VillaWare V515 Pasta Drying Rack
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of VillaWare V515 Pasta Drying Rack
Customer Review: Pasta drying secrets revealed!
Summary: 4 Stars
See below for the questions to these answers (unless you're Alex Trebek...)1. Actually, I found that the top rack of the dishwasher worked pretty well. The perimeter of ours just about equals enough pasta for our family of four. But this presupposes an empty dishwasher--an uncommon state of affairs for our family of four.
2. Don't tighten the two screws through the bottom cross-members (the "feet" of the two "legs") quite as much as the others. Ditto for the screws holding the two "shoulders." Then, when it's time to put it away, just twist the feet and shoulders 90 degrees. Voila! A completely flat rack, which happens to fit perfectly into the Elfa cart on which I do my pasta kneading and rolling. It was clearly designed to fold this way, as the feet and shoulders are just short enough to fit.
3. I love it to bits. The most fun is when you pick the dowels up, one by one, and slide the fettucine or whatever off them into that pot of boiling water. Beats the dickens out of peeling it off the dishwasher racks!
[1. Where did you dry your pasta before you bought this rack?
2. Quoting a previous reviewer more or less freely, "I'd like to know what they did to get this thing to store flat."
3. How do you like this rack?]
Customer Review: Inexpensive, convenient
Summary: 4 Stars
I've had one of these for about 10 years now, and it works fine. I have to admit when I first bought it, I was a little taken aback at how flimsy it was. However, as another reviewer pointed out, you're holding a few ounces of pasta, not a 10 pound roast. As for those who say the dowels are too close together, you need to use your noodle (pun intended) and learn how to think a little. I actually like how this one works. Unlike other dryers, the dowels are easily removed from the rack. I start with all the dowels out of the rack. I pick up a dowel, and when the pasta from my extruder or roller is the right length, I just drape it over the dowel, cut it off the pasta machine, and repeat until the dowel is full. Then I place it in the rack, pick up another dowel and repeat. When the pasta is dry, I just hold the dowel over a pot of boiling water or a freezer bag, and slide the pasta off. No big deal.
As I said, it is a little flimsy, but heck, it costs less than a six-pack of good ale. Yeah, I could get a bunch of doweling and 1x1, cut it up, cut some grooves in the 1X1, sand it all smooth, and screw it all together for less than this costs, but my time is valuable. If this one ever breaks or gets too grody to use, I'll certainly get another.
Customer Review: Some reviewers are dumber than the wood
Summary: 1 Stars
Well, all I can say in response to Dennis Grace is I have a bridge to sell you and a brand new Edsel you'd be interested in. While he takes issue with all the people that didn't agree with him, let's look at the facts, Dennis.
1) The rack IS cheap and flimsy. I don't know how an intelligent adult could praise such a piece of dreck.
2) The eleven dollars spent for this item is robbery. The wood, nor the quality justifies the outrageous price of this unit.
3) You state that you can always buy a new one if it breaks. This one had me in stitches. I suppose you buy a new car everytime it breaks? This is logic of the lowest form, if you can call it that.
4) This rack is foldable? Yes, if you take it apart. From this logic, a car is foldable too...if you take everything apart.
5) The slats are wide enough for pasta if you remove some of them? Oh, yes. You can do that. You can also take out the seats of your car and fit eight people in there too. Doable, but not what your car was intended to do.
In conclusion, Dennis needs a life instead of slamming people over some cheap wood.
Customer Review: very entertaining
Summary: 5 Stars
The reviews, not the rack. I was in hysterics over Dennis Grace's assessment of this innocent little kitchen enhancement, and though I enjoyed Crystal Lane's rebuttal, by her car-equating logic I would have to take the following steps before buying this rack:
1. Get on line and find out what I can get for my old rack. (It does have new brakes.)
2. Go from showroom to showroom looking for the best deal.
3. See about financing. Boy is that ever a pain.
4. Notify my insurance company. You know what a NEW pasta drying rack can do to your rates!
5. Don't get suckered into paying for floor mats, rust-proofing, etc.
6. Park it far away from other racks--at least for a while.
There, I think I'm ready to break that twenty-dollar bill and buy it. You only live once.
Customer Review: Serves its purpose
Summary: 3 Stars
I got this drying rack both for my Italian husband who loves to make pasta and for me who is sick of a kitchen counter full of flour and drying pasta.This rack is acceptable. It did come warped and the screw holes were stripped, so it went together a little crooked. That said, it still serves its purpose and for the price, I wasn't expecting something I would show off to guests. It is awkward to store - I'd like to know what the person is doing who can get it to store flat. What you see in the picture is what you will have to find a place for in your cabinet. The dowels are removable, but that isn't necessarily a good thing. I can't tell you how many times we've knocked into it putting something away and had dowels everywhere.
I would recommend it, but don't expect a whole lot.