Customers say
Customers appreciate the countertop griddle’s cooking capacity, ease of cleaning, and user-friendliness. They find it works well for cooking eggs or smaller portions, and the cooking surface stays clean. Many find it simple to use and store. However, some customers dislike the build quality. There are mixed opinions on the size and heat level.
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Quickly make perfectly sized on-the-go ramen noodles, pasta, soups, stir-fry, breakfast skillets, eggs, hashbrowns, and more with the my mini personal electric skillet & rapid noodle maker! Cooking is as simple as 1-2-3 – all you have to do is plug in the unit, wait a couple of minutes for it to preheat and then you can start cooking! It’s small and lightweight so it won’t create cluster on your kitchen counter – making it perfect for small kitchens, apartments, dorms and campers/RVs. This is the perfect gift for any occasion!
ON THE GO MEALS: Quick and healthier way to cook ramen noodles, pasta, mac and cheese, steamed rice, stir fry, omelets, hard-boiled eggs, pancakes, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns, cookies and cakes – perfect for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert.
EASY TO USE: Simply plug it in, wait 1-3 minutes until preheated and when the indicator light shuts off you can begin cooking.
COMPACT AND LIGHTWEIGHT: Its small size makes it the perfect fit for any kitchen, apartment, office, dorm and camper/RV
COOKING SURFACE: Cooking surface is 5-inches wide – providing quick, efficient and consistent results. The nonstick surface easily wipes clean
COOL-TOUCH HANDLES: Cool-touch handle allows you to keep your hands safe when opening and closing lid
INDICATOR LIGHTS: The power and preheat indicator light will let you know when it’s time to start cooking
GIFT-GIVING: Perfect gift for weddings, birthdays, holidays, college living and more.
| Special Feature | Manual |
|---|---|
| Color | Yellow |
| Material | Plastic |
| Brand | Nostalgia |
| Product Dimensions | 5.25″D x 6.75″W x 3.5″H |
| Wattage | 900 watts |
| Item Weight | 1.3 Pounds |
| Included Components | mini skillet |
| Style | Skillet Yellow |
| Voltage | 110 Volts |
| Number of settings | 3 |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00082677001030 |
| UPC | 082677001030 |
| Manufacturer | Nostalgia |
| Item Weight | 1.25 pounds |
| ASIN | B07WSXLNNH |
| Country of Origin | China |
| Item model number | MSK5YW |
| Customer Reviews |
4.2 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #11,121 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining) #13 in Electric Skillets |
| Date First Available | August 21, 2019 |
by Iona
Another Very Flexible & Adaptable Small Appliance You Never Heard Of
Here is an another excellent example of an real from kitchenless to a tiny kitchenette food preparation alternative especially for people with no to limited kitchen access and/or no longer needs to prepare more food than for no more than 2 or so.. This appliance could also possibly be pressed for emergency use during unexpected situations (like blackouts) hooked up to an alternative power source. This style of food preparation/cooking does makes this activity/chore much more easier-or at least tolerable-to do in rather less than these ideal situations & circumstances either planned or unplanned. Which is incorporated into the these ultra portable “mini” type of LOW (generally around 500 watts and under) compact appliances.This particular one reviewed here covers the frying, stir frying, grilling spectrum well. At only 260 watts! It can also steam, rolling boil liquids, and warm up pre-cooked foods. Although as it’s advertised Ramen Cooker, not so much. I feel that it’s really much better at frying.I’ve been using the traditional, very basic 1 button/switch mechanical Rice Cookers for years to prepare most of my meals & snacks rather than on a more traditional stove. The only thing they could not offer me was a real true way to sizzle fry/griddle my foods. With this new MyMini appliance, I can do it all now very well without drawing too much power just like those much higher wattage type of appliances did previously!This little appliance is very unique in it’s design. It has 2 (!) cooking surfaces. The upper one has a removable skillet & glass lid (included in the box) which nestles into the lower plate. This lower one is simply a nonremovable flat griddle hot plate also intended for cooking. I chose to only use the upper part with the skillet to actually do all my meals in. I have also been purchasing SEPARATELY more pots/pans/skillets to cook a much wider variety of stuff from a camp kettle to boil water for tea/coffee