You can cook a decent grilled thin chicken breast in like 3 minutes. Perfect for salads or eating plain. Essential for when craving for sweets, but you know you should eat something healthier and “takes too long” is no longer an excuse

In no particular order, steaks, burgers, salmon. Takes no time at all!

I don't eat meat so idk, carrots?

Hamburgers, chicken breast and chuckwagon plus I also make sandwiches 🥪 and I heat up the bread 🍞

Obviously a foreman. Preferably but optionally named George. With construction season coming I guess that brings a whole new meaning to "riding shotgun."

Perfect gift for when hubby has to move into the garage for a few days…

That's a pretty cheap gift for a wedding! LOL And yes, if they were Boomers II or Genxers, the grill probably DID last longer than the marriage!

Yeah, because most of those grills were used once or twice, if at all.

I’m dying 😂

I’ve had a GF grill for 20 years, still works.

Same. Loved my Forman Grill.

​@@MrWolfstar8until you eventually get cancer from the Teflon carcinogens

Sounds like the air fryer of yesteryear

@@JordanShilkoffit was.

You don't have to make up stories lol.

I just bought one recently at Target to replace my old one. Can’t live without the grill and my air fryer

True!

@@leegraves101Trying to get my mother and father to use their air fryer instead of going out!

Thanks to LBJ and his social programs before Vietnam gutted the funding for all of them.

It shows you how you CAN turn your life around if you commit to it. Now Foreman has enough money to live his life to the fullest while at the same time giving back to the community and not letting the fame get to his head. That should definitely inspire people positively, and it deserves the highest of respect.

@@vandiemansoul2056 Yes, but it is YOUR decision whether you want to take that help or not in the end. And he chose so. And yes, for every George that takes on that type of help and turns his life around, there are others who are offered the same opportunity but refuse to take it, as well as others who never get them offered.

You can change your life but you have to see the path forward and the light ahead. Problem is, many youngsters don't see that and they don't have anyone around to help them see that so they stay criminals thinking that's the only way because that's all they know and they think there is zero chance society will accept them due to their past.

Also his Lord!

you are a normie and will never have enough to give back

ye with 137 million lol

The PlanetaryDweeb Indoor Grill (TM)?

All his horses are named George

I love when celebrities return to their humble beginnings and don’t forget those that helped along the way.

I cried it was so good. I'm shaking right now. Brilliant. Just Brilliant! wow! Genius

@@Glorious_Kim_Jong_UnAnd then everyone clapped.

How do you find the new ones? I had mine for years and years too before it failed to get hot. But I was not impressed with the quality of the new ones when I went to look at them. Plus, I wanted one like my old model which they did not seem to make anymore.

@@retroguy9494 with some electrical and mechanical knowhow you could probably replace the heating element in it yourself

@@retroguy9494 I've got one of the new medium sized ones and I like it over the old big white one that everyone had when they first started taking off. You can pop off the cooking plates and throw them in the dishwasher if you want. Build quality seems roughly the same as the old one, still has the clicky thermostat and everything, no fancy electronics to die, just an orange light to show that it's plugged in and a green one for once it's up to temp

@@Nudhul Well, I really have no electrical OR mechanical (apart from classic cars) knowledge. I went to college rather than learn a skilled trade.

@@philondez That's cool! It's funny you mentioned it because mine WAS the 'old big white one!' 😂 The only complaint I had was that it was not as easy to clean as they said, especially if you grilled chicken. It took a fair amount of scrubbing with a paper towel then wet cloth and you needed to do it while it was still hot or else it got like cement. Do the plates on the new ones actually come completely clean in the dishwasher? Or do you need to clean it off first?

What does that mean? Did you devote your life to the Foreman grill? How do you do that?

What a terrible, wasted life.

@@silverranger3532 I think he meant he used it often for grilling for most of his life. Just bad wording.

