Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker

I'm a sucker for kitchen gadgets, in fact my kitchen is full of items I have bought and only used once or even worse have never even been taken out of the packaging. I believed all would be different with the Flavour Shaker, my boyfriend convinced me it would be worth having one as we cook alot at home. Why not just get a decent pestle and mortor? I thought but no a Flavour Shaker it had to be. We waited a while before buying one as I wasnt going to fork out £20 for a glorified plastic tub and spoon. I eventually splashed out last Xmas when we found them for £15 in Debenhams. The first time we used it was good fun, filling the container with oil, ...  Read the complete review

The Jaime Oliver Flavour Shaker We all know and love Jamie Oliver, the award winning Naked Chef, star of Jamie's school dinners and successful restaurants, books and cookery programmes. I am going to review today his Flavour Shaker. If you are not familiar with the Jaime Flavour Shaker it is actually one of his inventions. He modelled it on the process of a traditional pestle and mortar. A pestle and mortar grind ingredients together to make a nice paste or marinade but it a very labour intensive way of mixing, requires quite a bit of strength and makes a lot of mess. The flavour shaker looks quite like a salt and pepper shaker and allows you to put ...  Read the complete review

Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker This is a relatively new invention by popular chef Jamie Oliver and is deigned to do the same job as a mortal and pestle only without any effort or mess. It is used to mash, crush, mix and release flavour from spices and herbs to make marinades, dressing and sauces etc. The Flavour shaker is shaped like a small skittle. It halves in the middle giving way to the hollow inside where you insert your ingredients. There is a ceramic ball that you then insert and screw the shaker back together. You then shake vigorously. The ceramic ball crushes and blend the ingredients. When finished you can use the shaker to pour the ...  Read the complete review

The Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker is a bizarre combination of shameless marketing rubbish, and really good idea. I would compare it to the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine, except that our little purple grill hasn't broken and been replaced three times since we bought it. I am not a fan of Mr Oliver, but I have tried not to let that cloud my judgement. *****What is the Flavour Shaker?***** Well, it's a pestle and mortar. Simple as that. It's for crushing up seeds to make tasty herby spicy paste things. The pestle is replaced by a heavy ceramic ball and the mortar is replaced by a plastic container. This means that you can just ...  Read the complete review

after the hard sell adverts and ubiquitous promos on his programmes, i thought Jamie Oliver's Flavour Shaker was a bit of a gimmick and pretty defunct in a kitchen with a pestle and mortar in it. However, i was given one as a present and haven't looked back since. what makes this product different to the traditional pestle and mortar is that because it is a sealed space, you can grind and mix up liquids, sauces and pastes without running the risk of splashing all over the work top. the little ceramic ball which you put inside basically breaks down the ingredients and, depending on how long you shake or wave it about, you can end up with a fine ...  Read the complete review