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NORPRO 559 Immersion Heater for Warming Liquids |  | Brand: NorPro
Category: Home Improvement
List Price: $6.99
Buy New: $4.32
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Seller: ANTOnline
Rating:  67 reviews
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4 x 1.7
MPN: 559
Model: 559
UPC: 028901005597
EAN: 0781723010988
ASIN: B000I8VE68
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Norpro 559 Immersion Heater for Warming Liquids | | • | NORPRO |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Hot water immersion heaters August 20, 2010
EdGar
They work great. Quick to heat up a cup of water to make my tea.
 Cheap, Designed to Self Destruct So You Have To Buy Another August 15, 2010
Voiceover Guy
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These are great travel ideas, and very handy during their very short lifetimes. That might be one use, might be at most a couple dozen uses if you're incredibly lucky, but sooner or later they all die. They're designed to, cheaply made in China with a one-time fuse designed to destroy the unit permanently anytime it senses the unit is 'too hot'. That will happen anytime you remove the coil while it's still plugged in, even for a microsecond as other reviewers describe. It will also happen anytime you bring water to a boil and leave the coil in, continuing to boil the water (IE trying to boil a 3 minute egg); even though it's still fully immersed, the fuse will still self-destruct. It can also self-destruct even if you've unplugged it if you simply leave it unplugged in the water that it's already heated. It will self=destruct if you drop it off a table, even onto the softest carpet.
No matter what you do, no matter how religiously you obey the instructions, these will just self-destruct. You have to think of them as disposable, and temporary, like a cigarette lighter (except lighters work hundreds of times reliably until they give out and they're much much cheaper)
I've bought easily three dozen of these at various places over the years, and I hate it, but they're just designed to fail. I figure if they save me two cups of room service coffee I've broken even and anything beyond that is convenience=plus=savings. Like other reviewers I would gladly pay much more for a reliable, long lasting, well designed American product, but they no longer exist--another industry sold off to China.
A bulkier option is to buy an electric travel pot, or if you're going abroad, buy one there--hopefully better made, and definitely in the local voltage.
As so many others warned ~~~ lasted about 10 cups August 12, 2010
bobbler (Atlanta GA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As so many others warned ~~~ lasted about 10 cups..
Very annoying because I loved this while it was working..
I am thinking of buying several and hoping one works,
but I really hate to reward such sub standard design/workmanship.
I made extra care to submerge the heater at all times while plugged in..
I dont even let it boil usually.
Because I put a thermometer in the cup and stop it around 180-200..
It died today at 175 F.
I wondered what was taking so long and noticed the temp actually dropping..
Love it!!!! August 7, 2010
Patsy
I love this item! My friend and I each took one on our trip to Las Vegas. We had coffee and tea in our rooms every morning without the fuss or expense of getting dressed, going downstairs, paying a fortune for coffee after standing in line for twenty minutes. It worked really fast and was the best investment! I would highly recommend it.
D Friedeck July 26, 2010
Dannelle Friedeck (MO)
Most hotels have coffee pots but for those that don't I bought the immersion heater. I only used it a couple of times and it worked great.
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