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Chefs Review Kitchen Gadgets Vol.11

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Kitchen Gadgets Fail Efficiency Tests

Sorted Food’s Ben Ebbrell and James Currie are back for the eleventh installment of their long-running gadget-testing series, and this round leans hard into summer prep. Instead of the usual mixed bag of everyday tools, the pair work through a trio of items built for warm-weather cooking and lazy afternoon snacking. As always, the format is simple: plug it in, peel it, slice it, and decide on camera whether it earns a spot in a working kitchen or gets tossed in the gimmick pile.

• Ben Ebbrell and James Currie test three gadgets in this episode: 2-in-1 Scoop Tongs, an Automatic Potato Peeler, and a Windmill Watermelon Slicer/Cutter.
• The 2-in-1 Scoop Tongs are designed to combine gripping and scooping in a single tool, aiming to replace two separate utensils.
• The Automatic Potato Peeler is an electric countertop device built for hands-free vegetable prep, tested against the classic manual peeler.

The Scoop Tongs Put to the Test

The 2-in-1 Scoop Tongs kick things off, promising to do the job of both a serving spoon and a pair of tongs in one motion. Ben and James run through the kind of scenario any home cook would recognize — plating something that needs both gripping and scooping without switching utensils mid-meal. As classically trained chefs, both men size the gadget up against the tools they’d actually reach for on a professional line, which is the whole premise of the series: does a novelty item beat the boring, reliable classic?

An Electric Peeler Against the Classic Blade

Next up is the Automatic Potato Peeler, an electric countertop gadget that claims to strip the skin off vegetables without you lifting a standard peeler at all. This is exactly the kind of test that defines the Chefs Review Kitchen Gadgets format — pitting a battery-powered convenience device against the humble, cheap tool that’s been sitting in kitchen drawers for decades. Ben and James put it through actual peeling work rather than just describing the packaging claims, checking speed, mess, and how much potato actually survives the process versus how much gets shaved away with the skin.

The whole series runs on one question: useless or not? You decide.

The Windmill Watermelon Slicer

The most summer-specific gadget of the bunch is the Windmill Watermelon Slicer/Cutter, a blade tool that’s pushed straight into a watermelon half to instantly carve it into portioned cubes. It’s built for the exact scenario Sorted Food leans into this episode — backyard gatherings, picnics, and anyone who’s ever hacked away at a watermelon with a chef’s knife and ended up with uneven chunks and a sticky cutting board. Ben and James test whether the windmill design actually delivers clean, uniform pieces or whether it just looks satisfying without outperforming a sharp knife and a steady hand.

Function, Cleaning, and Value

Across all three gadgets, the chefs apply the same evaluation criteria that’s carried the series through ten prior volumes: does the tool actually work as advertised, how easy is it to clean afterward, and is it worth the money compared to equipment most kitchens already have. That last question is the one that separates a genuinely useful gadget from something that photographs well but gathers dust after one use — and it’s the throughline that’s kept channels built around testing and reviewing physical products, from kitchen tools to full-blown challenge videos, running for years.

Sorted Food built its whole channel on segments like this one — recurring, low-stakes, and rewatchable, the kind of format that keeps subscribers coming back volume after volume the same way audiences return to any well-run testing series. Volume 12 is presumably already loaded with whatever the next seasonal gadget catalog is pushing, and if the windmill watermelon cutter passed muster here, don’t be shocked if it shows up again once summer rolls around next year.