Are leftover pans haunting your sink like ghosts from feasts long ago? We’ve all been there, scraping a skillet that seems to be stuck together with yesterday night’s food. You didn’t know you needed an electric skillet with removable base, but it’s the best thing you could have.

This is how it changes the story. It’s hard to wash traditional electric skillets since they are so big and heavy. They’re like gym weights for cookware: big and hard to use. But when you take the pan out, you have to clean up right away, even before your dinner is cold. It’s as quick as taking the last cookie before anyone sees you.

For example, my sister. She would always say, “I didn’t see the crusty skillet,” when it was her turn to do the dishes. Not any longer. With a snap, the pan pops out, gets cleaned up quickly, and she goes back to looking at her phone. Teenagers don’t even have a reason to protest—just open, rinse, and repeat.

You don’t have to eat yesterday’s fajitas in today’s French toast, which is another thing to adore. Change the pan, and each dinner will be its own. It used to be a chore to clean between dishes, but now it’s more like a pit stop. You might forget to lock the pan sometimes, and then your omelet will fall off the counter. It happens to the best of us.

Life just became easier for people who don’t have a lot of cupboard space. No more putting pots on top of one other like a game of Jenga. Your kitchen counter feels twice as big with just one skillet and one pan. You could even want to cook more, and not only because you don’t have any microwave meals left.

All in all, an electric skillet with a removable pan makes cleaning up easier and helps you keep your kitchen in order. Less fighting over dishes means more time for dessert. It’s a simple change that makes every meal a bit better.