Where on Earth Have I Been? Anyone Else Not Heard of Saladmaster?

[kcjodih]

I was just watching tv and it was a BC station via satellite and in ONE hour I watched 3 commercials for something called Saladmaster. Cookware, knives and in home dinner parties. I've never heard of it so I googled it and they've been around for 60 years It doesn't say anything about start up costs or pay structure just the different direct seller levels and their products. Looks like they come in your home and cook a dinner with ingredients THEY supply. Must have a certain number of couples and as long as you have at least one 'qualified' couple you receive the 'host' gift whether anyone buys or not

Where on earth have I been?

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Where on earth have I been?

Canada, eh?

 

[Stampaholic1961]

I've never heard of them either!!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

It sounds like something that would have helped Suzanne Sommers more than that other Master thing.

 

[kcjodih]

Check it out - www.saladmaster.com

 

[katie0128]

Saladmaster... never heard of them, but is sounds like a good name for a new PC product!

I peeked at their website and I'm realizing how much I hate direct sales websites without pricing. And what the heck a "qualified couple" for a dinner party? Sounds weird!

 

[sddmom2]

Canada, eh?

OK- I am RMAOTH!!! Thanks!

 

[kisrae]

We have a consultant in our area who is not very nice to us(pc consultants) at fairs and such. She always comes into our booth and starts telling everyone what is wrong with our cookware. She is so rude. I am always shocked by it. Most of the time she's talking to another consultant and it goes in one ear and out the other.
I'm waiting to see her again so I can tell her to kiss off. One set of cookware can cost up to $2500 it has a life time warrenty but only on the pan/pot you have to pay for handles and what not.
The above is what I have heard at my shows.

 

[chefann]

Hmm... that sounds like something a friend of mine did. Not as a consultant, as a host. None of us bought a single thing. We viewed it as a nice dinner for free. Of course, we were all in our mid-20s and broke at the time. But I can't for the life of me remember the name of the company.

 

[mpkegley]

I have never heard of it either. I don't really like the sound of it though.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

Hmm... that sounds like something a friend of mine did. Not as a consultant, as a host. None of us bought a single thing. We viewed it as a nice dinner for free. Of course, we were all in our mid-20s and broke at the time. But I can't for the life of me remember the name of the company.

Yeah, there is some company around here that does that same thing - I can't remember the name either, but Saladmaster doesn't ring a bell. I believe it is waterless cookware. I seem to remember chatting with a host or customer about it.....

 

[chefann]

That's it! Still can't remember the name, though.
(And Amway's cookware is waterless, too. But they don't train to do full meals as a sales pitch.)

 

[jenniferp417]

Hm. Never heard of it either.Sit-down dinners with couples seems kinda cool, but not the weird over-priced cookware.

 

[pampchefrhondab]

I've never heard of them. I wonder if they changed their name and they are the same one Ann is thinking of. I know other DS companies have changed their names.

I wasn't impressed w/their products, but I did like their knife block. I wish we would come up w/a knife block. I think customers would be more likely to buy ALL of the knives since the block would have some empty spots!

 

[ChefBeckyD]

I've never heard of them. I wonder if they changed their name and they are the same one Ann is thinking of. I know other DS companies have changed their names.

I wasn't impressed w/their products, but I did like their knife block. I wish we would come up w/a knife block. I think customers would be more likely to buy ALL of the knives since the block would have some empty spots!

I wondered that too.....

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Hmm... that sounds like something a friend of mine did. Not as a consultant, as a host. None of us bought a single thing. We viewed it as a nice dinner for free. Of course, we were all in our mid-20s and broke at the time. But I can't for the life of me remember the name of the company.

What goes around, huh?

 

[pampchefrhondab]

Okay - I'm nosey so I started looking up some info. on the internet. There is so much info. on this site it's easier to post the URL then to explain:

Salad Master cookware question - Cookware Forum - GardenWeb

It sounds like the cookware is $3,000 though!! And the reps. do a "soda" test which makes other cookware taste metalic. Interesting info. Happy reading!

 

[pampchefrhondab]

I love this quote:

Humans are more at risk from the "TYPE" of foods that they choose to eat than from how their foods are prepared or from what materials of construction are used in their cookware. It's non-sense to believe we have a toxic cookware problem in this country. What we have is a diet and exercise problem.
Salad Master is not the answer to improved human health.

