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"Although Foreman never confirmed exactly how much he has earned from the endorsement, Salton paid him $138 million in 1999 for the right to use his name. Prior
by cyanbane 2y ago
"Although Foreman never confirmed exactly how much he has earned from the endorsement, Salton paid him $138 million in 1999 for the right to use his name. Prior to that, he was paid about 40% of the profits on each grill sold (earning him $4.5 million a month in payouts at its peak), yielding an estimated total of over $200 million just from the endorsement through 2011, substantially more than he earned as a boxer."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman
Not sure if luck or stars just aligned. But that is some legit naming rights. Kudos to maybe, and I mean it... one of the best at it.
- DoesntMatter22 2y agoHulk Hogan told the story of how this was brought to him first to endorse but she insisted it was stupid and that instead he endorse the Hulk Hogan Thunder Mixer, a handheld blender. He rolled his eye the whole time he told the story.
- gojomo 2y agoWho's the 'she' in this story?
- ffhhj 2y agoShehulk
- wyldfire 2y agoMaybe his talent agent?
- DoesntMatter22 2y agoSorry, his wife. I missed a word or two there lol
- dkarl 2y agoI mean... I consider myself a versatile home cook, and I've owned and used more products similar to the Thunder Mixer than products similar to the George Foreman grill. Sometimes it's a mystery what people buy. Why would you buy a separate appliance rather than a ridged grill pan for your stove top?
- fisherjeff 2y agoBecause it knocks out the fat, obviously
- cma 2y agoDoesn't it cook steaks on both sides at once?
- noduerme 2y agoyes, and it also drains all the juice out through little grooves. The very concept is completely mental. No one should abuse a piece of meat that way.
- creato 2y agoIsn't it equivalent to an actual grill in that regard? I haven't heard anyone say that a grill is abusing meat.
- noduerme 2y agoI always sear meat on a flat top first anyway, but the advantage with an actual grill is that it has flames which help seal the outside of the meat quickly. Much more so than the heat radiating from the Foreman Grill grooves. Without a quick sear, you end up with a rubbery and dry piece of meat.
- owlninja 2y agoThe foreman grill was not meant for seasoned steak cookers, it was typically for college kids or first time apartment dwellers. It had it's time and place and it was obviously not meant for you in this current time and place.
- TwoPhonesOneKid 2y agoMeats don't really seal unless you're literally tarring them with char, and besides, juices leak from the side just fine. You really want to steam off the water content of a steak to get a better texture and fewer grease-runs. The entire meme about searing is literally just a decently crunchy texture. Flip steaks as much as you want. The high "sear" temperature mostly implies a faster (and easy-to-follow) cook-time, but it still requires salting the steak to drain as much moisture as possible. It's certainly the smarter texhniwue, but not because it seals juices in. (Also, "searing" a steak does in fact slow the rate of water loss, so it is easier to control cook-quality and easier to cook whilst distracted. But this undermines my main point that water content actually ruins the steak, and that you can get the same texture and taste with a different technique.)
- TwoPhonesOneKid 2y agoHulk Hogan also destroyed gawker because he was too cowardish to admit he's a sex freak. Obviously Peter Thiel was involved because he's too cowardish to admit he's gay, but the takeaway is that our society is run by toddlers who never learned to regulate their emotions (let alone manage the wealth a capitalist society allegedly demands. Eg people outside of Buffet demanding to be taxed more and Chuck Feeney making the gates foundation look like money-grubbing assholes).
- noduerme 2y agoIt's interesting that we ended up with Hogan, Ventura, and Trump as figures in our politics. I feel like the last time a republic got to that point, there was a lot of lead in the water. I guess now it's mostly plastic in the brain.
- TwoPhonesOneKid 2y agoYea it turns out when you divorce politics from anything that matters it just becomes reality tv. Americans are too moronic to wield the power they claim today so it's hard to feel anything negative about this.
- somenameforme 2y agoI'm not sure it's fair to mock the public figures, because it's not like the guys in between them were anything particularly remarkable either. Democracy doesn't select skilled leaders, it selects charismatic ones with 'flexible moral values' of the sort that are useful for gaining sufficient backers. It's fairly predictable that democracies with relatively wide suffrage would trend towards electing pop figures. This also is exactly democracy was mostly felt to be an unsustainable system by the ancient philosophers. And in reading Plato's assessment of democracy, and its cycles, in "The Republic", he sounds like much more like a prophet than a philosopher.
- pests 2y agoEh, we had Reagan and Schwarzenegger and others before too
- astura 2y agoHulk Hogan is also a compulsive liar, so I don't believe this story.
- jfrbfbreudh 2y agoTo the downvoters: Hogan is a notorious liar and definitely lied about the grill story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AukVofRrSP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AukVofRrSP8 If you have some time to kill, this is a fun video to watch. Otherwise, you can just google his long list of lies.
- tomjakubowski 2y agoEven if it's true, it's so disgraceful of him telling the story in a way that he throws his spouse under the bus for what was really his decision to make. I don't know why I'd expect grace from Hulk Hogan though.
- Uptrenda 2y agoMan, those grills are useful. What I like about their engineering is you can run them on a typical kitchen circuit without worrying about a circuit breaker being triggered. This is not always true with other appliances. Typically stuff that can heat is very power consuming. Even washing machines and stuff like that can sometimes trip breakers (heat + spin). So yeah, it can be convenient.
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- washadjeffmad 2y agoThey were also incredibly easy to clean. Whoever designed it was intimately aware of both the struggle of cleaning a grill grate and not being able to fit pans in dishwasher or standard kitchen sink.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoThe predecessors to the Salton design in the 80s suffered this problem. The hot sandwich makers and grills with no drainage had depressions that were hard to clean. They learned from the flawed competition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JchC0nQcM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JchC0nQcM