Before Dump Dinners, there was the Turbo Cooker. Recorded in July 2001, this infomercial features everyone's favorite infomercial chef, Cathy Mitchell.
This was in 2000. And while the 90s were over, the sentiment and style was the same until about 2001. Watch this, sip a Capri Sun, go play The Sims. Good times.
I remember watching this back then as a 19 year old and it was on late at night. No internet for me and many at that time and this what was on for entertainment. I never was gonna buy one of these but I was so intrigued by this woman's creative recipes and her charming personality there was something so calming about this half hour infomercial.
Right why did he say it like that? 😂 Almost like he was pissed that she kept making multiple things in the pan. Maybe she had already made like thirty multi course things, and we just didn't see those because of time restraints, and after each one, she would say variations of the phrase, "You can do multiple courses in the Turbo Cooker!" Maybe after the frozen corn, Fowler finally lost his shit. Way I heard it is, they edited it out, but he actually grabbed the Turbo Cooker with the frozen corn in it, and beat the director into a Turbo Coma. They had to hire a new director to finish the shoot, and because Fowler's actually the son of the CEO who owns the company that manufactured the Turbo Cooker, the original director had his medical bills covered as part of a settlement, and the rest of the crew were given large cash bonuses to sign non-disclosure agreements, so that what actually happened would be swept under the rug. The NDA had a stipulation stating that they weren't allowed to mention any part of the incident for twenty-one years (long enough to ensure that Joe Fowler would be retired by the time the agreement dissolved, so that news of the incident being made public could no longer damage his career, as he certainly wouldn't have that career anymore), otherwise they'd forfeit the bonus, or have to repay it if they'd already received it. The 21 years ended yesterday, and I was key grip on that set. That damned bonus wasn't nearly enough to cover the years of therapy I've needed to try and keep the image of Gary's battered body from being the last thing I see at night when I close my eyes to go to sleep, or to finally drown out the screams of "Multi course! Multi course! MULTI COURSE!", but I knew that nobody would get the bonus if one person refused (after all, what's the point in paying people not to squeal if one person squeals anyway?), and I knew that some of my co-workers needed that money bad. Plus it's not like having no money at all would've paid for more therapy. Well shit. Sorry to unload all that on you, a perfect stranger, but it feels good to get it all off my chest to someone besides my therapist. It's pretty horrifying, but at least Fowler can't hurt anyone anymore. Last I heard he was doing 25 years up at East Jersey State for arson. Tried to burn down a corn cob processing facility.
I used to see this infomercial all the time and begged my mom to get it. I think we made every recipe she shows here, but the only one we made more than once was the cupcakes with the cola cherries. That was actually quite good. The rest was meh. We'd make fajitas with cheap store-bought packs and they were just as good as the Turbo Cooker ones. The taco casserole was no better than hamburger helper. And you could only use it to make things in the recipe book. You couldn't try taking a regular meal and turning it into a Turbo Cooker meal unless you didn't mind wasting a lot of money on the ingredients and time trying to figure out how to go about it. But those cupcakes with the cherries really were good. Worth it.
When I was in college, we always watched cooking infomercials ... an entire Fraternity House worth of dudes would be drunk and/or stoned on the couch, watching cooking commercials. One night I was wasted and with enough encouragement, I ordered a "Set It And Forget It" ... aka, a Ronco Showtime Rotisserie oven by Ron Popeil ... Whatever it cost ... $200-$300 etc. ... and 8 weeks later, it shows up on the doorstep on day ... and we quickly realized, cooking was hard ... it doesn't magically pop out the shit that you see on TV... you have to go to the store and *buy* the Chickens and Pork Loins and Salmon and Burgers and Cornish Hens etc. -- having had the money for them to begin with -- and THEN cook them etc. -- Whenever we saw the Turbo Cooker commercial, we were like, "This is bullshit.... it doesn't actually work... this bamboozling biatch is trying to sell us some shit right here ... frying chickens with no oil and warming tortillas on top of taco meat with onions and Diet-Cherry-Cola-Brownies etc." ... I love her, but she's a cooking-conartist- conniving with her douchebag partner in crime lol, but I love it!
