Price: $159.99
(as of Nov 01, 2024 11:41:10 UTC - Details)

Enjoy perfectly grilled and healthy food for your family and friends all year long with the Indoor OptiGrill + XL. Thanks to its 9 automatic programs, you can enjoy perfect indoor grilling results with the temperature and the cooking time being automatically adjusted to your favorite food. With 3 additional settings (seafood, pork and bacon) and a 33% larger cooking surface than the classic OptiGrill, this panini press keeps all your food juicy and full of flavor. The indicator light and the audible beep tell you where your food stands in the cooking process; green for start of cooking, yellow for rare, orange for medium and red for well done. Lift up the lid and remove the food when it is ready and leave the rest to keep cooking to your desired doneness. Even frozen food regains all its flavor in a couple minutes thanks to the frozen mode. The manual modes with adjustable temperature give your fruits, vegetables or any other personal recipes the delicious and unique taste of grilled food. With removable plates inclined at 7 degrees fat can easily run off. The PTFE non-stick aluminum plates and the drip tray are removable for easy clean up.
THE SMARTEST GRILL EVER: precision technology that calculates ingredient thickness and adjusts cooking automatically. This is not just an indoor grill—it's also a panini press, a griddle and a sandwich maker, offering endless meal options.
XL CAPACITY : COOK FOR 8 WITH EASE : Grill up to 6-8 servings at once on your electric grill, making family meals a snap.
9 SMART COOKING PROGRAMS: Our indoor grill comes with nine pre-programmed settings for hamburger, poultry, fish, sandwiches and even more.
2X LESS SMOKE WITH FAST RESULTS: This powerfull indoor grill ensures fast and homogeneous results with minimal smoke (compared to the T-fal TG80 grill).
UP TO 44% LESS FAT: The inclined plates and juice tray on our electric grill facilitate the removal of excess fat (test based on a burger 20% fat).
Reviewer: Rashelle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Life Changing
Review: I love this grill! This grill is so easy to use. It's fast. I really enjoy cooking my food now because less mess. If I want a little bit more fat on my burger then I just pull out the grease tray and poor it on my meat. This is so easy to use with all the different settings. I love that it beeps as it changes from preheat, to cooking, rare, medium, well done, etc. This is nice because I like to put a little bit of raw cheese on my burger toward the end. I put the cheese on and while it's still in cooking mode, I hold the lid just above the meat and it melts it fast. Then, wallah! Perfect meat. The benefit of this over the air fryers is there is no weird taste or smells that you get with an air fryer. Plus everything is dishwasher safe. I highly recommend. I went from hating to cook and now I enjoy it.

