COSTWAY Teppanyaki Grill 90 cm

A long, narrow plate for the middle of the table

A teppanyaki grill is a heated metal plate that stands on the dining table. The food lies directly on the surface instead of on a grate, and everyone at the table cooks in their own section. Costway simply calls the device an electric griddle in the box contents; in the Amazon catalogue it is listed as COSTWAY Teppanyaki Grill 1800W, Antihaft Tischgrill, 100 cm.

According to Costway, the cooking surface measures 90 x 22 cm. That is long and narrow, intended for a table with people sitting on both sides. Costway writes that it can serve 8 to 10 people. On our site the plate sits in the electric grills category, together with planchas, contact grills and grill trolleys. Our price box shows approx. €83 at Amazon (Amazon page on 20.10.2026: €82.99).

The product photo shows a black plate with a raised edge. At the rear end there is a section with cross ribs; the rest is smooth. At the front, a round dial sits at the cable connection, and handles protrude at both ends. On one long side, a small black tab sticks out in the middle. Whether that is the handle of the drip tray cannot be made out reliably in the picture.

Is this the 90 cm or the 100 cm version?

By all the numbers, the 90 cm version. The cooking surface, outer dimensions and weight in the Amazon catalogue match Costway’s article ES10477DE. The 100 cm in the title is close to the overall length of this plate, not to its cooking surface.

In detail: Amazon lists 41.34 x 9.45 x 4.13 inches and 6.61 pounds. Converted, that is approx. 105 x 24 x 10.5 cm and approx. 3.0 kg. For ES10477DE, Costway gives 105 x 24 x 10.5 cm (length, width, height) and 3 kg on its own product page. The genuine 100 cm version carries the number ES10478DE there, has a 100 x 22 cm cooking surface, measures 116.5 cm in length and weighs 3.5 kg.

The situation is still not entirely clean. Amazon lists the model number as QE32699DE, and a search on costway.de finds nothing under that number. Our assignment is therefore based on comparing the data; Costway has not confirmed it. On top of that, the manufacturer’s 100 cm page contradicts itself: the description says 90 x 22 cm, the specifications say 100 x 22 cm. If you really need a metre of cooking surface, look at the cooking surface in the listing and not at the headline.

Construction: cast aluminium, thermostat, drip tray

The plate is made of die-cast aluminium. Costway justifies this with better thermal conductivity. The heating output is 1800 W, controlled by a built-in thermostat with 4 temperature settings. According to the manufacturer, it sets the cooking temperature and maintains it.

Underneath the plate there are 4 non-slip feet. They are meant to keep it stable and protect the surface below from heat. For moving it, Costway has fitted two handles, which the manufacturer calls anti-scald handles, and writes that they make carrying easier indoors and outdoors.

There are two components for fat. Grooves on the plate channel excess oil into a drip tray, and this drip tray can be pulled out and removed.

According to Costway, the box contains the griddle itself, a mains cable, 2 egg rings, 6 wooden spatulas and an instruction manual. The fact that the mains cable is listed as a separate part suggests that the cable and dial can be detached from the plate. The photo shows both as a single unit at the end of the plate; Costway does not state it explicitly anywhere.

In detail: how much power arrives on which surface

90 times 22 cm gives 1,980 square centimetres. Divide the 1800 W over that and each square centimetre gets roughly 0.91 W. For comparison, take the Tefal Plancha CB651812 from our catalogue: 2200 W on 50 x 26 cm, so on 1,300 square centimetres, which comes to around 1.7 W per square centimetre. The Tefal therefore has almost twice as much heating power per area.

What that means follows from physics and not from a test of our own. If you put cold food on a hot plate, it draws heat away, and the surface cools at that spot. How quickly it recovers depends on how much power the heating element can deliver. With eight burgers straight from the fridge at once, the Costway plate will therefore take longer to get back up to temperature than a plate with a higher power density. For fried eggs, pancakes and vegetables this matters less, because the pieces are small and go onto the plate one after another.

Aluminium helps elsewhere. It conducts heat several times better than stainless steel and therefore spreads it across the surface faster. Where exactly the heating takes place under the aluminium has not been published. So we cannot say whether the edges get as warm as the middle.

A thermostat of this type switches the heating on as soon as the plate falls below the set value and off again when it reaches it. The four settings are such set values. Costway does not publish which temperatures in degrees Celsius are behind them. We would therefore preheat the plate for a few minutes at the desired setting before the first food and find the right setting over the first portions.

