Is it just me, or does anybody else think that SOMEBODY out there gets their ideas about the general public from playing way too much SIMS?
For all Pasta Pot afficianados, check THIS out:
Here’s one that looks really nice AND is a straining lid deal:
http://www56.lnt.com/category/product/product_55813.asp?strShopperId=0B6F4ECAF262CE34B8C8F1F95E17AF072A4C91920C181D7B
And this one has a lift out unit- so you cook your item, then lift out the liner with holes in it- it drains right into the pot you cooked it in:
http://www56.lnt.com/category/product/product_55799.asp?strShopperId=0B6F4ECAF262CE34B8C8F1F95E17AF072A4C91920C181D7B
Gonna save me a few bucks and just drill holes in all my pot lids.
Then I am going to hide for a month so ParticleWife can’t kill me.
Gravity- you hit the nail on the head- instead of Citrus Express, Pasta Pots, and Strap Wrenches, these people need some quality time at the old bookcase learning how to operate things like knives, collanders, and screwdrivers 
auntie em-
Here’s your red Pasta Pro!
Well, if you do it like they do in the commercials there’s the risk of clogging up your sink with coagulated grease.
As for the fire thing, sure there’s a risk, but if you wipe off the outside of the pot after doing so it’s not a problem. Of course, if these people can’t handle a colander I can’t say I have much hope of them not lighting themselves on fire.
Well, it was a wild guess, driven by logic. The only way to know for sure is to own one of them damned things.
As usual, my postings are far from clear even though they seem totally logical to me at the time…
When you tip the pot over to use the perforated to to drain the grease, it does not flow out like a fountain. Some of the liquid actually flows back “up” the pot to what is physically the bottom. Watch the commercial and you can see it happening (they cut away pretty quick I’ve noticed). So now, half of your grease is clogging up your sink, and the other half is hanging out of the surface of the pot. You put the pot back on the stove and the grease takes gravity’s help to the bottom and in contact with the hot element…
And as usual on preview, my slow-ass posting style has allowed others to answer more eloquantly than me.
The end.
Oblong beat me to the punch on the pancake-maker. Sure, they look good, but I’m going to make them one at a time? What if I want a stack of four pancakes? It’d take forever minutes, and then the bottom one is already cold. I can fit four at once on my griddle.
There’s a new pancake maker that you can do 2 at once ! Woo Hoo ! That should be a big help ! On the show I saw it on - they burnt the pancakes anyway…
Ha! You just reminded me of something. When I was going to college, my friends and I used to just kind of be bored at 3am. And we lived in Hilo, HI, so there wasn’t much to do. So we’d usually go down to the lounge and watch TV. Being Hilo, HI there wasn’t much on TV either, so we usually ended up watching Infomercials (we were REALLY bored). The “Set it and forget it” one was very common.
Somebody I know actually GOT one of these things a while back, and there is a rather prominent sticker on the front with the words:
WARNING!: Do not take “Set it and Forget it” Literally!
I thought that was sort of funny.
That’s EXACTLY what I’ve found. So now, our Perfect Pancake maker is used for grilled cheese sandwiches (don’t want the thing going to waste, after all), and for pancakes only when Michaela wants to participate. If I’m making pancakes for the family for b’fast, I fire up the griddle and just use the batter dispenser.
Has anyone noticed that on one of those pasta pro commercials when they are touting the magical “cheese grater” it’s spelled “grader”? Is it me or is that, um, WRONG?
Ahhh, gotcha ya. I wouldn’t pour grease into the drain, anyway, and also wouldn’t put a greasy pot back on the stove, so I guess I"m safe enough. Thanks!
When I make a lot of pancakes, I set the oven on a low temp and put a cookie sheet in there. As the pancakes come off the stove, the go into the oven on the cookie sheet. They all stay toasty warm until they’re eaten (and no, they don’t keep cooking or anything. The oven is on too low for that)
I love the ads where they are showing you how hard it is to shave…
so they show a lady who is shaving with a beat up rusty razor.
From what I have seen on the ads, the pasta pot does not have a vent contraption -just holes. So if you want to steam, too bad!
as for the free stuff it comes with:
that chopper? piece of crap. I bought a nice one and ended up pitching it. It was quicker and cleaner to use a knive.
The cheese ‘grader’ I guarantee you will be a pain in the ass to clean.
I have something like this - I bought an 8 qt. stock pot made by Calphalon, which has a nice glass lid, and two colander basket inserts. One is very deep and lets you cook pasta, lobsters, corn on the cob, and so on - anything you need to boil in water and then drain. The other is shallow, maybe a third of the depth of the pot, and lets you steam vegetables and so on.
Bad News! The shaving commercial is my favorite. My god, it’s a wonder these women are still ALIVE! They’re using old butter knives and lard and shaving at speeds of up to five legs a minute…then they break out into wails of pain at a little nick.
Sometimes I think I’d LOVE to be in one of these commercials just for the humor, but then I’d be afraid that someone would think that’s the level of my talent.
Just wanted to say you guys crack me up. Thanks for the laughs on this Friday afternoon.
I’ve heard that ad on the TV, while my kids watch the Simpsons and I am fixing dinner. I’ll have to alert them to call me when it comes on.
(Thus sayeth one who was once the proud owner of a bamboo steamer AND Ginsu knives).
Five legs? What, are they all named Octopussy? 