Worst of 2023! 10 Worst Products I Reviewed This Year!

[Music] today I'm counting down my picks for the 10 worst products that I reviewed in 2023 I reviewed over 200 products this year and these are the worst of the bunch not all the products in this list were new in 2023 but they were new to me so without further delay let's get right to my worst of [Music] 2023 let's start our countdown with a product that it first glance maybe it doesn't seem like it should be honest lless because the final results really weren't that bad and that is the icy slushy maker now the final results weren't that bad but the h30 price tag wasn't so good nor was the involved process the piercingly loud motor and the syrup they sold wasn't very good it's by no means more convenient than just running down to the gas station and buying a cheap slushy there but here's some scenes from my original review the first thing I noticed is that it's 130 bucks but it's kind of just cheap plastic it feels like maybe a $30 a cheap blender almost in fact the reviews are pretty bad for this one too so both the unit and the syrup are pretty mixed reviews there's quite a few people that don't like either one of them I didn't realize how loud that machine was it sounds worse every time I add something to it step number one is to plug it in Step number two is to set it to the mix function number three is to ensure that the tap is in the closed position step number four is to add ice cubes to the unit only filling it up halfway step number five you're going to add two capfuls of salt step number six is to add 1.4 flu ounces of water for number seven you're going to fill it up the rest of the way with ice and then number eight you're going to add three more capfuls of salt and number nine is another 1.4 flu ounces of water number 10 add the cap and then number 11 you add the syrup which is going to go slow because it'll overflow number 12 you're going to let it sit for 15 to 25 minutes while it makes the icy number 13 is the most difficult of all the steps that's where when the ice drops down to a lower level you have to add more ice water and salt and you have to kind of maintain it the entire time and finally step number 14 is to switch it over to the dispense mode and dispense your icy let me taste this that doesn't taste very good final result looks looks pretty good I like an icy the texture is perfect The Taste is not in my opinion it's too much work and too much cost to make this worth the [Music] effort number nine on my list is sort of a double entry back in July I did a comparison of Teemu versus wish and I bought the same brand of tennis shoes there and those shoes long on this list and that is these it didn't matter where I bought them from these were the worst shoes I've ever had The Misfortune of strapping to my feet the SES literally felt like they made out of wood they were totally unforgiving but let's take a look back at my original review and see how that went these seem like they're coming from the same manufacturer that seemed like the best way to test out the prices and the quality it has the blade style soles in it so I don't know we'll be interested to see how that goes same brand I don't see a significant difference this one also has kind of the same feel to it all right so I wore these most of the time I was at Huntington Beach I took some long walks to them and I was not a fan fan of those shoes but the soles have almost no cushion and they're flat as a pancake so not a lot of foot support they're not really that comfortable and they're kind of loose in the back too but I'll show you about that a little bit later the soes are hard as a rock like the other one in fact it feels like the sole is not centered with the shoe but to me the big problem is the back here this part digs into my foot every step I take so every time I take a step I feel like someone's poking me in the in the back of my foot I feel like a Ridge across my foot it's not comfortable so instead of sitting on a flat surface I have this kind of bump I'm St being on not great I'm not sure I would buy shoes from wish or teu it just seems like you're you're asking for a [Music] disaster now it's rare for a product to make my worst of the year list base on price alone but number eight comes close and that is the $200 inkless pin that I reviewed back in January I compared that to a cheap $6 model on Amazon and the cheap version was better so check out some scenes from my original inkless pin review this is supposedly an inkless pin that uses no lead no ink it has an alloy tip that basically will last forever but $200 I'm not sure about that this is also an inkless pin that uses an alloy tip and it also supposedly lasts forever so let's compare the $6 versus the $200 inkless pins there really isn't a tip it's just a it looks like a piece of metal this looks like a finer tip than the uh than the other pin was I'm just going to do some scribbling here and oh W it's very light it's very light hm let me press down a little bit harder I'm going to go from light it's a hard well you can make it darker I'm pressing very hard though the tip feels kind of dull too I you can't sharpen it but it does feel kind of dull let's try the cheap model now and see how that does oh this feels much more like a like a mechanical pencil so I can go from light to dark I can do that too but I have more of a range I can go from lighter to darker than I could with the expensive pen the cheap one's better let me see if I can erase either one of these this is from the expensive model let's see not very well