De'Longhi Perfecto Indoor Grill with Lid, Black

Much like the older DeLonghi Alfredo Electric grill, except a larger cooking surface area and a glass lid that helps you use the grill to roast. It took less than 10 minutes to assemble out of the box and use. This grill makes cooking easy. I did not use a meat thermometer, but the chicken was evenly cooked. I started by searing both sides and then turning the heat down to 4 and continued to cook with the lid. I turned 4-6 times. Chicken was perfect!! I placed foil in the drip pan and added a small amount of water which made clean up easy. I did not put the cooking grate in my dishwasher. I simply washed by hand. Overall, for the price and the convenience, I rate this a 10/10.

This has got to be one of the best Amazon purchases I've made.My condo building has several communal gas grills outside, but hauling food up and down to them, plus waiting if other people are using them is a pain. I originally tried one of those stove-top grills that look like a doughnut with a metal grate that sits over and, while it worked, it was small and very inconvenient.After scouring Amazon I found the Delonghi. The great reviews and the glass lid are what sold me on it.There is an electrode that plugs into a slotted grill that sits in a plastic frame over a water filled tray. As your food cooks the grease, fat, and oil drip down into the water. You can use the glass lid to help increase temperatures and keep grease and smoke from splattering up. Temperature control is not precise - it's set by a rotary knob from level 1 to level 5. I usually let the grill heat up at level 5 for about 5 minutes, sear my meat on each side, and then drop the temperature down to 3.5 or so and let it finish cooking. Food is going to take a bit longer to cook than it would with a charcoal or propane grill since I believe those get hotter faster.Clean up is not bad. There's a bit of confusion as to what parts of this will go into the dishwasher. I have seen where people have either claimed, or worded badly, that the grill part can go in the dishwasher. Don't do that. You can put the water tray and the lid in. The plastic frame should not get dirty, and if it does just wipe it down with some soapy water. I clean the grill like I would my cast iron skillet. When it cools down I wet it down in the sink and use a gentle plastic scrubber (I have one from Dawn) which gets the big residue off of the grill. Then I follow up with a paper towel and just get the stray grease and water. You don't want to use soap on it, as that will remove the seasoning that builds up from use.The grilling area is bigger than I had expected, but if you're looking to do a cookout for 4 or more people you're going to be disappointed. This is perfect for two people to have two burgers and four hot dogs cooking at one time.The only thing that would make this grill better would be if you could select a different temperature for each side of the grill. I don't think any electric grill does that though, so I don't hold it against it.

My daughter uses this grill for the majority of her cooking. I think she is on her third one in over 12 years (with a fourth one stashed in her pantry as a back up). I can attest to it’s reliability, consistency of cooking and ease of use. Plus, it’s hard to find a grill with a lid, which is a feature she insists on to control spattering in her small kitchen.

While it is easy to clean, I do have some concerns for the nonstick coating which probably gives off some level of forever chemicals. Many will stay away from that, despite the fact that a good deal of what I am eating otherwise likely also has the material in it.The size could be smaller for many who cook, but it is not at all too small. The device appears to heat up quickly and evenly and it does a decent job of cooking without much of any evidence of fumes or smoke. If compared to a range, it has less off products than a gas range and it has a much more efficient heating as it is more compact that the range.The initial lid that I had received had a cracked plastic rosette and rather than just replacing that element, the company sent me the full lid with glass, rosette and knob which was seemingly unnecessary.The lid does sit over the grill in a bit poor fashion. It is not that the lid is the wrong size, large or small, but just that the lip to which it is placed is not really grooved and if the lid is placed to a slight bit off the grills center, it lists a bit and appears to be less than reasonably level. I am not sure that the intention is to promote some escape of material from under the lid, but nor am I clear that the lid is supposed to sit a bit cocked off its level either.