Bonsenkitchen 1800W Portable Electric Induction Cooktop

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

United States on Aug 26, 2023

Jilly Bean's Mom: This induction burner is awesome. I have given three of them as gifts and everyone loves them. I bought the first one mainly for outdoor usage. When you want to cook outdoors, gas burners can be absolutely worthless due to wind. It's very handy to have alongside a barbecue grill for non grill foodstuffs. I got the first one to use outdoors to boil down tree sap to make maple syrup. It takes hours to boil down gallons of sap. Using a gas burner would have been impossible to boil down a huge stockpot of sap due to the ever present winds in my area.

My brother even found an automotive use for it to heat up a ring gear for his Jeep differential he's rebuilding. There's a you tube video called "Ring Gear Mounting with Induction Cooker".

The only aspect that could be better would be to have a larger pot area. Some large pots are just too big for it. So when you shop for compatible pots and pans, for large sized ones you want to find ones that have a tapered or rounded bottom. The pans can be 12 inches in diameter, as long as the bottom heating area that sits on the burner is no greater than 9 inches.

United States on Nov 27, 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

Mr. Gadget: So my 3+ year old Nuwave Pic Gold 1500 watt unit that had been very reliable and used a lot over those 3 years started having trouble tuning on and staying on without plugging and unplugging it. I'm thinking it may have something to do with how hot it can get and also the plastic over the buttons cracking and letting in liquids.

I figured the Nuwave was on its way out so I ordered this model to try a different brand.

So far it's been great, and it seems they addressed the NuWave heating issue by allowing the fan to run for a bit after use to cool down, and also there are no actual buttons to get ruined like on the NuWave but just soft touch controls.

Also I noticed the 1800 watts of this model seems to heat things up much faster than the 1500 watts of the NuWave so added bonus.

So in summary: so far so good. All the cookware I bought for the NuWave also works on this! (In fact there are a lot of similarities between the NuWave and this that I wonder if they are not made at the same factory?)

United States on Sep 02, 2020

6th grader: Previously I had a Tayama induction cooker. I killed it after 2 years of use. I like the Bonsenkitchen much better. Boils water faster than the Tayama — 1800w vs 1500w. The glass top is spill proof, where oily soup spills eventually destroyed the seal in the Tayama. Seems to be quieter too. Also you won’t misplace a hot pan and burn any plastics on top. Measured only 1620w at highest level. Wattage goes down at lower levels, as low as about 500w. Go lower still it will start pulsing. This behavior is similar to the Tayama and the Nuwave PIC Flex that I tried and return due to only 1300w. I feel the Bonsenkitchen handles the lower levels better than the Tayama. It didn’t burn my food at the low settings. Overall good cooker. I don't know if the temperature is very useful since it is based on temperature of the glass surface. I think it may be useful for deep frying. The P1 and P2 levels seems to keep a good simmer.

United States on Aug 26, 2020