Induction Cooktop

[rossw]

You know I can just go to Google and look up what it really is, then you better hope its not something else really expensive  or you will never get those panels huh??"

Traditional 13th is Lace. You could always get some lace trimming for your panels.

"Modern" USA 13th is Textiles or furs - so some fur earwarmers for when you send her out to shovel snow off them, perhaps?    

[ChrisOlson]

Damn, I suppose there is a down side to that.. but... I guess you didn't point it out.

Down side?  I married one woman and ended up with three of 'em.  One of the extra ones is now 28 and the other one is 25.  The oldest one decided to get married.  That cost us a lot of money.  The youngest one decided to go to med school.  That cost us a lot of money.  But she'll still go out and party with ol' Dad.



BTW - I have no clue how my nametag got stuck to my forehead that night, or even why I had one.
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Chris

[Wolvenar]

I could go into how I met Jen online, setup a date, wound up getting stood up and dating her sis instead...
Still somehow managed to get married to Jen.


I still haven't worked out how that happened..

wow this thread was about an Induction Cooktop?

[ChrisOlson]

wow this thread was about an Induction Cooktop?

Yeah, because it was something that a woman wanted.  If it was up to a man we'd just throw a pot of beans and bacon on a steel workbench, fabricate a bracket to hold the torch under the bench, and cook 'em up.

I've actually done that.   
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Chris

[bj]

  Pizzas cook pretty well in the rod oven too.

[ChrisOlson]

  Pizzas cook pretty well in the rod oven too.

You know - I wonder if one of those induction outfits would work to heat up rods?  I would imagine if I walked into the kitchen carrying a box of small block rods and told my wife I wanted to cook 'em up so I can get pins in 'em, it would go over about as well as solar panels as an anniversary present   
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Chris

[bvan1941]

Chris,

"You smoooth talkin Devil"

It's no wonder your surrounded by those swedish gals. LOL
Bill

[bj]

   I don't know Chris,  I remember the time I washed some Briggs parts in the dishwasher
just to see how it would work.  I remember the time very, very well.
   Just for info, parts came out really clean.

[ksouers]

If it was up to a man we'd just throw a pot of beans and bacon on a steel workbench, fabricate a bracket to hold the torch under the bench, and cook 'em up.

I've actually done that.   
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Chris

I've cooked beans on the exhaust manifold of a Cummins NTC 350! Don't forget about them, though. Makes a tremendous mess under the hood!

Kevin

[ChrisOlson]

Yeah, nothing worse than burned fart pills oozing in between the heads on a Cummins 855   
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Chris

[m12ax7]

Okay,  I just sat here and read this thread from the beginning, and have lost track of the subject.      Induction cooking,  wives or their operations.

I wonder,   if you put one of your wound coils on one of the heaters will/can you read a "induced" voltage?  Perhaps, with enough coils you could generate enough power to charge up your battery bank!

On another site someone was talking about their induction stove and said that most any metal pot/pan would work,  they found that the best results came with iron.  Any truth to that?

ax7

[ChrisOlson]

On another site someone was talking about their induction stove and said that most any metal pot/pan would work,  they found that the best results came with iron.  Any truth to that?

I don't know about the coil thing.  That would require Top Level Security Clearance to even try it.  I don't think it would work with the one we got because it detects what's sitting on it and if it don't have enough mass of magnetic steel or iron in it, it won't come on.

But yes, cast iron cookware seems to work the best on it.  Magnetic stainless steel seems to be second best.  The heating is quicker and more even with cast iron.
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Chris

[Wolvenar]

I wonder how copper bottom cookware would work on an induction.
BTW the wife got wind on this discussion, now she wants a new fridge and stove...
damn..

[ChrisOlson]

Copper won't work.  The cookware has to be ferromagnetic.

My wife has an "induction" plate that she can put on a "burner".  The induction plate is ferromagnetic and it heats up and lets her put a glass or aluminum container on it to heat some food up.  That seems to work pretty good but it takes more power than having a metal container because it heats the glass or aluminum pot by conduction so there's a lot of heat loss with it.
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Chris

[ghurd]

Copper WILL work.
Even lowly aluminum WILL work.

High end pots and pans have a very thick copper place encapsulated (can't see it) in the bottom to aid in even distribution of heat (like from a ring of flame) to the 'food side'.
Its not the class of item wally-world carries.
I bet it would work wonders.
G-