Buy Presto 06302 Dehydro Electric Food Dehydrator

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An excellent value for the money. The only detractions are, it's noisy (fan) and it lacks a self timer. The sections stack neatly in the unit and are more than adequate for drying fruits and jerky.

I recommend this product so long as you can live with the noisy fan.

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Works great, quiet, and effective, but there is no "On/Off" switch, the whole machine has to be plugged or unplugged to start or stop the operations.

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We have used this dehydrator many times and it works wonderfully. The fan is a little loud. I love that the tray all nest together, and it doesn't take up very much room. The trays clean up easily ( we use our dishwasher on a cool setting). We have made so much jerky that this product has paid for itself in only a short time.

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It's not the nicest dehydrator out there, and I'm sure the more expensive ones would dehydrate food faster. But it is a good dehydrator, and dries fruit out evenly. The higher you stack the trays, the slower they dry so keep that in mind and always check something from each tray (like the instructions say to), not just the top tray. Overall, I am happy with my purchase and will be using this for years.

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I am very pleased with this Electric Food Dehydrator it is a lot better quality then I expected, Thank you

Discount Toastmaster TWB2WREG Waffler

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I have owned this waffle iron for over a year now and it is still going strong.

I always use buckwheat flour when making my waffles, and sometimes I also add some ground nuts into the mix, so they take much longer to cook than what instruction book and the little indicator light on the iron says when it should be done (like 2-3 times longer). I have found the ideal way to determine if the waffles are done or not is if they come up out of the iron easily without sticking or breaking apart. Also another (less accurate) indicator is if there is no longer any steam coming from the iron.

Pros:

1. price is right!

2. easy to use

Cons:

1. indicator light is useless

2. can be messy if your not carefull with the amount of batter you put in it

3. hard to clean, although this is something that all waffle irons have in common.

Overall I recommend this product, with it I can make the best waffles around (using my own recipes of course). :)

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Honeywell Ceramic Surround Heat Whole Room Heater w/ Remote Control Review

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I just bought this a few days ago because my bedroom has massive windows that are hard to insulate, a cold front just swept in, and I walked to my place on Friday and my bedroom was 62 degrees. My roommates aren't here enough for me to throw money at our thermostat.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

I actually was underwhelmed when I first turned on the unit. Hot air slowly raises from its grate. It doesn't blow out sideways like you'd think. So, the first night, I placed it on the floor and used my laptop at the edge of the bed so the low velocity hot air would actually hit me directly. I was going to take it back the next day.

But after an hour or so, the room warmed up from 64 degrees to 72. When I left my bedroom to get a drink, the frigid air from the rest of my house greeted me as I opened my bedroom door and I ran to the refrigerator to get a water bottle before running back to the warmth of my room. At that point, I realized this product was perfectly fine, I just expected something that was more direct.

WHAT THIS PRODUCT IS FOR:

This product is something you turn on in an enclosed room to gradually heat it. That it has a thermostat setting indicates this, as it will turn off when the room reaches a certain temperature (you can set it 65 to 80 degrees or just "Always On").

This is *not* something you turn on and sit in front of when you're cold. For this purpose, you might want a radiant heater or a ceramic/fan heater that shoots the air out with more of a velocity. This product lets the hot air ooze out of it because it heats the room through convection.

I actually give it 4/5 stars instead of 5/5 because it doesn't do a good job explaining its purpose on the box. The 180/360 degree marketing stuff is just misleading and the feature of being able to close half of the grate is just a gimmick since this product is terrible if you buy it as something to place next to your rocking chair.

PROS:

Super light. Move it from room to room. Take it to the bathroom with you. Take it to your girlfriend's house. No big deal. Try doing that with a heavy portable oil-filled radiator.

Looks great. Just a black minimal tower and I like contemporary aesthetics.

Comes with a remote control which makes sense since this is something you could place in the corner of the room and it still works.

Quiet but definitely audible. I like the breathy low velocity sound of this heater, but if you want 100% quiet, go with a radiator.

Comes with a timer on it (1, 2, 4, 8 hours)

Works.

CONS:

The whole 180/360 grate cover is a gimmick. I just leave half the grate covered as it faces my bed, but it's more of a mental thing since I won't feel the heat until the general temperature of the room rises anyways.

Air slowly rises from it. You can't feel heat with your hand half a foot away from it at grate level. You'd have to move your hand away from the device up at about 45 degrees to follow the heat. This isn't really a con since this device isn't a spot/fan-forced heater, but I'm trying to make this point clear.

