Good Times Xpress Redi Set Go **WITH 4 BONUS PANS**

Excellent, but...
I purchased one of these units. The idea is great, and the heat in the kitchen and power consumption is greatly reduced for those small meals.

You have to be aware of 2 issues:

1) The unit gets really hot. The INSIDE gets close to 400F, the OUTSIDE can be as high as 200F. In other words, do not touch the outside! And be sure to place on a mat or something if you have counters that might be damaged by the heat that radiates from the unit. I wish they would have insulated the outside better.

2) Clean Up. The other removal pans are great and easy to clean because they can be removed and put in the sink. BUT the pan in the unit does not come out. I saw two problems:

-- the coating degrades and it gets hard to clean (not the just wipe out and it's clean. Things start to stick and it becomes a real chore to clean.) But the unit cannot be submerged in water.

-- When you do need to clean with a brush and use soapy water, you...

Disappointing quality
I have used this much anticipated machine only twice and I have been disappointed both times. I made the little egg puffs with a smoked sausage in the center. They were cute and tasted wonderful, but as you can only make 4 in the heart-shaped pan at a time, multiple uses were required to feed 4 adults. No matter how well I sprayed the insert, I had to WASH it after EACH batch because they stuck so badly.

The second time I used it was worse. I made the chicken condon-bleu as per the recipe in the accompanying book, and it was a disaster. The machine has no heat control, gets very hot, and the chicken burned on the outside and stuck on BOTH sides within 3 minutes... and YES, I sprayed beforehand. I spent the next 20 minutes alternately turning the unit on and off to try to cook the inside without further burning the outside. To make matters worse, there isn't a full-size insert, so washing required attempting to remove the burnt remains from the unit itself (which is what I...

listing is not what you get
Ordered this and got the typical 2 pans as you can get in the store. Sent it back as product is not as listed. You do not get 4 pans.

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