# Ronco - how does this work?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronco-how-does-this-work/237492>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 31, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronco-how-does-this-work/237492 "2004-03-31T08:27:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronco-how-does-this-work/237492/21 "2015-01-15T17:36:16Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> Ronco had a reputation for decent quality. {…} (and also Popeil, which was the same company, run by Ron Popeil). {…}

My Ronco salad spinner still spins salad after 40something years!  
(Not that there’s really that much that could go wrong with it!)

CMC fnord!

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronco-how-does-this-work/237492/22 "2015-01-15T18:43:51Z")

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In defense of TV knives, I made an impulse by of a set of of never need sharpening TV knives that were demonstrated and sold at my local supermarket, with a Ronco style demonstration. Two large knives plus a paring knife for $20.00 The paring knife was pretty cheap, the kind you could get for $3.00 at the super market, but the two main knives were quite nice. I gave one to my parents and kept one for myself. 15 years later its still my go to knife for slicing, or slicing bread as it has a very heavily serrated edge that nicely pierces the skin of a green pepper or tomato,which is probably why they use the tomato as a demonstration. It doesn’t work for all purposes, in particular I use a $40 butcher knife for meat, since the TV knife would get stuck and shred it all to hell. It’s also not particularly strong so I wouldn’t use it to cut through joints, but for many purposes it does better than more expensive knives. I haven’t regretted getting it one bit.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronco-how-does-this-work/237492/23 "2015-01-15T20:09:37Z")

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I’ll just buy the quality expensive knives as soon as that Nigerian finance minister gets back to me.

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**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronco-how-does-this-work/237492/24 "2015-01-16T05:41:14Z")

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I bought a set of knives at the Dollar Store. The entire set came to $6.00. They’re cheap and probably won’t last but the handles are really high style and look great in the knife block on the kitchen counter.

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**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronco-how-does-this-work/237492/25 "2015-01-16T08:02:57Z")

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I thought I had bought a set of Ronco knives once. I was wrong.

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