Today we're revealing a bunch of kitchen gadgets to a chef and a normal home cook to get their opinions on them and see if any of them are worth the money that we paid for them. Have you seen these? Everyone's talking about them. The original. And just between you and me, one of them is fake. Let's see if you can work it out. And let's see if they can work it out as well. Gentlemen, yes. Lift the clutch on gadget number one. Here we go again. Oh, I wasn't expecting that. Is that egg shaped? No, it is.

Oh, it's not egg shaped. It's just a bowl. I'm not even sure. I don't know whether it's the wood grain that makes it feel like it's not circular, but it is circular dough. And then you end up with patient. No, why would you wanttons or like or guoz or I don't you could be right. So, it's something to act as a false filling for something. So, you basically shape something around it. Yeah. Like a dumpling. And then you can take it out and put your real filling in. Do you two want to swap jackets? Cuz Mike, this is a dumpling roller.

How did you get that? This dumpling press tool simplifies the process of creating uniform dumpling skins, offering a user-friendly experience that enhances homemade dumpling preparation. Simply add some dough to the bowl and compress with the ball. Roll the ball in a circular motion to flatten the dough into the perfect dumpling skin, ready to fill. Would you like some dumplings? Sure. Dough. So, I wonder here, and this will be the testament. You're a chef. How big a piece we go? Probably not that big. And we don't need a flowered surface for this.

No, I guess that's what the wood's doing. Squish it. Okay. So, a dumpling skin you want really thin. Yeah. So, I might already have started with too much, but you trying to get right up to the edges. Yeah. But you're It's not terrible, but it's it's also not as good as using a rolling pin. As with all these things, it matters absolutely the quality or the stickiness, tackiness of the dough. Um, because it's got to be perfect, otherwise it will just stick. So, what they say is that it's a robust wood construction, which makes it easy to maintain. The B-shaped base and rounded wooden ball simplifies the process of achieving uniform shape control, which

should be useful to cooks of all skill levels. I put a little bit of flour in just to see if it makes any difference. So the dough we're using is out the fridge, so it's a bit cold and therefore it doesn't really have much give to it. So we're going to leave it to come up to room temperature. Come back test it again. So we let our dough come up closer to room temperature. What I would say dumpling skins and wonton skins, you can buy 50 for a few quid frozen and everyone is bloody perfect. And you can use them in so many different ways as well. That's pretty thin.

Yeah, pretty good. It's all right. You'd probably need to just shape it slightly, but it does stick. What if you flour the ball? Immediate testing with a dumpling dough that we have just made. It's not ideal, is it? Trying to give it its fairest shot. I just not I just don't think it's quite right. And it goes back to why I was initially bothered is it's not food safe. So everything is catching on it. It's not It's Yeah, it's not sealed in. Got some comments suggesting that maybe try using corn flour might be less tacky.

It's a technique game as well for sure because you've got to roll perfectly evenly. What I find is happening with it is you're getting a nice thin skin on the bottom but it's pushing up the side. You've got quite chunky side edges. Whereas when you do it by hand, the very nature of rolling out the thing means it gets equally done. I'm going back to sometimes you don't need the gadget. The gadget already exists and has done for a long time. I have a feeling that there will be a version of this that is used and that works great. And if that is the case, tell us in the comments. We are just finding this particular one quite cumbersome and difficult. In the box, how much do you think we paid for it?

Probably 10. £10 for me. £9.99. £12.34. I would like you to rate the dumpling roller out of five stars. Just before we do, that's by hand and that's with a dumpling roller. So, one, I can only score what's in front of me. This particular version is difficult to use. It's a one out of five for me. So, we're going to combine your scores and that gives us two out of 10. Given we can't get our dumplings to work properly, we get something out of this. So, wanton lasagna. Have you seen these?

Everyone's talking about them. wanton layers with one ton skins layered up because everyone likes lasagna. Splash of water. Then you steam it. Now that goes into your steamer for an awful lot longer than a dumpling. But if you can't crimp or can't be bothered to crimp, you got a dumpling lasagna. Well, boys, is this a oneful gadget or just dim something you regret letting us put in front of you? Just dim something.

Something we definitely regret. Let's move on to gadget number two and hope that we're on an upward trajectory. All right, gadget number two. Lift the clch looks serrated, aggressive, spring loaded and sharp on both sides. What would you want? That's a press, right? It's got to be this blade. So, it's something you're cutting. You're cutting into it, scraping or pushing. Serrated edges make me think of a soaring motion on each side. But you can't soar in circles. No. What the hell is that, boys? This is the Melon Rake Pro. When speed matters more than perfect slices, the Melon Rake Pro gets the job done.

