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 ...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

I bought this unit as an intro to induction cooking. I do allot of cooking and don't have an issue with power levels or correct temperature control......I can just adapt. BUT you cannot get even disbursement of heat in a large pan. If I try to use a 12 inch cast iron pan only the center of the pan (about 7 inches) gets hot. So when trying to fry something you have to rotate the pieces as well as flip and rotate them again. It appears to me that this unit must have a 6 -7 inch induction element where the better ones at 9 - 9.5 inches. It i...Read more

I initially purchased the Ambiano Portable Induction cooktop from Aldi as our kitchen cooktop had coil elements that took forever to boil a pot of water. It works well and will boil a large pot of water within minutes.
It was very handy during renovations where we had no kitchen for 8 weeks over Dec/Jan. It is quite light in weight (approx 2.7kg) which makes it very portable around the home and I imagine it would be handy for camping / the caravan too.
Good adjustable temperature range, from a low of 300w which I tested with lemon curd. I fo...Read more

To me, this product was a $50 lesson to stop trusting Aldi products zealously.

I have always been a fan of Aldi products, because for the price you pay, the quality and reliability is very, very reasonable. I’ve never (previously) had an Aldi product that didn’t meet/exceed my expectations or broke down within reasonable use.
So when they came up with an induction hob at $50, you would expect it to perform at least on par with Kmart’s $49 induction hob.
And I do refer to Kmart’s second revision with the all-glass top.

The Ambiano, as br...Read more

We recently purchased this portable induction cook top from Aldi for $50., At this price it provides sensational value for money, provided it is reliable and lasts for over 3 years. Over the last 5 years or so we've tried various portable induction brands and models. Some, notably the Kogan brand, have been most unreliable and poorly designed. Given our experience I would suggest the following of the Ambiano ..

Pros ..
1 .. Rated up to 2100W. At this rating (which is hardly necessary for most cooking) it heats a pan very quickly. Quite use...Read more