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- Oh my god!
Go.
Culinary torch time!
We are testing three different types
of butane torches,
and two different types
of propane torches.
We're running through
three different tests,
we are brûlée-ing some creme brûlée
we will torch a tomato,
and sear a steak.
- We have the Rosle for $32,
the Messermeister Cheflamme for $44,
the Iwatani for $44,
the Bernzomatic Torch-head for $44,
and then the Searzall attachment for $75.
All right, so going through the difference
between butane and propane.
Butane is stored at a much lower pressure
and it's in a liquid state,
so depending on where
you're storing your butane,
it's going to affect the
performance of the torch.
So, if you're storing it somewhere cold,
it might not work as well
and the flame might not
be as intense.
As opposed to propane,
which is stored in a much higher pressure.
So, you get a much more intense heat.
Butane is much more
convenient to use at home,
because you could just
buy one of these canisters
and refill it.
So this is the Rosle.
And we'll run through
some of its features.
We have the igniting button over here.
You can control the
intensity of the flame,
and then there's a hold button if you want
to hold the flame.
So we're clicking this down.
Okay, pretty easy.
And then the intensity of the flame there,
and then you can also
choose to hold the flame.
The intensity of the flame
doesn't seem too strong.
But all in all,
I think it's pretty simple and we'll see.
Okay, moving onto the next.
Okay, the Messermeister Cheflamme.
Pretty similar features as the Rosle.
Also has the igniting button,
intensity of the flame.
(clicking)
Aright.
That's the highest intensity,
low intensity,
yup, but all in all pretty simple.
Next, the Iwatani.
Basically what you're
doing is you're buying the
butane canister and you're
just attaching the top.
You turn it on,
and you can go strong,
or go low.
And with this you have to turn off the gas
for it to turn off.
Alright so now we have
the Bernzomatic torch head
and this one I love.
I mean I use this at my
restaurants all the time.
I think when I first used this I was
a little bit scared of it.
So this is pretty simple,
similar to the Iwatani.
You just turn on the gas,
ignite.
(hissing)
Right.
And then you just turn
it if you want it strong,
and then you can also turn it on low.
And now with the Searzall,
and obviously with this you would have to
buy the torch head to use this.
But this is really neat,
you just attach it on like that,
and then you just secure
it with this little knob.
(hissing)
See that?
So basically what this is doing is it's
diffusing the heat so you have like a more
wider surface area,
and you can see how intense that heat is,
and it's like spreading wide.
Okay guys, moving onto our first test.
Let's brûlée some creme brûlée.
So when we're applying this heat to sugar,
I know that it seems
like the sugar is melting
but it's actually decomposing.
So it's changing its
chemical compound to a
different structure.
So for each torch,
we're going to time this
for one minute so we
can see the difference
between each torch.
Got some sugar here.
Just gonna...
Okay, lets do this!
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Alright we are ready to
go through the results.
I would say the Rosle and the Bernzomatic
torch head worked the best.
It's the most even, you can see.
The Iwatani looks blotchy only because
the flame was kind of like dispersing out
like in an odd motion.
And then the Searzall it's just literally
only torched the middle and it was really
difficult to get the sides.
So good.
I like the Bernzomatic the most,
it was easy to use,
the heat was pretty strong.
The Rosle worked really well as well,
but then there was a problem of it
like turning off in the middle.
We had to reignite it several times.
But moving on to the next.
Skinning some tomatoes!
Basically with any vegetable that has a
little bit of thin skin,
you can torch it and skin them.
We are going to time
each one and see which
one skins it the quickest.
I think I'm just going to do it
on the highest heat.
(hissing and squeaking)
Oh wow! That wasn't me you guys!
(laughing)
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Okay results guys!
The Rosle I had a really hard time with
keeping the heat on,
I had to keep igniting it.
So it took a really long time and it was
in last place at a whopping minute and
five seconds.
The Messermeister worked pretty well,
I didn't really have trouble there.
The Iwatani and the Searzall seemed like
the heat was like
dispersing in a weird way,
so it wasn't as strong.
My favorite of course,
the Bernzomatic, did the best job.
14 seconds,
super quick, super direct heat, very hot.
The winner is the
Bernzomatic at 14 seconds.
It's the best.
- [Producer] It's Bern-zomatic
- Oh! What? Bern-zomat? Benzo-matic?
It's Bern-zomatic?
I swear it's Benzo-matic!
- [Producer] Everyone calls it that.
- My bad you guys! My bad.
It's the Bern-zomatic,
not the Benz-omatic!
But moving on.
Okay our final test,
we are searing steak with the torches.
If you don't get an even sear on a steak,
you can like kind of use a torch to like
do certain spots, so.
It's kind of cool.
And with this test,
we're going to cap it at
three minutes each.
Now we're starting with the Rosle.
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Okay salt and pepper.
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Oh man.
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Results, results, results!
Alright going through them,
the Rosle kind of underwhelming,
while we were searing it turned off again.
So, you know, it delayed it,
and it also didn't really get a good sear.
Overall kind of disappointing.
The Messermeister did a
better job I would say,
that for something so small and handheld,
it you know, created a good sear and it
was pretty hot and I
think if we gave it like
a minute more it would have
done a really good job.
Iwatani not so much.
The flame is just like not as hot,
which is weird because
it like disperses a lot.
It's more of like a medium heat.
Really kind of just like
graying of the steak.
The Bernzomatic, I thought it was awesome,
it seared it really, really quick.
I was able to do like all the sides
because I had time left.
I thought it worked great.
I think the Searzall was amazing for
searing the steak.
It's very even and it was easy to control.
It was made for this purpose so I think it
did a really good job.
Final thoughts, final thoughts.
Our first test torching the creme brulee,
Bernzomatic won.
Our second test skinning tomatoes,
definitely the Bernzomatic.
The third test searing the steak,
the Searzall took the cake.
Overall between all the tests I'd say the
Bernzomatic hands down.
It's great.
And remember, without the Bernzomatic,
you can't use the Searzall anyways,
so you would have to buy the Bernzomatic.
But, for me, my favorite
is the Bernzomatic.
It's awesome, it's super
strong, it's the best.
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