Yo I would just like to thank you for this comment. Your comment gave me the motivation to work harder and learn more, I eventually saved enough money to pay off my house and car. I saved a lot of money from this. I got hired at a better job. And saved my whole family. Thanks.
I don’t know what’s stranger: Him not knowing what a garlic press is or the sellers feeling confident that there are enough people who don’t know what a garlic press is to act like they invented it.
I can confirm what he said about clicking ads to waste the companies money. The business I work for runs ads online and on social media and we have to pay a set fee to whoever runs our ads every single time someone clicks on one of those ads. The only bad thing about this is that while yes, you are wasting the money of the company the ad is for, you are also giving huge companies like Google money because they are the ones running those ads.
The most bizarre and funny part of this video wasn't any of the items he bought, it was the fact that he had never heard of a garlic press and was tricked into buying one for twice as much as they usually cost
@BrightAwake That's interesting! But I maintain that I'm right anyway _(purely from a love of truth there is no bias here at all)_ - chopping the garlic and then chewing it is surely not that far behind a garlic press, re: allicin produced... and it's neither a *nutrient* nor even known to be otherwise more beneficial than its precursor (as far as, uh, my 5-min.-of-Googling expertise goes).
@Tezcatlipoc I think they're talking about allicin: "When fresh garlic is chopped or crushed, the enzyme alliinase converts alliin into allicin, which is responsible for the aroma of fresh garlic" (from wikipedia) basically the more you crush / break apart the garlic the stronger the tase/aroma and more allicin is in it, that's why crushed garlic is stronger tasting than big slices or throwing the whole clove in when cooking
“You can just resell some cheap bullshit you found on Aliexpress and make up an entirely fake narrative to go along it?” Yes, It's called dropshipping and every douche on ELvids does it. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if like 80% of that crap started out as dropshipping products from Aliexpress.
I think this series started as “how bad are the products from these terrible Instagram ads” and has warped into us all enabling Drew’s impulse purchases
is it really common household kitchenware? like i feel like home cooks might have one but . idk I use garlic all the time and I know what a garlic press is but I have never used one either
We did an office white elephant gift thing last Christmas and when I put "garlic press" on the list of things I would like, everyone was confused. We're talking several women in their 30s-40s, all of them have kids, and none of them had ever used one. It was really strange, I thought they were just as common as like, a citrus squeezer or cheese grater.
Firstly, I had one of those slushy making cups as a kid. Obviously they work but are _horrible_ to clean and my siblings and I slowly stopped using it because of the possibility of it not being completely clean. Second, that bag in a bag thing is common place in Europe or at least where I have been because some countries charge extra for a plastic bag. Cool, small, and helps the environment
Damn Drew, I had a mouthful of coffee when your “berating my cat” part of the skit brought me the closest Ive ever been to doing a spit take not on purpose.
I love how drew doesn’t know what a garlic press is I love that this made some Europeans genuinely concerned that Americans don’t have the modern luxury of being able to mince garlic quicker I just love this video in general, but especially that part I guess garlic presses are as common as salad tossers? As in, it’s not some niche thing, but is only really something you have if you make a specific dish all the time
@That V8 Life just checked- and sadly I do not. I do have pre-minced garlic in my fridge? I don’t cook much garlic-based foods so Idk if everyone has one. I feel like a can opener is more of a thing everyone has, rather than a garlic press.
About the powersave video, I looked it up and found another very similar ad with a "Nathan Gilroy", 18, entrepreneur who didn't want to sell his invention to a big tech company because he cares about the people. Almost the same narrative but with a different name and face. My suspicion is that it's simply stock footage, I'm having trouble finding who exactly these guys are.
I was so confused. I bought a garlic press for like three dollars. These things have been around and for cheap. Then I noticed the selling point is the supposed peel lever.
Lol the cosy band is literally $2 on aliexpress. $40 is definitely too much to pay for that. That being said for $2 it's a decent solution to being an alarm that doesn't wake up my wife.
Funny story: My grandpa used to be an inventor on the side and had patents on a couple ideas but let them expire after a few years. One of those patents was for a product pretty much exactly like that Upright posture thing. If he had kept paying the annual fee we coulda had some extra pocket money I guess
unsure how this man has not encountered an standard collapsible bag or garlic press before, but I was happy to go on this journey of discovery with him
When asked if I’d prefer between the orange juice slush and garlic I did respond and was shocked how accurate that interaction was through video. I then felt guilty for sentencing Drew to a garlicky demise.
The powersave works in some regard, though not to the degree they show. It's literally just a capacitor you plug into your wall. It would save literal pennies, if not for power bills already not accounting fluctuating currents for households.
The fact that my mother got the what is basically "garject light". For like a dollar more than 20 years ago makes me feel like it's not some revolutionary piece of equipment.
