every time it gets hot enough for the water to start boiling, the burner shuts itself off

case I need to use this with my solar panel system to boil water for safe drinking or warm up my canned food.

I would not advise ordering this hot plate if you want to boil water

The first unit I ordered didn't work well: I put a very thin metal pot with 8 cups of already hot tap water on it with the dial set to High and after more than HALF AN HOUR, it NEVER boiled.

Good luck even boiling water on this thing.

Tried a small pot with about a inch of water and no luck getting water to boil

if you only want to boil water, wouldn't recommend buying this

We tried to boil water and checked it ever ten minutes until 40 minutes had gone by and it stayed the same 'warmish' temp for the duration

I think maybe the reason it lacks power to boil water is that it only has 750 watts

I had a difficult time with finding a temperature that stayed consistent and it took a long time to cook or even boil water

My only consolation is that it didn't cost very much, but I do not recommend anyone purchase this unit unless you are just melting wax or something, but even then it would be worth your time to find a burner that could actually boil water in less than 10 minutes.

It doesn't boil water like another review stated

Since stores (physical or online) no longer offer the low price that Walgreens did 5 years ago (probably because of the economy), I would guess it would cost a lot more than $12.95 these days to get a hotplate with power decent enough just to boil water.

This is closer to a 500 watt unit, which means it could take you 30 minutes just to boil water

so I figured I don't want to have hot water all over me or floor

The plus point is that this does not require a lot of space and it gets sufficiently hot to boil milk/water in a small pot

Doesn't even get hot enough to boil water.

It can't boil water even in medium size pot

I tried to get it to work and boil water for 25 minutes

I bought this to use to boil water to make coffee on the road using an Aeropress coffee maker with fresh ground coffee ground with my Kuissential manual coffee grinder.

Good luck even boiling water on this thing.

Water was boiling in about 10 mins

Fairly good and cheap hot plate wish it would boil water

case I need to use this with my solar panel system to boil water for safe drinking or warm up my canned food.

wont even boil water

Took 30 minutes to boil water

It is slow to boil water, but it does do it

Boils water for one box of Mac and Cheese, heats soup, doesn't burn house down

And also the plastic frame broke off as if it had been weakened by the heat