Oxo Good Grips Silicone Pastry Brush Reviews
Oxo Good Grips Silicone Pastry Brush
- Features a unique bristle design and will not retain odors, nor clump during cleaning
- Multiple layers of silicone bristles feature gaps in center to hold liquids better as they are transferred from bowl to food
- Tapered outer bristles allow for brushing delicate pastries with ease
- Silicone bristles are heat resistant to 600 degrees F; angled brush head keeps bristles off the countertop
- A soft comfortable grip makes it a joy to baste; safe and easy to clean in the dishwasher
Happy with your Pastry Brush but unhappy with how it retains odors and clumps when you clean it? Try the OXO Good Grips Silicone Pastry Brush, which works like a natural bristle brush but with the added conveniences of heat resistance, odor resistanc
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List Price: $ 6.99
Price: $ 3.35
Nesco FD-80 American Harvest Square-Shaped Dehydrator
- Easy-to-use dehydrator for drying fruit, vegetables, herbs, and jerky
- Air-circulation system ensures fast, even drying; no need to rotate trays
- Adjustable thermostat; printed guidelines on motor housing
- Bale handle; dishwasher-safe parts; instruction manual
- Measures 14-1/2 by 14-1/2 by 9-5/8 inches; 1-year limited warranty
Powerful 700 watt food dehydrator features include Nesco American Harvest unique airflow for even and efficient drying. Not need to rotate the trays as the food is dried evenly from the top tray to the bottom. The unique square design provides 41% mo
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List Price: $ 79.99
Price: $ 52.95
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Review by L. Knights for Oxo Good Grips Silicone Pastry Brush
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This is a great brush! Maybe I have just had bad luck, but it seems like the “regular” bristle brushes I’ve used would always shed bristles. On or in the food. Not only that, but they were soooo hard to get clean, they always seemed to keep a fine layer of grease.
This cleans like a dream in the dishwasher.
This brush may not work well for some things, like brushing chocolate into molds, but it works especially well for brushing on butter and is also good for wetting the sides of a pan you are making candy or caramel in or for brushing on glazes. I am thinking of ordering a few more just like it.
Review by NuJoi for Oxo Good Grips Silicone Pastry Brush
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Leave it to OXO to perfect the pastry brush. Silicone always beats natrual bristles because you don’t end up with bristles stuck in your food and you can thoroughly clean the brush. Put it in the dishwasher if you want. Try that with a natural bristle brush and you will have a clumpy mess on your hands.
The downside of silicone brushes is that they don’t hold the liquid very well. OXO has solved this by adding a layer of silicone between the bristles that suspends the liquid. The liquid is released by the pressure of brushing the food. Cook’s Illustrated likens the technology to the bubble wands we used to play with as kids. Who knew?!!
The brush feels comfortable in my hand. Although it is not as nimble as bristle brushes or my William Bounds Sili Gourment, this brush has replaced the William Bounds Sili Gourmet brushes as my favorite.
Review by CookGirl for Oxo Good Grips Silicone Pastry Brush
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I bought this brush almost two weeks ago and I liked it so much that I decided to write my first review ever.
If you’ve ever used a natural bristle pastry brush, you know this is an item you will have to replace again and again because the bristles will start to clump up over time and retain odors. Not to mention the shedding.
This brush is amazing! For its trial run, I used it to spread olive oil over a chicken I was roasting. This brush picked up all the oil and coated the chicken nicely. Clean-up was also enjoyable as no soaking in soapy water required. This brush cleans up in a jiff.
I’ll still keep a regular pastry brush for delicate jobs such as brushing cake molds with chocolate but this new brush will be used for the messier jobs.
Review by Kevin Mckay for Oxo Good Grips Silicone Pastry Brush
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For buttering pans, it’s OK I guess. It cleans SOOO much better than traditional brushes–which is why I got it. Might be better for glazes and thicker liquids.
I guess the same things that make it good for cleaning make it mediocre for brushing. I’m not throwing out my old bristle brushes yet, but I’m not throwing this one out either.
