RoboStir: Does It Really Do That?

MIAMI (CBS4)-- Who couldn't use an extra hand in the kitchen? A new product promises to stir your dishes so you don't have to but does Robostir really do that?

Kristen Licht loves spending time whipping up delicious dishes in the kitchen and she wanted to find out if the RoboStir lives up to its claims.

RoboStir is a little base unit with four legs that end in flat round silicone circle feet. It runs on batteries which are included.

The directions are simple. Place it in any pan. For best results, use one that's non-stick. Make sure the feet are covered with whatever you're cooking and press down the center to turn it on.

The makers claim the silicone feet will cover every part of the pan – all around the edges. It has three speeds to help move through different consistencies.

In plain water, you can watch the feet move and appears to work great. After the water text, Kirsten put it in gravy and added in a little flour as a person normally would if making it from scratch.

After several minutes, the flour still wasn't blended in with the rest of the gravy. Because it claims to be the RoboStir and not the RoboMix, Kristen went for the whisk.

Next, could the RoboStir make good on its claim to prevent food from burning to the bottom of the pan? Kristen let the gravy boil for nearly 10 minutes, but there was no burning.

Kristen then moved on to something thicker. The commercial says the RoboStir is great for beans, but it didn't turn out that way during her test.

There wasn't much movement in the beans.

The RoboStir also promised to churn cheese sauce. Kristen tried it in some melted Velveeta. It didn't move much at first, but it moved more as the pan heated up and the sauce thinned. In the end, however, the cheese sauce burned.

She also gave the RoboStir a shot at chocolate chips, but it simply rotated in a circle and didn't cover every square inch of the pan.

Kristin then tested RoboStir with a smaller sauce pan of marinara and it moved a little better, but it still seemed not to hit all areas.

After a lot of testing, it seems the answer to "Does it really do that?" for RoboStir is "not really."

If you order the product online, it's $10.00 plus $6.99 for shipping and handling.