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Long known for his punch, heavyweight boxing champ George Foreman is now also known for his chops and ribs and anything else you can cook on his grill.
The test involved six identical hamburgers, with three cooked on a gas grill and three on the Foreman grill.
The Foreman grill was easier, cooler and faster, and, as Foremen promised, the fat appeared to be cooking off. But it also dripped off the burger on the gas grill at about the same rate.
Foreman claims his method cuts the fat, but researchers at the Good Housekeeping Institute compared the fat in a hamburger cooked on a Foreman Grill to hamburgers cooked on a broiler and a skillet. The results? No significant difference in fat amounts. Most of the drippings are simply meat juice and water.
When done, the Foreman hamburgers did look appealing, but did they taste better than the others? Three Natick firemen served as taste experts. One thought they tasted the same, and the other two preferred the gas-grilled burgers.
Though George Foreman sells his grill as a healthy alternative, we couldn't find any real evidence of that. And when we talked to George Foreman's people, they admitted that they make no specific claims about fat reduction.
Foreman grills were initially available only through their infomercials, but now you can find them in many stores. The large model sells for about $100, and that's almost the same price as some gas grills.
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