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Every year there are hundreds of new kitchen gadgets released, and they all have completely different levels of technology.
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Some are impressive.
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What?
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Some are just, well, bad.
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Fire!
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Sure, sure, get the fire extinguisher.
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And some are absolutely mind-blowing.
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Today we're gonna be testing seven different levels of kitchen technology, starting from the absolute worst to the ones you won't even believe actually exist.
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Starting off with our level one kitchen gadget, this coffee art pen.
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I'm gonna try to write my name.
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Dude, that is sick, actually.
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It is so stupid.
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Why would you ever want this?
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This thing is really useless.
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Yeah.
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For our next gadget, we have the automatic can opener.
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Usually, you got to do it manually.
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Hurts your hand.
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You could get arthritis.
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Well, this solves that problem.
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Big fan of automatic can openers.
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Apparently, you just place it on top and you press a button.
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No, wait up.
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Is that easy?
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Releasing.
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Boop.
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Let's see.
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Sometimes there's a bit of a seal.
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Oh!
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No way! Are you kidding me?
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It's that easy?
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That's it.
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I'm impressed.
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Our next gadget is called the auto peeler.
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Apparently, it can take these grapes right here and peel off the skin, which...
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That sounds impossible.
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Oh!
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What the hell?
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You squirted in my ear, dude.
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Do we take them off the vine?
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Yeah, I take them off the vine.
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It doesn't do all the work for you.
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They're not peeled, okay?
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So then we put the top on here, just like so.
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Two options, peel and eject.
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Give it to the master.
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All right, Nick, do the honors of peeling.
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Three, two, one.
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Oh, dude, no way.
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It looks like it's juicing them.
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Now I'm going to click eject.
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Okay, and it should spit up.
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What?
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Wait, that was really cool.
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But look, like, it's so random.
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Some of them got peeled way too much.
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Yeah.
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Some of them got peeled a good amount too much.
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And some of them got peeled only partially.
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So the idea is there.
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The execution.
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That's failed.
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Not so much.
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Oh, God, you broke the thing.
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The hot air popcorn machine.
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You're telling me that this thing is supposed to be able to pop popcorn by just blowing hot air on it?
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Yeah, no oil needed.
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What?
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And it's efficient.
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So if you want to go to like a friend's house, you take this along.
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Apparently, you could pop popcorn.
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If this works, I might actually buy one of these.
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I'm serious.
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I mean, I got some corn kernels here.
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Pop them in.
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Put the top on.
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so turn it on it's really loud huh actually
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if you look inside the popcorn kernels are spinning around already here oh nick look it's already popping what it's
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so simple this thing's amazing like you don't even need the
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top wait up no nick i don't i don't think you
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need the top what was this even for oh nick we
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need the top nick nick we need the top nick the top We need the top.
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So this thing is an automatic dumpling press.
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It's probably one of the more viral gadgets that we have.
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You put the dumpling wrapper on top, stuff it with some meat.
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Now do the honors and press it once.
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It's not strong enough.
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You know what?
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It's not bad.
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Alright.
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Let's give it one more try.
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It's not sealing.
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This thing is terrible.
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And what they all do on the internet is...
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Our next product is a lunchbox.
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But not any ordinary lunchbox.
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Mmm, show me.
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In here, I got my lunch that my beautiful wife packed me.
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You're not married.
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But it's been a few hours.
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And in here, I have some cold food.
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We got a device to fix that problem.
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And it is the self-heating lunchbox.
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Oh, interesting.
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Yeah, so there's a plate down there that heats the bottom of your lunchbox.
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How quickly?
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We're about to find out.
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So we're going to take this up to 120 degrees.
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It's like jacuzzi warm.
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All right, now we've got to wait another two.
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Yeah, it's like, oh, lunch breaks over.
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Okay.
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Dude, this thing turned off, huh?
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It's not even that warm.
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Yeah.
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We've been waiting here for like 30 minutes.
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This is awful.
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I'm done with this product.
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Next, automatic French fry cutter.
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The thing about this is I've used those French fry cutters where you have to push down, push like this.
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They get stuck at the very end.
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I hate that.
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So this does it automatically.
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Automatically, and you should have nothing left over.
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I'm gonna predict that it's gonna get stuck at the end.
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I'm gonna predict that it's not because it's new technology.
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Potato.
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Let's just go.
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Oh, that's sick.
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Now you can just put another one in.
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One second.
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No. Oh, no. At times it struggles, but it works.
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Let's finish with this potato.
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Nick, Nick, Nick, you didn't put it in.
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Moving on, we have this indoor s'mores maker.
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Personally, I love s'mores.
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Oh, it's the best.
