Although I like this product I must say I don’t use it to grill chicken or steak meat because it takes ages for the meat to cook, basically the temperature is not hot enough for thick meat but I use it on a daily basis to make pancakes or waffles (with additional waffle plate we bought) and grill fish or simply warm up bread (it turns out much softer than with toaster oven). I only wish it could get more hot so I could use it to grill meat too which is the reason we bought this grill!