CUSIMAX Hot Plate, 1800W Electric Burner Double Hot Plate for Cooking Countertop Burner with Adjustable Temperature Control, Portable Electric Cast Iron Hot Plates Cooktop, Easy to Clean, Black

I have used Cusimax electric burner several times, I love it. Being able to control the on and off is great also being able to control the temperature control is wonderful. It heats up and cooks perfect. The size of the burner works great with large and small cookware. Also being portable and very well made is great

The burner plates heat up much quicker than I thought they would. The burner plates react the same way any electric burner does, once heated, they take forever to come down to a lower cooking temperature for a particular food -- especially in heavy cookware. I am very glad I got this! To keep foods warm: Starting from a cold burner -- the temperature dial 'clicks' and lights up at setting #1. I find that setting acceptable. The plate will warm up even w/ the temp set below #1, the light will not be on, but the plate could be hot. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes from a cold start to warm a plate. If you want to keep foods warm on the same burner you used to cook the food: take the pan off the burner, turn the temp down to 1 or 2 depending upon how warm you want it, and let the burner cool down until the light comes on - a pan w/ ice cubes helps the cool-down. (On the unit I have, setting #3 cooks food at a very healthy simmer. And #2 is pretty hot too - so close to #1 works best on the one I have.) When boiling water is required, as in steaming veggies or poaching eggs, I start it at setting 7, and turn it down to 3/4/5 once a simmer or boil has been reached. Quick steaming veggies, such as asparagus, need to be turned down much faster, unlike steaming or boiling spuds still cold from refrigeration. I left pasta to slow boil at 5/6-ish til done without turning it down much. Setting 7 will get you a very hot rolling boil for pasta if that's your preference. A turn down to setting 3 is good for a simmer once all the food has heated through. For omelets and saute, it worked best when the pan was heated to the desired temp, starting on a lower setting before adding any grease or foods -- this type of cooking was the hardest to get right. Setting 3/4. I dislike browned omelets. Caramelized onions, done right, take a while. Browning and quick stir fry -- I heat up to setting 6 or 7 before adding grease & food. Setting 7 will burn food, so frying until done on this setting was iffy. I do a lot of browning for dishes that need to be simmered in sauce/wine/stock w/ veggies. So, reducing the temp after turning all the pieces to brown the other side worked best for me (I browned a bit of onion too, at the same time :). Stir fry -- it's quick! I do not use a setting 7 to fully cook food - it's my heat up the pan and bring to a boil temp - to cook I turn it down to where I want it and adjust the temp as needed. At 7 the temp dials get a tad hot but I don't need a hot pad to adjust temp, however, the top of the housing gets hot and could burn. Above a 7 both the dial and the metal housing gets very hot, and you'd need a hot pad to turn the dial. I use very heavy bottomed cookware that heats up slower than lighter cookeware -- but being heavy, they retain heat longer. All electric stoves/cooktops are different, and this two-burner hot plate is no exception. It took me a month to find the right measures of heat for my cooking needs.

Excellent product. Works super well. Light but sturdy and heavy enough for cooking. Does get hot; so if you're inexperienced, opt for the version with handles. I needed something sleek and clean lines. Not sure tho, if burner just changes temperature with know rotation or actually changes the amount of coil that heats up. Haven't found a way to reduce the surface area that heats. The common know for whole stove off/on is really a nice addition. Word of caution: use the back know regularly... prevents accidentally rotation of front knows whole cleaning around, or if you forget to rotate the know fully

