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to me it's Nutribullets
I don't know if the had them in britain, they were these upside down blenders, and they absolutely hammered them on tv, advertising everywhere. they were expensive and whole bunch of people bought them because of the ads. And no one used them. eBay and gumtree are full of people trying to get a pittance of what they paid for them, but mostly when I go to peoples houses you find them in some cupboard near the washing machine gathering dust.
And now nobody ever admits they were taking in by a slick advertising campaign for forking out 200 bucks for some small shitty blender. It's always "ah, I just dont have the time to make smoothies what with the kids"
Brexit is Nutribullet
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 26 Oct 2022, 21:29,
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There is going to be an absolute tidal wave of Air Fryers on Gumtree before the year is long out.
A device with only the fraction of the capacity of your oven uses less energy to cook a single serving of chips than your oven does? What kind of thermodynamic trickery is this?!
Probably bloody great if there's just one or two of you to feed. Not so great when you're Sharon, mum of seven from Grimsby. Don't try and convince Sharon of that, though. Apparently she's saving an absolute fortune (probably by sharing that single portion of chips between 8 mouths).
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I agree, i've never seen the utility if you already have an oven.
some things perform other roles, like a slow cooker, but it's just a redundancy if you have a decent modern oven, and its a smaller one at that. In the same way the nutribullet is smaller and way more expensive than a normal blender.
I think it's the name that appeals, "air fry" rather than using "bake"
it seems somehow more healthy and cutting edge than if they called it a more appropriate "small electric oven"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 27 Oct 2022, 2:13,
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Exactly. To my mind
they are like those mini toaster ovens, just fan assisted and still a bit shit compared to a regular oven.
Air fryer = shit little oven
Nutriblend = shit little blender
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 27 Oct 2022, 11:04,
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I mean, my example was more about how people hate to admit they got suckered by bullshit, even to themselves
but I enjoy a critical discussion about whitegoods as much as the next man
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 27 Oct 2022, 22:12,
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It's not though
Nutribullet actually did something
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