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Summertime.
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Yeah.
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And it sucks because you have to be outdoors when you want to make s'mores, but this one Not anymore.
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Yeah get your marshmallow This thing is on kind of it's heating up.
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It takes a while smells like plastic Let's go ahead
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and put our marshmallow on top and see if it's gonna roast it I just don't feel like it's hot enough.
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I agree
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You know what's a little hack
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that I do bite off a small piece of the marshmallow
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So then whenever you go to put it on to your graham cracker, it sticks very nicely That's not even the hack you bite off a small piece of the marshmallow like so.
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And that exposes a sticky part right there.
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But you can then take your chocolate, put it over the marshmallow.
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Look, see, look, you can go all the way.
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Yeah, but look at this.
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Right, exactly.
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All right.
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I got no toasting.
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Yeah, we've been here for like 10 minutes.
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I'm going to go ahead and say this thing absolutely sucks.
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Even if you hold the marshmallow to the thing.
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It's not even that hot.
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It starts to go, but it's not.
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It's not.
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Oh, Nick, Nick, Nick.
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Maybe if you just put it on top like this, Nick.
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Uh-oh, Pat.
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Uh-oh.
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Uh-oh, fire, fire.
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Shoot, shoot, shoot.
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Do you have the fire extinguisher?
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Get the fire extinguisher.
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Our next kitchen gadget is this crepe maker.
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Usually making crepes, you need a pan that's non-stick, but this thing kind of is the reverse of a pan.
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So go ahead and just dip it into our crepe batter here.
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Oh, whoa.
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Let it cook, let it cook, and then...
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I don't think it's gonna do that.
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That's not gonna work.
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Give it a little shaboozy.
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Yeah, I think so.
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Just let gravity do its thing.
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That was a test crepe.
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Now we try again.
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And peel it with your hand.
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There you go.
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Oh man, that looks great.
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You are, you're like a professional crepe maker.
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Perfect.
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It worked.
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For this next gadget, I got this automatic orange juicer.
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We did it.
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Let's go!
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In order to get our orange juice, all you gotta do is press one button and the machine does the rest.
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Oh, what?
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What?
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What?
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No way!
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Oh my gosh!
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Smells like Sunday morning.
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Oh my gosh, it smells good.
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Go ahead and pull the lever down and let's see if we get juice.
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Freshly squeezed orange juice.
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After 14 oranges, we got that?
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We need to make more.
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Right up to the top.
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All you.
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Cheers.
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I know that that's one of the best sips of orange juice you've ever had.
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I know.
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This is one of the best sips of orange juice I've ever had.
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Pasta maker.
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Okay.
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You know, usually you need a kitchen aid to make your pasta dough, right?
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Apparently, this thing is the only machine you need to make nice spaghetti noodles.
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We're gonna find out right now.
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So we're gonna twist this open.
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I've rolled this into a nice beautiful log that should hopefully, if I've done my math right, slide perfectly into the canister.
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Wow!
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So this thing is gonna push the dough through.
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Here it comes.
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Oh!
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What?!
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Oh!
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Dude, there's no way.
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This is so sick!
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Can I go flour?
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More.
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Look at that!
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All that done with that small machine.
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I can't believe this actually worked.
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That is beautiful.
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I'm impressed.
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Next up we have this roti maker.
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Also known as Indian bread.
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This machine is pretty simple to use.
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We've got some whole wheat flour.
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Up on top we have three compartments.
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One for your flour, one for your oil, and the other one for water.
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Okay.
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You don't have to measure anything out.
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No way.
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You just dump the ingredients in.
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That is the coolest part.
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Yeah.
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Oil, water in, and then give me my whole wheat flour please.
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We close the top and all we have to do is press start.
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Whoa!
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Yeah, it's happening inside the machine right now.
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It's making the dough.
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This is sick, right?
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This is great!
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This is sick.
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Okay, I'm getting excited now.
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It came out!
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Did it go?
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Woo!
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Woo!
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Look at that, but it worked!
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I can't believe we got this, but the machine's not gonna give us any more.
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It made one in about 30 minutes.
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Not worth it.
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Not worth it.
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Next, we're going to be testing this nut milk maker.
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So this thing apparently makes it for you as simple as one, two, three.
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One.
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Throw in about 60 grams of almond.
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And then all we have to do is fill it up with water to the min line here.
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Close the top.
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Nick, go ahead and start the machine.
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I'll just press start.
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It's just a blender.
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No, no, no, no, no. So it's heating it up.
