Every day I come on here, hoping to strike it rich in the Fuko lottery. I type meh.com so hopefully, muttering to myself, fuko, fuko, fuko… what do I get instead? This.
@DFSdave If you read my comment carefully, you will see that I actually never said I was a vegetarian. And in fact I am not. But hooray for you and your witty quip. Hope it gave you a much needed boost of dopamine.
What the hell is this thing? As much as I love Ron Popeil, I don’t want to buy this thing, even with all that free crap it comes with. Look at all that stuff! A free knife, and a Ronco solid flavor impregnator. And I still don’t want it. I’d be lucky to use this stupid thing once a year. To fit a 12 pound turkey this would have to be enormous, so it’d take up a ton of cabinet space. Meh.
Model: FS1735-M on Google returns this item, second result is “Three-Phase Power Logger Fluke 1735”. If you can tell the difference, this model number is legit, hyphen and all.
My family had a Showtime rotisserie, we used it like once ever and honestly it made one of the best chickens ive ever had. We only used it once because one of the hinges for the glass door broke when we were about to use it a second time and it became a slightly large expensive breadbox for a year after that until we threw it away.
@mehcuda67 as long as it’s not pumpkin spice. and i’ll admit that a cranberry margarita is not a horrible thing- after the 4th, the tanginess is barely noticeable.
to cook a turkey you have to put on the extension, then put the turkey in the fryer. 30 minutes later you pull the turkey out, turn it upside down & cook the uncooked third for the rest of the time. I am not making this up.
You know I was kinda sad @matthew did a cowboy nog song instead of a product infomerial parody. This would have been a great product to pardody an infomercial.
I reuse frying oil multiple times, usually filtering it (think melita coffee filters, though I usually just use a paper towel) and store it in the fridge in a gallon milk jug, topped off with fresh oil so there is very little air above it. As long as the oil doesn’t burn from being overheated, you can get at least four or five uses.
What overheated means varies from oil to oil (google “oil smoke point” to see.
Note: I do shower at least three or four times a week and frequently more often that that.
At this time, all of the following states are in white, meaning they have bought few or none: Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee. If the Deep South and Midwest ain’t biting on a fryer, that worries me.
If I want to have turkey and rice, how am I supposed to cook both?
A Ginsu knife can cut a tin can, but this clearly can’t. Why, Mr. Popiel? Why?
I don’t mean to use my first post to be all “meh-hy” but, this item is like worse than meh… Seriously? It’s more like “ugh”. After resisting/lurking for months, I made my first purchase yesterday, and my second will definitely not be today.
@snapster@JustKen I wouldn’t know a business model from a Model T, but I’ve come to judge Meh’s daily success by 1 criterion: Is the Total Sale over $20K? Anything less seems like a bust; not worth the write-up, web space, & overhead.
@compunaut I think that’s a healthy indicator for a single day, though there are times when we’re sold out well under $20k. The ideal metric would be “will more people come tomorrow or fewer?”
@snapster I would have bought one since wife wants a deep fryer anyway and I like that it does more than just take counter space and heat oil, but my bank account is at -299. Maybe you’ll sell at least one next time if I have monies.
Watched the qvc commercial where it was 129 seems like a great deal if you need this i have a super wave oven and a deep fryer looks like the accessories alone are worth the 50 bucks nice deal i’m trying to find a reason to buy just cant find enough reasons pass…
Mediocre sold out of these on morningsave at a 38% higher price. I’m not sure what this means except that clearly they love us more than Morningsave cause they saved these for us and gave us a better deal.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Fryer
1x Safety extension sleeve
1x Carving stand
1x Basket with handles
2x Lids
1x “Hands free” funnel
3x Charcoal filter pads
1x Safety gloves
1x Donut cutter
1x Turkey carving knife
6x Muffin baking containers
1x Bread/cake baking container
1x Steam-blocking sheet
1x Instructional DVD
1x Instruction booklet with recipes
1x Marinade booklet
Pictures
Fryer
Everything
Turkey
Laid out
Top view
Cross section
Hot dogs too, why not
Rice
Price Comparison
$89.99 at Walmart
Find a relevant price comparison? Please share it in a comment in this thread
Warranty
90 Day Ron Popeil
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, July 9th - Monday, July 13th
5-in-1?
That can’t be good.
