Kitchen Needs

Most small-kitchen problems come down to the same thing: too many gadgets, fighting over too little worktop. Grills are usually the worst offenders. They’re big, they’re heavy, and they sit there taking up space long after dinner’s done and the plates are washed. This one’s built differently. It folds down small enough to live in a cupboard, and it still gets a proper dinner on the table in about five minutes.

Meet the Small Fit Grill

It’s a two-plate electric grill, 760W, and about 19cm wide by 26cm deep once it’s open and cooking, so it doesn’t eat up much worktop while it’s in use. George Foreman’s own spec sheet puts the cooking surface at 272 square centimetres across both plates and says it can handle up to five portions, though for one or two people you’ll mostly be using half that. A clip-on drip tray at the front catches the fat as you go, and it’s dishwasher safe, so there’s no scraping a pan afterwards.

The bit that actually earns it a place in a small kitchen is the storage. Close the lid, wrap the cord round the back, and it stands up on its edge rather than lying flat. That’s the difference between finding it a slot in a cupboard and giving up and leaving it permanently on the worktop next to the kettle.

Good to know

The cooking plates themselves aren’t removable, so cleaning means wiping them down rather than popping them in with the cutlery. It’s also a grill, not an oven. Anything that needs liquid batter or a lid full of steam, this isn’t the gadget for that.

Three dinners in about five minutes

Halloumi and pepper wrap. Slice halloumi and a pepper thinly and lay them straight on the hot plates. Give them about three minutes a side, until the halloumi’s got some proper colour on it. Warm a flatbread on the grill for the last thirty seconds, then wrap the lot up with whatever sauce is open in the fridge.

Bacon and egg roll. Bacon cooks fast on a grill like this, usually two or three minutes a side depending how crispy you like it. While that’s going, toast a split roll on the spare half of the plate. You’ll still need a pan for the egg; this thing isn’t a miracle worker. But it takes the bacon and the toasting down to almost nothing.

Quick chicken fajita strips. Cut a chicken breast into thin strips so it cooks through fast, around four minutes total with a turn halfway. A squeeze of lime at the end, then pile it into a warmed wrap with whatever veg needs using up.

One more thing on the pictures in this post: they’re illustrations of the type of grill, not photos of the actual product, so the one that turns up at your door will look a little different in the details.

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