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Hav posted:I think you're being a little short-sighted here, because sheet-form ketchup is only a stepping stone to other structural ketchup forms, such as the tube. I'm unsure how to disrupt the bun ecosystem to synergise with this but I'm sure someone will kickstart something.
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Facebook Aunt posted:I wonder what the problem was? Was it the $1 funding goal? At that point it's just a storefront, you're not even pretending to be fundraising. I wonder if it's this: quote:We have 500 units in stock, ready to be shipped.
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Sunswipe posted:I wonder if it's this: It's quite elegant when you think about it. <starts on alibaba.com>
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Facebook Aunt posted:I wonder what the problem was? Was it the $1 funding goal? At that point it's just a storefront, you're not even pretending to be fundraising. Those knives already exist, and they're 35 bucks.
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Palpek posted:They're saying that it doesn't get soaked up by the bread which I guess would be a thing if I was waiting like an hour after making a sandwich to eat it or if ketchup packets that are thrown at you for free everywhere weren't a solution to literally all situations where you need to eat your food later. Every other argument doesn't come close to making sense. Isn't that the essence of marketing - inventing a problem people don't actually have and then presenting the solution?
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iospace posted:Those knives already exist, and they're 35 bucks. Well, yes, but lots of things on kickstarter already exist and are available on amazon for half the price. Like with half the kitchen gadgets I go "great idea, my grandma had one of those." Oh, you meant this exact knife. https://slicedicekitchen.com/ lol
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Facebook Aunt posted:Like with half the kitchen gadgets I go "great idea, my grandma had one of those." So, not a scam, or even a crowdfunded device, but it's something that struck me as quite funny. The sodastream is now being pimped by Jillian Micheals. Back in the 1970s, it was the cheap home way to make soda, but taking some horrific offbrand syrup, water and CO2 injection never really caught on the massive way that it should. Now, apparently they've gone with the high juice syrups and re-invented for the fitness generation. - https://www.sodastreamusa.com/Orange-Fruit-Drop-P1022.aspx I got triggered by mention of Grandma, as mine would come from the National Home and Garden exhibition with _every possible unigadget_ you could think of.
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Jason Sextro posted:Isn't that the essence of marketing - inventing a problem people don't actually have and then presenting the solution?
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Has anybody done this one? I feel like somebody has done this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtpKjgwi4Sc Smoothies AND omelettes? Be still my beating heart...
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Frank_Leroux posted:Has anybody done this one? I feel like somebody has done this one: I prefer this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Gn8jt55LQ
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Gonna go on record here with “nothing should ever be called the ‘baby bullet’ ever.”
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Beet Wagon posted:Gonna go on record here with “nothing should ever be called the ‘baby bullet’ ever.” Not even bullets to shoot babies with? Come on!
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Frank_Leroux posted:Has anybody done this one? I feel like somebody has done this one: Can it make an omelette smoothie?
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May 5, 2018 03:00
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Does it come with a thing for prising your rear end in a top hat open when you've eaten too many eggs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8inphpeXSg
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Sunswipe posted:Does it come with a thing for prising your rear end in a top hat open when you've eaten too many eggs? No, but speaking of anus-like egg accessories have you seen THIS? Not crowdfunded, but it's 'As-Seen-On-TV' which is close enough:  Yes, you've been cooking eggs the WRONG way all these years! You need to turn them into a weird fleshy cylinder that you can shove into your mouth! Anyway, you can see one get taken apart by a half-drunk Canadian here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydwaz2oPWY0 The build quality is shockingly bad. Hard to believe, I know.
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Frank_Leroux posted:No, but speaking of anus-like egg accessories have you seen THIS? Not crowdfunded, but it's 'As-Seen-On-TV' which is close enough: I vaguely remember these because of Ashens doing a goofy as hell Star Wars bit after waiting for his knock-off version to poo poo an egg out. You guys know the Slapchop is still around? Had a family member buy one for some reason. They're pretty terrible looking.
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Obligatory with any Rollie mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxaSnVVV-QU
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I remember seeing the Rollie in this Alton Brown video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgFeVlw2Ywg
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Sunswipe posted:I remember seeing the Rollie in this Alton Brown video:
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Elysiume posted:I bought those claw things on a whim because they were cheap, and they're less effective than a pair of forks and a lot harder to clean because of their various concave bits. I'm tickled that you can still buy the soda stream. In the seventies, you produced the worst knock-off cola imagineable, but your Nan had one for the promise of cheap on demand soda. Turn of the century and they're going with high juices and trying to re-invent the device itself. Now they have Jillian Micheals, 'fitness harridan', pushing them as a water spritzer. I have the sandwich maker. I are stuipd. It works well enough with a muffin and some form of separating out the egg layer, but true to the whole unitasker problem, it's actually more trouble than it's worth. I'm planning to shift it like the equivalent of a gypsy curse at a garage sale.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00t50uHS68k https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tastetro-spice-system-vegan#/
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Hey that's, not as bad as usual? I mean they say you can customize these spices and replace them in the rack which is not completely stupid?