Meh. Not like I can even use it in my dorm room.
Seems a little undercooked:
@lichme this gif made me actually lol.
@lichme Farm to table
@lichme the original dancing chicken
@huja And back to farm.
@lichme Well, it ain’t no jive turkey.
Meh. I’m the single guy who would burn rice in this thing.
All the worst gadgets of the 70’s combined into one.
@norman8 It’ll cover your bald spot too!
“We’re upgraded shipping”
That says it all…
Every day I come on here, hoping to strike it rich in the Fuko lottery. I type meh.com so hopefully, muttering to myself, fuko, fuko, fuko… what do I get instead? This.
@benjwong You see the whole package? The sheer amount of geedunk this comes with is fuku level nonsense.
Mr. Popeil song by Weird Al
@somf69 I’m glad someone else remembers.
@somf69 Now how much would you pay?
Not very useful for a vegetarian. I already have a rice cooker. Guess I’m not the target demo.
@davecort -
You called?
@davecort Wait, there’s a demo for this item at Target?
@mike808 LOL!!!
@davecort Ha! How can you tell if someone is vegetarian? Answer: You don’t have to,they’ll tell you!
@DFSdave If you read my comment carefully, you will see that I actually never said I was a vegetarian. And in fact I am not. But hooray for you and your witty quip. Hope it gave you a much needed boost of dopamine.
@davecort to be fair it’s not an unreasonable inference from what you did say.
“Not very useful for a vegetarian” (Demographic: Vegetarians)
“Guess I’m not the target demo(graphic)”
@jbartus Thanks! I knew I wasn’t hallucinating.
@DFSdave well you were still kinda obnoxious with your quip but I did want to point out that it wasn’t a great logical leap or anything.
Is there a way to click a double meh?
Or triple meh?
@mbimeh Or a 5 in 1 meh?
What the hell is this thing? As much as I love Ron Popeil, I don’t want to buy this thing, even with all that free crap it comes with. Look at all that stuff! A free knife, and a Ronco solid flavor impregnator. And I still don’t want it. I’d be lucky to use this stupid thing once a year. To fit a 12 pound turkey this would have to be enormous, so it’d take up a ton of cabinet space. Meh.
That .gif almost made life worthwhile.
Model: FS1735-M on Google returns this item, second result is “Three-Phase Power Logger Fluke 1735”. If you can tell the difference, this model number is legit, hyphen and all.
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Merry Christmas, @JasonToon )
@KDemo Ha, thanks. I almost went with that one, but then decided the bones for farming was crazier still.
@dave - You are so right! That wasn’t there when I first loaded the page, guess you have this covered.
Merry Christmas, @dave!)
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@dave It’s not so crazy when you realize it is about minecraft
/giphy set it and forget it
@medz Let’s try:
/youtube set it and forget it
I wish it bribled.
No reviews on Walmart but ‘Only 5 Left!’ Out of um, 6 ordered with one shitty slacker who refused to write a review?
Deep fried hot dogs and buns? Sign me up!
My family had a Showtime rotisserie, we used it like once ever and honestly it made one of the best chickens ive ever had. We only used it once because one of the hinges for the glass door broke when we were about to use it a second time and it became a slightly large expensive breadbox for a year after that until we threw it away.
@Twiminy My mom had that rotisserie. It was a delicious chicken.
That’s a big camping lantern.
@awk Looks like a Dalek mated with my crockpot.
@mehcuda67 the miracle of nature…
@mehcuda67 you sir, win the internet.
Is this real?
Can you cut a tin can with it?
this thing is absolutely useless for margaritas.
@alacrity That’s the undocumented 6th setting. Unfortunately if you get it wrong you’ll get a fried turkey flavored margarita.
@mehcuda67 as long as it’s not pumpkin spice. and i’ll admit that a cranberry margarita is not a horrible thing- after the 4th, the tanginess is barely noticeable.
This device seems to be a “Jack of all trades, master of none”
@travo ohhhh jack OF. Thought you called this something else
to cook a turkey you have to put on the extension, then put the turkey in the fryer. 30 minutes later you pull the turkey out, turn it upside down & cook the uncooked third for the rest of the time. I am not making this up.
Ad for the item:
was the typo also in the original?
And frying oil is fine any number of times less’n it turns black – not dark but BLACK – and/or foaming and/or smoking.
