and if you're picking it between chef mike or this, this is probably the better option

would a cooktop not be better?

@@jamesbyrd3740 nah, because then you would need pots and pans, it would take up more space.

@@jamesbyrd3740 from a cooking perspective, sure From a portable and low storage space type of use like in a truck, no

My youth group leader once made chocolate cake in a rice cooker, he said it was the most moist, fluffy cake ever. Rice cookers are amazing!

Thanks for your comment - like the boys, I was imagining that pan being useful for someone in a tiny kitchen or student accommodation, but you’ve just made me realise it could be amazing for someone with disabilities who needs to sit down to cook (chronic fatigue, wheelchair user etc) but doesn’t have a low hob. It should have occurred to me sooner, really, because I have nerve damage in my leg that makes it difficult to stand for a long time! (I’m usually okay doing the actual cooking because I can stir things and then rest in between, but I definitely need to sit down if I have to chop a lot of ingredients.)

Agreed - a lot of these products would be really helpful to me. I need two things, though: consultation with those who need these products to eliminate barriers (eg, the clamp on the pot stirrer would make it unuseable for me) and a lower price point. Many disabled people don't have the mnoney to spend on a $130+ pot stirrer

I bought the 7 in one can/bottle opener after seeing it in one of these videos for this EXACT reason!!! I am disabled and live with my nan who has arthritis. It has been an actual lifesaver. We only use it for opening tins, but as someone who suffers with a lot of fatigue and pain, cooking with tinned food and being able to open them with ease has been incredible. Their frozen and tinned food videos, as well as these gadget videos, have been insanely helpful to improving my quality of life 😁😁🤘🤘🤘

@@cakeyonline7925 You might want to watch Barry Lewis if you don't already - he has a huge playlist of gadget testing and he does think about people with disabilities. He also still shows the recipes more than causing mayhem in the kitchen.

Exactly! I was already thinking that the pan, aside from being very useful to students, might be safer (not completely safe) for people with fainting spells or epilepsy. I got an induction hob by now for safety, but those are way more expensive than a pan like this.

I am glad that I am not the only person triggered by this. Using a steel is not sharpening your knives.

So few people know this!

Epicurious has a great instructional video about knife care. I'm pretty sure it's Frank Proto doing the explaining.

Yeah, kinda surprised they didn't know, or that one of the chefs hadn't taught them yet

Honing corrects rolled edges, so it also straightens a dull edge 😘

It's a great point they made. MS, arthritis ALS, etc all benefit from a stirring aid, though I wish it functioned better with milk products. Maybe if they paired it with the cooker?

They used to do the same and their comment section was flooded with comments about disabilities. Glad they took that critique to hearts

I think that's also mostly the fault of the advertisers of such products, trying to get a broader audience for their product than it might have been designed for. Selling more but ending up in the hands of people who find it useless. More money, less positive reviews..the circle of life of most gadgets I guess

@@EmberLionGames Lol.

@@EmberLionGames I agree the marketing is always like "EVERYONE NEEDS this product in their kitchen" like no they don't.

Now THAT is someone they should collab with

My immediate thought was where was this for Claire?!?!? hahaha

This is a thing one of the chefs would never even think of. Love it.

I was wondering when they said you can cook breakfast in the bed. Why would you cook there, get your bed messy with the incredients.

Camping? Ah right, as in, using an SUV outside the tarmac of the highway, city center or suburb. Because you will need decent power to use it. But yes, if you are going tent+car and not leaving the car behind over night, it might work without having other camping specific outfitting, as you would in a camper van.

There is SO many products for heating food while camping out there that would destroy this thing in both performance and convenience. This is useless in that scenario with the amount of power it likely draws. no, this is useful in single room rentals, studio apartments, and college dorms, heck even offices if your boss and coworkers are chill about it, but definitely not camping.

An Instant Pot would be a better choice though - you get more cooking methods including pressure cooking (great when you're on a budget and using beans or cheap cuts of meat), larger pot and optional air fryer lid.

ikr i boiled some carrots and then put them in my butt can recommend

@@YaaLFH nah those wouldn't be able to fit in my butt you must a professional gaper or something to recommend that

That would be interesting to have them look at it from that perspective,

@re_animatedabby6791 Barry Lewis has dozens of videos of cooking gadgets and always talk about them for people who have disability!

@@jellycatfish ooh cool will for sure check them out!

@b_uppy YEAH they mention it several times I've noticed in other videos trying to see things from that perspective!

Yes please!

Agreed. Some it's grip strength, others it's "my feet are killing me" or arm exhaustion from stirring etc.

