Unboxing a SEALED 1981 Ronco Egg Scrambler!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ต.ค. 2024
- Today I unbox and review a 1981 factory-sealed "In The Shell Egg Scrambler" from Ronco!
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It’d be cool if you could do more of these older products that haven’t been open
Seconded
They had a new one that does it differently about a couple years ago.
I have a Ronco "Set it and forget it" rotisserie oven. It still works as advertised, exactly. Never had a bad result with it. One funny thing, though. Just inside the package it came in was a LARGE orange card that said, "Do not take the phrase, 'Set it and forget it' literally. Do not leave unattended." Wait! That was a major selling point! Go figure.
I just got my replacement top ( the piece that sets on the top and cooks other stuff while it's roasting meat and I actually love it except for the fact that the non stick Teflon falls apart and I have the biggest one they made , noticed that the part came from Intel.
Guess I need to be more careful with the glass door, I took it off to clean it a few years ago and dropped it, broke into a thousand pieces and I had to request a replacement. Where will I get more stretchy chicken binding strings now? Or the bigger basket I was always going to order?!
@@thomaspaden4072 ebay I guess or if you stumble upon it on facebook marketplace or a garage sale.
I can still remember Ron Popeil and his Ronco products.
😀
You need to make a series on old on "old school" seen on TV products. #olscchoolseenontv
I agree! Thought the same thing. Awesome to see products that were made back then an seeing the results. I'm a 80's baby born 83' :-)
Please do more!
Proper 80s safety standards. Metal spike sticking straight up!
Lol yep
Yea that device is extremely dangerous ,one might poke an eye out or end up having it stuck in their foot or worst of all getting their long hair stuck in it.
@@jamesadams893 you are why they have to label Bleach as do not drink.
yeah, we had to be a little careful with that, and kept it in the box when not in use. There are also knives in our kitchen we're careful about.
@@treytavares1727 haha I think he was being sarcastic, but you never know these days
This brought me a hilarious level of anxiety when you're initially piercing the egg.
I think it's a awesome idea to do reviews on those old school items.
Sadly Ronco went out of business in 2018. But it's still a really cool item!
Really? That’s a shame, Ron is a legend.
Damn it! Just a year late. Well, if they were going out of business I don't think they would've honored the warranty anyways, lol
They also changed their headquarters to Austin TX so given the address on the postcard, even if they were still open for business, they wouldn't have gotten it.
@@fdsman I can't wait to see the face on the guy who gets the mail and gets that card.
No shut sherlock.
"There was no Wish back in 1981" hahah oh, the good old days
wow, those batteries tho
omg and that registration card hahaha
"Hey good lookin! I'll be back to pick you up later!" and this time the good lookin was the Egg Scrambler. Nice job, Ron Popeil. Thanks for all the gadgets.
When you opened the box, did it smell like 1981 air ?
🤣
You know back then the packages were treated better than they are now..
Informative as always, and also hilarious. I grew up in a world of C batteries. And when you put the unit on the table it look like a little tiny plastic birdbath. You rock!
I was a year old when that came out. I also remember watching Ron Popeil on tv. “But wait....there’s more!”
"Order right now and we'll also include ..."
Now, what would you pay?
Set it and forget it!
No blister pack! Save the environment! Uh, 6 c cell batteries? Damn the environment!
Very cool to see that Ronco Egg scrambler still worked!! I do remember seeing the ads for that when I was a kid! Since I was a weird kid, I probably thought it was cool just to scramble the eggs in the shell!
AHHH, Ronco the commercials of my childhood before the infomercial.
Id watch the Showtime Rotisserie and Flavor injector commercials and drool over the meats they prepared. It was like a mini food network.
He technically invented the infomercial as well to promote his stuff :)
@@Amokra I know, but I'm 48 so I remember the short commercials for his stuff from 1970s/80s before that.
@@__aceofspades I know, but I'm 48 so I remember the regular commercials for his stuff from 70s/80s.
Good old Ron Popeille
I had to laugh out loud when you gave the egg a couple more seconds. Omg, you're really cracking me up today. "How outdated seeing those eggs in the bowl" LOL 🤣😂🤣 I LIKE HOW WELL IT SCRAMBLED THE EGGS THOUGH.
Wow, it's nice to know that it still worked after all these years.
What? No Bailey? I want a refund. Great and amusing video anyway.
This product changed the way I thought about eggs. I would wake up every morning dreading the chore of having to use a fork to scramble my eggs before cooking them. Ugh, what a nightmare! Then Ronco came along and changed everything! An in the egg egg scrambler! Now I jump out of bed, excitedly remove the In the Egg Egg Scrambler from the closet, and start scrambling my eggs while still inside the shell!!! Genius! Thank you Ronco!!
LOL! Said like a perfect commercial within the infomercial testimony!
