NORPRO 559 Immersion Heater for Warming Liquids
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of NORPRO 559 Immersion Heater for Warming Liquids
Customer Review: Broke after a few months
Summary: 2 Stars
I "used to" love this product! I use it in my office to heat water for tea, using it about 3-4 times per week for the last 4 months. One day, I accidentally left it hanging on the outside of my mug, rather than the inside in the water. Well, long story short it hasn't worked since.
And because the product is such a simple piece of equipment (and the fact that I'm not an electrician), I'm unable to fix it.
I will replace this with a better product, probably spend a bit more money and make an investment.
Bottom line: You get what you paid for.
Customer Review: Broke after first Cup of Tea
Summary: 1 Stars
This product was a piece of junk. I plugged it in for my first cup of tea and after that it no longer worked. I am not gonna trip over 5 bucks, but it's the principle of the thing.Customer Review: Buena solución
Summary: 4 Stars
Una buena solución para calentar líquidos en la oficina... lo he utilizado en multiples ocasiones y sigue funcionando...Customer Review: Burned & smelled up my 1st latte in less than 5 minutes
Summary: 1 Stars
Beware if you intend to use it with creamers, milk or any potentially sticky or sugary liquids!
I unwrapped it and inserted it onto the top edge of my extra large latte, I was right in front of the ceramic mug of coffee for less than 5 minutes when I noticed it started to smell very burnt (like burned toast). I took out the heater and unplugged it while it smoked/smelled up the entire house. Yes, it got extremely hot! I had milk, coffee, and sugar creamer - maybe it was the sugar or milk that caused this? I immediately ran it under water because it looked like a crust (of milk? creamer?) was continuing to burn on it. I sipped my drink which tasted like it smelled so I threw it out. The heater is now ruined (very black, sticky & hardened crust) so I'm throwing it away. No sense in wasting time asking for a refund for $7 when I read other reviews advising customer service is worthless for this product.
Customer Review: Cheap, Designed to Self Destruct So You Have To Buy Another
Summary: 1 Stars
These are great travel ideas, and very handy during their very short lifetimes. That might be one use, might be at most a couple dozen uses if you're incredibly lucky, but sooner or later they all die. They're designed to, cheaply made in China with a one-time fuse designed to destroy the unit permanently anytime it senses the unit is 'too hot'. That will happen anytime you remove the coil while it's still plugged in, even for a microsecond as other reviewers describe. It will also happen anytime you bring water to a boil and leave the coil in, continuing to boil the water (IE trying to boil a 3 minute egg); even though it's still fully immersed, the fuse will still self-destruct. It can also self-destruct even if you've unplugged it if you simply leave it unplugged in the water that it's already heated. It will self=destruct if you drop it off a table, even onto the softest carpet.
No matter what you do, no matter how religiously you obey the instructions, these will just self-destruct. You have to think of them as disposable, and temporary, like a cigarette lighter (except lighters work hundreds of times reliably until they give out and they're much much cheaper)
I've bought easily three dozen of these at various places over the years, and I hate it, but they're just designed to fail. I figure if they save me two cups of room service coffee I've broken even and anything beyond that is convenience=plus=savings. Like other reviewers I would gladly pay much more for a reliable, long lasting, well designed American product, but they no longer exist--another industry sold off to China.
A bulkier option is to buy an electric travel pot, or if you're going abroad, buy one there--hopefully better made, and definitely in the local voltage.