@@b_uppy yes!! All of this! I would genuinely find a pot stirrer very helpful if I could afford it LOL

@@chenwingsee Read in the comments that they used an Italian made pot stirrer a few years back that Ebbers decided to keep. Would love to see these two compared side by side. I suspect if they paired this one with the cooker it would would have less deep browning on the bottom. The stirrer ikely works on pans that have thinner sides, but would fail on an instapot. That said, the stirrer likely needs more squared interior along the bottom.

when i first found the channel i also binged watched it. so much so that the voice in my head starting developing a British accent lmao

Welcome to the family! Now you're Sorted...

Same for me. it's like top gear at it's best for cooking

I was lucky to find Sorted about ten year ago, and even though they didn't do nearly what they do nowadays, I still binged through their older vid's and recipes when I first heard of them, too! Welcome to the community! If you haven't yet, check out their Lost & Hungry tour of the US. They do a lot of fun stuff and challenges now, but seeing them enjoy the best in food & culture is still my favorite thing they do. They've been all over the US, to Ireland, France, camping, and so much more. Oh, and Ultimate Battles were freaking _AMAZING_ back then. Everyone was involved in them, and the bickering between the normals is top notch!😂 What can I say, except enjoy your stay!😁

Welcome!🎉

I can't stir proper and I still wouldn't use a plastic robot like this.

I'd happily pay 100 pounds for that if they somehow can make it so that a lid can fit over it...when I do long sauces like bolognese, you turn it on go take a nap and come back 3 hours later..., you wouldn't probably need it for things that take 10 minutes to stir, but a long cook, where you want to make sure it will not get burned.. that is a great item.

@@arunashamal Honestly at that point I'd be paranoid about safety, especially when you've got a gas stove. I already get itchy leaving my stove on while I can't regularly check it and this is adding another failure point in the form of an electric device, I'd rather just give it a stir while I'm checking in anyways.

Instead of a strong spring they could make a clamp with a screw to tighten it. Even though it would be slightly less quick to attach it would be easier for people with less strength.

Very much agree. I have an RSI from back in my uni days, my gran had arthritis, my friend has fibromyalgia. If the clamp weren't as stiff and it were half the price, I'd say it would be an excellent investment for people with reduced mobility or strength in their hands.

We can see that it would be a very handy gadge in that situation!

@@SortedFood I thought it might come in handy for those few times a year that you might not have enough rings on your hob, like Christmas or any other big family get togethers.

Why not get a portable (single) stove top and gain the ability to use any number of pots and pans? That would be cheaper, easier to replace, easier to scale up, and more versatile.

How is that washable without wreaking it though?? Surely putting it in a bowl of water would wreak the heating element

@@1981namo you rinse it under a running tap, just as you would with a multi cooker or even an electric kettle that you’re washing out as part of descaling or because someone has put something other than water in it. You wouldn’t put it into a basin full of water.

Thought that comment was quite antisemitic.

Exactly, so you need two whetstones or that things and a whetstone. Adding those together means that this is not absurdly expensive anymore.

@@arthena2130 You honestly don't need a vunch of stone and a honing steel when starting sharpening. A decent 1kgrit-ish stone for

it also sharpens.

@@HugSeal42EDIT: I goofed, the video I mentioned below was about a knock off of the Horl system from a brand called Tumbler, I'll leave my original comment as written below so the comments after continue to make sense. Original comment: I saw a video not long ago about the Horl sharpener, the sharpening wheel gets clogged up/loses it's effectiveness really quickly (apparently). You can definitely pick up a decent enough combination whetstone for around £25, which will last decades and I totally agree that it isn't a hard skill to learn.

Long steels can contain added materials to make them remove metal and sharpen knives. In my kitchen I have both a sharpening and honing steel, among other knife care kit. Just do a brief google for ‘diamond sharpening steel’. You’ve got no idea what he’s got at home, and the arrogance confuses me. Just because you know something doesn’t mean you need to try and correct the world. The guys clearly can distinguish between sharpening and honing.

I hope you are familiar with the Well Equipped series with Dan Formosa. He is a designer with disabilites in mind and has an interesting approach to appraising these gadgets.

One way I’ve seen accessibility checks done on this sort of product is an oil test, where the user rubs a bit of oil on their hands and then uses the product with their non dominant hand (if it requires both, lead with the non dominant one). It’s not a perfect simulation, but it makes for a quick fix if they don’t have someone in their life who has disabilities and is also willing to go on screen to test products with them.

I agree, I have feral arthritis hands and some of your reviews would benefit from A review by one of your grans, someone with mobility issues in kitchen and also dexterity. Huge opportunity for you to engage with agencies for cross promotion in this space. Earn money while promoting items that support the disabled to eat well and without pain.

People, like me, who are severely disabled from RA don't need any more information. We know whether or not we could/need to use these gadgets. The pot stirrer would be a nightmare to use. However, I purchased the ever grip and it's awesome. I understand what you're saying, but really we can garner the information necessary without an actual demonstration.

