5 Breakfast Kitchen Gadgets Tested by Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious

oh look mr sneezy is already sneezing it out boy this is just what i want to see in the morning i'm dan and i've been designing kitchen gadgets for 40 years i'm going to test some breakfast gadgets and see if i can find a way to make them better we'd want some sort of half dome here increasing the angle of this wall a little bit bigger head these are the products i'm going to test bagel guillotine slicer mr sneezy egg separator the never soggy cereal bowl one click butter stick cutter masticating slow juicer [Music] bagel guillotine slicer its purpose in life is to quickly slice a bagel safely and in one easy move let's see how effective it is we've got a new york sized bagel and i guess a midwest sized bagel slicer we're a little stuck what do you think give it a squeeze boy it's not going willingly okay it is squeezed in there let's see if we can turn this into two bagel halves and actually press this in pretty quickly and easily so that part of it was pretty easy let's see if i can pull out the slices want to come out but that's okay kind of looks like a toaster and they are sliced pretty nicely and the results pretty good the problem is the size may not fit every bagel you own let's assume you don't have a bagel guillotine slicer at home let's compare it to a bread knife [Music] on a scale of one to five for effectiveness i would give the bagel guillotine slicer a four i would give it a five but i'm from new york and there's no sense having a big bagel if you have to squeeze it down to cut it now i'm going to try the left-handed oil test making my non-dominant hand slippery is a quick way to highlight any deficiencies and let's remove the hood see how well this bagel squeezes in this one fits a little better get on top press down takes a little bit of force i may actually want to use both hands to do this but coming out i've got a well-sliced bagel not a whole lot of pinching or grabbing it really is just some downward force on this handle the handle is pretty sizable just need to line it up and apply that pressure the bagel's a little hard you may need both hands to get down on it but the blade actually is cutting pretty well and the shape of the blade starting with this point to get things started is pretty effective so yeah i think it's working in terms of usability on a one to five scale i would give it a four again it loses a point because i'm from new york and we have oversized bagels here which would have to be squeezed down let's think about a redesign see if i have any thoughts on how to approve this so i'll trace pretty quickly i think i'd question whether this handle up top wants to be rounded like this i mean have this arc to it as opposed to being flat or even having a small arc in the other direction that would keep hands centered as you do this my biggest complaint is it's not easy to pick up because there's nothing holding the top to the bottom so if you're going to store it somewhere or put it on a shelf and grab it off of a shelf especially a high shelf i think it's just going to fall apart if this is the base i think what i would do is flare out the base a bit so that fingers have somewhere to go just give it a little more surface area and that in addition to magnets on this end and this end and in the base strong enough just to hold this so that when you pick it up the two halves stay together i think that would be an improvement well i guess the one other thing is to make this more of a new york bagel size come up with a shape in here or maybe some fins or something that would accommodate different size bagels but be a little bit larger so that it'll fit a new york sized bagel which means a real bagel so in terms of a buy rating i would give this a 4.5 i am willing to forgive the fact that it doesn't quite fit in york bagel good job bagel guillotine cutter mr sneezy egg separator it is a rather disgusting way to separate the yolk from the white of the egg let's give it a shot egg number one into mr sneezy got a little bit of a shell in there but we'll just go with it and i'll try the second one oh look mr sneezy is already sneezing it out let's say you have a cholesterol problem and you never want to eat eggs again i would suggest mr sneezy because i can't think of anything i would rather not eat at this point i still have some egg white inside of mr sneezy's head oh there it goes you got to jockey the egg yolks around a little bit and i think let's see how much egg white is left in the bowl not too bad it's mostly yolk on the other hand i don't think i'm going to eat eggs for another week and a half let's compare mr sneezy with the traditional eggshell method [Music] in terms of effectiveness i would give mr sneezy a four and a half he is disgusting but effective it's time for the left-handed oil test there's not a whole lot of work or pressure involved in doing this self to crack an egg with my left hand always mr sneezy is already dribbling come on mr sneezy well boy there's no pressure involved and the curves are okay it's not like it's going to slip out there's enough flare at the top of his head that i don't feel insecure at all about using a slippery left hand on mr sneezy i'm going to give it a little bit of assistance here in the interest of time i'm just going to stop there and see what we have not bad separation between the eggs whites and the yolks in terms of usability i would give mr sneezy a four it's a lot of entertainment value let's talk redesign of mr sneezy i know what you're thinking how can you possibly improve on mr sneezy i'm not sure how i can i think the one thing i would recommend mr sneezy has to have a little bit bigger head i think it needs to be redesigned so that it could hold two jumbo size eggs so that he doesn't start dribbling out his nose immediately aside from that i gotta say mr sneezy i think you're almost perfect thank you dan in terms of a buy rating for mr sneezy i would give him a five out of five now in saying that i would give mr sneezy away as a present i'm not really sure i want to see mr sneezy every morning if you were a kid and grew up with mr sneezy in your kitchen i don't think you'd forget it never soggy cereal bowl its purpose in