Reviewing PRO Kitchen Gadgets | Sorted Food

Today we are reviewing some Professional Kitchen Gadgets! What will our normals think?!

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[SortedFood]

A lot of people are asking what is the peeler that Kush recommends…. It’s the Victorianox Rex peeler if you’re interested 😁

Happy peeling peeps!

[alexdavis]

The ‘crash dummies of food’ is a brilliant tag line!

[David-R-Hall]

Used to use the tomato slicer at McDonald’s, both in the U.K. and Australia, so it is used in restaurants. The blades are lethal, especially when they start to buckle and go blunt.

[clairegolden]

As someone with arthritis, my fingers tend to freeze and cramp after peeling hard things like butternut. The electric peeler would be great, maybe they need to redirect their marketing

[jesusfreakinct]

The tomato slicer gave me flashbacks to working at Subway during college - I can't imagine how many tomatoes I put through one of those. You guys mention it as one of the attributes, but I think the emphasis should definitely be on the "unskilled" aspect; it allowed employees to cut tomatoes extremely quickly (in large quantities), with little training, all while remaining relatively safe. When you're dealing with high school aged individuals, anything which involves less knife usage is a plus! I'd be interested in seeing what you think of the hand-cranked vegetable slicer that we used as well!

[jaspertandy]

That tomato slicer was one of my favourite things about working at Subway. Works way better on firmer tomatoes (if they're too soft they explode and hit you), and works better if you punch it through rather than softly pushing it.

[chromehero]

Worked in a high volune kitchen and let me tell you, using the tomato slicer to slice onions before using the dicer to dice them is a huge time saver. The dicer also works wonders on bell peppers if you cut them properly first. Like two cooks can make GALLONS of diced peppers and onions in less than an hour. And dont even get me started on how fast the prep for burger heavy days where LTO setups have to be made in advance.

Edit: spelling

[woodrobin]

4:58 -- I could really see that electric peeler as being useful for someone with grip and/or dexterity issues. You don't have to be as nimble with your hands and arms, and you don't have to exert as much force, and are still able to peel effectively.

[delphic]

I used a ricer very similar in restaurants before. One of my early jobs was to prep 100+ lbs of mashed potatoes as my first task of my shift. I can report that the tool featured is a joy to use and can process several cases of cooked potatoes in under 30 minutes into perfectly skinless, perfectly smooth mash.

[paragrim]

I've worked as a cook in Canada for about 15 years now, working in industrial kitchens, to family restaurants, to local pubs. The last gadget (the dicer) has been in every single one of the kitchens I have worked at. Most will only use it for cutting french fries, but I've used peppers onions and the like in them all the time.
The only complaint I had with the way you used it is that the guiding spokes should have been greased (more often then not just with a cooking spray). It shouldn't have been able to not fall by itself if you lift it.

[RatsinaCoat]

Vogue is SUCH a classic, don't dare downplay your amazing references!

[nicolemoran]

The last one can also be used for making chips. As for the slicer, I worked in a bakery and we had a mandolin that would get used for cutting the sandwich prep. We also had a chainmail glove. It tends to stop fingers from being peeled off or sliced off.

[DysonParkes]

I would love to see a tour of the Sorted studio, behind the scenes. What does the development kitchen look like, where are the office spaces, where do all the gadgets get stored (and how many get taken home)?

[gayathrikrishnakumar]

I'm always reminded of the coconut scraper when you guys post gadgets review 😂

[anitasmirnov]

I feel like the peeler could be useful for people with joint pain or weakness, to make it easier to peel things

[ctsnicky]

The tomato slicer, as seen in every single subway restaurant ever. The little thumb screws in the back are for an add on that's essentially a ...hook, that hooks onto a counter edge to hold it in place when you slam the tomato straight though it. It's used daily to cut 2-3 boxes of tomatoes in a relatively busy restaurant here.
For the dicer, used one in a pizzeria for dicing onion and green pepper toppings. There is another machine for slicing first. It's a disk with two blades, that you manually crank (spin) while pushing the veg against the disk with a metal plate with a long handle... hard to describe but obvious when you see it in action. The dicer takes a bit of force, but there's rubber stoppers so you can slam on it pretty hard without damaging anything.

[FredTech]

I used that EXACT onion dicer working for corporate sandwich chain, Jimmy John's. The tomato slicer we used was very similar, but was a top to bottom slice like the onion dicer instead of side to side. Really makes large food prep in the mornings SO much faster, and of course you are able to train 20 year olds to use it!

[FroggyNight]

Used the onion chopper at a pizza place I worked at. We used it on all the pizza veg toppings. If you’d used the horizontal slicer (Item Number 1) in conjunction with the onion slicer you’d get perfect results every time.

[logruszed]

That tomato slicer is responsible for more trips to the emergency room than a deep fryer, salamander, & slippery floors combined.

[woodrobin]

10:48 -- In my hometown, there was a wall-mounted version of one of these, with a wider aperture -- whole raw potatoes went in the top, skin-on-end cut potatoes came out the bottom to go in the fryer. Best fries (chips to you) *ever* and a local phenomenon. The hand-levered potato cutter was the same tool the whole time the drive-in was open, and it's over 70 years old at this point with no sign of failing on the horizon.