@wootthereitis so the question was “Can you think of an interesting/funny/compelling 6th use for this cooking system? Post it in the comments and we’ll send freebies to the ones we like” and I think the answer is ice cream?
@gertiestn yeah. we haven’t had a deal paused in awhile.
Ron Popeil…I have to put him in my death pool. He’s 81, all that greasy food’s bound to get to him soon.
Oh wait! Is Mr.Meh dating Ron? oh this all makes sense now!
Ronco Brands is now cooking up an initial public offering of its own stock. Ronco is looking to raise $30 million by selling 5 million shares of stock for $6 a share. The stock sales are being conducted on its Web site and the company will accept wire transfers and major credit cards.
But wait, there’s more.
There’s a minimum purchase of 20 shares — or $120 — in the IPO, the company said in a regulatory filing. And for investments in excess of $1,000, the company will throw in a 20 percent discount on its Web site.
So…will meh throw in some stock?? (I don’t mean chicken…)
@eeterrific And if you purchase more than $10,000 in Ronco stock, you will receive a free Ronco Ready Grill – perfect for roasting up those worthless stock certificates!
Less than 2 months ago the meh item was gracing the cover of Meh. I felt Meh when looking at it then, I feel even more Meh looking at it now. Meh I don’t need a second chance at a second chance for something I didn’t want a first chance at Meh. Well perhaps there will be something Meharvolis tomorrow, I fear that instead of the money leaving my Meh pockets to line the fat cat Meh pockets, my Meh-ney will be staying put tomorrow. PROVE ME WRONG MEH, or just be one step below mediocre.
Jewelry cleaner. Clean it with water, oil, turpentine, gasoline, everything cleans jewelry if it’s hot enough.
Make candles. Use as a double-boiler or give up on ever cooking with it and put the wax right in there.
Wax play in the bedroom, for those who think having scalding wax poured over them by the quart is kinky*.
Humidifier. Run this thing all day on “steam” and you don’t have to buy one of those expensive $15 humidifiers.
Science experiments. Show your kids what happens when you drop an ice cube into a deep fryer*. Show your kids how skin grafts work. Show your kids how society reacts to intense facial scarring.
Clean your sponges. Ever smelled your dish sponge? Of course you haven’t, you just let it sit there in a puddle of grime on the kitchen counter, breeding an elite colony of bacteria that will leave all of your dishes with a slight odor and a layer of E. coli.
Drugs. Drugs are complicated to make. There’s probably one that involves high temperatures or something. If I was cool and made drugs I would know what to put here.
Steaming hot fecal warfare. Do you hate your neighbors? Build a trebuchet and heat up logs of poop to launch at your nemeses without soiling your cookware*. Unless you planned to cook with this. Up to you. But you’d be missing out.
@HELLOALICE When I got a job working concessions in high school, one of our favorite pranks was to toss a couple of ice cubes in the deep fryer. It’s pure evil.
based on the specs, a little tweak and you’d have a great heat source for keeping your mash at the right temp when homebrewing. Granted that would outright kill the other 5 uses…
My 6th use if I get one for free: Trying to find a wedding gift for that couple that only has 5 things on their registry? Don’t really know them that well anyway? Get them one of these!
Alternatively, use it to heat bath water if your water heater goes out.
But wait there’s more… Now with the soon to be patented sterilizing attachment you can clean your other great Ronco products such as the Chop-O-Matic, the Dial-O-Matic and the ever popular Pocket Fisherman. And as a special offer if you act now you’ll receive a Mr. Microphone for hours of entertainment.
The most obvious use is a boiler for all your steam powered devices. Think of it as an adaptor- love that steam powered vacuum your grandmother left you, but haven’t had time to install a central boiler in your home? Hook it up to this baby, and your classic dust defiler works on new-fangled alternating current. Steam powered grandfather clock? Mechanical bull? Friendly yet uncanny robot? Bring them all into the modern era with the Ron Popeil 6-in-1 home cooking and steaming solution.
6th use: hipster hobo trash can. When you want to warm your Versace-fingerless-glove-clothed hands, so you use your finest piece of Ronald Popeil III’s cookware (the point, of course, being that you use it before it…cools).
6th use: turkey or chicken plucker! Add the fresh hen, set it and forget it! 20 minutes later, the plucked bird is left in the basket with the feathers down below.
As a 6th use for this monstrosity, I could probably jam all the accessories together and turn this thing into a high-functioning washer/dryer for my tiniest items of clothes.
Either that or a murderous robot hellbent on steaming me alive, I suppose. Either-or…
Boiler is a pretty lame excuse for a 5th function, especially given the others, which aren’t exactly strong either. Following suit, let’s make one even lamer- Room Temperaturener. Just add your choice of cold and/or hot ingredients, unplug, and in 4-6 hours, voila! Food of a moderate temperature and questionable edibility!
Best sixth use I can come up with would be to make it into an annihilation chamber to burn up crappy items you’ve gotten on meh.com previously. Those we all though would be great items then end up in storage somewhere never to actually be used. There is a size limit though.
6th use: force (meaning probably break) the timer so it doesn’t turn off and plug it into the pid temperature controller that I built to control the temperature on my electric smoker and voilà a sous vide setup.
put your face in it to brown your skin and steam your hair to make it all ratty and fluffy to achieve that Donald Trump-esque look ( if that’s what you want to look like)…then go cook some rice for dinner.
I’d fill it with water. Put a filter in that basket accessory and voilà, coffee percolator. There is nothing more important that comes from a kitchen appliance than the delicious bean elixir that turns me into a pleasant functioning adult.
I mean, it could be a counter-space-taker-upper but if it can be made to brew coffee, it’s my friend.
It looks like it would be perfect to hold pudding at exactly the right temperature to make the best pudding skin. Great results every time, just set it… and forget it!
Use #6: A gentle steam cleaner for all your dainty unmentionables – which I will now proceed to mention: g-strings, jockstraps, bras, codpieces, thongs, boxers, briefs, boxer-briefs, pasties and chastity belts.
found this on MEH. Any changes?..
outz said Thu, Feb 9th 2017 at 12:13am eastern:
Is this the same one?
“I contacted the 5 in 1 website about where to purchase replacement filters, they replied that you could only buy them from their site and only when you place the order. In other words, when you use up the filters that come with the fryer, you have a useless fryer.”
4 Reply @outzhttp://www.5in1fryer.com/filters/
steelersluver said Thu, Feb 9th 2017 at 5:53am eastern 1 Reply
6th Use is a kiln. Just put some vermiculite in there, heat it up and put your glass beads to anneal in it. Vermiculite will make it cool slower to prevent shocking.
Quick way to boil baby bottles, pacifiers (first time parents) and other accessories. You might also fill it full of potting soil for a futuristic planter
Paid 35 for this item back on Feb. 9th must say its extremely functional and i use it alot for deep frying , i can highly recommend this at less then i paid …wow great deal tonight !!
If there was in fact a 6th use Mr. Popeil in all his wisdom would have invented number six already, he’s Americana in caps and should not be mocked ever …lol
Perhaps a "6th Use"could be as a modern day, miniature rocketship. Rather than the dog house of old for your favorite “Snoopy as The Red Baron”(live or stuffed),he can sit upright on the now, “6 in One” whilst looking stylishly decorative atop your kitchen counter.
