A typical George Foreman Grill. The George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine is a popular indoor grill promoted and created by boxing legend George Foreman. It is often promoted in infomercials and is manufactured by Salton, Inc. A typical George Foreman Grill in action. ...
A typical George Foreman Grill in action. ...
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Salton manufactures home appliances, notably the George Foreman series (since 1994) of contact grills and related devices. ...
It features a clamshell design with top and bottom teflon-coated heating surfaces. The meat rests upon the highest points of the teflon on a flat surface. There are large indentations that lead to a slanted surface for liquid fat and other coagulants to sluice down and away from the primary grilling items. The top grill has these slants lead to the bottom grill, and the bottom grill leads fats to the fat tray. The floating hinge allows the grill to remain in close contact with both the top and bottom of foods of various thicknesses. The George Foreman Grill is available in several different sizes and configurations. Since its introduction in 1995, over 55 million grills have been sold. George Foreman himself has made over $150 million from the sales of the grills[citation needed], more money than he made during his entire boxing career. The grill is said to "knock out the fat". In design, clamshell is a form resembling the shell of a clam, with the ability to open up in the same way. ...
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In 2006, the George Foreman "Next Grilleration" Health Grill was launched, aimed at the new generation of health-conscious young people. Foreman's grill has many uses for hamburger and other meats, but also can be used as a panini grill or to cook sandwiches or quesadillas. This article is about the sandwich. ...
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In April 2007, a new grill was announced that included speakers and MP3 player compability (such as the iPod) called the iGrill. iPod (fifth generation) in Apple Universal Dock, iPod nano (second generation) and iPod shuffle (second generation) iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched in 2001. ...
The Grill in popular culture
- On a 2006 episode of Hogan Knows Best, it is revealed that Hulk Hogan was offered the choice to either endorse this grill or a mixer. According to Hogan, he missed the call from his agent, and George Foreman stepped in as the official spokesperson for the grill, leaving Hogan with the "Thunder Mixer," which sold very poorly.
- In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer uses a mail sorter endorsed by George Foreman, which separated junk mail from good mail. It had a retractable drawer that functioned as the top half of a George Foreman Grill that Homer used to "grill" the junk mail, which he then peeled it off, put it on a bun, and ate it.
- In The Injury episode of the NBC show The Office Michael burns his foot on his George Foreman Grill while cooking bacon at the foot of his bed. When the episode re-aired on March 29, 2007 HR Nightmares featuring Toby explaining that Michael spent three months inventing a "foot safe" version of his Goerge Foreman Grill, which was just a George Forman Grill in a rabbit cage. Michael called it "The Magic No-Ouchie Meat Machine." The characters from time to time called it a "Foreman Grill."
- In the 30 Rock episode The Rural Juror, Tracy Jordan designs a "meat machine" (Called "The Tracy Jordan Meat Machine") that eliminated bread out of sandwiches by grilling meat into a "food ball", and was basically a George Foreman Grill lacking a grease tray. Jack Donaghy passed this idea to one of GE's subsidiaries, a North Korean meat company. When Tracy found out it shot jets of burning grease, he said that he could not put his name on a product that could hurt others. Jack later gave his idea to Whoopi Goldberg.
- The show Drake and Josh parodied the grill, naming it the The Gary Grill after actor Gary Coleman. The grill had an internal MP3 player that makes it similar to the new iGrill (though the iGrill needs to connect to an external MP3 Player). The show was done before the iGrill was ever announced.
- In an episode of King of the Hill, Hank Hill meets George Foreman and refers to his product as a "novelty grill."
- In the "Raging Bender" episode of Futurama, George Foreman is a boxing announcer and decides to talk about his new grill, which delivers fat directly into his mouth.
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The Rural Juror is expected to be the ninth episode in the situation comedy series 30 Rock. ...
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The Gary Grill was the eighteenth episode of the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake and Josh. ...
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Raging Bender is episode 8 in season 2 of Futurama. ...
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- iGrill announcement
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