duxtopInduction Hob, Induction Cooker Countertop Burner with LCD Sensor Touch 2100 Watts, 20 Temperature Levels, 20 Power Levels, 10-hour Timer, Safety Lock Design 9600LS

Instant heat, easy to control but like all things in cooking, you have to get to know its character!Clever instant buttons for boil and warm but beware they sometimes seem to revert when you have changed the setting when the water/dish has boiled and you want to just simmer. Don't know why!BUT EXCELLENT overall - light and easy to put away on its side.ADVICE: start on the default 5 setting and just use the power numbers to go up and down, 10 for hottest, 1 for lowest simmer, to discover which setting is best for your dish. The response is instant so you get quick feedback. My pressure cooker has worked better than ever before on low simmer! Temperature control is fine too but it is slow to settle and you may got too hot or too cold for a while until it settles to the temp you want.I would not change it and after reading all the reviews of problems with other hobs, eg full on/off simmer, NONE of those apply to this excellent design, I am relieved and pleased to discover!

I bought this for use in our campervan and I’ve found that its versatility is excellent. The power control is good for simmering through to boiling, which is does surprisingly quickly. I would guess that this is because all of the heat is produced in the bottom of the pan unlike on a gas hob where lots of heat goes up around the sides of the pan. Another advantage of this is that you can leave your spatula in the pan without its handle getting hot.So, all the things which they say in the advert are true as far as I can see but you can also use it as a mini oven.I have cooked quiches in it by heating a dry saucepan on a temperature setting of 70ºC until I hear the power turn off which means that the temperature sensor under the glass is at that temperature. Then I turned it up to 80ºC, then 90ºC and so on until I got to 120ºC. If you don’t do this, if you just start at 120ºC, the pan will get very hot while the heat is creeping through to the sensor. Then put the quiche in the pan for 20 minutes or whatever.Similarly you can do this to warm up croissants.As I say, I bought it for the campervan but I find it so good that I use it all the time at home in the kitchen instead of the gas hob.

Excellent product use the item to boil water but trade time to boil.So does the job on a low setting and therefore able to use off grid

Over a year on - this hob has lasted with quite a lot of use, and still cleans so easily, with just a wipe with a damp cloth after each use. It's light enough to pick up and put away in a cupboard between uses. It heats very quickly to a high temperature and goes low enough to just keep warm too. Now for the downside. I often use a frying/saute pan with a 22cm base. This does NOT work well. The outer ring marked on this hob might give you the impression it will heat to that size pan. It doesn't. It heats around 5 inches in the centre. The food in the outside areas of the pan will not cook like the centre, and thus you find the centre of expensive induction pans are all burning and have a dark circle in the middle where they have been damaged with a high temperature but the outside is still like factory finish because the pan simply hasn't heated outside that small ring it shows. Yes, you can put bigger pans on but nothing will cook! Looking at other makes, it seems this is common with induction hobs made for the home cook. They have a coil in that only is as big as that middle circle. They all say how a bigger pan can be used, but food won't cook unless you keep drawing it to the middle which you can with something like a stir fry, but not pancakes or something that needs leaving flat until it's cooked. Even 6 fried eggs will cook in the middle of the pan but the outside few inches won't. If you want something that is going to heat a larger base, it seems you need to go for the commercial pans.The second issue with this, and I've had two of these now and they're both the same, is that you leave something simmering at a certain level and the timer on for say 10 minutes. Half way through the level of heat changes and it goes on to full! Not good.

The unit seem great so far after two weeks of use. It is very fast and very controllable, I use it from my solar battery true an inverter in the home. One major drawback I have found is that it uses 100 watts of power just plugged into the mains doing nothing. This would defeat the purpose of buying such an economic device for cooking especially in a camper van etc, that is if you were going to leave it plugged in too long. Use a plug with a switch and don't forget to switch it off.

Why did you choose this product over others?:I done a lot of research for an induction hob and this was a good write up and affordable.

Wide range of Power and Timer settings in this compact and slim induction unit. Purchased to take advantage of Solar power in place of gas hob for long-cook dishes. Easy clean surface. Works well and reliable. A good purchase.

I wouldn't call this neat - it's quite substantial compared to the last one I had - but it is tons better. Previously I've had problems sustaining a low, even heat for sauces etc, as food would heat up too high during the pulses. Well one of the first tests for this was slow cooked porridge. I used the power setting rather than the temperature one and achieved the perfect porridge with no sticking or burning. But it will also boil quickly if that's what you want. So far - a big thumbs up from me!