5 Decorating Kitchen Gadgets Tested By Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious

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1. Dan reads our comments 😍 that moment he meantioned the difficulty of cleaning the gadgets.. swoons I feel like he gets sassier everytime💅

2. I am a professional cake decorator. I use plunge cutter to create fondant shapes for my cakes. They wash up easily in soapy water. I think cookie dough would also dissolve off of them easily. The writing pen is just a gimmick. It's easy to learn to control a piping bag and it gives superior results. Food color pens get 5/5 from me. They are not for everything but for specific jobs, your option would be a paint brush and liquid food color. Personally, I use an apple corer on my cup cakes.

3. DAN IS BACK!!! ❤️

4. I knew the L-HOT was gonna be a MESS on the icing pen. WOOF.

5. Unless you put raisins in them, I don't think you'll have trouble getting kids to eat cookies 🙂

6. Dan is a treasure.

7. Yay, another great video from Dan! Love his videos~

8. I love your videos are great, but please remember us lefties! Things can be designed for both. Usually though, it never is. The rare times they make a left handed version, it cost 5 times more money. Remember us!

9. I don't think I like the decorating pens for one simple reason: THEY LOOK LIKE THE MARKERS I HAVE AT MY DRAWING STATION! Way too easy for a child to confuse the two types of pens and color on food with the non-edible ink.

   As for a redesign, I would make the pen shafts triangular, so they fit better in the hand, with a slight concave arc along the length of the pen. This would make it easier to hold, and having the body flair at the ends a little would provide something to push back to keep them from sliding much.

10. I think that silicone cake shaper can be good but not really for different shapes, more like just having the flexibility to make difference sizes without having to keep multiple cake pans on hand.

11. "I like it, Picasso "

12. I'm hangry now

13. I think the animal cookie cutter spring should be pressed after taking out the dough base. This way it would be easier taking the shaped cookie out than taking cookie out from a whole dough base.

14. Thank you thank you thank you for starting to call out the plastic insanity. I love your videos and it's so good to see things from a perspective that takes into account renewables, pollution, waste etc.

15. Hello, I enjoy the videos very much. I am curious as to what Dan studied, and how he got to be a kitchen gadget designer. Could you mention something about it? Thanks

16. The food coloring pens are pens. They're round cause they are pens. The usability test on them was just silly.

17. i think the shape-able pan would have worked better if Dan connected both "points" on the heart at angles. the top point was just joined as a line and it didn't hold the shape because of that. Probably still a crappy product, just not as crappy.

18. where can I buy the push cookie cutters? the cookies look adorable!!! OwO

19. I want mr. Dan to announce my purpose in life like how he does it with the gadgets.

20. You know, the man gets why I hate the cupcake corer. Yes, I serves a very specific purpose and does it well. But I also don't feel like cupcakes need to be filled

21. Well I am sorry to inform you but that poor cookie dino is a herbivore and wouldn`t eat you xD

22. I love acorn cakes!

23. “If you have kids at home that you’re having trouble getting to eat cookies…” looks at camera because he knows that’s never an issue at home 😂

24. First time i see something that i actually bought, those sylicone cake shape whatevers first shown had the exact same problem for us!

25. Surely it would be more informative to compare the process for the cake shaper to the process of making an aluminum foil mold. Nobody who already has a metsl cake pan in the shape they want would bother with a tool like that

26. Maybe on the first one, the magnetic one, you could use your Fridge Magnets to keep it in shape? Maybe dot them around the edges?

27. Why would you put “Falls short of the promise!” in quotes if he literally never said that? You can’t just paraphrase what someone says, put quotation marks around it, and call it a quote. Did the editors over at Epicurious drop out of English 101 or something? Cmon.

28. I grew up with an engineer and putting an engineer through school… I LOVE THIS!!!!! THANK YOU!

29. Nowadays, too many products are not designed to work, only to sell.

30. Please I have watched every episode. I need more :C. How long till a new one comes out?

31. If they cut this series because viewership is declining, I swear, I will never forgive y’all. 😐

32. The cake shaper maybe would work if you used something weighted on the sides? Obviously too much effort but maybe like holding it in place somehow could make it a little better

33. The cookie cutters ARE easy to clean! I own some. You just push while running them under water.

34. Gotta love when he takes every single opportunity to taste or eat something in front of him. 👌😆

35. You definitely can't use those pens with younger kids. I wouldn't want to be teaching young kids to draw on food when those pens look so much like other cheap art markers….

36. The cupcake corer:
    “But can it core a apple?”
    —-Norton from “The Honeymooners”.

37. Absolutely LOVE this series, Dan is great!

38. I have the cake shapers, and I pretty much swear by them! XD But I've only ever used them for round cakes, so the reason why I prefer them over cake tins is space: Both storing and cleaning them, they are a lot smaller than a cake tin, and therefore they are easier to clean by hand, and take up less space in the washing machine and the cupboard.. ^^ But other than that, yeah, I've seen other people test them, and they suck at making shapes! XD

39. I love my cupcake corer 🤭 I've had it for nearly 10 years now! It's just so handy!

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