Gave this as a gift and was told that it heats much more evenly than their regular electric hot plate did

Fast delivery. I have a noodle board on my Stove top for my air fryer so I find myself too lazy to remove it to use my burners. I have used this every day!! It does take a while to get hot but that keeps me from burning things! I'm glad I purchased it.

Very light weight, works well. One small plate and one large plate.
Compared to other hotplates I have used and owned, this one is the best. It takes a moment to warm up compared to one or two I have owned but it gets very hot and remains hot a long while after turning it off so you're still able to cook on residual heat for some time.
The handles remain cool and the wire is pretty long compared to other models.
We'll see how long it lasts. I am mean and brutal to my hotplates.

I like this hotplate for when I'm using a cast iron skillet on top of it. Since cast iron holds heat pretty well, it works well for scrambling or frying eggs, or frying ham slices, or anything that can sit right on the surface of the skillet or pot. The reason I bring that up is because of the weird thermostat control even when it set high as it can go. They tell you to preheat the burner before putting a pot or pan on it ,which I usually do until it shuts itself off for the first time. That usually takes about 5-6-7 minutes. By that time, you can actually see the cast iron hot plate top glowing red slightly. But that's where the weird stuff starts happening regarding the thermostat. Once you put whatever on top of the burner, the thermometer won't stay on longer than about 5-10 seconds at a time before shutting itself off. Sometimes, it'll stay on 2-3 seconds before shutting itself off. This is not a hotplate that I'd try to use to cook something like beans, or anything that would normally take a long time to cook like corned beef or something; I'd imagine that it could easily take 24 hours...no joke. So like I said, I use it to cook eggs, or pancakes, or I split hotdogs and put them in a iron skillet to fry; small stuff. I haven't tried to boil anything on it, because I believe it would take too long to bring a decent sized pot up to a boil, if it ever did at all. If they could fix the thermostat issue, it would be a perfect hotplate, because the cast iron top gets very hot, and long after you cut it off, it's still pretty hot, so that's a testament to how well it holds heat.

I bought this after reading several reviews. I recently moved into an older home from the 1920s, and the range that was in here just had to go. I am still renovating and needing something simple to help do some light cooking. After giving it a go, I am so impressed!!

Positives
* Love the look, I would love a black stainless but the stainless steel is a nice look overall.
* Boiled water VERY fast for me, I read some reviews where it was iffy for them but I had no issues at all. Just a medium-sized regular pot for me and it did the job very quickly.
* Also was able to scramble some eggs quite quickly as well. Over all, tends to heat thoroughly for me.

Negatives
* I wish it had a different temperature knob on it, so you knew from "Low - High" etc. You can pretty much figure it out with ease though.
* Only other negative I had was, just because I sometimes run about doing other things, I wish it had an alarm that could be set to remind that its turned on. Yes, it has a light so you can just utilize that, but I tend to set myself alarms on my phone anytime I utilize kitchen items just to make sure I remember to turn them off. Would just be a nice quality of life addition, nothing really horrible by not having one.

Outside of that, I am so excited and happy to get to use this little burner. If you're looking for something at a good price point, and need a burner for anything, I would totally recommend grabbing this!