Didn't even get through cooking a steak, and it shut down, also when first started had an awful smell

Has a burning smell of machine oils at first, common for some new appliances

This one smells like chemicals burning - ammonia or bleach.

First time I used it a horrible burning plastic smell filled the kitchen.

But it continues to give off a weird smell while cooking

The strange smell that a previous reviewer was referring to, is just the "factory smell" burning off, probably something the mfr

I still smelled that weird smell when the plates heated up

The first time I used it I washed the plates because I could smell it from the packaging, but now a month later I went to cook on it again and still the same awful smell.

It gets hot enough to burn itself and fill the house with strange chemical smells but it doesn't get hot enough to do anything but steam food

I've had it for almost a year, and every time it's used, it fills the atmosphere with bad plastic smell.

We have used this grill countless times since Christmas and always with the foul smell

but when I turned it on there was this terrible heated plastic smell to it.

It's just unusable with that horrible smell and after reading some of these

I smelled a burning plastic smell.... hhuummm, then I saw no numbers, no red lines

The grill emits a strong smell of burning plastic whenever I use it.

The first time I used it, it gave off a little smoke and a very weird smell.

Instead of using it after the 5 minute preheat I just let it sit until the smoking stopped and the smell went away.

Also, even after repeated heating cycles, it still fills the house with a noxious chemical smell while in use

Love my George Forman’s especially with the easy to use removable plates

So I called customer service for Foreman grills and their solution was to e-mail the sheet(worthless