Bonsenkitchen 1800W Compact, Portable Induction Cooktop for Effortless Cooking

Shae: It was a nice gift I would buy again

United States on Sep 24, 2023

James Wang: Good product, easy to clean, easy to use.

United States on Aug 26, 2023

Joseph S. Wisniewski: This thing is surprisingly powerful, very reliable, and pretty nice looking.

One of the first things you want to do is relocate the support number sticker from the glass panel to the bottom of the unit. It detracts from the clean appearance. Best way to clean it seems to be to make a paste of baking soda and rub it down with a rag or paper towel.

One thing to keep in mind: it works best with cast iron or actual steel cookware. It loves my Nordicware steel woks. It also loves the inner pot from an Instant Pot.

"Induction compatible" stainless steel and aluminum are another story. We have some "copper chef" pans that have some sort of "inductive plate" integrated into the base and those are annoyingly noisy and they "levitate", constantly moving themselves off center. If you're cooking something small, the pan can levitate until it's overhanging the rectangular top (haven't had one actually levitate off the top and spill, yet).

The annoying flaw that cost this product a star? It starts beeping when you lift a pan, and there's no way to turn this "safety feature" off. Life a wok long enough to flip the food, and you get beeped at. This feature either needs...

United States on Jun 03, 2021

SaS: My Bonsenkitchen 1800W Portable Induction Cooktop arrived in a nice box, well packaged, on time. The controls are a little confusing at first but not a problem. There are 9 temperature settings starting at 140°F (100 watts) up to 460°F (1800 watts) in 40° increments except for one 80° gap between 180 and 260° -- the primary medium temps at which much of your typical stovetop cooking might take place. I boiled some eggs on the cooktop and found that the water boiled too vigorously at 260° but stopped boiling at 180°. So I left it running at 180° and put the lid on the pot. The eggs ended up cooking perfectly. Then I cooked some steel cut oatmeal by bringing it to a boil and turning it down to the 180°. I wanted 220° but that isn't possible. It too a little longer to cook than I was used to. So note that the cooktop does not have a "soft" boil setting. If you're OK with that, this could be a good buy.

I tried running the cooktop off a 500 watt lithium power system, wondering if I could run it at its lowest settings for a short period of time when on camping trips, but the cooktop always starts up in the highest 1800 watt setting before it can be turned down, so it...

United States on Feb 10, 2021

M. Allison: Had already been looking for an induction burner to use as a test before deciding to commit to a new induction range (since getting gas to my new house would be too expensive). This came up as a flash deal, making it the lowest cost induction burner I'd seen. Wavered between giving it two, or three stars...went with three because of low cost and because it's fine in most ways, except for one unfortunate design flaw.

First, the good. Overall good build quality, works well, features and controls are intuitive and easy to use. Very responsive--heat adjusts at least as fast as a gas burner (using both 8" Faberware stainless steel omelette pan and 7" Lodge cast iron skillet...my 12" cast iron is too large diameter to use per the instructions).

At sea-level, one liter water in stainless steel goose-neck kettle (use to make pour-over coffee) boiled in 5 minutes 50 seconds (for comparison, one liter in my electric kettle reaches rolling boil about one minute faster...that's ok because it's only 1800 watts and full induction ranges have at least one burner of 3700-4200 watts).

It worked very well to prepare seared Ahi in cast iron skillet (50 seconds per side for...

United States on Apr 19, 2019