Pretty noisy, if I had to describe the volume I'd say about jusy below the cusp of needing to talk louder when using it and talking to someone next to you, but it's not a dealbreaker. Heats up very quick, on par with a good gas stove, the fluctuations in heat can be annoying but usually not a problem, especially if your cookware is thick enough. The buttons can be frustrating at times with how close to the pans they can be, it would be nice if they were on the very very edge of the stove top. Overall I'd say it's not good quality, two years is not a reasonable lifespan. Install was easy though, it's basically drop in and cook.I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but I'm not too upset.

I am very happy with my cooktop

El vidrio se daña muy rápido, enseguida mostró muestras de estar quemada a diferencia de las vitro no se volverá a a ver limpia y como nueva.

Excelente producto, me gustaron la funcion L que es abajo de cero para mantener caliente y la función power boost que calienta algo asi como turboRecién la compramos espero que funcione bien por muchos años

La acabo de instalar y la hemos usado dos veces y hasta ahorita todo funciona excelente. Esperemos que sea duradera. Calienta muy rápido!👌👍

I had an electrician install this induction cooktop in early 2019. I have been having electrical power on/off issues intermittently. Yet now it no longer works. Here I am at the end of 2020 and another electrician told me that it is defective and needs to be replaced. If only it had lasted longer, I would otherwise be happy with the product. I have requested a return from the seller and await their response.

The kitchen is truly bad quality, I would not recommend this product at all. The cable was not appropriate and lit on fire two hours after we installed it!! It was a traumatic moment for me and my family and thank God we were home to put the fire out. This product could have burned our house down!! It is such a shame its quality is so bad, I am never buying any product from the company ever again.

Just installed and tested ok. It will be a few months before a proper review can be written. Well packaged, instructions good enough. Time will tell.Update: 4/23- we installed this cooktop in 2019. We used it daily for 2+years. Was so impressed with induction cooking we installed a Bosch version in our remodeled house earlier this year. Would still highly recommend.

This cooktop works amazingly well. The induction is amazingly fast to heat up. With the speed of this at boiling things and the speed of the empava oven, I no longer need a microwave. I rarely use higher than 2 on the burner settings. The burner timers is also a great feature. To unlock the Locked function, just hold down the lock button for a long time and it will unlock.

We replaced a failed Summit 24inch cooktop with the Empava and were delighted with the performance. The Empava fans are very much quieter than the Summit. The power range is great: the Empava large element boost is more powerful than the Summit, and the small element low is lower without the short duty cycling. The ability to set individual timers for each element plus an overall alarm is very useful. Tea for two in 3 minutes in a cast iron tea pot.Plus the usual induction cooktop advantages: quick on/off, energy efficient , safe surfaces.

So far I love it (I haven't finished the remodel so it's still sitting on a table)! It's gorgeous so I'm hopeful it works as well as it looks. It was perfectly packaged and I received it super fast. I'll update with details on the operation and photos in the finished kitchen. I'm excited and can't wait to cook again!

I installed this a couple weeks ago and overall have been quite pleased with it. It dropped into the existing cut-out for a 30-year-old 24" solid-burner electric cooktop, and has been a lot more fun to cook with than that slow-to-respond thing.Unlike another reviewer here, I had researched induction cooking before buying - in fact, I remember my father decades ago telling me about how clever this technology was, so I was long familiar with the requirement of magnetic pots and pans. Last fall, after moving into a rural home with only electricity, oil and wood, and the afore-mentioned electric cooktop, I bought a single-burner countertop induction unit to see how I liked it, hoping to avoid the necessity of putting in gas. Obviously, since I bought this, I decided it would do! However, until I found this model, I was hesitant to make a purchase as every major-brand model seemed to have among their reviews a few from people who, after paying ~6x the cost of this Empava, had a major failure soon after the cooktop was out of warranty. It seemed a lot of money for something that might not last a lot of years. Then I came across this cooktop.This cooktop has one big idiosyncrasy that I assume is related to its low price and which I assume the expensive big-name cooktops would not have (though I haven't used one so I can't be sure) - I didn't notice this in my countertop unit: at lower power levels: it noticeably cycles on and off. To see this in action, read Bartleby’s excellent review of the Empava 30" Induction Cooktop EMPV-IDC30. He or she includes a video showing a pot alternating between boiling and simmering at about 3-second intervals. It is noticeable (and annoying) when trying for a low boil or gentle sautee if using a steel pan. (I realized while sauteeing onions this evening that I don't notice it when using cast iron - presumably its greater thermal mass evens out the heat.) For this I'd probably give the cooktop 3 stars if it weren't so darn cheap! It regains one star for the price.I will also add that, like Bartleby for the 30" version, I consider the included supply line on to be undersized for the amperage of this unit (30 amps), but I didn't go so far as to replace it.Other than this, the cooktop offers the quick response and power that induction is known for. My husband is thrilled with how fast he can boil a cup of water using burst mode - he says it's boiling before he finishes grinding his coffee.Following a mention in another cooktop review, I visited Amazon's British site and found it frustrating to discover the large selection of 24" (60cm) induction cooktops available there in this price range - none of which will ship to the US. But that's not Empava's fault - in fact, we should thank them for offering us this cooktop! I hope they'll have some competition in years to come.(P.S. Am I the only one who's kind of glad that I was forced to get rid of all but a small subset of my pans? I had way too many, and as a confirmed packrat, probably never would have regained all this cabinet space if not forced! :-) )~---~ ~---~ ~---~ ~---~ ~---~ ~---~ ~---~ ~---~ONE YEAR UPDATE: Yup, still loving it. Nothing to change in the above review. Except the price has gone up, so where I refer to name-brand cooktops costing 6x as much, it's just 4x now. Reading the reviews confirms my feeling when I bought it that one trade-off for the savings is manufacturer's support - I'd advise anyone who orders this to get it installed and tested within the Amazon return window.