Duxtop Portable Induction Cooktop, Countertop Burner 1800W Silver 9600LS

Why did you pick this product vs others?: Let me start by saying I RARELY write a review. But after using this for 5 months, I felt compelled. In brief, all I have to say about this product is "Why did I wait so long to get one???" I love cooking - it is my happy place that takes me away from stresses of work (Bonus: you end up with good stuff to eat in the end). My husband and I have a wonderful gas stove but I was curious about the induction method. After doing some investigation, we were both left breathless at the expense of buying an induction stove/oven unit that would fit the space we have. We weren't willing to spend that kind of money, especially if we really didn't yet have experience working with induction. So I did more homework and learned about Duxtop. Seemed like a bargain and we could test out the technology. A bargain doesn't begin to explain what you get for your money. This unit is AWESOME. I use it far more often than I do my gas stove. It is efficient, works exactly as advertised, the learning curve is immediate. It has a sleek design that looks great, doesn't take up a lot of space, and it works with my cookware. Boiling time is lightning fast, control over cooking speeds is fantastic (there is a lot of control with gas and I was worried about this - turns out that this is nothing to worry about), and gradation of cooking power works well for my purposes. Others have cited that the fan noise is bothersome; there is fan noise but it's not terrible and certainly not a deal-breaker. The cooktop cools very quickly and clean up is easy. After each use, I marvel at how it looks sort of "brand new, out of the box" clean after a simple wipe. My husband and I are still contemplating replacing our gas unit with a full induction unit but that thought is way on the back burner now (see what I did there?) since this inexpensive burner is a staple in our kitchen now. Best of both worlds? I know, I know....gas isn't good for you. But we're using it so less frequently than before ('cept for baking). Bottom line for me: ONE OF THE BEST PURCHASES EVER.

I would recommend this induction cooktop to anyone except my worst enemy. Bought this April 27, 2022 for $112.82. 1800 W is powerful but not so powerful it throws a 15 amp kitchen breaker. Keep in mind this is an induction cooktop so cheap cookware without the proper base wont work with it. We bought the 3 year extended warranty knowing we were going to have heavy use with this and looks like we wont need it in the end. We have used this at least over 500 times in about 3 years in our kitchen as a sub for our sub-par old built-in induction cooktop from the 90s that is too small to put a big pot of boiling water on and cost over $3k to replace with something better. This cooktop has always worked great. For dishes needing high heat it is much better than out regular electric stovetop. It has 2 useful temperature options - 0 to 10 in .5 increments, or a temperature setting from low 100s for keeping warm, or higher to 375+ to frying some homemade cut fries - it does in fact do it all. We have sauteed, fried, stir fried, blackened, made many gravies and sauces on this. This is seriously worth the money if your cooktop is weak and/or too small. It used to be the sidekick, now it is the main squeeze. I did hours of research. This is the one. From my experience with this single product from this company, I would ignore the other marketing claims other cooktops on Amazon make. Duxtop is an established company, not a fly by night company selling cheap wares designed to fail.

We got this induction burner to try out induction cooking and see if it could be a viable replacement for our propane gas stovetop. We had been seeing a lot of news articles about propane and natural gas leaking cancer-causing chemicals into the house, and we wanted to transition away from using propane anyway because our tank needed to be replaced. The burner is very easy to use, and the instructions were excellent at helping us learn how to cook with induction. My favorite aspect is that the heat level can be selected using specific numbers. When we later looked for built-in induction cooktops, we found that many of them lacked this wonderful feature, so we decided to just continue using this portable cooktop instead of installing one, and bought a second portable induction cooktop from this same brand, which we also love. There are a few downsides which were not enough of a big deal to us to outweigh the benefits: As other reviews mention, there is a high-pitched humming noise when the unit is heating up. Some of our family members, particularly children, were greatly bothered by this in the beginning, while adults who don't hear as well noticed it but weren't bothered by it much. The noise pitch and volume seems to vary depending on the type of cookware used--generally, more ferrous materials such as cast iron seem to make less noise, and nonstick pans that just have a layer of metallic surface on the bottom made the most noise. We found it's much more usable with a silicone mat--otherwise the pan can easily slide around on the cooktop, particularly when you're boiling water and it splashes over the sides. There is a slight learning curve to cooking with induction, but as a pretty functional family "cook" who makes just simple dishes, I found it very intuitive. Much of the challenge was that I decided to also learn how to cook with cast iron at the same time, and that also has its own learning curve, which I found to be steeper than cooking with induction. Many people we've shared our positive induction experience with are incredulous that we were okay with buying all new cookware, but we used this as an opportunity to clear out a lot of the cookware clutter from our kitchen. We found we really only ever used a few pans anyway, and we were happy to have an excuse to replace our cookware that had scratches in the nonstick coating, which likely wasn't good for us to keep using anyway. I would highly recommend this induction burner to anyone looking to try out cooking with induction, relatively inexpensively. We've had it for a year, using it several times a week usually, and it has always performed consistently well.