Everyone knows that trebuchets are the ultimate medieval artillery buy what about close quarters defense? Boiling oil is where it’s at, just line the walls of your metaphorical castle with these bad boys to keep the hordes of invaders at bay.
If it’s loud enough, I could use it to drown out the sound of my husband snoring so I could get some sleep right now, but then again, I do use the snore time to check meh. So…
The sixth use could be for car conversion - just use the grease and turn it into biodiesel then we can go back in time by hooking this bad boy up into the engine compartment and make your car run on steam power and since it will be turned on to help run your car (for five minutes before you have to get out and fill it up again) then you could funnel a hose in to heat your car.
Or - for a child’s science fair project they can chart the different trajectories between setting off bottle rockets and shooting this up into the air.
Or - you can steam open your pores while your cooking your homemade facial serums below.
Or - you can heat up wax to do a Brazilian wax job in the privacy of your own home where you are the only one who can hear you scream.
Or - just meh…
6th use is obvious, doesn’t even need electricity… Fill with goldfish and pull out your Popeil Pocket fisherman and keep the little brats quiet for a while… umm I mean give your adorable children hours of indoor fishing fun!
Need to decarboxylate but don’t want to use the big oven? Gotta get your cannaextract on, but need the crockpot for dinner? Pop those medicinal nuggets right in, set it and forget it!
Then add oil and water, and you’re in business without the messy bother of extra pans. No worrying about remembering to switch the crockpot from low to warm, warm to to low, did I remember to switch it?
Set the perfect temp for all your simmering extract needs. Use the handy strainer basket to remove plant solids.
This is the true Sixth Calling of the Ron Popeil 5-in-1 Cooking System.
The sixth use: vaginal steam treatment. Now your vag can be as soft and fresh as Gwyneth Paltrow’s, but at a fraction of the cost. No pricey spa visits!
With the Ronco COL (Circle Of Life) attachment (sold separately), use the 5 in 1 Cooking System to incubate your baby trout eggs and release the hatchlings into your local reservoir. Then, simply wait two years, pop out the Pocket Fisherman attachment, and catch and reclaim those trout! The built-in filet knife makes it a breeze to prepare your fish, then it’s back into the 5 in 1 Cooking System to tenderly broast those delicious filets. Presto, that’s one savory dish! Thanks, Ron!
This is great for removing the nasty stains from my decades old collection of underwear. Steams them up, nice and hot…Maybe mix in a few panties. keeps the rash factor to a minimum. Also, Queso warmer. Because, you know…Fruit of the Loom flavored nachos…
Sanitize your sex toys. Use number 6 let’s you reuse The Dark Horse over and over every night! Tough enough for hard stains and gentle enough for delicate moving parts!
I’m always confused by the comments. Every day, the consensus seems to be that the product is bad or over priced, still. Yet people friggin kill themselves to buy the fuku bag thing that just collects all the crap that no one seemingly wants.
A 6th use? Well sure. Ive always had this idea, this ringing in my head. WHY can’t we dehydrate eggs and rehydrate them with coffee. You see, im not much of a morning person and the thought of cooking eggs AND making coffee tips the scales to overwhelming. But if we were to combine them…just imagine the things we could accomplish. So, there it is, a de-re-hydrator. So simple!
Personally, I’ll use mine as a way to sort my mail. Forget 6th use, this machine has a 6th sense when it comes to mail.
It works great, everything that is junk mail becomes a wet, soggy mess that is easily compostable. It’s only eaten a few personal letters, but I assume that is it’s way of warning me not to keep in contact with those people. It’s a shame, too, because I had to drop contact with my friend of 20 years. But this machine runs my life now.
It slices! It dices! It’ll clean your socks and curl your hair! It’ll walk your dog and make you breakfast in bed! Buy this and you’ll also get a free taco and my love!
But wait, there’s more! We’ve now added Set-it-and-Forget-it!. Just add chicken to preheated oil and Set it and Forget It! You can run errands, take in a movie, have drinks with a friend, knowing when you return all is well and NO MORE BANK WORRIES. This is the perfect mortgage mediator. Dispose of your worries today.
Y’know those days when you’ve had more than enough coffee on your way to work, but then get stuck in traffic for an hour? This would be an ideal portable toilet, especially if you don’t require privacy. Perhaps you could even charge others for the privilege.
“When your car’s not moving, but your bowels are . . . we’ve got the solution!”
But wait! If you buy one today, we will throw in a spray can of the Popeil hair thickening goop in black. You can either use it on your head or paint grill marks on your yummy Popeil burgers.
But wait there’s more! You can wash your shirts in it. Get your whites whiter while making pasta at the same time. Steam those t-shirts just before dropping pasta sauce on them.
6th use: Mosquito trap. Not sure how, but I assume with all of that decomposing meat from the photos, enough CO2 is being generated to attract those little bastards.
With a nasal accessory you could use it to do that disgusting sinus irrigation everyone seems to love. Forget the Netti Pot, go with 212 degree steam with the Popeil Pot. Cauterize those nasal passages.
I have used it to mummify the remains of dead pets for years. It’s a combination of deep frying and steam baking, so I don’t know if it’s really a 6th use, or just clever ways for uses 4 and 5.
That looks just about the right size for cozy and secure baby transportation. Plus, with the locking lid, no need to worry about them undulating, or how ever they locomote, away from where you put it down.
The 6th use is a Popeilpourri pot - fill it with cider, cinnamon, cloves, and whatever other aromatic herbs you have to fill your house with beautiful aromas.
In an effort to join the movement to revive the 1980’s, I’d cook up a new version of Different Strokes starring Nick Offerman, Anthony Mackie, Jaden Smith and Ashley Olson. I don’t know if this is the cooker to do it, but I’d love for somebody to cook that up for me.
So, the 6th use I could see this potentially being ideal for would be for acetone polishing of 3D printed objects. A lot of folks use a rice cooker but you have to hack some kind of tray to keep your prints above the liquid acetone but as exposed as possible (usually some kind of wire mesh). I think the multiple chambers here might make it slightly better though since potentially the tray wouldn’t be necessary and there could be better control of the acetone exposure so that you don’t overdo it. Anyways, I could use the free one you send me and report back on results if you’re interested. After I steam some vegetables or something in it of course!
Don’t forget to buy two. You need a second one so you can teleport small items.*
*Ron Popeil Corporation is not responsible for any mishaps that may occur when items inadvertently get merged with any other items or creatures that have accidentally made its way into the second teleportation pod.
@decoratedwarvet please tell me where you found my wife. I don’t remember ever having one of those. Maybe I should of hid my vcr tape in the same place.
Add about 1 Tablespoon ‘Iron-Out’ per pint of warm water and soak your rust-stained rock crystals over a low heat for several hours to remove iron stains left from the dirt and make your crystal specimens sparkle Smithsonian-style.
1/2 cup white vinegar and 2 Tablespoons salt added to water on low heat makes a great jewelry cleaner
There are many more than six uses. The kids can use it as a hot tub for their Barbies. Fondue pot. Foot soak to really get those bunions off. Porta potty on cold days.
A 6th use? Obviously the most important, doing a solid for all of the clever, witty and gracious suits at MEH so they can purge their inventory to make room for a new kick ass deal that everyone actually would be excited to buy!
