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when i was a kid I would watch these infomercials all the time late at night with no intension of buying, or convincing my parents to buy them. I miss being a kid. :(
I love this infomercial. This level of selling is fantastic. " You there! You know how you have a drawer full of dull knives? While you may think the solution to your problems is a knife sharpener, YOU'RE WRONG! The solution you need is.... MORE KNIVES! "
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Lol. Same! I came here because I used to watch this as a kid late at night when I was bored, and this was a nostalgic trip down memory lane. So funny that I'm not the only one!
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I always thought.. if they are this super amazing sharp why would it matter which knife you use for what aren't they all the super duper amazing sharp knife? Haha
@@derp8575 there's really not much more to say, I think she bought them around 2004-2005 and we still use them. In fact when I moved, I took the showtime knife and a couple more and they're the go to knifes still to this day.
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I always thought how funny it was that this commercial ripped off of chef tony's "miracle blades" , or vice versa. They say and do some of the exact same things. A classic nonetheless. I've been going on an old infomercial binge here on RU-vid. I need a life + need help.
Yup, I remember watching this for the first time and realizing that one of them ripped off the other lol. Either way, I'm sure they are both crappy knife sets lol
@Tony Notaro hey chef tony.. big fan! Wow the miracle blade first aired in 02? i could have sworn in the late 90s when i first started it seeing it on TV. Either way i do remember the miracle blade was first and Ron ripping it off.
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One night back in 2004 or 2005, I may or may not have had a few beers and ended up ordering these knives. They were crap, but I did like the chop and serve
The ones I got from around 2004 I still have and are still cutting and sharp. Ive only had to replace the meat cleaver, and yes they still replace them to this day as well
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Hello. I know your comment is old but maybe you are still curious as to what is the trick? How can they cut a tomato right after shaving some steel off from a hammer. It is not the pressure, nor how the chef handles the knife, nor a camera trick. The knife itself is not a single piece. The body of the knife is cheap metal. Then, just at the very cutting edge it has coating of titanium carbide (could be other ceramic but this is the most likely). See? The key word here is *ceramic*, much harder than metal. Not any ceramic either. The knives that you can get that have the full body made of ceramic are softer than the one on this TV add. This is because the ceramic that used in full body knives (usually zirconia) needs to be somewhat ductile so the knife doesn't shatter. This titanium carbide coating, on the other hand, only has to be really hard because the ductility is provided by the cheap steel. So of course you can cut through a hummer with it, it is so hard it is like slicing foam. The catch? The coating is brittle and it will fall off. The question is how soon. In a kitchen, that could take years. However, some abuse in the wrong place or just plain bad luck and you are stuck with a bare edge made of cheap steel and an edge geometry that is going to be a pain to re-sharpen. If you don't know how to sharpen or don't care about honing/sharpening a knife every so often then yes, it can be a deal considering a cheap knife and a cheap sharpening stone will be at around the same price. The only difference is that even a cheap knife properly sharpened can serve for years and years as long as someone maintains it. Of course, a cheap regular knife won't slice bread nor cut through frozen stuff so that if you plan to do a lot of that then the knife set from TV may not actually be a waste of money. Disclaimer: This much I have collected myself. Not any definitive proof but I can almost guarantee that this is what is going on here.
@@HarveyBacktheBeatles Hi. I haven't looked into this particular one. To be honest, it sounds to me like a marketing gimmick. Chances are if this was on Tv it is likely overpriced. If you are looking for a good quality cheap knife, you are probably better off just going to Ikea. A lab partner got one for like $4 years ago. It had vanadium in it. The only catch is that you need to learn to hone it. You don't need to be a master knife wizard. Just touch up the blade from time to time. Also, you don't need expensive gadgets, a good steel should be easy to maintain. Hope this helps.
Hucksterism at its finest. I love infomercials, but only if Ron the man himself is in them. This guy could sell water to a fish. This one is one of the best. From the moment cousin Arnold smashes that tomato and pretends it's the knife's fault, we are off to the races...
My grandparents bought these knives and I would watch the Infomercial all the time. One day I got the idea as a kid to use the knife like the commerical and took a swipe at a tomato. Needless to say it didn't work like the ad and in the process while swishing the knife around I knocked grandma's coffee pot over. Needless to say I wasn't allowed in the kitchen for awhile 😂
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Not watching this because I think I still have it memorized. For whatever reason, I always loved this infomercial.. lol. The old dude aggressively flattening the bread with his hand for the 'shitty knife' was funny to me.. then he just kinda daintily rests it on the loaf for Ron's knife. The crowd losing interest after having to announce the price a second time, so Ron essentially has to do it himself.. and then just abandons the idea completely. That also was funny to me. And the whole 'But wait.. there's more!' thing kinda speaks for itself.
Arnold: If you give anymore away they're gonna be calling you Santa Clause instead of Ron Popeil Ron: Yeah..Let's review what you are gonna be getting Damn Arnold got blown off.
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Ron Popeil was a legend. I used my Showtime rotisserie a month ago April 2024 to cook a Top Sirloin roast. It was magnificent. It’s the only way I’ll cook it. Love my rotisserie
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Glad to read the comments and find out I wasn't the only loser as a kid staying up late watching this, and that I'm not the only loser to search it on RU-vid after I've grown up a bit haha
Hey you young whippersnapper, late night infomercials didn't start until the 80's. Before that TV stations either showed horrible old black & white movies or sign off around midnight with a video of some guy flying around in a T-38 with a voiceover of a poem about "breaking these earthly bounds". Immediately following was the national anthem, 5 minutes of blank screen and then static as the station quite broadcasting. You had to wait until 5 a.m. and put up with boring crap like the farm report or watch the weather. That consisted of a panning view of analog meters showing things like temp, humidity, barometer, wind speed and direction. No talking head metorologist, just background elevator music as the camera went back and forth across these meters for 30 minutes. In the 60's Ron Popiel sold his Veg-O-Matic in what was either a 2 or 5 minute commercial, nothing longer than that.
