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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4176 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: William Levene
• Model: J20000

Features

• It crushes, grinds, mixes and more!
• More versatile alternative to the Pestle and Mortar
• Includes a ceramic ball for crushing ingredients
• Includes silicone spoon designed to perfectly fit the Flavour Shaker
• Creates lovely flavours in seconds

Manufacturer's 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.

Now available in a range of four funky colours; Red Hot, Olive, Cool Blue and Berry. The Colour range also features a really handy little silicone spoon, which has been designed to fit perfectly into the Flavour Shaker.
Each colour comes with three fantastic recipes to get you started, plus some simple hints and tips to help you start creating your own fantastic flavours. As Jamie says, The more you use it, the more you will love 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
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Customer Reviews

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.

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.

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!!