infomercial review #1: The Magic Bullet

Claire, one of our resident infomercial reviewers, has seen the infomercial for the Magic Bullet more times than she can count. Maybe it's due to her love of food, microwave recipes, or maybe it's because she's an insomniac with no homework, we're not really sure. Regardless of the reasons, regardless of the moral consequences, Zenziro invited her in to discuss how much or little she wants the magic bullet for herself or her friends greg and kenze's upcoming wedding present.

here is her story:

Hi ya'll, I have watched The Magic Bullet commercial so many times that I could probably recite every recipe they make in order. I won't do that, though.. because that would just be gratuitous. I will however make a couple of lists:

What did I like about the product:

1. you can make nachos in the microwave with it - I love microwave recipes, especially the kind you can only find in a 1970's microwave user manual. Have you ever thought that you could make thanksgiving dinner in a microwave? I'll post that one in the upcoming recipe section. it only takes 5 days.

2. It comes with color-coded lids for each "bullet" so that when you make drinks each person has their own color filled with popov.

3. You can make Guacamole - granted you can only make about enough for half a baby, but it does look delicious. I was a little disturbed by the fact that they use miniature vegetables to make it look like it fits its in the bullet and there's really no clean-up OR preparation. but i give them some leeway because maybe they live in a town where the vegetables are smaller.

4. You can also make muffins. i hate muffins and i don't really know how they're made but it looked like it only took 20 seconds.. which would free up my time to do things that i never have time for.. I'm constantly spending all of my time making things like pancakes, or breads and i always put off things like taking a virtual tour of mt everest i set up a couple of years ago. (this is just fyi but its amazing what you can do with a couple of Mexican guys from home depot dressed as sherpas, a video camera, and 5 tickets to Tibet.)

5. this is my favorite thing you can do.. you can make alfredo! in the microwave and it only took 30 seconds!
they threw in some noodles which would take about 15 minutes and require clean up, but once again i try to forget things i don't like.

anyway there's more but I'm already getting sidetracked by that sherpa video.
anyway the negative is that it needs more free products like, say, the flavor injector, or some kind of chopper.