I was excited to make a pancake, egg & bacon breakfast and a cheeseburger dinner to give this grill its inaugural run. Pros: It is a versatile surface, easy to toggle from press to flat-top, wonderfully non-stick, and one-touch to remove the plates for cleaning. Cons: Even on the hottest setting it took quite a while to cook the pancakes and bacon (though that did make them nearly impossible to burn!) and the plates do not situate in a way to easily drain the grease so the bacon and burgers were saturated in surrounding fat. The packaging implies that there might be options that include ridged grill and/or waffle plates, which might be worth springing for if you’re going to make the initial investment as I cannot find where one might purchase those separate after the fact.