- [Announcer] We are Sorted, a group of mates who have your back when it comes to all things food. From cooking battles, to gadget reviews and cookbook challenges, to a midweek meal packs app. (upbeat music) We uncover the tools that will help us all cook and eat smarter. Join our community, where
everything we do starts with you. (serene music) - Hello everyone! Now luckily, for me and Ebers, James can get to the studio safely. So we've left him some presents,
some gadgets to review. How's it going, mate? - It's going well, thank you. How are you guys? - All good. Just in need of a bit of a pick-me-up and a bit of Judgmental James. That's what we've been missing and everyone's been
missing gadget reviews. - [Jamie] Could you
find present number one. Pop it under the cloche
and turn around for us. - Wait, I need a cloche? - Format is format. (upbeat music) - Spin it around James. (upbeat music) - Wow. (laughing) You know I like unwrapping presents. (upbeat music) Oh, it's just like a bottle
top that goes over can. - [Jamie] James, this is the Iris Tech Beer Pourer and Foamer. The ultrasonic bubble
design is used to enrich the refreshing taste of the beer. A milky, silky foam can be
tasted in several seconds. Enjoy amazing visuals infused
with rich and delicate foam. Everyone can simply make
a golden ratio of beer, seven to three, beer to foam. One of the things we've all
been missing is the pub. So this is the solution to not being able to get draught beer at home. - I'd say pour from one
can like you normally would and pour from one with the gadget. - [Jamie] It's such a small
can and such a big glass, James.
- I know, I know. But we can see the level of head, right? I'm trying to control it
with the tilt of the glass. Right, that is my first pour. - [Ben] Not bad at all, James. - I think that's pretty decent. - Now with the gadget, I wonder if this will change
not just the appearance, but the consistency of the foam. - Right. So first I have to work out
how the hell to attach-- that was easy. (laughs) - "Press the power switch and
pour the liquid simultaneously "to create milk-like bubble." Oh, yeah, let's change that. (yells) - Still want tilt, still want tilt. Don't just shoot it into a glass. - Well, I didn't know! I thought maybe-- - Maybe you need to do it again, James. - Take two. I'll admit that that was
definitely human error. Wow, it works. - I mean, in terms of our magic ratio of seven beer to three head, we're not quite there are we? - [James] This is the
difference right now. I know we're not very
scientific with the glasses, but there you go. The head does very different though. It's a lot finer in terms of the bubbles. Okay, I'm gonna taste. (upbeat music) Guys, they taste the same. - Oh no! - It definitely produces more head. But I don't know if that's
something that we want. There may be a slight difference in the consistency of the bubbles and I feel like it's a
slightly unfair test, 'cause the moment that you have the head is the moment where you drink
the very top of the beer, whereas when you're
halfway down the glass, the head moves out of the way. - [Jamie] Okay, James, how
much do you think it is? - I think it's about
nine pounds and 97 pence. - [Jamie] James, this is
five pounds, 99 pence. - [James] It does work. - So James doesn't give you foam or does it just give you FOMO? (crickets chirping) - Punny. I think it's gonna give me FOMO. (upbeat music) - [Ben] Give us a spin and give us a lift. - It's a punctual egg timer! That's so boring. - [Ben] Not just any egg timer,
this is the Oxo Egg Timer. Seven different settings
allow you to choose how to get the perfect egg consistently. With an egg piercer to prevent cracking and
breaking and make easy peeling. - [James] I found that egg piercer. It just pierced my finger. - [Ben] Fridge-cold eggs. - [James] We've got on the back,
medium, large, extra large, and I assume J is "jumbo." Right, I'm gonna do it to large though, because I've got large eggs. Medium boil, I like medium boil. - [Ben] And then put your egg on top and give it a little prick. And what that does is stops
it from cracking with any extreme temperature differences as you drop it into the water. Once you're happy it's boiling, drop them in nice and quick. Let's see if the one that