Or…A solution for all of those annoying broken crayons I find all over my house. We can melt them down and make one giant crayon. Is there a world record for that?
Can’t seem to get rid of those pesky critters in you merkin? So no more! Problem solved! Pop it off, pop it in and seal the top. Just that simple…steam away those bugs! And bonus, use the resulting bug broth for a delicious base for any crab based soup. Yum yum. Don’t delay, order today and you will be bug free and belly full in no time!
@matthew should use one of these babies for his possum head degreasing baths- I bet with the heat he could do a whole rodent in a week. Speaking of which, more possum head chronicles? Pretty please?
What you don’t know is that the 5-in-1 Cooking System already knows its sixth function, but doesn’t like to brag about it: for the past nine years it has been serving as Kristen Stewart’s acting coach.
I can hardly believe that after bitching & whining about how you meh ladies haven’t got in touch with me by any means, not even so much as a smoke signal, just to remind me you exist because I actually forgot about you all…, My Bad. Plus, FINALLY, when I did get an #@ Email from you Rodeo Clowns <? Anyway, the Email was about one of those Damned RON 5 in 1 Cooking Pots! That is the 1st thing I purchased when I wondered ( by a pure accident) into this Family Circle of Misfits. Worse, I didn’t need Popeil’s Fryer Pot. Well, I can only bitch & moan for so long, this dead man has to breath sometime.So, I have over $5,000,000.00, what can I steal besides another 5 in 1 Slop Making Bucket. What’s tomorrow’s deal,huh,huh,huh?
I purchased this last time. It’s an awesome fryer. Also works great for steaming…but you’d probably have to decide which you’re going to use it for from the beginning. I wouldn’t recommend both unless you like your steamed vegetables tasting like oil. It does take up a ton of counter space though!
I’ve never been good at math…but seeing that this comes with a nice pair of rubber gloves (I can think of some 6th uses for that - Google “fifi”) this thing practically pays for itself! A good pair of rubber gloves goes for at least $5. Don’t get me started about the charcoal filters, carving stand, plastic funnel and all of the other millions of pieces I’ve already lost!
6th use…how about using it to teach an engineering class how to set it up for each of the different uses…(on a side note… it actually might be useful in teaching engineering students about creating multiple use devices and their positive aspects as will as their downsides.hmmmmmm…lol)
Water reclamation unit for turning your urine back into drinking water after the surface of the earth is completely flooded and you have to live on a boat in some sort of… hydro planet? Liquid Earth? Aqua Sphere?
I feel like the answer is on the tip of my tongue…
might make a nice minnow bucket, warm the water if your going ice fishing. When your done clean it out, then steam, bake, boil, or deep fry your fish.
/giphy ronco minnow bucket
You can fill it with water, wait for it to steam, and put your face over the top for a home facial! The oil film leftover from turkey frying will provide simultaneous moisturizer!
Melting chocolate
Streaming small wood strips so they bend around a form for small clocks
Heating fabric dye and then boiling fabric in it so the dye locks in
Steaming eggs
Remember when Monty Python’s Life of Brian addressed hard-hitting social issues, like whether religion was a lot of silly misinterpretation, how much infrastructure was needed to compensate for oppressive governance, and even gender roles and gendering itself? Remember how, when “Stan” declared she was actually Loretta, her friends, after a bit of initial surprise, accepted and supported her for who she was, and how, faced with such easy acceptance in art, life promptly imitated and trans people were able to be themselves with no negative repercussions or disenfranchisement or abuse?
Well, that last part didn’t happen (and then it started to and then Trump and OH GODS WE’RE ALL DOOMED), and only 2/3 of the first part happened, because only two of Loretta’s friends rolled with it. And then there was Reg. Stuck in his patriarchal, cisgender privilege Reg. Who thought there was altogether too much effort for inclusivity of women, and then blew a small gasket when Loretta came out:
But, even though we now recognize that Reg was being a butt, and that his objections were based on a narrow-minded, discretely binary understanding of gender, he did raise a valid question. If Loretta wanted to have babies but had no womb, through nobody’s fault, not even the Romans, what was she going to do, keep it in a box?
This isn’t just a problem for transwomen. Some uteruses don’t work right, a cruel twist from an organ whose only other function is to make sure its owner regrets ever wearing white pants in public. Some are removed early on. Some uterus-owning types may not want to be a wallowing land-ark, passenger manifest of one, for the 9 months it takes to grow a squallbeast. Maybe they’re fond of the sight of their toes. Maybe they’ve seen Alien, and good glory, no thank you!
But regardless of WHY a person may find themselves needing an out-of-body substitute uterus, clearly a box is completely wrong. First off, square babies. Sure, they don’t roll off the table as easily, but fitting them in a onesie is a nightmare! And second, who wants to spend 9 months carefully checking temp, basting with amniotic fluid, turning it for even browning…what a mess!
But Ron Pompeil has a solution! Away with workaday baby basting! No more unsightly abdominal exit wounds! Now there’s the Ron Pompeil 6-in-1 Cooking System, as seen on TV! Yes, folks, it fries, steams, boils, cooks rice, steam bakes, and gently gestates your groin juice into a beautiful, cylindrical baby, like God would have intended if God didn’t kinda suck!
Simply adjust the temperature to a gentle, slow-roast 98.6F, add one egg and carefully selected sperm of your choice (or a whole bunch of sperm, if you really want to play genetic roulette/ have already masturbated into the cooker while reading this), set cook time to 9.5 months, and voila! A perfectly cooked* new little life, ready to love you the way your mommy and daddy swore you would love them!
So stop birthing babies the old fashioned way, and try the new Ron Pompeil 6-in-1 Cooking System today!
*Note: Skin color should not be used to gauge doneness, particularly if both egg and sperm came from pasty pale people. Do not cook your baby past honky! Let them wait until Spring Break and spray tan like you did!
This item would be so much better if it came with a silicon cover for so you can move it without getting fried everything gets so dam hot not good i burned myself first use . Ron you reading this ?
The prizes were all awarded between midnight and 1 am and no east coast rant yet? OK I’ll go first. It’s all I can do to wake up and click the meh button. Expecting me to think is unreasonable.
/giphy rant
Requests to Meh support seem to take almost a week right now, and customer service doesn’t work on the weekend, so don’t expect a response from their team for at least a few more days.
@saulsinger We got a response out to you on Tuesday - respond to that email if you have any questions. I’ve removed your phone number from the post for your privacy.
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
$97.49 at Amazon
Warranty
90 Day Ron Popeil
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
Meh cooking – getting it out of meh-system tonight
First!
@wootthereitis Meh try
@Stallion I do the very mehest I can…
@wootthereitis so the question was “Can you think of an interesting/funny/compelling 6th use for this cooking system? Post it in the comments and we’ll send freebies to the ones we like” and I think the answer is ice cream?
/giphy ice cream
Umm NO
Big fat steamer? pft, Tamales! hobviously!
bought this last time it was up, it was five bucks more expensive then. lots of parts to it but cooked up some decent stuff, would recommend.
Today’s clickface says it all.
@KDemo D’oh! Soon to be
@dave - Aw, it was kind of perfect.
Now he seems to have suffered some brain trauma or a stroke. Hope he recovers by tomorrow.
