing? – This noodle gun is getting me very excited. (everyone laughing) So supposedly, the battery has enough charge to make 40 bowls of noodles. – Okay. So it doesn’t matter. – Barry’s been using it for the last five minutes so
we might have enough charge for one left. – Noodle dough. – Noodle dough. – Nice opening. – Nice. – See you later. You’re the guest, you should do it. – But you’ve been so excited for it. – James isn’t a guest. He’s pretty much back full time now.
Let’s do this. – Okay. – We’re good. Oh my God. That is one textured noodle. (Barry laughing) Snippet. That was it. That’s everything. – Barry, what’re you doing? – One job best. (Jamie and Mike laughing) – James you know what you said about picking the hardest thing? –
I ruined the video. (Jamie laughing) – Ed, do you got another one spare? – I do actually. – Oh! – Oh! (everyone cheering and clapping) (Barry laughing) – So it does come with five extruder plates for different styles of noodles. Obviously you found a flat wide one. It
comes with a measuring cup, a scraper and a charger. – Having said that, you’ve got one nood in there. – Try and separate it. Try, try give it a go. And separate. – Okay. – Homogenous noodle. – We’re gonna go for thinner noodles further apart, less chance than
sticking together. – I was hoping it would kind of like separate when it went. – It nearly did, nearly did. – In the water. We followed the instructions on the first one. – Yeah, yeah. – This time we’re gonna give it every chance. So a little bit of
flour just to kind of keep it from sticking together. – Do you think, ’cause there you, you did that angle there. – Yeah. – Which is what the instructions said, but it still gave a chance for gravity to make the stick. If you did it that way, they’re
not gonna bend off. – I think we should, we should do that. – Yeah. – I agree. – It’s definitely not gonna stick to that. – Yep. (drilling sound) – They look pretty good. Yes! – Excellent work. – Snippy snip snip. Oh! – Lovely. – Straight away. That
has definitely worked. – Yeah, they look so much better. – I might need some, some spatu tongs. – No, just go for it. – Are they all individual? Has it worked? – Yeah. All individual. – Yeah, for sure. I make pasta at home but I would never be
able to make circular spaghetti. Maybe flap spaghetti but more, more capelli. But that shape is nearly impossible to do at home. – Do you like it? – I do. And I’m not sure if it’s necessary. Like I like it like I like all the things shaped like a
gun. It, you know what I mean? It looks, it’s like- – Makes you feel like James Bond. – Yeah. – That is so silly. (Jamie and Mike laughing) – James, what do you reckon? – I can’t decide. I think I like it ’cause I like things that do
what they say they’re gonna do and we can’t deny that it does. And I think those would actually work if we use the same technique. – Yeah. – Top down. Yeah, it’s good. Is it necessary? Probably not. – So how much do you reckon we paid for the
cordless noodle gun? – ‘Cause it’s on Temu, it’s gonna be cheap. So 20 quid? – 30? – Yeah. – Well we paid 67 pounds, 48 pence. – Okay, cool. On first glance, it’s a stupid thing. But when you use it, less stupid. – I’m not sure I would
buy it over a pasta machine. Personally, I probably make more pasta than noodles. It’s more versatile. – Well obviously we all know the question. Great noodes? – Or are you gonna waste your dough? – I think it’s a waste of dough. – I think, as much as I
love it, I think I agree with James. A waste. – Well you’ve had their thoughts, but what are yours? Comment down below what you thought of these gadgets. – And if you like this video, give it a like. there are plenty more in the description box below.
