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Aroma Halogen Hot Plate - PHP323 | 
 enlarge | Brand: Aroma
Category: Kitchen
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 128401
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.9
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0.2
Warranty: 1
MPN: PHP-323
Model: PHP323
UPC: 021241023238
EAN: 0021241023238
ASIN: B000ETJJF4
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| Features:
| • | Aroma 1440 Watt Electric Halogen Burner | | • | The Aroma Housewares Company |
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Product Description
Instant heating action with virtually no waiting time / Stylish contemporary design / Works with any stovetop cookware / 1440 Watts / Ceramic Top
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 unusable October 24, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As nice as this product is in every other way, the beeping noise it makes when the unit is cooling lasts for over 30 minutes after the unit is turned off and made the hot plate utterly unusable for us becuase it was so annoying. It's not a loud beep but it's loud enough to be bothersome. Disappointing. We mailed ours back.
Pricey but worth it October 18, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm with all the people who are extremely happy with this unit. What I haven't seen mentioned (though I haven't read every review) is that this unit is much larger than the little ones with coils that have been around for years. Which is a big plus, because there's enough heating surface for a big fry pan or a pressure cooker. It's sturdy and well built and attractive. It does heat up very fast.
I did not get any smoke or burning smell at all when I first plugged it in. For me, the fan noise is barely audible and only lasts long enough to cool down the unit.
 Stellar product September 19, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you need a "hot plate" this is your buy! Turn it on, select "high" and it is HOT in less than three seconds! It is quiet, sleek and effective with a 9.5 inch ceramic heating plate with a 1/8 inch lip around it. Yes, it beeps three quick beeps every ten seconds for about fifteen minutes after it is turned off. Considering how well it works, I'll ignore the beeps. The gradient temperatures are perfect. I've tried several "hot plates" and most are just plain pathetic. I don't want to wait 20 minutes to try to fry an egg. Seriously, the other hot plates were pathetic. The Aroma plate just works very well.
EXCELLENT! July 6, 2007
We have had our new Aroma halogen burner for three weeks and have used it probably 15 times alreaday! It is fantastic! It performs perfectly (you'll need flat-bottom cookware)and is VERY easy to clean. I have read some complaints about the noise of the cooling fan. Yes, it is audible but it certainly is not annoying.
We use our Aroma on our outside patio (my wife doesn't like to smell up the house with food odors ... which I think is absurd, but the Aroma was a lot less expensive than a divorce). The Owners' Manual suggests that you do NOT leave it outside in excessive humidity which we certainly have in Florida but it is certainly no problem at all to bring the burner in when we are finished cooking. It cools down quickly and stores very easily.
I STRONGLY recommend the Aroma!
Great Burner That REALLY COOKS! But It Does BEEP! June 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This burner is very well designed and ultra-functional, and offers lots of features you would be very hard pressed to find anywhere else, for any less than at least double what this unit costs (I know, as I researched this heavily).
This burner does heat up instantly, as well as offering instant heat reductions, so it's identical to cooking on a gas burner--that alone makes it a marvelous product and unique for an electrical burner. It also has a nice large 10" cooking surface that accommodates most pots and pans up to 12" (12" if flared, such as with skillets or French style frying pans that taper to 10" at their base). It's very stable, unlike the smaller hot-plates around, when using larger and heavier cookware.--no teetering or sliding as with the small coil type traditional hot plates.
It can also get the temperatures very high and very hot--great for stir-frying or rapid boiling of water in a large stock pot. This burner gets much hotter than traditional hot-plates, which are really more geared toward heating soup or for making gravy at the holidays when the family stove is full. This halogen burner is much more geared toward mimicking a full fledge (gas) burner and can do anything a stove top burner can do. For those of us in bachelor apartments with no stove, it's a God-send and has opened all new worlds of cooking for me.
The ceramic glass cook-top cleans well with many of the commercial available glass-top stove cleaners (Weiman Stovetop), or with Barkeepers Friend (does not scratch trust me--and for those harder stains it works like a dream). You shouldn't use anything harsher or you may scratch it. Also, as with regular glass top burners, if you spill something sugary or sweet, you should turn the unit off and clean up instantly as sugar type food substances will quickly scorch on such a hot surface and cause permanent damage or a razor blade to clean. The only problem with cleaning I have found is that the commercial type cream cleansers can get underneath the chrome lip on the edge of the burner and it's tricky to get their residue out--I have used Q-tips to clean in this crevice and they work fairly well.
As noted by another reviewer, the unit is not light colored silver as pictured, but is instead a medium machine gun gray--not a hint of silver (if you want a stainless look, see the Deni Halogen burner, the identical product in a stainless finish for around $20 more). Also the unit does have a fairly audible fan going while operating and the fan does continue to operate for some time after turning the unit off (to cool the electronics components I would guess). The fan does not really bother me (it sounds very close to the fans overhead on most stoves), and I have gotten used to it quickly. Some other reviewers have not cared for the stready drum of the fan at all, so be aware...
What does bother me is the beeping warning after you turn the unit off to remind you the glasstop is still warm--and it does stay rather warm after you turn it off for up to 30 minutes or more. The beep sounds every 12 seconds or so for a LONG time--45 minutes or so this guy will continue to BEEP. This is a big turn off for me, and what I have done to work around it (since I live in a studio type apartment) is to connect the burner to a plug-in type on/off switch and after 10 minutes or so (when I think it's cool enough to not bother the electronics) I just cut the power to the unit with the on/off switch, and viola--no more insistent beeping. If you dine some distance away from this unit, the beeping may not be a factor for you at all.
All in all for under $100 I think this unit is a great product and at a reasonable price. As you can read from another review--even professional chefs use this burner for catering type on the go events. It's that good--just like cooking with gas. If there are any durability problems, I will update this review, as I use the unit almost daily.
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