I feel sorry for the “before” people in the infomercials. Not only do they have to work with the “old stuff”, their lives are usually black & white.
Actually… I think I will. 
I LOVE infomercials. I worked overnight for many years so on my “day” off there was really nothing to do but watch TV and of course there was nothing on except for infomercials, so I became a bit of an infomercial aficionado of sorts. The food product ones are always the better ones, and the Magic Bullet is one of my all-time favorites. Never actually bought any of the products, though my housemate at the time would occasionally pick up some of that stuff at yard sales. Some of it was okay, like the “Ronco Rotisserie Oven,” a lot of it was garbage.
My baby sister, an infomercial product addict, exclaimed a few years ago that she would love to have a Silver Bullet for blending shakes and making salsa for parties. We all got a pretty good laugh out of it, and it became a running family joke, so much so that my mom bought each kid a Magic bullet for Christmas. For food recipes, unless you want puree, it is a waste. For mixed frozen drinks, it works very well though, and is great for marinade blendng, especially if you are using any solids, or fairly viscous liquids that don’t blend easily, like honey. It gets used at least once a week.
Amateurs, you people are all really and truly in need of a Ninja.
Hop on the blender bandwagon!
I not infrequently fall asleep in front of the TV and this infomercial is my favorite thing to wake up to. Those dorks are so enthusiastic, and I love the absurdity of pretending that this is just a regular couple showing off for their friends.
–Cliffy
What’s weird about the Magic Bullet commercials is how they enthusiastically make things like chicken salad. I mean, am I the only one who thinks chicken salad should be kind of chunky, and not be a uniform paste?
The recipe they use for chicken salad was the worst recipe of them all. It was awful. It tasted awful and the texture was awful.
Like I said upthread, this product is fine for making all-liquid things like drinks and smoothies. But when it comes to anything even partially solid, it’s no good because all the solid material clumps up in the top of the container and won’t go down to the blades.
For all-liquid things, I find my blender works better than this product because it has a much larger capacity and a huge choice of blending speeds and styles. I don’t understand why so many people think that cleaning a typical blender is so much more work than cleaning this MB. I find it only takes about a minute to clean my blender and it’s worth avoiding the feeling I get that I’ve been cheated if I buy the MB.
This Ninja product looks very interesting. The only problem is the $100 price. For that price, I could buy a blender plus a food processor plus a Hawaiin vacation.
Forget About It!
My mom got one for Mother’s Day. She likes to make smoothies with it. We haven’t tried using it to make salsa or chopping things, though. From reading other posts, it doesn’t sound like a good idea.
According to the Magic Bullet infomercial, all food should be a sort of thick, gluey paste. Look, I don’t know, maybe the stuff they’re making tastes like ambrosia, but after watching them make alfredo sauce and salsa and chicken salad and smoothies and wallpaper paste and cod liver oil and roofing nails…it kind of puts me off eating food that came out of this thing.
I do enjoy how you can make any type of slushy alcoholic beverage in it, though.
Holy Shit!
I just saw the price on the infomercial was $100.
They sell them in big hardware stores and department stores for $40 and regularly have sales for anywhere from $25 to $40. So, if you want to buy one, save yourself some money and check around with your local big department stores and hardware stores - especially if thy have a “satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded” policy. That would be the best place to buy this thing.
It slices! It dices! It chops! It purees! And it retains enough momentum to wound the governor twice after passing through the president’s skull!!!