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apparently with this machine you don't need to use a strainer
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to hold back the almond you just drink it as it
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I am genuinely curious here this says it's gonna be going
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for another seven minutes actually can you run outside go buy almond milk
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and come back before it's finished he's trying like legitimately go
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oh yeah go no no go like right now yeah go go Hurry up!
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I think this is gonna win.
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He's very slow.
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He's very slow.
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I can do this in eight, seven minutes?
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Easy.
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Come on.
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Come with me.
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Oh, do you need help?
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I'll help you out right now.
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I want to help you.
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You're good?
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Thank you guys.
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Let's go.
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Come on.
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I don't even know if there's a chance he makes it. Should I call him?
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Yeah, I'll call him.
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How far are you?
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We're at the market right now, Mick.
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Oh, you're at the market still?
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Oh, yeah.
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Hello.
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Oh, yeah, they do.
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Okay, bye.
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Alright, well.
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You secure the bag.
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ArtUber is here.
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Thank you, sir.
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It's a quick one.
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Three minutes left on the timer.
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I think we're almost there.
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I think we're gonna beat them.
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Come come on, Pat.
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Okay, we got here.
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Come on, man.
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Here we go.
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No!
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Yes!
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No!
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Yes!
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Look at the top!
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No!
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Look at the top!
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It's ready.
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It doesn't matter.
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That's nuts.
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I beat the nut milk maker.
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Time for the truth.
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Oh.
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It's very thick.
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Why is it so thick?
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All right, let's try this out.
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No. It's very hot.
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Dude, that is disgusting.
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Oh, dude, that is horrible.
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No, this thing sucks.
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This is bad.
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Up next is this automatic bread maker.
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The way it works, very simple.
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You add in a little bit of water.
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A little bit of oil.
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Flour.
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And of course, to make our bread rise, we need some yeast.
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Last but not least, we'll go in with a little sprinkle of salt.
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Close the lid.
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Press start, and we'll be back in four hours.
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All right, here it is, Nick.
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Ready?
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And here's our bread.
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Yeah, I got you a little bread knife.
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Let's go ahead and see.
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Very hard.
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Good crust.
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Yeah, wow.
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It smells really good.
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Smell this.
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It smells amazing.
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Right?
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Wow.
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I'm actually pretty impressed.
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Yeah.
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Look at the fluffiness of it.
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For something as simple as that, This is sick that it worked.
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This here is the electric pizza press.
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A lot of people don't know how to make a flat, round pizza dough.
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This is trying to solve that problem.
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So all we gotta do is first, obviously, plug it in.
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Plug it in.
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Take out your pizza dough.
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That's a little bit large, so cut out a small piece.
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And get me a nice little pizza dough, Nick.
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Don't tell me what to do.
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Thank you.
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Now, more parchment paper on top.
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And then place that into the electric pizza press.
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I'm excited for this one.
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Did you think it didn't work?
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I thought it didn't work!
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I thought it just went, arrr!
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Oh my god!
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That's kinda sick!
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Whoa, we got totally faked out.
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Oh!
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What?
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Whoa!
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I think it crushed it a little too much.
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I think, no, no, the opposite.
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It didn't push it out at all.
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It didn't really flatten it out.
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This thing didn't work.
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Hold on, I want to give it a fair chance.
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Just a little bit.
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Just enough that we just really press it up.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I'm not.
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This thing is horrible.
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Our next device is this rotating pizza maker.
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And this thing, basically, your oven.
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And all you have to do is load up your favorite pizza.
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Since there's pizza, you should tell everybody where you used to work.
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I used to work at Domino's Pizza.
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I used to slap pizza around.
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I used to have a lot of fun there.
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I really missed that job.
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And then I became a YouTuber.
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My first job out of college, before I became a YouTuber, instead, I was basically gonna be an undercover food inspector for McDonald's.
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Imagine that, me an undercover food inspector at McDonald's, you whipping pizzas around at Domino's.
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And now we're here making a frozen pizza.
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Just plug it in and it'll just start going.
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But Nick, this is gonna take a while, so let's come back to it.
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Moving on, we have an indoor smokeless grill, meaning this grill right here is supposed to have no smoke when you cook, which I don't believe.
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I don't believe at all, but you can see the sides here, This is where the fan sucks in the smoke.
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Oh, okay.
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So right here on the edges, the smoke's supposed to get sucked away.
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Exactly.
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And it's supposed to be a smokeless grill.
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I don't believe it.
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I think that there will be smoke right in the middle.
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But we first have to turn on the fan.
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Okay.
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And on the side here is where all the smoke gets pulled in from.
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So our grill has come up to temp.
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Let's go ahead and add some oil.
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And then we're going to throw the meat right on top here.
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We're not only testing out meat, we're gonna be testing out some veggies as well.
