/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20133109
That's aliexpress listing.
I can trust aliexpress electrical appliances (pic related) but gas and aliexpress is something that is too sketchy for me.
Also in Poland apparently there is a manufacturer of these types of things https://solgaz.eu/en/
which looks pretty neat as it is basically an infrared glass ceramic, but fueled by gas instead of electricity.

>>20125572
I've bought this chinese piece of shit.
It is pretty good, but it is very quirky, mainly because of the fact its chinese and cheap.
If you can get a proper induction cooktop or stove, it would be much better than glass ceramic infrared heater, since it has no thermal inertia and in properly desinged cooktop power is infinitely adjustable like on gas.
Downside is that you need cookware designed for the induction. Stainless with magnetic bottom (not all stainless pans are magnetic -> won't work on induction), cast iron, carbon steel.
Copper, aluminium, glass won't work.
>>20125589
They aren't. They use cookware as a inductively coupled heater. Think of it as a wireless charger, but for a cooking pan.
Gas sucks.

>>20100661
Gas stoves are outperformed even by this wonder from Clay country.
>>20100705
>Gas works with over 97 percent of the cookware in existence. Induction does not.
Yep, that's a problem.
I think instead of pushing 10kW into poor little stainless pan, it might be a better idea to figure out GaN or SiC transistor based stove that can run at higher frequency that would allow you to use any cookware. Stainless at least, idk about aluminium or copper.
>>20107242
>Gas will always be better than induction because. Gas creates a heat zone below the pan that acts as a heat buffer to keep the pan temp constant after adding ingreadents.
Gas heats up the air in the room, increasing the cost of air conditioning and making cooking unbearable.
Induction (proper one, not shitty one transistor resonant circuit used in shit like pic related. With half bridge or full bridge), gives you precise control of power, instant, with no delay. Most stoves also have temperature feedback, which even works reasonably well on fucking $18 cooktop from zheng.

How do I use this chinese induction cooktop?
Let's say I want to make a pasta
So far I've figured out this:
1) set it into "the fire" mode until water boils
2) set it into "fry" mode at 100C and put pasta into it, and set timer for 6-8 minutes