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Kikas posted:Hey that's, not as bad as usual? I mean they say you can customize these spices and replace them in the rack which is not completely stupid? I believe "customize" means "order different spices from them".
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Hedenius posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00t50uHS68k TasteTro sounds like the name of the lamest GI Joe
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He's got like, a wrist launcher with a pepper grinder on it instead of rockets
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Indeed, 'customize' all you like.quote:Can I load my own spices in the pods? The total non-answers (they can't even answer the question they asked themselves in the beginning*) are only made better by imagining the exasperated tone you can imagine people use when asking about salt. Speaking of which, compare the note about salt with what they say in the intro: quote:People often rely on bottled short-cuts, prepared meals and takeout as time savers to address that dreaded daily question. Packaged and processed foods are generally sodium rich and loaded with unwanted ingredients. The device would very nearly have utility if you could refill it and program your own blend for a given recipe, but the first is right out and the second is only something that's their 'intention' to add in an update. *To which the answer is, "we want to be a printer ink company, but that market is shrinking". Kangra fucked around with this message at 20:37 on May 22, 2018 |
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You open your presents at Christmas and you try not to cry--you got TasteTro and his tactical food cart Your friend at school got Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes; he'll never respect you again
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Foo Diddley posted:He's got like, a wrist launcher with a pepper grinder on it instead of rockets 
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Hedenius posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00t50uHS68k This thing kinda seems like an okay idea, except that its whole selling point is that it'll mix you up a tablespoon of "fajita mix" which, like... if you're the kind of person who doesn't mix up their own seasonings, you probably just bought this already anyway, I mean they're like 2 for $1.00 
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I hope that becomes wildly successful so it can be hacked in amusing ways. Not like hacked in the cool project or weird nerd poo poo way, I mean "I asked for salt and it mixed in terrifying foreign spices and my family is held hostage to its mad spice whims" ways. Because of course the people who would buy it are the people who are terrified of spices.
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Frank_Leroux posted:Has anybody done this one? I feel like somebody has done this one: The MagicBullet™ was fantastic. Ours lasted years and it was great for making single-serve milkshakes. I miss it very much.
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Foo Diddley posted:You open your presents at Christmas and you try not to cry--you got TasteTro and his tactical food cart He saving the world from bland foods, you monster. In a world of low sodium snacks, he's the only one that can 'spice' things up.
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exposing spices to light
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I am late to this thread, but since everyone's talking about horrible, scammy, kitchen gadgets, here's a video by AvE wherein he disassembles and figures out how the Juicero works. You know, the 400$ machine that needs WiFi and squeezes juice packages for you slower than you'd do by hand. Basically the company took their absolutely terrible business idea and made sure every single component was made of the highest quality. If I understand AvE correctly, some of the parts are actually worth much more than the entire machine itself - just a shame that none of that was necessary. And aside from being completely and utterly pointless, the machine is actually quite a work of art. Think some of these scams exist because some portions of society have become so bored and wealthy that they just don't know what else to splurge money on anymore except making overengineered juice presses. Basically make stuff exclusive and expensive just for expensiveness's sake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
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This isn't... strictly a kitchen gadget. In fact, I'm not actually sure what this should best be described as. But it was under the "food" section on KS and it's making me have an existential crisis: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1031226847/man-paste-2-in-1-hair-pomade-and-toothpaste?ref=category&ref=discovery  I mean props to the dude for exploding his own kickstarter literally in the description - quote:The biggest risks that I can see are that maybe people will be creeped out by a combo of pomade and toothpaste and getting the right balance of flavor and fragrance. The formula is not a risk at all in my opinion. Also, the engineering process is not very complicated and I have very specific machinery picked out. I also have a prime location ready with the electricity already set for industrial applications. - but I can't stop laughing at the fact that all his pledge tiers are marketed towards the blue-collar everyguy liberal hair pomade enthusiast who also appreciates millennial fad foods and has techbro money, with tiers like: - Working Man - Blue Collar - The Bernie Sanders - The Black Garlic Tier
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Lord Stimperor posted:I am late to this thread, but since everyone's talking about horrible, scammy, kitchen gadgets, here's a video by AvE wherein he disassembles and figures out how the Juicero works. You know, the 400$ machine that needs WiFi and squeezes juice packages for you slower than you'd do by hand. Basically the company took their absolutely terrible business idea and made sure every single component was made of the highest quality. If I understand AvE correctly, some of the parts are actually worth much more than the entire machine itself - just a shame that none of that was necessary. AvE has some pretty informative videos. It's a shame he tries too hard to have inappropriate humor in his videos.
