Cuisinart Griddler® Indoor Grill & Panini Press, Dishwasher-Safe Nonstick Cooking Plates, Stainless Steel, GR-11P1

Panini sandwiches have gotten my attention lately and this Cusinart panini press has satisfied my craving. The press is quite small, but it can easily handle two good sized sandwiches. I usually make mine with sourdough bread so you can judge the size of the sandwiches. The bread toasts nicely on both sides and the ingredients are done nicely. I've also pressed chicken in it and it does everything a Foreman grill can do. The best thing about it, according to my wife, is that the two grills easily flip out and can be cleaned quite easily. Unlike the Foreman grill that can be challenging to clean, the Cuisinart gives you three easy pieces that rinse off easily and quickly. The machine is quite small and looks good sitting on our counter. I think it was worth the price.

Easy to use. Easy to clean. Great product.

This panini maker is small it only does 1 ay a time, if your cooking for a crew get bigger one. It does do 1 at a time fast and good job. Just made ruebens and everything was cooked

works only for flat sandwich bread evenly. very small. easy storage. one heat temp. plates size: 10 1/4 x 7 (breville 11x 7.5) . If you put a roll under it, it will not close and only push on one side. After use, the cleaning is to be done BEHIND the plates so the heating element stays clean, otherwise you'll have a filthy mess, forever. (Never noticed..in real life it looks MUCH worse then in the pictures). Somehow the pic doesn't reflect the elegant size of this one (it looks less "square"). I prefer this Cuisinart over the bigger Cuisinart (Cuisinart GR-4N 5-in-1 Griddler, Silver, Black Dials) (very hard to open the lid). I felt RELIEVE using this smaller version over the bigger Cuisinart, since this one has much easier way to remove the two plates: They are NOT turnable. This one has no on/off button, just plug it in and it will BURST heat into the plates. Stay attentive not to burn your sandwich! Basically I felt like crying over the fact to have such a hard time.. to have a DECENT panini griddle and therefore I over blew it wishing to put a twice as big a s usual sandwich into this smaller version. BIG MESS! (What was I thinking..). The plates have grids, therefor IF you manage to change the position of them or even dare to TURN the sandwich around you'll have: SQUARES! I still think it's great for a small consumption, since its so cute. Yet for bigger sandwiches or even rolls: i GAVE up! For a while. I will see now for better enjoyment: I came to the conclusion that easiest is BETTER QUALITY! The heating element will stay nicer with a unit which has it embedded (Breville).

If I can put it between some bread, I will make a sandwich! I absolutely love sandwiches and wanted something quick and easy to use to help me make them. This Grill and Panini Press has fulfilled my sandwich desire. I received it today and made an apple, turkey and swiss cheese sandwich for lunch and a BLT with cream cheese for dinner. The sandwich combinations are endless and quick when you use this gadget. After I am done experimenting with sandwich fixings I will likely branch off into more exotic fare, like steak and hamburgers. But for now I am happy, happy, happy! I don't read directions unless I am stuck. So directionless, I pre-heated the grill and waited for the green light to come on before putting my sandwich in. This sequence very nearly ALWAYS resulted in burned bread. So, I decided NOT to pre-heat the grill. I put the sandwich on the grill plate, plugged it in, and unplugged it when the green light came on. The result was a perfect sandwich, inside and out. So, whether the directions state to do this or not I will never know because I have no idea what I did with them. The plates snap off easily although I just wipe them off instead of putting them in the dishwasher. There is NO on-off switch, you just plug and unplug. Furthermore, it heats quickly so if you put your sandwich in after the green light comes on, pay close attention because it might burn. So whether you read the directions to discover the correct sequence of use, you will enjoy using this grill...I certainly do!

