Does anyone else get a kick out of infomercials?

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I saw one yesterday for the "Sonic Blade" it's your basic electric knife but they made it seem like a revolution in cutlery. I stopped watching football and let them try to sell me. It didn't work, but I did end up going into my kitchen to try to cut a slice of bread into two slices of bread (my fillet knife had no problems). It was a pretty good infomercial but when it comes to chopping mounds of veggies for soup and such, Old Hickory is not out of a job.

http://www.drtv-online.com/home_and_garden/sonic_blade_knife/

Am I the only one who will stop and watch these things for their entertainment value?
 
I love a lot of the gadget ones. Hey I bought a Little Giant ladder. (nice ladder but way too heavy and expensive). I almost bought the MetRinch tools that I saw last week!


Of course, the knife ones are priceless. My all time favorite being the one where the guy broke the sword and it cut his leg. I didn't see it on t.v., but its circulated on the internet forever.
 
Sometimes late at night when nothing else is on I will watch these things. I have yet to buy any of them, but they are funny. I always enjoy the ones where they make a simple task seem so difficult and the person doing it is clumsy, while their new revolutionary product does such a task with such ease.
 
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I always get sucked into Chef Tony's Miracle Blade infomercials. They're like watching trainwrecks:D I love watching the hired goons they have to co-host with them. Like when Chef Tony takes a Miracle Blade and fillets a tomato from its skin, the lunkhead always says something to the ilk of, "Gee, Tony! I've never seen a knife do that before!" <looks around at the crowd of potential buyers like a cross between a tweaked out crack additct and a manic children's program host.

What?? You've never seen a knife cut the skin off a tomato? I have a plane ol' 8" Old Hickory butcher knife that could do that easily. It's a soft squishy fruit. Furthermore, shouldn't Chef Goofball be able to skin a mater? I mean, that is his freakin' job:D

I would actually buy a set of these if they were flat out honest about things:

"Hey, I'm Chef Tony! Today, I'm going to show you my new collection of craptastic Chinese made cutlery. I'm going to do things that you will never be able to duplicate in a hundred years because 1) I'm a trained chef, and you are not. This is obvious because trained chefs use multi-hundred dollar knives not stamped out pieces of junk like these. Also, i had these custom sharpened to make them over-perform. We cool? Cool. Ooooo lookie how this knife will cut through a pineapple! <<SNIK>>
<Sighhh> Alright, let's not beat around the bush here. You write me a check for $19.99 and I'll hand you the 115 piece set, Ok? No build up, no RonCo '...But wait! There's more!'. Then we can all get out of here and go home."

Jake
 
When our eldest was tiny, she had colic what felt like 24/7. Only way for either my wife or me to get any sleep was to rock our daughter in a rocking chair, while the other parent dozed ... then switch off after a couple of hours. I saw my share of infomercials @ 2 a.m.

The one that got me was for the mop ... so absorbent that the guy would dunk it in a pail of water, then whirl it over his head at the audience ... no drips. Cracked me up every time ... nearly woke the baby on my shoulder!

Then again, some of the fitness informercials have some pretty fine looking eye-candy attached. There was one trying to sell a rider-type machine - cross between a rower and a bike or something ... and the dancers demonstrating it! Uhhhnngh.

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My sister did have a GINSU knife. Because it was extremely thin and serrated, it did do pretty much what it said it would. Worked good for slicing bread, slicing soft stuff. It was pretty much useless for cutting up harder veggies. I mean, you could "saw" through them, but it was way too much work than what a good chef's knife would do. Since it was serrated, it didn't really need sharpening, which was good because she'd never sharpen it.

IMHO it was pretty good to use once in a while to cut up a little bit of stuff. You'd never want to use it a lot.
 
Shann said:
I love a lot of the gadget ones. Hey I bought a Little Giant ladder. (nice ladder but way too heavy and expensive). I almost bought the MetRinch tools that I saw last week!


Of course, the knife ones are priceless. My all time favorite being the one where the guy broke the sword and it cut his leg. I didn't see it on t.v., but its circulated on the internet forever.
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Learn something new everyday. I did not know Little Giant was on an infomercial. I have one, weights not bad, price was high but worth every penny. I do use it in different modes, works. As for the knives, well, I have not found anything that my 8" Wusthoff Trident or my Chinese cleaver won't do. Also say what you want about Kevin Trudeau, his Mega Memory works, as does his speed reading course. I bought them both and was impressed, and surprised that it really worked.
 
I've watched some Chef Tony Specials myself. Infomercials can be pretty darn amusing, that's for sure. I remember one about some pasta pot with holes in the lid and a lock on it... They were selling it like the greatest idea since sliced bread, but I guess they just never heard of using a strainer like the rest of us. My favorite part of knife infomercials is the one where they demonstrate the knife cutting through copper pipe or a roofing shingle and then show you it's still sharp enough to cut tomatoes.
 
Infomercials are the telemarketers of the airwaves . I actually have them on cable T:V: . In other words I am paying for them to be there . I am glad you are amused by them . It is proabably a good attitude to have .
 
Then there are the guys selling various dietary supplements (AKA "snake oil")that will cure what ails ya'. I wonder how many folks they kill: "Let's see, coral calcium from this nice man or insulin? Can't afford both. The insulin is just for my high blood sugar, but coral calcium will cure ALL my diseases. And the nice man says all the doctors and drug companies are crooks." :mad:
 
Coral calcium will cure all ailments . It is not well known that it must be combined with the eyelids from the flat faced flounder .(Say that six times fast.)

It is the fact that there is a little truth combined with all the lies . I guess thats how they suck people in.
 
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