You know I was kinda sad @matthew did a cowboy nog song instead of a product infomerial parody. This would have been a great product to pardody an infomercial.
No Jive
I reuse frying oil multiple times, usually filtering it (think melita coffee filters, though I usually just use a paper towel) and store it in the fridge in a gallon milk jug, topped off with fresh oil so there is very little air above it. As long as the oil doesn’t burn from being overheated, you can get at least four or five uses.
What overheated means varies from oil to oil (google “oil smoke point” to see.
Note: I do shower at least three or four times a week and frequently more often that that.
Volt ??
I got a french fry cutter. Now I need a deep fryer. Are there better options around the same price?
It’s craptacular!!!
Meh.
/giphy Not a Pocket Fisherman
No, no, no! But how about a Popeil Pocket Fisherman???That might even sell without upgraded shipping.
Meh’d so hard I peeed a little.
Cause, you know, frying your foods is such a healthy way to eat!
But seriously, fried ribs? I don’t think so.
Three things:
@DocBJ
If someone gave me this for Christmas, I’d Popeil their ass all over town.
I’d rather see the Pocket Fisherman up for grabs…
/giphy "step right up"
Popeil’s Pocket Fisherman! Made of durable polyethylsquait hydrophybilide!! Washes your car as you’re driving it home to work!!!
@MrNews It’s not like the Austrian self sharpening razor blades!
The volume of oil this thing holds can no way correctly deep-fry a turkey.
@Pufferfishy Cornish game hen?
@Sputniq One quail egg?
I don’t mean to use my first post to be all “meh-hy” but, this item is like worse than meh… Seriously? It’s more like “ugh”.
After resisting/lurking for months, I made my first purchase yesterday, and my second will definitely not be today. 
@Sputniq Welcome, wise newbie!
@Sputniq
/giphy hello
@Sputniq welcome!
As of 10:18AM EST, 85 of these were sold. 85. Amazing.
@JustKen is it weird that I don’t know whether we should be legit excited or depressed about that stat? 85 sold!
@JustKen AND there are people that bought more than one…
@JustKen 119 at 12:05EST. I…I just…but…I can’t… WOW
@JustKen I think it must be the endorsement by Flavor Flav.
@snapster @JustKen I wouldn’t know a business model from a Model T, but I’ve come to judge Meh’s daily success by 1 criterion: Is the Total Sale over $20K? Anything less seems like a bust; not worth the write-up, web space, & overhead.
Note: Not looking too good today
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@compunaut I think that’s a healthy indicator for a single day, though there are times when we’re sold out well under $20k. The ideal metric would be “will more people come tomorrow or fewer?”
@snapster I would have bought one since wife wants a deep fryer anyway and I like that it does more than just take counter space and heat oil, but my bank account is at -299. Maybe you’ll sell at least one next time if I have monies.
@snapster sell more cheap junk. the study in the other thread indicates the average price of the product sold went up every year
I like how there’s a video for Mr. Beer embedded in the description of the multi-cooking system thing.
So the theory here is that the nitrate meat paste tubes will cook correctly while the buns on top will only get a mild steam?
Yeah - good luck with that.
@Pufferfishy seems easy enough to add them later if heavy steam chaps your buns
@snapster but you still miss out on the delicious hot-dog soup
@Pufferfishy
I think the hot dogs are in water, and the buns are getting steam.
At least that’s how I’d do it and I’m from Chicago.
I’m amused at how few of these have sold. I hope Meh didn’t buy any up front, or else I can see what everyone is going to get in the next Fuko.
/giphy but wait there’s more
Does it make cornballs?
just another thing to put on the counter
Do we get a pocket fisherman with it too?
Watched the qvc commercial where it was 129 seems like a great deal if you need this i have a super wave oven and a deep fryer looks like the accessories alone are worth the 50 bucks nice deal i’m trying to find a reason to buy just cant find enough reasons pass…
How can it be a Popeil deal if there’s no pocket fishermam.
@cranky1950
@cranky1950 You’re cranky.
@hems79 Hellooooooo Mr Obvious
So I just noticed something interesting…
Mediocre sold out of these on morningsave at a 38% higher price. I’m not sure what this means except that clearly they love us more than Morningsave cause they saved these for us and gave us a better deal.