to a tiny cast iron pan for grilling a hamburger pattie! All these accessories nestle very well into the lower level hot plate like a well fitting jigsaw puzzle piece or the included skillet & lid. Plus they all are much easier to clean after use.I also learned to cook my food in batches (first Teriyaki marinated beef strips, then carrots sliced at a approximately 45 degree angle as “chips”, finally thinly sliced mushrooms) as the tiny 5 inch diameter size of this unit cannot fit all the ingredients together at once. It might be a bit slow, but it works well. As you can see with my heaping Teriyaki Beef Plate just smothered with carrots and mushrooms. Though I did used one of the bit larger at 300 watts “6 cup” Rice Cooker I already owned to boil the Udon Noodles separately. I usually use 2 appliances as once to speed up the cooking process-just like on a multiple burners on a typical stovetop. And the result was so tasty. Without using any stovetop whatsoever.I recommend purchasing this product for yourself and for truly wonderful gifts for others.
by hardwork
Exactly as represented
This is a fun little appliance that gets the job done. I bought this when I lost the electric circuit that my microave sits on. Until the electric company can come out and go up their pole to replace their equipment, I needed something electric to heat some small things in. This appliance fits the bill.I use it to prepare Mac n Cheese cups, the kind that you add water to the fill line and put in your microwave for a period of time. Instead of the microwave, I put the contents into this little pan and heat it that way. Comes out perfectly. I also heat water, and have cooked Klondike Flap Jack cups in it, same way. It all works out great. I have heated chili in it, too.This little appliance heats stuff rapidly, much quicker than the microwave. So far, I have no issues at all of getting the food out of the pan, and the cooking surface stays clean. Even if it appears that something is cooked on, it’s not. Just fool with it a little, and the whole bottom will come out intact, at once, and you can eat that, too.This appliance is small. It isn’t going to cook a lot at once, but for spot meals, or tiny meals, it works. The one thing that I would caution on is the heat. This thing gets HOT. The lid has a steam vent which it would behoove you to rotate away from the tab handle in order to keep the tab from cooking your fingers. Which is not to say that the tab doesn’t get hot. It does. You may have to employ a hot pad, or some cloth something that you can use on the tiny tab to pick the pan up. The pan is easy to lift off of the heating element.There are no other handles to move the pan around, and none on the body of the unit itself. You have to teach yourself to move slowly and carefully around the appliance, and make sure that the body is not touching anything lest it melt a cord or something. Do not let paper products touch the body while in use, for safety. The 260 watts heat up quickly and impressively.There is no on/off button. Your on/off button is the electric plug. This is okay, because you have to remain with the appliance while in use, and you will be forced to unplug it when done cooking. So, that works out. The only criticism I have is the little blue light which indicates that the appliance is on. It can barely be seen, and you have to cup your fingers around the light to see it working. You have to be careful not to touch the body of the appliance in order to avoid a burn.One feature I especially like is the fact that the lid is clear glass, which enables you to see the food inside and what is happening to it.It is very easy to clean. There are actually TWO cooking surfaces to use; I do not plan to use the lower level one because I think you can only use one at a time, anyway, and the top one is sufficient. The lower one is not detachable and underneath that is where the electronics would be, so I don’t plan to use it. But, I could. The surface on the top is deeper but a tad smaller. No big deal.All in all, I am not sorry I bought this appliance. It is getting me through a hard time, and every little bit of convenience we can get is important.
by tanja
Pot smaller than expected
The pot looks great, and works well. We love Ramen and I got this pot for my son to make himself his Ramen. Unfortunately, the square Ramen don’t even fit in the pot and the pot is not high enough to add something else like vegetables or anything at all. It’s just an inch high, which I found was very disappointing. It would’ve been the perfect pot if it would have been just a little higher so we can add water and our Ramen fits in there. Other than that great little gift.
