Fit & Fresh Salad Shaker
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Customer Reviews of Fit & Fresh Salad Shaker
Customer Review: Luv these Fit & Fresh Products
Summary: 4 Stars
Ok they over thought this one. The dressing holder would work better if they just had it sit in the hole and allow you to remove it with bottom lid attached. Then you could just pull it out quick and easy and pull the bottom open and dribble the dressing around the salad as you wish or even use it as a dip holder. No screwing it in and fiddling with the bottom opening thing. Easier to wash too. A gal didn't invent this one! I also like the way the cold pak sits on indentations on another one of their containers better than forcing it to click into the lid on this one. So it takes some management skills to handle it. It's large and holds a whole lot of food. Even sandwich cut in half on one side and salad on other. Pull bagged sandwich or food out and have plenty of salad to enjoy. Salad dressing or not. Many of the Fit & Fresh products have great basic ideology behind them but then they go and over think or unsimplify the simple genius of the idea to begin with. So you have frustrated people who can't manage the complicated screw in and bottom-lid only dressing jar etc, Keep it simple is the best policy. We have two and given two more as gifts. And 4 three part containers they make design was kept simple and 4 two part snack cups that though a tad awkward isn't bad. You can fill that one with carrot sticks/deli-meat rolls/nuts/small crackers etc. For plane trips and get through the airline gestapo. Might want to check the dips:) Another hint take empty drink containers through check in lines and fill once inside with water or drinks and ice from the cafe courts. Choose one that allows you to fill your own cup so you can get plenty of ice and use get large moutch containers. Another hint take individual sized cooler and extra strength or doubled zip locks to fit and fill with ice and pop from machines inside food court. Many small frozen packs would be allowed through. Also some meds need to travel chilled. Enjoy life and think outside the box or container & yes even rules while being forced through the one size fits all molds:)))) of these days! But never break the law !!!Customer Review: Nice idea... but only got one use out of it!
Summary: 1 Stars
Loved the idea of this product... was hoping to find something to fix a nice sized salad with lean protein for my husband to take to work. I bought this at a local store, and took it home, quick hand-washed it and made a salad for hubby that night. Size was perfect.
He took it to work, told me the dispenser worked great and that he really enjoyed his very fresh and crisp salad! I am ecstatic!
However, I disassembled the dressing dispenser and put the salad shaker (minus icepack) in the top rack of the dishwasher as the instructions said that was safe.
Next day, unloaded the dishwasher and attempted to re-assemble the salad dispenser. GOOD GRIEF! You've gotta be Arnold Schwarzenegger to do it! The instructions clearly say you just screw it back in level with the lid, but try DOING that! It took all my strength and I still couldn't get it in quite the right position for the little compartment lid to lock down!
Worse, then, I couldn't get it undone. And messing with it actually physically HURT me, I developed a bad crick in my shoulder/neck and couldn't turn my head all day. That's how much force it took to reassemble this thing!
Hubby managed to undo it with a huge effort and several tries, but he could not get it to go back properly either. This thing is going to the animal shelter thrift shop, in hopes they can get money out of it for a good cause, but it ought to be going in the TRASH!
Nice idea, but obviously a poor design for the dressing dispenser.
This is a great pity, because I like their drink shaker bottles a LOT!
Customer Review: Clever, but needs changes
Summary: 1 Stars
I like the idea of this salad container. What I don't like is the implementation results. Specifically, 1) If you use an oily dressing like a homemade vinaigrette, the little container is time consuming to clean. 2) The whole thing is so big it takes up my whole insulated bag and doesn't leave enough room for other things, like a yogurt. If you want to use this thing make sure your lunch bag is big enough. 3) After I put it through the dishwasher (top rack) the dressing container lid wouldn't close properly, negating its purpose. I've had to place a layer of plastic wrap over it before closing the lid just to keep the container shut. 4) The included little utensils are better than nothing but not a substitute for full sized utensils.
What I've ended up doing instead is buying a set of flatter containers that are reusable though made by a disposables company, and buying a sleeve of portion control cups from restaurant supply for my dressings. I also wrap my different salad components separately so their moisture contents don't affect each other while the salad is waiting for me to eat it. That way I can make several salads at once and keep them in the fridge, saving time in the mornings. I also have enough room in my lunch bag for separate freezer packs and yogurt, apple, and chips.
Customer Review: Very poor product design
Summary: 1 Stars
I got the Salad Shaker for my seven-year-old daughter to take salads to school for lunch. As soon as I got it home, I realized I'd made a mistake. The lid is very hard to remove, and the knob you turn to release the dressing is almost impossible to turn. I finally had to manually pry open the dressing lid with a knife. Clearly this wasn't going to be something a child could use when I could barely make it work. But my daughter was so disappointed, I let her use it at home.
The ice pack was inadequate to keep the lettuce from wilting (and, come to think of it, a really dumb place to have an ice pack, anyway, because you're just adding an extra piece to have to wash), and the whole contraption is a MAJOR pain to wash. There are so many nooks and crannies for the salad dressing to get stuck in. If this had just been woefully inappropriate for a child to use, I could have accepted that. But I wouldn't want to use this thing even for myself.
I completely agree with other users that using plain containers is much better. I just thought this would be kind of fun and convenient. It was neither.
Customer Review: Great idea -- Lousy execution
Summary: 2 Stars
I've purchased a couple of this company's items, and they all have drawbacks.
The salad container, while nice and large, also has drawbacks.
First, the container itself is huge. I mean, really huge. This is good for those of us that like our salad to be our main meal. However, the size is deceiving.
You can't really fill the container, as you must leave room for the lid. And, you must leave room for the dressing container lid to pop open, so that you can shake out all the dressing.
Before you can shake, you have to open the little hatch that holds the pretend cutlery.
Hopefully, you left enough space for the dressing to come out onto your salad.
After shaking, you have to take the lid off, and deal with the flopping dressing lid, now covered in dressing.
If the ice ring in the lid doesn't leak, count your blessings, as I never got the replacement that I was promised, when mine leaked.
I'd like a different lid. Plain, flat. I'll do what I do now, which is haul my dressing in a separate little container and pour it on myself.