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One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

rockygems123 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:49:08 GMT

It has to be at least 20 years since buying the Ron Popeil Professional Showtime Rotisserie from QVC. It's the big one that fits on a stand and can be used indoors or outdoors.

We mostly use it for prime rib, cooked one tonight as needed to get it out of the freezer. Will be making prime rib & barley soup with leftovers this weekend as it will be raining, so good!

Ron Popeil was a favorite he was quite the inventor.

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

WRXtoo — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:05:28 GMT

My favorite is also a kitchen appliance: a Nessco 18 qt. roaster. It's close to 30 years old and still going. Turkeys, prime rib, and I used it as a second oven a few times for berry pies and brownies.

ETA: @rockygems123 Now you've made me hungry for prime rib!

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

FLtricia — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:17:08 GMT

I still have my Rotisserie from Ron Popiel. Mine did not come with a stand, I got it when they first came on QVC. We also love prime rib on it. I make this every Christmas. And now, after 20+ years, I cross my fingers that it will work long enough to finish the roast.

I also loved the Popiel pasta maker. The pasta was so tender. Unfortunately it did not last very long.

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

rockygems123 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:31:32 GMT

@WRXtoo wrote:
My favorite is also a kitchen appliance: a Nessco 18 qt. roaster. It's close to 30 years old and still going. Turkeys, prime rib, and I used it as a second oven a few times for berry pies and brownies.

ETA: @rockygems123 Now you've made me hungry for prime rib!

@WRXtoo

That is one of my favorite appliances too, love my Nesco roaster! Have used if for many years also.

This will be an incentive for prime rib lol, couldn't get the pic to load before of tonight's dinner. We use a local shop's prime rib rub, wowie it's good.

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

rockygems123 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:33:20 GMT

@FLtricia wrote:
I still have my Rotisserie from Ron Popiel. Mine did not come with a stand, I got it when they first came on QVC. We also love prime rib on it. I make this every Christmas. And now, after 20+ years, I cross my fingers that it will work long enough to finish the roast.

I also loved the Popiel pasta maker. The pasta was so tender. Unfortunately it did not last very long.

@FLtricia

I think the same way too, worry a bit that it will eventually quit. Maybe we'll be lucky and it'll keep going another 20 years. We use it at the holidays too. Such an easy and delicious meal.

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

Jacie — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:40:30 GMT

I don't know that it is a favorite, but I use it everyday. Years ago I bought the Black and Decker 18 volt handheld rechargeable hand vacuum. Still running.! We then bought the improved version, the 20 volt, we use both everyday, crumbs, animal hair, tracked sand and dirt, and on and on and on. A little workhorse.

Not even sure that QVC still carries it, but I would recommend it to anyone!

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

QVCkitty1 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:30:37 GMT

@rockygems123 wrote:
It has to be at least 20 years since buying the Ron Popeil Professional Showtime Rotisserie from QVC. It's the big one that fits on a stand and can be used indoors or outdoors.

We mostly use it for prime rib, cooked one tonight as needed to get it out of the freezer. Will be making prime rib & barley soup with leftovers this weekend as it will be raining, so good!

Ron Popeil was a favorite he was quite the inventor.

@rockygems123 , I use my Popeil Rotisserie for turkey breast . It stays juicy, but has that nice crispy crust.

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

rockygems123 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:08:33 GMT

@QVCkitty1 wrote:
@rockygems123 wrote:
It has to be at least 20 years since buying the Ron Popeil Professional Showtime Rotisserie from QVC. It's the big one that fits on a stand and can be used indoors or outdoors.

We mostly use it for prime rib, cooked one tonight as needed to get it out of the freezer. Will be making prime rib & barley soup with leftovers this weekend as it will be raining, so good!

Ron Popeil was a favorite he was quite the inventor.

@rockygems123 , I use my Popeil Rotisserie for turkey breast . It stays juicy, but has that nice crispy crust.

@QVCkitty1

That sounds wonderful I think I'll try it.

Do you use a rub and / oil or marinade?

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

beach-mom — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:04:26 GMT

We don't have them any longer, but when I was new to QVC I ordered 2 brown twig trees with lights. I think they were by Santa's Best. They were about 4 feet. And we put them on both sides of the front door.

They had choices for lights, on timer of course. Not only did they have single colors, but they had "seasons" lights. We had a button for Christmas. Spring, Patriotic, and Fall, and different settings like flashing, etc. So after Christmas was over, we did blue and sometimes white for January, red for February, green for March, then Spring. We switched to pink for Mother's Day, Patriotic for the summer, Fall, and usually purple or orange for Halloween. Orange or gold for Thanksgiving.

DS was a little boy when we got them, and he loved keeping track and "choosing" the colors when it was time to switch.

