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Hulk 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 Mixe

Hulk 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 ago
Who's the 'she' in this story?
- ffhhj 2y ago
  Shehulk
- wyldfire 2y ago
  Maybe his talent agent?
- DoesntMatter22 2y ago
  Sorry, his wife. I missed a word or two there lol
dkarl 2y ago
I 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 ago
  Because it knocks out the fat, obviously
- cma 2y ago
  Doesn't it cook steaks on both sides at once?
  - noduerme 2y ago
    yes, 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 ago
      Isn't it equivalent to an actual grill in that regard? I haven't heard anyone say that a grill is abusing meat.
      - noduerme 2y ago
        I 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 ago
        The 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 ago
        Meats 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.)
- noduerme 2y ago
  I asked my ex once why she owned a bullet blender instead of a normal blender, and her response was "not for drugs, I just saw the infomercial"
  - zizee 2y ago
    Normal blenders have substantially more cleanup work involved.
    - noduerme 2y ago
      But they also don't break as often. And can hold a larger capacity. And don't spill. Admittedly, the thought of cleanup has put me off the occasional late night margarita...
      - philwelch 2y ago
        If you have a powerful enough blender like a Blendtec or Vitamix you can just put soap and water in it and run the blender itself to clean it.
        philiplu 2y ago
        Yep. I paid something like $650 for a Vitablend at a restaurant supply store about 20 years ago. That's the commercial version of a Vitamix. Thing is a tank, and has blended many many gallons of soups, smoothies, grain into flour, etc. over the years. Cleanup is hot water and a couple squirts of dishwasher liquid and run it on high a few seconds. Had to replace the jar a few years ago, but the base will outlive me.
        kjellsbells 2y ago
        The other huge advantage: you can get parts for decades. With good kitchen gear you want to buy it once for life. Need a new cap, or jug, for a 2001 model? No big deal. You dont get that with the stuff from Target. (It is also not correlated to price, eg my zojirushi rice cooker offers the same capability but was way cheaper than the fancy korean rice cookers in the store.)
- brudgers 2y ago
  I have both a cast iron grill pan and a Forman. I use the Forman frequently because it heats up fast, cleans easy, and reliably cooks both sides at once…without oil, butter etc. The grill pan has none of those attributes and can’t press a grilled cheese. Yes it takes up counter space and is ultimately going to the landfill. I wish that were otherwise, but for me, they aren’t deal breakers.
- jasonwatkinspdx 2y ago
  Some friends of mine back then had a reason I think may have been pretty common: they lived an apartment building that didn't allow combustion grills on the balconies. And coincidentally this sort of rental property is exactly the type to have an absolutely fake junk "extractor" for handling smoke in the kitchen. So they could put the Foreman on the patio and do an okish job with some steaks or burgers without smoking up the whole place.
  - kurttheviking 2y ago
    This was exactly my reason when I lived in a tiny apartment in Boston having no exhaust or fan in the kitchen itself. Put the Foreman Grill by a window with some burgers cooking, job done.
    - bsenftner 2y ago
      There's warm weekends in Boston when strolling along one can look into the alleys and see a dozen Foremen Grills in action on the fire escapes. Fond memories of those days.
  - bluedino 2y ago
    Apartment dweller here who misses his Weber and Blackstone. A regular pan on a hot plate or portable induction hob makes a far, far better steak than a Foreman. I'd be a crime to put a decent steak on one of those things.
    - astura 2y ago
      People were cooking burgers and chicken on these things, no steak. Also, George Foreman grills were popular in the late 90s/early 2000s, before induction hobs were really much of a thing.
- weinzierl 2y ago
  Maybe precisely because the guy endorsing one product is much more relatable than the guy endorsing the other. Nothing against Hulk Hogan, he is certainly one of a kind, but when it comes to my food I'd take advice from a down to earth type like Foreman a thousand times over that from a persona as detached from real life as Hogan's.
TwoPhonesOneKid 2y ago
Hulk 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 ago
  It'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 ago
    Yea 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 ago
      I'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 ago
    Eh, we had Reagan and Schwarzenegger and others before too
astura 2y ago
Hulk Hogan is also a compulsive liar, so I don't believe this story.
- jfrbfbreudh 2y ago
  To 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 ago
  Even 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.

