Inductions Cookers in Your Kitchen

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Induction cookers gained a lot of interest a few years back as a cooker that could be turned on but would be cool to the touch. This was a very interesting concept for people with small children that you could have a burner that would hot burn your hand if touched.

You may be interested in incorporating the induction cookers into your kitchen. These hot plates are great because of their ability to heat evenly. They are supposed to be much closer to what cooking on a gas stove is like then an electrical stove. Electrical stoves are notorious for hot spots.  They burn on half the pan and just heat up the other side of the pan. Cooking on an unevenly heated electrical stove is hard to say the least.

An induction cooktop gives you the conveneinece of electricity with the heat of the gas burner. There is a catch though with these cookers you must be aware of. If the induction cookers are so great, why are we not seeing them everywhere? Unfortunately, there are only certain pots and pans that can be used on these great cook tops. The pans you use must be used of a ferrous material ( a megnate can stick to it) such as cast iron or stainless steal. If you don’t have one of these pots, you will have to purchase an induction interface disk, which is a chunk of metal that will heat up and then heat the pot or pan you are using.

There is a lot of physics involved with how these cookers work, but basically the cooktop induces heat directly in the metal of your cooking vessel itself not through an element liek an elelctrical stove does. The cooler cooktop comes from the fact that the cooktop is not actually what heats up. The pan gets hot but the element doesn’t.