Kuhn Rikon Clear Cookie Press - Stainless Steel Cookie Gun for Baking, Decorating, and Icing - Perfect for Holiday Cookies, Cake Decorating, and DIY Desserts

The Kuhn cookie press is easy to use and makes perfect little cookies, it's just too bad that it's a bit chintzy in construction.The press consists of the trigger/plunger assembly, the clear plastic tube that holds the dough, and the end cap that holds the cookie pattern disk. The mechanics of the press (the handle, springs, plunger rod, and release button) are all made of metal, while the rest of the press is plastic. The cookie pattern discs are made of aluminum and include a wide variety of shapes and styles. While all the important parts are made of metal, the plastics used in the rest of the press are very cheap feeling, and indeed the metal trigger kept cutting into the plastic used for the handle when I would press out cookies, breaking some of the plastic handle off. Thankfully when the press is assembled and used it feels fairly sturdy in the hand.Using the press is very simple. You simply screw the plastic dough tube to the trigger assembly, press the button on top of the trigger to pull back the plunger, insert some dough, then pick a cookie disk and screw it onto the other end of the dough tube. Once assembled and loaded you pull the trigger until the dough is compacted and starts to come out of the disk. One pull of the trigger clicks the plunger forward the perfect amount to make one cookie. It works very well and I used many shapes, and only had a problem with one of them not releasing the cookies perfectly.The press itself is dishwasher safe. I've run it through the machine a few times and it came out clean and without any issues. The cookie pattern disks should be hand washed, however.I tried the recipe that is included with the press and the cookies came out perfectly shaped and delicious. They are fairly small and thin so you get lots of cookies from each batch.All in all... a fun way to make tasty, perfect cookies.