KITCHEN GADGET TESTING #22

- Hello folks, (laughs) Idon't know what that was, I'm sorry, hey, how you doin'? It's Barry here, welcometo My Virgin Kitchen, I hope you are well.

Today we are testing somemore kitchen gadgets.

As you know this is partof a massive playlist which you can check outthroughout the video by clicking up here and downbelow in the description.

We have got a world exclusive today, I'll come on to that in justa bit, but very excitin', I'm the only person to have these gadgets.

Cool.

But we also need to doa little bit of prep for another gadget that we're doin', so we'll do that first of all, but a little bit ofhouse keepin' as always, before commentin' down below please consider thatsome of these gadgets, maybe not so much this video, but they do help peoplewithin the playlist that have disabilities,and a whole lot of people message me goin', cheersfor mentionin' that, and it's important.

So anyhow, let's crack on.

Before we get fully started, quick plug for my new cookbookthat has just come out.

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If it's not, it will be very, very soon.

It's full of recipes thatyou'll never see online.

Vegetarian, healthy, naughty stuff, twists on classic, cooking with kids, and a huge bakin' sectionof desserts and puddin's, in fact it's numberone best seller already on Amazon for that, soif you like my videos, and it would really mean the world if you supported me bypre-orderin' this book, so that's it.

(grunts) Now, if you didn't know, wewent away to Portugal last week.

And in fact, as this video's gone up, on our spin-off behind the scenes channel, the Barry's, I've justdone a whole video diary of our trip away to Portugal.

And while we were there, I don't know if thishappens in your country, but I'm normally in fordeliveries and stuff, but we had this arrive on a Monday and they left it the whole week, and obviously with itbein' England it rained.

This gadget got absolutelywarped and broken.

It's not like that, I haveneeded to do some prep with it, but this is the Chef'nSweet Spot Ice Cream Maker, so you can basically make ice cream.

It came with this hugefrozen steering wheel thing which was really heavy, I've put it in my freezer now which we'll need in a bit, but first of all we needto make our ice cream mix.

So we'll do that now.

I mean, it didn't say fragile on it, but I just don't get whythe deliver driver went, yeah, it's behind your shed, and just like chucked it over,and I could've moved away.

This is my first cookbook too, I know it looks nothinglike me on the front cover, but I promise you it is me.

Loads of people on Amazon that are pre-orderin' the first book are goin', oh my God, Ididn't realise that was you.

Yeah, if you wanna get it, I mean the name is a giveaway.

So in that box thing with the gadget came these little tool things which we'll come to in a bit, okay, the main hubby thing is in the freezer.

Not husband, hubby, nickname for husband? It had this recipe book alongwith an instruction manual and we're gonna go forchocolate ice cream.

We're gonna need a sauce pan, sugar, cocoa powder, pew, salt.

Mixy, mixy, mix with awhiskey, whiskey, whisk.

Alright, nicely mixedtogether, to the hob.

Need to make sure I turnon the right hob, then, otherwise this would've gone up in flames.

We don't wanna cook powder, no, we're gonna add in milk.

In this goes, lot o'milk is in there, folks.

And then we just whisk this through, keep whiskin' until it's nice and smooth, and we're gonna bringit to a steady simmer.

Oh no, I shoulda given my other whisk, you know, the one that Iused in a previous video? The Easy Whisk, that was amazin'.

I'm not usin' that Easy Whisk because it's packaged up in a box, okay, 'cause I'm doing giveawayson my social media, I've got about 80 gadgets to give away that I've officially used in these videos? It's makin' a noise, hang on.

Nah, it's alright.

So if you please, follow me onyour social media of choice, as many as you like, Iam doin' actual giveaways that I'm gonna signpersonally and send to you that have been used inthese gadget videos, so be sure to follow meon Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, at My Virgin Kitchen, as many as you can, and that's that.

This should be boiled now.

Alrighty, we're justgettin' it to a low simmer, and now I need to be careful otherwise that is gonna foam up and create this huge heady thing that's gonna overtake the entire video, be like some over-poured Guinness.

I used to work in a bar anddo that all the time, so.

This is fine, this is fine.

So we're gonna take it off the heat, or at least remove the flame from the (mixture sizzles) ooh, in goes some vanilla extract.

I was about to say, atleast remove the flame from underneath it, stillsome residual heat comin' up.

And then we're gonna pourin some double cream, aka heavy cream.

