Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Set It and Forget It



Behold. The madness that is the Showtime Rotisserie Grill. For some reason this thing was a crazy hit seller about 10 years back. The only question, why?

Because in reality, you're paying about $200 for this tool, which still doesn't actually do anything, until you:
  1. Buy a raw chicken
  2. Clean it
  3. Prep it
  4. Place the raw chicken in the Showtime Grill
  5. Set it
  6. Forget it
  7. Wait 1 hour
  8. Pull flaming hot rotisserie chicken out of grill
  9. Take flaming hot rotisserie chicken off the flaming hot chicken holding unit
  10. Put flaming hot rotisserie chicken on plate
  11. Eat rotisserie chicken
  12. Go back in the kitchen and clean grill
OR, you could just do the following:
  1. Go to grocery store
  2. Buy rotisserie chicken
  3. Eat rotisserie chicken
All for about $2 more than buying a raw chicken. Um, is this really a difficult decision? You'd have to cook about 100 chickens for the grill to break even on the cost vs. buying the fully cooked chicken, not to mention the 50 other ridiculous steps needed.

Showtime Rotisserie Grill owners... you all fail.

*Special thanks to Jenn for making me think about this lame product this afternoon.

4 comments:

bk said...

Still, when you buy a raw chicken, you're really buying POSSIBILITIES. Not even the chicken knows what it will eventually become. Tetrazzini? Pot Pie? Katsu Don? It's limitless.

Whereas with the pre-cooked rotisserie chicken - you're pretty much stuck with a rotisserie chicken. Maybe a chicken salad. But THAT'S IT.

Dave said...

ah, but you forgot the real reason to get this: the awesomely big rubber barbecue gloves.

dukeya said...

When you put a couple smaller chickens or game hens in there, it's way tastier than the pre-rotisseried ones. ;-)

Toni said...

So... you don't like it?

At least when you make it on your own, you can season it the way you want...