Customer Reviews

Nordic Ware Large Cooling Rack 11 Inch by 16 Inch

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Wow. I have not been impressed by a kitchen item for a while now. No kitchen with an avid baker should be without these cooling racks. The grid design saves my cookies from falling through the cracks. I am not sure what I have done without a nonstick finish on all my old racks? It is so nice to just plunk it in the dishwasher and not worry about it rusting either. Banana bread, a notorious "sticker" came right off with ease! Another wonderful aspect of these racks is the feet. I have all new surfaces in my kitchen and I worry about metal things sliding along the countertops and leaving scratches or marks. No fear of that with these either. With the grid design comes an extra strength. My heavy bundt cakes will not bend these. I have not been so excited about a new kitchen tool forever it seems. Nordic Ware has such a reasonable price for them that they would make great gifts for the baker in your life and will be a grand addition to any kitchen. I am convinced that they are a necessity. I just have to decide how many more I need....

When this rack arrived, it was already missing a foot. But that was okay with me, because the first thing I did was remove the two that were still on, and take them and the loose one in the box, and tossed them into the junk drawer.

This rack fits perfectly in a cookie sheet, and makes a great draining/cooling rack for my deep fried foods and my roasts. The non-stick grid means all it usually needs is a quick rinse, but it's sturdy enough for a ride in the dishwasher.

OK, a cooling rack seems like a stupid thing to get excited about, but this thing rules. Most cooling racks have just horizontal bars, instead of the grid pattern on this one. The problem with the "horizontal" cooling racks is that when your cookies are a little soft, they tend to sag around the horizontal bars, and are hard to pull off later. The cooling "grid" keeps the cookies from drooping, so they stay a nicer shape, and can be easily removed. Also, when you're fiddling around with cookie placement on the rack, you can easily slide soft cookies in all four directions (top to bottom, side to side), without tearing the cookie or having it slip through the horizontal bars.

I bought one of these a couple weeks ago just because I needed one and it was convenient; no idea that it wasn't a normal cooling rack. Now I came back to buy two more to replace all my cooling racks. They're a larger size than normal, which is good. The nonstick surface is a nice feature, but what I really liked was the "grid" design-cookies don't look like they came from Salvidor Dali's kitchen any more. Forget about the "feet" thing - mine didn't come with any of the promised feet, and if it had I probably would have thrown them away anyhow. Highly recommend.

Half of the protective feet were missing when my 2 racks arrived! I thought about returning them, but realized the feet would just get lost anyways. I suppose a dish towel under the rack will have to suffice to protect my tabletop!

Flaking teflon is thought to cause cancer.
Both grids I received, the original, AND THE REPLACEMENT,
had the NONSTICK COATING CHIPPED OFF/FLAKING OFF.
Appropriate packaging by Nordic Ware may prevent the problem, but since, I have purchased a (unknowingly at the time) Nordic Ware pan that was "exclusively" made for Williams-Sonoma...I ordered 2 from them, and they too, with good packaging, had the nonstick coating chipped off. I now think the problem is with Nordic Ware's "quality"(haha) control. No more Nordic Ward products for this puppy. WITH THIS MANY PROBLEMS, I WOULD GIVE THIS PRODUCT 0 STARS, BUT THAT'S NOT AN OPTION.

This is a sturdy cooling rack that fits nicely in a half pan, but the non-stick coating started peeling after a year or two of only occasional use. Disappointing to find the coating coming off onto the food (and worse yet, that we likely had been ingesting it!).

very well made and extremely dependable. i dont know why i DIDNT have one all these years? i perched it full time right next to my stove. instead of having to scramble for potholders to protect my counter or dropping the hot dish i put everything on the cooling rack now to transfer it to a plate since i have a small kitchen sometimes i CANT put things on the burners and i heat the majority of my food in the oven so its been getting a workout this past month. Scones from the nonstick scone pan i also bought thru amazon which i love for many reasons i turned it over and the cooling rack was sizable enough to catch all nine Scones without tumbling them to a counter something my dinner plates dont do. Scones gave me a headache because you leave them in the pan or put them on a plate hot and the bottoms get damp. not with this rack i flipped the scone pan over let them cool a bit and perfect to eat warm out of the oven. this racks holds my heavier pans the scone pan and my commercial cookie pan with no bending issue. easy to clean popping it into the dishwasher.

I just love this cooling rack even if you dont make baked goods but a major help when you do its perfect for people who heat things in the oven.

There are two different cooling racks with the same part number. One is gridded with rubber feet and is 10 x 15.25. The other is not gridded, has no rubber feet and is 11.5 x 16.75. I ordered 2 from Amazon wanting the 10 x 15.25, which is the one described, to fit inside 2 pans I already own. I ended up with the larger racks, which I can't use for what I wanted them for. Both are pictured on Nordic Ware's website ([...]) for the part number 43342. I copied the second picture from their website and added it to Amazon...I see this as a Nordic Ware issue, not Amazon, and contacted them on their website.

The actual cooling rack is very different from the picture shown. As others have noted, it doesn't have rubber feet. Of course, when you get down to it a cooling rack is a cooling rack, and this one certainly looks built to last.