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242 of 244 persons found the following review helpful.
Be careful….
By CD
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1UCVD3QHQ32SV I have had 3 Foreman grills over the years, primary I got the Champ for college, then I moved up to the Next Grilleration, and now it is on to the 360. The 360 has in truth stepped it up a notch. The multiple removable plates make this grill the one to have I think. I have made a massive omelet and it turned out perfect. I made quesadillas and they turned out perfect. I made chicken and once again came out perfective and had the classic good amount of drippings. Every plate worked like a charm and cleanup was so much easier. than the former models i think. I look forward to using this grill for years to come!
Update:
Okay run into my basi issue and it is a BIG one. For galore reason the area made to hold the plates on have gotten warped or bent after their introductory use (assume it was after I had set it to it is most eminent and had cooked a good deal of chicken). I’m not sure if it is from the heat or what but the top plate will no longer stay in place!!! I locked the plate in place to cook galore chicken, lifted it up 2-3 times and it was fine, but I opened it up once and the plate popped off and ended up falling to the floor as I wasn’t in regards to to catch the thing. The plastic handle shattered and now any plate I try in the top does not seem to sit right and pops off after use 
I’m not sure what to think at this point, I was actually impressed at primary but after this debacle I’m not sure what to do with the thing as it is now junk if I can’t put any top plate on without it falling off.
134 of 137 people found the following review helpful.
not as good as earlier Foreman grills
By E. A. Jones
I’ve used and loved Foreman grills for years. I had one of the primary generation grills and then substituted it with one that had removable plates. This 360 version is my third Foreman grill, but it is by far the worst of the three, altho there are still a lot of good points to it.
The basi and biggest problem is the temperature. It just doesn’t get hot enough! Nothing gets brown and if you have to cook in batches, it will cool off so much by the second batch — even if the green light is off — that the feed takes evermore to cook. (The light goes on and off for the duration of cooking, on meaning it is heating and off meaning it has reached the rectify temperature.) So far I have tried quesadillas with the quesadilla press plates and the tortilla never got brown and crispy. The grill plates were applied a few times, once on fish which didn’t get those beautiful grill marks that former Foreman grills would have imparted. I used the grill plates again on bacon-wrapped shrimp and had various soggy pieces of bacon even after cooking for over twice as long as required.
A second problem is that galore plates don’t have a good fit. The top grill plate is very loose and wobbly even when it’s connected properly. I made a pizza in the grill (using refrigerated dough and homemade toppings) and while it tasted just fine, the top grill plate didn’t fit right and the lid wouldn’t close properly. The back percentage of the pizza near the hinge was dark brown while the front percentage of the pizza was hardly brown at all.
Another problem is the size and the short power cord. Because the unit is round and has the handle on it, it takes up more counter space. You don’t have a flat side to scoot up next to the wall as you could former versions. Also, the unit is rather tall and you can’t open it to a complete degree when it’s anyplace near a cabinet. Combine these size issues with the exceedingly short power cord, and I closely have nowhere in the kitchen to use this grill.
The good: The plates do wash up nicer than in earlier Foreman grills. The pizza won’t stick to the pan at all, and the marks in the quesadilla press are gorgeous handy. It’s an beautiful unit. The handle is bulky but other than as supposed or expected handy.
I think this is a great idea for a grill, just executed poorly. Part of the appeal of a tabletop grill is to get grilled taste and aspect indoors, and the 360 plainly doesn’t achieve that.
51 of 52 people found the following review helpful.
A grill, not an oven
By Rex Kullmann
I’m going to get all my all my gripes out of the way first. Several reviewers have already talked when it comes to the annoying sticker. I pulled mine off with my fingers and employed Goo Gone to get the remainder.
The operating temperature of the grill varies widely. I employed an infrared thermometer to measure the heat the grill produces. On “high” the temperature tops out around 450. But the temperature will have to drop by over 200 degrees before the grill cycles back on again. It’s not strange for progressed widgets to have swings of 50 degrees or more, but 200 degrees is a lot. It explains why the grill seems slow at times. If you want your feed to be done quickly, put it in the grill just as the green ready light goes off, when the grill is hottest. One good thing, the grill was uniform, never varying more than 20 to 30 degrees from edge to edge. No cold or hot spots.
The round shape and huge size means that this grill takes a lot of room on your counter. When you undertake to stand it open, you find it is too tall to fit beneath overhead cabinets. The only way it will work in my kitchen is to place it directly in front of the outlet I want to use (it has a short cord), and turn the unit 90 degrees so that the hinge is perpendicular to the edge of the cabinet and the lid opens left to right permitting it to clear the overhead cabinet.
Even while you’re using the grill, you will have to store the extra plates. They’re over 12″ in diameter plus the handles, and they don’t stack easily. They’re too big to store vertically in numerous cabinets. The manual warns not to use metal instruments on the Teflon surfaces, so stacking the plates versus each other would seem just as bad. I used paper plates as a cushion among the grill plates.
There are 5 interchangeable grill plates. Two quesadilla plates, an upper and a lower grill plate, and a bake pan that is used with the upper grill plate. So there are three configurations you may make; quesadilla grill, regular grill and bake pan. Of these, the bake pan is the least useful. With the other configurations, the upper plate comes in direct contact with the food, mainly speeding up the cooking process. With the baking pan the top plate radiates heat to the food, but doesn’t touch it. A frozen pizza, a DiGiorno Ultimate Thin Crust, took almost an hour to cook, regarding three times what it would take in a regular oven. The crust came out crispy, but likewise tough and thick. All in all, the George Foreman Grill is best when applied as a grill and not an oven.
Still, for all these gripes, I’m only taking away one star because what the grill does well, it actually does well.
Hamburgers, the most evident feed to make in a grill, come out perfective each time. I have to admit, I was amazed how much fat came off a single 1/3 pound patty. The same is unfeigned for steaks. There is a divergence in flavor when foods are pan fried in their own fat and when they’re grilled. As an novice cook, I be grateful for widgets that make cooking a no-brainer.
By far, though, my bestloved thing to do with the George Foreman Grill is to press sandwiches. My favorite? Shaved brown sugar cured ham, shaved beef salami, provolone and creamy italian dressing on a ciabatta roll. After I assemble the sandwich, I put it in the grill and, for a short time, I use light pressure on the lid to press the sandwich. It doesn’t take a lot of pressure, gravity does most of the work. I’m eating one of these sandwiches as I write this. It’s crunchy on the outside, hot and gooey on this inside. It makes me wonder what other varieties would be good. Ham and cheddar with ranch? Plain old grilled cheese? Mozzarella and pepperoni with pizza sauce? I bet that would turn out far better than a frozen pizza made with the bake pan.
Sometimes the sandwiches spill over, but the removable grill plates are dishwasher safe. The manual warns that the backs of the plates will darken in the dishwasher but I can’t imagine why any person would care. The back of the grill plates aren’t finished anyway. The accessaries (drip tray and spatula) are dishwasher safe too. About that spatula, at introductory it seems like a flimsy afterthought. Once you use it, it seems well though out. Perfect for, say, scooping a pressed sandwich off the grill.
My experience with this George Foreman Grill was a lot like this review. I didn’t in truth like it until I applied it sufficient to discover it is talents. It’s not a baking tool. (I wish it weren’t marketed as such.) It’s a poor pizza oven. But It’s a great grill, a great sandwich press, and fun to boot. I think it would be fun to invite friends over to assemble and press their own sandwiches.
I commend it if you have three or four mouths to feed. For one or two persons consider a littler model.
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