We purchased the Duxtop induction hot plate to use for about 5 weeks while our kitchen renovation was underway. The kitchen is done and we still use it! The Duxtop induction hot plate was our first foray into induction cooking. We were so impressed with having more accurate temperature control and at how much faster water boils. My husband uses it to fry his ground turkey and chicken sausage saying it works better than the electric range. I use it when I need to boil water for pasta or to cook rice. I took off one star because after only 5 weeks of light use, the cooling fan went on the fritz. I contacted the manufacturer through Amazon and they were very responsive to my issue. As requested, I sent a photo of the cord cut and the information sticker on the underside of the device. A replacement hot plate arrived two days later. Our hope is that the replacement will last for a long time with careful usage 2-3 times a week. In fact, I bought this model based on another review which said they used theirs daily for years. I hope the replacement will do just that! If not, I will update the review. Overall, we are very impressed with the quality, value, practical size and other aspects of durability. We enjoy faster, more efficient cooking of several of our food staples. The customer service was excellent at resolving our cooling fan issue. I would encourage anyone who experiences a problem to use the link under your orders to contact the manufacturer if your 30 day Amazon return window has expired. Because of our positive experience with induction cooking, we are considering purchasing a full size induction range for the kitchen in a new house we are building. 👍🏼

Works beautifully. Very easy to clean. Quick heat up and temperature controls are spot on. I would recommend this the only device plugged in your receptacle when using as it will pull 15 amps which would likely trip your breaker if another device is turned on when this is in use. This information is provided in the booklet but just in case someone is considering buying this.

First let me point out that induction cooktops from different manufacturers ALL heat at different rates so please stop saying dumb things like: "My other (insert other brand here) induction cooktop doesn't burn my (whatever) on 50% power setting but this brand does so that means this one isn't as good." That is actually ass-backwards because the more powerful one is better, you just have to figure out the correct power level for whatever you're cooking with your specific pots/pans. The reason no induction cooktop has (or should have) a temp readout is because the temp will NOT be constant with different size/shape pots/pans therefore a temp readout is useless since a small saucepan will appear to get hot faster than an 8qt stock pot and the actual temp could vary by more than 100 degrees on the same power setting. The only way for a temp gauge to be accurate is for the induction cooktop to have a thermal probe INSIDE the pot/pan and it would also need the programming to adjust the cooktop based on the thermal probe's temp reading to keep it as close to the selected temp as possible. A sous vide machine such as the popular Anova does exactly this and can regulate the waterbath temp to stay within 1/10th of 1 degree of the desired temp setting. WIthout the thermal probe inside the pot/pan a temp gauge is pointless as it's literally just guessing the temp which obviously isn't accurate at all. Once you understand how the power levels work and understand that "power level" has nothing to do with "temperature measurement", you can use trial and error to figure out which power settings work best for each thing you cook with your particular cookware. The Duxtop 9600LS's designer was pretty smart in that he made power levels from 0.5 through 5.5 to be 80W intervals for finer heating adjustment, and power levels 5.5 to 10.0 to be 100W intervals since most of the finer adjusting is only needed at the lower power settings. Any setting above 6.0 is usually just for maintaining a boil or bringing your pan up to heat as fast as possible so fine adjustments are not critical for the higher settings. Most other brands have fewer intervals, or pulse the power on and off at longer intervals which causes more burning becuase they may pulse 800W power for 10 seconds then turn off for 10 seconds to maintain the equivalent of power setting "3.0" but that 10sec blast of 800W power is long enough to burn delicate foods like cream/sauces/eggs/fish/etc. This unit has finer power interval adjustments and also has shoter power pulses than most other brands so setting 3.0 will use 500W power and pulse on for something like only 6 seconds and off for 3 seconds. Both methods keep the food at about the same temp overall, but the heat fluctuation is much greater with other brands compared to this Duxtop 9600LS which tries to keep the temp fluctuation to a minimum to avoid burning delicate foods. These are features that almost no one ever thinks of, and they aren't even listed in the description of any induction cooktop but they are CRITICAL to the proper cooking of a lot of different dishes! I've used the (discontinued) model from YouTube's Binging With Babish, the NuWave 1300W 2016 model, and NuWave 1800W Platinum 2017 model, and this is easily the best of all of them. The only better one I've used was a popular commercial $800 model used in restaurants that I can't remember the manufactuer's name of. It was definitely the best but I can't justify spending 8x the price of this one just for my home cooking...unless I was rich. That's why I bought 2 of these to put next to my 4-burner gas stove which allows me to cook multi-course meals all at the same time MasterChef style!

