Occurring lack of space in the kitchen and the upcoming Stomp increase rice have led me to exchange my old stove from 1961 to this hotplate. If the same amount of time as keeping the old stove, it would be yes ... Except the good design and the potential mobility of this device seems very efficient in relation to work to consumption. After repeated reading the manual operation of this cooking surface is not a problem. The keeping clean of the unit is very easy, because you can reach all the surfaces with the cloth. If someone held with oven, more working with the microwave is this double cooking surface a useful addition.