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This heater works great! My bedroom is 13x11 and our furnace broke this last winter (Detroit, Michigan area) so it got pretty cold, and this heater worked very well. Needed one with a remote if I got hot at night so I would not have to get up and mess with anything, just one click on the remote and it would be off. Kept me very warm on many 10° to 20° nights here in Michigan. I would buy it again. Just as a tip, the heat that comes out of it comes out at a 45 degree angle upward, not like straight out. Meaning, you should probably set the heater on top of the box it came in to elevate it and get better heat spread like I did. (Just a personal note, I do not use the "360 mode" I don't think it works as well, but the "180 mode" works flawlessly!)

The remote lets your turn it on, off, fan on high or low, and set the temp. Infra Red remote so you can point it in the general direction and it will work. (Expectantly at night, half asleep!)

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I purchased this space heater thinking it would be a quality product since it is made by Honeywell. I could not have more wrong!! I am on my third unit and it is going back.

The first one wouldn't shut off when it reached the set temperature.

The second one clicked and clicked, made the lights flicker and seemed very unsafe. Used it twice.

The third one worked for a wee bit but then it started in like the others. It clicks and shuts itself off even when in the full on setting, or before the time selected is up, as soon as 5 minutes after turning it on.

When it did work it did a nice job of heating my 14x14 room. It can't handle a room larger than that though.

Save yourself a lot of trouble and buy some other heater. This one is horrible!!! I only gave it one star because I had to fill in one.

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OK Bangs and clangs on start up,heat doesn't project out far but remote control is handy and is fully functional.

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In all fairness I have to say this product still works as a heater, but it is overpriced and is really annoying to use. I would suggest you get the $20 Lasko ceramic heater which works much better and gives the same heat.

First of all the $60 price really doesn't give you much more feature than my $20 Lasko heater. If anything, this honeywell is just bigger, takes more space but doesn't give more heat (it has the same wattage: 900W and 1500W).

However the most annoying thing about the Honeywell heater is the digital control. It defaults to Hi heat and in order to change it to low you have to press the button 5 times, that's because they combined the Hi/Low settings with the thermostat settings. So the state goes from Hi, 65, 70, 75, 80, Low. I like the Low heat and I turn this thing on and off often, so it's really annoying that every time I want to use it have to push the power button, and then press the temperature settings 5 times just to get the Low heat settings. That's 6 times pushing the button! My lasko heater can do this with just one switch.

Discount ACU_RITE Refrigerator/Freezer Wireless Digital Thermometer 00986

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I bought this for our RV refrigerator. We have a wired thermometer but I wanted a wireless type to get rid of the wire from the sensor to the display that runs under the door gasket. I was a little skeptical that a wireless thermometer would work but it worked so well I could bring the receiver in the house and watch the refrigerator cool down the night before we left for a trip. The display has magnets for mounting that don't stick to a our fridge (all plastic door), we just stick the display to our stove cover as its metal and right over the fridge. The remotes have two mounts; a suction cup and a spring clamp. The display has a min/max function, alarms and it's large enough to be seen easily. All-in-all its perfect for our needs.

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I'll preface this by saying I bought this b/c my relatively new fridge seems to hold temperature poorly, so I've had a small mercury type fridge/freezer thermometer (hereafter referred to as "Mercury") since shortly after I bought it. The problem with these is that you have to open the door to read it, and I wanted something that I could have a Min/Max reading throughout the day to note down in case I need ammunition to use against the warranty company. Being able to monitor both fridge and freezer temps is a big plus!

BOTTOM LINE: for those not wanting to read my drivel below -The AcuRite 00986, after a week of use, works great for me... note that I had no battery issues like some have had. See next part...

BATTERY TIPS: doing a Google search on battery characteristics, I found information [link removed by Amazon...] on Alkaline versus NiMH versus NiCd versus other battery chemistries. One of the very useful pieces of info was operating temperature range. Of note: Lithium operates down to -40C (-40F). Alkaline: 0C (32F). NiCd: -40C. NiMH: -20C (-4F). Well, I have a zillion NiMH rechargeable batteries for kids toys and since I really only care if the freezer goes above a few degrees F, then I figured I'd try NiMH for my sensors, before shelling out $$ on the Lithium AAs. Results: my freezer sensor has captured a temp as low as -13F, so I'd say the NiMH option was a smart move. Even if I have to change the batteries weekly, I swap them out with another set of NiMH and put them on the charger for a few hours. So, my advice to you is to get an inexpensive NiMH charger from somewhere ($10 maybe) and a package of at least 4 (~$7-10), but 8 would be nice, NiMH batteries. I'd recommend any low-discharge NiMH, such as Sanyo Enloops. If you really want to cheap out, get NiCd, but they don't have the capacity that the NiMH batteries do. I know the investment is a tad high upfront, but one set of Lithium AAs is $6, and it's single use. With the NiMH, you can use them hundreds of times, and with 2 each in your fridge/freezer sensors, the back-up ones could be in your kids RC car, flashlight, etc. You'll save $$$$$$ in the long run, if you switch your household to rechargeable in general for AAA/AA type applications.

