Eight pans, six seats, and one cable · review
An 8-person stainless raclette grill with a granite stone and a reversible plate, and two bullets of text.
The net of it A hundred and eighty dollars for eight people, a granite stone and a reversible plate — and two bullets, neither of which is a specification. The most expensive electric machine here publishes less about itself than the twenty-two dollar candle dish.
That is the entire published text at $179.95.
One bullet is about entertaining and the maker’s standing — “an industry leader”, “a vast selection”. The other says it makes a good present — “Great Gift”, “beautifully packaged”.
The product name carries more information than the bullets do.
What the rest of this shelf publishes, by price:
ARLIME $74.99 — 1800 W, 26 accessories, 304 stainless pot, a 2.5 ft cord, independent controls, a 10 minute first-use instruction Hamilton Beach $83.95 — 200 square inches, 8 warming trays, an indicator light, all parts dishwasher safe, and a bullet explaining what raclette is GIVENEU $109.99 — 1500 W, two thermostats, a 600 ml steel bowl, a splash-guard collar, a plate, a stone, 8 forks, 8 pans, 8 wooden spatulas, the same 10 minute instruction this $179.95 — eight people, a stone, a plate, stainless steel
Even the candle dishes do better. The $21.95 Swissmar Nordic publishes its 3 tealights, its non-stick dish and its spatula. The $24.95 Artesà publishes a 5 year guarantee — the only warranty term on this shelf.
So the most expensive electric machine here is the least documented. What you are buying on this page is the brand and the brushed steel, and the specification sheet is the catalog measurements.
A granite stone, plus a reversible non-stick plate: ribbed on one face, flat on the other.
Ribbed gives grill marks and lets fat drain away from the meat. Flat gives full contact — which crepes, eggs, onions and prawns need, and a crepe cannot be cooked on a ribbed surface at all.
The whole shelf has this idea in different forms:
ARLIME — a “double-sided grill plate… two cooking styles in one” Hamilton Beach — a “dual-texture grill/griddle” in one plate GIVENEU — two separate pieces, a non-stick plate and a granite stone, as here this — a granite stone, and a plate that is ribbed one way and flat the other
The granite is what justifies the weight. A stone plate holds far more heat than a thin non-stick one, so it does not drop in temperature when cold meat lands on it — which is exactly what kills the sear on a light plate at a table where eight people keep adding food.
And it cannot be scratched off. The failure of every non-stick plate on this shelf is a metal edge cutting the coating under pressure: once broken, cheese sticks there permanently and the break spreads. Raclette means scrape, which is why the GIVENEU ships 8 wooden spatulas and all three candle machines ship one each.
Granite has nothing to lose, and this page names no spatula at all.
What is not published is the stone’s thickness or its dimensions, which is what decides how much heat it actually holds — a thin stone is a non-stick plate with a rough face.
Not a range, not a settings count, not a dial — not even that one exists.
Every other electric machine here addresses it, because the dish demands it. Melting cheese wants 50 to 60 °C; held hotter it splits, the fat separating from the protein. Searing meat wants 200 °C or more, since browning does not begin below about 140 °C. A hundred and forty degrees apart, on one appliance.
Three answers on this shelf:
GIVENEU $109.99 — “dual independent thermostats… without one zone affecting the other” ARLIME $74.99 — “independent controls for the grill panel and fondue pot” Hamilton Beach $83.95 — geometry instead of electronics: 8 trays below the plate, so they run cooler for free
Here, nothing. A granite stone and a non-stick plate heated by an unstated element at an unstated temperature.
And no fondue pot is mentioned either, which puts this with the Hamilton Beach among the raclette-only machines — except that the Hamilton Beach says so, and spends its freed center on 200 square inches of grill.
No accessories are named. No trays, no mini pans, no forks, no spatulas. At eight people, eight something is required — the GIVENEU names 8 pans, the Hamilton Beach 8 trays, the ARLIME “removable mini grill pans” with color-coded handles — and this page states only “8-Person”.
7938 grams is the heaviest machine on this shelf by two and a half kilos:
Hamilton Beach 3152 g · GIVENEU 5321 g · ARLIME 5443 g · this 7938 g The candle dishes: Swissmar Nordic 300 g · Artesà 422 g · Swissmar Tandem 710 g
In favor of the weight: the stone is most of it, and mass is the point of a stone. Brushed stainless is heavier than molded plastic and does not discolour beside a hot plate. At eight kilograms the machine does not slide when somebody pulls a stuck piece of meat off it, which a three-kilo one does.
Against: a raclette grill is used a few times a year and stored the rest of it. Eight kilos into a cupboard above head height is a different job from three.
