In my student digs unfortunately there is no stove connection, therefore needed a portable hot plate. Since my cheap versions were kind of suspicious, I opted for this device. One notices immediately that the cooking plates feel different than the cheap devices (like a real electric stove halt). Otherwise, the design has succeeded and not looks cheap. The heat output is OK, but to a normal wall socket you can not expect as much maintenance. The rotary switches that are not rotated accidentally through their screening, you can adjust the temperature in many stages, the temperature controller controls more slowly. Of course, the housing is cooking too hot to touch, but everything else would also borders on a miracle. The cover is practical as a splash guard or storage, but has formed in my rust on the hinges, which is totally incomprehensible for such a device - 1 star deduction for it.