Duronic Hot Plate HP1 SS, Stainless Steel Table Top Cooking, 1500W Black Steel Electric Single Hob with Handles, Cast Iron Portable Hob Burner Rings for Home Kitchen, Pots, Camping

This contraption is so very easy to set up. The device heats up very quickly and is great at frying things and boiling veg etc. If you live in small accomodation this litle hotplate is ideal for you,

Works great! Happy customer!

Arrived on time, couple of dents in the facia and smear marks all over as though it had been quickly cleaned but some residue left on it. It works, it was inexpensive ,its efficient and easy to clean and store! Not too disappointed with this! It does what its supposed to do and is quite nice looking (once I gave it a wipe over! )

After four months I am more ecstatic about my Duronic HP1 Hotplate than on its first use. Primarily because it has worked consistently very well and cooks wonderfully. A big plus, it is a doddle to clean, to my standards at least. My rising rapture comes from ten years of cooking exclusively with a combination microwave, another excellent device. But now I can have perfectly cooked soft and hard boiled eggs rather than the unpredicted snowstorms of exploded egg following a failed new microwave technique. Now I can savour a fabulous fried egg instead of the Saturn simulacrum of rock solid centre with annuli of opaque white and glassy goo. But the HP1 is beyond egg-cellent at cooking. It easily copes with a 28cm sauté pan almost full of casserole, its 18cm plate delivering a steady heat to the 17cm base of the pan. I assume steady because the plate takes multiple minutes to cool down, implying the ability to hold a near even temperature. By contrast the HP1 is quick to reach the requested temperature, the oil hot in a pan before I can peel and chop an onion. I appreciate that is a subjective quantification. Thus far I have never needed to go to the Max, only turning the temperature knob up to midway between Min and Max. However, the knob draws attention to the one drawback of the HP1 – no on/off switch. There may well be zero amps flowing at Off on the dial, but want to hear a comforting click. Without a switched mains supply requires, to my super-safety-conscious thinking, unplugging the hob after use. This is made easier with the HP1 having a contoured plug. So, not a big hassle. Returning to what the hot plate is not about, the underside remains comfortably hand cool while in use (do not verify this while in pan-use). Also staying cool, surprisingly, are the handles along either side. I can glove-free, unhurriedly move it from its cooking position to the out of the way cooling place. A fanciful way of saying I lift it 30cm to the back of the work surface. Occasionally the HP1 comes forward, unplugged, to get a once-over with a cleaning cloth. All required parts are easy to reach without bruising one’s knuckles. The only shy corner is where the plate riser joints the flat top. Not so much scrubbing up well, as wiping up well. Albeit after a few uses when the irritating yellow sticky label has curled off the top, leaving the more irritating glue needing to be rubbed off. My HP1 is still looking so smart and stylish that it can be used as a dining-table food warmer, though I’d suggest a heat-resistant mat on any Thomas Sheraton mahogany. The plate is solid, so pans that convex their bottom with heat become unstable and less efficient. As well as pans matching the HP1’s plate diameter, smaller footprint items also work fine. This has allowed me to enjoy coffee from my hitherto unusable espresso coffee maker (shaped like an angular metal egg-timer). I’ll probably save this underutilisation of the hob’s heating power for winter when its excess radiation can help warm my small kitchen. The Duronic HP1 Hotplate is an excellent device in every sense for its purpose, except for no on/off click.

Nice little electric stove However, takes ages to cook Frying was uneven So unfortunately looking to replace it

I was always buying the twin hob and neither heated up sufficiently unless you had a couple of hours to wait. I decided to go for a single and WOW,what a difference it made buying it. Heats up quickly and even on minimum cooking heat works well. On top heat it comes on fast and heats up food fast. I turn it on a couple of minutes before putting a pan on and then once I place the pan on its cooking within a couple minutes so turn it down to just above minimum to simmer. I will definitely buy a couple more of these in the next few weeks. Brilliant buy. I have been using it for 3 weeks now but I am well aware after a few months I will have to buy again. Its great though. Like I said above, its better than buying a double. Id buy two of these singles if I were you.

I bought this to cook steak in the garden, because my (vegetarian) wife doesn't like me making the house smell of "death" (her words, not mine). It worked okay on exactly 4 occasions, 2 or 3 days apart each time, although the temperature control is very poor. Basically the plate cycles between full heat, and completely off. The temperature control just varies how long it stays off for between cycles. Even when set to maximum heat, it still cycles on and off once it's reached it's operating temperature. However, after the 5th time I attempted to take it in to the garden to prepare myself some steaky goodness, it was completely dead. No power light, no heat output, no nothing. I checked the supplied 13A fuse in the plug and it was fine. Eventually, after risking the wrath of my wife by cooking the steak indoors, I took it apart to see what was wrong. There is a 240°C thermal cut-out crimped into the neutral wire (shown in the attached photo) and it had blown. I have no idea whether this is because it was faulty, or because the hotplate had actually overheated at some point during use. I've only ever used it on a table outdoors, so extremely well ventilated. Obviously I could buy a new thermal cutout for a couple of quid, and solder it in. But I've only had this thing from new for 2 weeks. I would therefore class this as a garbage product and I've ordered a gas-powered camping stove to replace it.

Just tried it and it's great. There's a warning label about smoke coming out first time of use, but it's very little - you don't need to take down the smoke alarms :) It was so hard to find such simple and practical item in the today's over-sophisticated market! Truly great to be able to easily handle, heat and prepare hot drinks or warm dishes, without lots of electronic, microwaves or radiation! It even looks so nice that it deserves the best spot in the kitchen!