Customer Reviews

BonJour Cookie Factory

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(16)

 

 

I recently purchased this because I needed something with some power as my arthritic hands can't use the manual ones. I started to compress the button and it runs real "fast" but once it hits the dough, it cranks so slowly to almost stopping. They say to hold button for 2 sec and then release. I had to hold the button for 15+ sec at a time before the dough made the shape onto the sheet. I now have purchased an electric one and boy I should've just trusted my instincts and bought it the first time. This company has a terrible product and furthermore they add insult to injury for charging $30 for it. Don't buy this product. Save a few pennies and purchase an electric one or the regular manual ones that work 20x better than this product.

I cannot believe what a WASTE of money this thing was. HUGE disappointment. I was all excited when I got it, made some cookie press dough, put it in, and... nothing. The plunger pretty much spins in place. I could PUSH the dough out manually faster than this thing can. I couldn't even get ONE FREAKIN' cookie out of it, onto the cookie sheet.

DON'T buy this sorry excuse of plastic waste, and if you do, don't say you weren't warned. I probably would have more constructive criticism, but #1 This product isn't worth the effort, and #2 I spent ALL effing evening saying to myself, "It CAN'T be this bad. It must work somehow." Ummmm... NOPE!!!!

For years I used my mother's cookie shooter to make my holiday spritz cookies. When I bought my first house I wanted my own cookie shooter. Boy, I wish I hadn't purchased this one.

The first time I used it I thought, "It shouldn't be this hard to use or take this long!" But I was using it correctly. The motor is SO WEAK! My biggest grip however is with the threaded rod that twists to push the dough out. The rod has an indentation all the way down, so when it's twisting, it constantly skips back up and never eventually pushes the dough down the tube. If I do get a cookie out of it, it's misshaped and took at least 30 seconds to get out.

What a piece of junk!

I bought this cookie press believing it would be better than the manual press I already own. However, there is not enough battery power to press the cookies out of the cylinders. It was impossible to get a cookie out of the large cylinder. The small cylinder was a little better but the cookies were broken.
By the way, I used the cookie recipe included with the press plus fresh batteries. It was a HUGE disappointment.

My parents purchased this product to make x-mas sprits cookies. We had an electric cookie press before, but it accidentally broke (I ripped the cord out while trying to remove it from our drawer).

This product SOUNDS nice. But as soon as you pop in some Energizer^2 batteries, you will see, that even the best, highest powered batteries will make you think that this product needs improvement.

Comparison: imagine your watch battery powering your home stereo. Don't think it'll work? Probably not. Now imagine the feeling of trying to listen to your stereo on that watch battery. Got it? Now imagine that same feeling using this product and *POOF* it's like you bought it. I believe that the people that have tried it will agree.

I have absolutely no idea what type of batteries that the people who give it 5 stars and claim that none of us know what we are doing are using.

I suggest that unless you are willing to replace the motor, or find another source of power that will actually seem that it's doing something, then look for a different one.

I bought this contraption from King Arthur Flour. They said it would work, and I trusted them. I have tried making cookies with this thing a dozen or so times. Only three times were the cookies somewhat nicely shaped. The other times they were gloppy and I gave up.

The motor is weak, the machine does not "cut off" the dough once it's pressed through, so it stays attached to what is in the tube. A big mess.

Nor does it work well for frosting. This was a big waste of money. I bought it as a gift for my daughter, so it wasn't opened until long after I could have returned it. If I could have, I would have returned it. I should have opened it before wrapping it, and tried it out.

This product is the biggest disappointment. The first one we had to return to the mfg. because the motor did not work, at our own expense. Then the large barrel would not press out the cookie dough and the small barrel was slightly better. Save your money and make cookies the old way.

I've had another press for many years, but I couldn't get to it and had cravings for some Spritz cookies. So... I went out and bought this cookie press and to my amazement was very impressed with all the additional accessories it came with. The press worked beautifully (I've only used the small barrel so far.) I was concerned that it was battery operated, my last one was a plug in model. But it is nice not to be limited to working near a plug. We had no problems with the unit, it worked quite nicely. I'm looking forward to trying out some of the accessory attachments in the future. I would definitely recommend this press to anyone looking to buy a cookie press.

Nice idea, especially with two barrel sizes, but it simply doesn't work. Very little power, and the pusher does not push down evenly. It kind of wobbles down, which means the dough is not dispersed evenly. I ended up returning this.

A friend bought me this product, but mine had the name "prepology" on the side. Same item, only mine came with two wonderful cookie sheets. After inserting batteries, mine made no whir at all. I had my husband check it out, and he said there was a flange between the button and the switch that needed to be bent down. After that, it worked fine. It does require a fairly soft dough, and I find that the Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix (plus butter and egg) works out great in my machine. (I tried it with a bit of stiff batter I had left over from making hand-shaped cookies, and it didn't want to push at all.)

I have fun with it, and my 4 1/2 y.o. son can work the button, also. We count "one, two, three, off." I have used the jumbo and regular press sizes, and I think I prefer the small ones. I didn't care to use this machine for frosting, however.

It's a super fast way to make a large batch of cookies! Clean up is easy, too.