life is to keep the milk and the cereal separated until you're ready to eat it to prevent unwanted sogginess so here's what we have cereal compartment milk compartment root for the cereal to fall into the milk we have corn flakes and i'm gonna pour in the milk now the question is do the bananas go in the cereal part or do they go in the milk part this is a question that everyone really needs to answer for themselves now of course bananas are waterproof so they really don't need to be up here and time for the cereal to enter the milk and boy if i'm really going to be careful about sogginess i'm just going to do a little bit at a time and it's definitely crunchy it's only been in there for about 30 seconds so it should be crunchy i've never experimented to see how much time it actually takes for cornflakes to get soggy but i think if you own this what you would want to do is gradually introduce the flakes into the milk i'm holding this is actually a rather easy way to hold this if you wanted to walk around your kitchen or your house eating cereal as you can see it's pretty easy to walk around with it not only is it stable in my hand but it's deep enough that i feel like it's not going to spill as i walk around with it boy the only complaint i would have is do i like soggy cereal and actually like soggy cereal let's compare that to the more controversial method of pouring cereal into the milk a little bit at a time [Music] that worked in terms of effectiveness i would give it a five out of five it separates the cereal from the milk and that's not rocket science but it does so pretty effectively let's test its usability i will oil things up carefully pour on the cereal some of it's slipping out it's okay i will live with that i'll pour in the milk and really what it comes down to is there any advantage to using my left hand to scoop in the corn flakes oh let me put in a couple of bananas again bananas on top sorry that's the way i was raised okay now left-handed what that means is you probably if you want to hold the ball by hand you're going to hold it in your right hand so it really is a two-handed operation there really is no disadvantage to using this left-handed or right-handed you're really just holding the spoon there's no force involved i'm going to switch hands let's say i'm holding the bowl itself with the slippery left hand still it's pretty stable in your hand and i don't think there's any disadvantage to your right hand or your left hand or a slippery hand actually probably more secure than holding a standard ceramic ball in terms of usability i would give this a five out of five it really is just a bowl it's hard to say that it's a difficult thing to use let's talk about a redesign if you look at this angle the front of the bowl curves down so it's a little bit shallower here that's where the liquid is and the milk is but you notice in addition to that this wall is rather straight and this wall is rather curved it may be a little bit more spillable on the front i would think about maybe increasing the angle of this wall so that the milk isn't as likely to spill out especially since this shape encourages you to walk around with it if this is the level of milk there may be just a little bit of headroom there and if it starts sloshing it may be more likely to spill in terms of a buy rating i would give the never soggy cereal bowl i'd give it a five out of five it does have some sort of playful aspect to it and i'm not gonna lie it's hard to critique a bowl one click butter stick cutter your purpose in life is to pass butter now i know from looking at the instructions how to load this because it's not self-evident this top pops off but more importantly there's a piece in here that needs to be shaken out that doesn't easily want to come out but it's this piece which is the butter pusher i will load a stick of butter drop it in replace that cube i'll put the top back on and let's put it to the test some pancakes i will give it a squeeze whoa standing on edge it's not as easy to squeeze because it's got some sharp corners here it's not very hand friendly it took a little bit of effort to squeeze it this butter is just a little bit cold it's not super hard let's give it another squeeze well in that one i've got a butter slice that refused to come out naturally let's try the third one so i'm squeezing so what's actually happening inside is there is a blade when you push it the white piece that i showed you pushes the butter down and as it comes down it will slice off the butter and in many cases as you can see it'll stick so you may actually have to persuade it to come off notice too that the thickness of the slices seems to be inconsistent let's compare it to a butter knife [Music] in terms of effectiveness i give it a one because it is large and difficult to use it's not very versatile compared to a butter knife let's try this again using the left-handed oil test boy i can see my problem right now is getting this off is a little tricky with a slippery hand i'm going to turn this upside down and again i know that i have to wrap it on the table a few times okay it is finally out now let's get that new stick of butter in i'm going to replace this part and it's a little tricky but i got it and again we're good to go let's give it a squeeze well it takes some force to do that but it's out it also creates this little divot in the pad of butter i don't know if that offends anyone's aesthetic sensibilities yeah so i'm not the biggest fan right-handed or left-handed in terms of usability i would give it a two i guess it works mechanically let's go down to one and a half there's so much work involved in loading it and there's going to be so much work involved in cleaning it let me drop down that down to a one because really a butter knife is so much more effective they're solving a problem that was never a problem okay let's think about a redesign and boy this is a tough one because i'm not really sure this product has a reason to exist the reason it's so big is because the stick of butter that's in here is here the butter itself is not blue but yellow is not going to show up that well and the way this operates the knife is somewhere down here and so in order to slice this the entire stick of butter needs to move