What is induction cooktop and do I want one?

[Anonymous]

We have induction at a second home (gas was not available) -- I love it! Water boils very quickly. If you are worried about spills you can put a paper towel on the cooktop and put your pot on top of the paper towel and cook! My gas stove always gets filthy and is a pain to clean (lift up the grates, etc.). The induction is easy to clean, and is so fast and easy to control.
The indoor air pollution is a big advantage too -- I try to remember to use the hood for my gas stove but I don't always do it -- if you have a gas flame on, turn on your hood.

[Anonymous]

I love induction - would never go back. So fast and safer too.

[Anonymous]

I like how quick it is by my particular stovetop has some trouble at low heat, it's like it's still too efficient. I also find it very difficult to clean. It also has a convection oven. I really do love that feature!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know people love them but I actually find them harder to keep clean than my trusty gas stove. They do look great (when clean)!

Please explain this! It's a smooth sheet of glass - you clean with any cleaner or a special glass stovetop cleaner. How can this be harder to clean than a gas stove, where there are different parts and food can get crusted or burnt on?

Oh yeah, that is not unique to the induction ovens. Glass stove tops are hell to keep clean. Especially the black shinny ones.
Any spills or splatters and splashes bake right into it and you need to do acrobatics to clean it without scratching the surface.
While the surface is very hard, with time the top glaze gets tired just like tooth enamel and those micro abrasions that you can not even see with your naked eye do cling to the hot food for their dear life. So cleaning is more and more difficult and the result is less and less spectacular.

It does not apply to people who do have kitchen for decoration and socializing purposes only and who do not cook in them and
the extend of use of their ovens does not exceed boiling water, reheating left overs or having a wild sex on the top of the countertops without special attention where the countertop ends and the stove begins, ever so easier when they started making them without the knobs

Having said that, the said glass cook tops, regardless of the heating technology do look good for couple of years, after that you will see the tired part. But don't we all work that way.

I have glass cooktop and it is not difficult to clean at all. For the most part, Windex or the special cooktop cleaner will clean it. If something gets burnt on, I just spray it with Windex and then scrape off the burnt part with a razor blade. I have had my cooktop for 6 years, and it still looks new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know people love them but I actually find them harder to keep clean than my trusty gas stove. They do look great (when clean)!

Please explain this! It's a smooth sheet of glass - you clean with any cleaner or a special glass stovetop cleaner. How can this be harder to clean than a gas stove, where there are different parts and food can get crusted or burnt on?

Oh yeah, that is not unique to the induction ovens. Glass stove tops are hell to keep clean. Especially the black shinny ones.
Any spills or splatters and splashes bake right into it and you need to do acrobatics to clean it without scratching the surface.
While the surface is very hard, with time the top glaze gets tired just like tooth enamel and those micro abrasions that you can not even see with your naked eye do cling to the hot food for their dear life. So cleaning is more and more difficult and the result is less and less spectacular.

It does not apply to people who do have kitchen for decoration and socializing purposes only and who do not cook in them and
the extend of use of their ovens does not exceed boiling water, reheating left overs or having a wild sex on the top of the countertops without special attention where the countertop ends and the stove begins, ever so easier when they started making them without the knobs

Having said that, the said glass cook tops, regardless of the heating technology do look good for couple of years, after that you will see the tired part. But don't we all work that way.

I have glass cooktop and it is not difficult to clean at all. For the most part, Windex or the special cooktop cleaner will clean it. If something gets burnt on, I just spray it with Windex and then scrape off the burnt part with a razor blade. I have had my cooktop for 6 years, and it still looks new.

Same here. I’ve had a glass cooktop for more than ten years now, and never a bit of trouble keeping it clean. It still looks the same way it looked when the contractor installed it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know people love them but I actually find them harder to keep clean than my trusty gas stove. They do look great (when clean)!

Please explain this! It's a smooth sheet of glass - you clean with any cleaner or a special glass stovetop cleaner. How can this be harder to clean than a gas stove, where there are different parts and food can get crusted or burnt on?

NP here. I haven’t had this problem at all!

[Anonymous]

Another poster with induction for the last three years. I used to have gas. Love induction and never want to go back. I like a clean kitchen and the induction is not a problem at all. I appreciate it is safer and so easy to clean. No regrets about getting it!