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The Two Best Brands to Consider When You Purchase Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls
We rejected some highly-rated brands of these metal mixing owls because they didn’t meet our criteria:
- When reviewing ratings that users give their products it’s important that there is a large number of reviews to ensure that here is a predictable amount of both positive and negative experiences and opinions to give a realistic assessment of the product’s overall utility. So we excluded all brands that had less than 100 reviews.
- When we look at the distribution of 1 to 5 star ratings we find that in the review of a trusted product that the distribution of the amount of rating negativity tapers on a generally consistent and predictable manner. This means that with a great brand the 5 star ratings would be the vast majority of reviews with 4 star reviews being considerably less common. Then 3 star reviews would be lesser still and the 1 star reviews would usually be the least number of reviews across a trusted product offerings.
- Upon examining a large number popular highly-rated brands we found two brands which we are recommending whose shortcomings were not fatal.
We Recommend P&P Chef® and/or Tovolo® Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls
Many of the brands, including some that were top rated, had excessive issues with the steel not being up to standard. This included issues with thinness, rust and/or some kind of coating flaking off. The biggest issue with P&P Chef mixing bowls is with the lids not fitting properly. Most, but not all, of the complaints are related to the fact that the lids apparently are not dish washer safe. Generally people were very happy with the steel bowls themselves. So if the lids are an important issue for you then you'll need to investigate further and maybe ask some questions. Both the black and the multi-colored P&P Chef 7 piece sets contain 0.7, 1, 1½, 2 2.6, 4.6, 6 and 7 quart sizes.
Most of the complaints on the Tovolo steel mixing bowls centered almost exclusively around the label glued at the bottom of the bowl and all the tricks customers used that failed to remove the label and /or residual glue. Tovolo's already great rating would be dramatically higher if it weren't for the complaints about the label. It's quite entertaining to see all the descritpions people gave using booiling water, Goo Gone, alchohol, steel wool and whatever else in their frustrated attempts to clean it off. But the bottom line is if you get the glue off then you'll have a superior bowl!
Note: The 4-bowl Tovolo set [1½ Quart, 3½ Quart, 5½ Quart and 7½ Quart] actutally has more than 100 reviews when each bowl's separate review is taken into account.
How to remove labels and residual glue from a product:
Here's what we recommend based on our own lomg experience in removing stubborn labels. This may possibly be a two pronged issue. If the paper label itself is very stubborn to lift/peel off then heat it up using a blow dryer on the hot setting. That will sofen the glue underneath making it easier to peel off. In most cases there will be a residual patch of sticky glue after the paper is pulled off. You'll need to deal with that with tape that has a strong sticky backing [such as strapping tape]. Cut off a 2"-3" piece of strapping tape and with the sticky side down press and rub it firmly over the sticky area. Then pull off [with as much force as you can] at a steep sideways angle like as in a shearing motion. You'll most likely have to repeat this several times and replace the tape piece a few times but it will work.
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