Took awhile to boil water but it does what I need it to

I thought it may not get hot enough to boil water, but it did

DON'T TRY TO BOIL WATER IN YOUR COFFEE DECANTER.

I was able to boil eggs and enough water to cook pasta in this, despite it being slower than a real stove

This takes time to boil water and grill your meat

..it boils water and it is only 1000 watts which should help prevent from burning out the plugs .

It will take a little longer to get to boiling water but can handle the high heat for that and cooking peas/beans or dirty rice.

but it takes FOREVER to warm up the water or cook anything

It boils water fast, easy to move around and easy to clean.

It can boil water but not cook actual meat

This hotplate looks nice but is a piece of junk for anything that requires enough heat to boil water.

but it cannot even boil water, shuts off automatically.

Also boiling water without covering the pan is out of the question.

Nearly two hours of trying to boil water, and I have a big stainless steel pot of barely "bubbled" (yes, not bubbling) water

Next time I used it in a different space, the water did boil

Not hot enough to boil water, but good enough to make water for coffee and tea

This burner it just good for a college dorm to semi warm water for a ramen but only if you like your noodles hard.

Worked great the first few times now it won't heat enough to boil water

It boils water fast, easy to move around and easy to clean.

Water stains in a

Won't boil water

This item gets really hot, boils water quickly, and heats up and cools down quickly

I have been able to quickly boil water, make eggs, saute veggies, etc.

Can boil water as well.

This product couldn't even boil water, and the legs under it were not even, so it wobbled on a flat surface.

Tested it out to boil water, and it heated pretty quickly.

the fact that this inexpensive small unit can boil water has me happy.

Perfect for multi sized pots and pans, boils water fast and is super easy to clean

I have a $5 burner that I was comparing this burner to, and the $5 burner heats up at least twice if not 3X as fast to bring water cold water to a boil

It boils water fast, easy to move around and easy to clean.

The unit will not get hot enough- will barely boil water at all.

Bought it to boil water in beaker for lab work

I was able to boil eggs and enough water to cook pasta in this, despite it being slower than a real stove

Heated water well.

My first camping trip I plugged it in and it boiled water in about 8 minutes.

Can boil water as well.

It worked great for a month, then slowly lost its power to boil water

I use it to boil pasta water, cook soups/stews, oatmeal/rice/grains of all sorts

This has several temperature levels, I boiled water on HIGH and it was fast to boil

Takes few minutes to boil water in a stainless steel pot with narrow base

It takes a while for it to boil water

The water boiled hard in 7 minutes

It gets hot enough to burn your hands on the outside of the plate but the plate itself on MAX will not boil water even after 45 min on the plate.

I've used this now for the 2nd time to boil water.

It doesn't heat up enough to boil water and it just broke tonight.

Only fault I find is it does take a while longer to boil water then my gas stove burners do.

I tried to boil water, it did not reach a boiling point even after 1 hour.

AK.Was pleasantly surprised with its quality and was quick to boil water, did a quick boil test as well as making sure to burn off manufacturing coating on the heating element, as suggested by its paperwork

I put cold water in the pot with the lid on and had no trouble whatsoever bring water to a full rolling boil and that was on medium heat.

This product's design makes the part that heats up the food very hard to clean as it gets greasy/oily very easily for some reason

The unit stopped working as of Oct 16th

I don't want to risk a

We use it to heat a double-boiler for fondue, as well as for hot-pot.