# Can Your Panini Press Replace a Waffle Maker? | America's Test Kitchen ## Метаданные - **Канал:** America's Test Kitchen - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qom_wPYBUw - **Дата:** 03.06.2026 - **Длительность:** 5:27 - **Просмотры:** 27,776 ## Описание You may not need a panini press, but a good one makes toasting sandwiches and grilling indoors so simple that you’ll find yourself reaching for it all the time. Hannah Crowley shows Julia Collin Davison a range of panini presses, from simple to deluxe, to see which press delivers even cooking, offers multi-cooking options, and grease drainage. 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Like for example, this green pan model over here has all sorts of controls, different plates. These promise to replace waffle irons, grles, grills. Some of them open flat like a pancake station. That's cool. — Exactly. So, we tested six of these. The price range was huge. $25 up to $300. Wa. — I know. And good news, we found great options at multiple price points. — Oh, that is good news. — Yeah. So lowerc cost options had no controls and we didn't hate that. You know, this was a simple machine that got the job done. You could have a lot of fun with that in a dorm room, for example. More deluxe options though, they got pretty fun. We're talking grill presses, flat searing plates. The next thing that was really important was consistent heat. This model from Queezinard over here really illustrated how important consistent heat was. We actually watched bacon on this one sizzle, stop sizzling, sizzle, stop sizzling. That's ridiculous. — It's ridiculous. And you could see the heat cycling, which is not abnormal for machines like this or ovens. Heat cycling is normal, but we wanted even consistent heat. Sandwich is only in there for 2 or 3 minutes. You know, bacon 8 minutes. You wanted to be able to cook those things through without visible temperature swings. Now, let's talk about cooking surfaces. So, the red dash over there, that is the most simple flat two cooking plates. Yep. But a lot of these have griddle marks. Did you know paninis don't necessarily have griddle marks in Italy? — Huh? Actually, in my head, they always have griddle marks. But panini is just sandwich. Actually, — exactly. In the US though, they often come with grill marks. Look at that gorgeous sandwich right there. I know. I want a bite of that. We'll have to wait. We loved the marks that some of these machines put on sandwiches. Let's look at the Brevel right here. So, it has a griddle side. You flip it over, it has a flat side. We had a strong preference for taller ridges on our grill plates. They made for more crisp, beautiful, distinct grill marks. So, let's talk about loading the sandwiches. Do you mind doing a little work for me over here? Of course. — All right. Take that sandwich and put it into the dash right here. — All right. This is the one with almost no features, right? It's just a plug-andplay. — All right. Well, I can see what's wrong with this. It's a clamshell and only the parts of the bread touching the hot plates are going to get toasted. That leaves quite a bit of the sandwich untoasted. — Mhm. Now, take this sandwich and load it into the Brevel. — Okay, there you go. Oh, I see what's happening here. There's a hinge on this — floating hinge. Well, that just means that you get a nice even press on the sandwich so it cooks evenly and all the bread touches the hot plates, — right? And it's not just sandwiches, you know, a whole eggplant. I had a whole eggplant in here. — Oh, that's cool. — Mhm. Otherwise, it would squish right out of that thing. It — would. — Yeah. So, it's just a little bit of luxury. Helps with even cooking. — Okay. — Some of these machines have grease drainage systems. Do you remember the George Foreman grills from the '90s? — Oh, of course. — Yeah. These are kind of like the next generation of those. — Yeah. and some didn't drain grease away, so things were a little, you know, soggy. — If they drained away the grease effectively, like this model right here from Proctor Sillex, food was crispier. We had better browning. And two factors contributed to that. First, a little tilt. The grease, we wanted a little bit of a downhill. We, you know, it wanted to run downhill. That made the grease drain away more effectively. Also, a large opening for the grease to get through. If it was smaller, it just puddled up and did not evacuate very well. — That makes sense. And the grease trap is Oh, right here. Easy to clean. — Yeah. Take that whole thing, wash it in the sink. Okay. — Really nice. Speaking of beautiful grease drainage, that brings us to our winner right here from Brevel. It has these ceramic plates that come out for easy cleaning. They flip around so you can do the ridges. searing. This whole thing opens flat for barbecue mode. — Wa! Yeah. — Barbecue mode. — And you said the plates on the bottom are flat. So now it's a griddle. You could be making pancakes and eggs. — Engage pancake mode. — Oh, — exactly. So it does a lot. It also costs a lot. — Okay. — $200 for this machine. — Mhm. — Which, you know, is great if you have it, but if you don't, we found a great alternative, too. The Proctor Sillex. This costs $30. The plates don't come out. Okay? — They're not reversible. You have to clean them, wipe them down in here. But it cooked food beautifully. Gorgeous browning, nice even heating, great grease drainage like I showed you before. And for 30 bucks, great cooking. That's a great deal. — Okay, thanks Anna. — Thank you. There you have it. If you're in the market for a panini press, you have two options. The Mac Daddy, the ### [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qom_wPYBUw&t=300s) Segment 2 (05:00 - 05:00) Breville Sarin Press Grill at $200 with lots of options, or a simpler best buy. That's the Proctor Sillex Panini Press at just $30. For full episodes of your favorite cooking shows, head over to ATK's full episodes channel on YouTube. You can stream complete seasons of America's Test Kitchen, Cooks Country, and more. See you there. --- *Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/52456*