I’ve use this about five times now and so far it’s very easy to use. You plug it in to heat it up, the light turns green when it’s ready for you to pour in and then it turns green again when the waffles are ready. The construction of the waffle maker is not the best, I noticed some chipped places right from removing it from the box. however those chips did not affect the function of the maker, so I’m not deducting many points for that. I did not like the pancakes sticks, I would’ve preferred if they were just all waffles, it didn’t come out as smoothly as the waffles even with spraying oil. also they call it a mini waffle size but to me they were regular size that I remember from eggos. You will get great use from this