Right. Like Chef Randall. Chef Randall this, Chef Randall that. What's his first name, Cathy? Joe, do you know? Oh, nobody knows it. So he can't be tracked down. Slimy bastard.
Insted of being “wasted “ and “stoned” all the time at college why not do your actual study 😅 you would of been way better then being drunk with guys all the time
Growing up as a kid watching these, I've just noticed that the people giving opinions about the product aren't actually speaking, you're actually heating a voiceover, whereas the person could be saying that it sucks! 🤣🤣
My mom had one of these when I was a kid. We had it for several years, it worked great and held up well. I didn't even know she bought it off of an infomercial until just now lol And no, we didn't use it like they did in the commercials. These recipes look like shit. We used oil in it lol
I remember seeing a 90 or early 2000s video about food dehydrator I loved the kitchen lol it was a huge studio and was like it was in a jungle haha haven’t seen it since and can’t find it 😅 Vids like these are oddly relaxing and comforting
This guy was the perfect co-host for Cathy. He was enthusiastic but not in a hard to believe way. And he didn’t step on her toes or make it awkward. Dream team! He should’ve been in all her infomercials, where did he go??! 😫
He played a reporter in the movie Independence Day, but then there was something about him getting 25 years in prison for arson? I can't remember where I heard that though, so it may not be true.
@@theclaybor4352I just checked because it wouldn't have surprised me lol. Thankfully, it's not true. As it turns out, I'd seen him before. Besides being in Independence Day, which I didn't know until now, I remember him having a very brief stint in WWE in 1993.
Considering it’s for home and not a restaurant, it’s just a matter of preference. Nothing unsafe about it. Also, she did it to demonstrate that the flavors won’t seep. (Although, it’s an infomercial so who knows if that’s even true).
It was the same way for me, when I was a little kid and my mom was still alive and tried to get different kinds of food for dinner than she was cooking she would always tell me that our home and kitchen were not a restaurant.
Right! Before I could drive mom would say, "if you don't like what I'm fixing you can have cereal." When I could drive she would say, "if you don't like what I'm fixing you know where McDonald's is. "
i can't believe this is on youtube. my buddy and i used to catch this particular infomercial on late at night in high school, and for some reason we found it totally hysterical. every single one of her products espouses cathy mitchell's obsession with cooking by simply "dumping" ingredients in to a single vessel. it's like she grew up living entirely on casseroles and thinks it is the superior method for preparing just about anything. i'll also never understand her ubiquitous use of soft drinks in baking... like, why not just put the splenda powder in the mix? all using the drink does is leave behind sticky God-Knows-What chemical residues. The same for sugar. She really is just America's senile grandma let loose in the kitchen.
I agree, making pasta is normally labor intensive! Reminds me of the Cupcakinator from the Cat In The Hat movie, “you can make cupcakes out of anything!
It's too bad Ron Popeil didn't show up UNINVITED with his Showtime Rotisserie and BBQ and issue Kathy Mitchell and "Juicy" Joe Fowler with a NO Holds Barred Food Prep Showdown challenge.
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This was in 2000. And while the 90s were over, the sentiment and style was the same until about 2001. Watch this, sip a Capri Sun, go play The Sims. Good times.
This is the Truth right here boy!
Idiot. Probably born in 2000. You really need to say, "this was 2000"? Like we don't know.
@@RachelSWhite Who hurt you?
But it was "developed over several years" so it really is a product of the 90s.
@@Ser_Arthur_Dayne
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Cathy called the Temp agency and said clearly “Give me the big boy that can eat with great ohhhss”
This man has never had an actual decent meal in his life. Anything seems yummy to him. Brilliant.
😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's what always cracked me up about this infomercial, his expressions of absolute pleasure every time he took a bite. 😂😂
Vile
@@RobQuincyAdams He he reacted before he started chewing. I love Joe Fowler.
Cathy is the reigning queen of a one pot dinner
Love her🌺. Terrific cook.
All hail the queen!