Ah the 80s when manufacturers didnt know about printed circuit boards. :D
They knew about them and used them quite a lot. In a device this simple, with the motor and switch at the top, and batteries at the bottom, where would you put a circuit board and how would it help?
Freakin’ Retro reviews I love it! Would be cool if you do more of these.
Companies need to start using cardboard again instead of plastic. Better for the environment.
Better for one's sanity.
Hemp is the way to go
Bad for the trees tho. Now if we could just get the US government to legalize hemp, we'd have a renewable substitute for wood as well as many other products
mszoomy They already have in a variety of different uses. You can buy a lot of body/beauty related products with hemp as an ingredient as well as other items. It hasn’t caught on as much as it should but with time and obviously the legalization of actual marijuana, there will be a lot more byproduct that will open up more and newer uses
Bad for trees therefore even more bad for the environment, plastic can be melted down and reused over and over again.
This took me back to the 80’s! I love the old “as seen on TV” product reviews.
What a neat little simple (and extremely cheaply made) device! I'm actually amazed at how well it works. I want one, because I think this is much better than cracking an egg into a bowl and stirring it up.
Why watch a Galaxy Fold unboxing when you can watch a 1981 Ronco Egg Scrambler being unwrapped :) lol
Used to own 1 back in 79 and I liked it, used it all the time made scrambling eggs fast and easy
You should definitely for more older products like this, would be really interesting after a while to see a old vs new once you amass a catalog of legacy products
LOL, that’s awesome, I was born in 1981!
I was 12 yrs old in 1981! I remember this from the commercials. Great find!
a big rip to all the eggs that have been sacrificed for this channel
i hardly knew ye
(awesome content, dude!)
I think it would be cool if you did more reviews of old “as seen on tv” products every now and again.
We had one of those back in the 1980s. The in-laws gave it to us as an x-mas gift. As I remember, we did use it for quite a while before it bit the dust. Hubby used it for the novelty of scrambling the egg in the shell. I used it so as not to get more items dirty (this was before we got a dishwasher. LOL).
We actually had one of these back when they were new and really liked it. It meant one less thing to wash and it did a really good job mixing the yolk and egg white. Heck... I wish I still had mine (I think my brother stole it).
This is an awesome review on a old product. Ronco did make some good items. I have a few items that still work.Try finding one of those roasters that would do a whole turkey or chickens made by Ronco. And do let us know about the warranty card you sent.
what a tripped out product and the wiring looks scary
it just shows you how far we have come in tech and mass manufacturing
I still have a POPEIL POCKET FISHERMAN !! Thank you James
Ron Popeil came out with so many good inventions
James......idea!
Ebay has a few "RonCo Pocket Fisherman " still new in the box. Would you consider that?
I loved this product and the salad shooter.
This was great for blowing out eggs. It made it so easy for that.
What what? A new old review?? Ah yea!
Hey James that is very cool, Hey by using it you wouldn't have to clean a few extra dishes. I have been going through some of my mothers storage. I have been finding some old Microwave gadgets from when microwaves first came out. There is this Microwave pot. My mother actually cooked a whole pot roast and sides in it in the microwave. I could not tell the difference. What happened to that old technology. I mostly remember all the old Car polishes that were as seen on TV. I bought one called Auri I think, It did nothing. Then something called Durashine. This was the most amazing stuff I had ever used on my car. Would completely repel pollen and dust, along with a showroom shine that lasted for a few months. I guess the big name brands had it removed. Oh well . Great Job. Have a wonderful day. Be safe.
Goo goo gjoob.
I think we need to start calling you the Eggman.
Yeesh that thing is older than me.
Funny! Your so happy. Haha. Good chuckle in the morning.
I happened to watch emmymadeinjapan’s video on this product today fo4 the first time, and now I see you uploaded one! what a coincidence
I love Emmy's channel. Her voice is so soothing and she seems to be a lovely person.
I think was great about it is the fact you don’t have to wash an extra bowl and wisk. Just pop the thing on there and boom scrambled. Plus its a little quicker.
One thing is the packaging is not a ton of plastic but the product is. Most items are not just plastic and cheap but they are over packaged in plastic. I would say if they were going to improve this product I'd say they need to make the needle should be solid when the machine is off. It is so nice to see what the yester year had to offer us and to compair it to what is offered you shore can see some differences.
I know it would be difficult, and expensive, but it would be cool to see more vintage "As seen on T.V. " products.
LOL This guy looks exactly like a Runescape Bot
Love your Show! Yes, I did get two asotv items, vintage pocket fisherman and a record vac. The pocket fisherman works great. The record vac is for display. I collect vinyl records so I picked it up for fun. Thanks
I'm a 63 year old Mom, Grandma, Great Grandma LOL and I remember when this item came out and the only thing I thought was How lazy do people have to be to need a machine to scramble your eggs. LOL , Same with the egg Crackers, the things people buy, on the otherside this brings back alot of my memories of a younger me. 😊
I totally remember seeing commercials for this. This was a great trip back in time. Thanks!
