Here's a question for all of you in unplggd land. We have seen people repurpose old laptops into kitchen computers before. While the typical email checking, casual web surfing and even playing back your music library are typical justifications for letting your laptop infiltrate your kitchen, our laptop is only ever in the kitchen for one thing, pulling up a recipe when we are putting together a meal. Since space tends to be an issue for most, having a dedicated kitchen computer just doesn't seem to make sense, but what do you make of a dedicated device for meal prep in the kitchen that measures 7.8 x 5.4 x 3.2 inches?
The Demy digital recipe reader is such a thing (albeit a particulary expensive thing at $300) that allows for storage of up to 2500 recipes and USB sync to keyingredient.com. What do you think?
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I'd need a magnifier to read it. Still, if I were designing kitchen appliances, I might like to see a larger screen/ cheaper version of this built in to a microwave or cabinet door at eyelevel...
Katy
http://fengshuibyfishgirl.com
Paying that much money for something that only does recipes seems much.
Since I grab recipes from the internet and I no longer have a printer at home, I've started sending recipes to my Kindle.
Once the recipe is converted and sent to the Kindle all I have to do is pop the Kindle into a ziplock bag, so I don't have a kitchen tragedy, and I'm ready to go!
Sounds like a cool tool, but my recipes aren't in one neat place to begin with -- they're on other people's blogs or a magazine's website.... I'd rather use a laptop.
I just want to offer a follow up, having one in my hands right now.
Fishgirl: There's 3 font settings that you can change on the fly - ie you don't have to leave the page you're on to change the font size.
angatwork: That sounds great and the kindle does more. I hope to get one. I'm just concerned with brightness and contrast, as this is BRIGHT.
sdlm: The key is that this is pretty water tight. My laptop is getting destroyed in the kitchen. You can copy and paste the recipes into the website and store them forever.
I'm sooo happy with my Demy! I'm writing a review for it on momma's review, to be posted on June 25th
The Demy recipe reader just arrived and I'm very excited.
There are too many recipes to choose from. I hope I will find one good. Back to kitchen.
Their return policy states that if you have to return it for any reason, you can do so by requesting an RMA but they will not credit you back your shipping, your sales tax and they will hit you with a $20 "open box fee".
I purchased the Demy with the "Demy Care Plan", so my total cost of purchase including tax and shipping was $259.64. Because it cost me an additional $7.00 to ship it back to them, I was into it for $266.64. They credited me back, 10 days after the RMA request, for $209.90 (I returned the product after 35 days from purchase) .... so, it essentially cost me $56.74 to find out my wife didn't like it!
In trying to follow up with the company and recover some of the 21% "penalty" [$56.74 / $259.64] I incurred for returning it after 35 days, they quit responding to my e-mails ... I finally had to go onto their website and catch someone on the "Live Help" chat area to get a response. I was told a check for the sales tax ($18.97) would be mailed to me ... but that was over two weeks ago, and again, the company is not responding.
I thought the product itself was pretty neat, but my wife felt otherwise. Since she's been keeping her recipes on websites other than keyingredient.com, she would be forced to input all of them again and she wasn't too interested in doing that. She also didn't like the fact that the Demy is not web enabled . . . I'm going to spend the extra money and buy her an Ipad.
Last thing, it appears to me that the company is pretty small... For one, the person who finally responded to my e-mails, was the same individual who handled the "Live Help" chat. Also, when they did credit me back the $209.90, they did so thru PayPal's virtual terminal....that is an indication to me that they are most likely a "one man shop".
My advice is to be CAREFUL with your Demy purchase! If you've done your research and determine its the organizer for you, you'll be fine.. Gentlemen, if you're buying it as a gift for your loved one [as I did], best if you spoil the surprise and let her read reviews of the product first before surprising her. Because, if you (or she) decide you don't like the product, it's going to Cost You!