gojomo 2y ago

Who's the 'she' in this story?

ffhhj 2y ago
Shehulk
wyldfire 2y ago
Maybe his talent agent?
DoesntMatter22 2y ago
Sorry, his wife. I missed a word or two there lol

dkarl 2y ago

I 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 ago
Because it knocks out the fat, obviously
cma 2y ago
Doesn't it cook steaks on both sides at once?
- noduerme 2y ago
  yes, 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 ago
    Isn't it equivalent to an actual grill in that regard? I haven't heard anyone say that a grill is abusing meat.
    - noduerme 2y ago
      I 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 ago
        The 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 ago
        Meats 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.)
noduerme 2y ago
I asked my ex once why she owned a bullet blender instead of a normal blender, and her response was "not for drugs, I just saw the infomercial"
- zizee 2y ago
  Normal blenders have substantially more cleanup work involved.
  - noduerme 2y ago
    But they also don't break as often. And can hold a larger capacity. And don't spill. Admittedly, the thought of cleanup has put me off the occasional late night margarita...
    - philwelch 2y ago
      If you have a powerful enough blender like a Blendtec or Vitamix you can just put soap and water in it and run the blender itself to clean it.
      - philiplu 2y ago
        Yep. I paid something like $650 for a Vitablend at a restaurant supply store about 20 years ago. That's the commercial version of a Vitamix. Thing is a tank, and has blended many many gallons of soups, smoothies, grain into flour, etc. over the years. Cleanup is hot water and a couple squirts of dishwasher liquid and run it on high a few seconds. Had to replace the jar a few years ago, but the base will outlive me.
        kjellsbells 2y ago
        The other huge advantage: you can get parts for decades. With good kitchen gear you want to buy it once for life. Need a new cap, or jug, for a 2001 model? No big deal. You dont get that with the stuff from Target. (It is also not correlated to price, eg my zojirushi rice cooker offers the same capability but was way cheaper than the fancy korean rice cookers in the store.)
brudgers 2y ago
I have both a cast iron grill pan and a Forman. I use the Forman frequently because it heats up fast, cleans easy, and reliably cooks both sides at once…without oil, butter etc. The grill pan has none of those attributes and can’t press a grilled cheese. Yes it takes up counter space and is ultimately going to the landfill. I wish that were otherwise, but for me, they aren’t deal breakers.
jasonwatkinspdx 2y ago
Some friends of mine back then had a reason I think may have been pretty common: they lived an apartment building that didn't allow combustion grills on the balconies. And coincidentally this sort of rental property is exactly the type to have an absolutely fake junk "extractor" for handling smoke in the kitchen. So they could put the Foreman on the patio and do an okish job with some steaks or burgers without smoking up the whole place.
- kurttheviking 2y ago
  This was exactly my reason when I lived in a tiny apartment in Boston having no exhaust or fan in the kitchen itself. Put the Foreman Grill by a window with some burgers cooking, job done.
  - bsenftner 2y ago
    There's warm weekends in Boston when strolling along one can look into the alleys and see a dozen Foremen Grills in action on the fire escapes. Fond memories of those days.
- bluedino 2y ago
  Apartment dweller here who misses his Weber and Blackstone. A regular pan on a hot plate or portable induction hob makes a far, far better steak than a Foreman. I'd be a crime to put a decent steak on one of those things.
  - astura 2y ago
    People were cooking burgers and chicken on these things, no steak. Also, George Foreman grills were popular in the late 90s/early 2000s, before induction hobs were really much of a thing.
weinzierl 2y ago
Maybe precisely because the guy endorsing one product is much more relatable than the guy endorsing the other. Nothing against Hulk Hogan, he is certainly one of a kind, but when it comes to my food I'd take advice from a down to earth type like Foreman a thousand times over that from a persona as detached from real life as Hogan's.

TwoPhonesOneKid 2y ago

Hulk 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 ago
It'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 ago
  Yea 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 ago
    I'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 ago
  Eh, we had Reagan and Schwarzenegger and others before too

astura 2y ago

Hulk Hogan is also a compulsive liar, so I don't believe this story.

jfrbfbreudh 2y ago
To 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 ago
Even 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.