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SAM DONALDSON Now, the results you've been waiting for of the infomercial products we tested-which performed best and which just
didn't measure up. Here again, is Sylvia Chase.
BROWN AND CRISP BAG SPOKESMAN (INFOMERCIAL)
All you do is place food in the bag and put it in the microwave. It's that easy.
SYLVIA CHASE (VO) It's the brown and crisp bag, a heat-reflecting
microwave bag that helps you ...
BROWN AND CRISP BAG SPOKESMAN (INFOMERCIAL)
Barbecue, broil, bake, crisp, fry and roast.
SYLVIA CHASE (VO) In the infomercial, salmon, chicken,
shrimp-everything comes out brown and flavorful. Sharon Franke tried
it, first, with salmon. But she only seasoned half the fish.
SHARON FRANKE The half that has the seasoning does pick up
coloring because it has the seasons on it. The part that has no seasonings on it looked steamed or looks microwaved because it's really the seasoning and not the bag that's caused the browning.
BROWN AND CRISP BAG SPOKESMAN (INFOMERCIAL)
Here's the good part. Roasted chicken. Nine minutes.
SYLVIA CHASE (VO) Sharon couldn't find a chicken that would fit in
the bag. But when she tried a Cornish game hen, the unseasoned side
didn't look brown. The brown and crisp people say it didn't brown because we didn't mold the bags to the food. But when Sharon tried
that, the results were still disappointing.
BROWN AND CRISP BAG SPOKESMAN (INFOMERCIAL)
You don't throw the bags away.
SYLVIA CHASE (VO) They say in the infomercial to reuse the bag.
SHARON FRANKE You probably could, but the question is, would
you want to? This was a bag that we used last week. So we've saved it a few days. And you can see it really looks like a bag that you might have brought home take-out chicken in. It's dirty. It's greasy. I don't think anyone would want to store it in their kitchen.
SYLVIA CHASE (VO) Bag it, she says. Brown and crisp microwave
cooking bags get a Good Housekeeping score of zero. And one last
product ..." |
