During some water cooler talk at my office this morning the subject of "As seen on TV" products came up. We talked about which ones we tried, which one worked and which ones we simply a big bucket of fail with a side of fail sauce.
Here was my list....
What worked.
The pancake puff maker: My youngest daughter wanted one of these so we picked her one for Christmas. Once you play with this thing for a while it works great. It took a few tires to get the right balance of heat, batter and non-stick cooking spray but now I am a pancake puff pro and I hardly ever make pancakes the traditional way anymore.
Save a Blade: I have a beard that is like coarse steel wool. As a general rule I might get a week out of a Mach 3 blade before shaving becomes incredibly painful. This makes me fall for about every add promising any relief in this area. Much to my delight this item actually worked. It will not make an incredibly dull blade cut better than new but it will make them almost new sharp. I now get almost 2 months out of a disposable blade.
Slap Chop I do not own an actual slap chop but I do own the Pampered chef tool that it is copied from and it works great. You are not going to be able to dice tomatoes with it but for harder things like onion and nuts it is a god send.
Dent King I have a Kia Sedona and as many other Kia owners can attest to the body panes are just slightly thicker than aluminum foil and dents if you breathe on it to hard. When used property you can pull out most non creased dents that most cars will pick up from time to time.
Mister Steamy Does exactly what it claims. If a load of laundry got left in the dryer or you have just plain old wrinkled clothes the Mister Steamy works almost as well as an iron.
What Failed...
ShamWow! Words alone can not explain how much these things suck. I have tried and tried but they do not even work as well as a regular cotton hand towel.
Sport-elec This is one of those things that you wrap around your waist and it lightly shocks your abdominal muscles causing them to contract. As anyone that has had the displeasure of seeing me without a shirt on can attest to the fact that it will not produce six pack abbs.
Ab-flex This contraption was basically a plunger attached to a rubber band that you pushed into your stomach while pushing out with your abdominal muscles. Had pretty much the same resuls as I did with the sport-elec.
Green Bags They work great at keeping the outside of fruit and veggies looking fresh however the inside spoil at the same rate. You have never lived until you peal a bright yellow banana to find a gooey banana like substance inside.
EZ peel gloves These work great if you are peeling perfectly smooth potatoes that are about 8" or longer. But on regular potatoes they fail miserably.
Cold Heat soldering Iron I do not see how these things can still be sold. The prospect sounded great ...a cordless soldering iron for only $20! It did not work in any manor shape or form and I tried it on many different things such as a simple wire to wire connections all the way up to jewelry.
What have you been sucked into buying from one of those ridiculous commercials and did it work?
Here was my list....
What worked.
The pancake puff maker: My youngest daughter wanted one of these so we picked her one for Christmas. Once you play with this thing for a while it works great. It took a few tires to get the right balance of heat, batter and non-stick cooking spray but now I am a pancake puff pro and I hardly ever make pancakes the traditional way anymore.
Save a Blade: I have a beard that is like coarse steel wool. As a general rule I might get a week out of a Mach 3 blade before shaving becomes incredibly painful. This makes me fall for about every add promising any relief in this area. Much to my delight this item actually worked. It will not make an incredibly dull blade cut better than new but it will make them almost new sharp. I now get almost 2 months out of a disposable blade.
Slap Chop I do not own an actual slap chop but I do own the Pampered chef tool that it is copied from and it works great. You are not going to be able to dice tomatoes with it but for harder things like onion and nuts it is a god send.
Dent King I have a Kia Sedona and as many other Kia owners can attest to the body panes are just slightly thicker than aluminum foil and dents if you breathe on it to hard. When used property you can pull out most non creased dents that most cars will pick up from time to time.
Mister Steamy Does exactly what it claims. If a load of laundry got left in the dryer or you have just plain old wrinkled clothes the Mister Steamy works almost as well as an iron.
What Failed...
ShamWow! Words alone can not explain how much these things suck. I have tried and tried but they do not even work as well as a regular cotton hand towel.
Sport-elec This is one of those things that you wrap around your waist and it lightly shocks your abdominal muscles causing them to contract. As anyone that has had the displeasure of seeing me without a shirt on can attest to the fact that it will not produce six pack abbs.
Ab-flex This contraption was basically a plunger attached to a rubber band that you pushed into your stomach while pushing out with your abdominal muscles. Had pretty much the same resuls as I did with the sport-elec.
Green Bags They work great at keeping the outside of fruit and veggies looking fresh however the inside spoil at the same rate. You have never lived until you peal a bright yellow banana to find a gooey banana like substance inside.
EZ peel gloves These work great if you are peeling perfectly smooth potatoes that are about 8" or longer. But on regular potatoes they fail miserably.
Cold Heat soldering Iron I do not see how these things can still be sold. The prospect sounded great ...a cordless soldering iron for only $20! It did not work in any manor shape or form and I tried it on many different things such as a simple wire to wire connections all the way up to jewelry.
What have you been sucked into buying from one of those ridiculous commercials and did it work?
.
