Karinear 30 Inch Electric Cooktop 30 Inch 5 Burner Drop-in Radiant Stovetop

10 minute install. Works great. Gets hot fast, cooks fast. For some odd reason it takes a long time to boil water, it may be the steel pot I use. It gets food hot with cast iron. The lock function works and I like it but its way too sensitive. Any accidental touch or swipe and it locks itself out. I have paid a lot more for major brands that are made in China anyway so I figured I'd just keep changing these cheap ones out when they break or stop working. I can get 3 for the price 1 of the major brands. I would buy again for sure.

Update 6/25: After a year and 8 months, the second stove had its rightmost upper corner out of service. I contacted the manufacturer, and I got a new replacement stove within a few days. The product manufacturer 5 year warranty is very well. the customer support from Karinear is excellent. The company is not only selling a good product but also standing behind its product. I recommend to buy this Karinear stove. ===== End of update ========= The item is the second item that I purchased. The first one had a crack in the glass after over one year usage, it is due to my maintenance error (cleaning with cold damp tower while the store surface was hot). Pros: * Nice contemporary looking. * Provide good power for cooking. * Easy to clean. Tips: Using lock funtion before cleaning surface to avoid activating other touch button. Never clean when surface is hot, this can crack the glass surface. Cons: * The provided power is not very strong for extreme hot cooking; howver, it should be enough for the normal cooking. Anyway, my cracked glass stove will be used as a spare part unit In summary, I am happy with this stove purchase

1. The correct minimum width cutout size is 29.15” (not 28.38”). I had to buy a grinder & granite blade to widen my existing cutout (and you would not believe the dust/mess that covered every surface of my entire home! Clean-up was HUGE, so be sure to close off the area if you have to trim granite). 2. The ad says that any kind of pans can be used but the owners manual says to avoid curved bottom pans. 3. On on cooktop I saw a review that said the burners could be turned on too easily, but this one you have to press & hold the unlock button for a few seconds before it will unlock & allow a burner to be turned on. 4. The burners heat up quickly, but pasta doesn’t seem to cook as quickly as my previous electric coil cooktop. 5. The “hot” warning stays on way beyond the actual time it takes to cool, which is a little annoying. 6. I thought cleaning would be easy, but when a bit of food was dropped on a hot burner, cleaning spray wasn’t enough, I had to use a razor blade scraper to get it off completely! 7. It does look nicer than my old cooktop & with the exception of widening the cutout, installation was easy without experience or help. Just be sure to turn off the breaker first!!

We had to replace our old cooktop due to a severe thunderstorm. A tree on the main road bounce multiple times off power lines causing high voltage surges that fried the cooktop's electronics. We went to the area stores that sell appliances and none of the stores stocked the cooktops. Most of the stores we would have to order and wait 10 days for delivery. So we took a chance and ordered from Amazon. The Karinear cooktop was more than $300 less than the store brands. The cooktop arrived 3 days after ordering. The packaging was sound and there were no issues with the delivery. The cooktop installation was simple with no issues. As long as your counter top opening is parallel to the backsplash and has at least 3/16" on all sides it will be a simple drop-in and the sideclips on the cooktop will hold it in place. The low height off the cooktop allowed me to place a standard cabinet with a drawer with no modifications. The co cooktop's additional burner is great if you need a very large kettle to straddle two burners to boil water for bottling preserves. We have been using the cooktop for 3 months and had three similar issues with trees bouncing off the power lines creating surges. We have had no issues and are happy with the purchase.

When we got the cooktop we were really excited to get it but when installed it didn’t work. We tried tons of ways and read over the manual but it was a defective product. When I contacted customer service they didn’t help at all and just mentioned to return it to either get a new one and or a refund. If it were my product I would be a little bit more helpful considering we were literally without a stove for days. Don’t recommend at all.

I really like the 5 burners and no knobs. The reason we got a new cooktop was because the exact replacement knobs for our old cooktop were almost as much as this entire new cooktop with 5 burners instead of 4 on our old one. And, this one heats up much faster. The two items that took a little bit to figure out were (a) how to unlock it once locked (answer: you hold the lock button for about 5 seconds); and (b) how to engage the outside or extended burner because it defaults to the smallest option (answer: push the plus button to start the burner, then hit the button on the far left until you see two lines by the burner control.). Once you master those two tricks … your good.

The manual has an illustration showing some spring clips on the rear and front of the chassis, but in fact the only place to mount them is on each side. There is enough information to figure out how to use it. It works great and is a nice upgrade from the cook top that was in this house since 1986. I recommend it.

Hello ladies and gents After lots of research, so I wouldn't have to spend top dollar on well known name brand, I decided on this cooktop and I'm very satisfied with the purchase ...my wife says after leaving a pot on the cooktop overnight it made a tough stain that we really had to scrub to get it off and if you like to clean while you're cooking you HAVE to remember to use the "lock" feature...but other than that we are very happy...I had an electrician come to replace my old cooktop with this one and he was done in about 30 minutes...this cooktop is awesome at heating up fast!! Very satisfied...just wish I could of caught the lightning sale for 279.00 smh

Pedí que alguien me la instalara, fue muy complicado para mí hacerlo. Pero funciona súper, llevo usándola 6 meses sin problema. A veces se pone el candado solo pero solo tienes que sostener el dedo sobre el icono de “candado” unos segundos y se desbloquea.

Fits just perfect for our old/tired/broken cooktop. And it works great. And you can hardly beat the price.

Necesito un manual en español ya que el instructivo viene en diferentes idiomas, sobre todo para hacer la instalación eléctrica.

really nice and easy to use

Works well. Easy to clean. Don’t like the look of the lines across each burner.