@dave I know! You might have to tell him again, if he didn’t learn the first time.
@dave The face next to the Buy It button was fixed
But it seems the one in the calendar wasn’t
In the HTML code, the calendar is referring to eiucnaavyigz71bp6yzg.png but the clickable face is referring to Meh36Faces128px_01_t366di.png
I think you could use this as a paint bucket as a 6th use.
@cengland0 Has anyone ever tested whether super-hot paint has any benefits? I mean, it probably does, right? Worth a try.
You get a gory-aquamarine-wave - That’s…amazingly well connected to your planned use.
@dave
I probably should have thought about the phrasing of that before doing a Google image search in my current surroundings.
Whoops.
@cengland0 (hours later, little wew’s brain light’s up.) “Hot Mess!”
What’s with all this crap? Is this We Couldn’t Get Rid Of Them Earlier Week?
@gertiestn yeah. we haven’t had a deal paused in awhile.
Ron Popeil…I have to put him in my death pool. He’s 81, all that greasy food’s bound to get to him soon.
Oh wait! Is Mr.Meh dating Ron? oh this all makes sense now!
@wew True, not since way back to Monday.
ooh, my favorite week of the year!
“They didn’t sell out the first time and they didn’t sell out on Morningsave so let’s try them again and see if we get a different result!”
Can we try the Pocket Fisherman next time?
@jbartus insufficient irony to prevent me imagining Pocket Fishermen on sale… and ordering for all my nerdy friends.
/giphy pocket-fisherman
Best use I can think of, either a bludgeoning weapon for self defense, or a place to store cheap knives. /s
Could I steam clean a suit with it?
@Mahesvara You can even cut a tin can with it.
But you wouldn’t want to!
Someome make me some Lobster AND Steak at the same time in this thing, YUM! NOT!
@Stallion Sous Vide steak and steamed lobster all in one? Sign me up!
Steamer? Now I can cook veggies and strip wallpaper off my wall at the same time!
It could also be a mop sterilizer. Or sneaker disassembler.
meh, might be good to deep/steam clean all the socks i keep buying here
6th use: It works great filling the empty space inside my kitchen cabinet next to all the other small kitchen appliances!
@narfcake You have actual space for more small appliances? Jealous!
Could it be used to sanitize hand towels that have been used for… Drying your hands of liquids that are not water? Asking for a friend.
hasnt been anything interesting in quite a while. i think ill cancel vmp if nothing comes up in the next couple weeks.
@jihiggs Just remember… " Since we’re closed to new VMP memberships, any cancelations are final."
@Hopkins3030 yea, thats why i havent cancelled the past 2 months.
@jihiggs Me too, I wonder how many of us are in this predicament…
You could use it to soak your feet. Add some veggies and red wine and baby, you’ve got a stew going.
@ials dont put the baby in too! The stew will be ruined.
What about if it melts all my Easter chocolates into a nice pool of molten “fondue” that I can dip all of my Peeps into.
@Zeusandhera Ooh, so topical. One authentic-unsuitable-creator on its way!
Ronco Brands is now cooking up an initial public offering of its own stock. Ronco is looking to raise $30 million by selling 5 million shares of stock for $6 a share. The stock sales are being conducted on its Web site and the company will accept wire transfers and major credit cards.
But wait, there’s more.
There’s a minimum purchase of 20 shares — or $120 — in the IPO, the company said in a regulatory filing. And for investments in excess of $1,000, the company will throw in a 20 percent discount on its Web site.
So…will meh throw in some stock?? (I don’t mean chicken…)
@eeterrific And if you purchase more than $10,000 in Ronco stock, you will receive a free Ronco Ready Grill – perfect for roasting up those worthless stock certificates!
Alternate uses?
@2many2no ((((((Jesse))))))
Stewing squirrel and possum.
I once brined a turkey for Thanksgiving. You needed a big bucket to do it. If this thing is big enough, you could do that in it, and that’s delicious.
Under my desk, it would be a good foot warmer.
It seems to me that this would make an excellent counter clutterer…and perhaps also a really good dust catcher!
Less than 2 months ago the meh item was gracing the cover of Meh. I felt Meh when looking at it then, I feel even more Meh looking at it now. Meh I don’t need a second chance at a second chance for something I didn’t want a first chance at Meh. Well perhaps there will be something Meharvolis tomorrow, I fear that instead of the money leaving my Meh pockets to line the fat cat Meh pockets, my Meh-ney will be staying put tomorrow. PROVE ME WRONG MEH, or just be one step below mediocre.
Cage for a WWE style Kitty Cage Match?!? >>wrrowww!<<
I could hide my stash in it because no one will EVER use this thing - my weed will be safe forever!!! But then I’ll probably forget where I hid it…
But can I set it and forget it?
Bluetooth speaker. Obviously.
It can also be used as a Vice President.
You could probably use it to power a sauna for your pet or children in a small enough space.
My cats totally need a hot tub. This would be perfect
got infomercial?
(featuring the famed Ron Popeil himself!)
I’d dump contraband in mine. Only Sean Connery would be brave enough to stick his hand in there.
obscure reference is obscure.
Nobody wants this item so you can use it as a boat anchor, paper weight, or door stop.
5 things in 1 isn’t enough!? Well how about using this thing to clean my dirty socks? I just don’t know if I’d want to cook in it afterwards.
Amazon says the shipping weight is ~16 pounds, so the sixth use could be as an…
/image anchor
A sixth use, eh?
Jewelry cleaner. Clean it with water, oil, turpentine, gasoline, everything cleans jewelry if it’s hot enough.
Make candles. Use as a double-boiler or give up on ever cooking with it and put the wax right in there.
Wax play in the bedroom, for those who think having scalding wax poured over them by the quart is kinky*.
Humidifier. Run this thing all day on “steam” and you don’t have to buy one of those expensive $15 humidifiers.
Science experiments. Show your kids what happens when you drop an ice cube into a deep fryer*. Show your kids how skin grafts work. Show your kids how society reacts to intense facial scarring.
Clean your sponges. Ever smelled your dish sponge? Of course you haven’t, you just let it sit there in a puddle of grime on the kitchen counter, breeding an elite colony of bacteria that will leave all of your dishes with a slight odor and a layer of E. coli.
Drugs. Drugs are complicated to make. There’s probably one that involves high temperatures or something. If I was cool and made drugs I would know what to put here.
Steaming hot fecal warfare. Do you hate your neighbors? Build a trebuchet and heat up logs of poop to launch at your nemeses without soiling your cookware*. Unless you planned to cook with this. Up to you. But you’d be missing out.
*Dont actually do this.
@HELLOALICE When I got a job working concessions in high school, one of our favorite pranks was to toss a couple of ice cubes in the deep fryer. It’s pure evil.
@HELLOALICE Specifically awarding you one fabled-blushing-shandy because of the serious need for that disclaimer.
@dave AWWWWW YEAAHHHH
BUT WAIT; THERE’S MORE! Removes ring-around-the-collar.
Obviously the perfect 6th use would be to efficiently produce bricks for the border wall (with Canada)
I hope I can melt down my old Ronco merch in it because otherwise there isn’t space for it in my home.
based on the specs, a little tweak and you’d have a great heat source for keeping your mash at the right temp when homebrewing. Granted that would outright kill the other 5 uses…
Wull, if it can steam my wiener, as was already proved by the pho-tos, why would you want to find a sixth funkchen?
