Jason Perlow

Yes. This was a slice of Lou Malnati's Chicago Deep-Dish pizza with spinach and sausage. It did a very good job of reheating and re-crisping the crust but I had to put the toaster all the way up to dark. With NY-style thin crust pizza I would probably leave it at the regular 3/4 setting.

I'm wondering if you can make cuban sandwiches and other kinds of panini in them.

Yes I think they are the exclusive seller of the bags. However, they are soliciting distributors.

Yes, in the documentation that comes with it they suggest inserting pizza slices into the bags. I intend to try it shortly.

I'm thinking nuclear fission and the transistor are way up there, but the Toast-N-Serve is pretty close. Both were last century, though. So I think the magic bag is still in the lead in the 21st century. It definitely beats the Segway, no question.

I haven't tried them in my Cuisinart yet but I'll let you know. My guess is that they will work but you may need to have the oven turned up really high because the heating elements wont be applying direct heat like a toaster would. And it probably wont work as fast. These are done in no time. Still, being that you can buy a $7 toaster at Target its no big deal if you can't.

I'm thinking nuclear fission and the transistor are way up there, but the Toast-N-Serve is pretty close.

Hell yes.

How do you clean the bags? Water and soap. But you dont have to clean them right after using, you can cook several sandwiches, one after the other. There wasnt much in the bag except for some crumbs and some butter residue.

Apparently they also sell a re-usable cooking liner for use in conventional ovens made out of the same material.

It cleans up easy. Grease comes right off, the bags are made out of Teflon. The Elvis Sandwich rules.

No, amazingly it does not slide down. You dont need to press the stuff together. The $7 toastmaster has auto-expanding slots and when you push the toast plunger down it clamps down on the sandwich bag. Do you have to use the $7 Target Toaster with this baggie thing? No, you can use any toaster. You can use a 200 dollar Pink Dualit if you want. I just bought the cheapest toaster I could find because I didn't own one and I wanted to see how it worked with the cheapest crap toaster I could fnd. I only had a 200 dollar Cuisinart convection toaster oven, not a popup.

Well, its better because you dont have to get a pan dirty and worry about flipping the sandwich or using too much grease. I think you could probably also use some kind of a butter spray or olive oil mister. You just pop the sandwiches in and they are done. I do also think that the teflon material completely enclosing the sandwich also does more evenly cook it and give it that consistent toasted look. And Rachel was extremely skeptical about whether or not if they would taste better than a pan grilled sandwich. She LOVES grilled cheese and she really liked it, as did I Seriously, these things do a stellar job.

No, amazingly it does not slide down. You dont need to press the stuff together. The $7 toastmaster has auto-expanding slots and when you push the toast plunger down it clamps down on the sandwich bag.

Ok, when I recieved samples of these things from Warner at Toast-N-Serve I was extremely skeptical they would work. How in the hell can you put two peices of buttered bread, with fillings in them into a black teflon bag, slide them into a $7 pop-up toaster from Target and expect it to produce a damn good grilled cheese, or yet, a stellar peanut butter, bacon and banana grilled sandwich, Elivs's Presleys' favorite treat? It sounds like pseudoscience, right? I kid you not. These things work. Observe. Butter each side of the bread and apply fillings to middle Slide prepared sandwich into bag Insert bags into $7 Toastmaster from Target Set toaster at 3/4 browning level, start toasting When done remove sandwiches from bags The bags are re-usable for hundreds of times and they are dishwasher safe. I can think of a LOT of things and nifty toaster sandwiches you could cook in this.

God's gift to mankind? Brazil's greatest contribution to cuisine? Discuss. Oh, and wheres your favorite place to get it in NYC? Or Jersey?

Cannibalism. What's your take?

Grand Teton Glacier.

Dr. Pepper Or Moxie, or Cheerwine.

well jason, you said "nothing about that sandwich says diet to me." you can understand that i might take this as your (educated) opinion of the actual sandwich, rather than the marketing campaign (which may or may not have completed its life-cycle yet). and the sodium still doesn't matter. The Bayless commecial has mentions the fat content, haven't seen the other two. I've been on the fence about this whole thing but after seeing the commercial a few times, it's pretty embarrassing for Bayless if you ask me. Okay, so maybe I am completely jaded and didnt notice it. I'm probably too distracted by Bayless' disingenousness that it went thru one ear and out the other.

For the most part these guys irritate the hell out of me, particularly when they get territorial. some of them legitimately spend a decent amount of money on toiletries, and if you use any, you should definitely tip these guys a buck. But what really ticks me off is when you go into the men's room to use the toilet or urinal, and then you go to the sink to wash your hands, and after you take your hands out of the sink they shove a towel at you. And since you want to get the hell out of there, you don't think first and you use that towel, and then you're obligated to tip. Or at least they THINK you are obligated to tip. The worst ones are of course the bathrooms where you've ALREADY tipped the guy, but you come back for a return visit (say you've been drinking a lot of liquids...) and they want you to tip them AGAIN for no reason whatsoever. One particular restaurant in Manhattan, Red Eye Grill, used to have attendents that do that (maybe they still do?) and its one of the reasons why I don't want to go back there.

Nancy's wine in manhattan carries them because Willie Gluckstern, known Reisling freak, is the buyer there.

What I do find interesting is that on the BK web site, they have a "Webmercial" for the sandwich that starts off by telling you it only has 5 grams of fat and ends by telling you it has 5 grams of fat. Now why would they bother creating this commercial for the web and not position the sandwich in the popular media as low fat? I'm guessing because they did some research that the web-savvy people are more likely to go to the BK web site to research this stuff, versus the average joe who's driving to work and listening to the radio and comes home, slouches down on his ez-boy and pops open a couple of buds to watch Monday Night Footaball.

Yes I'm going strictly by the marketing. In what other fashion can Burger King communicate to its customers? With fast food the marketing is everything. My guess is that in some marketing meeting some pin striped twit said "hey, lets get a celebrity chef to endorse this peice of shit, because nobody in their right mind will beleive any of these low-fat claims anyway." As to sodium and dieting -- lets remember who they are marketing this product to. Diet doctors are not going to be eating this sandwich. Average people with a basic or less than basic understanding of nutrition will be eating it. Whether or not consumption of high amounts of sodium doesnt correlate with gaining weight, its sure as hell unhealthy and most people associate it as such.

on what do you base that comment? the "numbers" suggest diet to me. I'm not going by the numbers. If they wanted to state "it only has 350 calories" and "Its a great low fat choice for people on the go" they would have done so in the commercial and positioned it in all its literature at the stores as a low-fat sandwich. I don't recall hearing anything like that in the Bayless, Ray or Shaq commercials. Not everyone is going to be checking the BK web site for this kind of information. Now it could be possible that I'm completely tuned out to this sort of thing, and someone in that commercial said "ONLY 5 GRAMS OF FAT! COME AND SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR THROAT TODAY!" but I don't remember them doing this. By the way, the sucker still has 1200mg of sodium.