We’ve recently upped the usage on our George Foreman Grill. Every time I use it I get a kick out of watching the oil drain off food, knowing that usually the food would be cooking in its own fat. It’s also quite interesting cooking food that barely has any fat to drain out such as the steak burgers we eat and often the same for the steaks as we tend to pick lean cuts anyhow.
However the bonus of using the grill has to be the speed for cooking and the taste. Even with lean healthy food, if we can put it on the grill we will, simply because it cooks both sides at the same time. On Friday we had a couple of Tuna steaks. Cooked within a few minutes and the speed locked the taste in and left them with the melt in your mouth taste.
There are a lot of newer models available, the bonus being removable plates, which is something I’d like. The other option (which there may be one already) is a way to cook with the lid up, allow the lid to tilt back a little or all the way over and get it to only heat the bottom plate. Sometimes not everything can be cooked between plates and at this point I have to return to the ‘too large for the job and takes a long time to heat up’ oven!
It’s definitely a worthwhile buy. Almost everything can be cooked on it and it’s even come in handy for doing toast since our toaster died!
We gave our first George Foreman grill away and replaced it with one with removable plates. Since I’m the only user (other half is a veggie, I’ll eat anything) I wanted something that was easier to clean. Being able to run the tap over the plates or stick them in the dish washer makes life with the grill much easier and I’ve found I’m using it more often so it’s all good!
The only thing I’ve found it’s not great for is bacon. You just can’t get the same crispiness you get when it’s non-contacted grilled under a heat source.
Isn’t it a bit overkill for toast?! Toasted sandwiches maybe, but surely not plain old toast?
For bacon I tend to put them all on singly, and then when the bottom side is cooked I double them up. However I agree, bacon is better in the grill, if you eat the fat that is (I tend to cut mine off and give it to Dave).
Yes it’s overkill for toast but we don’t have a toaster
It blew up. However I’ve found a nice new Breville one on Amazon for about £35 
Our current toaster, which we’ve had for 3 years, is proving to be a bit of a pain as it’s over eager in the popping up department so you have to watch over it to make sure that the bread actually gets toasted.
We looked on Amazon for a replacement and gave up after 20 minutes. Have you seen how many toasters are on Amazon?!
I just narrowed down by make to Breville. That’s what I had before and have of other kitchen stuff too and know it’s a reliable make. The toaster in question was 6-7 years old so did pretty well.