Other than a certain cartoon detective, there’s nowhere we love gadgets more than in our kitchens… and perhaps no one is more responsible for those tools than Ron Popeil. He’s the ever-smiling pitchman whose specialized doohickeys turned the television infomercial from a programming afterthought into a cultural institution while teaching us all to “set it and forget it”.

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