Now all we need to dois whisk this through and let it cool down, whichis why we're doin' it first.

Perfect.

Now I'm not suggestin' you do this, but if you wanted to put alcohol in this chocolate ice cream, maybe a little bit ofBailey's, somethin' like that, let it cool down and then add it just before puttin' it in the fridge.

But I'm gonna bring youover here and pour you, talkin' about you, as in youare now the chocolate mixture, into the jug, and wejust let that cool down, and I said this will gointo the fridge to chill but while we do that,we're gonna move on to the cactus yolk egg separator, because every gadget videoneeds an egg separator, doesn't it, I feel like wedo quite a lot of these.

This is basically an egg separator in the style, or shape,of a prickly cactus.

The only way like I feellike I can improve this is by lookin' up a list of cactus puns.

Uh nope, that one's too rude.

(laughs) Looking sharp, okay, that's cool.

I don't know why you'd wantan egg separator as a cactus.

Oh this is good, it's two, it's a proposal betweentwo cactuses, or cacti.

I'm ready to stop being cact-i, and ready to start being cact-us.

You know when you'reconfident in the kitchen when you can crack an eggwithout even lookin' at it? Oh, that'll do.

(laughs) I didn't realiseit had a pot with it, oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh, I think you're supposed to squeeze it out of the cactus and then put the yolk in the pot, so I don't really need this.

Give it a wash.

I always wash all my gadgets, by the way, just can't always be bothered to show you.

Oh, and also, the dog hair in the last cheesecake video I did, I did see that and Ihoped that you didn't.

Damn you 4K camera.

I did remove it, it was not consumed.

Amy's hairs, however,they're a bit more discrete, they're white.

This is making so much sense now, it's like big and butch, it kinda looks like a courgette, which we'll be usin' inanother gadget in a minute.

I feel like the best eggseparator there could be would be, I used to have a toy from Spain I got years where it lookedlike someones face goin' like that, so you squeeze it in and it go (sucks air in loudly) that would be quite cool, wouldn't it? Come on now, yes.

I always find they work betterwhen your egg's chilled, 'cause the yolks a bit more firm.

So, we sucked it up,and then we deposit it, look at this.

(laughs) Look.

(laughs) That's all, yolks.

No more egg puns, but this one did exactly what I wanted it to.

So this gadget, I'm pretty certain, this one only arrived yesterday.

I'm pretty certain I've got another one that's been upstairs formonths in me gadget box.

I've got another 10 on theway, as well, by the way.

Loads of you sending me links, I'm like these are amazing,I've gotta get them! This is the circularknife and for some reason, I'll show you in a minute, I'm sure there was a film in the '80s where there was something like this on the side of a motorbike.

I don't know, maybe it wasa Mad Max-y kinda thing.

I'm not very good with movies.

If any of you guys wanna Photoshop me bein' Marty McFly in aBack to the Future poster I will love you forever.

Bonus if you can get, like,Austin and Amy in there as well.

I've gotta be pretty careful with this 'cause it is probablygonna be quite sharp.

Oh yes.

So this is a very dangeroustool thing indeed, so let's come down to the choppin' board, let's come down.

So just for referencethere is no instructions in there whatsoever, so, especially with like a knife, you should certainlyhave some form of manual so you don't hurt yourself.

So obviously got this like grippy thing and the aim is that we wheel it along, we wanna slice stuff up.

There's a trigger there.

Oh my gosh.

Oooh.

I know I've gone a bit serious, but I legitimatelydon't wanna hurt myself.

Y'know, that's a blade right there.

So this thing I'm thinkin', okay, we wheel it along.

Pull the trigger, yeah, okay, so like handbrake(imitates squealing sound).

(digital ringtone plays) Phone's ringin'.

Hello? Hello? Please talk to me.

(phone beeps) It's the perks of workin'from home (sniffs) sometimes you get a phonecall and you just hope.

I'm gettin' a new studio soon, I won't be workin' at home, and I got a work colleague, cha-ching! As an aside to that, pleasestop giving me your phone number on Snapchat and Instagramsaying hey, please call me, that would be so cool,I'm not gonna do that.

I might do it when I do thelivestream cook-a-longs though, but, come on now.

Got some herbs here,we've got like a courgette and banana as well.

That well-known combination of parsley, banana, and courgette.

So we're gonna justwheel it around I guess.

Oh wow.

That is really, really good to be fair.

That blade is very, very sharp, too.

Wow.