@@kinjunranger140 That may be the case for many people, but introducing a broader audience to problems they had never considered might not only lead to a better interpersonal understanding but maybe also to further innovation.

Resistive heaters are 100% efficient by definition, so the only way this would be less efficient than a pot on a hob would be if it somehow radiated heat out the sides. Quite the opposite, a hob needs to heat up way more material and a regular pot radiates heat away from its uninsulated sides.

A standard small hob is usually rated for 1-1.5 kW. It's really not any worse than your average cooktop.

Brilliant use!

Well what do you expect if you’re stir-frying on your chest!?!

cringe and childish

You can make pretty good risotto with just occasional stirring, though chefs might cringe. I often stir just after adding stock, then let it sit. Comes out just fine in the end.

@@GreggGies Not the point.

Have you tested the device? Seeing what it did to the saucepan after only a couple of minutes of polenta, I shudder to think what half an hour of risotto might create.

@@Serenity_Dee I don't think this user's comment warrants that response! If I found myself struggling with stirring a risotto, I would probably be comforted by the knowledge they contributed. I might have that stocked up in my brain whereas I don't have the gadget on hand.

Honestly, when I make french onion soup, even without a disability I'd love to have something like this for caramelizing the onions. Keeping onions moving without leaving them get stuck to the pan or burning while they can take up to an hour to get perfectly brown seems like the perfect thing to be able to automate.

do you have a good salt and vinegar seasoning iv tried ebay but they dont taste like chip packets salt and vinegar popcorn is my goal

Just make sure you have the right Kitchen Aid! Mine doesn’t tip back like that, it levers up and down.

Carmel covered popcorn

@@willowashe I saw another device like this for a Kenwood. It came with a stand to put the mixer on an angle.

​@@littlehills739 let me know if you find out

A collab with Molly Burke would be great. She mentions gadgets she uses in her daily life from time to time.

I like this idea a lot, but in collab with someone with expertise in that area.

Ahhhhh love to hear it 💛

Same principle as a cement mixer 😁

@@YaaLFH Yep.

The thing is that pasta sauces often have so few ingredients that it really doesn't make much sense to do that. Sure you can make and sweat your own sofrito (Onion, Carrot, Celery) add the premade pasta sauce. Or melt some anchovy, some olives, some onion and add your pasta sauce, but in most instances you could just as well add a can of tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes and you would have the actual Italian recipe to a pasta sauce. Meaning that you are better of learning some quick Italian recipes and their variations instead of "hacking" premade pasta sauces.

@@carpediem5232 Asding a few seasonings are quite different from chopping, sweating, and adding canned anchovies, etc. Dorms usually lack refrigeration, storage space, etc. Big difference between storing some bagged up spices versus opening a can of tomato sauce, hauling out a cutting board and knife, etc.

@b_uppy you can not really make a video on "hacking" pasta sauces without any chopping or sweating. If you want to add dry spices that is customising it to your own taste, but not really a hack now, is it? If you want it spicy, add chilli if you want more garlic, add garlic. I don't see the appeal in a video about that. Also, stop making everything about "dorms." The og comment asked for hacks that could be done in a "small kitchen". You claim elsewhere that you "love to cook" and now talk about "hauling out" a cutting board and knife? Please, are you even serious or just trolling?

@b_uppy The original comment was talking about a "small kitchen" not everyone lives in a dorm. "Hauling out a cutting board". Didn't you claim to "love" cooking in another comment? Just adding some spices you like is not "hacking" anything. That is just seasoning to your taste. Do you really need a video about that?

Lol.

With my disability, to me it worth spending more sense to buy the more expensive sharpener with better knives so that i'm not killing myself getting my knives sharp

@@williambrown319 oh exactly, and KEEPING the nice knives sharp. Just sucks it's gotta cost so much!

As someone who owns a Horl and has used whetstones - It's pretty dang close (no, it won't give you the absurd, microns-thin razor edge that internet knife enthusiasts obsess over, but it'll get you 90% of the way there which is PLENTY good), and it's WAY easier to use. It requires no soaking, and is very difficult to screw up (unlike a whetstone, which requires tons of practice to get right). It's costly, but worth it. I got rid of my other sharpeners shortly after getting mine.

I think Horl are the "good" brand of this design; there are a *lot* of cheap knock-offs that don't last a long time at all. You can find a lot of videos that tear the worse versions to absolute shreds because all the diamonds fall off after a week and you're just rubbing your knife against a piece of soft, flat metal, sharpening nothing.

It should do as good a job as a traditional water or oil stone sharpening with a guide. It should be miles ahead of the sharpness you get with a honing rod and the v sharpeners simply because you can have different grits for sharpening/repairs as well as the ceramic for honing. A bit on the pricey side of things but so are good waterstones or diamond coated plates

I have one, too and it gives me a childish pleasure each time I use it. Physics irl. 😳

Excellent for use at the weekend when I'm a pile of dippy soldiers to eat.

