Does anyone have an induction cooktop? Pros, cons?

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maycee

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We have finally sold our home in Tampa and bought one in Bradenton just outside Sarasota. Thankfully this will reduce my commute from 2 hours to 30 minutes!

The house we bought is new and has a gas cooktop but I have been reading about induction cooktops and wonder if it's worth the $2000 to replace the gas one.

Thanks

 
A coworker just bought one for her new kitchen. She loves the speed (boiling water in 30 seconds)

but mostly got it because she's from Norway and that's what they use over there. Works like a cooktop, in that you can just pull the pan off the heating element.

She did mention that you have to check all of your pans to make sure they work with the magnet.

Since she hardly ever cooks, I did wonder about her $40,000 kitchen make-over. But it sure looks pretty.

 
Wow, faster than a microwave. I read an article about kitchen renovations that said many of the

most expensive are done by people who don't cook. That's definitely a trend here, according to the staff at a big appliance store. They are considered a big status symbol. Sad, isn't it?

 
Ok, so I just took a magnet to my pots and pans...

the only ones magnetic are my cast iron frying pans. I guess I will wait because I can't afford to replace all my pots and pans too.

Thanks, Marilyn.

 
You need another trip to France to order all those wonderful pots from lyon-cook. Sound good??

I do have a (non-induction) Jenn-Air cooktop that I bought 2 years ago. I am deadly for doing all kinds of research so it was a one-year process. I'm really happy with it.

And now, most of my pots are induction. I really like the heavy bottoms.

 
Yeah, really... one bag for foodstuffs, one for miscellaneous goodies, and

one for a handsome Frenchman - I've got three bags full!!

 
If and when you do decide to get one, they are GREAT

I used one at work and the speed beats just about anything, but also the low temps it can maintain are excellent, i.e. a really low simmer for a stock, no bubbles, yet constant temp, I would even leave them on overnight...

When we live in our own house/apt again, I will definitely be getting them -

The biggest problem I found is that at the time I was looking, they only made them iwth 4 burners, or you could buy sets of 2 burners to put together - also they have to be sunk into a countertop, and if you don't have the space you're SOL...

You could buy just the one portable one if you wanted to try without onvesting a lot, but the pots and pans do have to work with it...

 
Once you buy all those new pans, I think you have to make sure they stay absolutely

flat on the bottom. Where's there's no connection between pan and cooktop, there's no heat transfer.

On the plus side, they lose only about 10% of their heat to the surrounding air (versus something like 60% for electric stovetops), so they're great if you like a cool kitchen or just hate wasting energy on principle.

 
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