BonJour Salad Chef Salad Dressing Maker with Automatic Battery Powered Mixer
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of BonJour Salad Chef Salad Dressing Maker with Automatic Battery Powered Mixer
Customer Review: Disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars
The mixer does not reach far enough down to mix a small amount and is not strong enough to blend anything thicker than a very watery mixture. One reviewer stated that the mixer doesn't detach but mine does, the mixer shaft comes right out of the motor housing if I pull it. It's nice looking and easy to add ingredients because the top of the cruet is plenty wide so it does have that going for it. The printed recipes, both in the booklet and on the cruet, are microscopic so unless you have nice young sharp vision you'll have a very difficult time reading them. I scanned some of the recipes from the booklet and then enlarged and printed them but there's no help for trying to read the ones printed on the cruet. I was excited about this item when I first opened up the box and saw it but after using it half a dozen times I have to say it's not all that great.Customer Review: When it works, it's great
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm on my second one of these. The first one had the fins break from the propeller. The second one has some kind of problem with the motor. But when it works, this thing cuts the time it takes to make salad dressing down to a few minutes. Maybe I'll buy a third...Customer Review: Flawed 'upgrade'
Summary: 2 Stars
It's a real bummer when a product maker changes it, just to change it, and makes a wonderful gadget a bit more annoying to use. The previous model of this salad mixer had two key improvements:
1) The mixer portion could detach. This made it much much easier to clean since you could just pop off the mixer portion to clean.
2) Activating it used to be on the top, this made it easy to turn on then whip the contents around. Now you have to push down with a pretty hefty force which makes it awkward to rotate around the inside to get a good mix.
I consider these fairly large steps backwards (It probably made it cheaper to manufacture?), so while I thought the prior model was a 5-star, the current model is just a 2-star.