African American Hair - Opinions on Ceramic Stove Heater

I am currently contemplating buying a ceramic stove heater. I have had one before and the results were great, but the only problem was that I would sometimes end up burning my skin, also there is no controlling the heat. The reason why I am comtemplating buying one is that I want a heat styling tool that will last a long time (durable) and I have previously used CHI (ceramic started to peel off), FHI (Made my hair break even with lower heat setting), Solia (took too long to flat iron my hair, kind of heavy), Sedu (made my hair look like puffy after a few hours, looks cheap and not durable), and a generic version of Sedu (it looks EXACTLY the same as Sedu design wise, and it has the same problem as Sedu, which is the cord shorts out). Anyway after trying all these flat irons, it made me think about giving the stove iron another try, one other problem is that it is SO old-fashioned and it takes up space. That is why I want to get other peoples opinion and/or experiece with a ceramic stove heater.