Why Bother?

The Überbaster is the best in its class! Here are some facts about the way you currently baste your roasts:

  1. You lose 25-50 degrees for each few seconds the oven door is ajar
  2. You add several minutes cooking time (estimate 5 minutes every time you open the oven, plus time you spend basting)
  3. You waste energy in the form of electricity or gas
  4. You lose money
  5. Your roast is prone to dryness

This is what you get with the Überbaster:

  1. Better heat retention
  2. Faster cooking time
  3. Savings in energy and money
  4. Beautiful presentation
  5. Preservation of moisture while adding flavor

Prolonged cooking time and fluctuations in temperature are the biggest contributors to dry food. With the Überbaster you eliminate heat fluctuation, reducing overall time in the oven. You won't drop any steamy roasts on the floor, and you won't burn your hands from lifting a hot pan. Most importantly, the outside of your roast will taste incredible. We guarantee that if you use proper cooking techniques with qualty ingredients, your roast will be as moist as it possibly can be.

Environmental Impact

On Thanksgiving day, Americans cook roughly 45,000,000 turkeys. The average turkey is 20 lbs and cooks for 5 hours.

The average home oven is rated at 40,000 BTU/hour energy consumption.

The BTU content in natural gas is 100,000 BTU/therm.

Let's conservatively estimate that the average cost of gas in late November is $1.00/therm.

Let's estimate that the average American bastes their Thanksgiving turkey twice per hour, for a total of 10 times in 5 hours.

If a therm costs $1.00, and we consume 40% of a therm every hour we cook our turkey, and we add an additional hour of cooking time by basting twice an hour, we each spend $.40 extra to cook our turkey.

Let's estimate that opening the oven adds about 5 minutes each time to the overall cooking time, for a total of about 60 minutes, or one hour.

$.40 x 45,000,000 = $18,000,000

That means Americans waste $18,000,000 worth of energy on Thanksgiving day, whereas we could have been eating a finer turkey in less time by simply using the Überbaster!