Hinari, it's dinner time!!!

Advantages: Looks stylish, produces yummy treats
Disadvantages: Hot

...I have been living my boyfriend now for about six months. When we were preparing to move in together we had a lot of appliances to buy. After we?d got the house nearly sorted we went to Tesco one evening and picked up some smaller electrical devices, things like the iron, etc. While we were there we spotted some sandwich toasters, obviously we nearly bought the Tesco Value one but then we saw the Hinari SP275, not like the old sandwich toasters, it was just to hot plates?! I ummed and ahhed for a few minutes as it was more expensive, but then it looked great and for £19.97 I couldn?t really argue besides which it was already in the trolley. So, we brought the toaster home, unpacked it and found it a place on the kitchen worktop. To be honest after this I forgot about it for a few days but when I came home one day and my boyfriend had...

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Review of Hinari SP275

Hurrah for Hinari Lifestyle

Advantages: All types of cooking in one oven and a Child-proof lock
Disadvantages: Not large enough for big families, but would be good as a backup

...My old microwave was looking worse for wear so decided to look for a new one. As my main cooker had a grill included in the oven, which I find very inconvenient at times, I thought a microwave/grill combination would be my best bet. I visited Comet and found that there was a huge variety of ovens available, but one stood out amongst them and that was the HINARI Lifestyle Model MX780CEG. It did more than I originally wanted - Microwave, Grill and Convection, with a microwave/grill and microwave/convection combinations - but at the very reasonable price of £54.99 it looked a very good buy. As you can see from the picture above it is an attractive looking oven and with outside dimensions of 458w x 295hx488dmm and oven cavity dimensions of 309w x 206h x 334dmm, it is not that much larger than a convensional microwave oven...

Youngatheard60 24.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Hinari MX780CEGSL

The Hinari Lifestyle SW293 Sandwich Maker

Advantages: Very Easy To Use And Clean
Disadvantages: No Seperate On/Off Switch

...I received my Hinari Lifestyle SW293 Sandwich Maker as a Christmas Gift but decided to wait a couple of months before reviewing it until I had familiarised with myself it. The particular version that I received was White in colour, although they are available in a wide range of different colours including Red, Green, Yellow and Black. Since it was a Gift I did not know how much these things would normally cost but I had a quick look Online for completeness of this review and found that they are currently on sale at Tesco for £9.99, which is considerably cheaper than I imagined. Anyway on with the review..... APPEARANCE The Sandwich Maker itself is quite modern looking yet rather simple in design. It is roughly rectangular in shape with its longest sides curved outwards, and at the front there is a handle which is preformed...

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Review of Hinari SW293BL

Hinari Slow Cooker Fits Our Lifestyle

Advantages: can be left on all day, economical to run, easy to clean
Disadvantages: need to remember to put the food in hours before you eat

...For all you busy people out there or people who wish to save on your gas/electric bill and save on your food bill too, then this kitchen gadget is defintely for you. A slow cooker is an extremely low wattage appliance that can be safely left on all day (or night). How it works is you place your ingredients in the pot, add a bit of fluid such as water or broth, put on the lid, and switch on to your chosen setting. It gently cooks your food with steam. More about that later. The Hinari Lifestyle slow cooker retails for about £39. It is stainless steel on the outside, with a vented smoked glass lid. The removable inner pot is earthenware (hence why in the USA they are called crockpots)and comes in black. The crock liner is extremely easy to clean as the steam cooking action keeps the food moist so it all just wipes off. Occasionally you...

Shroud 14.02.2003 · Read review
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Hinari MX315SL 800 Watt Ting

Advantages: Small, powerful
Disadvantages: Not for large dishes

...When purchasing my second microwave oven, the considerations were - price, size and power rating. PRICE ~~~~~ The price of this Hinari Lifestyle microwave oven was £24.99 (02/05/2004) on special offer at Tesco Extra. I had already seen the same appliance at a local Curry's Store for £34.99 SIZE ~~~~ Outside dimensions - 295 x 458 x 370 mm - ideal for limited kitchen workspace. Inside dimensions - 206 x 300 x 284 mm - Ok it isn't very large, but size isn't everything. Oven capacity - 17 litre - This is great if this is all the space that you need, it will house a large dinner plate and medium size casserole dish. Max approximately 270 mm diameter. POWER RATING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 800 Watts is pretty powerful for a small, cheap microwave. It certainly heats well enough and fast enough. OVERALL APPEARANCE...

