OXO Good Grips Cake Tester
by OXO
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of OXO Good Grips Cake Tester
Customer Review: Decent product
Summary: 3 Stars
When this product arrived from Amazon, my first thoughts were that it looked very flimsy. The metal prong looks like it could easily be bent out of place. The handle is a nice touch - easy to grip - but the prong leaves me with doubts.
So far, the product has worked as intended though. I have baked a few cakes, and it does show goo on the prong when the mixture is not completely cooked. It doesn't leave me with complete confidence that my cake is going to turn out okay, and every time I've used it so far, I have also relied on tried and tested method of sticking a knife in the cake also. It defeats the point to have this thing if I fall back on testing with a knife as well.
It'd be nice if this product came with different colored handles. I find the black handle hard to spot amongst the other cooking utensils when in the draw, and the narrow prong doesn't really stand out so well. It cleans well in the dishwasher, and despite my worry that it isn't going to work as intended, has done so so far.
I think I'd like to replace this product with something a bit thicker (and easier to find), but for the time being I am satisfied with it.
Customer Review: Ok, but thin
Summary: 3 Stars
I have only used this cake tester once so far, and I overcooked my cake, but it wasn't actually the testers fault because I didn't test it until it was already overcooked. My concern with the product is that the metal tester is very thin, kind of like a thick needle, and I don't know if it's thick enough to grab the cake batter and pull it out to let you know the cake is undercooked...I guess it could be designed so thin for people that don't want a visible hole poked in the top of their cake. On the upside the grip part is nice and big and easy to hold on to.Customer Review: cake tester
Summary: 2 Stars
This is exactly as stated and will save on toothpicks for sure! I like the fact that it will pierce farther than a toothpick to ensure doneness.Customer Review: Why pay for this when a toothpick works just as well?
Summary: 2 Stars
There's nothing magic with this product. Works like a toothpick would. This is for the cook who prefers to have everything "modern".Customer Review: Never Shows Goo (and that's BAD)
Summary: 1 Stars
My daughter snapped my old cake tester and I didn't realize that all cake testers were not created equal when I bought this Oxo one. sighhhhh It's got a nice handle for pinching between my fingers, sure, but the skinny wire doesn't really show if the batter is still gooey when I poke something that's baking. My old cake tester (sighhh again) had a little flattened piece on the end of the stick and THAT successfully showed any goo whereas this Oxo cake tester never shows goo.
Oh well. It's useful for popping the bubbles in my loaves of bread before their final rise.