There’s a George Foreman fryer now, people. It promises to “knock out” 55% of the fat by spinning your food. “Patented Smart Spin™ Technology lets you spin out the fat for up to 2 minutes with low or high speed setting.” You may begin posting your Arrested Development “cornballer” jokes in the comments at this time. [George Foreman]
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It’s a poor carpenter who blames shoddy tools for… GODDAMN IT!
@DarkKnightShyamalan: I think I love you.
Like, six, perhaps? I hate the marketing-jargon use of “more than.”
@dinger_82: Or less than/under.
“WOW! YOU CAN GET THIS FOR UNDER $100*!”
*$99.99, plus sales tax
If it was manually powered, you could use it in your spinning class.
@MyPetFly: Now I’m imagining people hooking regular fryers up to stationary bicycles and trying to get the same effect. This isn’t pretty.
@samurailynn: Its like “Living with Ed, George Forman style”.
I can’t wait until next week wednesday when the leading Consumerist story is about how people all over the country are being maimed by flying scalding hot freshly-fried chunks of food. Or something.
Regardless, there’s a lot of potential for follow-up here.
@InThrees:
Soy Loco Por Los Cornballs!
For $149 it better do something besides fry food. It should have been named The Cornholer.
@ThickSkinned:
You spin me right round baby right round…
Everyone’s laughing, and riding, and cornholing except Buster!
For a while, George Sr. had tried marketing the cornballer in latin america:
George: “Es muy delicioso!”
Ricard Simmons: “Es Verdad!”
George: *Strangling Gene* Soy loco para el Cornballer!”
@Parapraxis: I figured I’d be the first to post this, but I didn’t even get close. Bravo.
“¡Soy loco por los Smart Spin!”
You may begin posting your Arrested Development “cornballer” jokes in the comments at this time.
I demand YouTube clips explaining this reference on the grounds that I have never watched this show.
@Rectilinear Propagation: Rent the DVDs.
NAO!@#
@Rectilinear Propagation:
You must learn for yourself, sir.
@Rectilinear Propagation: you… WHAT?!?
GTFO! NAO!
(i can’t find any clips on youtube…)
[www.hulu.com]
@Rectilinear Propagation:
@Rectilinear Propagation: All of the episodes are on Hulu. Watch them.
@Rectilinear Propagation:
I believe the specific episode is here.
@derelk: Yeah I just watched that one last night! Hulu is so valuable simply because it has all the AD episodes.
@derelk: Thankies!
I’m sure it’s a good show and everything but I’m not going to watch an entire series of any show in search of just one joke.
@Rectilinear Propagation: But…you should watch the entire series in search of ALL the wonderful jokes (and you’ll understand the wonderful appropriateness of “Franklin Comes Alive”‘s posts in this thread.
It really is a GREAT show.
@Rectilinear Propagation: So sad that you or anyone for that matter would not understand this reference or any others coming from one of the best television shows ever.
Thought these things were only legal in Mexico.
“Patented Smart Spinâ„¢ Technology”
Since when is spinning technology?
@ngth: It’s because it doesn’t just spin. It spins SMARTLY.
@negitoro:
Ah! Now it all makes sense!!! :-p
@ngth: Only in the year 2008
Where we have grocery stores of the future and flying cars
@janetcarol: It really is going to be the Future soon.
Oh I get it! It spins half the food off so 55% less fat…viola!
voila rather! Its been a long day….
I want to see scientific (read: some guy on youtube) tests done that shows the difference in fat between food fried in the smart spin, and food fried in a regular frier and then padded down with paper towels. If the smart spin has as least 20% less fat than the padded down food, I think it would be worth it. However, my guess is that it’s probably about the same.
paper towels ftw
@ryan89: ^^seconded
I like my fries SCREAMING.
This is what happens when you don’t give George Forman borders, limits…go ahead, touch the Cornballer, you know best.
In any case, seems to be a higher quality than that stupid, Cornballing, piece of shi…
http://www.cornballer.com
Umm, who thinks that hot oil and “centrifugal force” do not mix?
@DePaulBlueDemon: That was my first thought flying hot oil is not a good idea.
@DePaulBlueDemon: have no fear! the centrifugal force does not act on the hot oil, rather it acts on the source of the centripetal force.
what you do have to fear would be hot oil & a lack of centripetal force, as that would indicate the oil is no longer “center-seeking” & therefore is traveling on a tangent (most likely towards your face).
@mac-phisto: Well played, sir.
@DePaulBlueDemon: If you watch the video, it shows that the basket lifts out of the oil to spin.
my boyfriend’s mom has a device that’s specifically for spinning wet lettuce to get all the excess water off the lettuce (they’re glaringly from new england). i picture something very similar for meats. [ec2.images-amazon.com]
@no.no.notorious: I have one of those. I also live in New England.
@BlondeGrlz is having a BlondeBoyz!: I also have one. I live in California.
@no.no.notorious: My mother does this, too. In a washing machine on the spin cycle. Just put the lettuce in a lingerie bag.
I’m serious!
*Do not attempt at laundromat
@bluewyvern: I think you need to have a talk with your mom bra
Now you can save paper towels and 3 seconds of your time by spending an excessive amount of money on a device that will remove surface grease from food for you!
Hang the fryer from the ceiling and let George use it as a punching bag.
_Properly_ fried foods don’t absorb very much oil in the first place, the entire purpose of the batter (except being delicious) is to create a buffer between the food and the oil. Spinning improperly fried food will still have far more fat and oil in it than properly deep-fried food. If they made a fool-proof deep-fryer instead of this spinning contraption, they’d be off on a better foot…
That said, no matter what you do, deep-fried food isn’t going to be healthy.
Remember, there is always money in the banana stand.
as Gob would say: “cock, ca-cock, ca-cock” while doing his chicken dance.
am i the only one that thinks “lean mean frier” sounds pretty lame? how about “fat fracking fryer” or “jack sprat’s kill the fat fryer”. shit, even “lean mean frying machine” sounds better.
george gets -10 for originality on this one.
@mac-phisto: He named everyone one of his sons George. Originality is not one of his many talents*.
*Many talents include punching others, taking a punch and reading a 30 second commercial.
@TracyHamandEggs!: that’s a good point.
“Cornballing piece of Sh**!!”
Any product that attempts to make deep frying “lean” is just unnatural and wrong. The two concepts are oxymorons… just eat in moderation and leave it that way!
If George Foreman was doing the spinning, I’d buy it.
I like my junk food shaken AND stirred!
I think we should combine you tube commercials for this thing with those “will it blend” ones — get that guy to do them
Bush will be out of a job shortly maybe he can put the spin on the product as he sold him self into the White House for 4 more years after the first time.
Wouldn’t the spinning knock off the breading and possibly leave your fried foods (such as fish) into just a mess of broken fillets?
It actually looks like a good idea, remove as much surface grease as possible. On the video it appears that the food basket is still enclosed, and the lid is down, when the spinning takes place. The price does seem a bit high, but wait for the sales if you want one. I’m in the camp that a salad spinner would do pretty much the same thing. I think most of us enjoy something deep fried, at least from time to time, and I’m actually looking for a home fryer. This one is too pricey for me, though.
Is it wrong that I want this?