RePEaT 4 Piece Utensil Set Color: Indigo

Handy, but need extra care
I have two sets of these utensils, for taking my lunch to work. I especially like soups and stews, so the spoon gets the most use. It is a lovely set, and very handy to have everything together. But I've found that, even with hand-washing (of course!), the spoon has cracked a little, and took on a slightly whitish sheen. Last time I cleaned them, I rubbed a bit of vegetable oil on each utensil, and that took care of the discoloration. But I'm disappointed that the spoon cracked so soon (I've only had it about a month or so).

Good but not for indian food
I love these so much I even used them at home instead of the metal utensils. Metalic utensils leave a slight metal flavor with every bite, but we're so used to using metal utensils that most of us don't even notice that taste. I didn't notice until I went back to using metal utensils after a year of eating only with wooden chopsticks. I was delightfully surprised that this bamboo cutlery set does not leave any flavor behind. If there is a flavor it's so subtle and clean that I can't detect it. It definitely has less of a flavor than wood does (Though I happen to like the slight wooden flavor that comes with using chopsticks). Unfortunately this set met their match when they met up with some indian curry. The curry permanently stained the bamboo. I have some bamboo plates also and whenever they happen to get stained with tomato sauce I just soak in a bit of lemon juice and the stains disappear... Not so with this cutlery. The curry stains are still there. So I guess when it...

Almost, but not quite.
I bought a few of these sets for traveling and for taking my lunch when I go to the office. The knife is hard to use. It has an odd bend in the blade, so it's hard to use for spreading and cutting. And what else is a knife for? The fork is essentially flat, so food falls off it pretty easily. The tines are also not sharp enough to spear or stab your food. The bowl of the spoon is quite shallow, but it does kind of work for soup.

What kept this in the 3-star range is the sleeve. Nice colors, handy design, and it contains all the pieces well. I'll probably toss out the bamboo cutlery and use the case for some of my old stainless steel tableware that's been consigned to the picnic box.

It would be nice if they sold just the sleeve. I wouldn't have wasted the resources involved in growing, harvesting, and manufacturing the bamboo.

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OXO Good Grips 2-Piece Bowl Scraper Set

Great!
Oxo Good grips products are usually quite good and these are no exception. The bowl scrapers are wonderful. They allow us to easily get every bit of batter out of our bowls. They are flexible, easy to hold and useful. They also work well for smoothing out batters and frosting. The packaging was both secure and easy to open. The 5 year old does not like them because there is nothing left in the bowl for him to lick unless we deliberately leave something.

good, multi use product
These OXO Good Grips Bowl Scraper meet my qualification for many kitchen tools: they are multifunctional and easy to clean.

These are multifunctional, in that while they are primarily advertised and used as bowl scrapers, virtually any food container can be scraped with them. Foods, like icing, can be spread with them over large areas as well. Also, the constructions of these, where it is stronger and more rigid in the middle, and less so on all sides, makes for something that mimics the movements of a hand, anyhow.

Being silicone, these will not attract odors and can be put into dish washers as well. For the price and for their functionality alone, I recommend this.

Unusually helpful
Upon retirement, I became an amateur baker. As a result I've purchased a number of tools standard to the trade. But I never even heard of bowl scrapers until I began watching the (excellent) how-to videos on breadtopia.com. When I got a chance to get some from Amazon Vine, I jumped at the chance.

These are really neat! Who would have thought that two little pieces of plastic would come in so handy? It's like having an extra set of hands.

Don't hesitate to try them. The price is modest. I think you'll be as surprised and pleased as I was.

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