My 6th use if I get one for free: Trying to find a wedding gift for that couple that only has 5 things on their registry? Don’t really know them that well anyway? Get them one of these!
Alternatively, use it to heat bath water if your water heater goes out.
$50 on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B011S5GNEW/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491365520&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=Popeil's+5-in-1+Cooking+System&dpPl=1&dpID=51VyFVznWEL
6th use? Looks big and boxlike enough that my cats would love to sit in it
But wait there’s more… Now with the soon to be patented sterilizing attachment you can clean your other great Ronco products such as the Chop-O-Matic, the Dial-O-Matic and the ever popular Pocket Fisherman. And as a special offer if you act now you’ll receive a Mr. Microphone for hours of entertainment.
My buddy has one of these. It cured my athletes foot.
Can also be used to protect Asgard from frost giants.
The most obvious use is a boiler for all your steam powered devices. Think of it as an adaptor- love that steam powered vacuum your grandmother left you, but haven’t had time to install a central boiler in your home? Hook it up to this baby, and your classic dust defiler works on new-fangled alternating current. Steam powered grandfather clock? Mechanical bull? Friendly yet uncanny robot? Bring them all into the modern era with the Ron Popeil 6-in-1 home cooking and steaming solution.
You can use it to store all of the lids to the crappy containers that come with it when you inevitably lose the containers in the first week.
6th use: hipster hobo trash can. When you want to warm your Versace-fingerless-glove-clothed hands, so you use your finest piece of Ronald Popeil III’s cookware (the point, of course, being that you use it before it…cools).
6th use: turkey or chicken plucker! Add the fresh hen, set it and forget it! 20 minutes later, the plucked bird is left in the basket with the feathers down below.
Stem cell research.
Why on Earth would you even want a sixth use? Is five not enough?!? Is that what you’ve become, Meh?
Maybe it bothers me more than it should…
6th use: Combine the device with all the accessories to build mecha-Ron Popeil?
This would be lovely for cleaning/ warming up my unmentionables. Nothing like a warm breast of, well, me!
6th use: turkey + every attachment + the natural awe of lightning = frankenturkey
As a 6th use for this monstrosity, I could probably jam all the accessories together and turn this thing into a high-functioning washer/dryer for my tiniest items of clothes.
Either that or a murderous robot hellbent on steaming me alive, I suppose. Either-or…
Boiler is a pretty lame excuse for a 5th function, especially given the others, which aren’t exactly strong either. Following suit, let’s make one even lamer- Room Temperaturener. Just add your choice of cold and/or hot ingredients, unplug, and in 4-6 hours, voila! Food of a moderate temperature and questionable edibility!
Best sixth use I can come up with would be to make it into an annihilation chamber to burn up crappy items you’ve gotten on meh.com previously. Those we all though would be great items then end up in storage somewhere never to actually be used. There is a size limit though.
I have yet to disassemble a 5-in-1 cooking system, which seems like a pretty dang mediocre sixth use…
6th use: force (meaning probably break) the timer so it doesn’t turn off and plug it into the pid temperature controller that I built to control the temperature on my electric smoker and voilà a sous vide setup.
You could make a hat. Or a brooch. Or a pterodactyl.
@covjack Stephen Stucker is/was hilarious.
Baby Bath
i bought some ron popeil knivez, Meh.
What the hell, elect it president. Does it have a Twitter account?
6th use, how about a combo space heater & humidifier, just make sure to keep filling with water as necessary…
6th use: Fill it with OxiClean and like magic, my lace drapes are clean!
put your face in it to brown your skin and steam your hair to make it all ratty and fluffy to achieve that Donald Trump-esque look ( if that’s what you want to look like)…then go cook some rice for dinner.
I’d fill it with water. Put a filter in that basket accessory and voilà, coffee percolator. There is nothing more important that comes from a kitchen appliance than the delicious bean elixir that turns me into a pleasant functioning adult.
I mean, it could be a counter-space-taker-upper but if it can be made to brew coffee, it’s my friend.
Next big viral video: The Deep Fryer Challenge.
It looks like it would be perfect to hold pudding at exactly the right temperature to make the best pudding skin. Great results every time, just set it… and forget it!
Use #6: A gentle steam cleaner for all your dainty unmentionables – which I will now proceed to mention: g-strings, jockstraps, bras, codpieces, thongs, boxers, briefs, boxer-briefs, pasties and chastity belts.
@rv617 I thought this soup tasted funny.
Kelly Ripa is still looking for a co-host.
Will a whole human head fit in the fryer , or would the mandible need to be removed first? Just trying to visualise the fryer capacity.
This isn’t a sixth use, but I just had to mention that before tonight I never noticed that Darth Vader wore a codpiece. Thanks meh!
@rv617 and light saber duels were just an artistic metaphor for dick swinging contests. Did you just fall off the truck or what?
I can use this to soak my feet in seems like the best use as well…
6th use : Food related : mixing salads… now, if it only had a blender thingy… or even a micro-keg, to craft my own beer…
How did they skip coffee as a 6th use? Geez would help when we stay up for the deals.
Not only does it make rice but it does ramen perfectly!
Whatever the 6th use is, it looks like the people in Wahpeton, North Dakota have it figured out!
6th use: If I take out the heating element it could work as a tub for my toddler…?
#6 Use: Make up big batches of McDonald’s Szechwan dipping sauce
I would say using it to melt wax so you can dip your hands in the melted wax and make them soft or…a home cremation device.
iI could use it to fry my iPads.
6th use of 5in1 is to substiute for the dangerous kitchen stove top !!
hot in kitchen
found this on MEH. Any changes?..
outz said Thu, Feb 9th 2017 at 12:13am eastern:
Is this the same one?
“I contacted the 5 in 1 website about where to purchase replacement filters, they replied that you could only buy them from their site and only when you place the order. In other words, when you use up the filters that come with the fryer, you have a useless fryer.”
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@outz http://www.5in1fryer.com/filters/
steelersluver said Thu, Feb 9th 2017 at 5:53am eastern 1 Reply
@renee77 Yes, it’s been pointed out that the filters are just basic-ass deep fryer filters.
https://www.amazon.com/Rival-RF22-Fryer-Replacement-Filters/dp/B00006IUYO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491410189&sr=8-1&keywords=deep+fryer+filter+charcoal
Cut to fit.
6th use: DIY canning.
6th Use is a kiln. Just put some vermiculite in there, heat it up and put your glass beads to anneal in it. Vermiculite will make it cool slower to prevent shocking.
It also doubles as Apple’s newly announced Mac Pro (re)redesign.
Fry, steam, boil, cook rice, steam bake, and Distill your Bathtub Gin without the bathtub.
the 6th function is a secret. It is actually the core for your flux capacitor which will take you back to when Ron Popeil invented the chop-o-matic.
Quick way to boil baby bottles, pacifiers (first time parents) and other accessories. You might also fill it full of potting soil for a futuristic planter
There are 5 other uses for this 6 in 1 Hot Air Balloon Burner!
Paid 35 for this item back on Feb. 9th must say its extremely functional and i use it alot for deep frying , i can highly recommend this at less then i paid …wow great deal tonight !!
