Customer Reviews

William Bounds Bishop Mill Shaker Set, Brushed Stainless Steel

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

This Salt and Pepper set is made of plated plastic!!!!!!

I'd assume the internal mechanism of the pepper grinder is made of metal but this set is going back to Amazon. This is the ONLY case I've ever come across where Amazon's description falls far short of reality.

This was the 2nd set I tried to buy that were supposed to be brushed stainless steel but really are just plastic with a coating to look like stainless steel. Very cheap feel to them. The title of product is very misleading. No where in the description does it say they are plastic with stainless looking coating. I didn't notice the reviews when I purchased I was kind of in a hurry. I wish I would have looked because I see others said the same thing. Shame on Amazon. You can't leave customer service feedback for them either like you do with other sellers.

I've had the set for about 6 months now. This set is not made of stainless steel, more like a stainless steel covering and is now bubbling up around both the salt and the pepper. I was hoping this was a set that would last more than 6 months! Now they look cheap and are beginning to flake.

This set looks really nice in package. The Pepper mill is a little difficult to get the pepper to grind to a nice consistancy. Had BIG hunks of peppercorns that comes out. Overall, not happy with this purchase. Only reason I give it 2 stars is the looks of the product is nice!

William Bounds mills are terrible, and I will never buy or give another William Bounds mill. As many have criticized, they are plastic. They put enough "token" parts to be able to legally justify saying "stainless steel" on their labels. Legal? -probably. Ethical - no way. It is bait-and-switch, a technique that is illegal according to many state attorney generals. To top it off, the parts inside are plastic too, and guess what? They break, as mine did. This is where the "lifetime warranty" came in handy, or so I thought. Their "warranty" consists of sending your mill in, at YOUR cost, to be repaired. And to get it back, you must also send in $12.00 for their return shipping. By the time I do that, I might as well put all that money toward a better mill. This is not a warranty, it is a program to make you buy a new mill from their company when yours breaks. Stay away from this brand.

Absolutely gorgeous brushed nickle finish!! And they're really big too - much taller than the picture appears. Match my new stainless kitchen perfectly!

I still have them...and they look like new even after 1 year of using them. I cook every week and use them constantly...The quality is great.

I have to tell you that this is an incredibly attractive set. The stainless matches our appliances and is still suitable for our formal dining room and china.

I was probably most impressed with the switch on top of the salt shaker - you close the holes when you aren't using it to prevent spills, or when you have to turn the shaker upside down to fill it - What a concept!