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Lladre posted:AvE has some pretty informative videos. It's a shame he tries too hard to have inappropriate humor in his videos. I think it's a genuine compulsion of his.
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drat, most of the kitchen gadgets posted have been straight up garbage and funny, but this one actually is sort of upsetting because it's so near and dear to my stupid, moronic heart. Anybody who has spent any amount of time near a beard-having, IPA drinking millennial has no doubt heard of the glory of cast iron cookware. I've been known to extol its virtues from time to time myself, despite my genetic inability to grow a beard and the hapsburg-like lack of function in my liver and kidneys. It's true - cast iron pans and pots are wonderful instruments to cook with, and you should probably have one. Luckily, any loving dipshit can buy a cast iron pan from pretty much anywhere these days, at really reasonable costs! Now, it wouldn't be a millennial food obsession if it didn't come with some kind of bizarre belief that "things from the past are better," which has put a premium on old Wagner and Griswold pans, making them essentially the "holy grail" of cast iron. Old pans, it is said, have far better nonstick properties than their newer cousins. Why? Well, it depends on who you ask. You might hear that there was a better formula for the iron, which has been lost to time. You might hear that the casting methods were different (read: better), resulting in perfectly smooth cast iron cookware that was just as strong at half the weight. You might hear that Hattori Hanzo personally hand-folded each Griswold pan 4000 times during forging. But the real answer is that older pans were thinner and smoother because they were machined. That's it. So, if they don't make machined cast iron pans any more, but lots of people want them, it would seem like there's a business opportunity there, right? Right! Enter Nest Homeware, makers of fine machined cast iron pans.  These guys are bringing the old school back, machining their cast iron pans to perfect smoothness, for that old Hanzo feel, hell yeah! There's just one problem: they decided they needed an artsy handle and now their pans look like poo poo and take up way more room than they should:  Okay, that's a minor gripe, sure. But hey, a fully machined pan (they go up the sidewalls and everything!) has got to be worth the $165 asking price right? You're not just gonna cook on a $30 Lodge like a loving imbecile, are you?  Welllllllll about that. Here's the thing: the whole reason cast iron pans work is because of what's called 'seasoning' - which is a thin layer of polymerized fat that has bonded to the iron in the pan. This hard layer fills in the microscopic crevices in the pan and forms a semi non-stick layer that makes your fried eggs slide around, granting cast iron its mythical "never stick" properties (which is actually kind of a myth). So what does all this machining result in? Well.... kind of a fat load of nothing, actually. Because of the seasoning process, all but the largest cracks end up getting filled in with seasoning, meaning that how smooth your pan was in the beginning has little effect on how smooth it is after the seasoning process. Because seasoning is generally (unless you gently caress it up) an additive process, the reason older pans are "better" than newer ones is because they have decades of seasoning built up, not because they're smoother.  As Nest so helpfully points out, seasoning (and therefore time) is the key factor here, not smoothness. "Okay, but like... I haven't had enough of you rambling about cast iron mythology," you ask. "Is there some other reason this sucks that you can be pedantic about?" Good question, friend. Of course there is!  Nest purports to season their pans with flaxseed oil, which is commonly hailed as the "Jesus Patch" of cast iron seasoning by idiots. In reality, flaxseed oil makes a really good looking coat of seasoning that is incredibly fragile and will flake off almost immediately. Despite all the theorycrafting on cooking blogs, the easiest and best oil to use for seasoning your pan is regular-rear end vegetable, canola, or corn oil. Also, Nest says they use some kind of patented double-seasoning technique whereby they season the outside at a different temperature than the inside, which is uhhhhh nonsense. They're selling you a pan with a lovely handle, a fragile layer of seasoning you'll almost definitely have to re-do, and some magic. Cool.
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I have a Lodge. I use it for pizza. I also have a ceramic coated dutch oven I use for bread and occasionally soup and chili.
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