Advice about Saladmaster [text deleted by MSE Forum Team]

Postie1971

If you could see what salad master is named after there food processor you would be impressed it makes lovely salads!
I think a lot of people on here have never even seen the products so how can you really comment??
You can make a salad with a pot or pan can you?

Postie1971

mttylad wrote: »

Can you actually do anything with salad in these pans?

I have a £2.99 salad spinner made of plastic, how would a £700 pan help me with that? I think I need a demo from a rep, can you fly me to the US (along with my family) for this demo where I will gladly sit and listen to it, coo at the wondrous benefits of the pans. Then can you fly me (and the family - after all they have to use them too) back home about a week later?

You almost certainly have an interested customer here.

Where do you live.? Why don't you try a demo no need to fly to USA if you really do care about the product?

bizzybee

Here's a review from an MSEr from across the pond!


I attended a Saladmaster in-home presentation last week. I will never get those FOUR HOURS of my life back!

My neighbor was convinced to host a Saladmaster party when the sales representative approached her and first offered to make her a salad (which she did) and then offered to cook her and up to eight friends a meal.

The catch? The presentation of the waterless cookware set.

Let me cut to the chase. The food was mediocre to bland because it was cooked sans oil and sans seasonings. The cookware performed well, but not for the price.

That brings me to the price. The full set of cookware "is valued at $19,995" but you can get it for the bargain price of "$9,995." That's right. TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.

The main attraction in this whole shindig is their original Saladmaster Machine, which is akin to a manual version of the Presto Salad Shooter that was so popular in the eighties. Yes, it is a pretty stainless steel. Yes, it does some pretty cool stuff. But is it worth $450? No way. You can find a used one on eBay at any given time for between $19.99 and $149, depending on the seller.

I also liked their electric skillet, but it was not worth $850+ (their retail on the 10" size).

Still, I don't know anyone who has this kind of money. And, if they do, they are not spending it on cookware.

One sales technique they use is they say you can put the cookware in the name of your youngest child so that the warranty will last their entire lifetime. I don't know about you, but I would rather buy twenty sets of $500 cookware in my lifetime than worry about sending in pieces to be serviced or replaced as needed because I spent 10 grand on it.

My favorite (or least favorite, let's be honest) part of the presentation was when the sales rep used completely misleading statements and likely made-up anecdotes to explain why this cookware is so much better than what you are already using.

One example? She insisted all shredded cheese had cellulose in it as a preservative to reduce moisture and that we should just shred our cheese from blocks in the Saladmaster to make sure we were not eating sawdust. I told her my shredded cheese used potato starch. She told me I was wrong. I went home to double check and... guess what...? Potato starch.

Please do not put your friends and family through one of these presentations. If you are sold on this cookware, get some used on eBay. If you want another option, I've seen 17 piece sets of waterless cookware brand new for $299. You just have to be a smart shopper!

Postie1971

Because if you knew what you were talking about you would know saladmaster is the name of there first product which is a hand food processor for cutting vegetables and making salad that was back in 1946 so that's where the name comes from?

Postie1971

It doesn't that's the company's name due to the fact there oldest product is a had food processor from 1946 called saladmaster that's it pots pans and other items they sell are different altogether!

Postie1971

It's not the same there's very little of it on ebaybas we've looked the skillets are very old ones and all in usa so costs fortune in postage and customs costs we looked as hoped to buy cheaper ourself!

Postie1971

I don't understand what your trying to say about the cheese??

Fire_Fox

Postie1971 wrote: »

I guess I'm going to get slagged off for registering so I can make a comment my wife and I recently bought a set of cookware pans from salad master yes they are very expensive for sure!
A friend was selling them as it is a form of pyramid selling if you cook for 30 couples you get the money back from the cookware you bought and 15% commission on any sales also people can recommend other friends and get free gifts so you can see the cost is going on promoting selling of this cookware.
It's is hard to explain the good points of this cookware but here's some you cook low heat no oil or fat needed can cook vegetables without water so unlike boiling or steaming it doesn't remove the goodness from your food.
Also it's not made from steel it's made of high grade titanium so doesn't react in your food like non stick pans or aluminium pans and we've noticed a great difference in the Tate of our food.
Your cookware won't give you cancer I'm sure there are a lot of dodgy salesman out there which will say anything but I'm being 100% honest my wife is doing 30 dinners to get the cost of our cookware back and yes so far we have sold a couple of sets as the product does sell itself if you listen to the demo but yes it's very very expensive!
But also titanium is a very expensive metal that's why they give you a lifetime guarantee on there products.
I hope you won't remove this as I really don't care if you buy it or not my wife's a nurse she includes information she know about diabetese and the cookware can help as no added oil or fat you can remove the starch from your potatoes which is a big help if have high blood sugar.
I hope this helps a lot of the rubbish I've read on here I know it sounds to me there's a lot of bad salesmen out there for sure but were just a postman and a nurse nothing dodgy about that!
We just want to cook good healthy food for us and our children.
If this is deleted up to you but I thought this is a free country I should also have my opinion too.
Only found I needed to react as seems very one sided forum too me?
If anyone wants to ask me anything I'm happy to try and answer as best as I can.

I'd like links to research studies (ideally meta analyses or longitidunal population studies) published in reputable scientific journals within the last five years backing up the claims you make re: cancer, removing starch from potatoes, fat free being best for diabetes please. Presuming your nurse wife checked all this out instead of believing the sales pitch, since she obviously doesn't have any qualifications in nutrition or dietetics.

antrobus

Postie1971 wrote: »

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Also it's not made from steel it's made of high grade titanium so doesn't react in your food like non stick pans or aluminium pans and we've noticed a great difference in the Tate of our food. ..

Saladmaster uses 316Ti technology that combines 316 Stainless Steel with Titanium.

http://saladmaster.com/index/Products/WhatIsSolutionsTi.nws

Oops. Sounds like you weren't paying enough attention during that presentation.

Actually, the world is full of various high end cooking systems using various permutations of titanitum, aluminium, ceramic-titanium, stainless steel, and so forth, and all of them claim that they are indeed the bees knees. Most of em are a lot cheaper than Saladmaster as well.

pmduk

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Presuming your nurse wife checked all this out instead of believing the sales pitch, since she obviously doesn't have any qualifications in nutrition or dietetics.

Unless the [STRIKE] wife [/STRIKE]saleswoman has received additional training as a DSN (Diabetes specialist nurse) it's unlikely she knows much about diabetes at all. Some of the worst diabetes care is given to hospital inpatients by nurses without specialist training.