RoboStir Review: A Spoon Does a Better Job
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The Price: Online: $10 plus $6.99 shipping and handling
The Claims: It stirs, so you don't have to.
Buy-O-Meter Rating: 0 out of 5
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RoboStir promises to eliminate that time-eating kitchen chore -- stirring food.
For the record, I love robots. My vaccuming robot, Roomba, is my best
friend. And the idea of a pot-stirring robot, that really tends the
Alfredo while I chop vegetables for a pasta primavera, seems like a
marvelous idea (although RoboStir's claim to be "a third hand in the
kitchen" feels a little creepy).
So I gladly tested RoboStir. And for the first five minutes, the
three-speed gadget vibrated, hummed, and wobbled around a saucepan of
hot water. I was so encouraged, I bought $60 worth of soups, stews and
sauces -- if I don't have time to stir, I don't have time to cook from
scratch -- to put RoboStir through its paces.
During its infomercial, RoboStir races around the edges of pots and
pans, churning all liquids in its wake.
In real life, RoboStir just sat there -- like a lump-- while a quart
of milk for hot cocoa boiled over my range.
I changed the 4 AA batteries and sat RoboStir into 7 pounds of cheese
sauce, which I had hoped to pour over chips for a Super Bowl party. But
the tool was dead, and no amount of slapping and tapping could revive
it.
No nachos por mio!
On second thought, leaving anything on the stove unattended isn't a
good idea. So even if RoboStir had worked, I wouldn't trust it to keep
my meal -- or my house -- from burning.
RoboStir is a bad idea translated into a worse gadget.
What's next? RoboChew?
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