here's the cheap one oh it even erases better too wow it's not perfect but it does erase the the cheaper one wrote better and erase better after the first use very dull like the dullest pencil you've ever used I would say at this point the $200 pin is striving to be as good as the $6 pin [Music] is number seven on my list came from The Slap Chop brand now we've all seen Vin offer pitching the ShamWow and the crank chop and The Slap Chop so when I saw The Slap Chop folding board I knew I had to try it out I like the idea of this but the reality was quite different it doesn't lay flat and it moves around the more I use it the less I liked it they definitely need to go back to the drawing board on this one so check out some scenes from my original review and you'll see why this is The Slap Chop folding cutting board I guess not not not too bad so when I put it back down it's actually kind of it's kind of bode now I have to actually press it back down pour these out with a folded cutting board here well so far so good see if I can do a one-handed fold here I can do it with one part of it you know I I do feel like The Cutting Board is not flat look at this that's just not good come on I am feeling some some cut marks in here I am I've also notice this cutting board doesn't have any kind of grips in the bottom so it's starting to it's kind of tends to move around a little bit but to me it's sliding around when you pair that with it being slightly unstable that becomes not the best cutting board I've ever used it slides around a lot so I don't know I'm a big fan of ins offer I want to like this but I got to say it's not the best cutting board ever used that seems to be what this is lacking not only is it La lacking rubber grip but it's also doesn't go back to a flat shape when you're done you have to kind of manually put it back there yourself I would say nice try but maybe go back to the drawing board on this one to me this is a flimsy kind of cheaply made cutting board I like the folding feature but I like almost nothing else about it it seems like there's move this I don't know it's just it just feels it feels cheap that's probably why I haven't seen Vince sord talking about this much cuz it's not very [Music] good number six on my countdown is the blade blocker now this is an updated version of the ID police which made my worst of the year list in 2021 I thought this one was pretty bad so they put out a new one and I still think it's pretty bad in this one they added refills which are a mess and difficult to use they added a blade that's not very good and they didn't really improve the roller at all so check out some scenes from my original blade blocker review so I'm supposed to cut this tip off with some scissors and stick it in that hole right in there I don't even know if this is working or not I'm getting on my fingers here oh come on wow okay this is just a big mess I'll just kind of Mark up a few random things on here well no matter what I do I cannot seem to to block out some of that text all right it's been 24 hours at first glance they look pretty good but let's take a closer look and see if they really held up 131 2018 I can still read it the most accurate dependable and efficient I can read I can read it spices and real pumpkin seeds to create the seasonal I can definitely read that one so five I can read two I can't that's not really a great track record now all right so the other feature of the blade Blocker in addition to being like the ID police is that it has a blade on it what I'm to do is compare this to a regular letter opener there we there we go all right smooth the silk look at that that perfect straight line absolutely perfect that's a pretty sad bunch of open letters let me get the actual letter open here and see what I can do I can go away from me or toward me the blade blocker just got blade blocked every single one of these was straight as an arrow in some cases you can wipe it off in other cases a magnifying glass you can still see through it the ratio of those that work that didn't is not very good for my test the blade itself is kind of mediocre not really better than my box cutter or my letter opener so I don't think this is going to replace my Shredder box cutter or letter [Music] opener now 2022 a buttermill made my best of the Year countdown but in this year I have a buttermill that makes the worst to the Year countdown the buttermill I tried in September was difficult to use it was slow and created more work than it was worth it currently has the lowest Amazon rating among all the products in this countdown so check out some scenes in my original review and you'll see why it doesn't even look new it looks kind of old this one has abysmal rating so it's going to be kind of fun to test this one out I was looking for positive comments on Amazon I didn't find any it goes right like that it's barely fitting but it does fit so now what we're supposed to do is place it on here and then just turn you have to kind of press and turn at the same time do we have butter coming out we do oh yeah look how small those are those are microscopic and there's no there's no setting you only have one size so let's let's keep spinning see what happens fill twist sweep and spread this is a lot of turning to get just this little bit of fine butter so let's see what happens if I sweep it off there sweeping the butter and it comes into well I guess it's kind of one big Clump I've got a warm piece of toast here let's see what happens with these ribbons here all the turning and that's as much as I got it's going