Comment on Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 7 months agoInduction stoves are no joke. Had one in a ski condo I rented and it boiled water faster than I could grind the coffee beans! Threw my whole routine off!
Thassodar@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That may have more to do with water boiling faster at higher altitudes.
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nah, I’ve used my parents’ induction hob and it’s ridiculously fast to boil liquids. A half pint of milk was boiling over in 20s. Gas stoves can’t compete.
Retiring@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
That’s partly because the pot itself heats up. With conventional stoves you have to heat the pot first, which takes a lot of time.
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yep. It’s very cool, but takes a little getting used to at first!
ch00f@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, mine can boil a liter of water in 101 seconds at 450ft altitude.
I had a unique opportunity to directly compare my infrared cooktop (which I mislabeled as resistive) and my new induction cook top, so I did a little experiment to compare them: reddit.com/…/for_anyone_contemplating_upgrading_f…
TLDR: It boiled water in half the time using roughly half as much energy. Part of that may be due to the test pot being smaller than the burner, but this was the case for both stoves. It’s just the induction doesn’t heat the space around the pot.