Empava 30 inch Electric Stove Induction Cooktop with 4 Boost Burners Smooth Surface Vitro Ceramic Glass in Black

Nice looking with great amount of power, awesome cooking solution

This cooktop is excellent. Its not perfect, but for the price it cant be beaten. There is a wiring diagram stapled to the manual to convert Euro to American. - connect blue with red, brown with black, green with earth. There are 4 brackets to secure it underneath the counter (they grip on so no drilling needed) and adhesive gasket goes between the countertop and the stove - so silicone is not needed. Just turn off breaker, add seal, drop it in, wire it up, apply brackets, reset breaker. Installation was effortless, except for the mess left by the previous cooktop (current model GE): 1) This is not very deep. You may find like me that your existing hole is too big depth-wise. 2) Because of it being a tad smaller, there was silicone residue on display on my countertop from the previous installation which is super hard to remove. So my hole was about 3mm too big at the front and 3mm at the back, which I have fixed with some black silicone tape trim. You cant tell because it bevels down nicely. The induction aspect is great. I can boil a full large pot in a couple of minutes, and it reacts to temperate setting changes instantly. Its probably about 4+ times faster than my conventional stove with less watts!!!! Btw, I feel the lower watt burners are more powerful than the high watt burner on a conventional stove Last night I used a stainless steel frying pan to fry some mushrooms, which I would never use on a traditional electric cooktop because its not non-stick and the mushrooms would burn on, plus the pan would be impossible to clean. But I found the mushrooms did not stick and there was no burn on the pan. Maybe because the steel vibrates on an atomic level?? Also on my old (white glass) cooktop whenever I was done cooking it was a real chore to clean because everything burned on the surface (it would even leave burn marks if nothing spilled), but with this cooktop the glass only gets residual heat so it doesnt burn on. The positives: - Wildly better to cook with than heating elements. More powerful and instant response to temperature - Easy install - Touch sensitive controls like a phone - dont need to poke - Less food sticks to pans - Food doesnt burn onto glass / cant see stains - Price!! The negatives: -Too narrow depth-wise - Unknown Euro import brand means parts may be unavailable. The cooktop may be a writeoff if it needs a repair?? - Shows fingerprints like crazy -I cleaned some oil splatter with a little palmolive ultra detergent on a wet cloth, and rinsed thoroughly. But when it dried the touch buttons wouldnt work at all. I got panicked. I had to re-wash and apply finger grease all over to make the buttons work again. Its like the detergent applied a fine film that made the buttons not work. That shouldnt happen. - Boost mode to cook fast, but this would have been better to just make as a temperature setting 10 - You have to hit the appropriate burner button and then the temperature setting to change temperature. I wish it would remember your last burner selection. This slows things down when things are bubbling over. -When cleaning and you run your rag over the controls, the lock button activates. Then you need to hold it down for 3 seconds to unlock. It would be better if you have to hold it down for 3 seconds to activate it as well. So far I am over the moon. But I just hope it lasts!