(cheerful music) (dog yips and whines) - Hello everyone, it's Barry here. Welcome to My Virgin Kitchen. I hope you, as always, are well. Well! I hope you're well. Today is another kitchen
gadget testing video. If you've missed any of them to date, which I don't think you have, but check out the playlist. There's two different ones. Grab the popcorn, have a marathon. It pretty much takes
up a lot of your days. If you have not seen the rolls, you will not know that
up in my office upstairs I have got mountains of kitchen gadgets that I discovered since the house move. So we'll be working our way
through these very soon. And, as always, a little
bit of housekeeping. Before commenting down below,
consider that some of these may help someone with a disability. It's really nice for me to
get messages from people that I've actually helped
them get back into the cooking by finding like a gadget
that actually can help them make a task much simpler, so that's why I really
push that message home. And also because I don't really
want you to waste your money because there are some bad ones out there. As always, I want 'em to work. We've got a couple of novelty ones, couple of nice ones, let's get cracking. Oh, this first one, I thought was a little bit weird
when I saw it online. One of you sent me a link to that. Thank you very much. Okay. This is the grape slicer. Quick and easy way to quarter grapes with no mess, no sharp blades, ideal for making fruit salads and feeding grapes to small children. I like that, how you saw like depositing. I just got this vision of me feeding, like force-feeding my children grapes. My kids love grapes. So do I. They taste grape! This is by Kitchen Craft,
quite a well known one and it looks, from the outside, a little bit like a ice cream scoop. But there's no blades. I thought there'd be blades in it and why would you want to slice a grape? I guess, like they say,
if you're in a rush and like I need grapes! You should be able to do it. Guaranteed for 12 months. So that is it. I don't really know how this thing works. I've got some grapes. Let's try it out. This is zip-tied in almost as well as the garlic bread that we sent in the balloon. Tom Scott's video got to number
one in trending for that. That's awesome and I was part of it. That's the first time I've ever been like number one in trending. I only had a small role in it, but yeah. It was a fun day. So some mixed grapes and this. They both need a wash. This board did have the remaining peanut butter Kit Kat cup
that I made on the other day and I think Mrs. Barry
might've sneakily ate it just before I started recording. She's in the house somewhere. So this is it, it's got kind of like looks like a hand fan from that angle and this side is all
sealed up like we say. But if we open it up,
oh, do we open it up? Does it wanna open up? Oh, that's it. Okay, so it's on a
little spring like that. It's like tongs. ♪ Tong, ta tong, tong, tongs. ♪ But so it's quite clearly this line here that's gonna quarter them and then oh, these are like soft bristles. Ooh, there's a little spoke there. No blades. And then that's just like
your pushy through bit there. Now the grapes I've got
are all quite rectangular. You know how you get
ones that are slightly more egg-shaped, if
that makes sense, yeah? Um, so it might be better if I lie them down, but I'm still gonna stand it up anyhow. Stick it in there, try and line it up. And then, there's actually some indentations to rest your thumb on. That's good. So here we go! (snap) Okay. How's that worked? Ah, oh wow, look! Yes, it has! Look at that, that's awesome. I didn't push it all
the way through, though. Oh there we go, there we go. Just stand up a red one as well. Never really been a fan of red grape, I don't know why. (snap) Oh, wow. That works beautifully. Chunks of grape. They taste great. Bit sour, actually. Let's try it lying down. (snap) Oh, yes. That works even better. So you can imagine if you're in a hurry, you're at a party, you've got loads of kids over. You're like, I need to make
really quick fruit salad! You then turn into like a child-friendly version of the Terminator
called the Grapinator. Ah. (snap) You're doing it upside down. - Upside down? - [Barry] Yeah, that's it. - That way? - [Barry] Yeah, 'cause
it comes out that end. - Oh, nice! This is a good idea if
