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This frother worked awesome for 1 year, then my motor died.
They give 5 years of warranty, but only if you keep the receipt.
So - better don't throw it away, just in case you need to get an exchange.

this little machine makes amazing froth--it's actually better than my 250 dollar krups pump machine! however, it seems a little chintzy--I hope it lasts more than a month.
couple this with a lavazza stovetop espresso maker and you have fantastic lattes etc at a much cheaper price than with an electric machine.

you don't need a capuccino machine - this works better -
just use espresso grind in your coffee maker - and you have capuccino, latte, cafe au lait, whatever you want -

and it's whisper quiet, too!!!!!!!!!! AMAZING.. love it!

great gift for the coffee drinker - they'll use it every day - regular folgers coffee even tastes better with foamier milk - even whips up SILK soy creamer -

this will be 2004's must have kitchen gadget- and still being used in 2104! buy one for yourself and several for gifts!

I purchased these rock glasses, as part of the complete set of gold trimmed glasses, from my local Target. I found that they were not only great for drinks, but desserts as well. This is the most stylish way to serve Brandy Ice or other dessert drinks. These are very heavy glasses, but handwash only. They were purchased mainly because of the gold rims. The trim sets them apart from other lead crystal glasses and adds a touch more elegance.

I purchased these, at my local Target, along with the rest of the gold trimmed glass sets. These are not only classy looking, for after dinner drinks, but are great toasting glasses. I'm considerering buying more sets for Wedding presents. There are always weddings coming up, in the spring and these make an elegant, quick gift. They are nice and heavy, but hand wash them. You'll want to preserve the beautiful gold rims.

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I ordered 2 sets of Traditions Gold flutes and 2 sets of Traditions Gold tumblers from Target.com, and the first thing I loved about my order was how fast I got it:I received my glasses 5 days after I placed my order!
The second thing I love about my order is how heavy and sturdily constructed and balanced these glasses are. My kids break glasses frequently, so I'm always on the lookout for a glass that won't break if you knock it over on the table.
The third and last thing I love about my order is how beautifully these glasses will coordinate with my gold-rimmed, cream-colored china. It will truly enhance my Passover seder table. I am very happy that I was able to find something new to increase my family's and friends' joy at this miraculous, special time of year, and it was so easy to do! The ordering process was extremely simple. Thank you, Target.com! - Natana

I got this mill as a Christmas gift last year, and with only moderate home use the plastic (not ceramic as in most good mills)grinding element inside the mill cracked last week. I must say, however, that while it was working, i found it to be a sturdy, versatile, functional mill, the best i had ever owned. That said, one would expect the mill not to break down in less than a year.

Note: if anyone has the address for Trudeau so i can sent my mill back, please email me privately. Thanks.

it took me forever to find, but here it is. 1800-878-3328. it must be a super small company. they don't even say that they are trudeau corp. when they answer the phone. they don't have parts for the pepper mill, but they will send you a brand new one. it has a lifetime warrrenty!

I have a similar model Trudeau grinder, which failed after a couple years of heavy use. True to their word, Trudeau replaced it no charge with a new one. Needless to say, I was stunned.

I had one a few months ago. When I filled in water, the water just passed the filter quickly. I was not sure if the water is filtered. One day, I wanted to clean it. I put it in hot water for about 10 minutes. The pitcher was out of shape and I had to discard it. I believe the pitcher was made from cheap materials. I sent an email to the custom no service of Brita. I got no response. I will not buy Brita products any longer.

This is a very convenient item, especially if you have well water and are bothered by funny tastes and/or smells in your water. This is excellent for filtering water to drink or to cook with, and for coffee and/or tea. Another reviewer did not recommend, but it seems they used hot water (never, ever do this - cold only!), and be sure you have fitted the filter properly. For people who live with unpleasant water, this is a godsend.

I love Brita water filtering items. If the water goes thru too fast when you fill it then the filter is not placed properly. If filter is placed properly the water goes thru fairly quickly but not "right through." Maybe that was the other user's problem.

I've taken this heater camping about 4 times and it works great. I try not to use it all night, so I turn it on while we are getting ready to go to sleep and keep it on for an hour. I then turn it off and turn it back on in the morning for about 30 minutes before getting up. The push-button starter is very useful and allows me to turn it on fairly quick without having to look for a match or lighter. This unit stands on the floor and blows the heat at an angle. This is great since it can heat the tent across the sleeping bads. Other units heat up and you don't get the heat across the tent and it goes straight up to the ceiling of the tent. However, the threads on the unit where the propane bottle attaches are wearing off. I'm having problems attaching the propane cans as they fit in an angle and are hard to align.