If there was in fact a 6th use Mr. Popeil in all his wisdom would have invented number six already, he’s Americana in caps and should not be mocked ever …lol
Use it as a puppet to lip synch Weird Al’s Mr Popeil
Perhaps a "6th Use"could be as a modern day, miniature rocketship. Rather than the dog house of old for your favorite “Snoopy as The Red Baron”(live or stuffed),he can sit upright on the now, “6 in One” whilst looking stylishly decorative atop your kitchen counter.
Personal satellite internet.
Everyone knows that trebuchets are the ultimate medieval artillery buy what about close quarters defense? Boiling oil is where it’s at, just line the walls of your metaphorical castle with these bad boys to keep the hordes of invaders at bay.
New and improved (or just new) 6th element: Alternate Fact Continuum Transfunctioner.
Indisputable, because science.
Replacement drum.
Two words…
Five quarts of nacho cheese.
@Brad73 Ummm…that’s five words.
If it’s loud enough, I could use it to drown out the sound of my husband snoring so I could get some sleep right now, but then again, I do use the snore time to check meh. So…
Got it last time for $5 more (you mother mehers) Great product though. Would recommend
The sixth use could be for car conversion - just use the grease and turn it into biodiesel then we can go back in time by hooking this bad boy up into the engine compartment and make your car run on steam power and since it will be turned on to help run your car (for five minutes before you have to get out and fill it up again) then you could funnel a hose in to heat your car.
Or - for a child’s science fair project they can chart the different trajectories between setting off bottle rockets and shooting this up into the air.
Or - you can steam open your pores while your cooking your homemade facial serums below.
Or - you can heat up wax to do a Brazilian wax job in the privacy of your own home where you are the only one who can hear you scream.
Or - just meh…
Mini hot tub
If it can maintain lower temps, it would be decent for Sous vide…
6th use is obvious, doesn’t even need electricity… Fill with goldfish and pull out your Popeil Pocket fisherman and keep the little brats quiet for a while… umm I mean give your adorable children hours of indoor fishing fun!
Need to decarboxylate but don’t want to use the big oven? Gotta get your cannaextract on, but need the crockpot for dinner? Pop those medicinal nuggets right in, set it and forget it!
Then add oil and water, and you’re in business without the messy bother of extra pans. No worrying about remembering to switch the crockpot from low to warm, warm to to low, did I remember to switch it?
Set the perfect temp for all your simmering extract needs. Use the handy strainer basket to remove plant solids.
This is the true Sixth Calling of the Ron Popeil 5-in-1 Cooking System.
The sixth use: vaginal steam treatment. Now your vag can be as soft and fresh as Gwyneth Paltrow’s, but at a fraction of the cost. No pricey spa visits!
Perhaps a small chamber pot…
6: Intercepting tornadoes to collect scientific data
7: Spitton
8: Emergency toilet
9: Time capsule
10: Piggy Bank
Use #6: get Marty McFly back to the future (or past, depending on which contractual obligation he’s fulfilling)
I want to drill a hole in the bottom, run lamp wires and fittings through it and make it a chandelier for my blue tooth light bulbs!
With the Ronco COL (Circle Of Life) attachment (sold separately), use the 5 in 1 Cooking System to incubate your baby trout eggs and release the hatchlings into your local reservoir. Then, simply wait two years, pop out the Pocket Fisherman attachment, and catch and reclaim those trout! The built-in filet knife makes it a breeze to prepare your fish, then it’s back into the 5 in 1 Cooking System to tenderly broast those delicious filets. Presto, that’s one savory dish! Thanks, Ron!
Headshrinker. Or at least it could be…
If you ever find yourself trapped in 1955, you can attach this unit to your DeLorean and BAM! Makeshift Mr Fusion.
This is great for removing the nasty stains from my decades old collection of underwear. Steams them up, nice and hot…Maybe mix in a few panties. keeps the rash factor to a minimum. Also, Queso warmer. Because, you know…Fruit of the Loom flavored nachos…
6th use… The modern, high tech, tenement home your guinea pig always wanted…
Sanitize your sex toys. Use number 6 let’s you reuse The Dark Horse over and over every night! Tough enough for hard stains and gentle enough for delicate moving parts!
Pressure washing my huge collection of Precious Moments ceramics.
One of those great not-sure-what-to-get-your-parent gifts. You’re welcome, Mom.
Real sixth use assuming the temperature can be set low enough - VAT-SIZED YOGURT MAKER
Also can be used as a sauna for small pets. The possibilities are endless.
I’m always confused by the comments. Every day, the consensus seems to be that the product is bad or over priced, still. Yet people friggin kill themselves to buy the fuku bag thing that just collects all the crap that no one seemingly wants.
A 6th use? Well sure. Ive always had this idea, this ringing in my head. WHY can’t we dehydrate eggs and rehydrate them with coffee. You see, im not much of a morning person and the thought of cooking eggs AND making coffee tips the scales to overwhelming. But if we were to combine them…just imagine the things we could accomplish. So, there it is, a de-re-hydrator. So simple!
Hot tub for my pet rocks.
6th use? Why don’t we use this to steam clean our meh.com socks?
Personally, I’ll use mine as a way to sort my mail. Forget 6th use, this machine has a 6th sense when it comes to mail.
It works great, everything that is junk mail becomes a wet, soggy mess that is easily compostable. It’s only eaten a few personal letters, but I assume that is it’s way of warning me not to keep in contact with those people. It’s a shame, too, because I had to drop contact with my friend of 20 years. But this machine runs my life now.
It slices! It dices! It’ll clean your socks and curl your hair! It’ll walk your dog and make you breakfast in bed! Buy this and you’ll also get a free taco and my love!
calamari and fried sushi
But wait, there’s more! We’ve now added Set-it-and-Forget-it!. Just add chicken to preheated oil and Set it and Forget It! You can run errands, take in a movie, have drinks with a friend, knowing when you return all is well and NO MORE BANK WORRIES. This is the perfect mortgage mediator. Dispose of your worries today.
6th use- Perfect for shrapnel bombs! As in dropping them over our enemies ground troops and have them scared shitless!
Sterilization of panties would be the obvious so called 6th use. But my primary one.
Y’know those days when you’ve had more than enough coffee on your way to work, but then get stuck in traffic for an hour? This would be an ideal portable toilet, especially if you don’t require privacy. Perhaps you could even charge others for the privilege.
“When your car’s not moving, but your bowels are . . . we’ve got the solution!”
But wait! If you buy one today, we will throw in a spray can of the Popeil hair thickening goop in black. You can either use it on your head or paint grill marks on your yummy Popeil burgers.
I wonder if I could use it as an autoclave to steralize my husband’s stinky foot-fungus socks.
6th use? It’s a teleporter, obvs.
Good to see that Mr Popeil is getting on the healthy food preparation band wagon…bwahahahaha!
But wait there’s more! You can wash your shirts in it. Get your whites whiter while making pasta at the same time. Steam those t-shirts just before dropping pasta sauce on them.
Finally, a towel warmer for my studio apartment. My dreams are completed!
Another amazing 6th use, this can also give you a vasectomy.
6th use: Cobra nest
I’m also in the mood for a used car and a timeshare.
/suppressed influential plane
I think a good potential 6th use would be as a steam disinfection chamber, for gym shoes, and what ever else you make disgusting with human grime.
