ALDI Portable Hotplates

It works well but if you touch by cleaning it or moving it in position where you need it while plugged in you will get zapped, any moisture makes this unit a risk. Dangerous around kids. Throw it away.

E1 error msg pop up after start button. The device was Albion
Professional Induction cooker purchased from aldi kogarah station store. How to delete? Just being used 3 weeks now stuck with E1

The hot plate is good for boiling a big pot of water to cook pasta, that is it

When you use a lower heat the cooker will only heat from a small circle in the centre of the cooker . So not any good for simmering etc as all the heat is focused on the centre and the product does not heat across the plate not evenly .

I have had my product for 2 odd years and it is still going and that is a plus...other than that the product is useless

Can’t fault this cooktop. Has been a godsend. Use it ALL the time given our rental gas a rubbish gas cooktop. Been a godsend. Once it failed - E2 error so my husband gave it a good thump and it never faulted again!

After about a month of use I'm finding constant 'E2' errors with cookware that it previously had no problem with.

I certainly won't be paying an electrician $90 an hour to fix a $60 appliance.

We use it at home and when camping. Works well and can cook with Neoflam or Aldi cast cookware. Pretty good temp control unless you want a really low simmer. Usually by selecting hotpot you get slightly less heat than other ‘pan’ ‘fry’ etc settings.

Cockroaches got in destroyed the electronics. Tripped the breaker and stopped working. It worked well while it was working. Cast iron pans don't distribute the heat evenly. Special aluminium pans do better. Normal aluminium doesn't work.

Looks good and works fine. You need to purchase the correct stainless steel pots etc but overall the unit is a good buy! Longevity unknown but has 3 year warranty!

Im a chef and I have my own cafe. This cooktop allows me to cook the poached eggs to perfection! Easy to use temperature control, allows to manage the right amount of heat for each preparation.

jug of milk on the lowest setting, it boiled over. I thought an appliance with a baby bottle setting would not raise the temperature, more then say 35 degrees but no 100+degrees Celsius seams like the go...

1st time use the hot plate loved it. After that wouldn’t turn down or up.Can’t get the timer and preset working. I thought it’s might be fingerprinted on it.So gave it a good clean. Still not working. Turns on but when you press a button you can’t turn it up or down. So back to the shop it go’s.

Love that it is so easy to use and so easy to keep clean. It is fantastic to take along to campsites as long as there is electricity. Really the only cook source that you need. That you Aldi's. Only problem is that I wish I had bought 3 more. One for each grand child.

I have to be careful here because I think we could be reviewing at least two different products. One review says there are eight settings, ours has twenty. That's ten power settings and ten temperature settings. Many complain that it is noisy, ours is quieter than the Panasonic microwave, the Siemens extractor or the Neff oven. Loud beeps? ours is about the same as the oven and the Bosch dishwasher and quieter than the microwave. Poor heat dispersal? it's very uniform across the whole of the surface of the pan, much better than the gas hob. We ...

This is my first foray into portable induction cookers. I took a punt despite previous reviews as it was reduced at my local Aldi. Unfortunately some of the prior criticisms definitely apply, and this cooker will be going back.

It certainly is powerful and if all you are using it for is boiling water and cooking pasta it is brilliant and brings water to the boil much quicker than my ceramic electric cooktop.

However it is very difficult to use it properly at lower temperatures.
Firstly it does pulse but rather quickly on 600W and 300W se...

I cook a lot and I bought this to use in place of the very elderly coil element cook top in my rental. Wish I'd done some more thorough research first as I have three major gripes with this unit - the first two seem to be common to the cheaper of these types of appliances.

Firstly, the temperature control is terrible - it burns and boils everything even on the lower heats. The heat adjustment just isn't fine enough or low enough as I now understand that at lower heats these cookers 'pulse' - so they stop and start to try and maintain a lo...