Hob Griddle Review

JD bought me a cast iron griddle for my birthday and we've been experimenting with it to see how well it works. Here's what we think of it so far!

It looks like robot face!

We've got an electric hob and it sits on there quite well. There's a ridged side for those fancy griddle marks and a flat side for pancakes and such.

The first thing we made on there was burgers. It's perfectly sized for 4 burgers and 4 rashers of bacon. It worked well but produced more smoke than cooking burgers in a frying pan. The back door had to be opened but the burgers were delicious!

We eat homemade curry quite often so also make naan breads to go with it. We usually grill the naan breads but they were great griddled. Look at those griddle marks!

A common lunch item in our house is the cheese toastie/grilled cheese sandwich. The griddle does a great job of these!

JD enjoyed making us some American pancakes for Pancake Day this year. He made 6 small ones at a time and we could hardly keep up with eating them as he made them. Which is certainly a result :D

Pizza paninis are also easily made on the griddle. Yum!

I made the Thai dish Moo Satay on the griddle. It was all sizzling and made lovely griddle marks on the pork skewers.

I think it's fair to say we've put our hob griddle to the test with a variety of foods. It's got it's good and bad points.

Good:

Heats up quickly

Cooks food quickly

Much larger cooking space than a frying pan

Fancy griddle marks on food

Bad:

Produces smoke easily

Not as easy to control the temperature of it

Takes a while to cool down after cooking

Not the easiest thing to clean

Overall I think it's a great addition to our kitchen. I've enjoyed making foods that can be griddled and it's nice to have more space for things like cheese toasties. It can be easily stored vertically behind the hob so it doesn't take up any precious counter space. It's staying!