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GADGET TESTING & REVIEWS
Gadgets tested / reviewed in order:
STUFZ Burger Stuffer
STUFZ Burger Stuffer – Nope. (Unless you’re very patient and enjoy playing with new kitchen gadgets. We’re aaallllll over the second part of that caveat, but fail miserably at the first part.)
Colleen and I tried out this burger stuffing tool while prepping for her family’s 4th of July get together. I should preface this one with a little information about Colleen that you may not know: She is NOT big on patience in the kitchen. Don’t get me wrong. She’s definitely a Foodie and likes cooking, and her food usually turns out well. She just doesn’t really enjoy the pesky little details of cooking. Like reading through the recipe or instructions first. Or measuring precisely. Or rotating cookie trays in the oven for even cooking. Or letting things cool before moving on to the next step. Or not manhandling fragile plastic doohickies. Remember that last one…it will be important later.
DETAILS:
This Burger Stuffer retails for around $10 in our area. It is made of plastic and not in America. It makes a rather wide and tall burger with an abundance of stuffing.
PROS:
-It does, indeed, make a stuffed burger.
-The instructions are pretty clear.
-The process for removing the stuffed burger from the device is kind of ingenious.
CONS:
-It makes a ginormous burger! Who needs a burger that big!?!?
-It can hold A LOT of stuffing. It almost seemed like more stuffing than burger, which is how it seemed after cooking as well.
-Getting the top (kind of like the burger’s lid) on the burger with the gadget was kind of an unwieldy and unsuccessful process.
-One of the plastic pieces broke off during the stuffing of burger number 2.
-It was a pretty messy process.
CONCLUSION:
If you are patient and follow directions carefully, this might be a fun gadget to play with. By the time we finished the second burger and broke a piece off the stuffer, we were done. We ended up throwing the stuffer away at that point. If you’re going to have to get your hands dirty anyway, it just made more sense to us to go ahead and stuff the rest by hand and make them a more reasonable size. And while the instructions were pretty clear, the process from start to finish had a lot of steps, and was not very intuitive. This means reading & following the instructions on each burger until you get the hang of it. Pretty sure Colleen just winged it after I talked her through the process on the first one. And, though it does appear there was some manhandling of fragile plastic doohickies, in her defense, it did seem to require a good amount of force to form the bottom part of the burger. Not too surprising that could lead to breakage.
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New York Times Bestselling author Colleen Houck is a lifelong reader whose literary interests include action, adventure, paranormal, science fiction, and romance. When she's not busy writing, she likes to spend time chatting on the phone with one of her six siblings, watching plays, and shopping online. Colleen has lived in Arizona, Idaho, Utah, California, and North Carolina and is now permanently settled in Salem, Oregon with her husband and a huge assortment of plush tigers.