The Rapido comes elegantly therefore:
- Elaborate packaging (including 3 AAA batteries.)
- Open the battery compartment and the engine are hiding in a round, shiny, high-quality metal casing a seemingly
- The Quirlstil seems durable and isttatsächlich significantly thicker than the competition products
- In keeping with the design of the agitator a closed down, round metal stand, in which you put the cavity Quirlstab for its protection (more on that later).
- The metal stand itself will be put to stabilize in a round black here 'plastic plate' - he would otherwise including the agitator due to the height of 21 cm fall over too easily..
The first impression is: Gosh, the device would you like to work.
The Rapido going places like the fire brigade, the 3 supplied AAA batteries provide plenty of power, the first time I was almost too much of rotations .... but you can get used to it.
The device works by means of the large knob from the top, where there is not the setting "continuous operation". I am given the fact that the device powerful spins, not sure if I should really want this opportunity, "endurance" ..... me it is very glad that I have to let go of the button only for quick Aussachalten. (Otherwise it can get pretty splash) I therefore agitators "On" "Off" "On" "Off" "On", etc. etc.
Allegedly packaging labeling the Rapido is LT. Also for whisking sauces, milkshakes and cocktails .... at the strength of the drive I like to believe, I have tried it but not yet.
Milk (I always take 3.5% or 3.7% Stable fresh, hot they must be previously) can be fine lather with it. [There are still differences in the milk in the foaming behavior - a 3.5% Lidl eg foamed slightly different than the 3.5% of Aldi].
We have the equipment 2x - once for the company, I use a copy privately:
After 6 weeks of intensive use an interim conclusion:
- The whisk is significantly better than any device that I have used before and makes concerning the foaming of milk received his cause.
- Visually, the device is a looker
The device also has a few weaknesses:
- Battery consumption. At home I had in 6 weeks already 2 x AAA batteries replace the three (Duracell), in the Fimra despite significantly greater use once. I'll switch to rechargeable batteries, this can under certain circumstances, the number of revolutions of the agitator reduce something about .... but you can overlook at the load
- Cleanliness: The metal stand is closed in the downward direction. The Quirlstab will always let into drops by using a bit of moisture in the stand, the stand is sd frequently cleaned. But then the stand interior should be dried. During this time he is not to be used.
The solution would be simple: As the stand to stabilize in the plastic plate is set, the column could be only one open at both ends of metal tube.
Liquid would drip through the tube only on the plastic plate. This would be easy to clean after removal of the stand and to dry. In addition, such material would be saved.
- At our Fimengerät itself dissolves the metal plate from the start button. This can be repaired quickly by an adhesive, was not to be expected in a device with this style.
Compared with all other agitator that I had to throw in the trash in the course of recent years, the Rapido is recommended.
Update 27 October 2013:
After more than a year of intensive use of this product no significant wear and tear of the product are still recognizable. Only our "Firmenquirl" who has to work hard every workday, has again lost the silver plating part on top of the push-button - but this could be glued back again.
Neither whorl otherwise has a defect, both bars are aligned straight as the day.
The purchase was worth it at the moment fully.
Oh yes: the small whorl at the bottom of the motor-driven shaft is mounted on a plastic component of this same rod. The Agitator is the part that ultimately produces the foam. Inevitably this dirty whisk once more and can not be cleaned easily on water jet. This can happen if you boil milk and "skin" forms. The can then get stuck in a whorl.
One can therefore deduct the Quirlbauteil of the turning pole and intensive clean example in a dishwasher. This "removal" of the agitator is an intentional feature. However, it may happen that the whorl solves the whorls of the bar and falls in the milk.
Actually, you realize this before, because the agitator no longer even before the fall - despite good speed - reasonable foams: the rod rotates, but the agitator no longer rotates with 100%. If you miss the moment when the component is then present in the milk.
This is in our times occurred about 5 or 6 and absolutely for me no criticism because the whorl then again (with some pressure, do not worry) can get stuck on the bar and then remains on the bar - so far no "sagging "of the plastic part detectable.
Update August 2014:
Our whisk at home died a few days ago. The motor is no longer wanted. Even first aid measures were unsuccessful.
The cause of defect might be following. The Agitator is normally plugged the lower metal sleeve in the. Since the whorl usually wet coming into the sleeve, it troft on the bottom of the sleeve. Because the interior is very difficult to clean (as described above), we have dispensed with the use of the sleeve and the device still installed with whisk upward. As a consequence, any adhering drops of liquid Quirlstabes is then of course went into the whorl. This seems to be getting the engine is not good.
That does not change my statement - I bought the whisk again. Less expensive than the others, poor agitator that I could throw every 2 months at the latest, it was all.