Earlier, I had purchased a portable dual side-by-side burner style for my basement kitchen which does not have a stove (note the original unit was a recognizable quality brand name). We wanted two full functioning burners, however we found that unit had only one side which had enough heat to cook food and bring water to a boil (however it was a bit underpowered and slow to cook and boil water compared to our main level stove), the other burner was just a warmer only and could not cook food or boil water at all which was not advertised accurately so I had Amazon pick it up. Before buying anything else, I finally did some real research rather than simply depending on brand name and review quantity and rating alone and found these units which are very powerful (high wattage rating) and cook food quickly and can bring water to a boil quick and easy. I also found that having 2 completely separate burners is a major advantage. It allows you to use any size pan by just physically moving them further apart (which was a huge problem with the dual side by side design). A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Glad I learned what I did from the original purchase so I was armed with everything I needed to know to buy the perfect burner setup. These units work very well (similar in perform to our stove), appear to be well made and are perfect for us :). Keep in mind, these are very new to us and have only been used a few times at the time of this writing, so I can not speak to the durability or longevity of these units yet but everything looks good so far.

The Cusimax 1800W upgraded electric hot plate is awesome. This is the best hot plate I have ever purchased. Believe me I have tried quite a few over the years. This one works great, and the water boils quickly. It is easy to keep clean. I am so happy I purchased this hot plate. It far exceeded my expectations.

Technically, this burner is okay. It creates fast and powerful, though small radius heat in a steel vessel. It seems to be very well made and sports a sleek design to look at. However, in everyday kitchen use it has terrible manners. It beeps every time you touch it! PLEASE! manufacturers, provide an option to turn off the beep. It's super annoying to so many people, yet most of these gadgets beep if you look at them. Not necessary. Another, even bigger UI mistake is touch control buttons. Makes me wonder if anyone actually tested this thing in the kitchen. I brush against the "MAX" button inadvertently and my eggs are burned! There is a lock function, but locking and unlocking the UI every time you need to adjust heat is silly and not going to happen. Another really bad sin of this device is at max power it produces a fairly unpleasant odor of burnt electronics. I am not sure if that's temporary and will wear off as the unit is used more, but there is no place for that smell in my kitchen when I am cooking delicious things! I have so far tested a few of these devices from different manufacturers and they all seem to have a similar set of no-nos: 1. Bad user interface (buttons that are not useful or that trigger dangerous actions when cooking) 2. Small heating surface. Many advertise 6.5" and 8" surfaces, but if you look at your ring of boiling water in the pan, you'll see it's about 5" and the outside of that is not that hot. 3. Noxious smell at full power. Major no-no! This is a food prep device not a soldering iron. I am still in search of a good usable induction cook top as I do believe induction cooking is awesome. This one has too many failings for me. Though the price and construction are pretty great. I have tested a unit at twice the price with exactly the same failings.

Great product. Very durable. Made of great long lasting metal. Heats up fast. Very happy with it.

I placed 4 cups of water in an open pot and turned the hotplates temperature to the maximum setting while monitoring the unit's power consumption with a watt meter (see photo). From a cold start it took approximately 11.5 minutes for the 4 cups of water to reach a rolling boil and the watt meter never went above 1390W (for comparison, it took 7.5 minutes to boil the same water on our gas stove). These numbers were within my expectations when I purchased this hot plate. However, what I didn't expect was that within the time it took to boil the water the entire body of the hot plate became extremely hot. The entire unit is made of metal and it rapidly conducts the heat of the cast iron top. I couldn't touch the body of the unit at all without getting burned and I couldn't touch the temperature dial for more than a second at a time before it became too painful, and after only 12 minutes of being turned on! It also has no internal fan so the internal wiring harness is also getting cooked inside it's oven-like shell at the same time, which I have no doubt will inevitably lead to a major fire hazard with enough use. This hot plate is such an insane safety hazard I'm shocked that there aren't hundreds of reviews of people, or their children, with 3rd degree burns after accidently touching the hot plate after use or photos of scorched countertops/cabinets when the internal wire harness melted. I really wanted to like this product since cast iron hotplates are so cheap and robust in design but this is unacceptable. I ended up purchasing an portable infrared cooktop instead and even though it only runs at 1190W it managed to boil the 4 cups of water in about the same amount of time from a cold start and the body of the unit remained cool to the touch throughout the test. This Cuisimax hot plate should be removed from Amazon for consumer protection.