Nice Cookbook Stand

This product looked fine...I sent it right along as a gift so I did not use it but it looked substantial enough for a moderately large cookbook.

[Friday, December 26, 2008]

stand

this cam so fast and since it was for a bday that was appreciated. the recipient loved the product.

[Sunday, June 29, 2008]

Nice idea, but stinky.

Well, this is a very cute and moderately functional cookbook stand. The rear piece that swings out and props the stand upright was somewhat crooked on mine, but it worked fine and looked very charming on the countertop with my cookbook in it and those adorable little dangling weights holding it open to my favorite paté recipe. My only real problem--and it's a big one for me--is the smell. Yes, my charming old-fashioned "French" cookbook stand exudes a very modern stench, that eau de plastique et autres chimiques which says to me, in clear English, "You will soon be hospitalized with a severe respiratory syndrome--or at the very least you are starting down the long winding road to non-smoker's lung cancer--and maybe I'll throw a few mutagens in the general direction of your reproductive organs just for fun." (Yes, I tried airing this out in the backyard, but after 2 weeks it still stinks up the kitchen with a very un-kitcheny noxious smell). Don't buy this stand if you value your indoor air quality, unless you have a very heavy-duty counter-top HEPA filter or a gas mask, and maybe not even then. I was going to give it 2 stars instead of 1 for the functionality and appearance until I realized I wouldn't be around to enjoy it if I'm sitting at Alta Bates in an oxygen tent. Sorry guys--come up with a better finish that doesn't offgas and kill your customers slowly, and then we'll talk.

[Sunday, February 17, 2008]

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