you're got, um, babies, and you're just starting
to give 'em food and stuff. And you wanna slice grapes for them. - [Barry] Yeah. - There you go. That's good, then. - That is a good point, actually, that's why this is beneficial,
yeah, you're gonna be like... Let's have a race! Two, one, go. (chops and snaps) - Done. I'm never letting you slice
a grape with a knife again. - I'm always excited when
there's an egg gadget involved in these videos, folks. There are so many good and
bad egg gadgets out there. This is called the Eggstractor. An egg-scellent egg pun in a gadget. Use the amazing Eggstractor to make delicious dishes and more. Scotch eggs, stuffed eggs,
egg salad, Cobb salad. Peels eggs ten times faster and easier than your hands, I guess. Fun and easy, so you tap
the egg, you place it in there, and then you
just press it through with a suction cup thing, all right? Includes free 101 Egg Recipe guide. I'm not a massive fan of egg recipes, to be honest. The magic of the patented Eggstractor is pure science. At the tip of every egg, there is a small chamber of air
called the air cell. Hmm! Inside the Eggstractor, pressure forces the air from the air cell and causes the shell to
separate from the egg. The egg pops out perfectly de-shelled. So this is kinda like the thing we've done before where we. (blows a raspberry) This is basically a gadget that's gonna do it for us, so we need to boil some eggs up. (laughs) That looks like the
vent on my tumble dryer! Ah! It's basically that and that. Ew! It's dirty, can you see there's yellow marks on that bit? This could be secondhand you know. It's got egg marks on it! I've got blue fingerprints by the way, 'cause it's Phoebe's birthday and we just made a cake with blue icing. Place the eggs in tap water, add a heap teaspoon of salt, make sure the eggs are completely covered with water, bring the water to a boil
for six to eight minutes. All right, let's get the eggs going. So a pinch of salt like it says. All right, so we'll just boil these eggs up for eight minutes or whatever. After boiling the eggs, carefully pour off the hot water and run cold water on the eggs, then place eggs immediately in ice water for 10 minutes before Eggstraction. (chuckles) Right, so, whilst the egg is cooking away let's move on to another gadget. This is one of the first gadgets I was ever, ever, ever, ever gonna review. I actually have had this in my loft, no joke, for probably, I dunno, year and a half now, two years? This is like the classic
watermelon slicer thing. It's like a big round bladed thing. I think it's quite dangerous. I reviewed a smaller one of these before that does it to an apple, but this suitable for all types of melons. I carried a watermelon! Cuts into 12 uniform slices, but the thing that caught my eye this morning just before I went out was a pineapple on there as well, so we're also gonna try it with a pineapple. And that is everything. This is it, okay? But we don't play around
with stuff like this, 'cause this is sharp. Yup, that's sharp, baby. Sit it down as flat as you can. Line up the hole with the middle, as much as you can, it's a little bit uneven actually. (grunts) (huffs) All right. Oh. Gonna get my hammer, ain't going down. It's hammer time. Just trying to get it to go into the main part of the watermelon. (smacks) Okay. - You all right? - I'm fine. - There was a loud noise. - Nope, nothing, no, no loud noise. I made a little indentation in the melon. I'm gonna hold this. Can you whack it with the hammer in the middle, and don't hit my face. Please? - This is-- - Don't, obviously trust you, tappy-tap-tap. (light taps) Wha! (hard smack) - Watch your face. - I am watching my face. All right. - Are you sure you're meant to do it with a... - Oh my gosh, this is gonna snap! I'm gonna cut myself! - Are you sure they're melons, not, um, you want me to get you a riper one? - Well this is the only
melon I could find. I don't think it was ripe enough, but... (smacks) - One more! (hammering drowns out woman's voice) - The stuff is going everywhere. - Ah! (smacks) - Stand up higher. - Stand up higher? - You really need to scooch it! Yay! (pants) - Oh my gosh! I just gave birth to a watermelon! I know that if you soak this in, I think it's tequila overnight, it absorbs it all, and then you can take it to a festival. - That'd be great.