​@@silverranger3532if you look after your grill your grill will look after you

@@xgtwb6473he married his grill though

He probably has earned over $300 million from the grill alone. Invested even modestly that would take care of your family in perpetuity. Couldn’t imagine he would donate some to his own charity. Given the tax advantage you’d have to

I definitely remember an NPR story about how people who don't have a stove (and especially those who can't afford one), using George Forman grills instead of hotplates. Same sort of thing, but much less fire risk.

my mom still uses one........... its one tough griller

That;'s the thing, not only do they cook well and healthy but they are made well, they last and so few things do these days.

Panini press all year round too!

And I remember them being affordable to buy as well. 25 to 30 dollar range I believe. Don't know if they're still that cheap or not

I grill in the snow you pussy, Wisconsin bitches

@@Matt-lp8de Just checked the website and yup, you can still get the basic models for ~$30-$40

I had one of those years ago, it was a Christmas present from a friend, and it was pretty good, too

Thanks, Steve.

Which is a surprise because in the US they were kinda cheap. They were a frequent gift you got from family when got your first apartment

Well it's a lot easier to say than "Double-sided Electric Cooking Appliance."

@@AirLancer just like in the 80s and 90s, You didnt have a "Personal Cassette Stereo". It was a Walkman even if it was not a Sony.

*@rmordica* So could we say that he has become the *_"Xerox"_* of portable indoor grilling appliances .

There is something similar in electrical work where most multimeters are just referred to as Meggers even though it is a brand name

It's so funny how brandnames associate with products depending on the region. our foreman grill in europe is the tefal grill. thats just the company name, it doesnt have a testimonial as far as i know. or our scotch tape is tesa film. or gaffa tape is panzer tape and so on...

Yah was perfect for young teens to ...my sister got one for me when I was 11 started me getting into cooking

I love my Foreman grill. I have the small one because I'm the only one in the household. It's easy to use, and I finally figured the best way to clean it, it's easy too.

@@Smart-Towel-RG-400 11? That's awesome. I was only making pb&j toast at 11!

I kept coasters under the front legs so that the grill stayed level and kept the flavor in the meat. That grill cooked so many meals in my dorm room.

But his ass had nothing to do with this grill, the actual inventor got screwed

A bully and a criminal. Disgusting.

I bought the 4 patty grill. Best investment in my young life.

Yup, I still love mine.

Lol 3 ppl out of many millions huh

Right?? I’m a 90s kid and never knew if anyone nowadays had appreciation for the George Foreman grill. It’s so good!! You can cook anything on it, and super fast. Honestly I think it should be a staple in any kitchen.

Ok, foreman Salesperson

I bought my mom the 6 or 8 burger version to replace the 2 burger one my grandma got for us long ago. She still has the small one but rarely uses it

I still have the Foreman rotisserie and still use it all the time, and it is amazing.

Same here, but I inherited it after her passing and still use it to this day. I’m still afraid to use the Presto Hotdogger (electrocutes hotdogs).

​@@ssaraccoiiThat sounds interesting! Electrocuted hot dogs!

Did you drain the fat into a cup and then drink said fat?

Toaster ovens were pretty popular for that reason as well.

@brodriguez11000 She actually gifted me one of those, too. I loved the one we had at home as a kid/teenager and used it fairly often, so she figured that I needed my own. Toaster ovens are underrated, in my opinion. They're so useful and versatile. I had my regular oven break in my first apartment and it took a while for the landlord to get it fixed because the part he needed for it had to be ordered and it took several days to get it. My toaster oven really came in handy during that time.

Honestly, I don't think the grill would've sold as well with Hulk Hogan. He's in your face and a living cartoon and people would've gotten tired of him quickly. George Foreman, on the other hand, comes off as a genuinely nice guy.