isn't pricked does crack, and then set the timer. - Neither of them have broken. We're on the second bar. - [Ben] Oh, sounds like good time to put your toast in, James. - That's my soldiers. - [Ben] In the circumstance
of fair testing, I did use a regular timer
on my eggs this morning. Fridge-cold, seven minutes,
without a prick, perfect. (timer beeping) - I'll take them out! Oh, no. I didn't think about the fact
I'd have to take the top off and I'm notoriously bad at that. (yelling) - [Ben] What the--? (groans) - [Ben] Everyone does
this a different way. - I'm in, I'm in. - [Ben] So large egg, fridge cold, and you set it to just below medium? - Yeah, it's perhaps a little
more cooked than I'd expect. (upbeat music) - If that's yolk, then
that's not very dippy is it? - No, can't dip in that. - But I would expect the
egg to be slightly softer at the time that I set. - Couple of questions. Would you use it? Is it useful? What do you reckon the price is? - I don't know. I'm not convinced by it. You kind of know eggs by time, like I would say, "Oh,
that's a seven-minute egg. "That's a six-minute egg. "That's a four-minute egg." It's a very subjective scale, I guess, whereas the time isn't a subjective scale. I reckon it's 15 pounds,
I'm going in high. - [Ben] You're not going in
high enough, that's 25 pounds. - That's 25 pounds? For an egg timer? - Wow! - That's too much. - Is this a gift of
time or a waste of time? - It does what it says it should do, but I don't know if it's necessary. There are simpler ways of doing it. (fun music) - [Jamie] And turn around, James. (fun music) - You bought me a mug. - [Jamie] This is the Ember Mug II. It effortlessly solves a
myriad of hot drink hiccups that we used to encounter
every single day. Essentially, mate, it's a smart mug that you tell it what temperature
you want your hot drink to be, it keeps it there. - Comes with a lot of gadge. I'm gonna download the app. - I feel like it's a little bit more prep than your average mug. (laughs) - Yeah. "Press and hold the Power button." - Make yourself two cups of
coffee, one in a regular mug, one in your special Ember Mug II. - Yeah. - We'll leave it to one side
and we'll come back to it. - I have my favourite
mug and my Ember mug. - Sure. - I don't choose the
mug, the mug chooses me. - I've signed up to the
app and it looks like this. - James, you seem to have
taken quite a negative attitude to it from the start. - You can't sign into the website. You can't unsubscribe from anything. What's going on? (fun music) "Your mug is up-to-date." (laughs) - Well. - Right, I've filled both
these mugs with delicious, fresh hot coffee. I think it's telling me that my coffee is currently at 69.5 degrees Celsius. - Does it give a suggestion of--? - Out of the box, it says 57 degrees. - Well, tell you what, mate, we've got another gadget
for you to review. Why don't we leave those
coffee cups to one side, review the other gadget and we'll come back to them at the end and see what's happened. - You mean I'm gonna be distracted? Okay, Jamie! (upbeat music) - He's even put the cloche on
when he know it doesn't fit. - I've done my bit. What have you got me? Oh, there's a smaller box inside! (groans) It's another-- oh, it's really heavy. It's a smart pasta maker. Hey, this could be good. - [Ben] This is the Smart
Pasta Making Machine, fully automatic to create
your own delicious fresh pasta including spaghetti,
tagliatelle noodles, and more. It claims to make fresh
pasta in about six minutes and has a unique patented
drying element to it. So that it doesn't stick together as it comes out the machine. - Right, usually you'd
have to make the dough, you'd have to rest it. Then you'd have to have a
separate machine to actually make it work or you'd have
to roll it out by hand, which doesn't always work. I like it so far. - Well James, we would like
you to put it to the test with our mushroom cream
cheese pasta recipe from the packs app. - That's why I've got
all of these ingredients. Oh, it does have a basic
egg pasta dough recipe. 200 grammes of flour to two eggs, easy. This is a macaroni attachment. Are we happy with macaroni? - I am. And you're eating it so if you're happy.
