{"id":285,"date":"2010-10-27T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2010-10-27T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T17:01:30","slug":"the-magic-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/the-magic-bullet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I come across an infomercial that garners enough of my attention to do a little research on it; find out if it actually lives up to its intentions.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buythebullet.com\" target=\"new\">The Magic Bullet<\/a> was one of those infomercials. I\u2019ve seen it several times and each time I thought to myself, \u201cIf it really does all that then I\u2019d like to have one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday I was sitting on the couch when that infomercial began playing again. This time, I decided to do something about it. I went online and did a little research. Mostly what I found were good reviews with a smackering of bad ones lamenting that it didn\u2019t do this or that well.  Most of the \u201cso-so\u201d reviews gave the machine a rather good reputation, often mentioning how great it was, but after a year or so of using it 3 times a day, the gears gave out and they had to buy another one. They had to buy another one\u2026 That pretty much sums it up for me. This thing appears to do its job so well that when it breaks, people actually replace it with another one. They can\u2019t live without it!<\/p>\n<p>Ordering it from the telly would have set me back around $150 (including taxes and shipping). I did what any cost-conscious person would have done \u2013 check Amazon. There it was. Amazon had the same model with the same accessories, and all for $54.72. No taxes. No shipping charges. Having Prime membership also meant that it was shipped via 2-day shipping for free. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve only used it for one night, but I did run some tests on it. The Magic Bullet has excelled in the frozen drink department. I don\u2019t care for the recipe it gives for Margaritas, but using my own recipe it turned out fantastic! Probably the best I\u2019ve ever made. The Magic Bullet took that ice and beat it down to an extremely smooth slush. I used the included recipe for salsa. Again, I don\u2019t care for that particular recipe but it did a fine chop chopping everything up.<\/p>\n<p>If you are expecting more recipes than what you see on the infomercial, you\u2019ll be a bit disappointed as everything they cover there are all that\u2019s included, but that\u2019s OK. Absence of recipes doesn\u2019t take anything away from the performance of this machine. I look forward to trying out their recipes for hummus and my own recipes for guacamole. <\/p>\n<p>One obvious false claim: you can do all these recipes in 10 seconds. This does not include the time it takes to get your ingredients ready. 10 seconds is throwing them into the blender. Just sayin. <\/p>\n<div class=\"iblogger-footer\"><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">[Posted with <a href=\"http:\/\/illuminex.com\/iBlogger\/index.html\">iBlogger<\/a> from my iPhone]<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I come across an infomercial that garners enough of my attention to do a little research on it; find out if it actually lives up to its intentions. The Magic Bullet was one of those infomercials. I\u2019ve seen it several times and each time I thought to myself, \u201cIf it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}