We Tested TikTok Gadgets – Don’t Buy This One

TL;DR

The desktop vacuum cleaner is the one to avoid because its mesh filter lets fine dust straight back into the air.

Key Points

• 1.Egg timer (CLEVER): Drop it in the water with your eggs and it accurately signals soft, medium, and hard-boiled stages — no instructions needed, worked perfectly from fridge-cold eggs.
• 2.Electric peeler (MIXED): Peeled cherry tomatoes and grapes flawlessly but destroyed potatoes, wasted half a lime, and mangled a hard-boiled egg — best suited for very small, round produce only.
• 3.Desktop vacuum (NEVER): Strong suction on paper scraps, but the mesh filter is too coarse for fine particles — cocoa powder (stand-in for dust) blew straight back into the air.
• 4.Solar battery via Resinc (CLEVER): Monthly electricity bill dropped from $271 (panels only) to $44 after adding a battery — previously selling excess power back to the grid at under 1 cent per kWh was a losing deal.
• 5.Tofu chrysanthemum cutter (CLEVER): Three-part cutting tool produced a convincing flower/sea-anemone shape in water on the first attempt, despite neither host having tried the technique before.
• 6.Rice bowl mould (CLEVER — but ignore the instructions): Foil lining caused sticking and tearing; skipping the foil and using oil directly in the mould produced clean, intact rice cups straight from the oven.