Customer Reviews

Hoffritz Stainless Steel Tube Baster

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Bought this item last Christmas for my wife. Worked fine until this Thanksgiving when rubber bulb split apart when basting turkey. She had complained when I bought this fancy one to replace her old ugly plastic one last year but I insisted this was better. Boy am I in trouble now. Old plastic one had lasted for 10 years and cost 1/10 as much. Did not look like much but it did the job.

We have had this baster for less than a year and the bulb has already cracked and split, rendering the thing virtually useless. My old cheap plastic baster -- which I got at the dollar store -- lasted longer than this product.

With the holidays coming up I decided to invest in a new baster for the bird. I am really impressed with the Hoffritz baster. It has good suction power to extract the juices from the pan and hold the liquid in the baster until you can put it over the meat again. I especially love that it came with a cleaning brush to get the inside cleaned out well after using. A vast improvement over my old baster.

My husband and I were looking for an injector to replace the cheap plastic one that came with our rotisserie. When we saw this, we decided to give it a try.

This thing performs wonderfully as a flavor injector, and we have used everything from barbecue sauce to tequila into the poultry and fish we cook in our rotisserie. The two work together making the healthiest, juiciest meats you can find.

If you have a rotisserie, definitely get this item.

Also, having cooked many a bird in a conventional oven, I recommend this as a simple baster as well. Don't buy a plastic baster that will melt when you put it too close to the heat source. Metal is better!

It was a great baster for the few times we used it over 2 years, but the rubber bulb suddenly developed a large split which rendered it useless.

Although I have no idea where this "thing" is actually made, the name Hoffritz made me think of BMW and Mercedes; it may, in fact, be made in China, for all I know. Nonetheless, I fell into the trap - thinking that this device was a 1st class baster. Not only did the needle detach itself inside the bird - forcing me to perform pre-Thanksgiving dinner surgery on the bird to remove it, but the bulb starts to disintegrate when it comes in contact with hot oil (the kind frequently found in roasting pans). It is PURE JUNK & DANGEROUS! Do NOT buy it. Might be usefull for feeding baby lizards, or something.

My dad had been looking for a nice stainless steal baster for the longest time. All the ones he found didn't have the accesories like this one. He loves the injector attachment as well as the scrub brush. It's the perfect gift for someone who cooks as much as our family does, especially with smoking on the grill the injector allows you to infuse the meat with flavor.

After putting up with plastic and glass basters that crack and break, I finally decided to move up to stainless steel. To my pleasant surprise, this one carries the Hoffritz name and quality, can be used as an injector and even has its own cleaning brush. The Rolls Royce of basters!!!!