AHADU Premium Electric Charcoal Burner Coconut Coal Starter Hibachi Smart Overheating Control. Instant Coal Disk Tablet Fire Starter. Perfect Stove for Outdoor camping BBQ -Comes with Free Tong/Handle

My friends and I have tried a number of different electric stoves for cooking and preparing coals for hookah (the kind that don't self-ignite). This Ahadu brand is the best. Gets hot really quickly and stays hot without constantly cycling the coils. Six cube coals will be ready in less than 10 minutes. Eat your heart out competitors!If you leave it as is, the longevity will be terrible, maybe a few months if you use it often. The last burner we had went through nearly a year of daily use (3-4 heating sessions per day) with a simple modification. Normally, the bowl where you would light the coals touches the coils ever so slightly. What I did was made said bowl slightly concave so that it does not touch the coils. The easiest way to do this was to simply turn the bowl upside down and give it a few light taps with a hammer. That's it.It's also not a bad idea to dump the ash out every so often when the burner has cooled down. I don't know if it actually helps with longevity, but doesn't hurt to try!

Heats very fast; the only thing I recommend is to use it outside, gives off a very distinctive smell and it lingers other than that it’s very effective

I liked it got hot and warmed the coal quickly but I just ordered this unit 12/20/23 and it stopped working last week. 2/14/24

This is now the second burner I’ve gotten after having to return the last one and it does not get hot enough to even burn my skin let alone get hot enough to turn the coils red and definitely not hot enough to make hookah coals hot enough to smoke with! Even though it is very nice looking, probably the nicest looking one I’ve owned, it doesn’t work at all like how it should!! None of the coils even change color when on the highest heat level! I left this on for 30 mins just to see if it will ever get hot enough and still the coils would never change colors or get hot enough to burn hookah coals!! Horrible horrible product!!

Solid stove for frequent burning of coconut coals. Used it often for the past 2 years. It gets very hot so be sure to clear the area around the stove for safety purposes. Two months ago, started noticing that the coils were beginning to warp and slant. I assumed this was due to the clamp occasionally staying on the metal basket while the coals were heating up or when the blasket was placed back on the coil, with the clamp remaining on the basket, while the coil was cooling off. As of today, I found that it was no longer heating up due to the coil eventually breaking, cutting the circuit. For $25, I'd say it was still worth the cost and convenience.

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I have purchased three of these and they all worked great. They light coals in a reasonable time frame and they lasted for several months with high usage before the first one eventually wore out. The second was bought only a couple months after the first and it is still going strong. I just bought the third. I am pleased with the quality of this product.

Everything works as should. and is a great product. As a creative thinker and user of the product. I think the stove and the charcoal pot should have separate handles. Detachable or dual use was a great idea but, feels weird to use it that way. Otherwise very well made product.