Induction or gas cooking, anyone?

[aoEAF2FBvC0MIo2Q 3,673]

So, how's about we talk about what cooking technologies are out there? I've been hearing about induction cooking and induction stoves. For any who don't happen to know what induction is, it's about creating an electric voltage through magnetic fields. This principle is used in generators to generate the electricity you're using right now to read this message.
 
More in induction cooking as it doesn't seem to be very well known, the most basic thing about it is that the only things that gets hot are the pots themselves. With gas stoves, burning the gas releases heat and that heat in turn heats up the pot. Induction stoves feed on electricity but unlike common electric stoves, there is no heating element. In fact, the heating element is are the pots themselves.
 
This definitely has its benefits. For one, because there is very little waste heat, the kitchen doesn't get as hot as it would with gas or even common electric stoves. What's more, unless you're plugged in to a municipal gas piping, no more round trips to replace empty gas tanks. You can also say goodbye to any gas-related hazards as well. These stoves are also incredibly easy to clean and are generally safer as well.
 
Here are two interesting pics to illustrate this working

 

I'll say it again: the heating element is the pot itself.

 

Some caveats; I'll start with the most important point; not all pots are suitable to be used with induction stoves. Aluminum and copper doesn't work well. Ideal pots are made from materials with good magnetic properties. That is, if you stick a refrigerator magnet on a pot and it sticks weakly if at all, that pot is not going to cook very well. If the magnet does stick well then that pot's going to be very effective with this technology.

 

The of course there's the obvious drawback that if the power were to go out for any reason whatsoever, you can't do any cooking.

 

As for me, I've been doing a lot of thinking... I'm still unsure at this point.

[Scootalove 10,689]

Cooks will have to get used to induction cooking, just like how we've gotten used to cooking food by using gas from a stove. If the idea of induction cooking is safe and good to use, I wouldn't mind seeing this in action. But there begs the question, if people will get used to cooking without using gas stoves and are willing to use induction cooking.

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There's also that nostalgia factor but that's going to be less of a thing as new generations get have less of such a bias.

 

I'm also wondering about how lucrative this will be to the renewable energy or off-grid types as supplying an induction stove with green electricity could make for "green cooking".

[Shanks 10,816]

I am all for anything that will save energy and money so if given the chance I will do induction cooking.