An Abomination of a Small Electric!!

[jetcone]

Ugh I have made my last thing in my Ronson Cook N Stir!!

What Frankenstein came up with this convoluted mess! I tried fish eye tapioca this weekend NEVER AGAIN!

First off you know you have to soak the fish eyes overnite so you WANT them to show in the pudding! Well after all the cooking and stirring the Ronson whipped down to smaller than Minute Tapioca! WHY BOTHER WITH FISH EYE THEN OY!!

NEXT it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO F&*)( LOUD that to cook and stir for any longer than 10 minutes you have to leave the entire house. I even took Al with me grocery shopping to save his ear drums the hour of agony!

THEN what you are left with is a Chinese puzzle of a cleaning job to get all the "baked on " tapioca out of the machine, NO DISHWASHER not even my 1961 50 gallon a minute KA will get that machine clean!!
SEE THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELVES!
RUN I SAY RUN AWAY QUICKLY! DO NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS MACHINE!

jet

 

[jetcone]

See how devious the construction is

Tapioca seeps everywhere after an hour of stirring.

 

[jetcone]

The thing had to

BE SPOTLESS before I loaded it into my dish torture chamber for a blasting!!

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

You are so funny Jon!
Hopefully you did not have guest waiting?
Take more pictures of your Beautiful Kitchenaid with the big ole washarm! I just your your KA. Sorry, more than that Ronsin Stir Fry thing. Did Ronson later become Ronco? I don't remember.
Thanks for the pictures, thus far.
Brent

 

[petek]

Fish eye tapioca ? Sounds dreadful!! LOL
I love my Cook'n Stir but you're right, it is LOUD when it's stirring but you have to admit it's a super blender in its regular mode for blending.
Ronco has nothing to do with the old Ronson appliances which were built by Ronson, the cigarette lighter company of the same name.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Hmmmph, well then Jon I guess it's time to toss the Ronco I mean Ronson Cook 'n Stir into the garbage.

 

[gansky1]

Ooooh, nice dishwasher.

 

[petek]

Don't you dare toss it out!!!

 

[gregm]

bitter party of one please

yes, bitter party of one ? yesterdays newspaper please and yesterdays lottery tickets ........... (I feel a "slap" coming on)

 

[tlee618]

Well Jon, how did the pudding taste? You sure did have a mess, just wonder if soaking would have helped.

 

[hoover1060]

noise??

Yeah, a 747 screaming down a runway with its nose pointed skyward does not make as much noise as the cook-n-stir!

 

[oxydolfan1]

Don't throw it out, just spray oven cleaner on it.

You never know when it'll be useful, and then, why pay for another such thing, when you can use this one and toss it?

That way, you can say you've gotten your money's worth.

 

[brettsomers]

whats happens if you have it stir and cook(?) but with sudsy water instead? will it cause a foamy mess? or cook and stir but with water only?

 

[jetcone]

Oh now Brent

that would be an interesting thing>>. Chinese Stir Fry in a Ronson CookN Stir!! I can just imagine.
Wouldn't that be more akin to making salad in a Cememt Mixer?

I'll give it one more try unless some of you have stellar recipies for the thing.
They have a recipie for Cherries San Souci in their cook book ---VERY 1960's!! I must try that.

I guess I could take more Dish Blaster Photos if you really wanted them..............................

AND ROBERT ONE WORD>...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DUCK!
you too greg!

 

[washerboy]

not sure but..

I sorta know what tapioca is..I'll have to admit "fish eye tapioca" sounds...well gross..but maybe it's a yankee thing..lol. I would'nt trash the appliance..it sounds like a cool pice of equipment to have handy...what if you sprayed the bottom with Pam before you started to cook? Might make clean up easier./mark

 

[tlee618]

Hey Jon, I am wondering if Fish eye tapioca is the same thing as pearl tapioca that is what I have always heard it called. Use to make a salad that was really good using pearl tapioca and it was not easy to cook. Seems like I discovered it was best done in the crock pot. Terry

 

[chachp]

I made gravy in mine just once!

It was so loud you really do have to leave the room. The problem with the machine is that the blades don't clean the bottom of the jar very well. There is about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch gap so when you are making something like gravy or I suspect this tapioca, it just cooks and bakes into this big clump in the bottom. To avoid this you would have to constantly stop the machine and stir up this goo on the bottom.

It was fun for a minute but I put it on eBay. At least someone else is enjoying it for now.

 

[tomturbomatic]

They are great at chopping ice cubes.

 

[dalangdon]

I had one of these. My biggest complaint was how much room it took up, and how ugly it was. In my opinion, it had no pizzazz. Also, it was heavy as hell as I recall.

I don't what happened to that thing. It might still be in the attic, but I think I gave it to St. Vincent.