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New Induction Cooktops
Joel Ashley:
Glad you mentioned True Induction. After being made curious by an infamous TV infomercial for another brand (that you now couldn't pay me to order), and subsequently reading tons of reviews, I narrowed it down to this one awhile back, but have yet to order it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0049IEHGC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_sfl_title_8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Seems like a pretty good device for the price, and would be portable between house and coach. They have several 2-burner units at different price points as well, but a single would suit our cooking styles just fine.
-Joel
Joel Weiss:
The only advice I would offer about induction burners is to be sure that the device can simmer a pot properly without scorching. There are a lot of inexpensive ones out there that function very poorly at this task because they can't control their power output precisely enough. Quite a few, including some fairly expensive Max Burton's can't provide less than 40% of full power.
One question I would have is why would you go with a 1600 watt unit when there are 1800 watt burners available? Regardless of how well induction burners couple their energy to the pot, the bottom line still is how much power they provide for cooking. We have a 1500 watt unit now and when it dies I'll replace it with an 1800 watt one. For some cooking tasks, size does matter!
Dan Murphy:
--- Quote from: Joel Weiss on July 30, 2015, 01:49:52 PM ---The only advice I would offer about induction burners is to be sure that the device can simmer a pot properly without scorching. There are a lot of inexpensive ones out there that function very poorly at this task because they can't control their power output precisely enough. Quite a few, including some fairly expensive Max Burton's can't provide less than 40% of full power.
One question I would have is why would you go with a 1600 watt unit when there are 1800 watt burners available? Regardless of how well induction burners couple their energy to the pot, the bottom line still is how much power they provide for cooking. We have a 1500 watt unit now and when it dies I'll replace it with an 1800 watt one. For some cooking tasks, size does matter!
Joel
My DW informs me that our Max Burton is 1800 watt and does have dedicated "simmer" and "boil" buttons that work very well. She says the simmer feature works very well.
So far we have had no problems with our induction burners.But each to their own.We are still all the same yet different!!
Dan
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Joel Weiss:
--- Quote from: Dan Murphy on July 30, 2015, 08:21:51 PM ---
My DW informs me that our Max Burton is 1800 watt and does have dedicated "simmer" and "boil" buttons that work very well. She says the simmer feature works very well.
So far we have had no problems with our induction burners.But each to their own.We are still all the same yet different!!
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Not to quibble but even the Max Burton commercial model can't provide less than 500W when used in power mode. It achieves its ability to simmer by running in temperature-control mode in which case it "pulses" itself on and off. In contrast there are some induction burners that can provides as little as 10% of full power when running in power mode. If yours works for you then that's great. Our current burner is a Circulon which is no longer available but which does provide extremely low power at its lowest settings.
Joel Ashley:
I suppose you may be right re. the higher wattage, but having not owned one before I was going by the many reviews, and what I'd be getting for the price. It seemed that most owners were quite happy with the unit's performance/value.
Given it sounds like the one I linked does relatively well, and is apparently much faster than what we're used to with electric coil or gas generally, it would come down to whether I thought the extra 200 watts was really worth whatever cost it meant - if it meant a couple minutes saved getting to a boiling point, how do I judge that in dollars. I last researched this last year, so I need to refresh the effort, and I appreciate the observation, Joel.
-Joel A.
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