We originally had a Sunbeam grill that we used for chicken and sandwiches which worked well but was a pita to clean as you weren't supposed to get anything wet. I would hold it sideways under the water so the plates would get wet but nothing else. It eventually stopped working; probably got wet but no big deal as i got it on freecycle. This was the replacement, i only wanted one that i could remove the plates. I was a bit disappointed at the size at first, thinking it would hardly hold anything, but I've been pleasingly surprised. We use it for EVERYTHING! Three boneless chicken breasts fit nicely, two huge burgers, three sandwiches on bakery Italian bread, one very thick porterhouse, tons of stuff and it all cooks perfectly. Everything sears well and the inside is juicy. The only thing i killed on it were 2 NY strips, but they were really thin, which i usually don't get, and i didn't think about how long i was leaving them on for as opposed to my normal 2inch thick steaks. I've never used it in the open position. Not having an on/off switch hasn't bothered me, nor has not having a temperature gauge. The preset temperature seems perfect for everything. The hinge works well for positioning thicker items. I agree with other reviewers that the lid isn't heavy, but that isn't an issue. Everything cooks evenly. For sandwiches i want to press, i put an old cast-iron iron on the lid and over the handle and that works perfectly to add the needed weight. A foil covered brick would work well too, the local Cuban place uses that for their press. The removable plates are so wonderful for cleaning; they easily pop off and nothing sticks. I uses got soapy water and a papertowel to clean threm so my sponge doesn't get messy. I've never put them in the dishwasher as i don't have one. Thet do sometimes take a jiggle to get them back on as the end slips into little clips then you lay them in place and push and they click in, if you don't hear three click they aren't seated correctly and you try again. The people who wrote that the plates fall off either aren't seating them properly or they have a defective product and should return it. The drip container works really well for collecting all the fat that runs off. I just recently realized there are little feet to put the surface on an angle so the fat runs off better, silly me, I'll have to try using them :) I use a damp paper towel for the body of the unit, but it doesn't really get messy, just dusty if i leave it on the counter. Out takes up little space so i usually put it in a cupboard. The cord is about a foot long. I've had it since April 2015and use it asset least twice a week, sometimes 3 or 4 times a week and it works just as well now as when i first got it. The grill can't be beat, i highly recommend it and would get another if it broke tomorrow.

We just rented a flat in Italy for a month. The flat had a really great panini press. So, in a month I may have used the thing 30 or 40 times! I loved it! So, that's what I'm comparing this product to, which may not be fair. The one in Italy heated more evenly than this one. It seems that it was hotter...and got up to temp quicker. It got the bread "toasty" quicker. It had more space between the plates so we could cut the fresh bread nice and thick, load up a hearty sandwich, and still fit it between the heating plates evenly. The Cuisinart GR-11 doesn't allow for a very thick sandwich (don't expect to be able to heat/grill your sub from Subway.) A thick sandwich CAN be compressed if you don't mind it being somewhat flattened out..."smooshed." In this regard, understand that the top plate is not actually free floating to any large degree. This means that when you DO try to grill a thicker sandwich, the rear of the top plate makes contact first and then sort of folds forward. This in turn pushes the top piece of bread/bun off the sandwich a bit and can cause some ingredients to push off the sandwich and on to the grill surface. The GR-11, by comparison to the Italian one, seems to really take it's own sweet time. It takes longer to get up to heat and longer to grill your bread. I haven't timed it with a stop watch or anything but but I've been pretty surprised when I've left it and come back several times only to find it's still not looking all that "toasted". (I have found that this is partially because the top plate doesn't seem to get as hot as the bottom...for example you can see nice grill marks on the bottom when they haven't appeared much on the top yet.) Other than what's described above, everything else was just fine. No problem with the removable plates as other reviewers have stated and for your basic grilled cheese sandwich on sliced white bread I think it would perform satisfactorily. I have made at least a half dozen sandwiches and English muffins with this unit and, although it does an okay job, it doesn't do an excellent job. If you're content with "okay", buy it and it will be "okay." If you've used really good ones, this will probably disappoint you a little.

Great value for $$. Cook time is minimal as it heats up fast. Easy to clean and small enough to store in a cabinet.

Muy buena calidad del producto. Alcanza muy buena temperatura en poco tiempo. No tiene funciones avanzadas por lo que no puedes programar el tiempo de cocción y hay que estar cuidando el tiempo que le das a los alimentos, pero si eres capaz de poner un minimo de atención entonces funcionará para ti. Principalmente la he usado para sandwiches y paninis con excelentes resultados, pero también ha funcionado perfecto para filetes de pescado y cortes delgados y no tan delgados de carne, salchichas y pollo. El recipiente para la grasa cumple bien su cometido y la limpieza es super sencilla al poder retirar twnto éste como las parrillas superior e inferior. La superficie es pequeña por lo que es suficiente para una o dos personas, con la ventaja de que ocupará muy poco espacio en tu cubierta.

J’ai adoré cuire des escalopes et brochettes de poulet mariné.

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En verdad me sorprendió todo lo que se puede cocinar con esta parrilla. aunque no se puede regular la temperatura, ya que esta es constante. solo teniendo cuidado con el tiempo de cocinado, se les da un acabado doradito y crujiente a tortas, y hamburguesas. convierte un vulgar sándwich en un club sándwich de lujo. Y no se diga de la forma en que dora la salchichas, la mortadela, los chiles jalapeños rellenos y los chiles serranos para salsas. Quedan de no maaa!!!. Además la calidad de la parrillita: la hornilla superior forrada en acero inoxidable y la construcción solida y compacta, hace que no le pida nada a sus hermanas mayores y mucho mas caras de la familia CUISINART.¨ ¡EN VERDAD LA RACOMIENDO!

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