Timeline for What are the differences between an induction stove and a regular electric stove?
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| Sep 13, 2010 at 9:45 | vote | accept | Larry Wang | ||
| Aug 31, 2010 at 20:43 | comment | added | warren | you also cannot use glass cookware (a la Visions or Pyrex) | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 3:05 | comment | added | hobodave | @txwikinger: Read the last paragraph... | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 2:39 | comment | added | txwikinger | Don't you need special pans for the induction stove? | |
| Aug 12, 2010 at 10:22 | comment | added | Sam Holder | @hobodave, really? but I thought induction was magic? Next you'll be telling me that the whole 'you can't burn food with induction' isn't true either. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 20:04 | comment | added | hobodave | I just want to clarify: Induction stoves are "safer" than a regular stove because they don't have a heating element, but if you remove a very hot pot and immediately put your hand directly on the induction zone where it was, you will burn yourself. The area will have been heated by the pot. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 18:48 | comment | added | Harlan | @kiamlaluno: That's correct. In fact, you can put a paper towel between the glass and the pan and cook on low to medium heat with an induction cooktop! That's pretty handy if you've got an old, rough pan that would scratch the surface if you just plopped it down. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 16:02 | comment | added | avpaderno | Induction stoves were reported to be safe for children, in the commercials made in Italy. The induction element can transmit heat only to a metallic element (induction is the transmission of heat inside a metal, or between two metallic elements); if you put your hand over an induction element, you should not feel any heat. I don't actually have an induction stove, and I cannot report it's what really happens; there is difference between a physics principle, and how it is applied (theoretically, there are superconductors, but none of them is pratically usable). | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 9:19 | comment | added | Sam Holder | one other thing that is worth noting is that induction produces much less residual heat as the heat is generated in the pan, so the kitchen does not get so hot when cooking with them. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 5:37 | comment | added | Michael Natkin | Voting up this answer for the technical info, which is spot on. It is very popular in Europe. And clearly superior to electric elements. There is quite a bit of debate over whether induction is preferable to gas. A little googling will take you to veritable rafts of opinion in both directions. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 0:47 | history | edited | hobodave | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 11, 2010 at 0:28 | history | edited | hobodave | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 11, 2010 at 0:19 | history | answered | hobodave | CC BY-SA 2.5 |