I am completely obsessed with TV-shop. Thank god I don’t have a credit card. I usually forget about my raging desire as soon as I turn off the set. We don’t get a lot of TV-shop tho 
It’s only on late, late at night, so if I channel surf to it I can sit there until morning.
Another vote for Oxy-Clean and Orange-Glo products. I get them at Walmart, though, not from TV. The Oxy-Clean really saved some of the baby’s clothes!!
I’m glad to hear about the Food Saver machine, too. I plan to get one from Walmart soon and it’s good to see that it seems to work as advertised!
I tried Epilstop, it got about half the hairs out, which meant I still had to shave. I soon figured I’d try it again, and didn’t think about the fact that I’d barely scraped my leg the day before or so, as it’d hardly even made the skin red. Well, the Epilstop soon started burning on that particular area, and it ended up oozing then scabbing over. I still have a scar on my leg from a year ago when that happened. :eek:
Yes, I love my Popeil Pasta Maker. It’s damn loud but it works well. I make all kinds of pasta with it although I don’t eat as much pasta as I used to. I got it through QVC and with their guarantee, I couldn’t resist. It is my favorite ASOT appliance.
I do like my FoodSaver too but lately have had trouble sealing things. Not sure exactly why I may need to clean the soft black rubber thingy-ma-bob. I just haven’t really looked into it enough. My dad swears by it though. I got mine as a gift, if I had the money I would buy the professional model they feature in some of the cooks catalogs. Those have the accessories you can’t get with the one I have.
He, my dad, got the Turbo Cooker and he hates it. He’s an “As Seen On TV” buyer too. And he said he was very disappointed in it.
I don’t know if they still offer it but I got the Smart Chopper. I have mentioned it in previous threads like this. I absolutely love it. I am one of those that can’t hardly cut an onion before I can no longer see, literally. I cut an onion up just enough before my eyes glaze over, throw it in the Smart Chopper and close the top. Diced onion in a manner of a few whirls. I have used it for egg salad and eggs for french toast. Disasters were, salsa…nope, don’t go there. Guacamole can be done in it too but unless you time it right, it’s like the crap they spooge on your burrito at Taco Bell, over processed green mush. If you add in the avocado late in the game then it’s okay.
I have those microwave egg shaped egg cooker things but never have used them except as a toy for my best friend’s 14 month old. I just prefer to fry, poach or coddle them. So I can’t tell you about that. I have a butt-load of eggs so maybe I should try it and report back to you all. Got the microwave egg things as a free gift for buying the onion flower maker. You know, those things that cut up an onion easily so you can mimic the Bloomin’ Onion or the similar one at Chili’s? I haven’t gotten around to using that either.
I am curious if anyone has tried the Le Presse. as I would love something like that, which works, that cuts my time by doing what it says it does. Anyone try it and like it? Or did you absolutely hate it?
I have heard, and this is just from my message board experiences outside of here, that the Perfect Pancake thing is crap. If you think about it, it makes sense because both sides need to be hot. In addition, the person said that the batter would ooze through unless you were Jim Carey fast in The Mask to flip it over.
If I come up with any others that I have missed (I am a big, As Seen On TV fan and shopper) I will let you know.
I forgot to add, with the Popeil Pasta Maker, I haven’t had a lot of success making things like macaroni. When you use the convenient cut off thing, it moshes the ends of the pasta together.
It is my assumption, although I haven’t tried it. That you’d be better off letting it dry a bit (cutting off long tubes) then cutting with a nice sharp knife in your desired size. That has been my only major disappointment.
Now they are selling the ones with the sausage attachment. I would be curious as to how well those actually work. I think I would be able to get that attachment.
The George Foreman grill. I guess that’s moved mostly away from TV into main stream stores, and I’ve seen some knock-offs too, but I first saw it on TV, and I love that thing.
I don’t really know how much it lives up to it’s fat-reducing claims, but I don’t much care 'cause it’s fast. I can come home, pop some completely frozen chicken breasts on there, and have dinner ready in 10 minutes.
I use Orange-Glo cleaner, which I get from Lakeland Limited (either the shop in Windermere, or the online ordering facility). Instead of actual OxyClean, I use Ecover laundry bleach, which is exactly the same chemical compound, but cheaper.
Also from Lakeland I bought a steam cleaner. It works wonders on carpet, and it’s the absolute dog’s at getting windows clean. Sheer brilliance.
So for me, it’s things that Lakeland sell and that I also happen to have seen on TV.
