Say goodbye to tedious marshmallow roasting with the Spinmallow

Posted by Joel Johnson, January 5, 2009 10:59 AM | permalink

The Spinmallow is a twenty-nine-inch rotating skewer, easily detached from its faux wood handle for easy cleaning. It spins at a "perfect" 92RPM, making for a precision-toasted marshmallow, according to its creators.

I know it's early, but I think we can pretty much call this for gadget of the century. Sorry, iPhone Insufflate 9G!

Spinmallow is also rated for regulation-sized hot dogs. It is $10 whole dollars, or the price of a cord of wood and a handful of green twigs.

Spinmallow catalog page [MarkySparkyToys.com]

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#1 posted by strider_mt2k

, January 5, 2009 11:04 AM

That little compartment in the handle is where you store the "win".

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#2 posted by Ryan Waddell

, January 5, 2009 11:33 AM

"Extends to 29 inches" is a fantastic catchphrase.

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#3 posted by Takuan , January 5, 2009 12:19 PM

$10 a cord? Where do you live?

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#4 posted by DSMVWL THS , January 5, 2009 4:02 PM

I am hearing Billy Mays shouting at me about this now... over footage of frustrated people fumblingly trying and failing to toast marshmallows the "old" way.

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#5 posted by dacker , January 5, 2009 4:52 PM

In a moment of inspiration 10 years ago, I made a very similar device from a discarded D-cell-powered retail signage spinner. It turns at about 10rpm, which is about perfect.

I guess I should have patented it....

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#6 posted by Anonymous , January 5, 2009 7:51 PM

If ever a product cried out to have an ordinal appended to its name, this is it.

Doesn't Spinmallow 3000 just sounds so much better?

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#7 posted by PaulR , January 6, 2009 5:32 AM

Takuan @3, "$10 a cord? Where do you live?"

Maybe Joel thinks that a cord of wood is the bundle of three foot-long inch-and-a-half-wide birch branches tied by a red ribbon. He must have seen 'em at a half-off Boxing Day sale in Greenwich Village.

[Yes, I did see that with mine own eyes (and I have witnesses): $20 for three pieces of wood (lovingly and tastefully hand-tied with a piece of red ribbon, mind you) in a shop there. Kinda screams "Idiot with too much money", don't you agree?]

(Burns two cords every winter...)

(Um, mostly maple and some birch, seasoned, split and delivered: $250/cord.)

(For the Montrealers who insist on mixing up the names of units of measure: that'd be $83 per FACE cord.)

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#8 posted by Halloween Jack , January 6, 2009 1:04 PM

I look forward to twisting the tines on the end and honing them to a razor-keen edge before using this thing to hack divots of long pork out of its promulgators.

Kidding, just kidding! The Skeletool should work just fine for that.

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#9 posted by biophile , January 7, 2009 10:28 PM

There is something terribly, delightfully, wrong about the wood-grain plastic (to say nothing of it's phallic shape). This is precisely the type of artifact that advanced sublimed cultures will uncover and judge us by when we're gone...

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#10 posted by devophill

, January 10, 2009 12:33 AM