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We bought an induction stove for our house this past year, in part because it’s much more efficient than a regular electric stove. A regular electric stove heats an element, which physically transfers heat to the pan, losing a lot of waste heat. The induction stove heats the bottom of the pan directly.
Also, it boils a pan of water freakishly fast.
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My hotel room has a induction stove.
I’m used to cooking with gas, though, and the neat trick of removing from heat with just a turn of the knob.
Are the red lights on the induction pads supposed to be an added safety feature, or is just a useful side effect of the technology?
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Red-hot in ~2 seconds (via Inertia Friction Welding; jump to the 2 minute mark if you’re in a hurry). One of our vendors demonstrated this for us several years ago… sort of a surprise ‘gift’ left for the end of our tour there:
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I would SO love to put that up on my cubicle wall… but I wouldn’t be able to get away with it.
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I was amazed by that too when I last visited my folks. (They switched to an induction range after my mom almost burnt down the kitchen via the gas range!)
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Hm, I have no red lights, must be an added feature on that stove…
We were warned never to wear jewelry, even non-ferrous jewelry, near the induction furnaces in the rocket motor factory. Supposedly you could stick your bare hand into the field without damage, but if you had on a wedding ring, it’d burn your finger right off from eddy currents or something. I never tested this warning,and always wondered if it was really true.
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Apparently an induction coil can also levitate metal while melting it:
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Well that’s hardly a proper scientific attitude! Now get to experimenting!
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You’re right. If I still worked there I’d have to sneak into the furnace room with a frankfurter and my wedding band. For science!!
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