Hamilton Beach Panini Press, Sandwich Maker & Electric Indoor Grill, Upright Storage, Nonstick Easy Clean Grids, Stainless Steel (25410) Reviews

Get restaurant results at home for a fraction of the cost With the Hamilton Beach Panini press & indoor grill. Using your own fresh ingredients, you can make everything from a basic grilled cheese to a mouth-watering Reuben sandwich. Thanks to a café-style floating lid that evenly presses sandwiches of all sizes, how thick or thin you’d like your sandwich is up to you. The grill is easy to use, since power and preheat lights let you know when it is ready. The 95 square inch cooking surface gives you plenty of space to make more than one sandwich at the same time. When finished, the Nonstick grid cleans up easily.
HOT SANDWICHES and MORE: Easily make hot pressed sandwiches of varied thicknesses, from grilled cheese and Reubens to paninis and Mexican tortas, thanks to the cafe-style floating hinged lid. Or grill burgers, steaks, chicken, vegetables, fruit and more
COOK MEALS IN 10 MINUTES OR LESS: With a total of 95 square inches of nonstick surface on the top and bottom grill plates, the hot sandwich maker / electric grill will cook most meals in 10 minutes or less. Both sides of food cook at the same time
EASY CLEANUP: As food cooks, fat drips away into the dishwasher safe, slide-out drip tray to reduce countertop mess. The durable nonstick plates are simple to wipe clean with a damp cloth after cooling or clean with the included spatula/scraper tool
RESTAURANT-QUALITY RESULTS — A FRACTION OF THE COST: Make restaurant-quality sandwiches and grilled foods on the panini press grill using your own fresh ingredients at a fraction of the cost of eating out
COMPACT, UPRIGHT STORAGE: A lid latch keeps the panini press shut between uses and makes it easy to store either flat or upright

Reviewer: MyPenName
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent little grill
Review: I bought this for my husband because he had been wanting a panini grill. I looked at the fancier, bigger, higher priced grills, but went with this one because it has a history of good reviews. Perhaps when he proves he is responsible with this one, I will get him an upgrade :)This one is nice because there arent a lot of settings to worry about and try to remember what settings to use for what. Just turn it on, watch for the light, and then you’re ready to throw your sandwich on there. He always uses thick sourdough bread and is happy with the way his sandwiches turn out. I told him to butter the grill, not the bread, and so now his results are much better.The non stick grill surfaces are nice and easy to clean. Even if a little cheese oozes out, it wipes right off with a paper towel. Nothing sticks to the surface at all.It is the perfect size for two nice sandwiches (on large bread), but yet not too big and bulky to have to worry about where to store it and it is not so big that it is cumbersome to move around and clean, etc.A lot of the other lower priced models that I looked at did not have the floating lid. This one does have the hinged floating lid so you can get thick sandwiches in there and the lid will lay flat and evenly on top.Aside from sandwiches, it is nice for burgers and steaks too. Nice to have something like this when it is too cold to go outside and run the big propane grill. We eat NY Strip and Porterhouse steaks a lot, so this little grill is really nice to get us through the winter months and not miss out on the beefy goodness. This sears them perfectly and we are able to get them done to our liking of “medium well.” Boneless split chicken breasts/tenders work out wonderfully as well.It feels very well made, especially for the price and we are both happy with it. I am happy to have found such a good model at such a good price and he is happy that it works so well and is easy to use. It is the perfect combination of price, performance and value. It is not lacking any necessary features and the build quality is perfect.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love it!
Review: Bought this specifically for a girls lunch I was hosting. Worked perfectly right off the bat and we’ve used it several times since getting it just a few days ago. Gets hot fast, easy to use, easy to clean and doesn’t take up a lot of space when storing. So far, happy with the purchase!

Reviewer: Dakota
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best grilled cheese and panini maker
Review: For the last few months, we have been using this panini press to make grilled cheese sandwiches and other toasted sandwiches. These sandwiches have all came out near perfect, melting the cheese just right and not burning the bread.The heat distribution on the press was great at first, though seems to have gotten worse over time. At first, all sandwiches were perfectly browned. This has transitioned to the outside facing bread being toasted quite a bit more than the insides. This is easily fixed by turning the sandwiches midway through cooking, though it is an inconvenience nonetheless.There is also no way to control the temperature, meaning that you will constantly be plugging and unplugging this device. You will also not be able to adjust the temperature to your liking, which could be a massive downside.Finally, cleaning this thing is a pain. There is no way to pull the grills off to clean, so you will need to wipe it down to keep it clean. I normally do a wipe with a wet paper towel and finish up with some dawn dish soap, water, and a dry pat.Even through all these downsides, this has still been one of the best purchases I have made for the kitchen. Every sandwich that comes out of this press tastes like heaven (and it looks cool). Well worth the asking price to me.

Reviewer: Thomas N. Reyes
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for homemade paninis
Review: For the price and for what I bought it for, it does the job! You can fit two regular-size breads in there side by side. There is no temperature control so it’s just plug and estimate… For my sandwiches, usually a minute or a minute and a half will do the trick. Great for making kids grilled cheese sliders! Heat distribution usually goes around the edges first.

Reviewer: Quilting Karen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It does the job, simply and well!
Review: I am now a panini addict! I purchased this panini maker because it got good reviews and was inexpensive. I was so glad I made this choice! It’s super easy to use, just plug it in and wait for it to heat up. There is no option to control the heat, but every sandwich I’ve made has come out great! I’ve been eating panini sandwiches almost every day since I got this about 3 weeks ago. Yeah, there are lots of other appliances out there that have more bells and whistles, but this one does the job and does it very well! I’ve used pita bread, ciabatta bread and sourdough bread to make sandwiches so far. You do have to remember to unplug it or it will just stay on. Also cleaning it is a chore, but I just take a damp paper towel to wipe it down after it has cooled off. Other, more expensive models may have removable press plates that can be washed easily, but for me the trade off is actually having to remove them and later put them back on….I’d rather just wipe it down. Also I love that you can store it closed and standing upright which makes it easy to put in a cabinet for storage or, like I do, to push back against the counter wall out of the way, since I use it every day. Either way it uses less kitchen real estate than most other panini makers.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Best for making grill sandwiches! 😀

Reviewer: Selina Gabrielle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Mi único inconveniente es que no tiene un botón de encendido y apagado, de allí en fuera es un excelente producto. Es perfecto para recalentar comida, sobre todo comida que originalmente es crujiente y que si la recalentadas en microondas se perdería ese toque crujiente

Reviewer: Ibz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Super buena calidad y tamaño caben 4 sandwich

Reviewer: Michael Gagnon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ok ,it’s a Brilliant Panini maker ! Cooking surface I’d 10-9 inches square roughly I cooking 4 sideways . top is well build .1000% crunch factor with a smear of margarineon bottom and Tom . “ NO NEEDOF TEMP CONTROL …ITS A KEPPER FOR DURE AND TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS .. my Grandpn loves the hotdogs on the# first cook the dogs on grill split buns and add margarine. Place hotdog back in and roast the buns with the dogs .6 buns on grill . 5 STAR 24/7

Reviewer: Satish Gawade
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: superb product