Generally don't have much use of being able to speak German in the UK, however comments like these on English speaking videos always make me laugh. I love how German turns an English paragraph into a word 😊 this particular gadget is pretty cool however I don't eat boiled eggs enough to own one tho.

Ah, it's one of those oddly satisfying things

finally someone else mentioned the italian one! I remember being blown away that it did actually stir without burning the food and from what I remember it cost a third of what this one did.

Tested on a risotto if I remember. Of course

Yes, I just wrote a comment about this before I saw yours. That Ben said he was taken at home. And if I recall, it didn’t leave any residue in the pan. I wish you would do another video testing the 2 of them

Think using both in the cooker might give interesting results. The burn protection coupled with stirring could be useful.

if in need of a knife sharpener, get a mini belt sander, little higher learning curve, but you will have a sharp knife in just a few minutes

I've been using the same Lansky sharpening kit since 2007/8 and my knives are sharp enough to shave with (not that I do lol). My kit brand new now on Amazon is about 25 quid but there are diamond options as well. Every part is available separately too. Sorry if I sound like an advert lol.

For £50 I'd get one absolutely, it's going to last a long time. For £160 I would just replace the knife...twice.

I have one of these. I 100% agree they are quite expensive but I am SERIOUSLY happy getting one.

@@ReptilezDzn I have a whetstone and know how to use one. I don't need a knife sharpener. That just looked nice.

Me too!

The crazy thing is that practically every review of that sharpener I've seen, including by professional knife smiths, the reviewer just pushes/drags it along the blade... I have yet to see anybody address why they would drag a roller, but it's very common.

😆

You can't really see it in the review, but there's an axle along the middle of the thing which attaches to the discs - so as you move the body back and forth, the rubber rings around the sharpening discs roll along the table, spinning the discs. (if you look around 6:40 you can see it wobbling a bit - but since the discs are totally symmetrical their movement really doesn't show on camera)

@@DumbMuscle Finally someone else who understands how it operates. No different than most rolling pins.

@@TheMuffin18 I saw that as well, really smart as it means you have a good grip on the handle while rolling it.

Many brands probably do, but the Horl is the original design and apparently very sturdy. Of course, that is part of the reason it is so expensive.

@@DangerSquiggles Lol definitely not.

@@svn5994 I tried this thing at a friends, it worked quite well at the time.

I'm guessing it's pretty much just sandpaper glued to the rollers.

During lockdown, if I remember…

Good point.

Or for people who stay in hotels for work. It's rare they have a stove these days.

Very true!

Happy shopping 😆

$35

you are basically saying that you dont like ben.

It's basically a shrunken concrete mixer 🤣

An Instant Pot or Ninja Foodi would be even better.

@@YaaLFH Than Barry? Yeah, probably.

I'm a content creator and food is partially my niche despite me not having a fancy kitchen. This pot is my lifesaver when I want to cook something quietly without my family knowing what I am up to (nor ask for the food I made 😂)

I'm a content creator and food is partially my niche. This pot is my lifesaver when I want to cook something quietly in my room for content creation without my family knowing what I am up to (nor ask for the food I made 😂). Also I don't have a fancy kitchen & cooking pots + utensils but since my electric pot looks cute, it made up for the aesthetic elements in my videos 😂

genius. i cant think of any place really, where it would not be convenient.

To be honest though, how is that better than just carrying a portable induction hob? Especially if you have a handy car to keep it in.

@@-_James_- you can’t put the induction hob on your chest and then put a saucepan on it. It would fall off.

@@grilnam9945 hah. Good point, well made. 🤣

Good to know!

Same, it's so easy to use I'm probably over-sharpening.

I just wonder how you properly clean it.

Camping, with mains power?

​@TheMuffin18 my thinking too, sticking it into a washing up bowl of water would wreak the heating element

Invented in the Check republic sometime between 1950 and 1960 first saw them advertised in a leaflet in the late70's.

Doubly so if "work" is a construction site.

Especially for people who make their own snacks because of allergies or other dietary reasons!

Or a falling knife 😬

Agreed.

Homemade caramel popcorn.

Thank you so much 😊

Glad you have a good memory.

I thought they had already done this sharpener too, because Ben made the great point that the sharp end shouldn't be facing upward - it's dangerous.

@@ChristopherBradfield You comment posted under the wrong thread.

Some are under thirty even. Try to find one with an extra low heat setting (for reheating pizza, toast, etc. The hytric model gets too hot), a plug that's away from the handle, and a broader opening/ shallower sides. The latter also adds utility for easier frying, and you can even eat out of it if you're just cooking for you.

@@b_uppy Thanks for the info!! I'll definitely look around!

Definitely!

They use it wrong 😆