Designed for rapid fruit breakdown, this purpose-built kitchen tool lets you rake through melon quickly, removing flesh in seconds without the fuss of precise knife work. Right, this is like one of those gadgets that you see either on QVC or on that little TV inside of Robert Das. That's where Ed spends his weekends. And the reality is even the copy tells you it's a little bit rubbish. If you don't need something that works very well, but you just want it done quickly, that will probably get the job done. So, I'm not excited to try this one, but I feel like we ought to.

Well, let's get you excited to try it. So, first things first, you're going to cut your melon in half and then use your melon rake pro to scoop out the inside. Would you like it half this way or half this way? You're in charge. I think you're going to want to spin it through 90° and do half that way. Okay. Go on. rake away like you would on No, not scraping. I think Well, that's a raking. You're scraping. You're digging in. You're pulling. I think you got to put some pressure on it, though.

I have to stand up for this. I'm in half a mind to do this other one by hand to prove that I can get it more accurate and quicker. Rake and scrape. Interestingly, we couldn't find any videos of this being used. Okay. Well, it's nice to be the first at something. Okay, that's the way to do it. What you want to do is get loads of melon juice on your hands so the handle's nice and slippy and it is a rotational thing. It's so slippy. Okay, that makes at least I figured out how I think it was designed to be used. Yeah, you've used a knife before, so what they say is that the wide curved tine head is optimized to cover more

surface area with every pass. It's ideal for breaking down large fruits fast for batch prep, smoothies, juice blends. And the open rake design also helps release excess juice as you work, reducing slippage and making transfer quicker and cleaner. And it's paired with an ergonomic grip for repetitive use. Initially, whilst I got to grips with it, it was difficult to use. As soon as I figured out you make the indentation and then you almost swirl it around, it started to have some function. Okay. It got slippy. Really slippy. It was not easy or ergonomic. What I don't understand is some of their positives don't sound very positive to me. Like you said something about releasing more

of the juice. I don't want the juice all over the board. I want the juice in the melon so when I eat it, it's in my mouth. Why is there melon still stuck in here that I now can't actually without fetching a knife? You've got a waf. You've already got a knife. Look, it just look mess. I'm underwhelmed and almost off. But I caveed that with almost just so that there's room for improvement for all. I feel like something that's designed to be quicker isn't actually quicker cuz it's it's really quite difficult to use. Yes. When you figure out how it sort of works, I still don't feel like it's any quicker or easier. And certainly with a gadget like this, I want to be able to purchase it and it

works straight away. I don't want to have to practice using that because I might as well spend my time practicing chopping it correctly with a knife I already own. With that in mind, how much do you think the Melon Rake Pro cost us? And remember, these gadgets are going up in price. It's cheap plastic handle. I think at £10, it would be a waste of everyone's time, but it's probably 15. Yeah, £15. So, if I told you that we paid £12.99, are we not giving it its sort of fair testing? I'd hate to be miserable with it for the sake of being miserable with it. So, you're going for a sideways scrape?

It's actually better for removing the melon from the sides once you've removed the bulk of it. How many stars are you giving our melon rake pro? It's a zero. I'm always conscious of misrepresenting something because we're the idiots. So, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and give it half a star. So, when we combine your scores, that gives us 0.5 out of 10. Well, I think we know what you think about it, but everyone in the comments is screaming the question at me. Is this Mel on a roll or are its efforts fruitless? On a roll. It's fruitless.

Absolutely fruitless. Let's move on to gadget number three. Right, back in a positive mindset. Over the years, we've tried so many singleuse fruit preparations and they all wind me up. We've just got an insight into your brain there that you're having to constantly do a reset, a need reshift every 15 minutes. Gadget number three, and I'm determined to make you smile with this one. What? That has got to be a glass cleaner, right? It's for I have seen Stop doing that. I have seen these glass. I have seen these and I want one. I feel like when you host a suare with friends and there are a mountain of glasses to

wash up the next day, wouldn't it be lovely if you had something to polish? This is the Sparklave glass polisher. The world's first affordable spinning glass polisher. Spinning at 600 revs per minute, microfiber brushes clean and dry almost any glass to a brilliant polish free of streaks and scratches. It's a polish and not a cleaner, but it said it cleans. It is a polisher that will clean and dry almost any glass to a brilliant polish. So, you wash it up and then you use that.