Suziwann 24.06.2004 · Read review
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Review of Hinari Lifestyle Microwave

Blend, Blend Away This Hinari's here to Stay

Advantages: Cheap Blending
Disadvantages: None

...There's nothing worse when your cooking than to have a piece of electrical equipment die on you. That's exactly what happened to me as I was blending some tomatoes for a spaghetti Bolognese. I foolishly decided I could live without a blender, and it's when you don't have the equipment you suddenly realise how much you used it. My old blender was a Braun and had been around for the best part of ten years, when it finally went to the great electrical graveyard in the sky. I stumbled on the Hinari, purely by chance, I was looking at electrical stuff in Tesco's when I noticed the price tag of the blender. You know me, never one to miss out on a potential bargain, into the trolley it went! Packaging ................. Is very simple. The blender is in a box with colour pictures depicting what's inside. Along with the make and model...

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Review of Hinari SB308

Hinari st326c

Advantages: Easy to use and clean
Disadvantages: Not yet found

...Another step into the unknown, another step towards healthy eating. The Hinari two tier steamer. Yes it does improve the taste of food and no it does not fill your kitchen with steam. The Hinari electric steamer consists of a base unit with a 900cc capacity, (that is one and a half pints), a steamer bowl, and, divided by a seating rim, a second steamer bowl. In addition there is also a rice bowl which is made to sit inside either bowl and is used for, you guessed, it rice. In fact this bowl is meant to be used for any small foods such as rice and sweetcorn and also any foods being cooked in there own sauce. The whole thing stands 330mm high and the diameter is around 230mm. The timer goes up to 20 minutes in single increments and continues up to 1 hour in 5 minute increments. When the selected time is expired it attracts your...

yorkie2 06.07.2001 · Read review
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Hinari 12000BTU Air Con unit from Focus DIY

Advantages: Quiet (with mod), removable water tank, air direction control, cheap
Disadvantages: Water tank could do with being bigger (I'm being picky here!)

...I was looking for a relatively decent air con unit last Friday due ot the extereme heat. I was torn between the Focus 12000 BTU Hinari unit and the 14000 BTU unit I'd seen in a B&Q catalogue (NOT the split unit as seen on their website) and luckily I managed to test both of them so here is my review/comparison. Cooling:- The B&Q unit is rated at 14000 BTU's vs the Hinari unit which is rated at 12000 BTU's. From what I could feel in the store I'd say the B&Q unit does feel slightly cooler but not by a huge amount. In an average sized room I'd say you might get an extra 0.5 to 1 degree celsius off your room tempreture. For reference, the Hinari cooled a 9sqm office I was working in from 30c to 25.2c in around an hour and also drastically reduced the humidity. This made the office competely bearable again. Noise:- The Hinari...

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Review of Hinari 12000BTU 4IN1

Hinari 0/10 Amazon.co.uk 10/10

Advantages: If you get a good one the bread is great
Disadvantages: We made one good one out of two bad ones.

...the ingredients and started the machine. After a wait of several minutes the machine started, so far so good. Within a few minutes of agitating the mixture the machine started making an horrendous noise and the agitators failed to keep up with the drive speed. It is my belief that the noise was caused by a damaged component within the drive train. The machine was stopped and to save the mixture I cannibalised the original machine by using the original loaf tin and machine with the lid from the replacement machine. The resulting loaf was pretty good even with the interruption. Since then we have made various loaves achieving excellent results every time. At this moment in time we have a working machine with a little cosmetic damage on the control panel i.e. the small original scratch and an ill fitting heat shield. I contacted Hinari...

Lenseman 21.02.2006 · Read review
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Review of Hinari HBM230 SQU

Microwave cooking in style.

Advantages: A Very stylish and modern microwave!
Disadvantages: None!

...My Reasons For Purchasing The Hinari Lifestyle Microwave: Over the last ten years or so I have gone through about five different Microwaves ovens. Well I have four daughters and between the making of their feeds when they where small and just the everyday use they got, I guess I just wore them out quickly. I found most of the Microwaves I previously owned all ended up getting a small hole in the inside of the plastic micra waveguard cover that looked as if it had been scorched or something. Well I do not know how it was caused, but I guessed my older teenaged daughters might have left a metal spoon or fork in a bowl while heating up some food inside them. Of course no one owned up to doing this. Well my fourth microwave 'a Delongi' which cost £99, died last year. I was really very annoyed when it did as I only had it for around...

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