The flavored humidifier.
6th Use: Communication device… simply place your ex’s pet rabbit inside and set on high. Rabbit a la fatal attraction.
6th use: Mosquito trap. Not sure how, but I assume with all of that decomposing meat from the photos, enough CO2 is being generated to attract those little bastards.
With a nasal accessory you could use it to do that disgusting sinus irrigation everyone seems to love. Forget the Netti Pot, go with 212 degree steam with the Popeil Pot. Cauterize those nasal passages.
I have used it to mummify the remains of dead pets for years. It’s a combination of deep frying and steam baking, so I don’t know if it’s really a 6th use, or just clever ways for uses 4 and 5.
That looks just about the right size for cozy and secure baby transportation. Plus, with the locking lid, no need to worry about them undulating, or how ever they locomote, away from where you put it down.
The 6th use is a Popeilpourri pot - fill it with cider, cinnamon, cloves, and whatever other aromatic herbs you have to fill your house with beautiful aromas.
You got to give it to me for the pun!
In an effort to join the movement to revive the 1980’s, I’d cook up a new version of Different Strokes starring Nick Offerman, Anthony Mackie, Jaden Smith and Ashley Olson. I don’t know if this is the cooker to do it, but I’d love for somebody to cook that up for me.
So, the 6th use I could see this potentially being ideal for would be for acetone polishing of 3D printed objects. A lot of folks use a rice cooker but you have to hack some kind of tray to keep your prints above the liquid acetone but as exposed as possible (usually some kind of wire mesh). I think the multiple chambers here might make it slightly better though since potentially the tray wouldn’t be necessary and there could be better control of the acetone exposure so that you don’t overdo it. Anyways, I could use the free one you send me and report back on results if you’re interested. After I steam some vegetables or something in it of course!
Not a 6th use but why hasn’t anyone mentioned the serial killer gloves and knife set? I guess a 6th use is a Dexter starter set.
Don’t forget to buy two. You need a second one so you can teleport small items.*
*Ron Popeil Corporation is not responsible for any mishaps that may occur when items inadvertently get merged with any other items or creatures that have accidentally made its way into the second teleportation pod.
@RiotDemon At the very least put out some flypaper or something.
@RiotDemon You’ve been watching, “The Fly,” again, what a riot, Riot! I told your wife to hide that VCR Tape!!!
@decoratedwarvet please tell me where you found my wife. I don’t remember ever having one of those. Maybe I should of hid my vcr tape in the same place.
@decoratedwarvet At least she hid that OTHER tape. Man, that was a crazy night.
I’ll be real here…throw in some bacon then popcorn seeds and Walla!! Bacon flavored popcorn!! FOR REAL!!
Hook a vacuum pump on to it and use it for a maple syrup evaporator
A baby giraffe incubator. Because April the Giraffe needs to go ahead and have that damn baby so my wife can get on with her life.
Two more practical uses for the geeky cheapskate:
Add about 1 Tablespoon ‘Iron-Out’ per pint of warm water and soak your rust-stained rock crystals over a low heat for several hours to remove iron stains left from the dirt and make your crystal specimens sparkle Smithsonian-style.
1/2 cup white vinegar and 2 Tablespoons salt added to water on low heat makes a great jewelry cleaner
There are many more than six uses. The kids can use it as a hot tub for their Barbies. Fondue pot. Foot soak to really get those bunions off. Porta potty on cold days.
A 6th use? Obviously the most important, doing a solid for all of the clever, witty and gracious suits at MEH so they can purge their inventory to make room for a new kick ass deal that everyone actually would be excited to buy!
Or…A solution for all of those annoying broken crayons I find all over my house. We can melt them down and make one giant crayon. Is there a world record for that?
Heat up several smooth basalt stones and massage oil (not to be confused with frying oil) and convince your sweetie to give you a hot stone massage
It’s obvious, this is a “Time Machine”. You set your time, and it’s done! Kinda/sorta like a set and forget.
How about “aroma therapy”! Use your bluetooth to set the mood, and control the aroma senses.
Can’t seem to get rid of those pesky critters in you merkin? So no more! Problem solved! Pop it off, pop it in and seal the top. Just that simple…steam away those bugs! And bonus, use the resulting bug broth for a delicious base for any crab based soup. Yum yum. Don’t delay, order today and you will be bug free and belly full in no time!
@matthew should use one of these babies for his possum head degreasing baths- I bet with the heat he could do a whole rodent in a week. Speaking of which, more possum head chronicles? Pretty please?
The 6th use? Personally I use it to collect the bitter tears of my enemies. Keeps them nice and warm.
Use 6: autoclave, homie.
What you don’t know is that the 5-in-1 Cooking System already knows its sixth function, but doesn’t like to brag about it: for the past nine years it has been serving as Kristen Stewart’s acting coach.
Can be used as a direct replacement for a Flux Capacitor.
Hmm brewing and yogurt uses have been addressed so I face a challenge suggesting anything novel. Tempering chocolate perhaps?
Oh I got one.
Dehydrate things in my Ronco electric food dehydrator, then rehydrate them in this sucka. Repeat.
6th use? Hmm, I can get that and get rid of this…
HOOCH makin!!!
Yall bee hepin me an my bro.
I can hardly believe that after bitching & whining about how you meh ladies haven’t got in touch with me by any means, not even so much as a smoke signal, just to remind me you exist because I actually forgot about you all…, My Bad. Plus, FINALLY, when I did get an #@ Email from you Rodeo Clowns
<? Anyway, the Email was about one of those Damned RON 5 in 1 Cooking Pots! That is the 1st thing I purchased when I wondered ( by a pure accident) into this Family Circle of Misfits. Worse, I didn’t need Popeil’s Fryer Pot. Well, I can only bitch & moan for so long, this dead man has to breath sometime.So, I have over $5,000,000.00, what can I steal besides another 5 in 1 Slop Making Bucket. What’s tomorrow’s deal,huh,huh,huh?
I purchased this last time. It’s an awesome fryer. Also works great for steaming…but you’d probably have to decide which you’re going to use it for from the beginning. I wouldn’t recommend both unless you like your steamed vegetables tasting like oil. It does take up a ton of counter space though!
I’ve never been good at math…but seeing that this comes with a nice pair of rubber gloves (I can think of some 6th uses for that - Google “fifi”) this thing practically pays for itself! A good pair of rubber gloves goes for at least $5. Don’t get me started about the charcoal filters, carving stand, plastic funnel and all of the other millions of pieces I’ve already lost!
Sixth potential use?
I could potentially use it to pretend to be a real chef, and then fail spectacularly.
Thanks a lot Ron Pompeii
6th use:
When all the bowls are dirty…
6th use: Ron Popeil’s Pompeii volcano-maker. Go from this:
…to this…
6th use: Swiss Cheese Fondue, of course!
I used it as an outdoor flower pot when it stopped heating up properly. Cold weather? Just plugged it in and it kept the flowers alive through winter.
6th use…how about using it to teach an engineering class how to set it up for each of the different uses…(on a side note… it actually might be useful in teaching engineering students about creating multiple use devices and their positive aspects as will as their downsides.hmmmmmm…lol)
Love this cooker, won’t need my gas range anymore, thanks to Meh.
6th use?
