Lisa’s Favorite Gadgets You Didn’t Know You Needed
Gadget critic Lisa McManus reviews the gadgets you didn’t know you needed.
Buy our winning cheese plane:
Buy our winning flexible cutting mat:
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Please ask Lisa McManus to do a video about the virtues of the bird's beak pairing knife. A standard 4" or 5" pairing knife will do everything the bird's beak does. But the bird's beak is the best if you have a lot of strawberries to hull, or eyes to remove from potatoes or pineapples. Your wrist will thank you!
That Wusthof cheese plane is now $35 on Amazon – is there a runner-up that comes closer to the $20 range? Thanks.
Inflation has hit these hard.
Need new pans..what do you suggest
Oxo has certainly come up in the world and I am happy to see it! It is also still affordable. When I began to have nerve damage in my hands my mother purchased me and also good grips can opener and a couple of other items one was a vegetable peeler. Now I pretty much have no feeling in my hands except a lot of pain and I can still use that vegetable peeler! A handheld can opener is no longer an option for me but that peeler is still with me and I still use it! 🙂
This is the most useful kind of video, thank you.
I appreciate you actually making a decision and recommendation. Thank you.
Do not cut on Plastic cutting mats! Over time the plastic starts falling apart and transfers as plastic dust to your food. Toxic! I do use them for handling raw meat still. I returned to wood for cutting.
How are those flexible cutting mats for knife longevity – compared to wood?
Cheese planes are very common in Denmark. I have to say, having owned many of them, even some vintage ones, the best ones are made of plastic. If the cheese is just a little bit sticky, it works right off the bat, where the metal ones need to be 'broken in' with a couple of slices of cheese 🙂
Short and useful. Great vid, thanks.
As always, great suggestions. Thanks!
The planet is drowning in stuff, especially plastic. We don’t need these things
I wonder what the winning percentage is for Oxo Good Grip products. 😂
Nice job Lisa!
I got the mats from ikea…lots cheaper, and there’s a grid on one side, that makes it possible to roll out naan, and they don’t retract!
Those were good recommendations.
Stop saying "19.99." It's embarrassing.
the first gadget is called a "kaasschaaf"
There are more kitchen's gadget I would like to know about , please give us more . I'm so tired of buying tools I never used and not having those I need . There has been such an evolution in kitchen in the last decades that what was recommend 20 years ago in a book : All what you need in your kitchen , is obsolete , today . What grandma used to used or my mother , it's out , today .
Short but is well packed with content
Bridgett is a doll I like her personality. Great at what she does.
these black and white shots give me major infomercial vibes…
Small spatula is currently unavailable at Amazon and the notation says they don't know if they will ever be back in stock 🙁
Do those dexa flexible cutting mats stay flat? I have a set of a different brand of flexible cutting mats that don't stay flat! It's very frustrating because they are unsafe 2 use now. They are only about a year old!