DuronicHot Plate HP1 SS Stainless-Steel Electric Single Hob with Handles, Table-Top Cooking 1500W 1 Cast Iron Portable Hob Ring, Cooking Boiling Frying Simmering

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.

I don't normally buy used items because I always think of them coming back damaged or broken (otherwise, why would they have been returned???). In this case however, I was really pleasantly surprised, if not a little confused. Apart from some evidence of it having been wiped on the bottom, this little powerhouse had no evidence of any sort of traumatic (or other) past life! It came well packaged in original packaging, and as you can see by the photos and video, it's absolutely perfect. Everything works. It's clean and, to all intents and purposes, seems pretty much new. It heats up in a snap too (but, like all electric hotplates, takes a looooong time to cool down - I've only used gas for about 40 years 😬). I'll definitely be buying used again from Amazon if this is the standard of their Preloved goods and I think I'm going to have a lot of fun with my convenient, portable little hotplate! I Highly recommend this item and buying used.

It is disappointing, that the product doesn't heat up all over, the heat is on the left side, so I have to be cmoving the pan around, also it kept going off and on, so, that's not good at all. I am not happy with the product. The good thing about it, is the two handles.

Sturdy and light

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! )