 

[jrstephens]

I had not heard of it until about 4 or 5 years ago when they knocked on my in-laws door and asked to demo the Salad master. They let them come in. Then they told me if I could get I think it was 5 or 6 couples to gather at my house for a meal with 3 days for them to come in and demo, they would give me the salad master for free. Well, I am a sucker for anything Free. I got on the phone and called my friends and neighbors. The only thing the couples had to do to qualify was not to have been to a show within so many months - not a problem since no one had heard of them. They came in and cooked a full meal including vegetables, dessert, meat with gravy and salad in their cookware. It was really amazing. The cookware stacked on top of each other to do some of the cooking. They had an electric skillet. I really loved the cookware but it was EXPENSIVE! My neighbor wanted the whole set but her husband REFUSED to let her buy it. By the way she now owns PC cookware and loves it!

I loved the salad master and used it like crazy for a while. I always go through "fades." It does mostly the same thing our UM does, just in a different way. My MIL borrows it every year when she puts up pickles b/c tit does them at just the right size. And she uses it to put up her squash.

 

[Teresa Lynn]

My parents bought the cookware years ago, mom still has it bt uses her 2 sets of PC

 

[lissahope26]

I checked out their website. I'm not too impressed with the way the cookware looks.

 

[chefjeanine]

I wonder if they changed their name and they are the same one Ann is thinking of.

I'm wondering that too.

Ann, could it be "Lifetime Cookware"?

I have a lovely set of Lifetime somewhere in my basement. I moved it down there after I got my set of Professional Cookware. . .now the Professional is down there too because I'm using the Executive.

 

[chefann]

I might be the same company - I looked at their site, and the cookware looks the same. I don't remember that the rep did any kind of demo or sales talk. Maybe it was a little obvious that we weren't going to buy anything. And thinking back, we wasted his time and money to do that dinner. How rude.

 

[chefjeanine]

I might be the same company - I looked at their site, and the cookware looks the same. I don't remember that the rep did any kind of demo or sales talk. Maybe it was a little obvious that we weren't going to buy anything. And thinking back, we wasted his time and money to do that dinner. How rude.

We got the entire chicken dinner + veggies and a pineapple upside down cake. I think at least two of us bought the set and they were not cheap.

It is good sturdy cookware, but stainless steel and not as easy to clean as our nonstick (this is one of the reasons I'm not buying the Pchef stainless).

 

[pampchefrhondab]

The link I listed states it is made by Regal:

All the cookware made by Regal (Salad Master, Cordon Bleu, Kitchen Craft, Royal Prestige) is made with surgical stainless steel grade T-304.

I have heard of Kitchen Craft.

 

[chefjeanine]

The link I listed states it is made by Regal:

All the cookware made by Regal (Salad Master, Cordon Bleu, Kitchen Craft, Royal Prestige) is made with surgical stainless steel grade T-304.

I have heard of Kitchen Craft.

I recognize that name. It's the same stuff though, from a quick look at the photos it has been redesigned.

 

[jrstephens]

And thinking back, we wasted his time and money to do that dinner. How rude.

We did the same thing b/c we had no intention of spending the money, I just wanted the free product.

I think though until you start selling yourself, you do not understand how bad it is to do that to a consultant until you are one yourself.

I think there were a few orders from people but I cannot remember for sure.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I might be the same company - I looked at their site, and the cookware looks the same. I don't remember that the rep did any kind of demo or sales talk. Maybe it was a little obvious that we weren't going to buy anything. And thinking back, we wasted his time and money to do that dinner. How rude.

If you had put a potty chair in the dining room, he'd still be talking about you, too.

 

[wadesgirl]

We got the entire chicken dinner + veggies and a pineapple upside down cake. I think at least two of us bought the set and they were not cheap.

It is good sturdy cookware, but stainless steel and not as easy to clean as our nonstick (this is one of the reasons I'm not buying the Pchef stainless).

Oh, our SS cookware is amazing and very easy to clean! Never had a problem even broiled cheese!

 

[NooraK]

The link I listed states it is made by Regal:

All the cookware made by Regal (Salad Master, Cordon Bleu, Kitchen Craft, Royal Prestige) is made with surgical stainless steel grade T-304.

I was "invited" to see Royal Prestige cookware when we were planning our wedding. Worked almost like a timeshare presentation: "Get a free vacation with no obligation!" which just meant that the product was VERY EXPENSIVE and the free "vacation" was just a hotel stay at specific hotels, none close enough to go to without airfare. Had we bought the cookware, we would have also gotten a buy-one-get-one voucher for a cruise.

Glad my DH didn't let me get suckered into that one...