Reviewer: Nathan Daniel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works as advertised for me..Good results everytime!
Review: Purchased this online just over a week ago.Had a Foreman grill been using awhile. I liked the Foreman grill ok but many times I would overcook my food or the chicken would be a bit dry (probably cause I overcooked it too).The Forman Grill worked well enough. It was the Next Gen version with temp controls. I did like the removable grates which this one has as well.The build quality of the T-Fal is at least 1 order of magnitude better than the Foreman. You can see some of this when you pull the grates or open and close the lid. The grease trap is much larger on the T-Fal. The controls on the T-Fal are fine I would had liked a bit more solid feel to them for the price but they are not bad at all. Just use with some degree of care and feel.Cooked a 1.5" thick NY Strip for my 1st cooking. Turned out FANTASTIC! Used Weber Chicago Steak seasoning and PAM high Temp Non stick spray. It cooked the steak to a perfect med rare and fork tender n juicy. I may or may not have made a better steak on my Weber charcoal grill but that takes about 30-45 mins of prep. This prep took 5 mins.Next I cooked a Frozen chicken breast. Using the same PAM high Temp spray again, set the grill to defrost, poutry and then OK. After a short preheat put the frozen chicken breast on and seasoned it with some Weber kick-n-chicken seasoning . Now doing it this way will take about 3x longer than cooking a chicken breast from thaw. Once it was done I immediately pulled it and cut and tasted it. It was pretty darn good from frozen I will say. Much better than when I use warm water or microwave(microwave thawing I think makes it a little tougher and slightly chewy). By far best same day frozen to done chicken I ever did.I also cooked a thawed chicken breast. This was a Cilantro Lime pre-marinated breast from Wal-Mart (about $5.98). I set the grill to just poultry - then it preheated a bit longer, sprayed on the PAM High Temp Grill spray and let it rip. It was done a good bit quicker than the frozen and was absolutely marvelous! Very very juicy and fork tender. While the results were "good enough" on the frozen chicken to eat and enjoy cooking from say an overnight thaw should produce excellent results. Anytime you quick thaw something you tend to lose a bit of tenderness in either beef or poultry. I have to say I dont think I have made a chicken breast this good over open flame. While I miss the charcoal twang in the taste just a little, the fork tender and evenly cooked state of the breast is simply fantastic.I did burgers from Frozen. I used SAMS Choice Jalapeno Black Angus frozen patties. They are 1/3rd pound thick. I used PAM High Temp Grill spray - Turned out perfectly! Now these were tender and juicy unlike poultry ground beef does pretty well from frozen.My sister came over and made her Salmon on it and LOVED IT! Now if your doing fish DONT use the Pam High Temp cooking spray, Use your normal olive oil or regular spray as I believe the grill presets begin at a lower temp. Use normal olive oil for grilled veggies,shrimp and other stuff.So what is the huge advantage vs the Foreman? Well in a busy schedule it removes a lot of the guesswork out of the time to grill and uses temp presets ,auto thawing, temp change programming and thickness of the selected item to predetermine time to done. And it really does work great! The only caveat to it and they mention it in the guide is if you want a medium rare steak, you cook it to Medium Rare but then let it sit say 5 minutes before eating it , most likely carryover cooking will take it to more Medium done. So stop your cooking about halfway between the Rare and Medium rare color change as I have started doing, let it sit 5 minutes and it will be perfect.This is a great grill for a college student, elderly or someone who needs a fast efficient cooking grill that takes a lot of uncertain guesswork out of cooking.ProsSUPER EASY! Takes a lot of guess work out of cooking meats to desired donenessEfficient - 1800 watts - about the same power as a hairdryer - lot less power than the ovenRemovable grates - Cleanup isnt bad at all about the same as the ForemanFairly compact - fits easily and for me permanently on my counterConsA little pricey - I paid $89 for my Foreman 4 or 5 years ago. This was about 2x that priceAlert beeper - Could be a little louder if your in another room or have noisy kids aroundSoft Touch Controls - I prefer more solid feeling controls