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So I got Nick's absolute favorite.
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Some green peppers, mushrooms, and some zucchini.
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So far, so good.
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I don't see smoke.
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Yeah, just give it a minute.
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And of course, we got the best salt in the game.
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It's true.
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Osmo.
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Absolutely delicious.
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Dude, so far, I do not see smoke.
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This is actually a sick device, dude.
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Check this out.
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I have these matches, and when I blow out the flame, if you move it down to the edge of this machine here, sucks all of that smoke away.
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But watch what happens when you turn it off.
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Smoke everywhere.
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So that fan really works.
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That's insane.
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Our pizza is officially ready, and this thing looks fantastic.
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Yeah, I don't know about fantastic.
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Come on, man.
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We didn't need an oven for it.
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You know what?
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I'm going to take that back.
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Yeah.
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You're the Domino's pizza guy.
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I'm going to let you judge this.
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You know, it did the job.
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Is it perfect?
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No. But listen, for a rotating machine, I'll take it.
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It's not bad.
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This machine here is called the auto stir fryer.
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It automatically makes a stir fry for you.
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Okay, we're going to heat this up now.
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Nick's going to turn it up all the way.
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All right, Nick, I think that's hot enough, Nick.
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Go in with your eggs.
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That's good.
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Then you got to close the lid, and you got to tilt this forward.
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Cool.
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Now we just let it go until the eggs are fully cooked.
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We're looking pretty good.
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We're getting close to being able to put in the next thing.
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Now we're going to toss in some more oil.
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Vegetables.
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Nice.
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And then let's go in with some rice.
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Yeah.
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We're going to hit it with the soy sauce right now.
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Smelling really good.
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It also looks really good.
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This is as close as you're going to get to working exactly as it's advertised.
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And after about 10 minutes, our fried rice is ready.
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Let me give this a shot.
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All done.
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Good.
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It's actually pretty good. Of course.
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It's actually really good.
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It works.
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Our next kitchen gadget is the smart toaster.
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And one thing that really pisses me off, why is your face on it?
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It's a smart toaster, and I'm really smart.
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Fair enough.
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So this smart toaster comes with many different options.
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So let's tap on the screen, and look at that.
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You could do waffles, you could do English muffin, but we're going to be doing white bread.
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How dark do you like your bread?
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Mmm, middle.
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I've never seen a toaster with a screen.
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If this works, this will blow my mind.
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And then it tells you the progress on the front.
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That is crazy.
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No, so what it's doing is it's like toasting one side and it turns off the other side.
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Oh, it doesn't pop up.
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No, it goes like that.
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Doesn't look like the picture at all.
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Look at this.
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How is this a smart toaster when it can't even, your only job is to toast.
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I'm biased.
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I like it because it's got my picture on it.
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It's pretty cool that it gives you all these options, but I gotta say, a regular toaster would do just fine.
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This is all right.
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Sorry.
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And in front of us, we have the posha cooking robot.
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This thing has 600 different recipes that you could cook.
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It does everything for you.
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You load up your ingredients, and it basically, you press one button, and it cooks your entire meal for you.
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I do love robots.
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I have trained robots to cook.
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I have cooked against robots.
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For some reason, I love doing cooking challenges that involve robots.
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Well, we're not challenging you today.
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We're gonna have you go ahead and pick a recipe that you want to cook.
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This is gonna cook for us.
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100%.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah.
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Mac and cheese.
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Also tempting.
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Mango sticky rice?
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Yes.
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That's awesome.
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I know.
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I'm in the mood for some creamy Tuscan shrimp.
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We're gonna make it for two people and 27 grams of protein.
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All right, so we have to just load up the ingredients.
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We got water, oil, and check this out.
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Like, we got the seasonings on top.
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What?
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That's the coolest part.
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So then it switches and starts throwing it into the pot and does it for you.
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It's absolutely amazing.
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Yeah.
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So go ahead and close the seasoning cabinet and let's go ahead and cook.
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All prepped up.
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Oh, it's giving me a final check, making sure I got all my ingredients in there.
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Yes, we're ready to cook.
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I want to see the first step.
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I can't wait for this.
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What?
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This is insane.
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You still feel like you're cooking.
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Even though you're not.
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Oh, more seasoning.
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Yep.
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And the live camera's insane.
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This is exactly where we're at in the cooking process right now.
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Oh, there goes the heavy cream.
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It's moving along pretty quickly.
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Yeah.
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Now is when we're going to start to get the really nice color of the sauce.
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Oh, here comes the shrimp.
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There you go.
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Oh, no. We need water.
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Ah.
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Throw in some water.
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Start cooking up that shrimp.
