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Yes, the Le Creuset spatulas are wonderful. They look great and are very, very useful. Throw away your old rubber ones which melt and buy one of these. You will never regret it!

As a person who has always loved using wooden spoons for cooking, I was really surprised at how useful this tool is. Besides having a high heat tolerance, the best feature is its ability to reach effortlessly into the corners of saucepans. With wooden tools, I've always had to make a special effort to get into the edges to make sure things aren't sticking. With this spatula/spoon, that problem is gone completely.

I received the Spoon Spatula as a gift and must say that after going through several spatulas a year from melting and staining, I still have my first Le Creuset. In the past years that I have used this tool, it has slowly become a part of every meal preparation. The high heat tolerance allows me to wipe soups and sauces off the sides of my pans while they're still on the stove, or right out of the oven. The spoon shape is great for sampling liquids and scraping bowls clean. I even use it for cooking tomato sauces, which always stained my old white and clear spatulas. I would recommend this to anyone, and when picking one out, make sure it's a color you like, because you'll be seeing it for several years.

I love this pan, it reminds me of TEXAS, the LONE STAR STATE. This is fabulous for brownies, cookies and individual cakes/desserts. I use it at Christmas time and 4th of July mostly but quite often when I am using my STAR dinnerware. I have many of the WILTON mini pans and I am always amazed at how impressed guests are when all I did was use a shape pan. You can even use it to make keepsake ornaments or gift tags out of plaster of paris also. Extra hint: Use lots of cooking spray so food comes right out and buy two so you can make larger quantities in less time.

Remember the thrill of your very first easy bake oven? The charm of making cakes that made all your friends and family smile at what a great cook you were? Well, the feelings back...and in a very funky way! This aluminum pan, with 6 amazingly sweet muffin cavitys will make 6 people very happy. Which six people? The six people who get one of the tasty muffins baked into a star shape! This pan is great for making treats for congratulations after the big game, the school musical, or just anytime you want to make your little stars feel special.

This mini star muffin pan will provide you with all sorts of unique home-baked goodies with an extra special touch. The star design is useful for lots of holidays and birthdays. This size of dessert or gelatin eliminates cutting portions out of a pan and they are ready to be displayed on pretty platters or cake plates. Guests will not know how easy it was for you to prepare this dish. And at this price, pick up more than one to allow you to cook more than 6 at a time.

Each piece is built to last forever. All edges are very sharp and the set looks great.

Fantastic sturdy set, in convenient carry kit. I bring mine for grilling at our football tailgating partys. These are sturdy enough so they won't get ruined by you drunk friends! Great set!

I bought this as a housewarming gift and love it so much I will probably get it for my husband. I imagine it is not that practical to put the tools back into the case all the time but the tools are so nice, it will be fine to keep in my kitchen. These pieces are much larger than I expected. The handles are long and thick, the utensil ends are also very large which should be handy at the BBQ (since it is a gift, I haven't personally used it). Look closely at the spatula, it has many different uses, the handle is a bottle opener, the side of the spatula is a knife. The case makes a wonderful presentation for a gift and could be handy if you camp or have some other reason to transport it.

I got this as a gift from my mother-in-law after an unfortunate accident where I burned myself trying to boil large quantities of water to brew iced-tea. It is so easy to use, and I drink a lot more non-carbonated beverages now that I have this at home. I get one for everyone's wedding/shower gift even if it's not on their registry!

This Ice Tea Maker was given to us as a gift. My husband and I were visiting some friends and they offered us some Ice Tea. I said yes, but thought it properly would be bitter. The tea was perfect! The best I have ever tasted. Actually the only Ice Tea that I have ever enjoyed. I asked my friends how they made the tea. They explained how simple it was and the showed us the Ice Tea Maker. They said they had an extra Tea maker and gave it to us as a gift. It is so simple. Now I am an expert Ice Tea Maker after my first try. I love this Ice Tea Maker.

This Ice Tea Maker was given to us as a gift. My husband and I were visiting some friends and they offered us some Ice Tea. I said yes, but thought it properly would be bitter. The tea was perfect! The best I have ever tasted. Actually the only Ice Tea that I have ever enjoyed. I asked my friends how they made the tea. They explained how simple it was and the showed us the Ice Tea Maker. They said they had an extra Tea maker and gave it to us as a gift. It is so simple. Now I am an expert Ice Tea Maker after my first try. I love this Ice Tea Maker.

I'm a daily capuccino/espresso drinker. I bought this machine about a month ago to replace another espresso machine that I had.
The Nespresso makes wonderful tasting espresso with the most beautiful crema I've ever seen. I also love "perfect" foam and this machine makes it in less than half the time of my other machine.
I think my kids could use this machine it is so easy and almost totally mess free. I can make a capuccino, clean up included, in less than 5 minutes in the morning before work.
My only concern when I bought the machine was that I was going to have to buy the Nespresso pods to use with it. I bought the sampler pack and found a couple that are my favorites and now just buy as needed. It's really nice to have it delivered right to my door only a couple of days after ordering.