Ok, all the important stuff over, here is the boring, wordy review/information:

I received the AcuRite version (I'm guessing the Chaney branding has gone extinct) of this product, opened it, installed batteries (more about the batteries later), and within seconds, the transmitters were sending temperature information. I let it sit on my desk for a while, and after the sensors stabilized, they were within 1 degree Fahrenheit of each other, and right at what my home thermostat was set to. Good so far!

I then moved to the kitchen and put the sensors in the fridge/freezer, and mounted the display on the side of the fridge next to the freezer. It probably took between 10 and 15 minutes for the sensors to stabilize at the fridge/freezer temps. I bought another mechanical dial type thermometer (Taylor Classic #5924) from Amazon so I could compare the results with the AcuRite and Mercury. I started my "analysis of performance" by placing AcuRite #2 and Taylor in the freezer, and AcuRite #1 and the Mercury in the fridge. They all seemed to line up well, and I monitored things this way periodically over the course of the next few hours. Because my fridge is my biggest worry, I then moved Taylor to the fridge as well, and placed it somewhere else in the fridge away from AcuRite #1 on a different shelf. This way I could tell if temps across fridge were consistent. Again, everything seemed to read similar temperatures, so I'm confident the AcuRite system is A-OK for me.

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I've had this installed for about 1 month. Both transmitters and receiver are working well. The freezer chest transmitter is located on the basememt floor about 10' (below)from the receiver on the main floor and the 2nd transmitter is in my frige on the same floor (2nd) within 15'. All working OK. So far, I can recomend this product.

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I'll keep it short and to the point. It works perfect. It is great to be able to adjust your temps to where you actually want them. The suction cups do not work that very good in my refrigerator but the clips hold onto the shelves just fine. It recommends a lithium battery in the freezer side but so far a standard battery is working fine for me. If you want a wireless unit this is the way to go.

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We bought $1200 worth of grass fed beef and a brand new deep freeze so we thought we better get a alarm since we keep the freezer in our basement. One alarm is for the freezer and the other is only for the fridge since you can't set the alarming beeper for low enough for another freezer. We bought the special lithium expensive batteries figuring we want to do everything possible to protect the meat. It was a little hard to find a place in the house it would read the sensors and we would hear the alarm beep. But we finally ended up having to put the alarm unit in our bedroom since that is basically on top of the freezer. It worked erratically for 2 months, would alarm about once every 10 days and say the temp went up 20 degrees when nobody opening the door or anything, never figured that out but then about a week ago it just stopped working. We reset it, changed the $10 batteries, stood right next to the freezer and no matter what we do it won't work. So this product ended up being a big waste of time and money. Not sure if it can be returned after 2 1/2 months or not.

Buy Thermocool Axial Cooling Fan 110V 97CFM 5.3" X 5.3"

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Bought this to mount on the back of my 46" Samsung TV because the TV overheats and then flickers.

Does a great job cooling TV but by mounting it on the back plactic cover, the noise level is pretty high.

Rubber shock mounts might help reduce the noise level, but I opt'd to try another slower speed fan.

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This is a good, well built fan, that moves a lot of air. The only potential problem might be the noise. I would not use it in an application where noise might be a factor. I tried it in cooling my stereo receiver, but I had to switch to a quieter fan, because of the high noise level. As I have said, this fan moves a lot of air, so if you want to cool a nuclear reactor, this is the fan for you.

Buy Ventamatic XXFIRESTAT 10-Amp Adjustable Thermostat with Firestat

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I used this Ventamatic unit to replace a faulty thermostat in a different brand of fan. It works great; simple to wire, and has accurate temperature markings on the case.

As to the absence of the firestat mentioned by other reviewers, it's possible that they don't know exactly what a firestat is. It's actually a thermal fuse, and looks like a diode. If it gets too hot, the inside part melts which breaks the electrical connection. Mine has one.

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Bought this to use with a fan that moves air away from our woodstove. It works as it should but it is not the most accurate thing in the world. It has a tendency to stick open much longer than temperature calls for. Decent product if you are OK with some inaccuracy.

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The thermostat comes on at the set temperature, and turns off at the same temperature. What I really wanted was a thermostat that turned on at 10 to twenty degrees above the turn off temperature, and then turned off at the set temperature. This would be to insure that it was venting on a hot day and not on the cooler days when the temperature just nicks the set temperature.

Anyway the aged fan that I hooked this up to died, so if I buy a new attic fan they all come with a new thermostat in the box...

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Bought this switch to replace a solid-state variable motor speed controller that never functioned properly by not turning the motor off completely even at night. This unit did the trick. Works fine.

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I wired this into a plug, the quality is every bit as good as any others at twice the price, a good buy.

