Classic or dud: The George Foreman Grill

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I just got one of these. Fantastic. Things taste fine, but the main thing is the ease.

― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 5 November 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

totally classic!

make a quesadilla or grilled cheese and you will be hooked.

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 5 November 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

TS: Foreman Grill vs. Sandwich Makers

I'll go with sandwich makers. i really love those pouches they make.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

I've never used one, but my most sureal memory of one was being coerced into a skanky strip club for a bachelor party and some guy was making/selling pork chops by the door, off a (you guessed it) George Foreman Grill.

Mmmm, skanky, nude pork chops.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

i just got one. i've only cooked a tuna steak so far, but it seems pretty handy.

― safesafeSAfe (eman), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

gf grill pwns a sandwich maker. sandwich makers make things soggy.

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

It's classic. One of the most convenient kitchen tools I own. I don't know anyone who has one who doesn't really like it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

classic, I got one of the old school ones w/o the temperature adjustment. Also the grease bucket they give you to put on the bottom doesn't quite catch all of the drippings for some reason, but maybe my grill is just slightly irregular.

xpost yes! it does fantastic things with fish!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Could you buy your favorite stripper a couple of pork chops?

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

I'll bet you could. I'm not sure about tuna steak though.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

I won one of these as a prize at a pub quiz. It seemed OK, but it was one of those MASSIVE things that could cook healthy dinner for 8 people. Because I only ever cook for one, I thought "Hmm. This is just going to be a bitch to clean and store", so I sold it.

George's face on the packaging was pretty classic, though.

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I've always been afraid I'd use it once and put it away. In the meantime, I'm still thinking about a Ronco Showtime Rotisserie.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Classic, especially if you're doing the whole high-protein, low-carb thing, which I am about to re-attempt.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

It is very classic in fact that George Foreman ended up the name brand of the grill. I'd like a Evander Holyfield pasta maker and Leon Spinks ice cream maker to complete the set.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting for the Mike Tyson-branded wine refrigerator.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I know everyone loves their G.F. grill, but does it have to look so much like a toilet seat with the lid down?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Two george foreman grills: one classic, the other dud

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

I'll go with sandwich makers. i really love those pouches they make.

Mega OTM. Plus, cooking a burger on a GF grill is fucking nasty. Grease everywhere and you end up with this crumbly grey monstrosity (not that I'd attempt burger cookery on a sandwich maker).

― adam (adam), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Burgers can be great on the Foreman. You just can't leave it on there for an hour. Keep an eye on that thing. The free range patties from Trader Joe's and the Foreman kept me alive in Chicago the winter I lived there.

Plus, its named after George Foreman, one of the five greatest heavyweights in history (and the person who saw the biggest character change ever in modern sports). I mean, c'mon. You can trust a dude like that.

(and even more classic: the fact that it made him exponentially more money than his two stints as world heavyweight champion)

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Stumbled over the documentary last night on the the sports channel here. Not bad. I wasn't following boxing at all at the time, but it jogged vague memories of him retaking the title at some ridiculous age. I then had to place that in relation to Mike Tyson; Tyson was around 1990--should have remembered that because of the Fresh Prince--then Holyfield, then Foreman's second title in the mid-'90s. He has five sons, every one of them named George.

― clemenza, Saturday, 30 May 2020 13:50 (six years ago)

I have seen where Hulk Hogan says he turned down the endorsement for this device and later did some other device that totally bombed.

― earlnash, Sunday, 31 May 2020 00:46 (six years ago)

I'm hardly a boxing expert, but I did see the Ali/Foreman fight in '74. When Foreman and a couple of other people say that the Foreman of '95 would have beat the Foreman of '74, that doesn't sound right to me. Although Foreman lost in '74, he did take Ali into the 8th round--and the distance between the Ali of '74 and the guy he beat in '95 seems huge to me.

― clemenza, Sunday, 31 May 2020 01:07 (six years ago)

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