Cuisinart GR-4N 5-in-1 Griddler

Product Features

• 5-in-1countertop unit works as a contact grill, panini press, full grill, full griddle, and half grill/half griddle
• Brushed stainless-steel housing; sturdy panini-style handle; floating cover to adjust to thickness of food
• Removable and reversible nonstick cooking plates drain grease for healthy cooking; integrated drip tray
• Adjustable temperature controls with indicator lights; gourmet recipes and scraping tool included
• Plates, drip tray, and scraper are dishwasher-safe; 3-year limited warranty

From the Editors

The Cuisinart Griddler makes multifunctional an understatement! With five separate cooking options, it can handle everything from pancakes to sausages to grilled cheese to steaks, hamburgers and Panini. A floating cover, and one set of reversible plates that snap in and out, turn the Griddler into a Contact Grill, a Panini Press, a Full Grill, a Full Griddle, or Half Grill/Grill Griddle. Dual temperature controls ensure everything is perfectly cooked!
Product Description

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Customer Response

Where is my single large plate?
I think i got hosed by Amazon. My single large plate was not included in my order.That aside this unit is top notch and grills chicken like a champ. My wife does all the cooking but i do enjoy watching her grill meat for my salads.

Meals are a breeze!
This is awesome! I don't write a lot of reviews, but wanted to for this one. I was dubious that a grill press would be that much different that stovetop cooking/grilling, but it makes such a difference! It is super-easy to make quesadillas, paninis, grilled asaparaus, etc. We always keep tortillas on hand for quick meals. We are about to have quesadillas right now. Yum! Easy, cleans quick, and cooks quick.

Better than a Foreman, but still imperfect.
I purchased one of these a couple years ago, but it recently broke during our move when it fell off of a stand and hit the carpeted floor three feet below. An entire (metal?) leg tore off in the fall and I decided it was time to get a new one.

The new grills have some advantages over the older ones. First, they have reversible plates so you have the grill and griddle on one pair of them, instead of two pair. Second, the drip cups have been replaced with a built-in catcher that slides in and out of the bottom of the device, itself. This is a great improvement, but you must be mindful of the tray and empty it each time you cook. More often, should you find yourself cooking many greasy things at one time.

The negatives from the original grill still remain, though. I'm not sure how they could overcome them, but they are there, nonetheless and I hope their engineers find solutions.

When you are cooking anything that is very greasy (like hamburgers and bratwursts), the size of the food forces the cover to be higher and that increases the gap between the bottom and top plates. A gap that permits enormous quantities of grease to splatter all over your counter, floor, and the grill itself.

After cooking one good burger after purchasing this, my counter top was incredibly greasy. So was the kitchen floor. So was the front of the grill. So was the top of the grill (in fact, the top of the grill was brown and thick with dripping grease). So were the three knobs that control the grill. So was the handle. So was the back of the grill. And when I lifted the top of the grill to take the burger out, the grease dripped off the top plate of the grill and right onto the power cord and the cord sheath that connects the electric parts that tie the two heating elements together from the outside.

If you don't clean the mess up, immediately, you will find yourself in a world of regret a few hours later (or the next time you cook). That grease becomes a tough adversary to eliminate once it has cooled.

This is a large negative, because the point of cooking on one of these is convenience. If you have to do as much (or more) cleaning that you would with a pan on a stove, why bother using it? However, I don't knock too many points off of the item for the fact that none of the other grills seem to have this solved, either. As far as cooking quality and speed -- it's quite good. As good as I'd get in a pan, I'm certain.

Very Nice
I am really enjoying this product makes a great panini, salmon fillets, thin sliced pork. Worry about the life of the coating on the grills, but no particular reason for doing so other than the very high heats involved on the sear setting, which is about all I use.

Fantastic, Life-Changing Product
I don't usually gush over a product but I really LOVE this thing.

After a recent diabetes diagnosis I decided to get healthy through diet and exercise.

With this product I've been cooking one thing after another, all healthy, and very easy to use and clean.

Even cooking the bread for bruschetta (1/2" baguette slice cut on the diagonal and drizzled with olive oil and pressed until golden brown) is fast and delicious (and then for the topping diced farmers' market tomatoes with diced garlic, basil [if you have it -- still great without}, extra-virgin olive oil, and salt and pepper, then spooned on top of two of the slices of bread). Fantastic appetizer for all the good things to come after -- and there will be plenty of that.

We cooked steaks last night but have also had fantastic luck with marinated kebabs and on and on.

I can't say enough good things about this.

Of the grills they rated (none of which was from Cuisinart), America's Test Kitchen rated the Krups Panini Maker best buy because the plates aren't removable and puts out heat a little more intensely as a result, but that unit dies within a year according to reviews on Amazon. By comparison, this one is warranted for three years, and after cooking those steaks in no time I'm wondering how much more heat one needs? They seared beautifully and had grill marks and were so tender and tasty inside after just a few minutes.

Mostly we're going to be doing kebabs but I'm looking forward to trying barbecued chicken soon too. The asparagus we grilled was so simple (a LITTLE olive oil, then plopped on the grill, then once grilled to slightly limp with grill marks but not mushy and overcooked, dressed with some extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper).

You'll love this. It's so well thought out and designed, it performs well, it cleans up incredibly easily, and it doesn't heat up your kitchen.

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