The footprint is the largest here — 419 × 495 mm, about A3 in plan: GIVENEU 406 × 406, Hamilton Beach 394 × 419, Louis Tellier 460 × 265. On a table set for eight, half a meter in the middle is a real cost.
The redeeming figure is the height: 127 mm. The lowest of any machine on this shelf — GIVENEU 152, Hamilton Beach 181, Louis Tellier 400. At a raclette table everybody has to see each other over the appliance for an hour, and five inches is the right answer to that.
Read all of these as the carton rather than the machine, since they are catalog figures — upper bounds, not measurements of the grill.
“this electric BBQ grill indoor and outdoor”, and the name repeats it: “Outdoor & Indoor Electric BBQ Grill”.
Nothing on the page supports the outdoor half. No weather rating, no splash rating, no cord type, no statement that the body or the element is sealed.
And the one figure that would decide it is absent: the cord length. The ARLIME is the only item on this shelf to publish one — a 2.5 ft cord, thirty inches — and thirty inches will not reach a patio from indoors. An eight-kilogram appliance on an outdoor table, fed by an extension lead across a step, is the arrangement the claim implies; use a heavy-gauge lead, uncoiled, and not in rain.
“Samgyupsal Griller” in the name is the more interesting claim, and the honest one: Korean grilled pork belly is cooked exactly like raclette meat — thin slices on a hot plate at the table, with each person taking their own. A flat non-stick top and a stone are genuinely the right tools for it. It is the only cross-cuisine use named on this shelf, and the page does not develop it.
No wattage, where the ARLIME publishes 1800 W — 15 amperes at 120 volts, a full domestic circuit — and the GIVENEU 1500 W. On the heaviest machine here, with a stone to bring up to temperature, the power doing it is the first question.
No cord length, as above.
No temperature control of any kind, as above.
No grill area. The Hamilton Beach publishes 200 square inches and is the only one that does; with the largest footprint on the shelf, this is the page where the figure would have flattered the product.
No accessory count and no accessory names.
No granite stone thickness or dimensions.
No timer and no auto shutoff, which no electric machine on this shelf has. Only the Hamilton Beach has an indicator light, and its page says why: “a reminder to turn it off when you’re finished cooking.” On an appliance with no timer, unplug it rather than switching it off — and on an eight-kilo one with a stone in it, it stays hot long after the light would have gone out.
No first-use instruction, which the GIVENEU and the ARLIME publish independently and identically: run it empty for 10 minutes, ventilated, before cooking, to burn off the factory coating — mild odor and slight smoke expected once. That applies to the non-stick plate here as much as to theirs.
No cleaning statement. Not a word on whether the stone, the plate or the body is dishwasher safe — where the GIVENEU names four parts individually and the Hamilton Beach says plate, trays and accessories are all dishwasher safe. Set cheese cools to a rubber, which makes this the most expensive page on the shelf to say nothing about washing up.
No warranty, which nine of ten items here omit. The exception is the Artesà at $24.95 with a 5 year guarantee — on an item costing a seventh of this one.
Read on the day this page was built: $180 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-05. The live price is at the top of the page.
Same shelf, nearest cost — where the same money else goes.
| Serves | 8 people |
|---|---|
| Two surfaces | A granite stone and a non-stick grill plate with a crepe top |
| Body | Brushed stainless steel |
| Weight | 7938 g (280 oz) — the heaviest machine on this shelf by two and a half kilos |
| Footprint | 419 × 495 mm (16.5 × 19.5 in), and only 127 mm (5 in) tall |
| Reference | KF-77081 |
| Bullets published | Two, neither of them a specification |
| Wattage | Not published |
| Cord length | Not published |
| Temperature control | Not published — not even that there is one |
| Grill area | Not published |
| Accessory count | Not published; no trays, pans or spatulas named |
| Fondue pot | Not mentioned |
| Warranty | Not published |
| Amazon reference | B000RWJ2W8 |
| EAN | 0056975032881 |
Two bullets, and neither of them is a specification. Bullet one is about entertaining: "Instead of being confined to the kitchen, enjoy socializing with your guests as they cook their own meals", with the maker describing itself as "an industry leader" offering "a vast selection of raclette grills". Bullet two says it is a good present: "Great Gift — ...beautifully packaged... the perfect gift for anyone who loves cooking and entertaining." That is the whole of the published text at $179.95. The product name carries more information than the bullets do: "Granite Stone Non-Stick Grill Plate/Crepe Top", "Brushed Stainless Steel", "8-Person". Compare what the rest of this shelf publishes. The GIVENEU at $109.99 names every one of its twenty-nine pieces — a 600 ml stainless bowl, a splash-guard collar, a grill plate, a granite grill stone, 8 forks, 8 pans, 8 wooden spatulas — and publishes 1500 W and a ten-minute first-use instruction. The ARLIME at $74.99 publishes 1800 W, 26 accessories, 304 stainless and a 2.5 ft cord. The Hamilton Beach at $83.95 publishes 200 square inches and 8 trays. Even the $21.95 candle dish publishes its tealight count — three — and its material. The most expensive electric machine here is the least documented. What you are buying on this page is the brand and the stainless steel, and the specification sheet is the catalog measurements.