- You get drunk. - Like at a kid's party? - Yeah, great for your
kid's party with the grapes! Actually it works great
with grapes, as well. Great! You shouldn't need to use a hammer. - And this skin is really hard. - This time of year it was kind of like "You want a watermelon?" Thought I was asking for
like gold or something. Ah, this is quite cool, check this out. (thuds) Whoops. Whoopsie. I just want to try it with a pineapple. Again, not the best pineapple. But the hole in it should get out the core, if we line it up properly. (grunts) (smacks) (sped-up taps) (thuds) Yes! No, no! But for a party in segments like that? Not bad. (smacks) Doesn't work on coconuts. Conclusion on that one, use ripe fruit. But also get yourself
a better quality one. Plastic handle just felt like it was gonna snap, and it is
quite a dangerous instrument. So please be careful if you try it. I have to be serious sometimes. And then bring it back to Earth and do really silly things like this. Uhh. Or silly things like this
novelty DIY drinking straws. I've had similar straws,
this a long time ago on a previous gadget video. You kind of had glasses and you drunk and it went through the glasses and all that stuff flowed into to the drink. But this is great for parties, you can build your own straws, you've got these tubular sections, and then you can look as cool as that guy right there. There's two sizes of
straw, you've got your connectors, T connectors. It's like being a plumber. I've got some coffee over there that I just made for another gadget coming up, so we'll use that. I mean, I guess you need a T piece if you wanted to share it, right? But I've washed it and I'm gonna just stick 'em together. So that's gonna go in, and then we can... Oh, I'm enjoying this. Ah, look at this, look at that! That's cool! Of course you could buy loads of these, and I could probably like be sat at the table right over there, and then just extend loads and be drinking... (inhales) Hey. I am gonna make sure these are all really well connected together. All right, so there's my straw. Gonna stick this bit in the drink, so it's going do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. And then it's gonna go along there, down, then along in like that, and then-- (inhales) Oh ho! Okay. Mm! Oh my gosh, can you see it going in the straw, watch this. Oh wow, that's really weird. It works, though! Have a drink of coffee. - That's really dangerous. - [Barry] It's fine! - I'm gonna burn myself. - [Barry] No, it's lukewarm. (laughs) You look like you're
doing something illegal. (laughs) Is that all right? - Oh my gosh, that's weird. That's really cool. - [Barry] It's good, isn't it? - Yeah. - [Barry] I think the
kids are gonna like it. - The kids will love that. - Almost as much as us. All in all, that's quite a little novelty gift, but a good laugh. So let's check on the eggs, they should be boiled, we gotta stick 'em in some cold water now. Yup, they're all good. In they go to cool down, and well, we'll come back to that at the end. - This next gadget, many
of you have sent me a link to in the past, it's
called the Slap Chop. Uh, complete five piece
set, effectively the name is what it does. You slap it, I guess you don't wanna necessarily slap it, because it could get dangerous, but then it will chop things up, and apparently it can even grate cheese. It can do chocolate. It can do nuts. It can do things. Oh wow, look at that thing! That's a beast! It actually feels like
a fairly good quality. Some of these gadgets, like the watermelon slicer, it just felt really cheap and nasty the minute I picked it up. Hmm, that feels quite cheap and nasty. (slaps) All right, I've washed it. I've read the instructions, which make no sense whatsoever, but I'm fumbling my way through it, okay? You put your food into the clear chamber bit, like in there. As you push this down, that rah! Is comin' at ya, and you can twist it a little bit as well, so yeah. Oh, this bullet thing is actually just the cheese grater on its own. Ah, love cheese. So this goes into this. They've got the other
grating blade at the bottom. The cheese will go in there. (laughs) This is not great. Boom. Right. (clicks) It's not working, look, look at that! What's going on? What is going on? Let's focus on the Slap Chop. So with the Slap Chop,
it is pretty much just that blade, but it's
multi-purpose and all that stuff. So let's try with a tomato. (sped-up chopping) There you go! Ah, how's that worked? Some bits. Yeah, actually, after
awhile it does get there. This may be the world's easiest salsa. Got some coriander, stick that in there. (sped up chopping) Ah yeah, that has worked. Sort of. Quarter of an onion. (sped up chopping) Yeah! Apart from most of the onion
being stuck in the blades. (slaps) It's not good, guys. It's not good. All right, I did buy some pecans. The last of the mo-pecans. (sped-up chopping) Oh, wow! This worked amazing! Maybe I was holding it wrong or something. But that worked so much better. I wanna try the onion again. (sped-up chopping) Nah, it don't like my onions. Couple of blocks of chocolate left over from the giant Kinder Egg. Apparently it should go
