Induction Cooking

[dpm1]

I noticed that MH Maufactures are not installing Induction Cooktops. Ever since we began using our portable one, we have not used the gas Burners.
Has me thinking about a permanate installation of one. Has anyone done this? If not, why not?

[WOODYDEL]

Some of the 4 "burner" units draw 40 amps at 240 volts? I think the small portable one's might need a 15-20 amp circuit 120 volts as in a typical home circuit. I like induction cooking but everything must be magnetic stainless, cast iron or steel. Aluminum is useless with induction.

[radams]

I'm curious, what is the advantage to induction cooking?

[wa0elm]

I think the biggest advantage I see is the cooktop is much safer. There is a coil where a traditional burner would be. When you turn the dial to send power to the coil, it creates a magnetic field, and induces that current onto the magnetic cooking vessel you are using, which creates the heat (hence 'induction' cooktop. There is no direct heat, so touching the 'burner' will not cause you or anyone who may contact it to be burned.

In addition, they tend heat your cooking vessel very quickly. Electrolux (I think that's the one that Kelly Ripa does the ads for) advertises their cooktop can boil a full pot of water (how big that pot is, I don't know) in less than 90 secs.

It is also true that Al cooking vessels are pretty useless on induction cooktops, and they have no magnetic properties (the absece of Fe in a vessel does not lend itself well to magnetic-type operations).

Hope that helps, your milage may vary.

[radams]

Interesting. Sounds expensive. Might have to look into when the DW starts leaving the burners on.