Customer Reviews

Proctor Silex 38513 Electric Griddle

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There isn't much to say about an electric griddle unless it's very badly designed.
This one has a slight lip around 3 sides, the 4th side has a recessed area for fat to drain into so it can collect in a small drawer in the middle, and the thermostat goes from warm to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Pros-
Size, I can make 8 pancakes about the size of my palm at a time
non-stick surface is very non-stick, no greasing required
Heats fairly fast- 325 is about the perfect point for most things that I make.
Doesn't put out a lot of ambient heat, so good for cooking on warm days
Heat is evenly distributed, everything on the surface cooks at about the same speed.

Cons-
The draining area seems a little flimsy, and the drawer is loosely put in
Not made for really easy clean up. If you're making anything with a lot of grease it might be hard to completely clean it.

So I wouldn't use this for hamburgers, but for things with not much grease like turkey or chicken sausage, French toast and pancakes, this is very convenient.

I plugged this in to test it and cranked the control all the way to an indicated 400F. The heating element never turned off. Concerned, I went to the shop for my infrared thermometer "gun". Over five hundred degrees! Teflon releases toxic gases at high temperature and my griddle was smelling. Turned the thermostat down to an indicated 250F and the thermometer gun read 375F and the heat distribution is pretty even. My pancakes were too brown at that set point so I turned it down further to an indicated 225F. It makes good pancakes (which is what I bought it for) but if it wasn't for such a bargain sale price at a big-box store this would have been returned.