through this with ease. (sped-up chopping) (gasps) It has as well to a little bit. Onion and chocolate there,
but right down here, I've got onion chocolate shards. So with all of this combined, we might have made a masterpiece. So before we finish with the egg-scellent, fingers crossed, egg
gadget, this is the, um, Mighty Mug. The mug that won't fall over. Essentially the reason why I've let that coffee cool down a little bit. Mighty Mug grips to any smooth, flat, solid surface when you bump into it. But will lift naturally when you just want to pick it up. So if you push it, no. Lift it, yay! As featured on ABC News. Haven't we all? And now My Virgin Kitchen. Now you know you've made it, huh? It was fairly expensive,
so I'm hoping it works. Ooh, look at that! So that's our mouthpiece. Cool, good job I checked that. Oh they didn't just do this one, apparently they do like a tumbler and a sleeve and a cocktail shaker as well. Not sure if I'm convinced by this. All right, so just gonna
put that down there, and here is my coffee. Actually, it should. Actually! It shouldn't be able to be
knocked over now, should it? (taps) What? (fast taps) What? (taps) What the heck is this? That's amazing! Just do me a favour and
knock that cup over. (taps) - I was scared to hit it! (slaps) - Don't slap it, no, careful! Look! Oh gosh. - Oh, don't have something in there. - Is that cool? - That's cool. (rattles) - Oh, don't mean to trouble you, old chap, but could you tell me the time? Oh certainly yes, it's, uh, ten past, ah? Ah, look! That is amazing. Ah, better go. I don't know how it works. My only conclusion is sorcery. Imagine if you could do that to people. (strains) Or animals. (strains) Maybe that's where they
got the concept, Boston. Not the best spout on it, though. Let's finish this video
with an egg-stravaganza. So we take our cooled egg, and the base which has still got the
yellow stained egg bit on, it's not coming off
even with another wash. We've pierced it on this. (taps) So that is through the egg. (taps) Crack the large end by tapping on the table a couple of times. Make sure you fully crack the large end of the egg open. Don't be timid. (sped-up tapping) Pretty well cracked. Make sure the small end of the egg is facing upwards, so
the bit with the small hole. You can really seeing this being like the next Tesla thing, can't you? Place the Eggstractor over the egg. Criss-cross your hands over the top of the Eggstractor and
give one good, fast push. If egg does not pop out on the first try, make sure you realign
the egg upright position before trying again. Eggstractor is fun for the whole family, it may take you a couple of tries to get the hang of it, so if the first time your eggs don't come out perfectly, take a breather and give it another try. That's a disclaimer, all right? We guarantee you'll get it right, just make sure you follow the egg-structions egg-zactly. If you follow the egg-structions egg-zactly, you'll be an
egg-spert eggstractor. I'm worried about hitting the egg. Criss-cross and make it jump-jump with your hands, all right? Boom, boom. (hisses) Well that didn't work, did it? I'm gonna really go for this. (thump and hiss) No! So when I did this hack before, you had to kind of help a little bit the membrane come off it like this, okay? So the fat end is sticking out. Criss-cross and make ya! (thump and hiss) Nope. (loud thump) Something happened, it went through the hole, but the shell is still on. Oh, oh dear. It's left half the shell in the egg! That's not just the inner bit, that's actual egg white in there. We've got three more though. I'm gonna try one more
without helping the bottom. Excuse the pun. (hiss and crack) Did you hear that, it kind of blap blap! (multiple hisses and cracks) I hope that camera caught it, I didn't see but look at, it's just left a little bit of shell, we've got to give it some leeway, look. Oh, nope, it's stuck on
like a baseball cap, look. You can see the brain. That kind of worked! And we didn't help its bottom, either! (thump) I'm not sure if I'm just pushing the egg through the hole, but again, it's not coming away enough. Do you know what, we've
seen enough of that. For those of who that didn't see the hack the first time I did it. (blows) I mean apart from the
pug hairs, that's better. So there we go, folks, another kitchen gadget video in the bag. My favourite one has
gotta be the grape slicer. Or that cup, that was brilliant. Ah, some not so good ones today, but if you see any cool gadgets, if you wanna send 'em my way, get in touch, or just send me the links and I'll get hold of them. Hopefully like many others you're now gonna have a Bar-a-thon and watch lots of other videos on the channel. That means so much to me, so remember to subscribe and press the bell button to make sure you're
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