Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker, Red Hot

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When Jamie Oliver started off, he was a breath of fresh air. Here was someone clearly passionate about food who was inclusive rather than pretentious or arrogant. He loved cooking food and wanted you to love it too. It’s made of four parts: a two-piece plastic case, a ceramic ball and a rubber gasket. You use it as you would a Boston shaker – seal the spices, herbs and whatnots into the contraption, and you shake so the ball bruises and crushes its contents. This isn’t the first time that Jamie Oliver has stretched beyond making the most of his selling potental and slipped into unethical profiteering. But it is the most blatant and it makes you wonder whether he is suffering ethical slip – gradually having his morals and principles dragged down. Did they get you to sign a confidentiality contract? Because if not, there is a newspaper out there that would pay for a behind-the-scenes expose. The Daily Mail or The Evening Standard. If you prefer you can use a 900 g (2 lb) loaf tin or a 20 cm (8”) cake tin, in which case halve the quantities below and bake for about 45 minutes.

Here's another product review from Matt Powell, junior at Columbia University in the City of New York and GHRI intern: Bake for about an hour until it is golden brown, just beginning to pull away from the side of the Bundt and a skewer poked into the cake comes out clean. He certainly put in alot of effort and for that he is to be admired. But at the same time he started doing more and more commercials that I would argue were dubious in his position of a chef. And he involved his family and his personal life more and more, and it started to feel a bit wrong. Good, don’t buy the Flavour Shaker – there are enough comments here from people that have to make it clear that it is just as bad a product as I predicted it would be. But also do please try to post coherent and reasoned comments if you feel the urge to bother people on other blogs in future.

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A brilliant idea let down by one critical and possibly leathal problem…the plastic used in its construction is too fragile and rigid for the task at hand! I shook it for about 15 seconds before adding cardamom seeds and whole cloves. As Jamie would say, I gave it a good bash for 30 seconds, and produced a course grind: discernable bits of spices, not anywhere close to the powdery and slightly gritty texture I was accustomed to with my trusty mortar and pestle. I closed it up again and shook it for another 30 seconds: medium coarseness: mostly homogenous, but there were still chunky bits. I closed it up again and bashed it for another 30 seconds: I still considered it a medium grind, just with more powder. Well. That sounds like a completely useless thing to get. Thanks for the great review and saving us from even for a moment thinking it might be a fun gadget to have in the kitchen. Well done for persevering with all the tests. I really don’t understand why is everybody against it. Nice idea bad implementation I agree. So since it is not good enough let’s fix it. I got inspired but the flavour shaker and made my own, simple as this ! And yes it doesn’t cost me 20 GBP and it does close much better. I do believe that sometimes the people miss the bigger picture. Just because Jamie or any other muppet wanted to charge this amount, it doesn’t mean that you have to go and get it ! Hmm, I had a feeling that this couldn't be the Jamie Oliver version of a Pestle and Mortar, cute though it may be - I'm sure it made him lots of money although I'm seeing it here in reduced dumper bins now. Shame, because his books are good.

I could not agree more with this post! JO has become a complete sell-out! It is embarrassing to watch him on the telly as he does constantly cooks up similar stuff. I have worked with a great deal of good chefs and Jamie does not come near them!A couple of months ago Catherine, Food TV Canada’s resident blogger , found herself with quite the dilemma: her workstation was overrun with Jamie Oliver Flavour Shakers in need of homes. Whomever received one had to try it out and blog about it. Always one for toys – especially kitchen toys – I dropped her a note and the gadget appeared last month. It’s taken a while for me to complete toy testing as my sore wrist kept me from unscrewing the tool. Swedes normally grease the inside of the Bundt with butter and then dust it with dried breadcrumbs, but you can use baking spray (NOT cooking spray) if you prefer. The recipe below is based on using a large (2.4 litre, 10 cup) Bundt pan as I love the appearance of the finished cake. Bundt pans are available from good kitchen shops and online. Also interesting that chlorine bleach removes the curry smell (I wonder if that would work with the plastic top of our spice grinder...)

I stopped then because I realized that the Shaker probably wouldn’t mimic the fine-ish grind I prefer. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and ground cardamom and then fold into the mixture. How on earth jamie Oliver, or whoever really invented this potentially lethal piece of garbage,has not been prosecuted , either under trade descritions act or dangerous goods act, amazes me. The broken shards of plastic I found in my shaker could easily have caused fatal damage.Remove from sale now, before there is a fatality . Sorry to hear that. One of the sad realities of meeting renowned or famous people is that they rarely live up to expectation and, in some cases, turn out to be complete arseholes. Most people off the TV fit into this category in my experience. It may be shit i do not know i haven’t got one. i probably won’t get one after reading the comments but you’ve got to ask yourself if you hate him that much why the hell do you care about him so much by writing 20 paragraghs about him. if it was truly hate you would even be bothered by him!!!Diane - I think there's a reason mortars and pestles have been around for thousands of years...and this one probably won't last five.