I settled the gas stove debate with a $69.99 induction cooktop from Ikea
Ikea per se, but on the Ikea website — where I purchased the Tillreda, a single-burner induction cooktop, for $69.99. It's a hot plate, basically, the size of two laptops stacked on top of each other, with the glossy black aesthetic of a control panel on the USS Enterprise. Its sleek glass top, I hoped, would offer me a glimpse of our electric-stove future.
In the interests of cost and speed, you want as much energy as possible to get into the food instead of the air around it. Theof a gas stove is about 28% — meaning less than a third of the energy in the burning methane actually heats the food. Classic electric stoves, the much-derided ones with the glowing superhot coil, come in at 39%. But on an induction cooktop, it's a blazing 70%, which is part of what's driving the push to switch from gas to electric.
I started cooking stuff with what I had. My first impressions were mixed. Just finding a place to store the cooktop when I wasn't using it turned into an unplanned, multiday epic reorganization of our tiny kitchen, which had negative consequences on household harmony. Balancing pans on the little glass plate was tricky. Controlling the heat level with a bleep-bloop digital interface felt distant and unintuitive compared with mechanically turning a flame up or down.
My limited selection of pans, and the different distribution of heat, made my attempts at induction cooking a bit hard to gauge, but I got used to it. The bacon I panfried for breakfast browned faster than over gas, but the eggs seemed to cook a bit slower. Smashed-style burgers didn't get that nice sear they do over gas, but maybe I should have squashed 'em harder, or clicked the induction plate to a higher setting. Korean-seasoned beef heated up and cooled off with lightning speed.
getting ignited by the open flame and then mixing back into the food, which is hard to do if you don't have a blisteringly hot fire."The people who do a lot of stir-fry, either with jumping-pan motion or woks — those are the people I feel the worst for," Arnold says. There's a solution to, though. Use a blowtorch over the top of the food — an auxiliary fire, in other words.
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