Reviewer: RetiredEE
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: T-Fal GC702 grill is fantastic!
Review: After looking over all of the George Foreman grills, I was struck at how primitive they are. The cheapest ones are not the easiest to clean, the more expensive have removable heat plates that are still difficult to clean, and all are pretty "dumb." I then wondered "what happens if I bump up my price expectations?" which was when I came across the T-Fal GC702. It is the first grill I ever bought. I now have about 4 months of experience using it and can offer my thoughts on it.For starters, its heat plates are "non-stick" and easily removable by single buttons on the side. This makes cleaning quite easy. I first followed others' recommendations by spraying PAM on the plates before cooking, but the smoke was more than I could bear. Plus, it tends to burn itself into the plates, making cleaning difficult and leaving a residue on the plates, even after a thorough cleaning. I then bought a good plastic scrub brush ("OXO Good Grips Electric Grill and Panini Press Brush"), and it's been a breeze to clean since. I simply run the plates under a bit of water, let them sit for about a minute, and the scrub brush easily cleans everything off. Piece of cake!What makes this grill unique is the meat thickness sensor in the hinge assembly. You must power on the grill with the nothing in the grill, which the sensor interprets as the time to ramp up the temperature. You input whether you want to first defrost the slab of meat, or if its not frozen already, as well as the kind of meat you will be cooking: chicken, meat patties, steak, fish, hot dogs, or sandwiches (grilled cheese, presumably). The unit's smarts then take it from there to do the next step, which is when you open the grill and insert the meat. The thickness sensor then knows how thick the meat is and adjusts its timer accordingly. If it's to defrost the meat first, then the defrost timer starts, based on the meat's thickness. If no defrost cycle is called for, then the cooking timer starts. It's a pretty decent sensor and timer, and gets you pretty close to where you want the cooked meat to be, be it rare, medium, or well-done.Part of this process if the simple "cyclops light" in the grill's handle. When the unit is first heating up, the light is purple, and slowly turns blue. When the grill is up to temperature, a little beeper goes off, alerting you that you're ready to start cooking. As the meat cooks, the light first turns yellow ("rare") and beeps, then continues as it turns orange ("medium") and beeps, followed by red ("well") and beeps. You can lift the lid any time during the cooking cycle without upsetting the cook time sensor. I've found that these indicators get you close to where you want to get it, although my sense is that they tend to overcook based on the sensor light color. Personally I prefer juicy chicken and slightly red steaks. Each of these desires, I've come to learn, can be accomplished by the "rare" timer. Typical grill times are: warm-up time, 6 minutes. Cook steak to a bit more than rare, 5 minutes. Cook chicken to juicy, 6 minutes.I've come to disfavor using the grill's defrost function, as it tends to over-char the meat. Instead, I use my microwave's defrost capabilities, which are quite good, and then cook the meat with the grill. The microwave's defrost cycle tends to cook the meat slightly, but since the meat is going into the grill in short order, so what?There's a little plastic drip pan in the front of the unit that I've found is only needed when cooking hamburger patties. Chicken breasts and steaks never seem to drip. The pan removes and inserts very easily, and is very simple to clean.I thought that the grill would really smoke up my kitchen, but the only smoke it has generated came from the PAM I sprayed on the plates in my early stages of cooking with it. Since I stopped with the vegetable spray, there is zero smoke from it!I have the luxury of owning a nice little thermal imaging camera and was curious to know how hot the lid got when cooking. To my surprise, it is a balmy 90 degrees F, so you won't burn your hand on it. Where you have to be careful is around the edges, where the removable grill plates jut out. Those WILL burn you at over 300 degrees F! However, I suspect that ALL grills offer the same exposure to high temperatures at the edges. It is probably not unique to the T-Fal grill.The first time I attempted to use the grill, I also wanted to bake a potato using my 1100 watt microwave while the grill did its thing. My 20 amp breaker, which was handling both appliances, then popped. No surprise there, but it made me want to know what the power draw of the grill is. It is rated at 1800 watts (as are most of the other larger grills on the market), which means about 15.6 amps for 115VAC. If my breaker was 15 amps, then the grill would have popped it all by itself. (BTW: my house wiring is 12 gauge, rated for 20 amps.) The meter indicates that my voltage is high, 126VAC, which takes the current up even higher — 16.6 amps, about 2100 watts! Thus, this grill really sucks the (electrical) juice! Potential buyers should be aware of this and make sure that they will be plugging into a 20 amp breaker circuit lest you be popping breakers with it!Other than that, I love the T-Fal grill. It has completely changed my cooking style, as primitive as it is. I no longer broil meat in my oven. Why bother?If you have the budget, I highly recommend this grill over any other of the cheaper Foreman grills. Sorry, George!

Reviewer: Turn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: love the variety of cooking choices, ie types

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Cumple con los términos de cocción que promete. Fácil de limpiar. Deja la carne jugosa. Para los que dicen que no funciona o que terminan calculando el tiempo manualmente, les recomiendo leer el manual. Me estaba pasando que no dejaba completar el ciclo de precalentado y se pasaba a manual, lean su instructivo. Las recomendaciones de temperatura para vegetales están bien calculadas. Filete mignon de 1.5 pulgadas quedó perfecto a término medio y tres cuartos. Salmón perfectamente a término medio con piel y la piel no se pegó en la parrilla, quedó perfecto. Lo más simple como sándwiches y tocino sin mayor problema a la perfección. Recomiendo hacer una copia de la tabla de colores y cocción para tenerla a la mano en la cocina. Excelente compra, buena calidad de materiales, superó mis expectativas. Altamente recomendable.

Reviewer: Ricardo Nova
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Facil de usar y excelente terminado!

Reviewer: KM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It's basically idiot proof cooking. Turn it on, select the food you want to grill, press ok, and it tells you when it's ready, let's you know when your food is 'rare, medium, or well done'. It cooks fast and clean up is easy (plates are removable). So far I've cooked everything to 'rare' and it turns out perfect. Definitely recommend this unit! Minimal smoking. It's BBQing indoors!

Reviewer: Mauricio Miranda
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Una maravilla, para cocinar de manera fácil y practica sin aceite. Cocine pescado, carne y pollo. Sin problema. Las pechugas las deja jugosas y bien cocinadas. La carne depende de como te guste, pero es buena elección para cocinar sin humo. Muy recomendable