Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker, Red Hot

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DONT BUY IT. Mine arrived a few hours ago and the seal came off during the first few shakes and left my counter and hands in a right old mess.

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. 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!We rely on members like you to sustain our vibrant community so thanks again, we couldn't do it without you. 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. That said, I used to enjoy the cooking show he did several years ago (before he was really famous). He seemed like a good bloke and was a great new TV personality. However somewhere along the way something went terribly wrong! Hi Jasmine - thank you for this review, I nearly bought this last christmas for my food-novice friend but am glad I didn't :) I think you're right - pestle & mortar and a good knife are always the best :) 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.

Freya - You know, I don't know. It looks like the one he "mentions" in his book "Cook With Jamie." I wonder if they realized it's foibles and thought they could offload it over here? 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. If using a round or oblong tin, sprinkle a tablespoon of pearl sugar over the batter just before baking the cake. You had to admire him. It was filmed of course. But he was putting his money where his mouth was and it wasn’t easy.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!

In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and ground cardamom and then fold into the mixture.

But then off he went with increasingly commercial and less valid Sainsbury’s ads, pulling in more and more of his family, pushing food that as a chef he shouldn’t be pushing. He had sold out. For big sums, but still sold out. 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 ! If you've got one, I recommend using a Jamie Oliver "flavour shaker" for grinding cardamom as the seeds have an annoying habit of jumping out of a mortar. (It's about the only time I bother using a flavour shaker!) 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.