Cathy Mitchell is DIALED IN on this one... also here for the soft hostman's O face when he enjoys Cathy's diet coke cake
I remember watching this back then as a 19 year old and it was on late at night. No internet for me and many at that time and this what was on for entertainment. I never was gonna buy one of these but I was so intrigued by this woman's creative recipes and her charming personality there was something so calming about this half hour infomercial.
Cathy's nails stay on fleek 💅
12:26 You get this remarkable tender
Ness to the meat…
Clearly she’s trying to read the cue card 😂
"Some frozen corn."
"MULTI COURSE!"
Right why did he say it like that? 😂 Almost like he was pissed that she kept making multiple things in the pan. Maybe she had already made like thirty multi course things, and we just didn't see those because of time restraints, and after each one, she would say variations of the phrase, "You can do multiple courses in the Turbo Cooker!" Maybe after the frozen corn, Fowler finally lost his shit.
Way I heard it is, they edited it out, but he actually grabbed the Turbo Cooker with the frozen corn in it, and beat the director into a Turbo Coma. They had to hire a new director to finish the shoot, and because Fowler's actually the son of the CEO who owns the company that manufactured the Turbo Cooker, the original director had his medical bills covered as part of a settlement, and the rest of the crew were given large cash bonuses to sign non-disclosure agreements, so that what actually happened would be swept under the rug.
The NDA had a stipulation stating that they weren't allowed to mention any part of the incident for twenty-one years (long enough to ensure that Joe Fowler would be retired by the time the agreement dissolved, so that news of the incident being made public could no longer damage his career, as he certainly wouldn't have that career anymore), otherwise they'd forfeit the bonus, or have to repay it if they'd already received it.
The 21 years ended yesterday, and I was key grip on that set.
That damned bonus wasn't nearly enough to cover the years of therapy I've needed to try and keep the image of Gary's battered body from being the last thing I see at night when I close my eyes to go to sleep, or to finally drown out the screams of "Multi course! Multi course! MULTI COURSE!", but I knew that nobody would get the bonus if one person refused (after all, what's the point in paying people not to squeal if one person squeals anyway?), and I knew that some of my co-workers needed that money bad.
Plus it's not like having no money at all would've paid for more therapy.
Well shit. Sorry to unload all that on you, a perfect stranger, but it feels good to get it all off my chest to someone besides my therapist. It's pretty horrifying, but at least Fowler can't hurt anyone anymore.
Last I heard he was doing 25 years up at East Jersey State for arson. Tried to burn down a corn cob processing facility.
@@theclaybor4352 people like you are the best part of the internet
@@SantisValiant Yeah, I found that to be a little bit "corny", corn on the cob with TACO casserole?
These infomercials are classic. In 2023 chances are you’ll find a barely used Turbo cooker at a thrift store near you lol
Mans grabbed a stack of raw pork, rubbed his hands with a towel and called it a day.
@@lenovovosalmonella is the point and cross contamination is another point.
I’m sure this wasn’t done in one take. It’s the magic of television.
I used to have a Math teacher in High School who sounded and talked exactly like Cathy Mitchell, LOL. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can totally picture Cathy putting me to sleep to the lull of an overhead projector.
Chef Randall going in for the full on kiss at 20:06 when Cathy clearly is extending a handshake 😂
He's not going to miss a trick!
He saw the picture of Cathy holding that giant zucchini in the Redi-Set-Go video and thought he could score.
@@e2theeyepielmfaooo
Chef Randall is giving me David Lee Roth vibes but with 60% less intensity
Has this poor man ever had a decent meal
😆😅🤣
Doubr it. Just look at his oversized fat stomach. Either he eats takout daily or has or is a horrible cook.