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We do a podcast on infomercials and this was one of best episodes and it's about the Showtime Six Starr Knives - enjoy! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-liCTidnNwAk.html
We do a podcast on infomercials and this was one of best episodes and it's about the Showtime Six Starr Knives - enjoy! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-liCTidnNwAk.html
someone on youtube did a review of the miracle blade knives which is basically the same thing. He did all the same tests they do on this infomercial. The blade dulled after cutting the hammer. And also like he says, this, miracle blade and the Ginsu knive infomercial are all basically illusions. You dont need the sharpest blade in the world to be able to cut through a pineapple. he completely damaged the knives but could still easily cut through food.
@@natedoggcata in the advertiser's defense, these aren't intended to cut through metal like a hacksaw, deceptive as such claims may be, if you're dumb enough to cut metal with a kitchen knife for any reason other than for review, you're a lost cause
The weird, choppy dubs always freaked me out watching these late at night, like the disembodied ghost of Ron Popeil was gonna come busting out of the TV.
I actually had this set. I mostly used the chop and served. They actually were pretty products. Once I got seriously into cooking they became obsolete. And after about 4 years they were really unusable. Good knives for the price tho. The chop and serve, again, was the best
Bought these 12 yrs ago. Still have the cleaver, chop and serve, chefs knife and steak knives. Other knives didn't fail I gave them away. The remaining knives hold an edge for ages. No broken handles. These were great knives.
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This is nostalgia oh my God I remember watching this like in the mid 2000s this was so entertaining Thank you for uploading this I just unlocked a core memory
I have had the Knifes for years and use them every day they are my favorite knifes I bought sets for all my adult children and both my sisters as gifts and they like them too. They keep a sharp edge and are easy to care for never had any problems with the handles or the knifes themselves.
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I was always wondering what I paid for these 16 years ago. I still have my knife set and I love it! I also have a Ronco rotisserie and I love that too. Too bad his company went bankrupt after he sold it.
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When I was in college back in the 90s I bought a showtime rotisserie. It was delivered, but I lived in an apartment and somebody picked it. It took me three months or so get my money back, but Ronco finally sent me my one easy payment of $149.00. About A year later, I found a brand new one, The Jr. Rottiserie, I and must say, it cleans up very well and still looks brand new after over 2500 whole chickens dripping the fat after cooking in their own skin.
Ron comes out with the drawer of knives - nobody has knives like that unless they are moonlighting for Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th on the weekend.
Idk why but like 6 years ago I used to stay up until 4 am watching this infomercial... I've seen it probably 10+ times..... Why did I randomly search it on youtube? I don't know.
I remember when I first saw this pop up as a kid. Idk why but I watched it to the end. Was interested in it for no reason at all lol. Even now I’m watching it again but to just pass the time
I've had mine for 35 years plus and I love them. I use them all the time and they have not dulled. The sharpness on the steak knives is unbelievable, each point of the steak knives in the blades are needlepoint Sharp. The chop and serve knife is so thin and strong I can cut through frozen meats with it paper thin for beef jerky or dried beef shavings. Vegetables are a whiz.
The knives they sell seem to be pretty redundant. If the Showtime knife is an all purpose knife, than what is the point of all the other knives? For example, if the professional filet knife and the sportsman's knife basically do the exact same thing, what is the point of having them both? I thought the point of Ron throwing away that drawer full of knives was to imply that you only need one knife to do all your cutting jobs.
11:01 "You've got to be kidding. I mean Ron, if you give anymore than that, they're going to call you Santa Claus instead of Ron Popeil!" "Right." Cracked me up as a kid, and continues to do so today lol
goodninji8 Well if it's as durable as he says it is, I have time. I'm not convinced until he cuts through that hammer and I don't care how long it takes.
1) Doesn't the saw knife look suspiciously like the Showtime knife? I mean right down to the fork on the end and everything. 2) What does the filet knife do that the sportsman's knife doesn't? 3) Cousin Arnold made that santa claus joke and Ron apparently didn't think it was funny because he gave Arnold the hairy eyeball. Then cousin Arnold disafuckingpears from the rest of the show. Do you think Ron stuffed him into that hole in the cutting board? "Look folks, it even hacks up my wise-ass cousin Arnold, and still goes through a tomato like this! Now how much would you pay?"
Soxruleyanksdrool 1. Who cares? They look the same but the serrations aren't. And if they're the same you get two knives. That's a bad thing? 2. OBVIOUSLY and VERY CLEARLY one is bigger than the other and one has serrations on the blade and the other doesn't. 3. Why would he get upset of him comparing him to the image of a giver? And he left cuz his segment was up. He did his job so what sense is it in him just standing around behind Ron?
When I was a little kid my mom would leave for work before 5 am and Id sneak into her room and watch infomercials, this brings back so many memories man lol
I bought these knives when they had a bogo sale. Spent less than $200 for both sets. Almost 20 years later, still using them. The steak knife handles all broke, but the rest of the set is still good as the day I bought them.
The Showtime Six-Star + Cutlery set is amazing and a knife sharpener is added for straight edge knifes only. The Showtime solid flavor injector is included as a bonus item. Amazing product from Ronco! 👍👍
I used to love watching this infomercial all the time when I was a kid. Seeing this makes me feel like a kid again. I can’t believe someone put a video of this on RU-vid. This was the last great infomercial because nowadays you never hear any of the infomercials say: “But wait, there’s more”. This was the last infomercial that I saw that actually said that. Ron-Co and Chef Tony were. Also. 19:49. I always thought she was hot.
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