Anybody have an Inductive Cooktop in your Kitchen?

[kurtzie]

Does anybody have an Inductive Cooktop in your Kitchen?

Any pros or cons?

We are doing a complete kitchen remodel and are looking at this for our cooktop instead of standard electric or gas. She who does most of the cooking is opposed to having a gas cooktop.

Steve

[C(-)ris]

kurtzie wrote:
She who does most of the cooking is opposed to having a gas cooktop.

W T F. Gas is hands down the best cooktop. It isn't even really a competition. The only reason you would go electric is...um. You never cook?

[cbelt3]

C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=kurtzie]
She who does most of the cooking is opposed to having a gas cooktop.

W T F. Gas is hands down the best cooktop. It isn't even really a competition. The only reason you would go electric is...um. You never cook?
Or you don't have gas.

Or you are worried about open flames in the kitchen because critters, kids, elderly, etc..

Or your knucklehead husband fixed a gas appliance once and didn't replace the 'flex' pipe, which cracked and filled your house with natural gas and caused you to flee to the outside and call the fire department, which reacted swiftly and kept your house from blowing up. And afterwards refused to have another damn gas appliance in your house.

(Yes, that I would be that knucklehead...)

[silvarios]

cbelt,
I just assumed gas must have been an option based upon the OP. I think Chris thought the same.

[TLB]

My wife and I took a couple of cooking classes and all the heating elements were inductive. I was amazed; it was a pleasure to cook. Heats faster than gas, gets hotter, is more efficient and just a bit less precise in heat adjustment than gas. It is not your typical glass top or circular element cook top. I don't know if I'd go all out, but I'm definitely getting a single portable burner for our kitchen.

[pdq]

We were interested but in the end didn't go for it. IIRC, it heats up quicker than regular electric, and the cooktop stays cool(-er; it's warmed somewhat by being next to the pan it's heating).

You have to use pans that are made of a ferromagnetic material - you can tell by seeing if a magnet sticks to it. And I've heard folks say it tends to hum or "sing" a bit, but users say that it's not obnoxious, and you get used to it quickly.

[silvarios]

TLB wrote:
My wife and I took a couple of cooking classes and all the heating elements were inductive. I was amazed; it was a pleasure to cook. Heats faster than gas, gets hotter, is more efficient and just a bit less precise in heat adjustment than gas. It is not your typical glass top or circular element cook top. I don't know if I'd go all out, but I'm definitely getting a single portable burner for our kitchen.

Thanks for the feedback. That's good to know

[MGS_forgot_password]

If you are replacing gas with induction, you may have to get a 220V line (220,221 whatever it takes) run the location.

[NewtonMP2100]

......my cooktop uses deductive.......reasoning........

[davester]

We have one in our tenant's apartment. Their comment is that it's great and fast for boiling water but control of lower temperatures is quite difficult. However, it could be that they haven't read the instruction manual and aren't operating it properly (I say this because induction cooktops are supposed to be very precise). Based on that and my experiences with electric cooktops I am sticking with gas, which as C(-)ris notes is by far the best way to go if you are into cooking.

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