5 Fruit Kitchen Gadgets Tested by Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious

Design and usability guru Dan Formosa returns to evaluate and improve upon 5 kitchen gadgets designed to help you slice and server your favorite fruit. Watch as he tests each device for effectiveness and ease of use, weighing in on what works, what doesn't, and what he'd do to improve their design.

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[Ora-DR]

The funny thing is that the watermelon slicer is a better cake cutting gadget than all of the gadgets in the cake episode.

[cokofleischer]

"Plus you get a tube of watermellon your family could fight over"
this man has true wisdom 😂

[ingewidya]

“I just don’t know how to shake it and drink it at the same time”

*Proceeds to jump and drink at the same time*

[ecmelton]

The great thing about the watermellon slicer is that it frees up the knives for fighting over the watermellon tube.

[AGlimpseInside]

Happy gadget making anniversary Dan. Previous videos you were doing and 39 years. Now 40 years congrats on a successful career my friend

[darthplagueis]

I'd argue that the lemon sprayer shouldn't be compared to just juicing a lemon like that since the intention (for whatever reason) is to get a fine spray. So the comparison would be to juice the lemon first and then put that into a spray bottle.

[TheNukewarfare]

Boyfriend: “What are you doing?”
Me: “It’s time for the left-handed oil test!”

[JackDanger]

That banana core peeler is one of the most American things I‘ve ever seen.

[Say_Tin]

When you design a gadget for something as niche as coring bananas and _still_ fail at it to a metal straw

[voidpope]

I chuckled when he said bananas need a little more care and understanding . And I laughed whole way through the watermelon part that was comedy gold

[doomrider]

The lemon sprayer I think is more of a bartending thing or salad where you just need a slight spray of lemon juice vs a lot of juice. Still loses out to just having a mini spray bottle.

[RijackiTorment]

The strawberry slicer looks like it might be good for kids helping in the kitchen as it would be safer than a knife. The lemon spritzer would be fine for spritzing on a salad or something else you want only a light amount of the juice and then cutting the lemon for other use. The watermelon cutter looked the best of all, though. The one who did the cutting should get the core :-) or you could slice the core for watermelon 'coins' which would look nice in a fruit salad beside the wedges.

[MaxGriffinJames]

The citrus sprayer is a great cocktail tool, it's not really for getting ALL the juice. The spray function is the point.

[dapperfinch]

Forget family board game night, we're fighting over watermelon tubes now.

[happybunniesbinky]

I think Dan needs a back massage. It must put quite a strain, carrying the entire Epicurious channel

[rockawaybeach]

"I got it in my eye but it's OK. I think I'll just get comments about it" That's commitment

[ThiagoGasparino]

One of the things most of these gadgets fall short of a regular knife is that they're a pain to wash. Most gadgets that tie or come close to a tie in the effectiveness test have actually failed miserably when you account for how much work it'll be to wash them.

[thatchick]

The lemon/lime sprayer isn’t to get all the juice out. It’s for like cocktails, salads, just if you need a little lemon. I kind of like it lol

[catbodine]

Would love a show where you pick some of your favorite gadgets and explain how they were well designed.