Cedarlane Spherificator Automatic Edible Food Pearl/Caviar Former for Modernist Cooking Techniques (Newest Version)

I am new to making pearls, and I used this as my first attempt. I did lemon pearls first, which came out great. I wanted my rum pearls to be a stronger flavor so I adjusted the recipe and it ended up with a mess. So I tried them again following the recipe exactly, and they came out great. So the moral to the story, it to follow the instructions written by the experts. I'm excited to try more flavors.

This product is fantastic, but what is even better is the customer service. I received this as a gift and whether there were no nozzles present, or they fell out somewhere during the un-gifting, they were missing. I emailed the company and immediately received a response. I offered to pay for the nozzles as I was unsure how they went missing and they shipped them out no charge. I plan to buy more products from them as well.

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Being used to making pearls using a squeeze bottle, I ordered a Spherificator which was claiming to do hundreds of pearls per minute. Sure enough, after reading through the instructions and adapting my recipes to use sodium alginate and calcium chloride I was pumping out all sorts of different pearls in no time. For users not familiar with spherification, it takes a little bit of patience and trial-and-error to figure out the proper mixes but once you nail down the right viscosity of the alginate mixture before pouring into the Spherificator you will get it right ever time!I was making some Jagermeister pearls for an event and they turned out perfectly. I found the recipe in the booklet recommends using sodium citrate for the alcohol pearls, but I did it without and didn't have any issues. For all you Jager lovers, here is the recipe:1. Blend 1 teaspoon of sodium alginate in 100mL of water2. Pour in 200mL of Jagermeister, blend3. Pour the mix into the Spherificator4. Separately, dissolve some calcium chloride in water to make your salt bath5. Spherificate and rinseAs you can see from the photos, the pearls turned out perfect and it took no time at all. Doing this many pearls by hand would have taken much, much longer, and would not have been all the same size. I decided to put them on top of a cold brew coffee with whipped cream.Exactly what I was looking for, would highly recommend.

The Product was particularly poor functioning, it worked for the first 15 seconds I used it and then proceeded to fail after. The droplets began sticking to the side of the device due to surface tension and just streamed off in a line. This could not be fixed any way I tried except for leaving the device for an extended period of time. I tried multiple things the book suggested like cleaning the tubes out, lowering the viscosity of the alginate solution, and checking for any kinks in the tubing and it didn’t work after about 2.5 hours of trying. It’s more worth your time and money to buy a syringe and do it by hand. The only thing I possibly like about the product is that it came with ingredients so I could use them with something else, and it came with a very useful and informative book. Still irritated about paying 100$ for some chemicals and a book though.