Accessory Wood & Stainless Steel Wine Accessories Set

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 at 11:13 am

Look For Accessory Wood Stainless Steel Wine Accessories Set at Amazon

For a lot of people, a fireplace might as well be a video of flaming logs. Their important interest is the welcoming ambiance a fireplace’s blaze presents. If, however, you suppose your fireplace to provide heat in interchange for your log-carrying, fire-building efforts, (or in the case of gas logs, in interchange for your gas bill), it’s time to maximize your fireplace’s heat output.

There are respective contraptions designed to return more of a wood or gas fireplace’s heat into the room and stanch the flow of that cherished heat from escaping up the chimney. Many of them implicate fans and vents and substantial expense. But one of the most time-honored, hassle-free, and least pricey methods of increasing a fire’s heat output is making a comeback: the fireback.

A fireback is a sheet of metal, sized in ratio to the fireplace, that’s placed versus your back fireplace wall. Firebacks may be set on the hearth’s floor and just leaned versus the back fireplace wall, but often they are secured by placing them in supporting braces which keep the fireback from sliding. Firebacks come in two main styles: the cast iron fireback and the stainless steel fireback.

The conventional cast iron fireback, standard in earlier times and making a revival now, is a sheet of heavy, black, cast iron. Often they are cast with a design, such as a fleur de lis or eagle, to add a ornamental touch to this functional fireplace accessory.

The cast iron firebacks work on the same principle as heating radiators. The metal is heated (by hot water in the case of radiators and by the fire in the case of firebacks), and then that heat is radiated into the room.

Although beautiful and functional, the cast-iron firebacks are too heavy for a great deal of people to manage easily. Their weight also adds to their shipping costs, and hence to their total price.

A more innovative fireback design, one that is growing in popularity, is made of a sheet of very gently curved, tempered stainless steel. These stainless steel firebacks warm your room in two ways. First, like the cast iron firebacks, they radiate the heat of the fire forward into the room. But they also reflect the heat, as well as the light, of the fire into the room.

Stainless steel firebacks weigh only one-sixth as much as a likewise sized cast iron fireback, so they are requiring little effort to manage and less pricey to ship. But their main appeal may be their price: They cost only a fraction as much as their cast iron cousins. Whereas a cast iron fireback, depending on size, may cost $250 to $700, the stainless steel versions ordinarily go for $50 to $150.

Both cast iron and stainless steel firebacks dramatically increase the room-warming capacity of your wood or gas fireplace fire. The addition of this simple fireplace accessory to your hearth may mean warmer toes and lower heating bills.

140 of 141 people found the following review helpful.
Looks and Works Great
By N. Fitzgerald
I was surprised as to how well this item actually worked when we opened and started using it. I purchased this as a ‘filler’ gift for my wife for Christmas. Knowing that it was a gadjety gift I did not have high expecations. We used this for fun and found out how easy it is to use and how cleanly it removes the cork. It opens many bottles on one charge, although we have not yet tried to prove the box statement correct that it opens 30 bottles on one charge.
Good for a person who struggles with conventional wine openers and breaking corks.
The bonus wine chiller is stylish and functional.

84 of 84 people found the following review helpful.
The wine opener alone sells for way more than this in retail stores and wine catalogs!
By Chandler
We actually originally bought just the wine opener at a department store. As is usual with Amazon, this online price is waaay better than what we paid for the wine opener ALONE…I was told at a dinner party that Amazon had the wine opener for less than what I paid so we went online to order several of these as gifts and found we could get the wine chiller too for less!

Not only do these two wine lovers love the opener, but every time we use it in front of someone they fall in love and want one so it’s the perfect gift.

So…we ordered a few with the wine chiller and tried out the wine chiller as well and are equally as impressed! We had a dinner party and ran low on white wine. A fast chill provided by the wine chiller kept the dinner party flowing smoothly.

We had a $150 dollar wine opener that didn’t work nearly as impressive and easily as this one did. In fact, a wine opener just like this is still in wine catalogs for over $100. It may even be the same one…that’s the first place we saw it.

As for how it works…place it on the bottle, push the button, ZIP…it uncorks it for you.

TO REMOVE THE CORK: (totally easy) you just push the button in reverse and it pops it right out for you to remove it! Anyone who didn’t know this trick may not have read that part of the instructions as I could see that trying to remove it otherwise would be difficult. but it’s a cinch if you push that reverse button…even easier than removing it from a manual opener!

CONCLUSION: I love to drink wine but hate opening it and have broken enough corks in my day to realize I shouldn’t. This is uncorkage 101 at it’s finest whether you are a pro opener or as clumsy as me…looks impressive, is a major conversation piece once you use it, works in seconds with no brainpower needed, and the battery charge lasts so long that we even took it on a cruise and uncorked our wine during the whole trip perfectly and still came home and used it for a few weeks without having to recharge!

The wine chiller works just as well as the ones costing hundreds more. We are a lover of Oster and Amazon for this bargain set for our gift giving!! My parents, who have everything, are as hooked as we are on this and now gift it themselves to others.

And, more importantly, we’ve had it for a year now and it’s as good as new. Some more expensive wine openers we’ve had had more fragile pieces that didn’t hold up.

While it’s the perfect gift, you’ll want to keep it for yourself if you don’t yet have one.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
amazing wine opener
By J. Gayer
I first saw this wine opener at a friend’s party and was so amazed by it that I have purchased more than 5 for friends, clients and family. It really does open 30 bottles on one charge and very quickly. What more could one ask for at a party, large or small?

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