Mini Induction Cooktop, 500W /110V Mini Electric Countertop Burners Portable Small Induction Hot Plate

This little induction cook top is perfect for RV or tiny house use. This heats evenly instead of in a small crescent shape under the pan. It also reduces power evenly instead of pulsing full power on and off at different duty cycles to emulate lower power the way cheaper inductive burners do. If you set this one to 200 watts it will make a perfect grilled cheese for example without burning. This makes this the best inductive stove you can currently buy for use with inverters and batteries, or indeed smaller generators.I tested it with different power supplies, of note is that it works perfectly fine on modified sine wave inverters. Not that I would ever recommend those, but if they are what you've got, this works. Certainly benefit for an RV or car camping sized appliance.Given that this company produces hardware for commercial use, and in fact this is considered a commercial duty unit for embedding in restaurant tables, I fully expect it to last a very long time. I will return to update this review when it eventually fails as all things do.Another note, my particular unit has very faint reflective branding and print. It's not obvious like in the stock photos or indeed the other reviews. The print is all mirror reflective and the unit appears mostly as a black glass disk. I prefer it this way so I'm happy. Not sure if they are all this way or not. I got mine as a warehouse deal which is likely where the wear on the chrome ring came from at the back edge. Again doesn't bother me and is unrelated to the product as new. Someone who tried it and returned it likely slid a large heavy cast iron across the edge and wore it off. It is plastic. This burner has what appears to be a 90mm fan inside. Unfortunately it does not vary the speed up and down with the power settings. I would prefer if it would run slower at the lower power settings, but that's a very minor enhancement.I put an LED light behind it so that you can see the coil layout under the glass. It is a full copper coil in a guide as claimed by the company. This is a very good thing for the durability and efficiency of this device. It should work well with lots of ferrous metal cookware and will not be as picky as cheaply made induction burners are.I have not put it on a scale but it feels like it weighs about three pounds.I've now used this for a while and cooked a lot of different things with it. This is the best inductive burner I've ever used. Hands down. Not only does it work perfectly with cast iron as you would expect, it also works very well with stainless steel cookware that a magnet can stick to. Most inductive burners are picky and will E1 on you if the pan is not ferric enough. The reason is that the energy dissipates into the pan. If you put a less magnetic pan on an inductive burner the transfer of energy is not efficient and the stove itself heats up. THIS burner even works with 3 series stainless. That is, the really super high quality kind that barely have any pull when you touch a magnet to them. This absolutely shocked me. Mt thinnest stainless mess kit made of 3 series stainless that a magnet will not even come close to sticking to actually works with this thing and it doesn't complain. That's nuts. Yes, you can only boil water or quickly stir something like canned corn in it since the thin metal will almost instantly heat up and burn the food, but the real point is that this induction burner is so well made and has such good driver circuitry that there's just no way you will have any trouble at all with normal cookware.I can tell that the larger BangDun burners would be most impressive indeed going by this little one.I absolutely love this thing. I've been having fun cooking things on it with my small lodge cast iron skillet (the 6.5" wolf one, it's perfect for this!) and larger stainless pots. Cooking crispy yet not overcooked fish is a breeze, perfectly golden pancakes and grilled cheese with no issue keeping the heat exact. Perfectly cooked eggs with very little effort, and no more first egg is perfect but the pan is too hot for the second one. I couldn't be more pleased other than maybe having a variable speed fan. The capacitive buttons are on the cooking surface and by the nature of the cooking vessels they can and will press the buttons themselves. This however was though about too, if all the buttons are covered at once it will ignore it. You can set a large pot right over them and nothing happens. I like the ability to embed this so I wouldn't have it any other way.I was able to trigger an E5 overheat error once, and not by doing any of the cooking I've been doing which includes deep frying on this. No, it was a true torture test. I put my small lodge skillet on it coated in oil and set it to 600. With nothing in it, the goal was to polymerize a coating of oil into the skillet. Seasoning a pan is usually done in an oven at a very high temperature. Not only did the entire pan get to seasoning temperature, but it only gave the error after the second coat and running this way for over 45 minutes.I was able to remove the pan and place it back and it resumed right away meaning that it's not picky like others I've used where it will just not let you cook anymore until the device is completely cool. This one just keeps on trucking.My cast iron slides around on this. The way to deal with that is to get a thin silicone pad and put it on top. The buttons work right through it and the cookware no longer slides. Get the kind where you can see the fiberglass cloth inside of otherwise transparent silicone. This also prevents as much heat from being transferred back to the stove. Given how efficient this thing is with less magnetic cookware the additional millimeter of height means nothing to it.I'll keep updating this over time.TLDR; You've just stumbled upon the best small inductive cooktop EVER. Just buy it, it's perfect.