It cleans what I would imagine to be either lime scale or watermark from a glass. Should we give it a go? Yeah. We've been nominated for a webbby. Basically, the Oscars for the internet. A very noble cause. Nonetheless, we filled out a form and are nominated. So, if you think we're deserving of your vote, we've linked down below where you can do that. But if you'd rather I shut up and get us back to some gadgetry, then you two are in luck. So, a couple of things. Yes, they're not going to dry something that's dried on. I think they polish and clean a freshly washed glass. So, we want to wet them, I think. So, maybe just a spritz or

something. I think the description is wonderful because in their words, uh, this is suitable for all glass types, wine, bar, and drinking. Ha. Uh, the dual brush heads polish both inside and out. And the polishing bristles dry streak and lintfree. It's the streak free is a problem, especially on really fine wine glasses because glass dishwashers are great. You can buy specialist glass dishwashers. Um, putting them in your own dishwasher at home works, but there's a limited number of spaces you can put them. And when you've got, you know, 24 glasses to wash up the next morning, you, you know,

you need something like this. It says dry. Should we try a dry one with stains on anyway? Quite clean. Yeah, try that. And then we can see. And then we've got some water as well to mimic the just washed up. Wait for this. Savor this moment. This is the last time in your life that you've not seen this turn on. That's a lot better than I expected. It's so wide. Something out of the fairground. Which is why when you put the glass in, it does both sides. So for reference, you can see some water stains.

A pretty shiny glass. Like at home, I wouldn't have a problem drinking out that. It's clean. Yeah. But I wouldn't present it to guests. It wouldn't make your suaree and rotate so that you get 360 of that glass on the outside. There we go. It's also out of the box fresh, which means this is brand new and not moist or damp at all as well. Let's have a look. Seeing as this the watermarks have dried on, I think that's an unfair test. So try one as if it's just been washed up. Does it dry? Does it clean? Sucker.

No. Are the fibers too floppy? They're too synthetic. It's just smearing it. It's making it worse. Yeah, that's it. Like getting right on the edge. That's rubbish. I was really excited for this. So, this has come out of the dishwasher and it's got you can see a little bit of water stain from the lime scale. I take it back. Maybe polishing glasses is therapeutic and you should just do it yourself. Uh, just give it a good shine.

A shine. Actually, drier is better than wet cuz it's not actually drying yet. So, some of the reviews on Amazon say that it doesn't dry actually because they're not absorbent. Yeah, that's exactly what synthetic. But that's nice and shiny now. As your pine glass is better, not perfect. I'm really disappointed in that because I have seen and used professional glass polishes and they are much better than that. The effort that's required to actually attempt to remove some of that stain is twice or three times the length of time it would take to actually just do it by hand. Really hot soapy water, like to the point where you can barely

put your hands in it. use rubber gloves and the glass pretty much cleans itself, but you need to get rid of the lime scale marks and that's why using good soapy water does that. So, how much do you reckon we paid for the uh sparkle glassware polisher? I think it's probably £21. Yeah, I was going to say it's probably £20, but it's not worth that. We paid £55.73. Why? How? That was the going rate for it. I think you were hoodwinkedked. If you had to put a price on what this is genuinely worth, when it becomes worthwhile because it polishes glasses, what is that price? If it was 25 quid, I would still probably have one to polish clean glasses.

Okay, there you go. But at twice that, it's a bit silly. How many stars out of five? As a glass polisher, I'd give it a three out of five. Once I've read all of its T's and C's, as in cleaning and drying, it's a half out of five. Again, it doesn't do it. If I were buying it, I would be buying it with the expectation that it was a glass polisher, but that it also did the other things because that would actually push me over the edge to purchase it and therefore it would be a one out of five. Oh. Well, in that case, boys, is this a clear winner or is it a total wipeout? I' I'd have to say it's a total wipeout for the claims that it makes. It should have just said it's only a glass polisher and then there would be no

disappointment and expectations would be set. Yeah, agreed. £50 is a lot for it and I feel like you got gazumped. I'm not going to hold that against the I reckon the comments can find it I find the com I reckon the comments can find it cheaper online. Definitely. Well, let's see if I can pull one final gadget out of my bag. It's a weird phrase, isn't it? Lift the clush. Go, Mike. Finishes off. What would you think from this design alone? It's giving kind of windmill sunshine harvest. No. Platter box.