here which means you already have something that's almost twice the size of a stick of butter not to mention the size of the thing that's pushing and the space you need for the blade below so it's rather large i would rethink this to the point where maybe the butter lies flat so use some blue butter again and we'll need some sort of spring pusher here because we want the butter to move forward with every click so whatever mechanism is doing that we'd have to repeat here i would opt for this being this just about the size of a stick of butter and having some sort of plunger mechanism here that would maybe be like a mushroom cap or something that you would press down on so it would be stable on the table you would press down one one hand's a two hand the butter would come out this way you could pick it up and hold it over pancakes or whatever wherever you want to apply the butter that said a butter knife works pretty well so even this would be tough competition in terms of a buy rating for the one click butter stick cutter i got to give this a zero i cannot think of one person i know that i would recommend this to it doesn't save space it doesn't do nothing masticating slow juicer its purpose in life is to make juice out of fruits and vegetables let's see how effective it is i'll pull down this lever didn't suction at all that time okay it's not going to be very effective on a wooden base this part unscrews and so what's inside is this very like spacey looking part that is going to do the masticating the mesh on the bottom is where the juice will be coming out and this front nozzle is where the pulp will be expended i think i'll start with kiwi which i'm pretty sure is going to be relatively easy i will start masticating crank crank crank okay now i'm pressing pretty hard with the plunger because i need to get the kiwi out and i don't know this key we have pulp if kiwi has pulp that's what it looks like when they say it's a slow juicer i can totally understand what they mean i think at this point i would have just eaten the kiwi let's try some cucumbers start grinding sounds like something is happening but since they're both green it's a little hard to tell the cucumber juice from the kiwi juice but i think what we're getting out now is cucumber juice let's try some apple slices you would think i get a lot more juice now that i'm squeezing an apple and that may be the case it's a very slow juicer it's a very slow process so i am getting into the apple but just slowly slowly slowly let me shove in a handful of spinach as advertised this would be good for spinach kale or other leafy greens but let's see how it does on those i gotta say not much better at this point i'm wondering did the people who designed this ever try using it i did get a bit of juice a man that took a lot of work let's see how this compares to an electric [Music] juicer so electric versus hand crank you get the idea electric seems a lot quicker in terms of effectiveness i would give this a one i'm just not a fan it takes so long and so much pressure let's try this again left-handed i'm going to oil up i'm gonna throw in a few things at once i'm gonna throw in two slices of kiwi cucumber a slice of apple this time though i'm gonna push down with my right hand this is really the hand that's doing the work it's extracting juice at just about the same rate that it did before but you know left-handed i'm not having any trouble cranking right-handed i'm still applying a whole lot of pressure with not a whole lot of results in terms of usability i would give this a zero it takes so much work and so much effort to get the minimal amount of juice out of a kiwi which is relatively easy to juice in terms of a redesign boy this is going to be a tough one so one thing i noticed right off the bat is pushing the suction cup down even if it was a surface that would accept the suction cup something smooth like a granite surface this lever is really difficult to operate i would both extend this lever so it's a little bit longer you have more leverage more mechanical advantage on it and then i would give it a shape so that your hand or fingers are not as likely to slip off of it the main issue with this that i'm seeing is that this part is not masticating the way you would want it to it's got tiny little teeth here so seem to be ineffective and proved to be ineffective so once you get these bits or chunks of kiwi or apple to ride along here there are some juicy chunks that are just going to end up being ejected so here is the tooth which is actually a three-dimensional diamond shape right it kind of looks like that but it's only moving in one direction so there's no reason for this to be symmetric right if it's moving in one direction you would think it would want to do some sort of scooping in that direction so you think you'd want some sort of half dome here which would pulverize the fruit or the vegetable that you're trying to turn into juice secondly i would take these tiny teeth they're probably about that size i would think these things would be much more sizable right they really need to carve into that pulp boy i guess one other thing i have to look inside to what actually is happening here but you would think here at the very ends and there's actually some shape to this which i don't think is doing any favors but this is where if the pope finally ends up here this is where it wants to be squeezed i would make sure that somewhere along here having a squeeze action here so these ribs really need to do some squeezings because you want to at this point turn it into juice for buy rating i would give the masticating slow juicer a zero i cannot think of anyone i would recommend this to just make a salad so if you're making breakfast at home it really needs to be pretty seamless you're probably groggy still half asleep when you're doing it especially if you have to get out early we had some winners today we had some losers they were all fun to review some of them i think had a little bit of overthinking to them some of them had a little bit of underthinking in general it was a pretty good collection of products [Music]

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Length: 18min 57sec (1137 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 12 2021