For the garlic, just remove the head bit as usual with a knife, and then put a knife sideways on top of the garlic and smash it. Removing the peel is extremely easy after then. Then you can put it inside the garlic crusher.
same - ever since he said in that one video that he uploads near the end of the month bc he procrastinates until the end, i always get hyped for when the month closes out bc i know there’s new content coming 💀 i’ve noticed other channels doing it too now
I had that exact freezie maker from when I was a kid I bought it from a second-hand shop in a rural area of Australia, it was miserable and I don't think I made one decent drink from it, I'm pretty sure we threw it out after i decided to make a Vegemite freezie
I’ve used those sleep headphones for about 2 years, you can buy them for around $15 though which makes them way more worth it. I’m on pair 3 because since they’re so cheap they break the wire easily after a few months of daily wear.
I have had a similar garlic press for years and it's probably one of my most used specialized tools in the kitchen. I paid less than $10 for it, though. I also have a whole set of those mini bags but from a company called ChicoBags. They've lasted me for years and I get asked about where to buy them at least once a month.
I always find these scamy power savers idiotic. Even if they actually would work as they promise, as a domestic customers you are not even charged for the reactive power you waste.
I find it hilarious that the nanobag is supposed to be a great way to save space and use less bags when it’s literally just a grocery bag. Grocery bags were invented to help the deforestation that paper bags were causing and the idea was you get one from the store, bring it home, then crumble it up into a tiny ball when you’re done and put it in your pocket to use again. Instead us Americans just threw them into the trash or never used them again and now we have paper bags as a means to stop the waste that plastic bags were causing.
I saw that slushee thing during a commercial break on Nickelodeon when I was a kid. I wanted it so bad but idk why Also if anyone remembers seeing those two-in-one drink/snack holder things, I would very much like to discuss them and any other odd kid-targeted products from the 2000s.
BROO YOU JUST UNLOCKED A MEMORY, i remember i had a drink/snack holder thing- i cannot remember what it was called- but i remember mine had minions on it 😭
Honestly though, that’s what MOST of these ads are. They’re trying to sell you stuff that already exists by rebranding it as some cool new gadget, and adding crazy markups because they have to make up for their ad budgets somehow.
My god right? They are sold at IKEA for like 50sek (whats that, 4 dollars?) I own two of them! The Tiny-Bag is also one of those items that can be bought anywhere. I have around 8 of them or so living permanently in my purse and jacket pockets. They costed around 10sek (1dollar) at my local supermarket and I don't see why anyone would spend more on them.
I've had a slushie cup like one of those before, it's totally a gimmick. You essentially have to freeze the cup for the same amount of time you'd have to freeze the drink to make it a slushie anyway, might as well just freeze stuff in a cheap plastic cup.
no you are so right they had these but back then advertised on cartoon channels and i always wanted one i got one and they were so shit it barely worked (also nice pfp danger days is probably my favorite mcr album)
@MCRtrash#1 ok hands down best take. I just felt like your take on the cup was like, so one sided. I can’t really explain why I wanted to protect the cup. I don’t even have one.
Oh ya those tiny bags that fold up are great. I got a water resistant one for all my swim stuff, like swim suite and towel so if I go to the beach I don't really have to keep track of a huge bag, instead I could just put this apple-sized mini bag in my shoe.
@David Liu I’m not saying it’s easy but most small ELvidsrs aren’t doing it solely for the money, they have a job interview the side and by the time they’re big enough to rely on ELvids solely they can drop a series they don’t enjoy and focus on things they do and most of their audience will stick around and they’ll gain new subs for the different content. There’s an audience for everything. But also many mainstream jobs consist of doing things we don’t enjoy for a pay check, I’m not saying it’s fun but it is what it is.
@Ember i know i just dont like watching videos i know youtubers hate to make you know they should be free to make whatever they want but algorithm and all
@DigitalHarmony they can't "just not" if ELvids is their main source of income. of course someone is going to feel trapped if the only way earn revenue sustainably is to do something they don't enjoy
@DigitalHarmony Yeah they choose to do it but that choice might be financially necessary and if they don’t do it they’ll probably get comments demanding it which, combined with the worse performance of their other videos, could be really creatively demotivating. It also can be helpful for the audience to know how a creator feels about their own work so they can understand what is reasonable to except.
@Ember I think they meant ELvidsrs complain and act like we’re forcing them to do the thing when they could just not. If they do it because they know they get a ton of likes and views (ergo money), they shouldn’t make the fans feel Shitty for enjoying the content they’re actively choosing to make, ya know?
Throughout this video I kept asking myself "Has Drew never used garlic press before?" and "Has Drew never seen these folding fruit bags before?" and judging by comments I wasn't the only one
Also, a nice tip for peeling garlic first is to just smash it. I usually just use a large knife and press down on the garlic with the flat side on the cutting board. It almost completely separates the peel from the rest and it'll be mostly in tact so you can just pull it off.
5:03 this isn't a new thing,at least for me,I even remember my grandma having a set of these and just carrying them with her 😗 and they do last long,a year or three.
hey so i just went on your sub-reddit and saw amanda had asked everybody to stop with the afghanistan jokes, which i didnt really know she asked about until i downloaded reddit in the first place. i recommend you say something in a video about it just for the people who dont have reddit/arent in your subreddit. just because that is one of the most run-on jokes on your channel and im sure amanda would appreciate everybody getting the message. :)
All garlic press tools are not made the same though - the metal one from the Zyliss brand is amazing and I’ll probably never use anything else (they make a plastic one too, it’s nowhere near as good). You don’t even have to peel your garlic before putting it in. So good🙌🏻
@TheEtherny Could I ask you to point me in the right direction for something like this? I'd be genuinely interested in something like that if I can find a slightly cheaper alternative.
