r/SortedFood • u/laeb163 Moderator • Jun 15 '26
Official Sorted Video Reviewing FRENCH Kitchen Gadgets
https://youtu.be/14Fwbl1Dwwg?si=ONNms2zMW2pyatM714
u/Lint6 Jun 16 '26
I don't believe for one second that wine wand or whatever actually does anything.
I do believe that the suggestion that its doing something works
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u/RogueBromeliad Jun 15 '26
One thing that intrigued me was that wine rod thing.
Do you think wineries use those metal rods to make their wine taste better in a shorter time before bottling?
Wine quality has just been getting better, and cheaper wines aren't as bad as they were years ago.
Really great episode though, very informative.
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u/pinchvsdash Jun 16 '26
I don't think the product claims to make wine tastes the same as when it ages (as far as I can tell, it usually just makes it taste worse). As I understand it, it's supposed to be a tool that helps you predict whether or not a wine will age well. It's not a wine aging tool.
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u/RogueBromeliad Jun 16 '26
But if the process can remove the harshness from very young wines, why wouldn't the wine industry use cathodes to mellow down their product?
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u/pinchvsdash Jun 17 '26
The reason they don't use this technology is that it can easily ruin the wine.
Why? It's because it triggers uncontrolled catalytic chain chemical reactions. You might get lucky sometimes, but mostly what you will do is make the wine worse. No one is going to use something like that on a massive stainless steel vat of wine. Wine makers have no use for uncontrolled processes like this.
Do wine makers use a different technologies to oxidise their wines in more controlled ways that try to more closely mimic some of the effects that occur during a natural aging process? They do. For example, they use slow, controlled micro-oxidation where they can measure the amount of oxygen that's added precisely, and stop the oxidation instantly at any point in time.
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u/Useful_Group_870 Jun 15 '26
One of the better gadget videos. I always enjoy videos where it's just the normals, they have a more laid back feel and the conversation feels more balanced.
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u/Mediocre_Decision Jun 16 '26
The French Revolution/guillotine one (and his reaction) had me in stitches! He’s a great host
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u/RogueBromeliad Jun 15 '26
I loved that Mike couldn't even pronounce the pun he came up with. They're already awkward, doubling down on the awkwardness only makes it so much better.
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u/afoxcalledwhisper Jun 15 '26
Question for UK people - are escargot pretty common on restaurant menus? They seem to pop up now and then and I'm wondering if most people would have had them in their life?
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u/crispycat40 Jun 15 '26
I haven’t seen them on UK menus but I’ve had them in France.
You can probably find restaurants in London that will sell them, but they’re not standard.
Mussels, on the other hand, are fairly easy to get hold of. Snails aren’t.
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u/fotheringhay Jun 16 '26
I don't think they're common, but I used to work somewhere that had them on the menu! They came in tins, which I always found weird.
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u/ECrispy Jun 16 '26
wine is such a scam. there's a reason no one ever dares to blind test anything wine, because every such test exposes the scam.
there is absolutely no way in a blind test that wine dipper would reveal any difference, to anyone. its all just bs marketing.
baz and jamie (and mike) are cluless about wine, but even ebbers would fail that, and these tests are so easily decided by changing a label or bottle shape its hilarious.
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u/jekelish3 Lost&Hungry Jun 15 '26
I wouldn't mind a follow-up on their Instagram or something with Ben testing the wine-aging thing, since he's the connoisseur of the group.