The Truth About The Controversial Plug In Pot From TikTok
If you’ve been scrolling through TikTok recently, you’ve likely seen a guy cooking elaborate meals from the comfort of his own bed. All the videos start the same way: a towel on the bed, a TV show playing from his laptop, and a bounty of luxurious ingredients at his disposal. We’ve seen him cook lobster, shrimp scampi, and even filet mignon.
“How does he cook entire meals while sitting on his bed?” you may ask. No matter what recipe he’s making, it always comes together in the same pot.
The account is actually the official page for Lazy Pot Noodle, a plug-in pot with a built-in heating mechanism. No stove? No problem. You can apparently use the product to cook an entire meal from start to finish without going in the kitchen.
If you’re skeptical, join the club. When you click on the link on Lazy Pot Noodle’s profile, it directs you to a somewhat sketchy-looking online store. The Lazy Pot Noodle retails for a whopping $78.97, but it's seemingly always on sale for more than 50 percent off. The pot somehow has an average rating of 4.9 stars. It honestly seems too good to be true.
Because we’re dedicated to providing impartial, honest reviews, we decided to order the pot and test it ourselves. After we placed the order, it took two weeks to be delivered to our office from China. While bought the product from the Lazy Pot Noodle website, the brand written on the pot was “Jin Wei Shun.”
And if you look closely at the TikToks, the pot he uses is actually from the brand TopWit. These discrepancies are a prime example of drop-shipping—but if that doesn’t bother you, so be it.
The pot came with lots of accessories: a plastic bowl, fork, spoon, ladle, chopsticks, and a wooden spatula. It even came with a scouring pad for when it’s time to clean and an instruction manual that included an extremely helpful FAQ section. I was actually wondering if my gallbladder(?) would stick.
Poor translation aside, I needed to see if this pot could actually get hot enough to successfully cook food. I decided that the best recipe to test would be risotto: it combines both sautéing aromatics and boiling liquids, and requires a consistent source of heat to successfully extract the starch from the rice.
Lazy Pot Noodle claims that the pan can get hot in just 30 seconds. In my experience, it was definitely warm by that time, but it needed at least two minutes to become as hot as a regular pan on the stove.
I melted some butter and cooked some chopped garlic. And to my shock, it was actually working; in fact, my garlic even accidentally got a little brown.
I toasted the rice and added a splash of white wine (cold, straight from the fridge). I expected that the vast difference in temperature would halt the cooking process, but it didn’t. The wine sizzled once it hit the pot and it almost immediately started bubbling.
The mixture was always simmering, even as I continued to add broth. And you may be wondering how hot the exterior of the pot was. It was certainly warm, but more like a heating pad from a school nurse's office than a normal pot on the stove. Cut to 20 minutes and lots of stirring later, and my risotto was done.
The verdict is in. It tasted just like risotto from a traditional stovetop! I even had other people taste it and they couldn’t tell the difference.
So the question remains: would I recommend this product? Yes, but only to a specific group of people. If you have access to a full kitchen, there’s no reason to buy this. But for people living in dorms or traveling without a kitchen (like in a small camper, for instance), this product would actually be useful. Just don’t make it on your bed, please.
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