7 Dumb Products That Actually Work!

[Music] Oh what's going on my daughter and I here at a park and we were trying out some interesting I know if you thought you might be interested in as well so let's check it out well summer is not over here in Southern Nevada far from it so we still have our park days like this and I found quite a few interesting items on Amazon recently and I'm not sure if they work or not yet so I'm not sure this video is gonna be titled it could be seven items that don't work or sometimes that do or something in between but I got some interesting ones for you so let's get started first up with what is the first one Melissa the grill sergeant honestly I thought it was a gag gift and it might still be but when I saw the reviews for people all seem to like it so I says I'm gonna be grilling some stuff here a little bit later I thought this might be the perfect addition to this video all right let's put this thing on alright here we go I love the camo it's awesome oh this is getting got a bottle opener attached to it very cool this is not the only bottle upper we have for this video though all right so the advertised features of the grill sergeant it has a bunch of pouches for cans bottles condiments all kinds of good stuff so let me load this thing up before I start grilling alright so what do you guys think we got I got my cooking spray here I've got a couple of utensils I haven't got a soda and there's a lot of you guys grill with different types of bottles in this but I try keep a family friendly you never know what YouTube's gonna consider not family friendly so we're going with soda instead of other beverages for the grill sergeant I got some cans right here I think it holds an entire six-pack one two three four five six I got three in there I'm not that thirsty it's kind of heavy because I got so much stuff in there but it's all right here so what do you guys think but I think it's actually a pretty cool idea might be kind of ridiculous but it's actually kind of cool let's see what else we got now what I wanted to do is see how the grill sergeant works when I take it off with all this stuff in there it's easy to put back on he's sending going to the barracks for a little bit here while I do other things check back with a grill sergeant a little bit later I will sit him in the grill sergeant isn't quite as easy because I got everything kind of compressed down on my torso here but I've got my daughter Noah here look at this here she is kind of thirsty about you you want something to drink yeah all right this is my next item and what does this have to do with a bottle of soda you might ask and that's because these are the reef sandals and on the back of them you've got a bottle opener right there so in my grill sergeant here and one of the pouches I got my trusty bottle soda let's crack that open and see how it works oh it worked who wants a bottle that was just next to the bottom my flip-flop anybody anybody mmm good sandal flavor there's been times even recently that I needed to bottle open didn't have one another grill sergeant also has a bottle opener you're not gonna have your grill sergeant everywhere unless you're grilling but this is you're gonna have any where you're walking around how do you think they look stylistically now they're pretty comfortable there and I think about 44 bucks my trainer swears by these things too but let me take a look at these these sandals a bit more closely there's nothing really unusual about them except for the fact that it has a bottle opener which it seems like a ridiculous idea but it seems like it kind of works they're actually quite comfortable and there's a nice arch to them so not extraordinary unusual that's the way I see it so the reef sandals I like them a little bit expensive but they're probably worth checking out but they're not the only sandals I've got for this excursion next up the infamous grass slippers that's right for those of you who love having your toes in the grass the hippie types are those like walking around oars with no shoes on especially someone like me who lives in the desert there's no grass around here these could be the perfect fit for you now here's the thing I was looking at these online I they seem ridiculous and then I saw the reviews everybody seemed to like them so I figured I'd pick up a pair and try them for myself so let's take the reefs off and put the grass sandals on and give it a shot all right reefs coming off thank you for your service I've not tried these on yet it feels like astroturf it doesn't feel like it feels like fake grass yes but it is fake grass they feel cheap they feel a little bit cheap but it's kind of grassy taking a closer look at these as you can see these are not a high-end model they have higher-end models of these you could buy but I think they all kind of the same principle you know basic flip flop grass texture and a pretty cheap strap in this case I think this is going to flatten up over time but I think you can also just kind of refresh it by by doing something like this I'm gonna walk around the knees and we'll check back on these a little bit later all right I guess I'm feeling it it's it's kind of strange it's just uh no