Whats good:
-smoothest best espresso with excellent crema
-coffee canisters are pressure sealed and do not open until the machine pops them open
-espresso is always fresh
-10 different types of espresso including two decafs
-quick, the little coffee canister goes in the machine and you are brewing
-quick, when done you lift the handle and the canister plunks down into a holding bin. You add a new canister and you are brewing your second cup in no time.
-no grinding, packing, messy with grinds all over the place
-very easy to clean, has a deep dish on the bottom. You just run some extra water through and you're done.

What could be better:
-Ability to buy canisters from more than one manufacturer
-Ability to buy the canisters at the supermarket (currently only available over the phone or internet)
-takes a bit of practice to get the steamed milk right, but all espresso machines are like this

My daughter bought me a Nespresso Concept espresso machine for Christmas this year. She did a lot of research to find a machine that would be easy to use and produce excellent results. I would say that she hit a bull's eye with this machine! It is so simple to use that anyone could make a perfect cup of espresso immediately. The machine uses individual espresso coffee packets to brew the coffee. The packets are not expensive (about $.45 each)and come in many different strengths. When you purchase the packets from the Nespresso company, they arrive in two business days. Buying the coffee in the packets is so nice because I live in a small, midwest town where purchasing espresso coffees locally would be impossible. This way, I have access to excellent espresso coffees that are perfectly measured and produce delicious coffee time after time. These machines are pricey, but the company stands by its product to such an extent that if there is ever any problem with it, the company will repair or replace it free of charge. If you have been comtemplating the purchase of an espresso machine, please give serious consideration to this machine. You will not be sorry!

I miss my whole house water filter now that I'm renting. But the PUR works very well. It was a little bit of a challenge getting the filter onto the faucet -- especially if you have big fingers. Careful not to strip the threads or you'll be buying a new faucet. Tighten as much as you can with your fingers and use plyers for the rest. The water tastes great, and now that I have to make ice with trays again, even the ice pops out easier than using regular water. My imagination? I still would like to send the water out someday to get it tested to see if this thing works like the water tastes -- says the "prove it to me" side.

I had a Pur Plus water filtration system, but it developed a leak. The Pur company, with absolutely no hassles, sent me a new Ultimate faucet mount water filtration system. I found out that the Plus filter and the Ultimate filter are exactly the same shape and size. So if you are looking for a replacement filter for your Pur Plus you can use an Ultimate filter!

I HAVE USED THE PUR FAUCET FILTER FOR A FEW YEARS, AND FIND
IT WONDERFUL. IT REMOVES ALL THE BAD TASTE,AND MAKES THE WATER
TASTE AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER THAN BOTTLED WATER.
THANKS PUR FOR SUCH A GREAT PRODUCT!

CARL H REAGAN

Adapter has 1.5" and 2.25" OUTSIDE diameters. Adapter fits tightly to a Craftsman 2.5" shopvac.

1.5" and 2.25" are OUTSIDE diameters. Adapter fits tightly to a Craftsman shopvac.

What can you say about this? It fits snugly on both ends, and does what it's supposed to. Recommended for the PC dust hose conversions for those of us still suffering with using a shop vac.

At first I was suspicious about the claims of this product but after using it on wood floors I was convinced that it is a great way to keep a floor clean.
No chemicals are needed.

We have a golden retriever that sheds at least a cup of hair a day. The Swiffer is excellent for getting up this hair as well as the dirt that the kids track in.

Try it and see.

Pros:
1) You can use the dry dust cloths -OR- the wet cleansing cloths with this broom / mop.
2) The mop head pivots 180 degrees, allowing you to get under objects like your couch, and also for easy storage
3) The dust cloths pick up EVERYTHING, including dust you couldn't even see.
4) The cloths are easy to attach and detach and stay firmly attached while in use.
5) Nice price for a nice product (that dusts AND mops your floor, I might add).

Cons:
1) Both the dry and wet cloths are only semi-effective on gritty or rough surfaces. Example: in the winter, my front hall gets messy with sand and grit from the front sidewalk - it needs to be swept before I mop, or the Swiffer ends up scraping all that junk across my tiles. Not really a con per se, as long as you're aware of it in advance.

Swiffer products have made a big difference in the amount of time it takes me to dust my house and the effectiveness of the job I do. Like the other reviewer, we have pets, and we need to dust and de-fur our home more often than other people do. Being able to do it quickly, effectively and easily is important. This product enables me to do just that.

