Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27459 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: SALTON EUROPE LTD
• Model: 14182

Manufacturer's Description
The George Foreman 14182 grill lets you cook all your favourite foods in a healthier way but in a fraction of the normal cooking time. By grilling from both the bottom and top simultaneously, food cooks over twice as fast, plus unwanted fat and grease is channelled away into the drip tray provided, for a much tastier and healthier bite. The size of the grill allows you to cook up to 4 portions of food making it the ideal family grill.The additional "Melt" feature is a great way of melting toppings on all your favourte foods. To achieve this, the top plate locks open making it ideal for cheese on toast, tuna melts, mini pizzas, cheese burgers, etc.The stylish curved lid design means that this product will fit in perfectly in any modern kitchen environment but if you wish to put it away, it is specificaly designed so that it can be stored vertically therefore drasticaly saving on space.

About George Foreman

In 1996, the first George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine was launched, following former heavyweight boxer George Foreman’s quest to find a product which allowed him to eat many of his favourite foods, but in a more healthy way. The George Foreman Grill has gone on to sell a phenomenal 100 million grills worldwide, its success due to it being a healthier, quicker and more convenient way of cooking.

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Customer Reviews

Lean mean dream machine with a few flaws
Having all the advantages of a Foreman Grill PLUS the option to do melts and other gorgeously less healthy snacks was like a dream come true and so I bought this Grill & Melt to replace my Foreman Junior which had become a bit unsightly after almost 6 years of use. In addition to the "melt" function this little machine also promises vertical storage and a place for the power cord - two brilliant innovations as any owner of one of the great but bulky Foreman grills will probably agree. Also, the picture looked great, the new design all sleek and black (the version I chose) or the traditional metallic silver.

The first disappointment came straight away when I took the grill out of its box - the black cover is not matte, as it appears in the pictures, but high shine, like Japanese lacquer. And you see every fingerprint, every little scratch - the first very slight marks and scratches were already on it when it arrived (it is virtually impossibble to get it in and out of the box without marking it). So it's cleaning with lots of care and a very, very soft cloth only - which is fine ... if this wasn't a grill, used in a real kitchen. My advice: Go for silver! The second disappointment is that it might have gained vertical storage and a place for the cable but it has lost its timer and its variable temperature control. Admittedly, I didn't use the latter that often and can do without. The timer, though, is a different story. Not having a built-in timer means getting out the old kitchen timer every time, not an insurmountable problem, sure, but exceedingly annoying.

All that aside, of course, it is still a Foreman grill and does what it is supposed to do - and does it as satisfyingly as ever. Grilling works great, even though I had to get used to the different direction of the machine & plates which at first made it appear smaller than my old machine (optical illusion or senior moment ... I prefer the first option). Cheese on toast and similar snacks work great as well, though they do take time. I found that, for example, tuna melts work best with the regular grill function, i.e. contact grilling with closed lid, but the choice is up to you. Overall, it is still one of the most useful kitchen applicances I have and it would have got at least 1 star more if I had chosen the silver version instead of the black. Ah well, we all make mistake so that we can learn from them ...

Very good but...
I really enjoy it, very quick and powerfull, grill's meat taste great!

But cleaning is an other story, the bottom grill it's okay to clean but the top one is not that easy...

Enjoy!

Go George!
I'd never had a grill before, let alone a George Foreman, so this is my first experience, and so far a good one.

It is a lovely grill, it has an attractive appearance, and the side clips allow for vertical storage making it practical. It cooks very nicely, and quickly! I use it for anything from chops, chicken, steak, veggies, sandwiches... they all come out brilliant.

It's also very easy to clean (as long as you do so while it's still hot/warm). The downside to it is that it makes an odd loud chattering or popping sound while it's heating up (something to do with the thermostat my husband tells me)... in any event, it was unsettling, so I returned the first one. Amazon was great about the return, no hassle, no fuss, had the replacement the same week. However the replacement did the exact same thing, so it must be just the way it works/heats up. It doesn't affect its operation, but doesn't seem "right" all the same... hence the lower rating, otherwise I'd give it 5 stars.