Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker - Red Hot - V2 CDU

---

---

Editorial reviews

Product Description
The Flavour Shaker is a fun, quirky and highly original food preparation item; Invented and endorsed by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver It will crush, grind, mix and release flavour from whole spaces, 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.

---

Customer reviews

review by: thistledaisy date: 2008-04-29 rating:
he's fab. it's fab.
i love it, my ten year old loves it. a def improvement on the mortar and pestle. come on - it's cool. it's funky. and it does the job while looking great. just like jamie himself.

---

review by: date: 2008-01-25 rating:
V1 Good idea, bad implementation. V2 Much better.
== V1 ==
Bought one for doing 1 portion marinades, crushing coriander & mustard seeds (which fly everywhere out of a pestle and mortar) and because it looked easier and quicker to clean than my pestle and mortar.

Quick list of points

* You have to shake it hard for things like garlic and ginger. I was fine with it but looking at some of the other reviews on the other colours, a lot of people haven't got the strength to give it the shaking needed for certain ingredients.

* It leaked fairly heavily when I got it. I emailed the manufacturer and they sent me a new rubber washer, that stopped the leaking pretty much.

* I only ever shook it, it never got dropped but after a few months of regular use I noticed a flaw had appeared in the plastic. This then got bigger after every use and the thing is now unusable as the base is split down the middle.

* The spoon doesn't really fit the narrow end. You have to force the rubber spoon to bend to get stuff out of the bottom end of the item.

* The seal falls off when you wash the item and it's on the outside of the join. Liquid collects on the inside of the join making it harder to clean. Small point you may think, but it would have been so easy to design this thing better.

The idea is great, a heavier ball would mean less vigorous shaking was required for the harder stuff, the items build strength needs uprating anyway so could be made to cope with a heavier ball. The rest of the design is just poor and would be so easy to sort out. Then maybe I would have the product I wanted when I bought it.
Either Jamie needs to kick William Levene up the backside or take his idea to another manufacturer for them to do a decent implementation of it.

2 stars because it would work if done properly and I liked it when it wasn't broken.

#### UPDATE - 7th April 08 ####
== V2 ==
Started writing an update, it got long winded. Long story short, their customer service sent me the new design (V2), turns out my broken Red Hot shaker was V1 contrary to what others have said about all coloured shakers being V2.
V2 addresses most of my design points above and is still working great.

* It hasn't cracked (yet, Ive used it a lot over the last month but time will tell)
* Seal is far better and on the inside, this flavour shaker doesn't leak at all and is easier to clean.
* Spoon fits narrow end properly as shaker shape has been tweaked slightly (it actually doesn't stand up as well anymore but you can't have it all)

Still the same weight ball so you still need to go hard with tougher items.

I would regrade to 4.5 stars for the V2 if the review would let me, it does the job well now.

---

review by: MrBillTong date: 2008-01-25 rating:
As Jaime O might say - This definately not PUKKA!!!!',
As Jaime O might say - 'Piece o'Crap!', 25 Jan 2008
By M. CRANFIELD "Biltong" (Bermuda) - See all my reviews


Good idea, but the two halves don't lock together properly and tend to come apart when shaken vigorously, unless you hold it clamped in two hands.

Also I ordered the stainless steel version and they sent the plastic one... Amazon UK is only a shadow of the US version... Maybe Bezos needs to look at how things are operating in the UK/EU...

Maybe it should have been made in China and not the EU - haha!!

---

review by: AND ONLY THE TRUTH date: 2008-01-18 rating:
Eh?
I quite like Jamie Oliver so I didn't want to bash him but I'm afraid this deserves it. It does nothing at all. You put a clove of garlic in and shake the thing and open it up to find a...clove of garlic. The worst device ever. I'm actually surprised he put his name to it. Its not cheaply made or a 'bit rubbish', it actually doesnt work at all. It does NOTHING. You might as well put a pea in a panda pop bottle and shake it about.


review by: oldtrafford100 date: 2006-12-29 rating:
Buy a pestle & mortar
Bought this as a bit of a stocking filler at Christmas. Unlike on the advert where 2 cloves of garlic are placed in the contraption and after a vigorous chake, reappear as a finely crushed mulch, mine reappeared as....2 cloves of garlic. Not impressed at all. It would appear Mr Oliver has been forced into making this contraption due his propensity for spitting whilst speaking.

---

Similar products

JAMIE'S CHRISTMAS - DVD & RECIPE CARDS
Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker - Berry- V2 CDU
Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker - Cool Blue- V2 CDU
Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker - Olive- V2 CDU
Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker

---

Similar categories

Home & Garden . Home & Garden . Refinements . Browse-Refinements . Kitchen Tools, Gadgets & Textiles (3147491) . Theme (theme_browse-bin) . Flavours
Home & Garden . Home & Garden . Refinements . Browse-Refinements . Bakeware (10708921) . Endorsement (featured_character_browse-bin) . Jamie Oliver
Home & Garden . Home & Garden . Refinements . Browse-Refinements . Barware & Glasses (10708281) . Packaging Type (feature_browse-bin) . Single
Home & Garden . Home & Garden . Kitchen & Home . Categories . Kitchen & Dining . Kitchen Tools, Gadgets & Textiles . Mills

---

Accessories

Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker - Cool Blue- V2 CDU
Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker - Berry- V2 CDU
Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker - Olive- V2 CDU

---