The original. What is this? What I think this is? Is this a It's a picnic hamper. But like that you shutoerie or you platter up a thing and it keeps it cold and you got a lid and you can carry it to have your picnic. That's cold. Ebers. This is a platter box. The innovative solution specifically designed for transporting your culinary creations with utmost convenience, freshness, and style. Its special locking mechanism and insulated body are engineered to maintain temperature for hours. Whether hot or cold, your food creations will remain as fresh and flavorful as when you prepared them. I think and I stand by it that a sharing platter of sorts, chi shakuterie, is the best thing to share with friends. I have

many a time taken all the component parts and a board or platter to a park or situation with friends and a cool box for wine and equivalent and when you get there and it's all wrapped in plastic and whatever and you got a lot of packaging to get rid of y this means you can recycle the packaging responsibly at home and turn up job done it's good to go. I've got a question and it looks like it comes out it's dishwasher proof as well afterwards. Is this ovenproof? Yes. Okay. So, you're taking a lasagna to the park? Yeah. Yes, I am. The one thing that I can cook that people in this building like I'm on board. I like it.

What are we plattering? So, we've got you a selection of shakuterie elements uh that you can pop into your platter box. Platter box was born out of necessity one southern day when co-founder Louisa couldn't find a suitable container to transport her platter to the seashore. So, it features a lid with ergonomic handles for easy carrying. It's folding the salami as well. Textures height, allowing the platter box to be carried flat and level. Actually looks really good. There's a transparent window to showcase your creations. Stainless steel removable tray suitable for both refrigeration and oven use. Um, and

specially designed compact ice cubes to fit in the base. It's also customizable. So, you can have add-on compartments which adapt to accommodate various serving sizes and food types. So, we've gone for the big one, but you could split it up. You can have little inserts. Mhm. portions. You could have apple crumble and custard. And what they say is it could be used for anything from shakuterie platters to tiramisu. Earlier in the year when I was in Slocow, California, there was an amazing farm shop and they did build a box and it was an incredible buffet of all their local uh cheeses and shakuterie and marinated olives and vegetables and all prepared and you went around and you could have like any three

cheeses, any two meats, any one olive and they built a box and they constructed it and it looked beautiful and they put the lid on it and then you can take that to wherever you're going. This is that, but so you can DIY it. What I really enjoy is how much Mike hates how much Ben loves. Yeah, I appreciate it. And as a true friend of over 20 years, it still annoys me when you're happy. Do you want to take it for a walk to the park? Yeah, I'm going to. There you go. A little swinging is not a problem. Everyone on your commute is thinking, "Look at that man's platter box."

It's well, and where do I get my invite? And you've got the transparent window so you can showcase your creation. That's what I mean. Everyone's walking past going, "Look at that." Okay. Understandably, some of it has fallen around. But to be fair, but what I like about it is you're not trapesing across London and filling up a park bin with all of your recycling as well. Like, you can do it all at home. You can just be social. It's the same thing I like about a dinner party. Pour a drink, enjoy the sunshine, and then as and when you're ready, you whip it open, you gather around and you everyone can tuck in.

How much do you think we paid for the platter box? This being bespoke and selling a dream that you didn't know you needed until you saw it. 65. Yeah, I was going to say 70. Double that. £139.85. As is the nature of anything you innovate and produce in a small, that is very expensive. I thought you were going to stack it still. Fair play, but it's sturdy and it feels like it would last. I'm going to need a rating out of five. 4.5. Yeah, I'd have to give it a four. It's really good if this is what you're looking for. Yes, it's the price, but I think you can very quickly justify that price based on how often you use

it. Well then, and boys, is this picnic perfect or just a cold case? Picnic perfect. It is both of those, but it is about as perfect as you can get. Well, at the end of that, we had a complete range of gadgets. Everything from 0.5 up to 8.5 for the platter box. Over to you in the comments. Which one of those kitchen gadgets do you think was fake? Oh, what? No, I've literally just reviewed the pretentious ingredients. I should have been. Yes. Sorry, boys. Me and Kush have been up to our old tricks again. One of those kitchen gadgets is not a real kitchen gadget. That has to be because Yeah.

Before now, you've repurposed something else, but that has a cool box in it. So, it's unless But it even says battery box on it. That has to be real. And it's brilliant. This I have seen before and exists. It's this. So, it has to be that. This is something different, which explains why it didn't work. And it was melon raker that I'm questioning. We're in agreement. It's your melon raker. Boys, I can tell you that one of those kitchen gadgets has been repurposed and its original purpose is a horse grooming tool. The melon rake pro is a complete and utter fake. That's for grooming tool. It's a comb.

It explains everything. Yeah. Because of the circular nature of those buttocks. Yeah, Lee. Did you guess that? Let us know down in the comments.