NAT
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2025
Good quality and easy to clean
dmissmaddie
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2025
This baster is absolutely wonderful! I got so tired of spending money on those awful plastic basters so I looked for one that didn't crack when it got hot. Well I found one! I highly recommend this baster. It's a nice size to use. It's cheaper on Amazon than Ebay!5 Stars A++ product and seller! Thanks
crimegirl
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2025
I had a plastic baster for years and got sick of it never working right and dripping out most of the juice, so I decided to spend a bit more and get this and I am SO happy. You can take off the needle top on it to so if you want a larger hole, you can use just that. All pieces come apart for good cleanup as well. This would also make a good housewarming gift for someone.
Nyurt
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2024
This works much better than the cheap plastic ones. The only thing I would say is it gets really hot to hold when sucking up grease out of a pan. It doesn’t get that way with the plastic ones. Still recommend this one though.
Stacia
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2024
I have had so many brands of basters and this one is by far the best! It works awesome, is super easy to clean and I love that it comes in a two pack.
Kayem
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2020
I bought this over the usual plastic baster solely because it was the only one on Amazon that would arrive in time for when I needed it. I was under quarantine and couldn't get to the store, which is why I bought one on Amazon.This baster does its job well. The suction was really good, better than plastic basters I've used before. I was using this to remove the rendered fat from a goose, which can be messy business. As long as I didn't tilt it to the side, I didn't have to worry about more than a few drips as I transferred to a container. If I did tilt the baster to the side, the liquid poured out, but all basters do that.Cleanup was easy, just pop the bulb off and hose it out. Though I just threw mine in the dishwasher, the bulb on a spine in the top rack and the metal part on a spine in the bottom rack. I didn't need the brush this time around, but it will be helpful scrubbing out anything that gets stuck on. Because the tube is metal, it can get really hot depending on what you're doing with it. Just be careful to touch only the bulb and not do what I did, which was repeatedly grabbing the middle of it when I picked it up, despite having done the same thing before with painful results.The only thing I would change about this is a cap for the marinade injector. I have it attached to the baster in storage, but I'd rather store it separately since the whole assembly is too long to fit in my utensil drawer. Without a cap, it's a stabby danger to any fingers rooting around in the utensil drawer.
M
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2017
I love this baster it works great!! The bulb isn't made out of a cheap plastic like most basters are, this one has a heavy duty bulb that fits snuggly to the body. I like that it has a stainless steel body and not some cheap plastic that cracks after the first use. Which I've had happen with the last 3 basters I've purchased. The included marinade injector tip really comes in handy!! Its nice that its threaded and screws into the body of the baster and doesn't simply slip over the tip like some do. The cleaning brush that comes with it is nice too.I would have given it 5 stars but I took off one point bc there were two issues with the cleaning brush. One the loop on the top of the cleaning brush is entirely too small! Its less than a ¼ of a inch in diameter. Which is too small to put a finger in to help with grip when cleaning. The second is the tip of the brush where the bristles at isn't covered so its just sharp edges that can cut into to the body or bulb of the baster when cleaning it. I just mixed up some two part epoxy and dipped the tip of it into it to give the brush a rubberized tip to prevent damage to the unit.But I'm still very happy with the performance of the product!!!
RJO
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2014
Well-made and useful.There are three main options when it comes to basters: Plastic, Glass or Metal. Plastics are cheap, and it's possible with most to see the fluid level, but they can be damaged by exposure to high temperatures (like accidentally resting on a hot metal rack) and the plastic can undergo deterioration over time. Glass is transparent, so it's easy to monitor the fluid level, and the heat-tolerant types of glass (Pyrex, Kimax, etc.) withstand high temperatures, but can still be shattered by sudden drastic changes in temperature shifts or impact with hard surfaces and is generally more expensive than plastic. Metal is opaque, so it is hard to judge how much liquid is in them except by weight and experience, and metal conducts heat much better even than glass, so you need to be careful not to touch the barrel when you're using them with oven-temperature liquid, but they are nearly indestructible unless you somehow manage to drop something very heavy on them.One issue they ALL share is that the bulb, the injector (if they have one) and the barrel are made of dissimilar materials with different rates of temperature-related expansion and contraction, so that ANY of them can leak at the point of connection. Metal in particular, because it conducts heat so well, can cause room-temperature air trapped above the liquid to heat rapidly and expand, forcing the liquid out through the tip. When basting with hot liquids, it is a good idea ALWAYS to "pump" the liquid in and out of the baster a few times to give the trapped air time to heat to the temperature of the liquid BEFORE removing the tip from the pan. And of course, NEVER invert the baster of allow hot liquid to enter the bulb in use, because (besides burning the hand holding the baster), that can cause an very unwelcome fountain of hot basting liquid that can even penetrate oven mitts and potholders.