@@lcchocolate59 thats just mean \(0_o)/
I used to see this infomercial all the time and begged my mom to get it. I think we made every recipe she shows here, but the only one we made more than once was the cupcakes with the cola cherries. That was actually quite good. The rest was meh. We'd make fajitas with cheap store-bought packs and they were just as good as the Turbo Cooker ones. The taco casserole was no better than hamburger helper. And you could only use it to make things in the recipe book. You couldn't try taking a regular meal and turning it into a Turbo Cooker meal unless you didn't mind wasting a lot of money on the ingredients and time trying to figure out how to go about it. But those cupcakes with the cherries really were good. Worth it.
what is Cathy's obsession with adding soda to everything? It's in EVERY one of her informercials.
its a southern thing, it adds sweetness and is usually added with bbq sauces or desserts
Diet at that! Worse than regular! Then she adds sugar on top of it 😂
@@spootymaniacs I gotta try this cola cherry recipe sounds good
Oh if you think she's obsessed with Cola, you should see her with Cinnamon rolls.
@@hadla and notice how proud she is at the beginning because she kept out the oil!
I love how much of a daddy the co host is
When I was in college, we always watched cooking infomercials ... an entire Fraternity House worth of dudes would be drunk and/or stoned on the couch, watching cooking commercials. One night I was wasted and with enough encouragement, I ordered a "Set It And Forget It" ... aka, a Ronco Showtime Rotisserie oven by Ron Popeil ... Whatever it cost ... $200-$300 etc. ... and 8 weeks later, it shows up on the doorstep on day ... and we quickly realized, cooking was hard ... it doesn't magically pop out the shit that you see on TV... you have to go to the store and *buy* the Chickens and Pork Loins and Salmon and Burgers and Cornish Hens etc. -- having had the money for them to begin with -- and THEN cook them etc. -- Whenever we saw the Turbo Cooker commercial, we were like, "This is bullshit.... it doesn't actually work... this bamboozling biatch is trying to sell us some shit right here ... frying chickens with no oil and warming tortillas on top of taco meat with onions and Diet-Cherry-Cola-Brownies etc." ... I love her, but she's a cooking-conartist- conniving with her douchebag partner in crime lol, but I love it!
Right. Like Chef Randall. Chef Randall this, Chef Randall that. What's his first name, Cathy? Joe, do you know? Oh, nobody knows it. So he can't be tracked down. Slimy bastard.
Insted of being “wasted “ and “stoned” all the time at college why not do your actual study 😅 you would of been way better then being drunk with guys all the time
@@rollercoastercentral0808 Nah, it was much more fun to be a professional party animal and popularist.
@@Ser_Arthur_Dayne did u graduate ?
@@taykay7831 Nah I dropped out after my 3rd Freshman Year.
I've seen this infomercial when I was 7 years old, and it was amazing.
He's cooking an entire chicken, a full bag of pasta, an entire pan of veggies, and three pork chops - for a single dinner! Food isn't the issue.
...what's the issue?
Ikr? I’m like why the whole chicken with veggies when you already have veggies in a frying pan? 😂🤷♀️
Somebody PLEASE make a compilation vid of this guys face after he tastes the food every time 😩😩🤤🤤
And don't forget to add in when he says how moist it is 😅😅
That's a fascinating pair of pleated trousers Mr. Fowler is rockin'.
I remember begging my grandma to buy this after watching this information as a kid. 😁😂
did she?
Yes! Everything Cathy Mitchell made a commercial I begged my mom for lol
I REALLY remember this infomercial!! So many memories!
(Also, my grandma actually got one of these and it worked rather well for what it was.)
Growing up as a kid watching these, I've just noticed that the people giving opinions about the product aren't actually speaking, you're actually heating a voiceover, whereas the person could be saying that it sucks! 🤣🤣
The 1st Cathy Mitchell infomercial I ever saw was..the Snack-Master sandwich/and, pizzas🍕 🥪 maker..those "triangle" sandwiches, the triangle "wells"..I was 12 in..1990 :) 👍
Oil-less "healthy" cupcakes topped with mounds of syrupy cherries. Man, the 00s were a crazy time.
lol yeah it's low fat but it's gonna be made up with high sugar to compensate for taste.
And only a few years prior to this, Nutrigrain and commercial granola bars were seen as health foods when they're really only a few steps above candy.
00? This looks like the 80s or 90s.
@@RobQuincyAdamsI was similarly convinced as a kid that fruit snacks were “healthy”.
@@zjoyce1730 Same here lol.
