How does baking your own frozen pizza at home compare to a good pizza delivery?
The Presto Pizzazz Pizza Oven might give you second thoughts about using Dominoes Delivery, next time you're in the mood for a good, quick pizza. If you've tried a variety of frozen pizzas, you know that the quality, taste and texture range from awful to pretty decent. Now, I'm not going to tell you that a frozen pizza baked with the Presto Pizzazz Pizza Oven is going to replace your favorite pizza parlor, but it might just reduce the number of times per year you visit or have Dominoes Pizza Delivered to your home. While Presto has been churning out gimmicky household products for years, they have come out with a few good ones. The Presto Pizzazz Pizza Oven has actually been out for quite a few years. As you can imagine, it makes quite a popular gift for college kids. Unlike so many of these novelty household items, they usually don't end up quite as convenient, quick or easy-to-use as the advertisements made them seem. As a result, many Presto items tend to fill up a lot of junk yards and garage sales space. However, there are a few good ones. If you're considering a quick, convenient way to make pizzas at home, here's what you need to know about the Presto Pizzazz Pizza Oven. Read the rest of this entry

The Europro Appliance that I reviewed a year ago may have been a lousy toaster oven, but it sure didn't last very long. Just as well, I got sick and tired of always having to monitor it like a little toddler to prevent it from either burning my toast, or under-toasting it. The Eurorpro Toaster Oven was complete garbage. One morning, it decided to stop turning on at all. No Power, no toasting. Goodbye, good-riddance, I say. My wife insisted we replace it, so she went to Kohl's and found something new. Read the rest of this entry

Dyson Animal Vacuum Review

Dyson makes a very expensive vacuum cleaner. Enough people rant and rave about them that you would think price is the only reason anybody wouldn’t want to own a Dyson Vacuum Cleaner. Everybody has heard about how great Dyson Vacuum cleaners are so how great are they, really?  We bought our DC14 Full Kit Dyson Animal Vacuum at Costco three and one-half years ago. I thought it would be useful to provide some long-term feedback on the performance, quality and reliability of the Dyson Animal Vacuum, specifically marketed by Costco as the DC14 Full Kit. Read the rest of this entry

12 Cup Coffee Makers

12 Coffee Makers have become a habit with me, lately. I’ll admit it: I’m obsessive when it comes to 12-cup coffee makers. My 10-cup Braun was the perfect coffee maker, but it was 2 cups short of a 12-cup coffee maker. In the last year I’ve owned and reviewed a Cuisinart Coffee Maker & Grinder, a Braun Drip Coffee Maker, a $25.00 Mr. Coffee Drip Maker, a Westbend 12-Cup Percolator, a Presto 12-Cup Percolator and just a week ago, purchased another Programmable, Mr Coffee, FTX23 Drip Coffee Maker at Costco. So, why, you might ask, would I buy another Mr. Coffee Maker after the first one failed so miserably in my review? The answer is three-fold: One, it was cheap. Read the rest of this entry

Presto 12-Cup Percolator vs. Westbend and Farberware

I'll have to admit that I sometimes get overly excited about products without giving them enough time to show me their quirks. I really thought the Westbend Percolator was a great percolator until it showed me it's dark side - and I don't mean, dark, as in coffee. The Westbend Percolator was the king of all java until it started exhibiting an annoying habit from time to time.  On a rare occasion, the Westbend Percolator would decide to take time some time off from it's duties, and just brew piping hot water instead of piping hot coffee.  Read the rest of this entry