It takes just seconds to run the swiffer down the hall and around the kitchen floor and it picks up all the dog and cat hair that seems to accumulate every day - also all the household dust. For crumbs and bigger stuff, I use it like a broom to collect it all in one place and then push it into a dust pan. Also have a Swiffer Wet Jet which makes keeping the floor clean so simple - perfect for dirty dog prints. Even my kids clean the floor now.

I grew up on a good old chrome Sunbeam toaster, then eventually found one to replace the plastic disposables that had filled the time between moving out on my own and "growing up". I had the Sunbeam for 12 years and had only had the cord updated when I first bought it for $12. It had auto bread drop and my husband decided that this toaster NEVER liked him. It was finicky for him and most times would not drop his bread no matter how he tried.
Well as usual, I have done TONS of research before buying a "major" appliance, and this would constitute a major appliance! I had my eye on several different ones, with the Dualit being one of them. We had originally agreed upon the DeLonghi, but when I saw it in person, the quality was just not what I wanted. And reading the ratings here, I had found the Breville too. But then I got lucky!!
It was only a few days before Christmas, and me, the eBay Queen, happened to find a brand new, never used, 4-slicer that had been a floor model, so it didn't have the box. Big deal! REALLY. I paid $95 plus shipping!! Took a little longer than it was supposed to to get here, but once it showed up, my husband and I must have eaten 5 loaves of bread in the first 3 days!! Plus I went out and bought a baker's dozen of the good bagels from the bagel shoppe and *poof* they were gone.
Now to the funny part. This was actually a Christmas gift for my husband. He moaned when I told him that he was getting a $300+ toaster for Christmas, even if it was such a bargain. Said, "But it's a TOASTER!". Well he's enjoying it just as much as one person could, PLUS he's bragging about it at work!! One of the guys at his office wants me to bring it in and he'll supply the bagels. So it's now the butt of jokes at work. But it's been good jokes. They are all just dying to see this thing! I think I'm going to ceremoniously place it in my son's Radio Flyer wagon and cover it with a red velvet cloth, then "drive" it into the office, with all eyes upon it!!
Okay, so now that I've written a novel, this is the BEST toaster!! It truly does toast bread perfectly!! Just like they say, it's evenly browned on the outside and moist on the inside...plus if you like to have burnt toast, which my husband does when his stomach is bothering him...you can have that too. We make homemade bread and can cut nice thick slices and have no problem fitting them into the huge slots. Love too that the bread stays down, until YOU lift it up. And the fact that you only use power for the number of slots you need.
What more can I say? This toaster is it! Yes, it's pricey, but I hate wastefulness and this is one that will get passed down to our kids and heck, maybe even their's!

Not to many people can claim to be experts in the field of toast so it is a bit embarrasing admitting to the fact that I am. For some unknown reason I started collecting toasters many years ago. Not the cheap plastic type which clutter the shelves of retailers these days but the good old toasters of yesteryear. I was drawn to them because of the quality, style, and craftsmanship they exhibited. These were products meant to last a lifetime all the while looking beautiful and performing flawlessly. I have many appliances which are 50 years old that are as good as the day they were made. Very few products today can make that same claim. The Rowlett toaster is definitely one such product which can. This is without a doubt the finest toaster available. Even Dualit must concede to the build quality of this product. Both are fine products but the hand polished stainless steel of the Rowlett give it the edge. I've used many toasters including Dualit, and vintage or modern this is the benchmark. Its great to know there are still companies striving for excellence and design in their products. If you're tired of throw away appliances then you, your children, their children and all of their decendants will be happy with your decision to purchase this product. Did I mention it also makes great toast!

I originally bought a Dualit toaster because I thought it was the best... I then bought this Rowlett toaster and found that it beat it by a landslide. My friends and family can't stop talking about how beautiful it is and it is about 100 times more durable than the Dualit. I say step aside Dualit, Rowlett toasters are the absolute BEST!!!

we reiceived the chairs on time, they were packaged well to avert damadge. they were just what I wanted the chairs were in brand new condition. they are very sturdy. all in all a good buy I am glad we bought them!!!

I had reservations because I hadn't seen these chairs in person, but I was delighted when they arrived (in 2 days, no less!) They are fully assembled, light weight, and sturdy. The back is straight but comfortable. As Jay said, they aren't very wide, so they give a small dining area a little more breathing room.

The chairs cost about 50 dollars a piece and I bought 4 but what a difference they make. My wife and were about to spend almost two thousand dollars on a new dining room set buteven though I wanted a new table I balked at the price (we have jst spent so much money for new floors and bathroom work and appliances) The chairs are called Venice chairs but they seem to have an asian influence and the go fine with a country style table by adding a bit of contemporary asian flair in the mix. They are more comfortable then windsor chairs but a bit less wide.