We currently have an old electric coil stove that's been on its last legs for a while now, but I'm so undecided on what to replace it with that it just continues to disintegrate.

I'd love to go gas, but there are no gas lines in our neighborhood, and I'm not sure I want to make the investment into the house or go through the effort to plumb it up with a tank.

I like the safety feature of an induction with a toddler around in that the cooktop is cool to the touch, but I've never cooked on one. I'm curious though. Does anyone here have any experience with induction cooktops and have any comments or pointers?

Thanks!

nobody cooks Dave,,,,we all eat at Coasters!!!!

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lol. Anyways, in case anyone's interested in induction, I did some other research and it seems like people in the know say that Induction takes a little bit of getting used to, but really outperforms regular electric and electric flat-tops. Much more energy-efficient, too. Evidently lots and lots of restaurants in Europe are going to induction, even over traditional gas ranges.

Are you sure there's no gas lines at the street? I was shocked that it was available.

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A handful of neighbors have gone gas and had to have tanks installed at their house. I'm just assuming they did their due diligence.

I thought about it as well. There is also investment in specific cookware.

I saw an infomercial last year for a portable, single-burner countertop induction cooktop.

It looked like a cheap enough way to try out the concept w/o a big investment.

except for the special pots and pans..

My wife loves it - even more than gas. Homegoods(and probably Target)now has nice non-stick pans that work on induction. That makes all the difference because the straight stainless cookware we had to use before the new stuff came out was a nightmare to clean. It legit boils water from cold in 90 seconds. 

Tell me how does the cooktop not get hot if you have boiling water in the pot? Naturally wouldn't the heat transfer to the cooktop and at least become warm?

Also you don't get the full experience of cooking if you don't get to see/ smell the burners burning!

Speaking of the single induction cooktops I'm pretty sure I saw one at Walmart the other day for about $30. Still purchasing all new pots and pans could get expensive.

 

The cooktop does get hot when you cook but only the part that is touching the steel pan- like they show in the info-mercial for the single burner one. Somehow  the steel is what interacts with the top to create the heat and it doesn't spread. It will stay hot for a minute or so once your done cooking.

It cooks evenly. My wife uses a lot of olive oil to cook chicken and veggies and she likes it more than the house we left three months ago that had a very nice gas range. 

We've had ours for a month now/ Love it, So fast, so much quicker control, even than gas,

Better than gas.
way better than resistance electric stoves.

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