Induction burners are of limited utility in some scenarios like restaurants or with certain cuisines (someone else mentioned woks) but 99.9% of residential needs are readily met with an induction burner. In fact, were I live electric coil stoves are the norm in homes anyway and induction is generally considered an improvement over those.
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Their utility isn't limited. Restaurant chefs love them.
We just don't have the infra. Buildings and backbone would need retrofits.
And that would obviously be too much of burden for the betterment of things. Small changes but unfortunately dismissed as not a silver bullet.
Even if you have a gas stove, most people aren't going to have one that puts out the amount of BTUs to really make traditional wok cooking work anyway, so it's a bit of a non-issue on at least that front. If I was going to bust out a wok and start trying to nail Chinese food, I'd skip right past my rapid-boil burner and go to one of the portable propane stoves they sell in Asian supermarkets. In the US, at least, I wouldn't expect to see a stove that can deliver that sort of heat output (aside from something custom made) anymore than I would expect an off the shelf oven to be able to replicate the temps in the pizza oven at a pizzeria.
I love electric stoves. So much more efficient, and you don't have to pay a monthly bill just to have the option to use it. You pay for what you use when you use it. Wish they were available in more places.
The only thing I hate about electric stoves is how they look.
I like induction stoves because they stick up, and I can see if it's on from a distance because of the fire. And there less likely I would lay my hand near it.
Electric stoves (the ones that I have and they sell everywhere) are all flat. They're flat like my table, and it's easy to just lay my hand near it.
And if I'm moving between stove, to cutting area, back to stove, I have to mentally remind myself which burners are on because it's not easy to see without looking directly at it.
That’s a fair amount of backup battery and inverter power to run a stove, too. Awesome that that’s cheap enough to install en masse.
I just got an induction cook top and it’s amazing. WAY more efficient than alternatives, better indoor air quality as compared to gas. One problem: can’t cook if the power is out. Good ideas all around.
This Copper model (and also the cooktop that Impulse makes) has enough battery to do some cooking even in a power outage.
Some gas stoves require electricity to continue operating due to electric safety sensors that shut the stove gas off if the flame goes out. They too would be useless in a power outage because the valves would not open. So it’s not just electric stoves that would be out of luck.
If you have room to store one, a used camp stove and gas cylinder are fine for basics. No need to buy a fancy new one. Or even a gas bbq grill.
Don't forget about the electric ventilation being out if theres a power outage. You don't want to cook with a gas stove indoors with that off.
Regulations in my country require that the ventilation doesn't rely on any device, it must be some hatch you can't close. I'm pretty sure it's the same elsewhere in the world, it's too dangerous otherwise.
I mean sure... but without the fan it's not going to work nearly as well.
It doesn't even work WITH the fan as we're now finding out it's still creating toxic air in homes.
You peoplr are nuts. You need everything, PPE's, Ventilation, a central AC unti, or you would just sit and wait to die, because nothing is "propper".
How often does your power go out that this is a major concern?
Multi-day power outages are a yearly occurrence where I live (North Carolina), typically caused either by a hurricane, a tornado or an ice storm.
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Maybe if we go for 1,000,000 pilot programs we can piecemeal sneak ourselves into some kind of real change.
Now, if the Lemmy community could pour together funds, and concentrate on renovating key areas, we can make a drastic difference
The plan is to do a limited-scale pilot, then do 10,000 apartments once a smooth process doing the upgrade is in place
Yeah, test cases to feel out doing shit at scale is good cautious practice for not fucking upat scale
There are some pros and cons like better for environment and health but also some people might think more about electricity being more expensive. Although, because of how efficient induction stoves are, it might be closer than I thought
Electricity could be more expensive per unit, but it also doesn't generally have minimum amounts for delivery to keep the stove functioning, at least, so it's a bit of a trade off. I remember growing up, we just stopped using the stove and oven and did everything on the grill, year round, because the company that served our area for cooking gas wouldn't make a delivery for less than $200 worth of fuel. $200 was way more than my parents had to spare for it at the time, and also like pre-paying for 9-10 months at a time, versus month to month with the electricity bill.
I'd consider the health benefits a bigger benefit than the energy savings. Less chance of getting asthma and/or cancer is a pretty big boon.
And just yesterday people were arguing with me here, on lemmy, that induction is too expensive. There are literally single plate cook tops for like $50! And how expensive do you think the cancer will be?
I picked up a used/open-box Duxtop induction burner to avoid using my gas stove, and it works amazingly well. The only downside is that most countertop induction burners have relatively small coil sizes, so with bigger pans, like my 12" cast iron frying pan, the outer part of the pan doesn't get hot enough to brown things.
As a solution, I'm planning to pair the induction cooktop with a separate standard glasstop coil burner that has a much larger burner size for my bigger pans (and for my older pots that aren't compatible with the induction).
Til cast iron is compatible with induction heating.
I mean I should've figured that out by now, but glad I know now. Thanks homie!
No prob ^^
It's also a safety upgrade, as the risk of fires is much diminished.
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