# Kitchen Tornado

> Kitchen Tornado is a Retsy Series 1 NFT on Solana, card 0137 of 1,280 in the 80s TV & Video set, made in six finishes. A hand-crank vegetable chopper sold in a frantic late-night infomercial with a gasping studio audience.

URL: https://retsy.fun/collection/kitchen-tornado/

- Card number: 0137 of 1,280
- Set: 80s TV & Video (80-TVV)
- Year: 1987
- Type: Late-night infomercial gadget
- Tagline: It whirls. It chops. It frightens the cat.
- Found at: Channel 31, 2 AM
- Cost back then: Four payments of $9.99
- Stats: Nostalgia 7/10, Hype 6/10, Weirdness 6/10, Trade value 4/10
- Finishes: Base (100 copies), Holo (50 copies), Laser (25 copies), Gold (10 copies), Super Laser (1 copy), Misprint (1 copy)
- Images: https://retsy.fun/nft/0137-base.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0137-holo.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0137-laser.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0137-gold.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0137-super.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0137-misprint.webp

## The story

The Kitchen Tornado infomercial ran at 2 AM, right when insomnia made a vegetable chopper seem like the answer to everything. Pitchman Lenny Ferrante turned a whole cabbage into coleslaw in four seconds while the audience gasped like it was a magic trick. Every house eventually had one in a drawer, missing its crank.

## Fun fact

The studio audience was mostly the crew's relatives, which explains why the same aunt gasps in every version.

Retsy Series 1 is an NFT collection on Solana. Every card is minted to the buyer's wallet the moment its pack is ripped at https://retsy.fun/packs/.