It does:
You can judge for yourself whether or not it's worth the money -- it strikes me that you could hire an out of work chef to come to your house and cook dinner for you fifteen or twenty times for the same money -- but I was amused by the first comment on the video:
thank god they hired an experienced porn director for the promo[.]Well, obviously.
Megan is apparently part of the 1%. $1,500 for a food processor?
ReplyDeleteWhat, cooking is too much for her?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. All the great chefs are men anyway.
I guess my tastes are too plebeian to properly appreciate such a device. It looks like as much work to load the machine as it would be to go to a nearby Wal*Mart or Tom Thumb and buy the foods already prepared that I eat.
ReplyDeleteOr order in the pizza.
And I notice that, after a hard five minutes of working the machine, the lady at the 4:25 mark, slaving over the steamed bun fixings, had gotten seriously disheveled from her labors.
Eric Hines
According to the Post, the figure on the 1% is those with a minimum income of $516,633 in 2010 -- I doubt even the economics editor of the Atlantic quite qualifies! I certainly have never approached it; but dutch ovens and a good knife are 'food processor' enough for me.
ReplyDelete$1500 and only the motor is made in Germany. The rest, dollars to donuts, is made in their Chinese factory.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it leading off with a Caipirnha? Cachaca, muddled lime, sugar and ice. I can mix a half dozen in three minutes without a volt of electricity. Where'd the Green go?
Where'd the Green go?
ReplyDeleteInto those $1500....
Eric Hines
Wow! Our moderately sized kitchen discourages us from accumulating electrical cooking devices. We don't even have an ordinary food processor, except for a tiny one-pint thing that's handy for salad dressing. Add a blender and a hand-mixer and that's mostly it. Even our coffee grinder is unpowered. It takes a couple of minutes to grind every morning, but we don't have to listen to the raucous electric BRRRRRRAAAAAAATTTTT noise before we've even had coffee, so it's worth it. We pour the gas-stove-heated water through a coffee filter directly into a thermos, still no electricity.
ReplyDeleteNo, I tell a lie, now I have an electric yogurt maker, and when we need to we drag out an electric dehydrator (great for peppers) and an electric skillet.
I definitely would enjoy other uses for $1,500. Our most recent fantasies involve greenhouse construction or additional wells.
We have a second well on the property, which so far we don't actually use, but it's nice that it's there if we needed it.
ReplyDeleteNow a greenhouse -- even a cold frame -- is something my wife has wanted for years. I don't know when I'll ever be able to manage it, but she'd be delighted if I built one for her.
I definitely would enjoy other uses for $1,500.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Like this: http://www.gorilla-worx.com/Bird-ManWingsuits.html
Eric Hines
I love that one of those is called "Impact."
ReplyDeleteI love that one of those is called "Impact."
ReplyDeleteOddly, it's also no longer available. Hmm....
On my to-do list is to hang glide off Mons Olympus. That's not likely to happen, though, at least by me.
Unfortunately, the War Department being who she is, the wingsuit trick isn't much more likely.
[sigh]
Eric Hines
"All the great chefs are men anyway."
ReplyDeleteReally....and yet no one is ever surprised -- much less contradictory -- when people say, "Man, nobody makes [insert favorite dish here] like Mama does!"
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Wait -- they omitted a step in "Homemade Pizza." How did she get the fixin's *and* the pie tin back into the blender to cook it?
ReplyDeleteInquiring minds, and all that...