"one, one thousand, two, one thousand, three, one thousand..." I thought everyone knew this way to better count seconds. LOL!
The Mississippi count is a far superior counting system really.
floyd2386
The Elephant counting system is quite good too. A great alternative for anyone with a noticeable lisp.
Back then a lot of things took C and D batteries now I don't think you can find pretty much anything that takes it it's all rechargeable or triple and double A's times changed so much
This made sense to me when it was revealed, dude seems quietly collegiate
Or those button cell batteries that cost more to replace then the item they're in
The lights on my slot machine takes c, but unfortunately it doesnt work. (The machine works, just not the light)
Cool. A rotisserie cooker and food dehydrator would be a fun review as well. Great review dude.
Ronco went into liquidation last year! The building in Elk Grove Village (look at it on Google Maps; it’s huge) is now occupied by a dozen tenants.
Happily its major competitor, K-tel, is still in business primarily due to its extensive 50s era music catalogue. Every time you play The Twist or Tutti Frutti, an old lady in Winnipeg gets her share (and Little Richard does not).
James you really know how to make good content. I love watching your videos
In the late 70's early 80's I grew up with my parents and three younger siblings. Every Saturday night I was the oldest and my father allowed me to stay up with him to watch Saturday night live which was followed by 'Night Stalker' a drama in those years with a cop chasing monsters etc. ...
Anyway... at that time Saturday Night Live had all kinds of fake commercials that came on in between skits that were actually skits and not commercials. I remember clearly this Ronco in the egg Egg Scrambler commercial showing while we were watching SNL one Saturday night. We laughed our ass off! We saw the commercial a second time and laughed even harder thinking the SNL crew set it up.
It took us seeing the commercial about 4-5 times during SNL then when it showed while we were watching Night Stalker and it showed again I forget if it was my father or me that realized it was a real commercial, but we did realize it was real. Upon the realization it was a real commercial we laughed even harder it was belly laughing near dry heaves laughter. It was so outrageous at the time and we laughed first that it was ridiculously funny spoof, then laughed that we had been fooled and it was real, then laughed that this product was real.
I'll never forget that laughter and I will always remember the Ronco "In the Shell Egg Scrambler" as a good time with my father simply enjoying each other's company during father and son time.
LOL watching you fill out the warranty card was the best part.
Lol, oh blimey, I was 17 then..Ronco stuff was awesome, if only the entertainment value! My favourite (I think it was Ronco) was the vacuum cleaner hair cutter!! 😁 😁 ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Why did you do that you made me feel old cause back in 81 I was about 5 yrs old at the time that came out and I was in kindergarten darn it I'm 44 yrs old will be 45 in December of this year that is so mean😢😁👍👍👍👍👍.
I couldn't resist streetviewing the address on the warranty card. It looks just like those kind of grim industrial areas that I used to work in back in the 1980s. And Google even arranged an overcast sky to give it just the right "dying days of industry" vibe.
That would be so impractical to make a large batch of scrambled eggs for your family. I'm impressed it still works! Half the time the new as seen on tv stuff doesn't even work but this 30 year old thing does! lol
I saw a Ronco Rotisserie at a thrift store a few years ago and I believe it was being sold for like $10. It was out of the box and I don't think it came with any of the add-ons, but it was really cool to see one after all these years.
I loved the scrambler when I was a kid, as liquid chickens always grossed me out, but now that I'm 64, they still gross me out. I hope you let Bailey have a lick of that Ronco ice cream!
Haha I totally remember RONCO and the egg scrambler. More vintage product vids please
You save on cleanup time! Old fashioned way you end up with washing a bowl and whisk... versus with Ronco you can wipe off the pin and BOOM... done cleaning (aside from the pan used for cooking of course.)
I worked for McDonalds for a year back in the 80's, and they used an industrial version of that thing to scramble eggs. If you make a lot of scrambled eggs, it's totally worth it... I loved using it!
Smokeless ash tray? Record cleaner? Christmas light tester? All the record albums? So many Ronco products to test now. You have opened a Pandoras Box of my childhood lol. I was just thinking about this egg scrambler the other day. Awesome review. Must have really stung opening that box lol.
Ronco products seem to be very good quality stuff, I have the pasta maker and rotisserie that I got from thrift store several years ago. Both works great still, consider both are 20+ year old. The rotisserie really save my life for thanksgivings and other holidays meals.
what is it like when you hard boil the egg after scrambling it?
I wanna know too! It would probably taste amazing.
