Russell Hobbs Double Hot Plate Electric Stainless Steel Hob, 2 Cast iron plates, Large 1500W, Small 750W, Portable, Table top, Variable & Individual temp control, Easy to clean, 15199

Neat lightweight portable heats up really quick. Well pleased

Very good if you are stuck for space.

The Perfect 2 plate stove

Brought this whilst our kitchen was being renovated and it was the perfect way to still cook meals without a kitchen. Highly recommend!

I needed something to supplement the microwave while I while I'm renovating the kitchen, so happily I settled for the Russell Hobbs hob. Although the dimensions are given in the description, I was impressed with the size when I took it out of the box. It felt - and looked - well made.In use I've found the heat very controllable; I can put some pasta on the small ring on 'Min' and it will cook without boiling over in the time it takes me to have a shower. The larger ring is equally controllable.The photo gives an idea of the sizes of pan that I've used together; the larger one is 28cm in diameter and the smaller pan is 16.5cm.Obviously, after cooking there will be residual heat, so best to keep small fingers (and your own!) well away until it cools down.

I ordered this hob as a standby for Christmas day, as my electric halogen cooker is very temperamental and I didn't want to risk it not coming on, as I was hosting on the big day.As it happened my cooker didn't let me down however, I decided to test out the portable hob.Well.... it did not disappoint! It has a large ring and a smaller one which are the same size as on my cooker.The rings heat up speedily and has variable heat settings. There is no On/Off setting, but the setting Min turns the hob off. The price is also exceptional at under 40 pounds.I have also noticed that I am using the hob more regularly now to cook food, rather than using the big cooker to heat up just one of the halogen rings.I'm very pleased with my purchase and would highly recommend this product!

The larger hotplate is as slow as you would expect to heat up (at least 5 minutes) and takes at least another 5 minutes to cool down. The smaller one takes even longer to get going and get water to a boil water. I often turn on both, get something hot on the larger first and then transfer to the smaller, and then cook my second item on the larger hotplate.The dial has the following symbols on it: min, 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, max. Min should be labelled as "OFF" to be clearer and max should be 6. I understand that min is trying to indicate that the thermostat is at the minimum setting and the hotplate might still be warm but this is just confusing for older people like my Mum.On the plus side it has a spill guard so overflowing water is collected. This is so easy to do on a hard to control electric hotplate with vegetables or pasta. It is relatively easy to clean too.While I wished I had my gas cooker back, this hotplate serves its purpose providing you can live with the idiosyncrasies (slow, hard to control, poor labeling).

Redoing our kitchen and we're without a hob for a few months. This was a really useful temporary solution, very compact (so couldn't fit large pans on, but there's only the two of us so it was fine) Did take a while to heat up, but you just allow time for that. Also had no definitive off switch, so we just made sure it was unplugged when not in use.Did the job for us, and keeping it now kitchen is finished, just in case of emergency!