Yup, I use OxiClean, Orange Clean and Orange Glo. I buy them at the stupidmarket, not from the TV. I use Orange Clean as my general all-purpose cleaner.
techchick–the family I babysit for uses the Perfect Pancake daily. I’ll ask them about it, but it obviously works for them.
Is that the type of chopper with a hand crank on the top that you crank around to chop up the food? I had one like that and loved it, until I had a mishap with the detachable handle. (No idea why they made it this way, personally.) It detached while I was chopping and spilled a nasty curry-onion paste down my khaki pants. After that I went out and got a mini-food processor for onion and other small chopping jobs.
I use Oxy-clean, too. The last big (6 lb) bucket I had I managed to dump the entire brand-new bucket into the washing machine as it was filling. I scooped most of it out, but it set like concrete. Costco has just come out with their housebrand (Kirkland) oxygen cleaner which I bought., It works just the same but I got 16 lbs for $10.
I have a Foodsaver. I reuse the bags when I can. I don’t use it as often as I thought I would - being single, I only use it when I buy bulk meats and divide it up and freeze it. I don’t cook in large enough portions to need to freeze any.
StG
We use Orange Clean at our house, and it did a pretty good job of removing some crud on the stove.
I’ve also owned the vacuum sealer, and unless my ex wants to give it up (along with my KitchenAid mixer and food processor), I’ve got to buy a new one. It’s really nice because it does keep stuff like meat from getting freezer-burned and cheese from molding.
My mother is a sucker for this stuff, and owns tons of stuff she ordered from TV. Some of it works (the vacuum sealer), some of it doesn’t (the rotating brush). She will never stop ordering it, however.
Robin
About 10 or so years ago, I ordered some miracle car wax that I saw on TV. The wax sucked, no amount of work could get trid of the swirles. However, the wax came with spot free car wash that did work. I still wish I could find another product that worked as well.
I have also had good sucess with the Oxy Clean and Orange Glo products, but they are available at most Bed, Bath and Beyond type stores now.
Lift the bar that comes down on top of the bag. There’s a part there with a rubber gasket on it that’s held on by three screws. If you unscrew the screws and take that part off, you’ll probably find that there’s a little piece of plastic that fits into a hole that’s broken. That’s what was wrong with mine and when I looked it up on the 'net it sounded like lots of people have had that happen.
You can either write to them at customerservice@tilia.com or call 1-800-777-5452 and they’ll send you a new part free of charge. I think they called it the “sealer bar” but I’m not positive. It took 2-3 weeks for mine to arrive so, in the meantime, I just superglued the broken piece back on and it worked fine.
Jane
Twist-a-braid or similar product? Anyone?
Turbies work well. The ones I got from TV work better than the ones made of nicer material from bed, bath and beyond and were cheaper too because you got more for the same price.
Handy Cam 360.
Needed a patch to work on WinXP. Resolution? low,low,low.Also needs a ton of light. But what do you expect from 30 bucks?
You know that goop that’s supposed to make auto paint scratches disappear like magic? I think it’s called GS27. I bought some of that at one of those “As Seen on TV” stores in the mall, and it doesn’t work at all. It didn’t so much as change the appearance of even the most minute of scratches, and it certainly didn’t do a damned thing for the big ones.
Rain-X rules! Does pretty much what they claim it does on TV. (I havent tried the 40 gals of pig-shit that they throw on the windshield, however, so I can’t vouch for that aspect of it!) You almost don’t need wipers with a healthy dose of this magic window elixer applied, which is great if you drive an English car like MG or Jaguar, cause chances are they dont work anyway!
Color Magic car wax is kinda shitty. Just makes a mess.
Lucas: The Prince of Darkness
I wait until the products go out in stores usually, I bought Oxyclean at the local Walgreens and like it.
I also have the Quick Chop the OP is referring too, but I like it! It does make a squeaking sound and requires a good strong push, but I only use it for simple jobs, like chopping an onion and it takes one minute, so I am ok with it.
Strangely I never got into the George Forman Grill… Bought one and must have used twice before I gave it away…
from pestie
Ooh, ooh, I was nearly suckered by the same stuff right up until I discovered that a 99 cent bottle of wet 'n wild nail color that matched my car made those teeny little scratches melt away. As a bonus, it also stops the rust…
A response to the Epilstop thread as well, ummm, yeah, it melted my skin- I swear the FDA needs to take a look at them because sure, it takes most of the hair off your legs, (not even all, just most) but for the next 3 days if you touch your legs at all, with say pant legs, the skin splits open and pours forth your lifeblood. NOT attractive I say!!!