My mom had one of these when I was a kid. We had it for several years, it worked great and held up well. I didn't even know she bought it off of an infomercial until just now lol
And no, we didn't use it like they did in the commercials. These recipes look like shit. We used oil in it lol
My family didn’t have cable... I saw this infomercial a few times. We definitely owned one of these. Made that cake a bunch of times. 😂
I remember this informercial would be on EVERY morning when I was woke up for high school . They played this constantly and it got old quick lol.
2nd comment... Chef Randall himself makes an appearance around 20:00 wearing a DENIM chef coat. Absolutely brilliant content right here
I watched this infomercial a ridiculous amount of times as a kid
Why
The OG Instant Pot.
Pressure cookers have been a thing for a long time
Has anyone noticed at 1:43 that the gas stove is installed right underneath some curtains? A fire hazard if I ever saw one!
Ya, oil is the problem. Not the sugar at all ...
Joe Fowler was everywhere back in the day
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He was , i member him advertise “ Ponderosa steak house” in the day.
I remember seeing a 90 or early 2000s video about food dehydrator I loved the kitchen lol it was a huge studio and was like it was in a jungle haha haven’t seen it since and can’t find it 😅
Vids like these are oddly relaxing and comforting
This is the dream team. These two could sell any random appliance to you
I've been on a kick watching Cathy Mitchell infomercials lately and man, these are so oddly relaxing to listen to.
Joe is cuddly
I left the oil out of the cupcakes
But i also used an entire can of coke in them
H E A L T H Y
She was pretty clear that it was half a can of Diet Cola in the cupcakes and the other half of the can of Diet Cola in the cherries mix ...
Overweight cooking expert shows us how to cook and eat super healthy alongside more overweight host / sidekick.
He has an unusually hot stocky body
I wonder how many of these are floating in the ocean right now...
Floating? I'd say very few of them unless they are in a lifeboat or something.
"It's healthy, it's good, and it's good for me. " A full packet of sodium loaded seasoning, but because there's steam it's healthy guys.
This guy was the perfect co-host for Cathy. He was enthusiastic but not in a hard to believe way. And he didn’t step on her toes or make it awkward. Dream team! He should’ve been in all her infomercials, where did he go??! 😫
He played a reporter in the movie Independence Day, but then there was something about him getting 25 years in prison for arson? I can't remember where I heard that though, so it may not be true.
fowler was in all kinds of infomercials.
@@theclaybor4352I just checked because it wouldn't have surprised me lol. Thankfully, it's not true. As it turns out, I'd seen him before. Besides being in Independence Day, which I didn't know until now, I remember him having a very brief stint in WWE in 1993.
I remember his pasta infomercial 🤣
@@theclaybor4352 Joe Fowler also had an early '90s WWF run briefly
John Fowler's body is shaped in such a weird way in this infomercial.
He’s got a dump truck
2:22
He's THICK. Big thighs and butt and a belly.
I think the pants are cut weird
Bae thq
Back when they were far more concerned with oil than sugar lol
Leaves oil out of cake mix because its "healthier" but then uses a whole can on diet soda. That makes total sense.
Wow! I had one of those. It worked wonderfully. We've come along way. I use to take mine when camping
it's almost like cross contamination isn't a thing in cathy's world.
lol and all foods cook in same time on same heat... pasta to break ur dang teeth lol
Considering it’s for home and not a restaurant, it’s just a matter of preference. Nothing unsafe about it. Also, she did it to demonstrate that the flavors won’t seep. (Although, it’s an infomercial so who knows if that’s even true).
what killed me was when he said everyone likes something different, Growing up what ever mom cooked you ate or you didn't eat.
It was the same way for me, when I was a little kid and my mom was still alive and tried to get different kinds of food for dinner than she was cooking she would always tell me that our home and kitchen were not a restaurant.