Hogan has a long history of embellishing and outright fabricating stories to make himself look better. He's even told two conflicting versions of how he missed out on the George Foreman grill, and both of Hogan's versions conflict with the accounts of others. In one version, Hogan says he was offered deals for the grill and a meatball maker. Hogan claimed he not only chose the meatball maker, but that he is the one that suggested the grill be offered to his friend George Foreman. The problems with this version of Hogan's account are that no one else ever mentioned Hogan's alleged involvement and Foreman's lawyer has said that it was Foreman's decision to look for a "hamburger maker" endorsement deal that set everything into motion. In the other version, Hogan says that while picking up his kids from school, he missed a phone call that was offering deals for the grill and a battery-powered blender to both him and to George Foreman. Hogan claimed that in the few hours it took before he was able to return the call, Foreman had already taken the grill offer and Hogan was left with the blender. The problem with this version of Hogan's account is that everyone else has said it took months for Foreman to accept the grill offer. I think the "Hulk Hogan Thunder Mixer" might also have been released a few years after the George Foreman Grill. More than a decade later, when everyone was jumping aboard the knock-off grill bandwagon (such as Holyfield's "Real Deal Grill"), Hogan joined in with his own "Hulk Hogan's Ultimate Grill".

@@BainesMkII came here to expose hogan for his well known lies. Thanks for taking care of the job. 🤝

@@BainesMkII I WAS TOO BUSY TURNING METALLICA DOWN TO CHECK OUT THAT GRILL PROPERLY, BROTHER!

Hogan is also a notorious liar. He's also claimed that he was up for both bass player in Metallica (debunked by Lars Ulrich) and the lead role in The Wrestler (debunked by director Darren Aronofsky).

'It's so easy when you're busy' sounds like a George Foreman Grill tagline

@@windows.95 😅

Hulk Hogan also made a quick service restaurant kiosk in the Mall of America called Pastamania....during the height of anti-carb craziness. Kind of like starting a food court restaurant called "Only Egg Yolks" in the 1970s when the teevee said egg yolks would klll you. (They later said they were fine, but egg whites were bad, then they were a super-food..and now I think eggs are racist).

Not a sports guy, huh?

Until this video, I thought he was some famous cook!! The things we learn...

​@@apostoloszacharopoulos8171 damn

​@Jay Cuthbert "Michael Jordan the world famous shoe designer" 😂

No its hilarious😂

he would not put his name on anything that he thought was just cheap garbage. he of course was so impressed with these grills he did and well the rest is history. well after 20 years there sales are not what they used to be you still see them everywhere and they do indeed sell. hell i still have mine.

As soon as I clicked this video I could almost taste the chicken breast. I made so much chicken breast as a kid with this thing too. Also used lemon pepper 😂

Nonstick spray, my friend. It’s a George Foreman Grill’s best friend. No sticking, everything slides right off with a wet paper towel. I use the olive oil nonstick spray because, health. Cleaning it while it’s still somewhat hot helps a lot too.

Thanks Lisa, I'll give it a try.

You paid too much. $20 at Walmart

old ones hard to clean. not really you just wiped them down with a wet towel. i still have mine still easy to clean.

100% agree. Never had anything else that cooked salmon perfectly like the Foreman.

I've got the jumbo size so I can do a full salmon filet. I use Tone's salmon seasoning from Sam's and it turns out perfectly in about 5 minutes.

It is, but there's no way it would have been popular if he didn't endorse it. It would have been another failed invention. Strangely enough, I have heard Hulk Hogan claim they came to him first (or maybe after Foreman turned it down the first time). I don't think that would have worked either.

With as much as Hogan lies about pretty much anything and everything, who knows how much stock you can put into that story. In any case I definitely thought this would be one of those infomercial products that got a hot start and then flopped drastically, but I remember most people in my family and at college had one. I didn't know they were still pretty popular to this day though. I know money isn't an issue for him, but instead of being bought out completely I would have lowered my earned percentage and signed the naming rights over for maybe 10 years to see what would've happened with the product and renewed it if it was successful. That would have been a life long stream of income from how those things are still selling well today because it's a quality product.

“PROFITS” it would have zero popularity aka zero profits without George who was very popular at that time. Not difficult math.

They've got 'em in thrift stores. Usually don't have the grease recepticle, but you could use a tin pie pan instead. About $10.

@@HootOwl513 I melted my first grease trap lol

@@fabricatedego That must be why the grease traps are so rare. I did find one at a Goodwill. Probably 99 cents. They had no clue what it was.