by Arron Burke
Work Appliance
I got this sandwich maker for my wife for Christmas. She’s a teacher and likes how small and portable it is. She’s able to make quick warm sandwiches for lunch, with minimal clean up required! Exactly what she was looking for, and at a great price too!
by MAYE
Recomendable 100%Sigue las instrucciones y listoEs pequeña y cabe en en pequeños espacios para se guardada
by Irais :)
Es muy muy pequeña, más pequeña de lo que puedes imaginar viendo las fotos pero es hermosa! No cabe ni una sopa de ramen de bolsa pero es útil para calentar pequeñitas porciones de sopas, sobretodo si tienes bebés es muy útil. Yo la compré para cuando sea necesario calentar solo la porción de comida caldosa para mi hijo de 3 años.
by Jadyn
I had one as a kid & decided to buy one for the nostalgia. It’s a bit annoying to clean because you can’t take off the plates but I just use a wet paper towel while it’s still hot. Cleans up just fine- worst case you wait for it to cool down. It does get properly hot, I wouldn’t let a young kid use it alone. Makes great grilled cheese!
by Kaitlyn
It is really small, look at the plastic cheese for scale. Boils water not super fast or anything, like 5 minutes or so if I had to guess. The only thing I didn’t like as much was the length of the wire, it was like a foot long (~30cm). I’d much prefer a 3-foot long (~1m) wire for sure. Both the individual pan and the skillet itself have a non-stick coating and can be used to cook. Which is nice that I can still just use the bottom piece on its own.Honestly she is beautiful. I bought this one for about $20 second-hand which is not something I usually do on Amazon but $30 difference compared to “new” and here we are. It came with a bit of scratch, definitely not new for sure but is functional and clean.It helps when I’m in uni all day and can’t get any sort of hot food without spending money. After a bit of that I’m starting to feel like I was running low on money. Then I thought to get one of those “electric hot pot” but those seemed to be too big for carrying around on campus all day. And those were usually a single piece meaning you’ll have to be careful about cleaning, making sure not to have water in the outlet hole etc. I got this one after looking around for a bit, I think I made a good choice.It really depends on what you want to do with it. If your goal is to eat at your desk I recommend searching up “electric hot pot” and finding something bigger from there. If your goal is giving it to a child because they like to play with fire I’d trust anyone over the age of 14 to play with it along but you’d know your child the best, try it out yourself first. Anything before that age maybe give them a run down first and/or play with supervision because it does get to boiling levels of hot. Doesn’t help that its wire is super short.For me, it is especially useful because the only thing I want to achieve is to heat food on campus. The tiny wire doesn’t matter anyway because campus outlets are mostly all at desk level already. You can definitely make food with it from scratch which is what I did for a few days until I got bored of that because it does take a long time to cook from scratch, and it’s small so I got to cook 2 batches to get a full stomach. I think it’s all about the perspective. Like bringing food in those thermos containers only to have them radiate medium to sad levels of heat by the time you’re eating? Try to bring a plastic container of cold food and heat it up on campus with this bad boy. Now you got just-coming-out-of-the-pan level of hot food. Those meat dishes that get soggy and oily over the course of half a day and even if you microwaved it you still feel sickening to eat them so then you just don’t bring those around anymore? Not a problem anymore. You somehow still bought food anyway but it got cold by the time you got to it for some reason? Disassemble whatever you got, pan, reassemble, boom. Impress all of your friends with it, nobody’s gonna think you’re weird when they’re eating cold food and you’re not. The list goes on. Go nuts with it.
by Burke
Plugged it in for about 45 seconds and the outside became scalding hot – not warm, but stove top hot. Took 5 minutes to cool down enough to repack. This should be removed by amazon immediately.