grass thing where to walk in good thing I've got my grass slippers so yeah I'm walking in the rocks my feet are still tickled by nice grass sensations I mean it's not real grass it doesn't really feel like real grass it feels like astroturf but it's better than rocks and it might be even better than just a hard flip-flop surface so you know I think people are gonna like this all right have to wear for a couple hours you can see my toes actually made an indention on the grass flip-flops they still feel comfortable and I think all you have to do is just kind of just kind of refresh a little bit nobody's good as new all right so before I start grilling I'm still thirsty what's in the drink Noah yeah all right my grill started and I got some cans here these are called what do they call them these are called fresh top caps and they are a see on TV I've seen these advertising a lot on social media they have two purposes they supposedly allow you to drink out of it like you would have bottle instead I can and supposedly there's spill proof so if you knock this over it won't spill I'm not sure I believe that or not I'm a little skeptical but I'm skeptical about all these products yeah okay so here's your favorite color green yeah suppose you just snaps on there you just pop right on why isn't it popping on come on it's supposed to work why is this not working I don't understand maybe I'm doing it wrong oh wait oh it did work yes I worked you can't defeat me use fresh top cap whatever your name is all right let me try the green of yours you have to just kind of it takes a lot more force than I expected but hey maybe it's gonna be spill proof it has to be so let me try a drinking out of it and then try dumping it over drumroll please well it didn't affect the taste that's good what's that wow it's not like a bomb just went off over there whoa you're something I thought about those the top of the cans aren't typically very sanitary so if you're gonna be doing something like this where all the soda is getting all of the top of your can which it's you might want to make sure it's cleaned off first let me try it again okay well is it not screwed on properly let me try I would think it would leak around here not up there that's to be the easy part guys come on this should be the hard part you got that down oh oh oh oh come on how could you blow the easy part and get the hard part right but you know I think there's still if you if you spill your knock it over it's gonna be better it may not be a hundred percent but you know if you have a kid especially they want a can of soda and you know they're not going over oops Oh jr. I do think that that's gonna be better than having the can't spill a lot of soda so I think it works I do think it works it took a minute to get a snap down there you have to tighten it pretty tight yeah it's a pack of six so a dollar piece not terrible really I know I think that I would consider this a something of a success maybe not maybe you had eighty percent eighty percent successful that still a b-minus I'd give it a b-minus no what the camera person right now here's your drink but you know a Pepsi person oh we're not gonna start that we're not going to start those flame wars Mac versus PC now don't do that trying try putting the cap on there and seeing how it seals oh it's not completely waterproof but it's better than I think if you just knocked the can over so I think it's an improvement especially people that prefer drinking out of a bottle would you rate out of a scale of 1 to 100 105 a scale 105 would you rate it okay so we're both the 80 that's a pass all right what's next all right so my next item was supposed to be an SDM TV item called Kurla dog which is kind of an old item but amazon sent me some Christmas lights instead I was like really really Christmas lights not Kurla dog that's a big difference between a hot dog cutter and Christmas lights I don't know I'm not gonna get into it but fortunately my friends and I had they're not my friends my friends at Home Depot bailed me out because I found that they had something very similar that also was interesting and it was only 98 cents this strange contraption by charcoal from over the name of the company so you're supposed to put the hot dog in there roll it on the table and then it scores it so that hot dog cooks better so I'm gonna try doing a couple of them with this thing and doing a couple of manually and see if there's much of a difference the curl of dog is kind of popular this one seems to have decent it's a very floppy item let's do it all right I've got eight chances to get this right do they still have the same the same slogan saying they plump when you cook them oh maybe not all right here we go here we go and then I think I'm supposed to roll it oh all it's doing is pushing the hotdog out it's this really easier oh where he's not oh I think it's working it's working is it working you know this modern technology really makes things easier doesn't it oh there we go there we go well I think it did a pretty good job only taking about two minutes it's actually quite nicely scored so that's one down seven to go yeah I've never used this before all right oh man butchering this thing oh my