Review by C. Woods for Oxo Good Grips Silicone Pastry Brush
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I find that I’m giving up the fine control and substance retention of a bristled brush for the ease of clean up and durability of this one, which is okay. The trade off is worth it because I’ve never used a bristled pastry brush after first use/washing without either dropping bristles or inwardly shuddering at the thought that there’s always gonna be gunk left on it that just can’t be completely cleaned out/off. Yuck.
This one is sooo easy to swirl around in hot, soapy water and drip dry that I find myself using it almost daily.
Review by Robert Symington for Nesco FD-80 American Harvest Square-Shaped Dehydrator
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This dehydrator is great. I’ve had the unit for almost a month now. So far I’ve dehydrated 20 pounds of “eye of round” for jerky. The recipe I used is at Recipezaar (can’t post URL), recipe number 161262 (modified a bit to suite my taste, like I added about 1 tsp of onion powder and cut the liquid smoke about 25%). In fact I just did 10 of the 20 pounds yesterday. I’ve also dehydrated cantaloupe, kiwi slices, strawberries, grapes (come out as plump and juicy raisins), limes, oranges (those were more of an experiment), banana slices and watermelon (now that was interesting… sweet as candy), but back to the review.
I also got two sets of the Add-a-tray (two trays per package). It dries with all 8 trays just fine. I do rotate the trays about half way through, but I’m not sure I would really have to. The instructions say that the trays are top shelf dishwasher safe, but that would limit my dishwasher to only two trays per load, so I take my top rack out of the dishwasher and stand the trays vertically in the lower rack. I can get all eight trays and the base into the dishwasher at once. I figured that my water heater is only set to 125 degrees and I dry jerky at 165, so the trays shouldn’t have any problem. Just make sure that you turn off any internal water heating the dishwasher my have and make sure that you turn off heated drying (use air dry). I just wait for the washer to stop, take out the trays and shake them off. Stack them, put on the power head and run it at 125 for 30 minutes. All nice, clean and dry.
Now for the hint that Nesco doesn’t want me to share
for fruit, you really need to use the Clean Screens, but at 8 bucks for a pair, you’ll spend $32.00 (plus any shipping) to get enough for all 8 trays. I went to my local craft store (you know the one owned by Michael) and bought 16 sheets of plastic embroidery mesh (7 square mesh) that were 14″ X 10″ (the ones you would use to make those awful square Kleenex box covers). Take two sheets per tray and cut them out yourself with kitchen shears. Put them together butted up on the long side and then cut the perimeter to fit the tray and cut out the hole (1/2 of the hole in each sheet where they are butted up) for the center and then lay the two pieces into the tray. The sheets were $0.33 each, so 16 sheets only cost $5.28 and a bit of time to cut them out. Didn’t really need them for the cantaloupe, but I’d still be cleaning kiwi and bananas off the trays if I hadn’t used them. I throw them into the dishwasher with the trays and just run the whole load at once. All in all, this was a great buy and I’m glad I got it.
—- UPDATE 11 January 2010 —-
So, I’ve spent a few more months with my dry friend… that’s a pun…
This unit is now $49. I bought it and am happy with it at $70. Now, there is no reason not to give it a try!
About 3 months ago, I bought the jerky squeeze gun. I got it at BiMart in Oregon for $2 more than you can get it here at Amazon (the instant gratification thing). Available here. Search for Nesco BJX-5 American Harvest Jumbo Jerky Works Kit. My daughter and I make the round “slim-jim” type jerky every couple of months (about 4 lbs of 96% lean ground beef each time). The squeeze gun is as easy as using a caulking gun. Actually even better since you really don’t need to be concerned about the aesthetic appearance of the final product… I mean we’re taking jerky here and you can’t eat caulk. I use the Nesco spicy mix with additional black pepper, powered garlic and cayenne pepper (lot’s of cayenne pepper).
We’ve also, since buying it, done some fruit leather. Just used a jar of store bought apple sauce with a bit of added cinnamon. Next time, I think we’ll put a bit of Splenda(r) in it just to “sweeten” the final product a bit. Tip… even using processed apple sauce, we put it through the blender to completely break it down into a slurry.
