Our lives have become so busy, it's hard to find time and energy for cleaning around the house.

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That's probably why we have so many products that promise to help with the job -- one of them is the Scunci steamer, which some of you wanted Katy Sai to test for her "As Seen on TV" series.

The ads say it's incredibly powerful and can clean and sanitize practically anything you can think of.

A viewer in Sun Prairie hoped the steamer would make her life easier, so Katy let her give it a try.

With a newborn baby and a 2-year-old, Brenda Egli has plenty of cleaning up to do, which is why the ads for the Scunci steamer caught her eye.

"If it could cut cleaning time, that'd be awesome," she said,

The product promises to clean practically everything, and Brenda thought she cooked up the perfect test.

"I made yesterday a thing called apple slices. It oozes all over," she said

If the steamer works as promised, the baked on carmel should just melt off. She's a little disappointed at first with the speed, or lack of it. But after a couple minutes, it worked.

The next hurdle? The bathroom -- and not just any bathroom -- Brenda's husband's bathroom.

"He's a machinist so he comes home, he's just filthy," she said.

She usually lets him clean up his own mess, but it's a perfect testing site for the steamer. Brenda was less impressed with the results in the bathroom.

"It works, but I think it's more of a pain -- you just don't realize how much you have to put the hoses together, change the bibs," she said.

But maybe the extra effort would be worth it, if you wanted to kill bacteria.

The steamer claims to do that and food safety expert Steve Ingham tested the claim by seeing how the steamer handles an E. coli mixture spread on a cutting board.

Ingham tested how various cleaning agents, such as bleach and Lysol, compare to the Scunci steamer in killing e-coli. After cleaning, Ingham said Lysol was best at killing bacteria. Soapy water was also effective. Bleach solution also worked.

The steamer also worked, but not as well.

"So it killed some bacteria, but it didn't kill all bacteria," he said. "Definitely not."

So, sanitizing may not be its strength, but the steamer claims to do things sprays can't, such as melt grease and grime.

Ingham agrees that's one area where it might live up to its claims.

"That's a basic principal -- those things melt as they get hot and will be easier to wipe away," he said.