Item arrived well packed with the usual Amazon- speed. Read unpacking, instructions, and follow those instructions also, that all the parts using a damp cloth wipe, the ocean before 1 use with cooking oil (of course, only the useful side) rub and off we went. The first test: how to fillet steaks in the ocean? The stone preheated 20 min. At the highest level and off we went. It has immediately noticed it's missing heat. In the description so was also 30 min. Preheat, but you can not wait, yes. The first steak thus have a bit longer and were thus not quite as optimal to get "media" there, but it went. The 2 u. 3. Location steaks were then optimally, the plate was now already much longer than 30 minutes. Heated. It was really fun to grill in a small group be dinner, much more comfortable, as when a person is alone in the kitchen. The raclette frame could be to use quickly and easily cleaned with a damp cloth again, the hot stone was cleaned easily with warm water with a sponge, there remained no leftovers, so as reported in other recessions, stick and there were still ` `no cracking. There were no unpleasant odors during the first heating. Another advantage is the on / off switch and separate temperature control. The griddle and pans are enamelled and hopefully keep longer than the Teflon-coated other manufacturers. The rest of the sets we tested Silvester, then there is an update. Update: In the meantime, we grilled on the griddle before stinknormale sausages. Again, this worked like a charm. Provided equipment in the kitchen under the hood and off we went. Result: sausages were uniformly brown and were very tasty, the same barbecue experience as a good electric grill. New Year's Eve 2013, was then soweit- Raclette- Time. Grilling of meat (beef, pork, chicken, prawns and crabs) worked out great. Preheated plate about 10 minutes and off we went. In my view, it went faster than with our old Raclette (2000 W). Even heating the pan with vegetables and topped with cheese worked out great and impeccably. Now for subsequent cleaning: Down grill, cover the heating coil and pans in the sink overnight to soak in hot water (with "Spüli") and the next day simply washed by hand, everything was super clean. Sprayed the rest of raclette with Fettlöse- spray and also cleaned the next day, everything was great.