My “home made” clean screens are still preforming perfectly. Hope this update helps others.
—- UPDATE 20 January 2010 —-
Whoops… I see that the price is back up to $65. Well, still a fine product regardless.
Review by 2pedals for Nesco FD-80 American Harvest Square-Shaped Dehydrator
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Years ago I had one of the round dehydrators with the drying unit on the bottom. This one is great because the drying unit is on the top. No more liquids dripping down onto the operational part of the unit. It has a plastic tray to catch the drips. I also like the square shape. I am able to get more on each tray compared to the round tray design. The plastic screens are round though. I did like the review from someone here suggesting using plastic mesh from the craft store. Wish I had seen that before I ordered my extra ones. I also like that it is quieter than the one I used to have. I have dried tomatoes, carrots and herbs so far. Jerky is next on the list.
Update: I still use this dehydrator. But I would no longer recommend it if you are going to do alot of dehydrating. I spent the extra money and bought an Excalibur and it is amazing how more efficient it is compared to the Nesco square dehydrator. While I liked having the fan element on the top away from any drips it is not as efficient as the Excalibur’s fan that blows the air across the trays instead of vertically through all the trays and the wet food. The Excalibur is noisier than the Nesco.
Bottom line: If noise is a bigger issue than efficiency for you then get the Nesco. If efficiency is more important than noise and you will be dehydrating a lot then splurge for the Excalibur with the horizontal blowing air.
Review by Katalina for Nesco FD-80 American Harvest Square-Shaped Dehydrator
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I have put this dehydrator ‘through the paces’, making jerky and drying fruit. It’s done a great job with both. I’ve had the more common round type of dehydrator in the past, so I was interested in this square-shaped one. Much better! Food fits on the square sheets much better. The drying is very uniform, without need for moving the trays during the drying process. Great price too, with several accessories available. Very pleased with this compact, efficient dehydrator–and it’s American-made too!
Review by blogagog for Nesco FD-80 American Harvest Square-Shaped Dehydrator
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Overall, I’m quite satisfied with this dehydrator
pros:
- It’s as quiet as a box fan set to ‘low’
- It dries evenly, so the whole tray is done at the same time
- The thermostat is accurate (I tested it at 95 degrees and 135 degrees)
- It does indeed hold a good bit more than a round dehydrator
cons:
- There is no on/off switch, so you have to unplug it when not in use.
Review by J. DeSilva for Nesco FD-80 American Harvest Square-Shaped Dehydrator
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I’ve been using the Nesco FD-80 for about a week now. The unit comes with four trays but I also bought another two trays here at Amazon. With six trays I was able to dry four pounds of jerky at once, which I think is pretty impressive. It only took about four hours to dry completely. One thing I noticed is that I actually did have to rotate the trays while it dried. Okay I’m not sure I HAD to, but after the first three hours I could see that the tray on top was WAY drier then the tray on the bottom, so I went ahead and rotated. The jerky came out weighing two pounds. Two pounds of jerky from a $10 beef roast – I’m happy. Next I tried a bit of a “sampler”. Three trays were fruit leather, one tray was 8 sliced roma tomatoes with fresh basil on top, one tray was sliced apple rings, and the last tray was half pear slices and half plum slices. It took a loooooong time at the recommended 135 degree temperature. I think some of this was just my inexperience showing. I did put a LOT of wet stuff in there. Next time I will run the fruit leather on it’s own – I think that is what slowed everything else up. All the fruit came out great, the tomatoes were stunning packed in oil, and the leather… well… I’m calling a do-over on the leather. The edges ended up hard and the center was still mush after 36 hours. I’ll try again soon and update. Cleanup was fairly easy, just sprayed down the racks and let them sit for a while, then sprayed again to clean. I ran the dehydrator for a half hour just to dry things off inside.
Honestly I bought this for making jerky and drying tomatoes from the garden, and it’s worked great for both, so I’m happy. If I can get the hang of fruit leather, well that will just be a bonus.