EurHomePlus 1700W review

What the maker puts in writing

• “This steam cleaner can spray high-temperature steam and has a strong stain removal ability. It can effectively soften kitchen grease, car grease, etc… It can also clean 360 degrees”
• “This 1700w portable steamer can reach a pressure of 3-3.5 Pa, which can effectively clean most kinds of stains, such as kitchen grease, refrigerators, air conditioners, car engines”
• “This high pressure steamer can adjust cold water, hot water or steam. You can choose the right mode according to your cleaning needs… equipped with a surge thermostat that provides water shortage protection”
• “This heavy duty portable steamer has a nylon brush head and a wire brush head. The nylon brush head is suitable for scrubbing the shell, and the wire brush head is suitable for scrubbing the grease stains inside the hood”
• “The knob inside the box allows you to adjust the volume of the steam”
• Catalog: 236 × 185 × 236 mm (9.29 × 7.28 × 9.29 in)

Three and a half pascals, which is a light draft

“can reach a pressure of 3-3.5 Pa.”

A pascal is a very small unit. Atmospheric pressure is 101,325 Pa, so three and a half pascals is the pressure of air moving gently across a room. It would not lift a grain of dust, let alone cut kitchen grease.

The intended unit is almost certainly bar, and read that way the figure becomes ordinary and plausible: 3 to 3.5 bar is 43.5 to 50 PSI, which sits squarely among the rest of this shelf.

Aspiron, HawKam and McCulloch — 4 bar, the McCulloch helpfully giving both units as “4 bar (58 PSI)” ODSD and Gautye — 3 bar Mecmic — 45 PSI this — 3 to 3.5, unit unclear

So on pressure this machine is probably unremarkable rather than exceptional.

What makes the slip worth dwelling on is what sits beside it: this is the only listing on the shelf that publishes no temperature at all, on a product titled “High Heat Steam Cleaner” whose first bullet is headed “High-Temperature Steam”.

Two headline claims, and neither is given a number you can use.

For reference, what the others publish: Aspiron and HawKam 293 °F · Mecmic 250 °F · ODSD 221 °F · Gautye 212 °F · McCulloch “over 200ºF”.

Three modes, which is the one thing nothing else here does

“This high pressure steamer can adjust cold water, hot water or steam.”

This is the genuine reason to consider the machine, and it follows directly from the jobs it names.

Steam loosens grease and leaves it on the surface as a softened film. On a worktop you wipe that off with a cloth and the job is done.

But inside a kitchen extractor hood, or around a car engine — the two uses this listing leads with — there is nowhere to wipe. You need to flush the loosened deposit out, and a steam-only machine cannot.

A unit that switches to a cold or hot water jet does the loosening and the rinsing in one session, without changing tools.

Everything else on this shelf is steam only. The nearest comparison is the This Hill at $269.99, which puts a 1500 W steamer and a 3000 PSI electric pressure washer in one body — a far more capable version of the same idea at two and a half times the price, and with GFCI protection published, which this does not have.

Two cautions this listing omits. Water near an engine bay needs the electrical connectors, the alternator and the air intake covered first. And an extractor hood should be isolated at the wall before anything wet goes near it.

The “360 degrees” claim in the first bullet means the unit works at any angle without the pickup tube losing contact with the water — useful when you are reaching up into a hood, and the sort of thing only a handheld needs to say.

Two brush heads, named for two jobs

“The nylon brush head is suitable for scrubbing the shell, and the wire brush head is suitable for scrubbing the grease stains inside the hood.”

A real distinction, clearly stated, and the listing is better here than anywhere else on the page.

Nylon flexes and cleans without marking — correct for a painted or stainless exterior.

Wire cuts hardened deposit and will scratch anything polished, which is exactly why it is assigned to the inside of a hood, where the baffles and filter housing carry carbonized grease that nothing softer will shift.

Two warnings the listing does not give.

A wire brush on stainless steel leaves fine scratches that then collect dirt, so keep it off anything you look at.

And if the bristles are steel rather than brass, loose particles left on aluminum will corrode it later. Which is why both the Gautye at $59.97 and the Aspiron at $149.98 supply brass brushes — brass being softer than most of what you clean, so it cuts deposit without scoring the metal underneath.

Two heads is also the smallest accessory count on this shelf by a wide margin:

McCulloch 23 · Aspiron and HawKam 21, fully itemized · Mecmic 18 · Gautye 15 · ODSD 12 · This Hill itemized without a count · this 2

No glass squeegee, no floor head, no extension tube, no gloves. On a machine whose attachments reach above boiling and get changed mid-job, gloves are the omission worth noting — four listings here include them.

Water shortage protection, which prevents the commonest failure

“equipped with a surge thermostat that provides water shortage protection, making it more durable and longer-lasting.”

Running a boiler dry is how the element burns out, and it is the easiest mistake to make on a machine that publishes no tank capacity and no runtime — because you have no way of knowing how long you have.

A thermostat that cuts the heater when the water runs low is the right safeguard, and three listings here address the same risk differently:

this — a surge thermostat with water shortage protection Mecmic, $59.99 — a “low-water alert” ODSD, $49.99 and Gautye, $59.97 — a transparent tank, which is the manual version: you look

The Aspiron and HawKam address the opposite risk instead, with a system that “will directly release the steam when the steam pressure in the boiler is too high”.

And the adjustable steam volume is worth having, with the right reason given: “You can adjust the steam to different volumes according to the different things you will be cleaning. This will protect your things from damage and also can achieve the purpose of cleaning.”

That is the honest argument for a variable setting — a lower output for upholstery or sealed wood, full output for an oven. Though “the knob inside the box” suggests it is on the body rather than the handle, as on the Mecmic, whose own note says “the handle does not have a trigger”.

What is not published, and the list is long

No temperature, as above — the single figure a steam cleaner most needs, absent from the one listing here titled “High Heat”.

No tank capacity. Five rivals publish one: the McCulloch 64 oz, the Mecmic 1600 ml, the Aspiron and HawKam 50.7 oz, the ODSD and Gautye 1.69 quarts.

No runtime. Four publish one — McCulloch 120 minutes, Mecmic 60, Aspiron and HawKam 50, Gautye 45 — and from tank and runtime together you can work out consumption, which ranges from 15.8 ml a minute on the McCulloch to 35.6 on the Gautye.

No heat-up time. This is the figure that reveals the architecture everywhere else on this shelf: the McCulloch takes “under 12 minutes” and the Aspiron pair 4 to 6, because they pressurize a whole tank; the ODSD, Gautye and Mecmic all claim 15 seconds, which means they are flash boilers vaporizing a trickle on demand. At 1700 W and this size, this is very likely the second kind — but the listing does not say.

No reach. Neither hose nor cord length, where the McCulloch publishes 25 feet, the Mecmic 16, the Gautye 13.2 and the ODSD 11.5.

No weight, though the catalog dimensions of 236 × 185 × 236 mm describe a cube about nine inches on a side — comparable to the Gautye at “about 9 × 6 × 7 IN” and 2858 g.

No sealed-surface warning, which only the McCulloch and Gautye give. Steam on unsealed timber or unglazed stone drives hot water into the material, and that is the one way these machines do damage.

No warranty, where the Mecmic at $59.99 publishes three years.

Availability

Read on the day this page was built: $110 at the American Amazon shop.

Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.