CUSIMAX Electric Burner Hot Plate for Cooking Cast

Works great!
I chose this particular hotplate because it has two large burners, instead one burner being smaller. It is quite sturdy, but not heavy – you can move it easily from one location to another. The burners heat up quickly, too. It has worked very well for cooking meals – you can brown meats, boil water and sauces, etc. It doesn’t make any noise when it operates, other than maybe a slight click when the operating light switches on and off. One potential safety issue that I noticed – when you first turn on a burner, a red light comes on to let you know the burner is operating. It seems that the burner goes through “cycles” in order to maintain the desired cooking temperature. When that happens, the red light will go out. This also happens if you turn down the temperature while cooking. As a result, the red light can be off, yet the burner is still in operation and hot. You need to be sure that you turn each burner’s heat setting dial completely to the off position when you are finished cooking. Otherwise, there are possibilities for accidental burns, or even a fire if something is set on the still-hot burners.

Works well.
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.

De muy buena calidad y bonitas

Very nice looking and works very well. The only con is the burners only heat centrally on bigger pots or frying pan but that is my fault for not checking burner size.

Antes que nada agradezco al vendedor que es una persona super atenta y amable , que mi producto llegó antes de lo planeado…Es una parrilla super práctica, muy eficiente en cuanto a sus especificaciones, calienta en muy poco Tiempo y la cocción de los alimentos los hace en poco Tiempo y adecuadamente, tienen niveles muy específicos de temperatura para que tú puedas cocinar tus diferentes tipos de alimentos, así como hervir, freír, calentar, asar..Me encantó .