This is an amazing induction cooktop. We originally ordered the double-burner model of this same brand to take to a vacation home we have. It will replace a double-burner gas stove. We loved the double so much, we got a single-burner version of the same stove to use in our camper. The top(s) - this one and the other one — work very well and they’re very intuitive to use, though they both come with a great instruction manual that you should read before you use the tops because there are things to be aware of for proper use. For instance, only certain types of pots and pans are suitable for use with an induction cooktop, and you can cook by level (level one, level two, etc.) OR you can cook by setting the temperature that you want to cook at — 225, 350, etc. There a setting for boil, and I can boil six cups of water on either top in 5 minutes flat from start to finish. The cooking levels are easy to use, but if you take time to learn what temperature works best (for you) for the various things you cook — particularly if they’re finicky (like doing eggs well), you’ll find there’s nothing better than the precision with which you can cook on these cooktops. Time to buy one for my daughter!

The cooktop does exactly what it needs but overall feels like they cut corners on so much. After buying this, unless the look was important to you, I would get the very cheapest version of it. The extra money doesn't really offer much Pros 1. Relatively cheap, but in hindsight I would have gone with the cheapest version duxtop 2. Looks ok but IMO not much better than the cheaper one 3. Boil and keep warm buttons are ok but essentially worthless. Just shortcuts to turning the power level to 10 or 1 4. Heat control seems really nice and honestly I don't have any problems with it. If you are currently using a traditional electric burner this will be a vast improvement(maybe not so much if your using gas). I do not use the temp setting, I only use the 1-10 power levels which increase in .5 increments. I would never expect a stovetop burner to keep my pan at a set temp(seems pointless to me). 5. Boil times are amazing, better than traditional electric burners and way better than gas. 6. The surface of the burner stays relatively cool. I wouldn't recommend touching right after cooking but it doesn't not hold heat. Cons 1. You have a 5" coil and a small bare spot in the middle. This does not give you even heating at all for a large pan. Cast Iron, Carbon Steel, and Stainless do not heat up evenly at all. If you use something with a copper/aluminum core(paired with a compatible metal) you will get fairly even heating but no thanks to the burner. Slowly heating larger pans helps but heat distribution will never even out. To be fair, cheap gas stoves don't heat anymore evenly, but I do think traditional electric glass top stoves heat the most evenly(it just depends on the size of the coil is comparison to the pan). 2. The fan is way louder than it needs to be. I don't hate the fan and you get used to it. But I have worked with electronic long enough to know that you can great decent airflow without this much noise. I assume they just used a cheap fan to reduce costs. 3. Coil Whine - I am assuming the high pitched ringing you hear when you first turn this thing on is coil whine. I could be wrong though. It reminds me of a graphics card under a heavy load, but louder. The whine varies drastically with the type of pan used. Thick cast iron seems to generate very little whine, thinner stainless generates a bit more. But the clad pans I use which have copper/stainless combo generate the most whine. I might have a defective unit because I know coil whine varies on graphics cards, but I am not sure. The whine is very loud as the pan heats up but dissipates fairly quickly. With most of the pans the whine goes away or becomes unnoticeable once the pan is warmed up. The clad pans never stop making the noise but does become much quieter once the pan has heated up.

Muy bueno. Mas fierte que los otros.. Yo compraria dos

This is the 3rd portable induction cooktop I have ever owned in the last 12 years and is the toughest, most reliable and most efficient PIC I have used so far! This PIC brings 10 litres of cold tap water to a full boil in about 6.5 minutes, which is about 40% faster than the NuWave PIC Titanium, which was my previous cooktop. Too bad I cannot change the temperature reading into Celsius and also set the starting default temperature to a lower temperature; both of which I could do with my previous PIC.

This is a great unit for quick and portable cooking needs. I use a 10" cast iron frying pan with it 95% of the time and it heats up and works very well. The heat control is amazing and works as designed. I never have to worry about overheating, it maintains the perfect temperature once the cast iron is heated (takes about 8-10 mins). As a result, my eggs turn out perfectly and the exact same way every time without drying them out or having them stick. It works very well with pots as well. The quick boil and other features are handy. Again, very simple to use. It's also very easy to clean the top and it's nice and light weight for easy storage. Overall, after a few months or almost daily use, I have no complaints. It's a little pricier then the other Duxtop models, but having more heat control is worth it I think, depending on your cooking needs.

It’s amazing. I love my Duxtop burner. It works with many pots I already had, so there’s no need to buy special cookware. As long as a magnet sticks to your pot, you can use it on this burner. It’s fast, very easy to use, and simple to clean. Cooking is quicker, and somehow the food even tastes better. I’ve been using it almost every day since last year. 100% recommended.

I have been on the look out for a good quality, portable, stove-top. This electric stove-top is a great quality, heats up quick. Keeps the heat steady. I have cooked on it multiple times already & I’m very happy with this product. In addition, it has a timer setting. Very useful timer setting, I use while boiling eggs & cooking chicken.