Kitchen

[Linmo]

RIP Ron.  I purchased several of his products over the years.  I read that he sold his Ronco company in 2008 for over $50 million dollars.  What a go-getter!

[gizmogal]

Just think, we'll never again hear Ron say  "But wait, there's more!"

He was such an effective pitchman. One of a kind. RIP. 

[mom2four0418]

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@Linmo wrote:

RIP Ron.  I purchased several of his products over the years.  I read that he sold his Ronco company in 2008 for over $50 million dollars.  What a go-getter!

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He sold the company in 2005 for 60 million dollars.

[Linmo]

@mom2four0418 thanks for setting me straight.  I guess I need some new readers!

[marky]

I still use my Showtime Rotisserie.  I have a chicken defrosting right now to cook in it.  I will do so in his honor.  I still have the cassette tape that came with it when I purchased it from QVC many moons ago. 

He was certainly the calming showman--no yelling, no arm waving, no nonsense, just good information and demonstrations from a nice man that I trusted.  And my trust was justified as the oven still works as good as the first time I used it.   RIP, Mr. Popeil.

[FLgardener]

Ron was not just a pitchman. He was a visionary and inventor. I still want a pocket fisherman!

[Free2be]

That's sad.  I will think of him everytime I look at the tiny in-line holes in my kitchen flooring where I dropped the rotisserie wheel from his oven, or for the next few months until the new flooring gets laid.  RIP, RP.

[tobes]

@Northern Belle 2 death of a salesman!

[Nightowlz]

We have the EZ Store Rotisserie. Bought it when it was on sale for about $90 at Home Depot. Now it's about $167.

It makes the best prime rib. YUM!!!

RIP Ron.

[Mothertrucker]

I remember my Dad brining home a "Veg-O -Matic" in the '60's!! I loved it because he would make us fresh french fries with it! (It slices! it dices!)

I LOVED my Ronco Pasta Maker, the Food Dehydrator  and my Showtime Rotisserie, all of which I still have, and still work-

He was so clever- a brilliant inventor as well as pitchman- His pocket fisherman is still widely used, and that hair spray with the fibers for bald spots, well, as odd as it seemed at the time, is still pretty much the industry standard for hair "thickeners"- His Mr Microphone though the source of many parodies and was also a best seller..

I know none of us will live forever, nor do we want to, but there is something very sad to me about losing this icon..The way he fused sales  and  television was groundbreaking...he was someone that "came into my home", and my consciousness, in a way that no one else had done when I was a kid...and I was always comforted  to see him as an adult....

RIP Ron- You set the bar for all to follow- heck because of you, there ARE TV shopping networks!!!!