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Originally Posted by mjohnson

Unless you're boiling a few gallons of water - 3500W is a few thousand too much. Nice to have but you have to watch closely...

And, though I won't because I don't want to break my toy, I wonder how long it'll take 3500W to get my cast iron pan glowing. Probably not that long.

++Induction. Now just to convince my gas-lovin' wife.

1800W boiled 1 pint of water in 2 mins on a good stainless steel pan.

I put what I guess is about 2 quarts of water in a pot and that took nearly 10 minutes on 1800W. There are times when my wife puts a cold/thawed chicken in a 12qt pot so that with the chicken and the water, the pot is probably 8-10qts. I'm sure the 1800W would take quite a while to boil that. The 3500W wouldn't take nearly as much time, and once it's boiling, you can turn it down.