For anyone that hasdifficulty choppin' things, this would be amazin'.

I feel like I'm ironin',it's quite addictive.

I might actually use that later.

Courgette.

Men, look away now.

Oh my gosh, straight through like a boss, did you see that? That's really, really good.

I'm not gettin' too crazy with it, I don't wanna slice off anything.

(grunts rhythmically) You have to make the noises, the grunts, it helps.

(grunts rhythmically) Look at that, that is awesome.

We're gonna slice the banana, but wait.

We put the brake on, we're done, we don't wanna slice itanymore, I can't move anymore.

So cool! But then we go (grunts) like that.

That one's fine.

And then we go, hello? Yeah, I'll call you back, thanks.

Thanks, cool, yeah that'd be great, 'cause I work from home, thanks, bye.

Bye.

We're about to show youa world exclusive, folks.

Three exclusive kitchen gadgetby a company called Mico who are doin' an Indiegogo campaign.

They've actually sent me the only versions of these models at themoment that are available, and they're doing an Indiegogo campaign to help make it a reality.

There is a link down below,and I'm happy to support it, because I'm a nice guy,I wanna help people out.

What I don't like, though, what I don't like is thatsome people on Amazon, actual sellers, now, whoI've no association with, are now usin' my name to go, as reviewed andrecommended by Barry Lewis.

That's naughty, alright you know, at least giveme some free dog food so I can feed my pug, s, s.

Would you like that? Ah, wash my hands.

They're all microwave gadgets, so hopefully you cantell what this one is, it's got a potato on thefront, have a little guess.

This one has got bread onit, have a little guess.

And this one has got eggson it, have a little guess.

Worked it out yet? This makes an amazingtoasted sandwich, apparently.

This makes (gasps) a jacketpotato in the microwave with an actual crispy finish, apparently.

If you've ever made a jacketpotato in the microwave, it's really bland.

You get it cooked through,don't get me wrong, but it's really like, (grunts) oh my God, doesn't have that crispy,rugged skin, it's very smooth.

And this can poach or fry an egg.

This is how, like, new it is, right? It still says on the Indiegogopage, at prototype stage, and the actual instructionsare on there only.

If you actually go to the Indiegogo page, you'll see all the information.

I'm not gonna go into too much detail, but they use Mico heatwave technology that lets you have perfectsnacks in a fraction of the time.

Oh my gosh, you totally needto see the page like that.

(laughs) Mico heatwave technology, that harness the microwave power to deliver conventional cookin' and turns microwave food fromdisappointment, to delight.

We'll start with the sandwichtoasty one, cha-ching.

Okay, so it's got these little flap things that secure that together,these ceramic-y platelets.

Wonder if some sort of crazy scientist has used this in his kitchen, be like yes, the prototype has worked! Just gonna butter some bread.

Remember doin' this in my oldsandwich toaster, as well.

So that's goin' face down in there.

Ooh, I could've got abigger slice of bread, I went easy on it.

We'll stick in some cheese, some ham, and a bit more cheese to cloak it.

So now just like in astandard toasty maker we put the butter side up again.

Coulda buttered the inside if we want, but, feelin' a bit cheeky.

Alright.

So we know stick our lid on.

Oh yeah, yes.

And then this.

Yes, boom.

That is nice and secure makes quite a good lunchbox, doesn't it, actually.

For medium browning it saysthree minutes, 30 seconds plus three minutes 30 seconds.

Let's try it.

(microwave beeps) I've gotta say, it's onlybeen three minutes now, that's good maths Barry, and it's smell amazing already, I've got a feelin' it could be done, but I'm gonna trust it, I'm gonna go with that method of goin' an extra threeand a half minutes, while Homer looks onin kind of disapproval.

Woah, steamy.

Let's trust our judgement.

(doorbell rings) While the door goes, let's giveit three and a half minutes.

Probably another gadget anyway.

Another gadget's arrived.

(sniffs) God, that smells amazing now.

Butter spreader knife, someone recommend that I get that.

I've forgotten who youwere but I've ordered it, there you go.

I really hope that Ihaven't overcooked it.

There are three stagesof browning you can do.

Ooh! (microwave beeps) You okay in there honey? See that steam? (laughs) Check it out, look how hot that is.

Oh please don't say I burnt it.

Doesn't smell burnt.

(gasps) Oh my gosh.

Okay, I'm bein' impatient.

I'm bein' very impatient,but look at, oh my gosh.

