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Does anyone use induction burners? Looking for recommendations. (self.food)

submitted 1 year ago by Butterbee to c/food

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I'm looking at buying an induction burner but it's hard to find which brands may be reliable. Most of the youtube reviews are done by review bot channels and relying on amazon reviews in this day and age... yeah. So does anyone have any experience with these and know of a brand that I can go toward?

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[–] Butterbee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the well thought out response! I was looking at that one. How granular is the temperature at low temps? Will it keep something nicely at below the boiling point?

[–] agegamon 2 points 1 year ago

No prob! So, down at the lower levels (power settings 0.5-4.5, or below about 200F) it seems to switch to "pulsing" the burner. I think a lot of induction hobs do that... With anything that has some mass to it, this one can steadily keep it below boiling. My ikea kettle is pretty thin, sometimes it boils/hisses for just a split second even in keep-warm mode. Every other pot or cast iron I've used have enough mass that they don't do that.

I think the temp control mode actually works better at low temps (but only if the pan is already hot*). I'll either use the "keep warm" button and bump it up to 180f or just set my own timer.

*Something I noticed about most induction plates/hobs is that when you try to do temp control but have a cold pan, they just blast 100% power until the pan heats up. It's probably fine but sometimes overshoots. The "regular number" mode (which I use like 95% of the time) doesn't do that, it just does puts out whatever power you select