to be a lot of turning to butter a piece of toast let me keep turning here this takes some hand strength and my hands getting greasy from touching the butter oh come on now I can already tell you this one requires a lot of hand strength and if your hands are all greasy from putting the butter in there forget it I'm actually getting to the point where I can't turn it anymore a lot of work this is too much work there's got to be an easier solution than that I like the idea of this they just need to go back to the drawing board and make it work a lot [Music] easier it's not often that a number one bestseller on Amazon finds its way onto my worst of the year list but my number four pick is just that and that is the top selling bread slicer on Amazon when I reviewed cheap versus expensive bread slicers back in September neither one of them really impressed me but the expensive model marked up easily and I found splinters after every use to being that was a deal breaker and here are some scenes from my original review cheap versus expensive bread slicers bread slicing kit with knife crumb tray and storage bag I paid about 30 buck for this is currently the number one best seller in its category I also noticed I'm kind of making some marks in the bottom as I get to the bottom of it all the thick slices I I the center one looks a little bit thicker than the others all right so after the first round I think my initial impression of the first slicer has been lessened let me show you why that is a splinter that is a splinter right there so is that we've got cut marks on the bottom after a single use there's a splinter down there as well there's there's one there too it cut pretty well but those issues are kind of deal breakers to me now I'm worried I'm going to be making splinters and put them in my bread I just cut the Splinter oh the Splinter just fell off I don't like having splinters next to my food my thin slices are kind of uneven here as well more splinters and I've got more marks in the bottoms you can't have splinters in your food come on I don't think it's as even and look at this there's a splinter I just found in there I that's it I I that's it but I'm seeing even more splinters now after a couple uses I don't I don't like that at all this one might be the number one best seller but I have to with a minority of comments that don't like it because of the Splinter issue and because of the way it cuts the [Music] bottom number three on my list is a very recent product it so recent I had to make some last minute changes to this countdown because it's so bad it belongs on here and that is the on the-go projector build as a projector it is an empty box with a lens if you think that sounds bad wait until you see the final results I kind of bought this one because the packaging was not clear which if that makes any sense it's the Brookstone on the-go projector it was only 13 bucks they say it projects your phone could be used with Apple or Android I cracked it open I read the instructions and it it really this is a an empty box with a hole cut out and a tube with a lens on it there it's no electronics it's not really a is it a projector that's really kind of a pushing it this back part opens where your phone goes in here right back there and then it shines to that lens that's it they also give you this this gel sticky pad that supposedly helps keep your phone from sliding around in there placing the phone on the sticky pad closing it up oh there's something I can see something and it's and the text is even backwards wow that is so dim there's my dim face and you can see this blurry if I pull this back part out I can kind of focus it there we go I'm in Focus it's it's about the same size as my phone but just dimmer this is about 3 ft away from the wall here and you can see that look at that brilliant projection look at that crisp picture it's huge who needs a big screen TV when you got this right right since about 3 ft away is about as far as you can get and it's it's barely visible and I can't even tell if was in Focus so so dim this is more like a third grade science project not something some you buy at TJ [Music] Maxx in the middle of 20123 I tested a collection of soda gadgets many of which did not impress me but one of them stood Out Among the rest and that one makes my number two pick for this list and that is this soda dispenser this soda dispenser leaves a lot to be desired so check out some scenes from my original review and you'll see why now admittedly this is not very highly rated but the way it's supposed to work is a 2 L bottle of soda goes here and you have a dispenser right there right so I guess what I'm supposed to do is just twist it on the top Oh it's leaking out we got a leak oh well you know it's working so this is so slow you can actually put the handle up automatically and just wait for it it's very slow and the bottle is still only about half full so it seems like as you get down to the bottom it really kind of dribbles out and this is how much soda's in there so there's still a decent amount left but look how slow it's going and we have all that left so it's not even going to dispense an entire bottle it's done this one won't even dispense an entire bottle this one at least will before I get to my number one pick I've got a couple of items that I thought belong on this list but didn't quite make the cut here are a few of my dishonorable [Music] mentions my first honorable mention is a product that probably wouldn't be on this list if it had a different name and that is the dip and Dots maker anyone who