That is amazin'! I'm lookin' at the screen, sorry, you guys hate when I do that, don't you? You really hate when I look at the screen and not the camera lens.

But it's really weird lookin'at a circle bit o' glass pretending it's a person.

Look! Unbelievable.

You can see the gooeycheese right there, look.

That little mini cheese pool.

It's gonna be very hot.

Look, look, see that cheese? (gasps) It's hot! I don't know why I love melted cheese, but that's blooming gorgeous.

I know you can get those toaster bags, but as you've seenbefore, I've tried them, and they're like really bad.

For a first time at that, bang.

Okay, Mico, you have my attention now.

This is the lid for the potato thing, and we don't need it first of all, it just sits in here.

We get a jacket potato whichhas been washed and dried, and I have heard horror stories about microwaving jacket potatoes without pricking them cactus style, they can actually explode 'cause all that pressure that builds up.

I'm sure some of you can elaborate in the comments on that a bit more.

So we're just gonna stab the potato, and if this works I'mgonna be so impressed and back it myself, this campaign.

So, jacket potato goes in there.

Microwave it for eight and ahalf minutes with the lid off.

Carefully put the lid on, and then microwave itfor another 10 minutes.

Just while that's finishin' off, I'm gonna have a tuna mayo fillin', and this is my favourite version.

Tuna flakes in water,tablespoon of sweet corn, two good tablespoons of mayonnaise, this is actually lemon mayonnaise, (mumbles) squeezed lemon init with a bit of zest as well.

Teaspoon of Dijon mustard,and a grind of black pepper.

Oh! (microwave beeps) Here we go.

(groans) This is like NASA stuff.

I shouldn't really open it yet 'cause of the steam, soI'm just gonna be super, oh my gosh! (gasps) That's crispy.

Oh my, and the other side is even better.

One thing I like aboutthis so far, as well, you can sorta probably carrythat in your bag to work.

Bit better than a sandwich, isn't it? Oh my gosh, I don't know if you heard that 'cause of Austin's paws walkin' around.

Oy, ya! The pug interfered there, sorry, but that was really crispybreaking through there.

It's all soft in the middle, too, as standard when you microwave a potato, let's not give it too much credit, but (gasps) yeah.

And I guess if I wantedit even more charred I coulda kept it in there longer.

Bit of butter in there,melt away my beauty.

The old dollop of me tuna mayo, ahh, go on, get in there.

We have fared well today.

And why not some herbsthat we sliced up earlier with our wheely good gadget? That is also a good gadget.

Oh! Last one of the Mico ones.

That's a bit close, isn't it? Last one of the Mico's, before we go back tothe ice cream to finish, is poaching or frying an egg.

Ooh.

So, we have this very snuglooking travel case thing with a lid, we remove it.

Inside there's two pods, so we can make two eggs at once.

I thought, at first,you had to pour water.

I don't think, 'cause there's a water mark that I'm supposed to fill it in, 'cause it's a prototype Idon't think it's in there yet, I think the scientistsknow that stuff.

(laughs) Scientists, I know science.

Look, like a pair of eyes.

Hello! The water would go through it, so boom.

We actually just put theeggs in here with the water, but these things sit on the outside.

So we need some eggs.

Let's crack on.

Egg banter.

(gasps) This egg's stillgot a feather on it.

I had to get another one,I just couldn't do that.

This is complete guesswork'cause I can't see the fill line, but the instructional video did show this.

A little bit of water,yeah, kinda sat in there, and then we'll do the other egg as well, 'bout the same amount, see that? I'm no microwave expert, but somethin' tells me thatwater will get very hot.

So we sit our egg in therewith the water, and again.

If this one fails, let'sgive it a bit o' flexibility because I couldn't seethe water level line, but it's going good so far.

And I think we shove the lid on.

Oh wow, you can actuallypoach, fry, or boil it, so about three minutesroughly is for a poached egg.

This microwave has beenworked a charm today.

Alright, let's give threeminutes.

(microwave beeps) I know I can do it justmanually like that, but I just love pressin' that button.

(imitates beeping) Here we go.

I guess I open it quite quick, otherwise the water willkeep cookin' it, won't it? There's gonna be some serious steam.

Woah! I guess I'll be patient,but I can't, I'm excited.

Oh wow, there's a teenybit of excess water in it, so I'll pour it away,and it's still very hot.

In fact no, let me do it here, otherwise you might not believe me.

