Every Labor Day Weekend, I go off with some friends to a family camp down on the Chesapeake Bay. The first night we get there, the camp staff always lights a big bonfire for us and we stand around toasting marshmallows and making s'mores. Part of the fun of it is working to find that right angle and that perfect pocket of heat that will slowly brown the marshmallow instead of setting in ablaze, leaving you with a charred outside and a still-cold inside. I like that roasting marshmallows over an open fire is an activity that has been mostly unchanged for years and is one that requires little pre-planning or special equipment.
This is why I'm a little perplexed by this gadget I spotted being advertised today. It's called a Spinmallow and it is a motorized marshmallow toasting device. I think it's a clever idea and yet I can't help but feel sort of disappointed by it, that we can no longer just find a find a serviceable stick and rotate it ourselves.
What do you all think? Useless gadget or brilliant brainchild?
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10-22-2007 @ 11:47AM
Maman said...
That is the silliest device I have ever seen! How lazy do you have to be to not want to rotate your own marshmallow....
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10-22-2007 @ 12:35PM
wintem01 said...
Thank GOD someone has finally come up with this life-changing apparatus!! My hands have cramped into disfigured claw-like versions of their former selves from all the marshmallow turning I've done over the years. If only I had had one of these in my youth. Now I can sleep easier knowing that people everywhere will be spared the rigorous pains of turning their own marshmallows.
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10-22-2007 @ 8:15PM
Allison said...
I'm going to hell for this, but I don't think most of the people buying that will use it for *ahem* toasting marshmallows...
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10-23-2007 @ 10:44AM
jsmylie said...
Really, America? Really? In this time of rising obesity rates you're taking away the slight calorie burn you get from preparing your bundle of empty calories?
It's a brave new world.
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