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Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker

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Average customer rating: 2.5

Binding : Kitchen & Home
EAN : 4004094303067
Label : DKB Household UK Limited
Manufacturer : DKB Household UK Limited
Publisher : DKB Household UK Limited
Release date : 2005-09-01
Title : Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker
Studio : DKB Household UK Limited
Brand : DKB Household UK Limited
Model : J10000
MPN : J10000

Editorial reviews

Product Description
This fabulous product by Jamie Oliver is aptly named the 'flavour shaker'. Comprising of three components, this handy gadget is ideal for making salad dressings, sauces and marinades. The shaker features a handy non-slip grip and a ceramic ball inside that crushes and grinds the ingredients as it is shaken. Made from toughened plastic, the flavour shaker is going to be this Christmas number 1 gadget.

•Flavour Shaker by Jamie Oliver
•Made from toughened plastic with a ceramic ball that crushes and grinds the contents when shaken
•Ideal for making salad dressings, sauces and marinades
•Recipe booklet included
•A great gift for the cook who has everything
•Dishwasher safe (on the top rack only)

Manufacturer's Description

Jamie Oliver's Flavour Shaker will crush, grind, mix, puree, blend and release flavour from whole spices (including cinnamon stick and star anise), herbs, garlic, nuts, citrus rind or even lime or bay leaves. The secret of the Flavour Shaker is its little ceramic ball, which crushes, grinds, bruises and mixes the contents releasing all sorts of amazing smells and zingy flavours, while you are shaking it.

In just a few seconds you will see how easy it is to add flavour to all kinds of everyday dishes, such as meat rubs for really aromatic roasts and grills; marinades for deep down flavour; dips for tasty nibbles; oil dressing for salads, bakes or grills; fragrant sugars to finish off cakes and puddings … to name but a few tasty treats!

The Flavour Shaker is sized to give you just the right amount (you don’t need a lot) and you can pour it straight over your food. Ready to cook, ready to serve … get stuck in!

What Jamie says
The Flavour Shaker is a really fun way to add great flavour to your food. It’s quick. It's fresh. It's easy. This is going to transform your everyday meals into something fantastic—give it a go!'--Jamie Oliver

How to use

Step 1: Simply add your ingredients, then drop in the ceramic ball

Step 2: Screw the two halves together securely

Step 3: Give it a good shake, but look in to see how you're doing

Step 4: Open up and pour, scoop or run onto your food.

Amazon.co.uk Review
If like me you enjoy cooking with freshly prepared ingredients but sometimes find it a bit of a hassle, then the Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker is the product for you. In a nut shell it is a non-electrical device that crushes and grinds herbs and whole spices. Sound familiar? Well unlike a traditional pestle and mortar the Flavour Shaker is far more user-friendly and versatile.

At first glance the Flavour Shaker reminded me of one of those old-fashioned Russian Dolls--even to the point of splitting in 2 halves--but this kitchen tool is anything but old-fashioned with its ergonomic grip and tough polycarbonate body. Rattling around inside is a ceramic ball, the key feature of the Flavour Shaker: it is this that crushes and grinds your ingredients as you shake.

Using fresh herbs, spices in their seed form, garlic, chilies and other unprocessed ingredients make such a difference to everyday meals and the Flavour Shaker enables them to be prepared with ease. I was particularly impressed when I tried Garlic. Using a knife results in slices, a garlic crusher purees; the Flavour Shaker produces slices, pulp and juices—perfect! Curries using prepared whole spices from seeds are spectacular compared to using pre-ground from a jar. You get a fuller flavour as more of the oils are retained. The bottom half of the Flavour Shaker (the larger end) starts the crushing and the top end processes the contents more finely.

This product is easy to use, requires little effort, there are no spillages and you can see precisely how the contents are being processed. I salute you Jamie Oliver--the Flavour Shaker is a smart invention that fits perfectly within the surroundings of the 21st century kitchen and will intensify the tastes of the meals you cook within it.--Kate Copeland, Amazon.co.uk

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-07-15 rating:

Disappointed
i agree with most of the comments made....its a disappointed. It constantly leaks and it doesn't matter how hard you hold it together. I have used a small tub and it works alot better. Would not recommend this product to anyone!!!!!

review by: date: 2008-06-26 rating:

Use a pestle & mortar
My girlfriend got me this for Xmas 2006. It works OK, but is a pain to clean and/or get all the bits out to actually use them. This is especially true if you are mixing up your crushed herbs with, say, olive oil. Consequently, I have used it only a handful of times and always revert to my good old-fashioned pestle & mortar. I have always been quite a fan of Jamie Oliver, but The Flavour Shaker strikes me as a cheap commercial gimmick.

review by: date: 2008-06-03 rating:

This product should be banned !
Please beware - the screw clips can break off and become hard shards of plastic which are nearly an inch long and very sharp! I bought this and then read the reviews - thus I have never tightened the jar nor even used the ball! After less than half a dozen uses (all of which leaked!), one of the four screw clips broke off and I only noticed it when I bit into into it whilst tasting my dressing! It's very sharp and I could be very harmful if swallowed. I am very angry and think the product should be removed from the shelves. Please, please do not buy one.

review by: date: 2008-04-21 rating:

Good idea, Great looking, but very poor quality
I received one of these for Christmas and found that whilst it crushed the smaller items such as peppercorns very well, it was hopeless at things like garlic cloves (somewhat different to when Jamie uses it on tv!). It will squash a garlic clove a bit, but not like on the TV where they appear as if you had chopped them very finely by hand. Solution? Chop them very finely by hand with a good knife!!

The biggest problem with this however, was the locking mechanism which broke after only two weeks of use. Noticeable by the bits of plastic in the mixture I had prepared I was amazed to find the little locking tabs breaking off so easily. In addition it had only been used half a dozen times before this and only hand washed (though it does say upper rack dishwasher safe in the instructions).

All in all a big disappointment, and having contemplated replacing it until reading these other reviews, I would suggest anyone else gives it a wide berth until they redesign it with stronger parts.

review by: chiefengineer3 date: 2008-03-22 rating:

Good and Bad
First off this is not a revolutionaly tool of radical improvement on what has been used before. It's basically a pestle and mortar but using a ceramic ball and a closed cup. Nice idea and within limits works well. Thing you must ask yourself before you buy is how many times in your life have you used a pestle? Probably not many - which is probably how much you would use this device. Having said that if you like to make your own curry spice mixes then its pretty good - as long as you don't intend using it for liquid at all. It leaks like a sieve. Seems reasonably made but I suspect that the ball would eventually damage the inside, expecially if one is vigorous with the shaking. If it was better made and if you did crush a lot of spice etc. then this would be very good. However if you only do the occasional bit of crushing then it's a bit of a waste, expecially given that it's not liquid tight or particularly well made.

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