I tried 6 'As Seen On TV' kitchen products and was surprised by how useful most of them were

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• I purchased six "As Seen On TV" gadgets to see if they were as useless as I expected.
• Although the Gourmet Chopper 2000 was a complete fail with the vegetables I tried, I was surprised to learn that the Perfect Fries cutter, the Clever Cracker, and the Master Blade were all very useful in the kitchen.
• When it came to baking products, I was impressed with the Perfect Brownie Pan Set and the Tasty Top Cake Pops.
• The experiment ultimately changed my opinion of "As Seen On TV" products.
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There are tons of kitchen gadgets on the market right now that are designed to make cooking easier. Most of us have seen these products advertised in often-hilarious infomercials under the branding "As Seen On TV."

I've always been wary of these "As Seen On TV" kitchen gadgets and sometimes wonder who would buy a contraption to solve a problem many of us don't have. Ignorantly, I've always considered these products to be useless.

To put my theory to the test, I decided to purchase six "As Seen On TV" kitchen products via Amazon, and the results shocked me.

Keep reading to see how this experiment proved my theory completely wrong.