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334 of 338 persons found the following review helpful.
Great grill, great price
By Betty Jack
This is one appliance that lives up to each one of the manufacturer’s claims. I follow directions and spray the grill surface with cooking spray and put half a cup of water in the pan below, and the grill actually is, as advertised, smokeless and exceedingly easy to clean. I like the adaptable grill temperature, a feature I’m not used to since my faithful ageold Farberware, now deceased, had only two settings, namely “plugged in and on” or “unplugged and off”. The Sanyo cooks everying in half the time the old grill did, and without cabinet-endangering flareups. I particularly like the enormous cooking surface since I’m regularly cooking for 5 adults and a child and with this grill I may cook for all of us at once. The dimensions make it easy to store if you set it vertically rather than horizontally. The appliance is so low in height that I set mine on a silicone countertop protector, but I’m not sure this is genuinely necessary. My only complaint is that there is no surrounding rim to keep your hamburgers from sliding right off the grill when you undertake to flip them over, but using a second spatula as a backstop solves that problem. This grill is a terrific bargain even at the suggested merchandising price; at the current Amazon price it’s even more terrific.
128 of 132 people found the following review helpful.
try this
By tvguyer
I read the review when it comes to how long it takes to preheat this grill, well being a full time chef (aa culinary arts) and over 20 years in the industry, I have used a lot of dissimilar types of grills, and in most cases when I necessitated it to heat up speedily we would just place a sheet pan over it and it decreased the startup time significantly. Well I found a aluminum baking pan which fit this grill perfectly, the metal does not come in contact with the plastic base, and it took only 4 minutes to reach the high setting. I used a litte non stick spray and placed 2, 1 inch thick lamb chops on it and it seared them utterly and quickly, placed the cover (pan) back over them, waited in regards to 3 minutes, turned them over, and grilled another 2 minutes and they were well done. Totoal time grill was on 10 minutes. Now lamb is regarding the greasiest meat and I did get a little smoke, but that was only when the searing was taking place, and with the cover very little splatter also. I think if they could the would make a cover for this unit, but it would probably not pass U.L. standards? Not sure but if you are using this grill as with other gadgets you ought to keep a close eye on them. I got this item next day with amazon prime total was only 34 bucks. Great deal and product.
186 of 196 people found the following review helpful.
Cooks good food, but not smokeless
By Gadgester
All considered, I decisive to give this Sanyo indoor grill a 5-star rating. It’s in all likelihood more like 4.5 stars, but Amazon doesn’t concede that. I’ll explain.
On the plus side, I actually like the simplicity of this grill. It’s also light-weight, registering a little underneath seven pounds, which means it’s easy to move around – no breaking your back! It’s likewise rather easy to clean: just soapy warm water and dry! The grill comprises of three pieces: a metal grill, a sheet metal oil drip pan, and a plastic base. The base does feel a little insubstantial, but the whole thing, put together, is rather sturdy. The 200 in^2 cooking surface is good for a family of up to four.
I likewise loved the price: I never imagined I could have a quality indoor grill for such a low price. (Thanks to Amazon, too?) This is in all probability what tilted me to the five-star rating. The grill, made in China, is of finelooking good build quality, and looks like it’ll last a long time. The price and value just can’t be beat.
Above all, the grill actually gives you delicious BBQ food! I’ve grilled steaks, pork chops, burgers, franks, chicken breasts, chicken legs, chicken wings, vegetables, and more, and *each and each time* the feed came out utterly delicious. For example, I purchased 2 pounds of semi-boneless rib steaks at Shaw’s for ten bucks. I sprayed the grill with a great deal of oil spray, pre-heat the grill to 350 F degrees (which took with regards to 20 minutes), and then grilled the steaks (together with a couple burger patties and a heap of green peppers) for with regards to 15 or 16 minutes to well-done. Then my family enjoyed a delicious steak meal. Not counting the cost of the grill itself, but including electricity (the grill is ranked at 1300W), the whole meal came to less than $15 for four full-sized adults! Imagine if we had eaten out at a steakhouse; the last time I went to a steakhouse in Manhattan, I had to shell out over $80 per person, with no appetitizer ordered and only tap water! In fact, I found my own grilled steaks (served with Diet Coke purchased on sale) even better. Even if the Sanyo had gone meet it is manufacturers after this one meal, I’d have more than broken even on the meal, equated to any restaurant that serves steaks.
So I’m actually thrilled regarding the value and the quality of the food.
Now, why not a full-hearted five stars? Well, because this is a low-cost product, there are a couple items that I dislike. One, the thermostat is a joke; it has temperature ranges like “200-250″ and “300-425″ but doesn’t give you precise markers, so you have to guess where to turn the knob to in order to preheat to 325. Not a big deal after a few tries, and I seem to get it right (more or less) each time even though I’d never operated a grill, indoor or outdoor, before. Two, cooking time is not short, period. Preheating to 300 takes when it comes to 15 minutes and to 425 takes over 20 minutes. Cooking itself takes amidst 10 and 20 minutes depending on what you cook and the meat’s thickness. Also, the cooking time seems to vary with room temperature.
Three, more important, this grill is not completely smokeless. The oil spray will give out the most smoke, though it hasn’t set off our smoke alarm yet. (I keep the doors and kitchen windows open when cooking.) In fact, I don’t think any open grill may give you smokeless cooking. As long as you have oil heated to over 300 degrees, you will get smoke. Please keep this in mind if you live in a meticulously maintained house and cannot stand any grill smoke.
But all in all, I love this grill. I’d gladly buy another one any time. While grilled meat may not be healthy, this grill cooks yummy BBQ meat and veggies and saves me tons of money. I commend this grill.
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