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Originally Posted by mjohnson
I've used induction for years at work (metallurgist/exotic metal foundry) and I understand it well. We picked up a 220V catering induction 1-burner hob, 3500W I think. Regardless of my background, all I can do is giggle when I cook with it. It's magic!!
Mrs mjohnson is a gas-stalwart. I once was but I'm kind of induction-curious for a proper cooktop. Yes, there are a few all-Al pans that might get given to friends but that tech could find a place in my life.
Induction is just simple electricity - why wouldn't it be reliable and fixable?
(then again, gas is just plumbing, why wouldn't it be reliable and fixable? - and we've all seen that path of misery...)
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Yeah, induction is awesome for controlled heating. My rice cooker uses induction to heat its rice crucible from the bottom and sides, apparently to agitate the rice while it cooks, the water boils in a torus shape. Makes good rice, who knows if the induction is actually responsible. Had it 5 years and its been great. I'm not blaming induction, I'm blaming the crap designers of these expensive boondoggles.
A smelting furnace is just a perfect application because the energy input is perfectly controlled and the heater doesn't need to contact melty metal. Issue I've got is that the cooktop units I've tried the induction field doesn't seem to be uniform or penetrate the pans well.
I don't know why induction would be less unreliable. Knowing how bad the applience engineers are its likely the dials on a modern induction cook stove go to a fancy regulator involving a cpu and some crazy rube-goldberg sensing device. The sky is the limit for how much complexity they could build into it.
The devices I saw in the showroom looked like all flash and no common sense. Like they were designed by a certain kind of architect where function followed form. The architects that don't like the look of eaves and gutters?
The induction wolf stove with capacitive touch temp control gave me the whillies because I know they won't be there for me when it breaks.
Hardrive: you are so jinxed!
Finally: More sample bias: It might be the showroom we visited only had crazy stuff innit because the sensible stuff was all bought-ed already.