Three cooking surfaces from two pieces — and the granite answers a problem non-stick has. The name gives the arrangement: a granite stone plus a non-stick grill plate / crepe top, which is one reversible plate: ribbed on one face, flat on the other. Ribbed gives grill marks and lets fat drain away from the meat; flat gives full contact, which is what crepes, eggs, onions and prawns need — a crepe cannot be cooked on a ribbed surface at all. The whole shelf has the same idea in different forms. The ARLIME at $74.99 has a "double-sided grill plate... two cooking styles in one"; the Hamilton Beach at $83.95 a "dual-texture grill/griddle" in a single plate; the GIVENEU at $109.99 two separate pieces, a non-stick plate and a granite stone, as here. The granite is the part worth having. A stone plate holds far more heat than a thin non-stick one, so it does not drop in temperature when cold meat lands on it — which is exactly what kills the sear on a light plate at a table where eight people are adding food constantly. And it cannot be scratched off. The failure of every non-stick plate on this shelf is a metal tool cutting the coating, which is why the GIVENEU ships 8 wooden spatulas and why raclette means scrape. Granite has nothing to lose. What is not published is the stone’s thickness or dimensions, which is what decides how much heat it actually holds.
Both, and it is the one number this page lets you reason from. 7938 grams is the heaviest machine on this shelf by a wide margin: Hamilton Beach 3152 g (111.2 oz) · GIVENEU 5321 g (187.7 oz) · ARLIME 5443 g (192 oz) · this 7938 g (280 oz). The candle dishes are 300, 422 and 710 grams. In favor: the granite stone accounts for much of it, and mass is what a stone plate is for — thermal ballast that keeps the surface hot. The brushed stainless body is heavier than molded plastic and does not discolour next to a hot plate. At 8 kilograms this does not slide across a table when somebody pulls a stuck piece of meat off the grill, which a 3 kg (6.6 lb) machine does. Against: a raclette grill is used a handful of times a year and stored the rest of it, and eight kilos in a cupboard above head height is a different proposition from three. And the footprint is large: 419 × 495 mm (16.5 × 19.5 in) is about A3 in plan, the biggest on the shelf — the GIVENEU is 406 × 406 mm (16 × 16 in), the Hamilton Beach 394 × 419 mm (15.5 × 16.5 in). The redeeming figure is the height: 127 mm (5 in), the lowest of any machine here, against the GIVENEU’s 152, the Hamilton Beach’s 181 and the Louis Tellier’s 400. At a raclette table everyone must see each other over the appliance, and five inches is the right answer to that. The catalog dimensions are the carton, not the machine, so read them as an upper bound.
Details checked on October 5, 2026.
A buyer who wants stainless steel and a granite stone and will accept being told nothing else
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for kitchen appliances and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
8 seats · 1,300 W · stepless dial
Eight non-stick pans and four wooden spatulas, 1,300 W, with a side dial giving stepless temperature over the plate and the pans together. The non-stick grill plate lifts off and HengBO states it fits in the sink; the maker also states low smoke and odor for indoor use.
Best for: Eight people around a table, in a flat where smoke matters.
12 seats · 1,650 W · 3 plates + fondue
Fonduelette XL: raclette, grill and fondue in one, for up to twelve people, at 1,650 W across three separate stainless heating elements. Three interchangeable tops — metal, natural stone and a crêpe plate — twelve raclette pans, and a lid that holds the fondue forks upright.
Best for: A long table at Christmas, where raclette, grilling and fondue all happen at once.
2–6 people · Ø 30 cm (11.8 in) stone plate
A compact raclette and grill for two to six people, built around a round natural stone plate of 30 cm (11.8 in). Princess publishes something rare in this family: a cleaning routine per component, a stated preheat of about ten minutes, an instruction not to use metal utensils, and color-coded pans so people keep their own.
Best for: Two to six at a small table, and a plate that will not lose its coating because it has none.