Pro:+ Small size+ energy efficient for low power situations (solar, emergency, RV, boondocking, etc.)+ Good setting range 100W, 200W, 300W, 400W, 500W+ Much faster and more efficient than resistive heating (stove/hot plate)Con:- No temperature control- lower power takes more timeI bought this mostly for emergency and portable situations where I'm running off a small generator (noisy), or a solar-powered BlueTTI EB3A battery (quiet). 500W won't overload the battery pack power output, or small generator.To test this unit, I filled a 1qt cast iron pot with 4 cups of water and turned it on "hi" (500W) to see what would happen. It got warm enough to steam/simmer, but not boil, if you leave the pot uncovered. If you need furiously boiling water, you will have to cover the pot with an appropriate lid to reach boiling. This and time to cook are the only difference 500W makes vs 1000W+. It took ~16 minutes for 1qt of cold tap water to boil over with a -covered- pot at 500W. This is pretty good performance. With normal stove top resistive 500W type heating, the battery pack is drained in 30 minutes before it barely boils.Next thing I tried is a 16oz can of soup. I pulled the lid off the can and set the can on the unit at 500W. It was only a minute or two until I heard soup boiling in the bottom of the can. So I turned the unit down to 400W, then 300W, then 200W and then the can started to boil over.What I found interesting is I did all this on a small lunchbox size EB3A portable power station battery. The can of soup used about 30% of battery power. The 1qt of boiling water used about 70% of the battery. In an emergency situation, the battery can be recharged in about 3-4 hours of sunshine from a portable solar panel.I can store this next to my emergency supplies and use it to make a not so wonderful hot emergency meal, which in an actual emergency where a hot meal will seem like luxury. What's an emergency? Earthquake, high winds, a car meets power pole at road speed event, where power can be out for hours, days, weeks, months.Or I can keep this inductive unit in the cupboard and use it to make a quick breakfast for one or two people. Or use it to keep something warm away from the kitchen.Performance does what I need for heating, saving battery power, convenience, and small size. I'm happy with this purchase.

For being only a 700W induction unit it does what you should expect. Espresso pot perfect application to the 8 inch pot with 1 qt water. Reasonable heating times. Espresso pot took around 1.5 minutes. Good English manual listing simple instructions and specifications. Some may not like using anything larger than 7 inch diameter as it can cover the control buttons and display. The unit has such basic functions (power level or temp) that I did not find it an issue with the 8 inch pot. Certainly if you want to hear up several quarts of water in a large pot or use a 10-12 inch fry pan this was not designed for that application. Compact, portable and light. Lower power consumption than full size 1800W units. If this fits your application it’s a good choice. Only ran it for 15 minutes test heating several things before writing this. Time will tell how it holds up in the long run.

I purchased this little induction cooker to start experimenting with induction cooking and for use camping with a portable power station. I've used it on two camping trips so far, about six mornings and evenings. It works well for boiling water or cooking up rice or stew in a small 1L pot with a glass lid. It has basically zero parasitic power draw when turned off, and has five power settings up to about 500W. It's nice and small and light weight.