{"id":4869,"date":"2023-01-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2023-01-23T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:36:03","slug":"induction-cooking-try-a-portable-cooktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/induction-cooking-try-a-portable-cooktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Induction Cooking &#8211; try a &#8220;portable&#8221; cooktop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The weekend of <a href=\"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2022\/\">WordCamp US 2022<\/a>, I took Sunday off to attend another event happening in San Diego that weekend: <a href=\"https:\/\/fullycharged.show\/events\/fully-charged-live-north-america\/\">Fully Charged Live<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@fullychargedshow\">Fully Charged is a YouTube show<\/a> that centers around electric vehicles, but it&#8217;s really about electrification of <em>everything<\/em>. In the same vein, the show had a plethora of electric cars, but it had a lot more: electric motorcycles, bikes, skateboards, and one wheels. Also there was a lot of information about non-transport related electrification, such as efficiency in your home. One suggestion: try a portable induction cooktop to see if you like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Portable Cooktop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Duxtop Portable Induction Cooktop, Countertop Burner, Silver 9600LS\/BT-200DZ &amp; Professional Stainless Steel Sauce Pan with Lid, Kitchen Cookware, 1.6 Quart\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"770\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_tGi4SPIB76gO8D&#038;asin=B0B6V1VHVT&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Induction cooking is up to 95% efficient. All the heat goes into the pot &#8211; not the air or the even the cooking surface itself. Straight into the cooking vessel. I&#8217;ve always been intrigued, so I bought this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0B6V1VHVT\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&amp;th=1\">Duxtop model on Amazon that came with a sauce pan for $150<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I have to get new pots\u2049\ufe0f<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Since induction cooktops require &#8220;special&#8221; pots and pans, buying this combination made sense. The saucepan included was a great place to start, as it&#8217;s the sort of pan I use most often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you might already have some pots &amp; pans that work. Take a refridgerator magnet to the bottom, if it has a good stick, it will work. One thing that will work for-sure: cast iron \ud83e\uddf2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Great features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides being able to bring that full saucepan to a boil in less than 5 minutes(!), there are a lot of other nice features that I didn&#8217;t expect&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Timer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a built-in timer to automatically stop after a set amount of time. It&#8217;s great for boiling rice or pasta. It&#8217;s also good for making water for coffee or tea. When I&#8217;m making Aeropress coffee I like the water to be about 180-190\u00b0F. For me this means filling the kettle consistently and setting the boil timer to 4 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keep Warm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The keep warm feature is programmable in 20\u00b0F increments. I can use it for my coffee water to keep at 180\u00b0F or make sure dinner waits perfectly at 140\u00b0F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No flame<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I trust my 13yo to make macaroni and cheese on this thing without burning the house down.\ud83e\uddef Sure there&#8217;s still a scalding concern with boiling water, but he&#8217;s good with that part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clean Up<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the surface itself doesn&#8217;t get hot, clean-up is a snap. Simply wipe the surface off. Nothing gets burnt or caked on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Downsides?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The only annoying thing about induction cooking is the cooktop knows when the pot is and isn&#8217;t there. So when you lift the pot off the surface while it&#8217;s heating, it will beep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re the type of person that likes to shake the pan rather than use a spatula to mix the contents, the cooktop will beep at you. No harm, no foul &#8211; it will be fine, but it will keep beeping until you set the pot back down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gateway to a full induction cooktop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the best way to try induction cooking before switching to a full induction cooktop for thousands of dollars. But I expect we&#8217;ll switch to an induction range as part of electrifying our home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about the portable cooktop? I still think this thing is useful. I&#8217;d for sure lend it to anyone wanting to try induction cooking. Also, I plan on buying an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00F4JL53I\/?coliid=I3K2DJIQ52Y1CB&amp;colid=1CBMRAXFXUNP6&amp;ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it&amp;th=1\">induction fondue set<\/a> for it so we can retire our setup.\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend of WordCamp US 2022, I took Sunday off to attend another event happening in San Diego that weekend: Fully Charged Live. Fully Charged is a YouTube show that centers around electric vehicles, but it&#8217;s really about electrification of everything. In the same vein, the show had a plethora of electric cars, but it&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/induction-cooking-try-a-portable-cooktop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Want to try induction cooking without the big investment? \ud83d\udcb8 Try a portable induction cooktop.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casual","tag-electric-vehicle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4878,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}