Water reclamation unit for turning your urine back into drinking water after the surface of the earth is completely flooded and you have to live on a boat in some sort of… hydro planet? Liquid Earth? Aqua Sphere?
I feel like the answer is on the tip of my tongue…
Water… watery habitation orb?
Nailed it.
might make a nice minnow bucket, warm the water if your going ice fishing. When your done clean it out, then steam, bake, boil, or deep fry your fish.
/giphy ronco minnow bucket
6th use: mosquito larve aquarium
You can fill it with water, wait for it to steam, and put your face over the top for a home facial! The oil film leftover from turkey frying will provide simultaneous moisturizer!
If this small appliance cooks a turkey in 45 minutes, I’m wondering how lng it takes to cook a small goat.
It seems to be a healthier way to cook.
@kristofer isn’t that a lamb?
@wew although this is my favorite. I can sing it!
#6. Graduated Simmer (frog mode).
YOU KNOW NOTHON. It’s a flour pot
Add some liquid nitrogen and a vacuum pump for a freeze drier. MMM freeze dried ice-cream.
i think im done with meh, plays with my weak heart to much lol gl hf
It looks like a good product for cooking pork butt
hydro dip
@medz Awesome! I hope it comes off.
I would use it to cook liver and fabba beans with a nice Chianti
#6- dust collector, bought it last time, set it- in garage, forget it, and after a bit you’ll have a nice layer of dust
PEEPS melter. It’s the best sixth use out there
Eta: just saw someone wanted to dip their peeps into fondue. This is for pure unadulterated melted peeps. Yum. Why chew when you can slurp?
6th use - DIY sous vide… just add a temperature sensor and PID controller.
Use it to make sweet tea, and keep your nacho cheeze hot
Picked one up for use #6
Sterilizing baby bottles, breast pump guards, things that might go inside your body and need cleaning, etc. Cheaper than the one on Amazon
#6 I bet you could bake a cake with it. Put your batter in, preheat your oven to 350, throw the whole thing in the oven.
Might not survive the experience and the cake will likely look and taste like garbage… But cake is cake.
I’ve been meaning to throw a deep fryer party so I can help accelerate the deaths of all my friends and loved ones…
6TH the Impaler Extreme Vetting Truthiness System
Melting chocolate
Streaming small wood strips so they bend around a form for small clocks
Heating fabric dye and then boiling fabric in it so the dye locks in
Steaming eggs
Not real weird…but could work
I could use it to heat sterilize my kids’ sweaty ski socks!
6th use…Gotta find an Adapter and take this camping or hunting! Don’t need to pack all that gear. Time to go lightweight.
The one and only 6th use is that after everything we’ve been through together, you guys owe me one.
Sixth use is a sauna for Irk, obviously!
Sixth use: Artificial uterus!
Remember when Monty Python’s Life of Brian addressed hard-hitting social issues, like whether religion was a lot of silly misinterpretation, how much infrastructure was needed to compensate for oppressive governance, and even gender roles and gendering itself? Remember how, when “Stan” declared she was actually Loretta, her friends, after a bit of initial surprise, accepted and supported her for who she was, and how, faced with such easy acceptance in art, life promptly imitated and trans people were able to be themselves with no negative repercussions or disenfranchisement or abuse?
Well, that last part didn’t happen (and then it started to and then Trump and OH GODS WE’RE ALL DOOMED), and only 2/3 of the first part happened, because only two of Loretta’s friends rolled with it. And then there was Reg. Stuck in his patriarchal, cisgender privilege Reg. Who thought there was altogether too much effort for inclusivity of women, and then blew a small gasket when Loretta came out:
But, even though we now recognize that Reg was being a butt, and that his objections were based on a narrow-minded, discretely binary understanding of gender, he did raise a valid question. If Loretta wanted to have babies but had no womb, through nobody’s fault, not even the Romans, what was she going to do, keep it in a box?
This isn’t just a problem for transwomen. Some uteruses don’t work right, a cruel twist from an organ whose only other function is to make sure its owner regrets ever wearing white pants in public. Some are removed early on. Some uterus-owning types may not want to be a wallowing land-ark, passenger manifest of one, for the 9 months it takes to grow a squallbeast. Maybe they’re fond of the sight of their toes. Maybe they’ve seen Alien, and good glory, no thank you!
But regardless of WHY a person may find themselves needing an out-of-body substitute uterus, clearly a box is completely wrong. First off, square babies. Sure, they don’t roll off the table as easily, but fitting them in a onesie is a nightmare! And second, who wants to spend 9 months carefully checking temp, basting with amniotic fluid, turning it for even browning…what a mess!
But Ron Pompeil has a solution! Away with workaday baby basting! No more unsightly abdominal exit wounds! Now there’s the Ron Pompeil 6-in-1 Cooking System, as seen on TV! Yes, folks, it fries, steams, boils, cooks rice, steam bakes, and gently gestates your groin juice into a beautiful, cylindrical baby, like God would have intended if God didn’t kinda suck!
Simply adjust the temperature to a gentle, slow-roast 98.6F, add one egg and carefully selected sperm of your choice (or a whole bunch of sperm, if you really want to play genetic roulette/ have already masturbated into the cooker while reading this), set cook time to 9.5 months, and voila! A perfectly cooked* new little life, ready to love you the way your mommy and daddy swore you would love them!
So stop birthing babies the old fashioned way, and try the new Ron Pompeil 6-in-1 Cooking System today!
*Note: Skin color should not be used to gauge doneness, particularly if both egg and sperm came from pasty pale people. Do not cook your baby past honky! Let them wait until Spring Break and spray tan like you did!
This item would be so much better if it came with a silicon cover for so you can move it without getting fried everything gets so dam hot not good i burned myself first use . Ron you reading this ?
The prizes were all awarded between midnight and 1 am and no east coast rant yet? OK I’ll go first. It’s all I can do to wake up and click the meh button. Expecting me to think is unreasonable.
/giphy rant
@sammydog01 thanks. I did notice but didn’t feel like saying anything. Guess something has to be left to the midnight crowd.
@RiotDemon East coasters unite!
hi. purchased the popeil 5 in 1 cooking system.
it does not turn on. you don’t reply to my emails !!!
[email redacted]
@saulsinger Did you hear the one about the chef, the doctor and the AOL user that ordered a deep fryer?
Start Here: http://www.5in1fryer.com/warranty/ (from the warranty section of the specs post at the start of this thread)
Requests to Meh support seem to take almost a week right now, and customer service doesn’t work on the weekend, so don’t expect a response from their team for at least a few more days.
@saulsinger @thumperchick maybe hide the email and phone number above/below accordingly?
still waiting for your reply !!! what do i do now ???
i will be home at [phone number redacted] starting sunday. thx
chiefdom
@saulsinger que? @thumperchick can you help
@saulsinger @connorbush
If @thumperchick is busy, maybe @woodhouse could do something?
@saulsinger We got a response out to you on Tuesday - respond to that email if you have any questions. I’ve removed your phone number from the post for your privacy.
@woodhouse
Could you also do something about this?
@PlacidPenguin Yeah, sorry. Thanks for the heads up, everyone!
you got me seafood. what do i do now ???
still waiting for a refund or a replacement.
please rsvp
@saulsinger
Hasn’t Meh CS been corresponding with you about this already?