Mr. Heater MH125FAV 125,000-BTU Forced-Air Propane Heater Review

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right out of the box worked great. Heated a 34x34 garage in no time at all. only problem the propane tank I was using was frozen. Temp in the garage before the heater was -5 after it was 50.

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This is a FANTASTIC heater but there are some things a new buyer should be aware of. It'll bring a 30x60x12 garage from 0 to 60 in about an hour and a half. However you really do need a 100 lb tank. You can get away with a 40 or 50 lb heating a smaller area on low otherwise the tanks will condense and shut off the gas flow to the heater. They are louder than you'd expect if you haven't used one of these before because of the blower fan. Think mini jet. I've also used the convection style heaters and depending on your needs these are both great. The convection style is much quieter but takes a fair bit longer to heat a large space and you won't get as even a heat in the room. For larger spaces or fast heat up the forced air heater is an awesome product.Mr. Heater MH125FAV 125,000-BTU Forced-Air Propane HeaterMr. Heater 80,000 BTU Propane Convection Heater #MH80CV

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I'm in the process of insulating and paneling a 12x30 portable building to be used as a workshop. During the winter it get's a bit cold here. I got this hoping it would heat the building enough to work comfortably. I couldn't. Kept having to turn it off after every 15 minutes of run time and wait 45 minutes to an hour before needing it again. That's a lot of heat from a device that's slightly larger than ones thigh. It uses very little propane for a LOT of heat. I heartily recommend it.

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This thing really works like a charm. The only bummer is the slight propane smell when used in a slightly enclosed place. Heats up a large space in minutes.

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I can now change my uninviting work area in the northernmost portion of Michigan from a freezing cold refrigerator into a shirtsleeves comfortable shop. This heater does everything I'd hoped for.

Reviews of Biddeford 100% Poly Knit MicroPlush Heated Blanket

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Compared to my previous two Sunbeam blankets that were rather scratchy, this blanket is super soft. But more importantly, this blanket is warmer than the last Sunbeam ever was. Both Sunbeams quit heating on one or both sides within about three years. Hopefully, this blanket will last longer than they did. The only problem with this blanket is that it is so soft that little dogs that love blankets will want to nest on it and can easily snag it. Of course, the instructions say to keep pets off of it. My dog does not read.

Update Dec. 22, 2011 I carefully folded and stored the blanket while it was not needed during warm/hot weather. This fall I got it back out and it is still working perfectly! My dog is so happy!

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I bought this blanket as a clearance item for a really good deal. Overall, it worked really well last winter but it didn't last through this winter. Either the plug is broken or the blanket is broken. The real kicker is that I would have given it another star regardless that it broke (since it did work really well) is that I emailed the company to see if the warranty would cover this problem. They never responded to my email.

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my goodness, im in heaven. got this as a gift didnt think i would like it, but i tired it because it was a gift. it warms your feet, like none other. it shuts off, and turns back on its wonderful! I was out in negative temps for 3hrs, and its hard to bring up ur core temp, and this did it. it felt so nice to have it on my back and feet. it is wonderful! you can adjust the temp, its just great.

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I couldn't be happier. I purchased this blanket to replace a Sunbeam fleece electric blanket that was shedding everywhere. As soon as I put it on my bed it was a WOW. I have a down comforter and you can't even tell this electric blanket is on the bed. It is so soft that it actually makes the down comforter feel thicker. No hard wires to make the blanket stiff and unbendable. I use the blanket to warm the bed before I go to sleep and sometimes leave it on low heat just for comfort. Can't leave it on very high with the down comforter because it gets so hot it will run me out of bed. I decided to purchase this blanket because of the price and the mess the other blanket was making but if had I realized how much I would love it I would have purchased it a long time ago!!

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I would have given this 5 stars but there are 2 reasons why I didn't.

1: Takes a very long time to heat up.

2: My auto off timer doesn't work and never did.

Otherwise I thouht this was a good blanket.here is why.

1: You can't feel it while laying on your bed.

2: Once it heats up it can get pretty hot.

3: Has 10 different heat settings.

Thank you for taking your time reading this and I hope it helped you.

Cheap ICM SC2201L Muti-stage Heat Pump, 2-stage Heat/1-stage Cool

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This circuit board no longer has a reset button as stated in the installation instructions.To reset it you have to go to the breaker box in your house.so to me that means when the power goes off it resets itself.but if you read the instructions it has a 30 minute power interruption memory so which is it.Also states to use the temperature differential setting you need to use the reset button???????I emailed ICM and there is no new instructions for it.Now for me to send this 57.00 item back it is going to cost me shipping both ways and a 20% restocking fee I figure it will cost me 24.00 to return a 57.00 thermostat.Great deal for the company sell somethig that is not what it say's its make 25.00 and sell it again and again.stay away from this thing.

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