I have a cozy band (a different brand tho), it's pretty terrible except for one specific use that it's good at for me. I use it on winter hikes. It's good to keep your head and ears warm while listening to music. Having earbuds with a regular winter band can end up hurting the inside of my ears and blocks out the nosies of nature if I want to turn them off since they're in ear. This is better. But for sleeping, general audio quality, etc. They suck. Not very comfortable bc the speaker is a hard plastic piece inside that pushes against your head and slides around.
Honestly, it’s not their best product. They became initially successful with cafes in Australia because they have a product that baristas like. I don’t know why they have branched out to Tiktok with weird ads advertising their least innovative product. I’ve got a bunch of stuff from them because they are in local stores because they are from my hometown (they had a toilet brush where you squeeze the top to shake out the water so the brush doesn’t drip when you take it out and I freaking love that toilet brush) but they have some weird marketing ideas. They aren’t a scam company though, they’ve won a bunch of industry awards here. (Knowing way too much about successful companies from Brisbane Australia is oddly a thing I know about - I also know way too much about the devs behind Fruit Ninja, the devs behind Destroy All Humans and also Flight Centre)
That slush cup, its got the principle down but there is a reason those machines have blades, aside from mixing the drink to create a homogenous mixture, the drink mostly freezes on the refrigerated surfaces, then the blades scrape the ice off that's what gives a slush that fine texture, this just agitates the drink to make it freeze faster and not in a solid chunk.
I love the direction Drew is taking honestly, i dont care what he posts he always has a way of adding his own flare to make it entertaining. The arcade video was a completely different thing from the usual content we get. Whatever Drew wants to do is exactly what im subscribed for
I have something like that nanobag but it’s a Chico bag and it’s literally my fave thing. My family had like twenty of them and they’re actually pretty strong. Love them.
I see scam ads like the power one online all the time and it seriously pisses me off. Most notably, there’s one I see often where they advertise and incredibly cheap drone they say is better than DJI because the man who invented it used to work there, where it’s just a cheap ass thing. I hate it so much, because it’s just straight up lying. It’s not misleading, it’s fraudulent.
I just subscribed to the channel after finding and binging ur videos. Keep it up. U are so funny and I hope that u keep putting out all this high quality funny stuff
I have one of those garlic press things and it works really well, you don't need to remove the skin. Actually if you remove the skin it's harder to clean
I like how there are three categories of products here: - straight-up scams - stuff that's probably meant for disabled people - completely normal items that Drew has somehow never seen before
@AyShway ohh okay thank you! i am disabled myself and never heard of soemthing obscure like that being for disabled people but it definitely makes sense! :)
@mibwu something ppl don't know is a lot of super niche/infomercial products are specifically meant for handling disabilities (especially the elderly since they tend to watch a lot of cable.) That definitely seems to be the case with the posture one, and possibly the headphones. I think there was also one awhile ago that was a cocoon type blanket thing, which could possibly be good for ppl with bad sleepwalking or night terrors. Basically if it seems weirdly specific or just reduces the mobility needs for certain tasks, then it's probably geared towards disabilities.
Right?? I use a mini bag for traveling all the time. I usually put clothes in it, either laundry, or just to make space in my suitcase for whatever trinkets I got.
Hoping some of those "personal cooling devices" come onto your feed when you're in a shopping mood. I'm guessing they're all useless, but I'd rather have you test it out than me
I actually use a "cozy band". I like to do guided meditations and hypnosis at night. It's the only way I can actually sleep with a headset on. Anyways, mine was $10 on Amazon. I bought it 3 years ago. The sound isn't perfect but for what I need it serves it's purpose. If someone actually made a really good pair of sleep headphones that cost $100 or so I'd probably buy them.
I actually owned something like the first thing, the headphones, although it wasn't actually that one specifically. Bought it for the advertised reason, listening to music in bed with no wires and no pressure on my ears from headphones (which is especially bad since I have a hard memory foam pillow with little give) The product I received was bulky (the Bluetooth module was massive and the speaker in it were just ones out of a crappy speaker, so too big to comfortably lay on and sounded washed out and crappy. It broke after a week because the thin speaker wire snapped when I stretched it to put it on
I had one like those but instead of a sleep mask it was a headband with headphones inside. I liked them. The charge lasted for about three days without having to charge them again and they were comfortable to wear. Also headphones and AirPods(they’d ask you to move your hair to check if you had them in) were banned in my school and they were a good way to get around it, since my hair covered the buttons and the part that said “Bluetooth” (and who would ask someone to move their hair to check if their headband were headphones). They broke after about 3 months but they were only 7 dollars so I’m fine with just buying them again. Also they were a good conversation starter. People would stop and ask about them and if they actually played music. Honestly I just really liked them.
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