Right! Before I could drive mom would say, "if you don't like what I'm fixing you can have cereal." When I could drive she would say, "if you don't like what I'm fixing you know where McDonald's is. "
Has anyone ever seen Cathy Mitchell and Edie McClurg in the same room???
i can't believe this is on youtube. my buddy and i used to catch this particular infomercial on late at night in high school, and for some reason we found it totally hysterical. every single one of her products espouses cathy mitchell's obsession with cooking by simply "dumping" ingredients in to a single vessel. it's like she grew up living entirely on casseroles and thinks it is the superior method for preparing just about anything.
i'll also never understand her ubiquitous use of soft drinks in baking... like, why not just put the splenda powder in the mix? all using the drink does is leave behind sticky God-Knows-What chemical residues. The same for sugar. She really is just America's senile grandma let loose in the kitchen.
Does it also double as a time machine though?
All you need is 7 turbo cookers, and a can of cherry cola , your cooking with Cathy Mitchell!
These were so very 90's working mom recipes.
The host is a dough boy
Poor bastard has never had a decent meal in his life. Look at that gut. God this shit takes me back. Cathy Mitchell was the original OG.
Cathy Mitchell ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I’d join his cult.
Is that THE Joe Fowler? Omelette Express?
I want his pants where can I buy those 1:46
😆🤣😅
Kmart
Pleated Dockers.
Get you a braided belt and some white tennis shoes, and you'll need a stick to fend off all the beautiful women!
That taco casserole thing is going to taste like wallpaper paste with all that starch from the pasta in it.
I *LOVE* Tackos! Especially on a Corn Tortillah!
A sticking point for me with one pot dinners
@@KaboombooYou'll probably be sitting on the pot!
Started with a turbo cooker and never looked back lol.
I was little back then but now im 38 and id buy one lmao
3 payments of $39.95 for for something with the value of a $130? That doesn't seem like a great deal. Good thing they took one payment off
I went down on Cathy in Las Vegas about 1997
🤣🤣🤣
@@teabaggervance8 I'd care for the deets.
Gave her a taste of the ol' microcrisp did ya?
@Josiah Gradinariu haha
Did you smash her dump cakes?
Who else turns this on to set the mood?
I agree, making pasta is normally labor intensive! Reminds me of the Cupcakinator from the Cat In The Hat movie, “you can make cupcakes out of anything!
I vaguely remember these products being advertised in Australia around 1:00 am in the morning on TV.
Who still uses one of these? I remember when these were marketed.
Guy putting together a bell of a diner there at the beginning. Chicken. Potatoes. Pasta. Pork chops.
I think Joe was hired solely for his killer O face every time he tastes average, un-seasoned food. 😆
My grandma has the full vhs. Very
cool
This is actually from 2000.
I’m thinking early 90’s as well. The logo looks very 90’s.
The food that is on the top rack won't drip to the food cooking on the bottom?
i haven't seen this since i was a kid.
How does it differ from a pressure cooker?
Any oil must be avoided, but sugar is perfectly fine.
No wonder we all got fat 😂
Not a good idea having curtains right above the cooktop
Chef Randell doesnt cast a reflection in the mirror.
It's too bad Ron Popeil didn't show up UNINVITED with his Showtime Rotisserie and BBQ and issue Kathy Mitchell and "Juicy" Joe Fowler with a NO Holds Barred Food Prep Showdown challenge.
Cathy's eyebrows are living their best life in this one lol!! Also this cooker was terrible and so cheap it should have been illegal.
Just watched this all over again. Joe acts like he wants to have sex with the food.
Cathy's hands are like buttah!
I was always fasinated by infomercials on late night TV. Though I've wondered who is the guy doing the voice over?
Yeah it's always the same guy.
U people weird? Why do u talk like that
Pause at around 19:22-19:25 ... the shape of the cream (of asparagus) assembles a fidget spinner 😱😱😱😱
why am i watching this at 2 am
14:30 You gonna deglaze that fuckin pan?
Everything is yummy to joe fowler, seen the nuwave infomercial? Lol
The copyright at the start says 2000
2022 !!! 😇
17:19 Really bro?
Thats a joegasm! 😅😅😅
Y U DELETE TV PLAYHOUSE
What date was aired in July 2001?
Does America eat okay??? I am confused in European
It's the Nu Wave oven guy!!
10:59 😂😂😂
2:26
Help 😂