god think it cut in half oh come on come on now so I did the first one good I think if you get it start with you have to stick your finger in there it does seem to kind of work all right uh-huh oh we're getting better this one came out pretty good I actually think I'm getting the hang of this thing or you just being nice drop a dog just technology at its finest and then drop a dog that doesn't look too bad does it I don't think so now I'm gonna see if I can do them with just a plastic knife I mean it's not great but it's not terrible I actually think there's a little bit better let's go girl no welcome to James's horrendous cooking channel where I will show you how to incorrectly make hot dogs back in the grill sergeant I'm still wearing these well you still got him on board ensemble huh I got the camera girl Sargent and I got the grass sandals life is good life is good I got my drink song on hand I don't where's my drink you know everybody has a different idea of what perfectly grilled hotdog is some people like them a little bit grilled some people like them so they are it tastes like shoe leather I'm kind of in the middle there somewhere but for the amateur griller out there that wants to score their hot dogs this seems like it kind of works once you get the hang of it and it was only eight bucks so it's worth trying I think you put this here in a bun they don't even know it was cutting have to begin with it be good they don't care all right so the grilling went pretty well I got this delicious plate of hotdogs yum yum yum I know all your grilling snobs are gonna say they're terrible I don't care they're grilled you didn't notice that whenever you pick up a pair of tongs you always have to do that test tap yep their tongues all right but that leads us to our next item here which it's thought staggering it's called saucy the condiment blaster and you you apply condiments with this gun it's very cheaply may feel it does spit I feel like a dollar store toy gun but what you do is you fill up these two containers here which are color-coded for ketchup mustard and I've already washed these out so you have to worry about these being like China factory flavored there was something oddly satisfying about that I don't know what it was let me load the chamber here pull this back oh it's so cheap we're locked and loaded the beauty of having a score like that is you can fill those areas up with condiments instead of just having it slapped on top the condiment gun might not even make it easier we'll find out you should do it you do a test shot here oh whoa whoa yeah that actually that actually kind of worked I gave that almost a zero chance of actually working and it kind of did you want to try one all right well she's getting the bun I'm gonna lock it alone with the ketchup smooth the silk go ahead make my day you know test shot it's kind of dribbled out I don't get you can go heavy I don't care oh yeah oh yeah got two beautiful hot dogs scored and fill with condiments Wow I mean on our short use what do you think I mean I think this would be fun for kids I mean it doesn't it doesn't do anything that the bottle itself does it doesn't do you know I guess there's no advantage over a bottle but it's just kind of fun yeah Cheers I want to hold it sideways and be gangster like that freeze hot dog yeah oh yeah yeah oh so no soda sure let me get that for you oh no you try it again I see you're out of study you want another soda yeah I hope you get that for you here you go oops get aggressive here yeah that's a lot of mustard all right you got one more item this isn't really an outdoor product but it kind of goes with the theme of strange things that may or may not work these are called the lazy readers now they kind of show that people laying down in bed watching TV reading a book so I figured I can relax after that nice hot dog kneel and read a book and see what happens they do a little bit like zoomies these have a mirror that point downward so when you're laying on your back they point towards a television or a book here we go whoa whoa whoa my hands are tiny they are you know I have small hands I feel like a Tyrannosaurus Rex or something well I mean I'm looking at your knee right now that's weird that's my hat I can't see straight I'm looking at the table I'm looking at the table you know I try it sure yeah I see my size I can see the bottle as I was drinking that's weak oh that's weird see down the bottle right now your hands look small to you yeah they kind of do it does look at me to be are it's pointing straight ahead and I'm looking right my phone this is so bad I'm looking right at you now I'm looking right at you oh I didn't know what a point I'm on my phone I'm actually I don't have to look down and see my phone this is great I don't know what's in front of me but this is awesome that's gonna relax this book here I can actually read it it's actually clear I'm gonna go home and try this on my bed and watch TV but this is actually pretty good I'm gonna turn the camera off and read for a while guys I even know where to look I wouldn't recommend I'm looking right at the camera now I've written I wouldn't recommend walking around with these on it's probably a bad idea