People always said they liked them and looked forward to seeing the different colors at night.

Some years ago one stopped working. I got in touch with someone from Santa's Best - the order was long gone from my history - and they emailed me directions and gave advice. The same one had a few more years, then nothing could be done. For a few years, until this past Christmas, the one worked. Then it started getting wonky, and what I used on the other one didn't work for this one. I couldn't find Santa's Best at all. So I took it down.

I still miss those trees. They put a smile on a lot of faces.

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

Nightowlz — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:09:20 GMT

We bought the Showtime Rotisserie at Home Depot when they had it on sale for $85. It's $155 on Amazon. It's easy to store. It makes the best Prime Rib.

Still have two Nesco ovens.

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

febe1 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:22:14 GMT

I have so many favorites. The one I'm enjoying right now is my Oriental Good Luck Tree. It was about $30., and arrived tiny, but healthy looking. This baby has taken many twists and turns, but today stands about 2-1/2 ft. tall, beautiful and healthy. I've been pretty lucky, too.

Another I use almost daily is my Cubii. What a great gift of health. I never feel "guilty" sitting too much and watching tv." I do 10,000 daily, weight 105, and have good strong healthy circulation. It has resistances to give a good work out and cardio.

I hope the Q keeps showing us new and special products and would miss it were it ever gone!

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

ciao_bella — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:07:07 GMT

I still have the original Cook's Essential OVAL pressure cooker. It was a TSV many, many years ago, and it's still going strong. Love the oval shape and, unlike people who own an Instapot, I don't have to deal with 'burn' notices, etc., that I'm reading many who own the Instapot deal with.

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

QVCkitty1 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:33:37 GMT

@rockygems123 wrote:
@QVCkitty1 wrote:
@rockygems123 wrote:
It has to be at least 20 years since buying the Ron Popeil Professional Showtime Rotisserie from QVC. It's the big one that fits on a stand and can be used indoors or outdoors.

We mostly use it for prime rib, cooked one tonight as needed to get it out of the freezer. Will be making prime rib & barley soup with leftovers this weekend as it will be raining, so good!

Ron Popeil was a favorite he was quite the inventor.

@rockygems123 , I use my Popeil Rotisserie for turkey breast . It stays juicy, but has that nice crispy crust.
@QVCkitty1

That sounds wonderful I think I'll try it.

Do you use a rub and / oil or marinade?

@rockygems123 , I just rub it with olive oil.

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

wagirl — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:03:23 GMT

What a fun subject here!!

I had 3 Nescos--the oval 6 qt, the 4qt and the big mama 18qt with many accessories that I had with it. Used them all the time--I gave the big one to a local church as I was moving and had no room for storage. I did use the small one alot as well as the oval --I donated them both.

The one Ron P. appliance I bought was the pasta maker--in fact I still have it--it worked great and I made pasta alot. So many fun shapes and used to flavor the pasta with various veggie juice.

I have the Slices Perfect --a cutting board with an insert for different thicknesses and a very long knife to slice up whole loaf breads--I use that every day on bagels.. It came from the 50/50 tour in 1995. Also the Fasta Pasta --that I have use exclusively for cooking pasta in the micro wave. I use that all the time too.

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

rockygems123 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:31:54 GMT

@wagirl wrote:
What a fun subject here!!
I had 3 Nescos--the oval 6 qt, the 4qt and the big mama 18qt with many accessories that I had with it. Used them all the time--I gave the big one to a local church as I was moving and had no room for storage. I did use the small one alot as well as the oval --I donated them both.
The one Ron P. appliance I bought was the pasta maker--in fact I still have it--it worked great and I made pasta alot. So many fun shapes and used to flavor the pasta with various veggie juice.
I have the Slices Perfect --a cutting board with an insert for different thicknesses and a very long knife to slice up whole loaf breads--I use that every day on bagels.. It came from the 50/50 tour in 1995. Also the Fasta Pasta --that I have use exclusively for cooking pasta in the micro wave. I use that all the time too.

@wagirl

I remember that cutting board! I have the Magic knife that has adjustments for thicknesses too.

The 50/50 tours were so much fun!

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

wagirl — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:33:18 GMT

@rockygems123 ---I have that same knife----still use it. Yes, that was fun--back in the olden days!!

Re: One of My Favorite All Time QVC Purchases

shoekitty — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:03:04 GMT

Way back when, in the "olden days" of QVC they sold so,etching that was an ultra violet hand held pain reliever. You plugged it in, and the bulb on end became red and you rubbed on pain area? Does anyone remember the actual name of this? I would love one today. I loaned it to my daughter, and well....that was that, lol! I have looked online but don't seem to have it worded properly. I believe it was sold by sears at QVC.