If you watched the most recent episode of Thursday Test Kitchen, you'll see I reviewed a vegetable steamer product by Sunsella.
I wanted to elaborate a little on my review that I did in that video by sharing a few photos showing the features I liked AND the features I disliked on this item. If you haven't watched the TTK from Nov. 19, I've embedded the video here for your convenience (and if you're not subscribed to my channel, click here to do so!)
Without further ado, a few photos of my favorite (and unfavorite features!)
I LOVE that this is stainless steel. It cleans up great in the dishwasher and like my favorite steamer that my grandma had when I was growing up, it's of the traditional fan out style.
I do NOT like that there are no feet covers to protect my nonstick pans. This product could benefit greatly from some rubber or silicone feet covers. I won't be giving this full stars because I can't use this steamer in more than one of my kitchen pans.
Overall this is a great product, it's quite large and holds tons of veggies! I do recommend this steamer, just don't expect to use it on any type of non stick coated pan.
As mentioned in the youtube video, this product was sent to me in exchange for my honest review. As you can see from this detailed blog post and the video, I did test this product prior to making a decision on how I feel about the product's performance. All opinions are my own.
Hey all! I just wanted to share a quick video review I did recently of the KUKPO potato masher.
Watch this video for a demonstration of me using it during our Sunday dinner prep!
I definitely recommend trying out this potato masher! You can get yours on Amazon (click here!)
FTC: I was given this potato masher for free for this review, as you can see in the video, the demonstration is real. All opinions are my own. <3
This a bit later than I planned on posting this, but that's due to the incredible amount of setbacks I experienced during this challenge.
It started when, about 4 weeks ago I learned what the new, November Soap Challenge would be and decided I wanted to participate. I went and bought everything I should need and waited for registration to open. The morning of October 26, right before registration opened, my husband texted me telling me he was on his way home, he'd been laid off. The oil & gas service industry is really rough right now, and my husband, a geophysicist, just couldn't be kept on due to major budget cuts.
I seriously considered not doing the challenge, I mean, $6 was still money and it's a meal if we ended up needing it. Then, the supplies showed up on my doorstep. I paid the registration and watched the tutorial a dozen times. I needed to do this, I needed to make soap to make me feel better and I thought if I had a chance at winning, then the prize would surely help me continue making soap while we crunch the numbers on affording to live in the meantime. Besides, did I mention making the soap just kind of makes me feel better?
Anyway, I got to work making soap right away. My first batch was beautiful but NOT good enough! The trace came too quick and it didn't *shimmy* enough. This is the tall & skinny shimmy! I couldn't just ignore a necessary adjective! I immediately ordered more fragrance for as cheap as I could find and got to planning the next batch.
The second attempt when awful. I decided to avoid stick blending it and just stirred it to emulsion. Or rather, not emulsion. It was poured beautifully and looked gorgeous, but it wasn't mixed well enough and, well, you can watch my youtube fail video here.
The third attempt was unscented, I felt weird about making a pretty, colorful soap, with no scent. But I decided I needed to keep trying and wasn't going to let being out of fragrance get in my way. I stickblended a *little* bit and poured, hoping for the best.
Please view this video to see the process!
(My iPad hasn't been very friendly with uploads lately, so this is in two parts.)
Part 1:
Part 2:
Alas, I have achieved a beautiful tall & skinny shimmy. But then here's where more trouble began brewing in my mind. It was beautiful to me, but as my 9th soap ever, I just assumed it couldn't possibly be good enough. I went into the soap making forums I am in on Facebook just to prove to myself that my soap is good enough. I saw several other T&SS participant's soaps. They're gorgeous! Self doubt began to creep in. I shut off the computer for a whole day. I decided to enter the soap anyway. You can't win if you don't play. <3
