We have used this for about 2 weeks, and only on weekends (vacation home).  We love it.  I would have given 6 stars but, we used the griddle the first night for chicken breasts.  OMG, I should have known better and primed the griddle.  What a disaster it was to clean.  It will never be the same.  I wish there had been a warning of some sort that it needed to be primed.  I