PALSONTechno Digital Induction Hob 2000W Electric Portable Hot Plate Cooker, Cooking Time Control - Free 2 Year Warranty

Just bought this, can't get it work. Put diffuser on surface but the only power light is on. Any ideas?

love this product, I don't have a fixed hob as I like to have a clear worktop, I have an Andrew james portable induction hob and needed another single 1, this 1 is fab, neat and tidy and totally digital, no plastic buttons to crack or melt, wish I had bought this in the first place looks so much better! I love the fact that once it's cooled it can be stored away or can be used anywhere you have a socket, they are easily cleaned, such a handy thing to have about :-)

Ive already have both a commercial & domestic induction hobbs by other manufacturers. This seems better in design & quality than the domestic model (especially in that its properly spill-proof) , But those previous models both had undeniably better ease of use; in that i could operate the main functions without even a flick through the manual. With this model initially all i could do is turn it on/off, & after a lot of pecking at buttons i found how to - start the actual cooking functionality & the latterly, alter the heating/temperature. Im quite technically able but think an item such as a hob, should as far as turning off/on & lower/increas-ing should have a near obvious tactile immediacy.Bearing all the above in mind this is still really a good value item as there really are very few significantly cheaper hobs even of lower tech types.

Absolutely brilliant. I use this now instead of my main electric cooker as it is so controllable. On the downside, I did find that I has to replace my pans as they weren't compatible.

I already had a Palson induction plate so I bought another great product

Slightly bigger than my previous one,(which is good). Heats quickly. Only negative, is that the lead could do with being longer.Apart from that, all good so far.....

I live in university halls where there's no chance of a gas hob (guess we can't be trusted not to blow ourselves up?) and having learned to love cooking for many years beforehand on gas, I just can't bring myself to cook on the sealed-element electric ones that seem to be everywhere in the UK - they take so long to cool down. I had a full-size drop-in De Dietrich 4-ring hob a few years ago (which unfortunately failed 6 months after purchase!) so I'd already had an excuse to buy a couple of sets of pans with induction-compatible bases.There aren't many free-standing induction hob models available in the UK and the Techno is the most expensive of them. Generally, though, I find you get what you pay for, and so far (a month or so) the Palson has been no exception. The first thing that struck me was how light it is. It's about the weight of a (steel-based) frying pan with a bit of food in it, for what that's worth. The plate is something vitreous, and the rest is plastic. I keep it in my room and carry it to the kitchen for use. Both surface materials wipe clean just as easily as induction stuff always promises to, and I've found the touch-sensitive controls on the Techno don't seem to mind so much if they get slightly wet (unlike my De Dietrich which would pretty much refuse to work after splashing until you blow-dried it). The power lead is a good length - a shade longer than most appliances at just over 1m - although you may find you need all of that if you're working around a kitchen with poorly placed powerpoints. The plug comes with a plastic cover over the three prongs; if you move the hob around, I'd recommend keeping that cover and replacing it when you unplug the unit, because it's all too easy to swing the cable into the surface and scratch or break it. Maybe I'm just paranoid.The controls are slightly cheap-looking - perhaps because they're labelled in a foreign tongue as well as English - but they're easy to use and you shouldn't find you need the manual (which does have an English section seemingly written by an English-speaker, unlike the usual poor translation of Chinese). Speaking of manuals, actually, it's worth downloading and printing off the user guide for the Techno's little brother, the Miami, because strangely the error codes for the Techno aren't in the supplied manual and I think they're the same across the range. The manuals are very easy to find on the Palson website.The sound of the active coil is a little unfamiliar if you haven't cooked on induction before, but you'll get used to it. Pan detection has been fine for me - a 12cm milk pan is detected even with a little food spillage underneath it and the hob stops promptly when I genuinely remove the pan. The wattage-based mode simply supplies the selected wattage constantly (just like any standard electric or gas hob) and I've found the granularity to be fine thus far. 2kW is plenty of grunt for getting up to speed quickly. At lower power settings the coil will turn on and off in order to average out at the chosen setting. The temperature-based setting will do the same but in such a way as to maintain the selected temperature. The ten settings are fine, although I'd like a 70C and/or a 90C setting.There are, of course, some minor niggles. In operation, the hob isn't quiet, although I wouldn't call it loud either; the cooling fan runs whenever the coil is active. It sits a little high on most surfaces making cooking a little uncomfortable on the wrists at times; if possible, find it a table below unit level. As mentioned in reviews elsewhere, at full power for prolonged periods the hob sometimes overheats and shows an error code, requiring some cooling time and a power cycle; I've only had this problem when food has been secretly burning to the bottom of the pan anyway, so it's unlikely to get in your way much. One time this happened the vitreous part of the plate developed a small permanent spot of some kind. It hasn't caused any problems or unevenness but it's slightly unnerving. The temperature-based settings can be a little over-enthusiastic to begin with, probably because the touted "plate never gets directly heated" feature means that the thermostat temperature lags a little behind the pan temperature initially. Sometimes I'd prefer the hob to allow me to remove the pan for a bit longer before deciding to turn off - think it's around 10-15s.These problems are minor in the grand scheme of things, and overall it's a very welcome addition to my kitchen, with only the test of time left to pass. I'm actually beginning to wish I'd bought the 2-ring Duo instead, price be damned.

very good induction plate....but it came with European plug so couldn't use straight away had to buy another plug

Ce n'est plus la plaque Palson que nous avons connu la première que nous avons achetée a durée plusieurs années c'est pour cela que nous avons commandé la même "Très grosse déception n'a fonctionné que un mois et demis je ne commanderai jamais plus rien chez eux et surtout je le déconseillerai a toutes mes connaissances (nous sommes très en colère)

Tenía un modelo anterior el Miami iba de cine, este es más caro, los plásticos son un birria, se han resquebrajado y parece que calienta más lento. Funcionar funciona, pero el incremento de precio no lo vale.