Best Gyoza Dumpling Presses for an Easy Clean Kitchen

How the Five Compare on the Numbers

Washing is the thing these listings disagree about most. Zoie + Chloe states dishwasher safe and adds that you can wash them by hand with a little dish soap and water. Silique Kitchen states dishwasher safe and easy to rinse clean. Stonelatrixo says to rinse with water or place it in the dishwasher. Norpro states hand washing recommended, and MHH states nothing about washing anywhere.

Published figures are thin on this pool and the gaps matter here. Norpro publishes 1.0 by 3.75 by 10.25 inches and 0.45 lb. MHH publishes 9.57 by 9.57 by 0.67 inches and 0.44 lb. Stonelatrixo publishes 3.2 by 3.2 by 2.0 inches and no weight. Zoie + Chloe publishes 0.35 lb and a package figure only. Silique Kitchen publishes 0.5 lb and nothing else.

What the table cannot tell you is how any of this behaves after the twentieth batch. No listing here publishes a temperature limit for a dishwasher cycle, a note on what hot water does to a printed color, or whether a crimped edge holds dough after repeated machine washing. Every entry in the washing column is a permission, not a durability figure, and none of the five goes further than one sentence on it.

The Exact Washing Words Each Maker Prints

Three That Name a Dishwasher

Zoie + Chloe is the most complete of the three. Its bullet says the baking molds are dishwasher safe, so you can pop them in along with your dinnerware, and then offers the alternative in the same sentence: wash them by hand using a little dish soap and some water. That is both methods, written out, which is more than any other listing on this fact sheet manages.

The other two are shorter. Silique Kitchen says the set is dishwasher safe and easy to rinse clean, and pairs it with a claim that smooth surfaces prevent sticking. Stonelatrixo says the smooth surface design makes it easy to clean, then gives the two options as rinse with water or place in the dishwasher. Neither names a rack, a cycle or a temperature.

One That Says Hand Washing, and One That Says Nothing

Norpro is the only listing of these five that puts hand washing recommended in its own bullets and names no machine anywhere. That is a clear instruction rather than an absence, and on a page about cleaning it is worth more than a vague permission. It also happens to be the pick with the most published dimensions, at 1.0 by 3.75 by 10.25 inches.

MHH says nothing at all. Its five bullets cover slots, material, a raised base, dough rollers and recipes, and not one of them mentions washing, rinsing or a dishwasher. The listing does state solid food grade aluminum with no rust and no warping, which speaks to durability, but it leaves the question of how to clean 14 recesses entirely open.

What There Is to Clean

One Recess, Three, Six or Fourteen

The amount of cleaning is not the same across these five, and the published counts show it. Stonelatrixo is a single press with one recess. Zoie + Chloe is three separate molds with one recess each, at 4, 5 and 6 inches. Norpro makes 6 pierogies at a time, so a batch leaves six filled recesses. MHH has 14 slots in one aluminum plate.

That count is the figure a reader on this page should weigh first. A listing that clears a dishwasher but leaves fourteen crimped recesses is a different proposition from one that asks for hand washing and leaves a single mold, and the two makers at the extremes here, with 14 slots and with one press, publish the least and the most washing detail in exactly the wrong order for that.

Plastic, Steel and Aluminum in Hot Water

Three of these five are plastic. Zoie + Chloe states plastic, Silique Kitchen states food grade plastic and Norpro’s title names a plastic press. None of the three publishes a temperature limit, and Zoie + Chloe is the one that mentions color, saying its molds come in vibrant green, orange and blue, without saying whether those finishes survive repeated hot cycles.

The other two are metal and say more about it. Stonelatrixo states 304 food grade stainless steel and calls it rust resistant, and it is the one listing here where clearing a dishwasher and naming the alloy sit in the same listing. MHH states solid food grade aluminum with no rust and no warping, and then never mentions a machine, so whether a dishwasher is sanctioned for it is simply unanswered.

Figures That Do Not Line Up

A Press That Is Three Inches and Six Inches

Stonelatrixo’s listing contradicts itself on size. Its title says 3-Inch, its size field says 3 inches and its dimension fields read 3.2 by 3.2 by 2.0 inches, all of which agree. Its very first bullet then says the press measures 6 inches in diameter and calls it a premium large empanada press. Three published figures point one way and one sentence points the other.

This page treats the 3 inch reading as the one with support behind it and says so rather than picking quietly. For cleaning the distinction matters less than it would elsewhere, since a smaller press is a smaller recess either way, but a reader buying on diameter should know that the listing does not agree with itself and that nothing in it resolves the conflict.

Sets That Publish No Size at All

Silique Kitchen publishes the least of the five. It states a 3 piece set with three convenient sizes and never says what those sizes are, publishes no dimension and gives only 0.5 lb for the lot. Everything else in that listing is about sealing edges and food grade plastic, so the washing sentence is one of the few concrete things in it.

Zoie + Chloe is a half step better. It names its three molds as 4 inches, 5 inches and 6 inches, which is more than Silique Kitchen does, but its dimension fields describe the carton rather than the molds and sit at 3.0 by 3.0 by 1.0 inches, so the only size information is the three diameters and the 0.35 lb the set weighs together.

Which One Fits Your Kitchen

A kitchen where the dishwasher does everything. Zoie + Chloe. It is the only listing of the five that writes out both methods, dishwasher safe or by hand with dish soap and water, and it names its three molds at 4, 5 and 6 inches.

A sink and thirty seconds. Silique Kitchen, which states dishwasher safe and easy to rinse clean for a 3 piece set at 0.5 lb. The trade is that it publishes no diameter for any of the three molds and no dimension at all.

Metal you want to put in the machine. Stonelatrixo, 304 food grade stainless steel, rust resistant, cleared for a rinse or the dishwasher, with fields of 3.2 by 3.2 by 2.0 inches. Read its own 3 inch and 6 inch figures before buying.

Someone who hand washes anyway. Norpro, the only listing here that says hand washing recommended. It publishes 1.0 by 3.75 by 10.25 inches and 0.45 lb, makes 6 pierogies a pressing, and includes a recipe.

Batch cooking, with cleaning as the cost. MHH, 14 slots in solid food grade aluminum at 9.57 by 9.57 by 0.67 inches and 0.44 lb. It forms the most pieces per press of these five and publishes no washing instruction whatsoever.

What We Could Not Verify

Everything above comes from the five listings themselves. These are the things they do not say.

• MHH publishes no washing instruction, so whether a dishwasher is sanctioned for its aluminum is unanswered.
• No listing here publishes a temperature limit or a cycle for a dishwasher.
• Silique Kitchen names three sizes and publishes no figure for any of them.
• Zoie + Chloe never states whether its vibrant green, orange and blue finishes survive repeated hot cycles.
• Stonelatrixo never reconciles the 3 inches in its title with the 6 inches in its first bullet.
• Norpro publishes no diameter for its form, only 7 ounces in its size field.