I Tested Viral Cooking Gadgets

"A knife solves most of your problems" is such a great thing to say out of context if you want someone to look at you with concern and back away! LOL

1:36 fun fact: Barilla actually has a Spotify playlist with songs you can play that is the perfect length for each kind of pasta to cook al dente.

What we learned in this video: buy a knife

While a lot of people have mentioned the disability aspect, I have a 4 year old in my life and can tell you the hot dog cutter is for the independent "no, mommy. I can do it myself!" preschoolers in our lives.

Definitely have to emphasize the disability assist some of these items give. The slapchop has been very useful for those who have issues with trembling hands where finer cuts present an issue.

The avocado tool is made by OXO, and they primarily make tools for the disabled. My stepdad who is blind and has little feeling in his hands is able to use that with very few problems, even though it is not as easy to use as a knife. The center part is meant to be placed against the pit, and then turned which will pop the pit out. OXO is actually one of the few gadget makers who makes tools that can be used by people with disabilities (especially the blind); Kitchen Mama is another who makes a handsfree automatic can opener.

As a reminder, most of these things are disability aids that are repackaged as "funny kitchen gadget," or sometimes a reformat of another thing. The egg roll thing can cook an egg, but it can also heat up any stick-shaped food. But if you just want eggs, you can use a Dash Egg Cooker, which is actually amazing since you don't have to boil an entire pot of water to boil eggs.

Josh about a perfectly golden bottom bun: “the bottom is burnt” Josh about his burnt to death stuff: “golden brown delicious”

I recognize that some of these are for sure 'just use a knife' for most people, but things like The Slap Chop specifically were actually designed with the elderly and disabled in mind! A lot of seemingly useless gadgets on infomercials are disability aids that capitalism had to find a way to sell to the average consumer! Once you realize that and start to look at (most) of these odd gadgets that are seemingly useless or for 'lazy' people who don't want to learn to do it the correct way, it really recontextualizes them! The Snuggie, Kettle Tippers, the Slap Chop, The Clapper, automatic jar openers, weighted blankets etc etc. The Rollie is still an affront to God, however.

The slap chop helped me when I was having dexterity issues with my hands from carpal tunnel and it was hard to maintain knife control.

Oh, and the ice cream ball + a bunch of kids on a trampoline is GREAT. We also had 3 other ice cream makers going because this doesn't make a ton at a time, but it rocked our summer party.

The only use for the egg sandwich maker is in an office "kitchen" or other stoveless situation. A few of the other things, like the auto pepper mill, can be accessibility tools - sometimes if you can't think of a reason why someone wouldn't do it the traditional way, the answer is that they can't. My mom has the auto-stirrer and uses it when making batch after batch of homemade pralines for Christmas that would otherwise have her standing in front of the stove for a solid 6 hours or so. She swears by it. It does work in a bigger pan.

That fish skinning machine was both incredible and horrifying. Nightmarishly effective.

10:08 I’ll admit, the slap-chop is gimmicky, but my Mom has one, and where it is useful is for chopping small stuff like dried fruit, nuts, and seeds. You can put a handful in it, put the cover on, and chop em as fine as you like. Kinda takes the place of a food processor in that regard, and is smaller to store and easier to clean.

"this may look familiar to some of you" im dying omg 😂

the stirring thing would help for ppl with wrist pain and/or arthritis for sure. i love the idea, wish it were more efficient bc id benefit from it so much! chronic pain is why im unable to cook as much as id like. i love gadgets that make it a little easier!

These things might work for people with disabilities or people trying to get their children interested in cooking, but for the normal able bodies home chef most of these Def just take up space I agree

The green strainer is perfect for single people with little storage. Its probably not needed for someone with lots of room. I love it.

Bro was legit clowning most of these with pure chefs bias. 😅

Several of these gadgets are things for disabled people to be able to make their own food, especially the things that're replacements for knives, so people who have shakey hands don't need to rely on other people for literally so little as a slice of toast, e.g. the avocado scooper thing (though I agree it could be designed better), and the slap-chop, which there are better-designed hand-powered food processors Also, the "all-in-one food-maker" tools like the breakfast sandwich thing are for people like me, whose house was last wired in the 70s and so the entire kitchen (and then some) are on one breaker, so having the toasting, meat-cooking and the egg-cooking run off of the same heating element makes it less likely that we're gonna have to go down into the basement to flip the breaker back on