Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It's a beautiful machine — no grease trapping seams, easy to clean, one slick piece of glass from front to back. Unfortunately, it is totally useless for its intended purpose: cooking food. It is neither precision nor pro. Its temperature control is abysmal. And the feature that caused me to try it after three other miserable attempts at induction cooktops, the ability to select power level, is a total failure, too. Even worse, from a user's perspective, it totally violates the principle of least astonishment. The Watts display does not reveal how many Watts the unit is actually drawing, as measured by my Watts Up meter. And the wattage control is overridden by the wattage limits set by different temp settings. So, I first tried to use it to heat a 10" Lodge cast iron griddle for a grilled cheese sandwich. Fail. Set for 300°, the temperature rapidly zoomed past the 500° limit of my non-contact thermometer. Ok, fine, let's set it for 220° at 1500 Watts to simmer some brats. Fail. Even set at 1500 Watts, this stupid burner overrides the user's power selection and limits the heat to 600 Watts, meaning the cook's legs will grow together waiting for cold brats and beer to come to a simmer. And then, when set to 475° to finally attain a boil, resetting it to 180° causes it to settle at 213°. By some means, my Breville grill and my my InstantPot seem to have mastered temperature control technology. My DigIQ controller for my BGE understands temperature control, too. Why NuWave cannot do similarly is a question that only they can answer. Perhaps NuWave's engineers failed differential equations in college.