First of all, the styling of this pie maker is very hip and reminds me of a 1950's Chevy since it has aqua diecast metal on the top (which does get kind of hot while cooking, FYI). It's bigger than I thought it would be, but it makes pretty good-sized mini pies.
One thing that bothered me about using this cooker was that you had to preheat it and then put the bottom pie crust in -- this is tricky because pressing the pie dough down can make for wrinkled pie crusts if you're not very careful when pressing down. I put the circle of pie dough (which was easy to cut out with the cutter that's provided with the maker) on the top of the well for a second and then lightly push the dough down to prevent too much wrinkling.
Although that bothered me, I still was able to make crowd-pleasing pumpkin pies (without tops, obviously). I did take some scraps and made letters, hearts, and random things that my sister tried to analyze that I put on the tops to make them individualized. One can of pre-made pumpkin pie filling (with the added 2 eggs and egg nog substituted for evaporated milk) makes about 20 pie fillings, depending on how much you put in there. They seemed to do the best with cooking 10 minutes or slightly more, not the 5-8 minutes the pie maker believes will cook all pies. Still, that's not very long for delicious baby pies.
I'm hoping to bring these baby pies to events and possibly cutting them up into slices. Overall, I'm pleased with the pie maker from Nostaglia Electrics and am looking forward to making berry pies with tops next.
UPDATE: I did try to make cherry pies with tops but found out that you have to fill them almost to the point of overfilling to get the top to cook correctly. I used store-bought pie filling, and while it tasted good, only the last two that I really filled were cooked correctly. I'm not sure I want to make those again.
However, I did make pumpkin pies again for an event recently and did cut them into quarters. The crusts broke a lot while doing so, but they were definitely awesome and tasted wonderful, of course. Perhaps using a better knife instead of a plastic one would've made them come out better. I still recommend this pie maker!
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