but you know what though I'm surprised it like I'm gonna read this book right now it's so weird it is I can't like be in a VR I'm looking at my my feet right now I'm wearing my my reef sandals they I think I'm I staggering I'm feel like I'm doing like this these these work great I know is on the phone you can see your screen yes yeah but your head is pointing forward but you're looking your screen can you actually like use your phone I can use it it's just really really I don't have to look down you know this is where is try walking I don't like that I mean I guess the I guess the name lazy readers is pretty good cuz it's if you're so lazy to want to tilt your head and that's a it's ideal that's the cost of feeling you're wearing a VR headset yeah I think they work let me show you guys what it looks like looking through here my hand is small on us to kind of toward the ground all right so what do you think it's recapped us what do you think about these items any favorites they exceeded my expectations they all I think all of them worked better than I expected but let's talk about the grille sergeant I think the grille sergeant it's an apron but it's kind of a cool apron because it has all those pockets pouches you can carry like more than a six-pack because you have six soda cans and you've got more four bottles everything you need it gets heavy it does tend to sag if you load it up with a lot of heavy items though as a gag gift it actually ends up being kind of useful yeah from my reefs there are actually quite comfortable sandals how does it feel when someone whips on a sandal to open your bottle though is that kinda weird for you not really I've seen people break off bottle tops with everything even a wall so that's true I guess I some of the things people use to open bottles I couldn't be any worse than that yeah but if you use it for yourself you don't really care cuz you know where you've been and right I think the research actually worked it's a weird idea my belt also works as a bottle opener too this is a track line belt I really do this like a year and a half ago it's also a bottle opener so if I were the grill sergeant I've got the grill sergeant my belt and the reves all the bottle openers got plenty of bottle openers available to me and I'll probably end up having a can instead of a bottle um don't eat it right how about the lids I think the lids are my favorite most because just like my extreme paranoia with the bugs I don't have to worry about them getting into my drink I think I might end up using a little bit more than I thought I would because I do drink out of cans and I've spilled them and sometimes you wonder if something flew in there when you're outside so yeah and they're not a hundred spill-proof but they I would say they're 90% spill proof yeah so you're not gonna you can't slide down and expect them to come out but if you knock it over it's not gonna get everywhere I think it's pretty good yeah how about the hotdog cutter what do you think about that one very silly but it didn't work after we got the hang of it yeah I mean the first one I as soon as I first are used it I was like this was not gonna work at all but then once I realized you just kind of drop it in you kind of stop it from pushing it through once you get started it actually did a pretty good job so for those low end cooks like me it's actually kind of a cool idea and actually I think that worked well with the condiment gun the two of those together are actually kind of a dynamic duo of hotdogs I think they kind of been going to work for anything I think that you don't need it but it does work it's just fun it's novelty I think kids would like that yeah as long as you're not just shooting it into people's eyeballs that's true they could bite shoot each other now you didn't wear them but how about the how about the grass flip-flops if you saw some of straw in the sheet we're ingress flip laughs what do you think I would be a little concerned for their sanity you know what's funny those I warm so long I kind of forgot that I had them on right yeah after I went back and forth from them the reefs even though the grass ones are kind of like a novelty thing and the reefs are more serious I kind of got used to both of them and they're kind of kind of almost like them and finally for the lazy readers I guess there's a reason to have them yeah I just don't know what that reason is because if you're gonna prop your head in a pillow I don't know if you really need I don't know I don't quite get it but that being said they do work I can't not get for not working though none of these things failed I think all that I mean I've had items would just fail miserably mm-hm at first I was afraid the lids were gonna fail because I couldn't get him on there I realize he had press really hard and snap them on there right and first I thought the hot dog I was gonna fail because it was pushing it through once he got the hang of him everything worked so anyways have you guys tried any of these items tell me what you think in the comments below please follow my 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Length: 22min 59sec (1379 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 22 2019