Cheap Broil King CSR-3TB Professional Single Hot Plate, Hi Power, 14-Inch

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This is the best consumer hot plate out there. It has a quality build and short cycle time that keeps temperatures very steady. The long cycle times built into cheap hot plates can cause temperatures to fluctuate by 30 to 60 degrees, making them frustrating to use.

At work, I use a $500 laboratory hotplate that is extremely accurate and so perhaps I am a bit more demanding that the ordinary consumer. If you appreciate quality and are tired of buying junk, then this is the one.

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My wife dyes wool which is an interesting and care taking process.

She needed a good reliable heat source, something that she could control and she could depend upon.

Using a table outside, the Broil King a kitchen appliance, finds its home under the large pot of water, dye and wool. It is safe, perfect for her. It is dedicated to this demanding use only. Should we need an indoor "Hot Plate" for food it will be a Broil King it is solid reliable product.

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Bought this unit for home canning. Unit came with a nice heavy power cord, power indicator lite that shows when the heating element comes on and an easy to adjust temperature control knob. I used this with my presto 23 qrt. canner and a 28 qrt. stock pot for heating my glass ware. It brought my canner to a boil in 13 minutes. Virtually the same as my stove top. I used a watt meter to track the current draw during use. It pulls 1425 watts and 12 amps. Its advertised as 1500 watts so its missing 75 watts some where but I don't think that small amount matters. Nice finish on unit which makes for easy clean up. Seems well made over all. I didn't care for the hard plastic legs as it tended to slide around the counter top when placing or removing a pot. If I was going to change one thing, that would be it. The whole unit tends to get hot but not unreasonably so since a wide pot forces the heat out around the bottom so it has to go some where. This is a nice addition to any kitchen weather for canning or just having an additional burner for cooking a large meal. I already ran it for many hours with no problems. Time will tell how it holds up in the long run.

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I've had Broil King hot plates in the past and they've been just great. Ordered two of this one because it has an 8" burner. But Broil King cheaped out on the power on light. The on-off switch does not have an indicator light (the rocker is painted red when the unit is on). The burner-on switch cycles on and off as the solenoid sends power to the burner. What you end up with is a hot plate that can be on and hot but with no light on. This is a recipe for an accident. The Cadco CSR-3T appears to be from the same manufacturer, looks like it has the same construction, and the power on switch is lighted.

Update June, 2013: I purchased two Cadco CSR-3T which is the twin to the Broil King and, even though the user manual indicated a lighted power on switch, it, too came with the painted switch. I contacted Cadco and described the problem. Customer service contacted Production, and told me there had been problems with reliability of the lighted switches, so they switched (so to speak) to the unlighted switch. But they had some spare lighted switches and would construct two for me at no charge and cover the return pickup and shipping of the two that I already had. Unbelievable! This product is manufactured in the US (Connecticut), and except for the power on switch, is a great product (it would be five+ stars in my book if it had a lighted switch). And the customer service is amazing. Hopefully, Cadco has fixed the problem.

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I have been using electric burners for years & when the last one I had burned out I thought thats it. I am going to invest in a good one and I did :) with cheap ones nothing cooks even one side of the pot / pan is burning and the other side is cold so I did some research and got the Broil King and it paid off in a BIG way 1500 watts it is just like the real deal minus the actual stove things are cooking faster nothing is getting burned I just love it, but it is not cheap it also has a 3 year warrenty you cannot beat this one it is one of the best out there I highly suggest this one over any, I hope this helps, That old saying you get what you pay for is very true in this case, I would have more than one if I could, but it is too much power, you will just love how even things cook, you have so much control over how things cook, espically with winter coming up you can make a soup or a pot of stew and actually enjoy letting it cook as nothing will burn up I have vintage cookware that does just fine with this product, as does the new stuff I just love it so much it has those vents all the way around it is like a powerful machine, you actually look forward to cooking :)