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And here comes the spinach.
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So this is the spinach with the dried tomatoes.
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There's only two minutes left and our creamy Tuscan shrimp is ready.
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Now all we have to do is just remove the mixing handle.
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And here it is, baby.
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Wow.
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Dang, look at that.
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Good.
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Nick, this cooks better than you.
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This was crazy, but let's go outside because I got another AI robot for you to check out.
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I love it.
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All right, Nick, for our level seven tech kitchen gadget, we have here what's called the Perfecta from Sear Grills.
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It's the first AI grilling robot in the entire world.
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How cool is this thing?
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Look at it.
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It looks really, really cool.
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Yeah, it's intense.
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So there's a lot of things you could tinker with this.
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By the way, they claim that it could cook a steak in 90 seconds.
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So go ahead and press the AI Chef button right there.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Wow.
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We'll go medium sear.
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We'll go medium, medium doneness, medium sear.
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Perfect.
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Also, you could select the quantity.
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So it could do two steaks at once.
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Want to do two?
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Yeah, let's do two.
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I got us two cuts of a beautifully seasoned rib eye steak here.
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And then we're just going to close the top.
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Let's go ahead and load them up into the cage and start preheating.
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Whoa, the flame went on.
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How sick is that?
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So once you slide in the vertigrate, the machine basically detects that the grill is in there.
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And it starts moving the walls in.
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You know, it smells like a good Japanese barbecue place.
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In a weird way, it's almost too fast.
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Maybe because we enjoy cooking.
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Yeah.
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You like to sit there.
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This is quite literally unbelievably fast, if it works.
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Yeah, we got 10 seconds left until our steak is ready here, Nick.
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Now it's just gonna rest.
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So, you know, cause you know, sucking up all those juices.
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Alright, Nick, it's finished.
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You want me to do it?
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Our steak is ready apparently.
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You want me to do the honors?
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Yeah, go ahead.
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No way.
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No way.
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I'm gonna open it up.
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I'm gonna go ahead.
611
Oh boy.
612
And cut into our steak here, Nick.
613
Ready? That feels impossible.
614
You would think that we switched out the steak.
615
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right? to it for a new steak.
616
And it's also just completely perfect top and bottom.
617
Like look at, like the level of dundness on either side is perfect.
618
The gray band on either end could not be more even.
619
That is crazy.
620
Cheers.
621
What is going on?
622
This is nuts.
623
It is perfect, perfect medium.
624
And then if you ask it to cook to medium rare, same thing.
625
It doesn't even seem possible.
626
This thing seems unreal.
627
That was very fast.
628
That's insane.
629
Really, really fast.
630
I'm so happy it worked.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “I Tried 7 Levels of Kitchen Tech”. This video has 629 sentences and 3920 words to shadow. The speech runs for 23:20. The speaker talks at a natural 168 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| gadget noun | /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/ | Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated. |
| maker noun | /ˈmeɪk.ɚ/ | Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something. |
| peel verb | /piːl/ | To remove the skin or outer covering of. |
| steak noun | /steɪk/ | Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling. |
| robot noun | /ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/ | An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal. |
| marshmallow noun | /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/ | Marsh mallow, a species of mallow, Althaea officinalis, that grows in marshy terrain. |
| toaster noun | /ˈtəʊ̯s.təː/ | An electrical device for toasting food, typically sliced bread. |
| grill noun | /ɡɹɪl/ | A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and… |
| dough noun | /doʊ/ | A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. |
| crepe noun | /kɹeɪp/ | A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat. |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| flour noun | /ˈflaʊ.ə/ | Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and… |
| lunchbox noun | /ˈlʌntʃˌbɒks/ | A container for transporting meals, especially lunch. |
| popcorn noun | /ˈpɑp.kɔɹn/ | A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. |
| ingredient noun | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| go in with verb | To commit to something with; to partner with. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| turn off verb | To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.). | |
| wait up verb | To stay awake waiting for somebody to return. | |
| blow out verb | To extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas. | |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Why would you ever want this?
- Do we take them off the vine?
- Do you have the fire extinguisher?
- I can do this in eight, seven minutes?
- Did you think it didn't work?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to work · used to slap · used to have |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | it's been · we've been · you've ever had |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is called |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the best · the coolest |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 136 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, gonna, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: arthritis /ɑːˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: marshmallow /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/, shrimp /ʃɹɪmp/, extinguisher /ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃə(ɹ)/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, freshly /ˈfɹɛʃli/
- Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, extinguisher /ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃə(ɹ)/, undercover /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈkʌvə(ɹ)/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, arthritis /ɑːˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like gadget, maker, peel.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.