buys this product and is expecting a dip and dots like experience will be disappointed it makes frozen treats but they're not Dipping Dots check out some scenes from my original review the reviews are not very good for this one but hopefully my experience can be better than average so I'll fill it about halfway up and we are it's it's leaking it is already leaking hold on a second all right after filling the dispensers next up you're supposed to put one of these trays in the base so there's a hole here in the base and there's a cup that you're supposed to fill with and that goes in the hole itself oh it's filling it's filling oh and there it goes all right so this tray is done press the lever in and you can see how it's filling up the mold that's pretty cool I like the way that looks that is kind of odly satisfying see going to fill up like that all I've got all six trays here all right it's been 4 hours they say two to three so they should be nice and Frozen by now it doesn't sound like anything's breaking I honestly don't have a very good feeling about this that's what we got but they haven't really come apart yet oh making a mess I wouldn't say they're Dipping Dots but they're dotlike they're circular frozen treats I guess in respector like d Dipping Dots I mean it's pretty good it's a nice Frozen treat it's not a dipping dot but it's a Frozen treat pretty good Frozen treat but still not a dip and Dot real dip and dots fake dip and dots they are not the same thing these are real dip and dots these are real not Dipping Dots totally different texture it's not terrible but it's not the same thing the bad news these ain't Dipping Dots my next honorable mention is a product that's kind of weird it doesn't really live up to the advertising or the packaging and and that is space pong their marketing materials show this bright ball of light on the walls we showed a dim light on the ceiling check out my original review and see how that went so the way this is supposed to work is each player has a paddle player one is green player two is red the base itself will shine a light ball on the ceiling their video showed the walls but we only saw on the ceiling when it's green player one swings at it when it's red player two swings at it player one is green player two is red it's see you first oh did I get it you got it oh okay okay no I missed it I missed it I feel like I hit the ceiling I want to swing down here not way up there and you can barely see the red the Red's hardest see in the green but our ball was nowhere near as bright as the one they show not only that they show it on the walls I had it only on the ceiling so there's a big difference between a bright light on the walls and a dim light on the ceiling so to add insult to injury the indicator from the red paddle sometimes showed up on the ceiling so it looked like you had two lights up there to make it even more difficult take that take that this is ridiculous friend this is totally ridiculous it is ridiculous this is a space pong Team USA 2024 we're coming for you Olympics I don't think their video accurately represents what we saw they had a bright light on the walls we had a dim light in the ceiling and not quite the same thing I like the idea of it but to me it needs Improvement well it comes down to this and I think that regular viewers on my channel won't be too surprised about my pick for the worst product that I viewed in 2023 and that is the Zippy sweeper it's a kind of a hybrid vacuum and broom which inevitably made all my messes larger hair and debris easily got stuck in the brushes and the contents were prone to fall out and I still see this one advertising online but let's look back at my review from my pick for the worst product of 2023 I mean it doesn't feel real smooth in the floor there aren't actually wheels on it you just just have these kind of rubbing up against the floor I mean it's not it's not picking it up on the first pass in fact it's knocking it around everywhere how about up against the wall and I still left some there too it made the area of cleanup even larger there's crumbs bigger area than it started off with because it knocks them around it cleaned up a lot of it but it actually kind of made a bigger mess it does not sound good on the carpet though somewhat in the brushes though that's going to have to be cleaned out so maybe that's not so great I don't know wow it's even around this little this little brush right here maybe his pet hair is not good for it it's all wrapped around everything look at this it's all it's everywhere oh look at this all this stuff just came out it's just kind of pushing it it's kind of pushing it this is this is not great it's not great it's still kicking it it's still kicking it it doesn't seem to matter what I do it's still going to do that oh come on look at that no not that's not good it's a bigger mess area than it was when I started no matter what job I did it eventually worked but it was a lot more work than it should have been in fact I pulled out a regular broom and it seemed a lot faster than the Zippy sweeper well that's it for this countdown it's kind of fun to look back and see which products didn't make the cut for 2023 and I think this was a pretty interesting collection I appreciate everyone who's liked subscribed commented and shared my videos in 2023 and I look forward to seeing you all again in 2024 appreciate you watching and I'll see you next time

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Length: 20min 22sec (1222 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 10 2023