It's a poor carpenter who blames shoddy tools for... GODDAMN IT!

Includes more than 5 delicious recipes

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.

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.

For $149 it better do something besides fry food. It should have been named The Cornholer.

Everyone's laughing, and riding, and cornholing except Buster!

@InThrees:

Soy Loco Por Los Cornballs!

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!"

@MyPetFly: Now I'm imagining people hooking regular fryers up to stationary bicycles and trying to get the same effect. This isn't pretty.

"¡Soy loco por los Smart Spin!"

@DarkKnightShyamalan: I think I love you.

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.

Thought these things were only legal in Mexico.

@Rectilinear Propagation: Rent the DVDs.

NAO!@#

"Patented Smart Spinâ„¢ Technology"

Since when is spinning technology?

@Rectilinear Propagation:

You must learn for yourself, sir.

@Parapraxis: I figured I'd be the first to post this, but I didn't even get close. Bravo.

Oh I get it! It spins half the food off so 55% less fat...viola!

voila rather! Its been a long day....

@Rectilinear Propagation: you... WHAT?!?
GTFO! NAO!

(i can't find any clips on youtube...)

@ThickSkinned:

You spin me right round baby right round...

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

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@Rectilinear Propagation:

I like my fries SCREAMING.

@Rectilinear Propagation: All of the episodes are on Hulu. Watch them.

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...

www.cornballer.com

Umm, who thinks that hot oil and "centrifugal force" do not mix?

@Rectilinear Propagation:
I believe the specific episode is here.

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]

@DePaulBlueDemon: That was my first thought flying hot oil is not a good idea.

@no.no.notorious: I have one of those. I also live in New England.

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.

@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

_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.

@BlondeGrlz is having a BlondeBoyz!: I also have one. I live in California.

@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).

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.

@ngth: It's because it doesn't just spin. It spins SMARTLY.

@bluewyvern: I think you need to have a talk with your mom bra

@derelk: Yeah I just watched that one last night! Hulu is so valuable simply because it has all the AD episodes.

@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.

"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!