Moka Pot Heater

I was looking for something compact that heats up fast and doesn’t take up much space, this hot plate is perfect, especially for my moka espresso pot. It heats quickly and distributes heat evenly, so my coffee comes out smooth without that burnt taste. I wouldn’t recommend it for large pots, but for small uses like coffee, tea, or light heating, it works great. Definitely keep it away from children, as it gets very hot. On the first use it did smoke and smell a little, but that’s normal and went away quickly. The overall quality is excellent, and I’m very happy with it. Highly recommend if you need a small, reliable hot plate.

Only had it for a week, but used it 3-4 times already. Product guide/instructions say to turn on burner (with a pot of water on it) outside and let it heat for 15 minutes to 'burn off' the coating, which emits a plasticky smell- left mine going for 20 minutes and the next time I used it, a faint unpleasant odor remained- by the 3rd or 4th use, it was mostly gone. However, the burner works great for my moka pot (the only reason I bought it): I'm sipping 4-5 ozs of delicious espresso within 5 minutes of turning on the unit. It's labeled "Off 1 2 3 4 5" and I've found a suitable 'medium heat' (for coffee brewing) at slightly less than 3. Small and im assuming portable, but it has earned a permanent spot on my counter, as long as it lasts (which remauns to be seen, given the caveat in the first line of the review)

I have used this small hotplate for coffee cup & contents for a bit more than a year. No problems at all. Reheats my coffee to piping hot on a setting of just 1.5 out of 5 (the hottest). You could definitely cook food on it. I recommend this hot plate.

After a period of time on level 4 the Ground Terminal of my 500 W inverter, which is tied with 6 gauge directly to the battery, melted. This tells me that there is more than 500 watts of draw and the Heat has to be dissipated from whatever is running it. I replaced my 500 watt inverter with an 800 watt inverter in the pick up and so far it has worked flawlessly. Definitely suggest using a 0° to 220° long stem thermometer to keep tabs on Temps. Unit cuts on full power and then cuts off when it reaches Heat and then cuts on again full power to maintain the Heat of the plate. Please do NOT use this on 500 watt inverters as they will not be able to sustain the load heat dissipation that will be required of them. With the unit kicks in, my 800 watt inverter kicks in both fans while it is engaged.

I bought this to run on my 1100 watt power bank when we lose power, which is often. This hot plate is small but mighty, it's able to boil water very fast and draws very little wattage. When you first use it, I highly recommend following the instructions to burn off protective coating before use. One thing they don't tell you is the pan you use to break in appliance will have the residue on the bottom of it, from the appliance. While the pan is still fairly hot I used a paper towel to quickly wipe the residue from the bottom of the pan. It came off easy. Make sure you do first use outside or under stove exhaust fan, it does stink, but the stink will go away.

There's nothing bad that I can say about this unit actually the thing works like it's advertised and the heat distribution is contained to the unit and barely is above room temperature 4 inches away from the cook plate or surfaces and you can totally use this on your office desk to boil water cook food thing is great I cannot brag enough about this unit great job excellent unit just saying guys and I'm not just trying to promote a product here what I'm trying to tell you if you're going to pick up what I'm putting down here this is the best electric burner I have ever had! Follow the directions and safety protocols but the cord doesn't get hot like this is the perfect unit for me and when I'm in the man cave I can just have this sitting here on my desk and I can boil water make coffee tea macaroni and cheese cook steaks anything right on this burner and I'm not worried about it causing fire or anything like that but just keep the cord unplugged when you're not using it cuz that's in the safety instructions. But the way they designed this unit and whatever they did to make this thing work the way it does it's great and I'm going to order several more of these just to have his back up So eventually when this one quits I'll still have a continuous Supply well into my '80s. Get your hands on this device. I wanted to add a little bit more now that I've been using it for quite a while it really is an excellent little burner and the heat is contained within a small area so I even have it underneath a plastic table top about 18 in and the heat doesn't do anything even warm the plastic and as for the sides of it the heat only extends about 3 inches away and it's not intense I can hold my hand about an inch and a half away from it for about 20 seconds before it gets a little too hot but yet the thing will boil water. It's really a great device I recommend it highly!

This little thing is more than great! Do not expect to cook a huge meal on this or to have water boil fast, but don't be be fooled, it gets very hot. I got it for my moka pot, and it works like a charm. This is the second one I get. I had to buy a new one because the cable touched the hot plate while it was still hot (despite being as cautious as usual). I used it almost everyday for a year and only stopped working because I messed up... The cable is super easy to replace, but after intense research I couldn't find a replacement. Maybe someone who knows more about that kind of stuff could swap it for another cable, that's no my case though. And follow the first use instructions! So you get rid of the burned plastic/smokey smell, I didn't do it the first time and it took several weeks to go away. 100% recommended it, and would definitely buy again.

I bought this to use in case of a power outage. My generator can only power 1200W or less. It is very small but a small pot can fir on it. I tested it out by trying to boil a pot of water. It took a long time and never quite got hot enough for the water to boil, but I think it will be ok to swarm up a can of soup in an emergency.