George Foreman GFQ001 Quesadilla Maker

It truly is a fun little unit to have around. We don't use it a lot but when we do, we really get a good night out of the thing... Its fun, it works quite well and it is easy to use... But it is messy as all Hell, prepare your counter top...lol

I would call this item a MANDATORY Purchase before throwing your son out of the house. Assuming your son is aged 19-21 and never bothered learning how to cook. I would call it about as necessary as the George Foreman Grill for your College Kid.

My 22 year-old daughter uses it.I was going to give it to her at one point but she can get her own...lol

It will fill you up quickly and it will stretch your food dollar big time and again... It turns out a pretty damn good product. Someone who doesn't know how to cook can easily make something really good with this thing.

On a more technical note... It is constructed well enough for regular use. It has very good heat distribution throughout (no hot-spots or cold areas)and performs quite well. For a messy unit, it cleans up with the greatest of ease. A simple Paper Towel wipe will remove 99% of the mess produced and the unit does clean up quite simply... Much easier than damn dear every pan I have ever cleaned over the past three decades.

Have loved the convenience of this grill. Very easy to make quesadillas without having to turn them over. Also already marked sections to cut when you remove it. Slides off the grill easily. Very easy to clean. Love it.

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Originally I purchased a Bella for $19.99 at Macys. It was impossible to clean. I took it back and purchased (at another store)a George Foreman Quesadilla maker for less than the Bella and it is much superior. The larger size also compresses/closes the outside edges of the tortillas to keep the filling in. Even if the filling would go over it is made to easily clean. Preheat and cook excellent results.

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The quesadilla maker is easy to use, but I'm not totally impressed. It can't be taken apart for cleaning; it only uses the large-size tortillas; it really doesn't brown very well and the bottom tortilla is usually soggy, whether I use a light coating of oil or not. I'm using it now, but it may find its way into the Salvation Army pile before long.

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Don't know if the oven is the 'traditional' way to make a quesadilla, but it was the way the Southern Living Cookbook told me to do it. I did it and they were delicious, but flipping a quesadilla with a spatula in a flaming hot oven was not so fun, and it was awkward, and usually messy.

SO, when I found this at the big box yellow happy face place for $10 on clearance, my interest was piqued. It looked a little more contained, and therefore easier to manage.

First, the recipe I use asks that you butter the quesadilla. I don't know if this is what is traditionally done, but it's how I've made them, and it makes a nice brown crust outside. I don't seem to get the soggy bottom that others have indicated this way.

Also, I put the tomatoes to drain in a colander well before putting them in the mix. Usually a couple hours before, I have a small colander that fits into my mixing bowl and I keep that in the fridge until I am ready to assemble. I don't know if this helps the soggyness as well.

I agree with others, that it isn't always easy to find the tortillas for this maker. 10" is a little more rare than the smaller ones, and they only come 6 to a package at that, so I usually have to make three quesadillas, which is more than we need. (8 would give us two meals)

Cleaning this, given my experience with other grills and waffle irons, is pretty easy. It does not come apart, and is not submersible, but if you trust the instructions and wait for it to cool, it really does clean right up. The surface is truly non-stick and releases everything.

The latch is a trick to get used to. It compresses the maker while the food cooks, so to release it, you should push on the top of the maker to let up the tension. This is accomplished easily by keeping an oven mitt on the flaming hot top.

The way coolest part is when you slightly crispy warm and gooey quesadilla slides out of the maker, it has scores for 6 evenp pieces. A pizza cutter makes short work of this.

For what I paid for this, I find it an incredible value. Would I have paid $45 for this? In retrospect, probably. It was really worth it.

Also, I accidentally rolled it in the box down our basement stairs, and it didn't affect it in the least (I keep it in the box without the styrofoam to keep the dust off of it in our basement when not in use.)