This heater is great. It puts out a good amount of heat, and the fan does a good job of projecting that heat. My only gripe is the advertised life of a can of propane. It's supposed to last up to eight hours in this heater, but it hasn't come close yet. If you're lucky, you'll get six hours. It sucks when it goes out in the middle of the night and the fan continues to blow cold air. This thing is great as long as you plan on getting up once in the middle of the night to change the propane can.

Just back from a cold and rainy columbus day weekend camping trip in the White Mountains, and this heater was the item that saved the weekend! on a cool night(45deg.) this easily brought the temp inside my large coleman tent above 70(it was downright hot!). On a raw rainy afternoon my daughter and I could tough-it-out in great comfort in the tent. and the following 35degree morning was nice and toasty inside! This will definitely increase the enjoyment and comfort of your "shoulder season" camping. In an emergency I've little doubt that this could easily heat a 9x12 room.
Lights quickly with no matches, wide base is very stable, fan is quiet and really makes a difference in heating a larger area, no odor/fumes. unit is larger than it looks, standing about 15" tall...but it fits in an old bookbag size backpack for easy transport.

oh and this price on target is surprisingly low, I paid more!

Bought this three months ago - within two weeks the first hook fell out. By now we have one hook left. the holes are stripped so you can't fit the hooks back in. worthless. too bad, b/c i like the look.

I've owned this hook rack for two years now. I've never had any problems with it. We have ours next to our door. It has been overloaded with coats many times! (Try to find atleast one wall stud when mounting, if you can.) Works great and is very attractive.

i needed a versatile, stylish set of wall hooks to hang my many, many purses. i like the fact that the hooks slide along tracks because everything i hang is a different size. the entire dolce collection rocks!

As the title states, the motor died after about 10 uses. It worked great until then. Oh, and the webpage, www.energiecorp.com, doesn't exist, so you're screwed in terms of trying to contact the company.

This is a unit I keep on my counter at all times. I make anything from frozen drinks to ham salad in it. I chop nuts, ice - everything. I love this product.

I love this blender! Although it is not for large quanities, it makes the best smoothies or protein drinks around. And it is so easy to clean. I have used the stick blenders, the ones with the mixer in the top - everything else - and this is the best. I have had mine for well over a year now, use it several times a day and have never had any issues with it.

I love the idea that this cooler will fit almost anywhere. It's especially nice that the Wagan cooler fits snugly, and relatively securely on the center console between the front seats in my Jeep Grand Cherokee (although I can't lift the door to the console, but you can't have everything).

The Wagan unit keeps things cool (as the name implies), but let's face it, this is no refridgerator, and for an electrically powered unit, I expect that it would keep drinks colder than using ice with a regular cooler, but it doesn't. Unless the Wagan cooler is left out in the snow in the middle of wintertime, it barely keeps things as cool as 40-42 degrees Farenheit when its about 72 degrees outside. WIth ice in a traditional cooler, you can expect to get things down to around 34-36 degrees, and in the summertime. And believe me this 4-8 degrees matters. In fact, the cooler performs much worse in hotter weather.

Also (and this is my biggest peeve), the cooler's AC power adapter died after less than one week of use---it's cheesy and probably not the stuff of power appliances like this Wagan cooler. Therefore, I would not suggest using the cooler as a full-time refridgerator/cooler in your office or den. The Wagan Cooler appliance package just isn't built tough enough for my relatively benign demands. Needs to keep the drinkies cool (I give it a "C-"), and needs to endure through typical (and specified I might add, by the manufacturer) use ("D-").

It does cool to 40-41 degrees as advertised. There are two problems:

1. The AC adapter gets hot during use, almost too hot to hold. This is not good, and was alarming enough for me to send it back.
The adapter does not look like the pictures on the web, and is labeled 'Caution: For Use with Technology Equipment'. What? I don't think this is techology equipment! It *is* rated 12v 5 amps, however.

2. The fan operates continuously and emits a distinctive pitched tone (469 Hz), rather than whir. It is loud and can be easily heard indoors from a distance of 20-25 feet. I found it disturbing. No doubt it would be fine in a car, but I intended to use this mostly indoors.