- I'm very very happy with that. Tablespoon of extra virgin
oil and a pinch of salt. - [Ben] I'm excited for this one. - Whoa, it's faster than
I thought it would be. It's kneading, I'm gonna add
about a tablespoon of oil. (silly music) There's a bit of flour in each corner, that it hasn't caught. (silly music) - Oh, has it stopped? - Oh, oh! It stopped and started going the other way and now it's picking up all the flour. It stops, let's it relax into the corners, and then starts picking it up again. Fascinating. - I mean, this is arguably, if it works and it's good, a game changer. You can step in the
door after work midweek, throw 200 grammes of flour, two eggs, and a bit of salt into that, and off you wander to do
something else around the house and come back to fresh
pasta in six minutes. - It's working, it's working! We're done. So, press the Power button. "Take out the chamber partition, "the dough will be pushed automatically "into the extrusion chamber." It's doing something. - Stuff! Stuff's happening, - Oh! Oh, oh! - It's working! - It's not cutting! - I need to cut something--
I need something to cut with. It didn't tell me this! (laughs) Right, so what I was supposed to be doing is that I'm guessing as it comes out. (yells) (amusing music) - It's going so fast! (amusing music) Oh, this takes a bit of skill. This is exciting. I'm wondering if it might be
easier to just use a knife, but most of it's pretty good. - So far, I'm really impressed. I've got two more questions, James. I wonder what the pasta is
like, because it hasn't rested? And secondly, is that thing gonna be
a nightmare to clean? - Well, I think it's done. That bit's clean. So it's only this bit
that's a little dirty. I'm glad we chose macaroni
'cause that was cool. Shall we make a dish? Okay, Ben has requested
cream cheese mushroom pasta. Super easy. - [Instructor] Put a
medium sauce pan of water over high heat and bring it to a boil. Peel and thinly slice
two cloves of garlic. Wash, then cut four portobello
mushrooms into halfs-- - Couldn't get any portobello mushrooms, so I'm using portobellini mushrooms. - [Instructor] Then thinly slice
10 spring onions crosswise. Put a frying pan over a medium high heat and tack in two tablespoons of butter. Throw in your garlic and mushrooms and fry for two to three minutes, until the mushrooms begin
to go brown and juicy. Dollop in 160 grammes of cream cheese with one vegetable stock cube
and a squeeze of lemon juice. Then add the spring onions
and turn the heat down to low. - Next step is to pour the pasta. It's fresh, so instead
of eight to 10 minutes, it'll probably take two to three. There's a few perfect ones
and a lot of imperfect ones. (bright music) - [Instructor] Grate the rest
of your 10 grammes of cheese over the whole thing and dig in. - And there you go, that is dinner ready with my brand new fresh pasta. It probably took about
the same time to make as it would to cook dried pasta. That's impressive. - [Ben] James, it does look good. - I have food. You have food, but you
know what you also have? - What? - You also have two cups of coffee sitting on the kitchen worktop somewhere. Before we dig into the pasta,
let's go back to the mug. - It's tepid at best. (lighthearted music) Mm, perfect temperature. - So it does exactly what it says? - Listen, it's hot. I'm still angry about the app. - How much do you think
the Ember Mug costs? - Oh, no, 59.99? (laughs) - [Jamie] What if I told you, it's 99.99? - Oh, that's horrific. I don't wanna sign up
with my email address to an app to have a cup of coffee. - Is this a smart mug? Or just a mug for a mug? - It's 100 pounds, but it
does what it says it does. So I'm confused and upset. - I know what will put
a smile on your face, cream cheese mushroom pasta! - Yes! - [Ben] Is the pasta good? And is it good, considering, pretty much hands-free you
made fresh pasta in six minutes using your smart pasta making machine? - Considering all of that,
the pasta is very good. I think the reason it might
not be as good as it could be is my user error. I would do that all the time. It's so easy to just
to throw everything in. I think the only thing it
doesn't do is sheet pasta. The only thing that might
put me off now is price. I'm gonna go at 59.99. - It is substantially more than that. - Oh no! - It is 139.99, so it is the higher end of
a domestic piece of kit. - I don't know where to stand on it. I love it, I love it. It might be a little bit
too expensive for me. - Is it hello pasta or
pasta la vista, baby? - It's hello, pasta. I like it. - Well, that's what James thinks. But as always, what do you think? Comment down below and list them in order of
preference one to four. Which gadget did you or didn't do like? - We can't go just yet, because I've been getting an absolute
rollicking from you lot because I've not been
giving you enough dad jokes. So I thought let's do a dad joke. What's Beethoven's favourite fruit? - I know it, I know it! - Ba-na-na na. - That's a good one. That is a good one.
- I thought it might get a giggle. - [James] For those of
you who want to know more about how our packs app works, we've made a video explaining
all you need to know which you can watch using
the link in the description or by visiting sorted.club/packs. (techno music) And now for a bloop. (beeping) - Who knew when we missed out on exacting scientific standards? - Who is Ebers talking
to when he does that? I don't know. - I don't know either. I hope he's not with anyone. (laughs)