They were popular in Australia certainly, still a lot of them around today, and it's a genuinely good product despite the hype. It actually does cook quickly and well. In addition to household use I've seen quite a few used on construction sites where power is available. A hot lunch cooked in 10 minutes works well when time is limited and you don't have an actual kitchen.

Everyone I knew owned one in the UK, they sold like crazy for something that was basically just a toastie/panini press. I seem to remember those multi-color units being the real popular ones, sometime around 1998-2001. I can't say why exactly but there was a giant global pent up demand for a little grilling machine at the time, it was quite strange.

I'd never heard of anyone using one either, but my dad got a knock-off from another company and only used it a couple of times. I tried it once and thought it was awkward to clean so it's been sitting in my basement for 20+ years.

Hahahaha fucking A

You can tell people you got hit by George Foreman. I like that.

Yes me too ❤

Considering Hogan's other tall tales. Such as being offered the spot to be the new bassist in Metallica. I highly doubt this one as well.

I'll have to look at Goodwill then. I'd like to have another one!

I heard that at least somewhere in the late 90s early 2000s,they were a main cause for house fires

One of the earliest in the USA was sold by DAK. DAK was a company that sold all kinds of high end appliances and audio equipment at bargain-ish prices, through ads in magazines like Popular Science. IIRC their story on the bread maker was a company in Japan invented them but sales were slow due to most apartments there being small with thin walls and using the timer setting to start mixing the dough early in the morning so it'd be ready for breakfast wasn't popular due to the noise of the machine. Not a problem for most American houses that have the kitchen well away from the bedrooms. Another product from DAK was headphones with neodymium magnets, small but with good sound, like the ones SONY sold with their Walkman but for less $ than from SONY. They also did things with a strictly limited number available. One was some high end home stereo speakers which the manufacturer had mistakenly installed the wrong tweeters in, a lower spec paper cone one instead of the correct horn tweeter. Rather than run them back through the production line to swap the tweeters, the manufacturer sold the whole "defective" run to DAK, along with the correct tweeters. DAK then sold them through their magazine ads, with instructions on how to switch the tweeters.

This. The sugar industry successfully campaigned to demonize fat, fully aware that fat isn't the bad guy, sugar is. No fat = no flavor and dry meat. Many vitamins can only be absorbed via fat, as well. A, D, E, and K, specifically.

Embarrassing 😂😂

Usually the only one that says he turned this down is Hulk Hogan

ahhh yes good old Hulk Hogan. the man who wrestled 400 days in a year. the man who was suppose to be the main choice for The Wrestler. the man who watched Harley Race burned down a ring and asked Hogan for a job in the WWF. the man who supposedly worked hurt against The Rock at Wrestlemania X8. the man who said The Undertaker fucked his neck when he took the tombstone in Survivor Series ‘91. the man who was being courted to the UFC during its early days. the man who challenged Mike Tyson to a real fight during his WCW days and Tyson backed out. the man who was the one to tap Kevin Owens as the next big star in the WWE when KO was in NXT. and yes the man who lost out on the George Foreman Grill because he was picking his kids up for school. but my favorite is when he slammed Andre The Giant in Wrestlemania 3. he tore 29 muscles in his back because Andre weighed over 700 pounds. and then Andre died “a FEW DAYS” after the match. and despite tearing 29 muscles, he didn’t miss a show. the point i’m trying to make is Hulk Hogan is known to a pathological liar. so take what he says with a grain of salt. there’s literally 20 minute videos discussing many many MANY lies this fool told.

@@markjackson6431 yes, I believe that is the same Hulk Hogan

He was a moron then without any foresight. Why would you choose to invest in an appliance that prepares food over an appliance that actually cooks the food. Choosing the appliance the provides the most convenience and utility is b-b-b-basic rationale.

The grill most likely wouldn't of sold aswell as it did if Hogan endorsed it. Foreman had just won the heavyweight championship at 45 and credited it to the grill.