Look, the egg's in there still, and there's just a littlebit of water there.

Oh, do you know what I didn't do? I think I was supposedto oil the bottom of it.

Hopefully it comes out.

You had one job, Barry.

Well, several, but.

Oh, so don't, oh wow, ohmy gosh, oh my gosh, it is! (grunts) Yes.

I didn't think it was gonna slide out quite as well as it did, then.

Got all the egg white cooked through, slice through it (gasps) yes.

Poached egg! Garnish optional.

Look at it, that's awesome.

Oh, that's perfect.

So sadly I've gotta send those back, I can't give them away, butif you do wanna support that and make them a reality, there's a link to an Indiegogo campaign down below.

Last up, ice cream.

Who knows, actually if wecan make that thing take off, then Mico might help memake my own kitchen gadgets as well one day.

You never know, with my face on it.

So, this was the Sweet Spot (laughs) ice cream maker thing,and there's this big, like, heavy dish thing, this thing, I had to put it in the freezer overnight and it had water in it, sowhen I bring it out right now, this metal plate, if Istick my tongue to it Dumb and Dumber style, it'sgonna be super cold, okay.

So it came with this, came with the instruction/recipe booklet, and literally just someshovelly things, that's it.

Prepare ice cream mixture and pour onto frozen Sweet Spot surface,which is what I did.

Mixture begins to freeze instantly so you can scoop and turnuntil the ice cream forms, and then you can, you got ice cream.

You can make margaritasand sorbets as well.

So as you know, ourchocolate ice cream mix is in the fridge, and we're gonna get the bigsteering wheel thing right now.

I just got attacked by frozen spinach, I felt like Popeye.

(imitates Popeye chattering) There we go.

Alright, yeah, this is a clean spoon.

I'm just gonna give thisa little mix together 'cause it's kind of settled.

Nice.

So this thing is super cold.

Let's just pull you backa bit, can you see that? There we go.

Pour half a cup of the mixture,which is about 120 mils, onto the surface of the Sweet Spot (laughs) ice cream maker.

Oh wow, can you see that steam comin' up? That's, just a little bit more.

Alright, just to cover it like that.

There's actually legitimate ice in it, as well, right in the corner there.

You can see how thin and runny that is.

First serving will startto freeze immediately.

Wait approximately 10 to 15 seconds, I think I've done that already, then begin to mix and blendwith the included tools.

Ooh, it does feel thicker already.

Ah yeah, it is, it is.

I don't know what I'msupposed to be doing.

Just moving it around? It's gettin' there, oh my gosh.

Dogs are goin' crazy over there.

Oy! Settle down, settle down.

Sorry.

It's all starting to grip to the bottom, it's gettin' a bit, like, dirty, like the bottom of the seaor somethin', like sand.

This is workin'.

What I wanna try and do with this thing is do that thing, you know, when you push it and itdoes one big roll together.

I've never done that before.

I'm very excited.

We're very close now, look, there's actually like a surface formin' and it's gradually workin' it's way up to freem the, to freem? To freeze the whole mixture.

I've given up on the instructions, I'm just gonna leave it.

(laughs) there's actuallywater, last night, in this.

It was like, I thought it was rain water from when the delivery guy dropped it off, but that, I guess, has been frozen, and that's what's hittin' that metal and creatin' this likeunique freezing point.

Well, I think we're about there, so I've never done thisbefore, it might fail, but I can tell you, thatis legitiamte ice cream.

Whether it's completely frozen or not, we're about to find out.

Ahhh yeah, yeah.

That's ice cream, that is ice cream.

Didn't get the roll, though,I really wanted the roll.

(laughs) No, we're not gettin' the roll, but that is 100% ice cream,with a question mark.

It's so hot in here it'smeltin' already.

(laughs) Here we go.

Oh my word, (groans) that is super rich.

Absolutely gorgeous.

So we've come to the end ofthis gadget testin' video but don't worry, there isa playlist full of them so grab the popcorn and watch the rest, and you guys love doin' that, have a Barry-thon, rememberto pre-order my book if you like, you don't have to.

Please don't feel pressured.

And of course, if you wannacheck out that Indiegogo link, my favourite gadget today wasactually that toasty maker, so I will certainly be helping it.

There we go folks, anycool gadgets you've seen, let me know down below.

Remember to subscribe for regular recipes and food fun, and I'llsee you again next time.

I've gotta have another go at this.

(snorts) And that is why I don'twork in an ice cream shop.