Studying for the CA bar exam I had to be at the law library for 10-12 hours everyday for two and a half weeks straight. Using the "hot" version, I was able to have my hot meals every day, without having to take off too much time from my studies. The food stayed nice and hot (great home-y feel) after approximately 5 hours from the time I heated it up in the morning. It probably would stay hot even longer than that, but I had to worry about draining my power system.

When it was time for the exam, which is 3 days in CA, the hotel that I was staying at had ran out of their refrigerators. So, I took this little cooler and set it in the "cold" version. My food stayed COLD the whole time, not cool, COLD. I had cold cuts, cheeses, and soup that never went bad during the period of time.

When I checked the temperature, when set as cold, it stayed consistently at 32 degrees (colder than my refrigerator), and when set as hot, it was 120 degrees. It really works well.

The whirling noice that the other reviewer mentioned is correct, but it is not annoying at all. Since it doesn't have a high pitch sound, it was just fine. Even when I had it in the hotel room right next to the bed. And when you take the bar exam, every little noise would annoy you - trust me on that.

Hopefully I passed the exam. I would then give credit to this little cooler for having kept me fed during the ordeal with little hassle.

I was somewhat disappointed with this product. It was difficult to put together because the pre-drilled holes did not match up very well. One spot I could not get to screw in at all. The wine rack is designed poorly. If you barely bump into the table all of the wine bottles come crashing down. I lost a really nice ceramic bowl that was sitting on the bottom shelf. The shipping took forever and the box looked like it was dropped out of the plane at 30,000 feet.

I'm very pleased with the Maple Kitchen Center. For some time, I've been looking for a kitchen island that wouldn't bust my budget, but that was a well-made piece of furniture. This seems to be it.

It's a convenient height and size, with nice extra features like a wine rack, two drawers (with dovetail joints and full extension hinges), and a bottom shelf. The solid maple construction makes it a very sturdy and substantial piece of furniture (weighing in at 106 lbs).

My only complaint (and the reason for 4 stars instead of 5) was that when I unpacked it I discovered that one corner of the wine rack had come unglued (the wine rack is constructed of 4 glued butt-joints). I don't know if this was a flaw from the factory or a result of rough treatment during shipping (the box was in pretty bad shape when it arrived); however, it was an easy fix...I just used some of the supplied wood glue (for use on the wood plugs for the bolt holes) and clamped it over night.

Overall the assembly was very easy, taking about 30-45 minutes from start to finish. All the parts were there and everything fit like it was supposed to.

...Anyway, once I got it I am very pleased with it. However, putting it together wasn't that easy. I had to resort to the trusty old "butter knife" to put some of the screws in because the holes are in such difficult locations (in-between the wine rack and the top piece) that you can't get a screwdriver in-between them to screw it down. It is very well made and solid wood. A really nice piece. I'm happy with in and am glad I ordered it, even with all the problems, and there were many, that I had to go through to get it.

Just barely picked up the unit and the remote didn't work. The remote wouldn't allow me to not only switch the unit to auto, it didn't switch from celsius to fahrenheit either. You might not think that is so bad except the unit beeps once every 2 seconds until the remote is synced up with it. So $50 later I was left with a beeping heater that really doesn't put out that much heat anyway.

This small unit provides excellent heating power in a small, attractively designed package. It does, however, have its drawbacks. One is the annoying design for the control buttons. One button on the unit controls both the heat temperature and the high/low fan (yes, only one button), which means you sometimes have to scroll through a number of temperature & high/low settings before you get to the one you want. The controls on the remote use exactly the same format. Even more annoying are the popping sounds the heater can make when turned on, but in idle mode. I'm guessing this is due to the ceramic heating unit being encased in a plastic shell. As the ceramics heat and cool in idle mode, the unit emits brief, sharp, random popping noises as the plastic elements expand and contract. Over time, I was able to block out these sounds, but think it is something that Bionaire could easily have identified and fixed during the testing phase for this product. In the end, these annoyances may be minor if what you are looking for is a small, attractively designed unit that delivers great heating power.

I would highly recommend this heater. Prior to this purchase, I owned a Pelonis oil-filled heater that looks like a radiator - it broke down in less than a year and was far to costly to have repaired - what a piece of junk. Anyway, the Bionaire heat is magnificent. Its not very noisy at all, heats the room very quickly, and the twisting position system is quite effective. For instance, it took about 20 min to heat a room 10'x12' several degrees, whereas my old oil-filled heater took 30 min just to get warm and another hour to raise the temperature just 1-2 degrees (using the same amount of power). I am very pleased at my purchase. I would recommend this product to anyone looking for an excellent heater.