Cooking hot plate (appliance, compare, iron, duct)
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My electric range fizzled out, so I bought a single-burner hot plate for temporary use. The directions say the hot plate is to be used for boiling water only, not cooking. What would happened if I used it to fry an egg? Would my house go up in a puff of smoke?
do you have a grill? that works in a pinch, too. I've even used my teeny tiny camping 'stove.'
Does the hotplate have a well insulated, grounded, quality plug, is the metal housing
fairly heavy and well put together, is the base nice and stable????
I can tell a cheapy_shoddy hotplate..........many times the big giveaway is a 2-prong plug, as opposed to
3-prongs. If a company went to the extra time, effort and money to properly ground their hotplate, that means they put some decent effort in it.
It's a Farberware, dual-burner hot plate from Walmart. It looks like a well-made item. I'm guessing the warning is for liability purposes only, but I'm not 100% sure. My only gripe is that it won't set level atop my old range top.
I have a dual induction hotplate made by Avantco that I bought 3 years ago. I use that thing every day, multiple times per day and it's great. Almost nothing I can't cook on it, but it is slow to boil a lot of water. Cost about $135.00, doesn't make the kitchen heat up, and extremely safe and energy efficient. Sits right on top of my glass top range. I highly recommend!
I have a dual induction hotplate made by Avantco that I bought 3 years ago. I use that thing every day, multiple times per day and it's great. Almost nothing I can't cook on it, but it is slow to boil a lot of water. Cost about $135.00, doesn't make the kitchen heat up, and extremely safe and energy efficient. Sits right on top of my glass top range. I highly recommend!
Here's a problem I've encountered: My old range has raised burner holes and I can't get a hotplate to lay flat. I can't find where anyone makes a heat-proof cover.
When I was between ranges I used a single burner hot plate, a very cheap thing I got at walmart. I made everything on it including eggs, popcorn and percolator coffee.
It wasn't great-difficult to regulate temperature, but it worked fine for the duration which was about 3 weeks. I always unplugged it when not in use.
Now it's in it's box on a shelf upstairs, labeled with the date of purchase, in case I ever need it again.
Just don't leave anything on it unsupervised. Stand right there when using it.
It's a Farberware, dual-burner hot plate from Walmart. It looks like a well-made item. I'm guessing the warning is for liability purposes only, but I'm not 100% sure. My only gripe is that it won't set level atop my old range top.
I did, and when I read the warning in the directions, I was leery and decided to go with a more expensive dual burner from Walmart. Lo and behold, the same warning was in the instructions for that burner. I'm sure the folks reading this thread are grateful for your having pointed out this oversight.
I lived in an apartment at one time that didn't have a stove, but used my toaster oven, electric skillet, and microwave. I never had any problems using them at all.
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