Chef Tests the Most Pretentious Kitchen Gadgets
Can expensive, overdesigned, and downright pretentious kitchen gadgets actually improve your cooking… or are they just pointless clutter?
In this episode, our chef Ben and home cook Jamie put a range of fancy kitchen gadgets to the test to find out which ones are genuinely useful and which ones are all style, no substance. From weird cooking tools to luxury kitchen gadgets nobody asked for, we’re finding out whether these products are worth it.
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I think the 99% of the gadgets you display are pretentious, what about presenting things you think are not pretentious or real things that you know they are not pretentious but some one find pretentious
The Sabre is obviously right handed. 🙂
You can sabrage with anything, the base of a wine glass, a mobile phone…
I don't actually think the sabre is that pretentious as much as it has gone the way of fun kitsch. A person could MAKE it pretentious by trying to impress others by using it, but if it's for "this is a good bit of fun" for New Year's… then it's a somewhat silly item and a conversation piece.
To properly pop the top off of a fizzy wine bottle, it needs to be put up-side-down into a cooler. This somehow affects performance. If done properly, you can then even pop the top off with the foot of a champagne glass. Now that is pretentious.
The slow mo guys have a nice video about it.
I genuinely believe that the general aversion to sparkling water in the UK is cultural, because there are no naturally csrburated springs in the UK compare to Europe 🤔
I haven't seen something this fun since the mountain water bottle.
The peeler looks otherwise nice but the way the blade has been attached to the swirly, beautiful steel "frame" looks bad, like it was welded in place but the weld wasn't finished properly. The Aerflo seems to be ok, the CO2 capsules cost 21 USD per 12-pack and if one capsule makes 2 liters of water, that's a bit under a dollar per liter which isn't horrible. The trivets are ugly and of low quality (chipped during transit although the box seemed to be undamaged). The champagne saber wooden base looks like it was made by a 10-year-old kid in carpentry class.
The Aerflo is the only product out of these I would consider buying even if cost of the products is ignored. BUT it's only available in the kingdom of the orange clown and the CO2 cartridges can only be shipped by ground (taking high-pressure CO2 capsules on a plane can be dangerous).
not saying the first two are pretentious is insane, you set out to find pretentious gadgets and you delivered a very entertaining video
I mean, there is NO way you can't be pretentious with sabrage. That's the ENTIRE point of it, and it's so gloriously so. It's amazing.
Soldiers didn't open their bottles of champagne with sabers.
Officers did that.
It's nuts that the Aero flow water bottle in the States the price is flipped. The water bottle is more expensive and the pods are $20.95 USD for 12. However the water bottle is already sold out. The do have another option where you can pay $64.95USD for a cap they say will fit any Hydro flask that will then allow you to make sparkling water in your own water bottle. It's still really expensive.
For the sabering: aren’t you supposed to take the wire cage off the bottle first?
the carbonated soda thing has irony baked into it since the push for water bottles has a "green" focus, but now you're adding the little canister of gas to the situation as well as making redundant the original lid.
I work in an industry that uses similar capsules and I am telling you they do NOT get recycled. That goes into the bin.
buying a sword when you have a Kush in the kitchen smells like a particularly risky idea
I was waiting for a champagne saber to show up someday…
once upon a time in my misspent youth i opened a beer bottle, 750ml so same size as a wine bottle, with a claw hammer, it achieved the same result as ebbers with the cutlass in the kitchen, but the biggest difference was i then had to drink from the razor sharp top of the bottle as we had no glasses.
I don't trust the trivets? Wouldn't they carry the heat to the tablecloth?
Just rig a soda stream like everyone else does.
Yeah Ebbers is just too used to opening wine bottles 😂😂😂😂
I really like sparkling water. I'm struggling to see in what instance the Aerflo would ever be preferable to a sodastream.
If you want to saber a bottle you don’t need a special knife. Either get a long dull chefs knife from a second hand shop or even use the back side of your regular chefs knife. I have done it dozens of times with mine. Oh, and do it outside where people will never walk or in a direction so it’s easy to sweep up. Glass won’t get in the wine, but it will go everywhere else.
The fact the peeler was not seen as pretentious means you boys really have to go back to the drawing board with these videos. That was just annoying.
09:00 James left Sorted before I found the channel and I'm beginning to understand why now xD
A lot of posh kitchen stuff is designed for people with money to spend on a kitchen that they don’t actually use. As items they make so much sense with that in mind. It is pretentious, though.
with those pan holders…. that big one seems not really functional, right? Way too much space in the middle for it to be useful?
To Jamie's point on not wanting Sparkling water on a hike. I have texture issues and can not actually drink large amounts of water without my body rebelling. The lack of texture is revolting. My current solution is enough Mio to make it have a mild texture. Being able to spritz water on the go would be perfect for someone like me.
I've 'sabered' champagne bottles in the past, when I was young and stupid, using the back edge of a wakizashi, a samurai short sword that is the companion of a katana. Yes, it was fun to do and impressed friends, but more often than not it wasted some wine that would have been better enjoyed poured into a glass. And, on occasion, ended up wasting an entire bottle, as happened with the first attempt here. Yes, it is very pretentious to do, and we did it both to show off our swords and to show that we could afford to risk wasting an expensive bottle of excellent French Champagne. Something I no longer have the budget to risk or the foolishness to attempt, nor the inclination to impress anyone with. And I also have much more respect for quality Champagne today. 😉😛
Ebbers, so glad you went to Mona.
Sabering was actually invented specifically as a practical thing! Soldiers had no way to easily crack open wine or other liquids when raiding or celebrating a victory, so they'd just use a sword, pop off the top, and drink.
I have to wonder how many of the Sorted Food audience are also Big Clive viewers, and were thinking "1, 2, 3 fartulations" during the video…
First in the world*
*Lol, no one will spend their time checking
I LOVE Mueller, but those trivets are – well – sigh