Timeline for Use non-inductive pans on induction cook top
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| Aug 22, 2017 at 14:14 | comment | added | hildred | see electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/324507/… for details. | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 13:49 | comment | added | Agent_L | BTW, on my cooker, foil doesn't melt, it flies upward in a split second before the stove shuts down. | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 13:32 | comment | added | Agent_L | @rumtscho As OP has described that his stove shuts down with "error" message, it's safe to assume that the protection circuit is in place and operational, so it's safe to try new pans. | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 11:22 | history | edited | rumtscho♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
updated with info from comments.
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| Aug 17, 2017 at 15:49 | comment | added | Chris H | @rumtscho I've used them on various resistive types (the spirals that glow, the metal plates that don't, halogen, etc. as well as gas but mainly in the oven). You do have to heat them gently (put them on the stove then turn it on) but you can get them very hot. We've got 2. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 15:44 | comment | added | rumtscho♦ | @ChrisH cool, didn't know of this. Now I want one, even though I don't have gas. Turns out they work on resistive glasstop too! | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 15:43 | comment | added | Chris H | Arcoflam. Glass-ceramic that can be used over a naked flame | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 15:42 | comment | added | rumtscho♦ | I'm no electrical engineer and don't remember the exact mechanism, so maybe I erroneously combined "foil melts" and "something bad happens with pans" into "pans melt". But I am pretty sure in the general message; alu pans and induction stoves are a bad combination. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 15:40 | comment | added | David Richerby | All three of us agree on that. But I'm confused because you're saying that using aluminium can damage the pan and @hildred is saying that it can damage the stove. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 15:37 | comment | added | rumtscho♦ | @DavidRicherby aluminium is a conductor, and you can induce a current in it. Aluminium foil melts because it is so thin. A sandwich pan with the aluminium on the inside doesn't melt because the induced current is in the "skin" of the conductor. A pan with an aluminium body will probably not melt through and through, but there can be damage, unless the stove has the protection hildred describes. Thinking of it, I guess that my own cheap portable single burner also has it, so it is probably a widespread feature. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 15:31 | comment | added | hildred | @DavidRicherby, the aluminium pans do not melt, but using one can melt the stove. Specifically aluminium and copper pans with their lower electrical resistance dissipates the eddy currents faster placing higher current draw on the stove. There are two ways to deal with this when designing the stove: the first is to design it to heat aluminum pans. One estimate was that it would increase the cost of the stove by ten times. The other method is to disable the stove when an aluminum pan is detected. This is cheap and included on all new stoves. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 14:53 | comment | added | David Richerby | Are you sure aluminium pans melt? Induction works by causing electrical currents to flow within the base of the pan so the resistance of the metal to that current causes heating. I thought the point about aluminium was that the currents don't form, so there's no heating at all. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 11:49 | history | answered | rumtscho♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |