Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My husband is a chef and we were lacking a spice collection. I wanted to get something modern looking yet highly functional. After researching many very "cool" looking magnetic type screw jars, etc. I thought "well these look awesome, but how practical are they?" When you're cooking you don't want to have to take a jar down, unscrew it, possibly shake the entire contents into your stew and quickly re-screw as you stir your delectable dinner. When I found the Kamenstein 16-Cube Bamboo spice rack I though it was such a deal (because it comes with free spice refills for 5 years) and very functional. Regarding the spice refills, it is only on a few of the spices and it costs 1.99 shipping. It's easy to log onto the website they provide and enter your code to register.) Back to the rack...The cubes have handy plastic lids that have two sides which flip up, one for granulated and one to spoon. Perfect! It's also very cool because you can mount on wall, have in a drawer or it comes with a metal easel on the back to set up at an angle on countertop. We choose to mount ours on the wall. We actually stacked 2x2 creating a square of 64 spices (I've posted the photo). The only reason I didn't give a 5 star is because the lids which go on over a rubber gasket type seal, don't seal completely closed. Spices like onion powder and anything powdered with a little weight comes out from the sides a little bit. Not a big deal as it's not too much, but still a little flaw. It doesn't happen with larger spices that are crushed or whole. I also used my own name label stickers, as I needed spices that didn't come with kit. One a side note, one of the four sets I ordered had a few of the glass jars chipped on the bottom (probably from shipping even though it is pretty securely packed). I looked online for replacements but couldn't find any. I contacted the manufacturer and within a few days they had sent me two replacement jars. So props to the manufacturer for great follow up! All in all we're very happy and excited to use our new spices! FYI the spices that came with my kit were: crushed mint, basil, oregano, sea salt, marjoram, celery salt, herbs de provence, pizza seasoning, bay leaves (crushed), parsley, rosemary, italian seasoning, coriander, season salt, chives & fennel seed.