Scramble your self and cook it. There are other ways to scramble eggs inside the shell. Look at TH-cam you should find some.
good question, there are eggcookers that require the same piercing seen here so it could be a good experiment now I wonder
I remember back in the day many laughed hysterically at these. But apparently they DO work!
Hey buddy I know you did this thing a year ago but you don't need that machine to scramble an egg or a bowl or a whisk all you need is a sock or a long sleeve or stocking you put it in there twirl around pull both ends and it shakes it so vigorously scrambles the egg inside without punching a hole in it I'm sure you've seen it before and this way you can hard boil a scrambled egg that's really nice let me know what you think thank you PS keep up the good work love your videos
They do sell these under a different name so you can still get them and they are streamlined. When you opened the box and said 80s cardboard I thought you were gonna show us a picture of you back in the day. 😊
Sears sold a Sears branded version of this sing. My mom worked for Sears and brought one home. I remember playing with it when I was a little little kid. It was kind of stupid so I mostly remember it living mostly untouched in the cabinet over the refrigerator.
Hahah, 6 batteries 😳 You can run a whole house on them! 😂
Had one then I upgraded. I have a Scrambler now that is best described as a Pocket Scrambler - (think Pocket Pen Light). Just takes 1 AA battery.
I'm surprised you didn't Hard Boil at least one of the Eggs. But heads up, if I remember right they are even harder to get out of the shell. I Love silicone cookware.
This review made me start singing Weird Al's "Mr. Popiel" song. Haven't thought of that one for a LONG time. :)
My Dad bought one for my Mom. Every time we pushed the egg down, the egg broke so we couldnt get nit to work. But i wanted so bad to make a hardboiled-scrambled egg. You should make one so we can see what a hardboiled-scrambled egg looks like and tell us what it tastes like. I remember the commercial stating you can hardboil the scrambled egg IN THE SHELL.
Ronco...Pocket fisherman!!!....I remember all those Ronco commercials....Ron Popeil and his spray on hair for balding....The food saver vacuum sealer was the first infomercial I remember getting bombarded with constantly on T.V. for years... Old Rondo is worth a cool 150 million....
Ok, if we start seeing ads for this product then we know James has some real influence
I remember watching the Ronco ads as a kid. It was part of the Christmas season
I was only 11 years old when this came out lol. Great video James x
G'Morning! Did you ever review the Popeil Pocket Fisherman??I knew a guy kept one in his tackle box as a "backup", don't know what to! He said it did work, but wasn't super great. I guess in a pinch, when you just GOTTA fish! hahahahaha!!! Pet da Bailey for me, okay?? Love that puppy!!!
The reason it takes 6 batteries is because it's just a 9 volt motor (more likely a 12v motor being underpowered). You could use a single 9 volt and power the machine just as well, but why not use 6 batteries for longer life?
Ron Popeil is one of my personal heroes. One day I hope to invent something as successful as his ideas. I've been following as seen on TV products ever since I saw his commercials on TV, which is how I found this channel. Great to see you reviewing his classics - I'd love to see you test out his pasta maker!
Oh my Gosh! I owned one of these when they first came out. Well my parents owned one I was only 8. But it never worked very well.
Love this egg product reviews channel lol
Great video
I remember these! Amazing you got one!
PLEASE try and find more old-school ASOTV products and do reviews on them. I love this blast from the past.
I still have mine. Works as advertised.
I still have my ronco "Mr. Microphone". It still works suprisingly.
Maybe James will see your comment and reach out to you and review this on a new video of his. Bet he could work out the shipping both ways with you, etc. and could then ask his viewers if they have any older "as seen on TV" products that they could have him review. I really enjoyed this video and it would be really cool to see him review other older "as seen on TV" products.
@@beanshady Yeah, I would be willing to do that, though mine shows it age a lot. I got it in 1978 so it is 41 years old. Sure dates me huh? LOL!
Wow, RONCO that BRINGS back memories. They were big back in the day. 😂
BOY, do you bring back memories!
Hey James, intriguing review of an interesting product. I don't know if word of this got to you or not but the man behind Ronco, Ron Popeil sadly passed away last week. I know this may be a challenge but in honor of him, would it be possible for you to do more Ronco product reviews?
You clearly had fun with that, which was fun to watch! Keep up the great work!! :)
No one can ever resist doing the shave and the haircut tune lol
Someone, somewhere, has been waiting for that exact product registration to be sent in. Their life purpose has been fulfilled
Yes, I have. Emmy reviewed the exact product except it was an outlet powered scrambler.
I normally cook a dozen eggs at a time, so that gadget would take me forever to scramble that many. So cool seeing it though, I remember the commercials😃
I Listen to old time radio on Sirius XM and heard a vintage add about buying a TV for $250.00 in 1948.
It's now M D C Wallcoverings at that address. Not sure what they do if you were at all curious!
Thanks for sharing. Wish will be selling them soon now.