The name counts modes. Indoor grill, double griddle, grill and griddle combo, bacon cooker. All four are printed on the box.
The specification page then describes how this thing heats in one line. Adjustable temperature control, and low or high heat settings. On the machine itself there is a thermostat dial, marked at seven points in degrees Fahrenheit.
The Hamilton Beach 4-in-1 MultiGrill Plus, model 25601, leads with the least interesting thing about it. Its four modes are three plates you move by hand. Its heat control is a proper instrument. Work out which of those you are buying.
First Impressions of the Hamilton Beach 4-in-1 MultiGrill Plus
Three plates come out of the box, and they are not three of a kind.
The Grill Plate is deeply ribbed across its whole face. The Lower Griddle Plate and the Upper Griddle Plate are flat. Only one plate in three carries ridges. That is worth knowing before you buy something called a grill.
Each plate drops in and comes free on a button. Lifting one out takes a second and no tools at all. Which is just as well, because you will be doing it constantly.
Closed, it is a black clamshell 7 inches tall. A brushed silver panel is set into the top of the lid. The dial and its two lights, POWER and PREHEAT, sit together on the front face.
A grey paddle folds against the front left corner. That paddle is the bacon mode. It is the only moving part here you will not have met on another countertop machine.
Key Features of the Hamilton Beach 4-in-1 MultiGrill Plus
The feature list is really a list of positions. Almost everything this machine does depends on where the three plates happen to be sitting.
- Four arrangements, one at a time: Grill, double griddle, combo and bacon cooker are the advertised four. Each is a layout of the same parts. You get one of them per cook, and changing your mind means changing plates.
- A dial with numbers on it: The scale is marked at seven points in degrees Fahrenheit, from 250 up to 400. Indoor grills at this money usually give you a vaguer instrument. Vaguer results tend to follow.
- Two sizes, one machine: Shut, you are cooking on 100 square inches of grill. Opened out flat, both plates heat and the total doubles to 200. That second figure needs the counter to allow it.
- The combo layout: One plate ribbed, one plate flat, both hot together. Chicken on the ridges and peppers on the smooth side, in a single pass. This is the arrangement that justifies owning the thing.
- Push-button plate release: Plates lift out rather than unbolt. Without that, nobody would change a layout twice. It is also why they can go in the dishwasher afterwards.
- The kickstand: Flip the foot and the whole body tilts. Grease runs downhill and away from the bacon. Hamilton Beach also encloses the plates in this mode, so the fat stays inside the machine.
- A tray that pulls out: It catches what the tilt sends down. Emptying it is the only cleaning job that cannot be handed to a dishwasher rack.
The dial runs 250, 275, 300, 325, 350, 375 and 400. Setting 300 for chicken thighs is a different job from picking low. Hamilton Beach shipped a thermostat and then wrote about a switch.
That marked scale changes what you can ask for. You choose a number and cook to it, and the PREHEAT light says when. Guesswork is what most machines at this price ask of you instead.
The scale also shows you the ceiling. The scale stops at 400, and that is the most this machine offers. Thin steak and burgers will mark well. A thick cut wanting a hard crust is asking for heat the dial does not have.
Now the part the four modes quietly hide. The panel shows one dial, not two. In the combo layout, the ribbed side and the flat side run off the same setting.
That works for chicken beside peppers, since both are happy mid-scale. It is less fine when one item wants 400 and the other wants 275. The combo mode is a two-surface machine with one thermostat. You cook to whichever food is fussier.
Build, handling and durability
The plates are the product, and they are also the part that wears. Hamilton Beach says nonstick and names no material beyond that. What it does publish is the price of replacing them.
An Upper Grid is $20.99 and a Lower Grid is $20.99. Set that against a machine selling around $59.99 direct. Two plates cost most of a new appliance. That is a number worth sitting with before you scour anything.
There is a gap in that parts list. It sells an Upper Grid and a Lower Grid, and nothing named Grill Plate. The ribbed plate is the one the product’s name is about.
The rest is a hinge, a lid and a folding foot. None of those has much in it to fail. The lid does carry a cooking plate of its own. That is more load than a lid usually takes, so the hinge is worth watching.
No warranty term appears on the product page for this model. On a sixty dollar appliance that is normal rather than alarming. It still means the seller’s own terms are the only ones you have.
Running costs, upkeep and value
Price first, because it is the thing that settles the argument. Around $59.99 was the figure direct and at Walmart. Amazon asked around $64.99. Those are our own captures from July 2026.
Direct orders over $50 ship free, which one machine already clears. Beyond the purchase, the meter is the only thing you feed. There is no seasonal gap either, since the weather never gets a vote.
Where this design earns its money is afterwards, at the sink. Press, lift, and all three plates go into a dishwasher rack. So does the pull-out tray that catches the fat. Nothing about the cooking surfaces has to be cleaned where it sits.
The bacon mode earns its keep on the same grounds. Tilting the body sends grease off the food and into the tray. Splatter is the reason most people give up cooking bacon in a pan.
Then the awkward part of the value case. Hamilton Beach has marked its own product page NO LONGER AVAILABLE. The Amazon listing is in stock and orderable.
So the appliance is still being sold, and its maker has stopped selling it. For a machine whose wearing parts are sold separately, that matters. You are betting on how long two grids stay in a parts catalogue.
Possible Hamilton Beach 4-in-1 MultiGrill Plus Complaints
- Versatility that has to be carried by hand: Changing mode means lifting plates out and fitting others, hot and greasy. The plate you took off then has to go somewhere. Nothing in the box is designed to hold it. In practice you pick one layout before dinner and stay in it.
- The maker has retired it, and the plates wear: The nonstick faces wear out long before anything else here does. Two of the three are sold as spares today. Nothing named Grill Plate is, and the page carrying those spares says no longer available. Buy it for what it does now, not for a ten year relationship.