Socket, placement, balcony

1800 W draws just under 7.8 A at 230 V. A typical household circuit is protected with 16 A, so the plate alone stays well below that. It gets tight if a second powerful appliance runs on the same circuit: together with a 2000 W kettle you reach 3800 W and therefore around 16.5 A. Then the fuse can trip.

According to Costway, the mains cable is 90 cm long. Because the dial sits at one end, the socket must be near that end of the table. The plate itself needs 105 x 24 cm of space. On a typical dining table you place it lengthwise in the middle, which leaves room for plates on the left and right.

For outdoor use, Costway only mentions carrying it indoors and outdoors. No protection rating against splashing water is given, and as a general rule an electrical appliance without such a rating does not belong in the rain or on a wet table. On a balcony an electric plate is often more likely to be permitted than charcoal, but the tenancy agreement and house rules are what count. What is usually regulated there is covered in our guide Grilling on a balcony.

Coating, cleaning and safety

Costway describes the plate as non-stick coated and writes that the coating is PTFE-free, PFOA-free and contains no lead or cadmium. PTFE is the plastic used in classic non-stick pans. PFOA used to be used in its production and has been largely banned in the EU since July 2020; the PFOA-free claim is therefore nothing special for goods sold on the European market. Costway does not say what the coating is made of instead.

For cleaning, exactly one sentence is documented: the drip tray can be removed after use and cleaned in the dishwasher. About the plate itself, the product page and the Amazon catalogue say nothing, not even whether it may come into contact with water. In general, for appliances with a built-in heating element: pull the plug, let it cool down, never immerse it in the sink. How Costway wants the plate cleaned is probably in the instruction manual, and we were unable to view it.

For non-stick surfaces, we recommend wood or heat-resistant plastic instead of metal. The six wooden spatulas in the box fit that. If something sticks anyway, it is usually down to too little preheating or turning too early; there is more on this in our guide Food sticking to the grate.

Costway offers the instruction manual in the shop only as a PDF after a customer login, and we did not find a freely accessible version. We therefore cannot reproduce the manufacturer’s safety instructions word for word. In general, for table grills: the whole plate surface gets hot, and children at the table need someone to watch them. While the device is running, someone stays with it.

What Costway does not publish

According to our research, the following remain open: the temperatures of the four settings in °C, the heat-up time, how the heating element runs under the plate, whether the thermostat and plate are detachable and whether the plate is washable or dishwasher safe, the capacity of the drip tray, the material of the spatulas, egg rings, handles and feet, the type of non-stick coating, warranty period and warranty terms, spare parts such as drip tray, mains cable or thermostat, the country of manufacture, test marks and protection class, whether there is overheating protection, an indicator light or cable storage, and the power consumption in operation. The instruction manual with set-up, cleaning and safety rules was not accessible to us. Everything this text says about the plate comes from the Costway product page, the Amazon catalogue or the product photo.

Three alternatives from our catalogue

The prices come from our price boxes and change constantly. The rating is our editorial assessment based on the data comparison; we did not measure anything on any of the four devices.

When to choose this plate, and when another

Usually two to four people at the table? Then the Costway plate is too long. The Russell Hobbs Fiesta is at approx. €70, the Costway at approx. €83, and with 45 x 25 cm it has a good 1,100 square centimetres of surface, a little over half as much as the Costway. That is enough for small groups, and it is easier to store.

If you want to sear meat in larger quantities, we would go for the Tefal Plancha CB651812. It is at approx. €90, the Costway at approx. €83, and it has the clearly higher power per area that we worked through in detail above. In return it is shorter, and Tefal intends it for indoor use only.

If the electric plate is actually meant to replace a grill in the garden, a tabletop plate is the wrong design. The Landmann EG-II-590 is a grill trolley with cast iron grates and is at approx. €550, the Costway at approx. €83. That is a different budget, but also a device you grill at standing up rather than at the dining table.

Our assessment of the Costway itself: it suits you if you regularly make breakfast, pancakes or mixed small dishes for eight or more people, have a table with a good metre of free length and a socket near the end. In our rating it comes in at 7.9, behind all three alternatives, mainly because too much information is missing, not because of a documented flaw.

We would not choose it if you want to know before buying how hot the highest setting gets, or want to read the care instructions before the device is in your house. And if you are still undecided between a table grill, a contact grill and a grill trolley, the Grill finder narrows down the choice.