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minus-squaresilence7OPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down4·7 months agoFor home heating and cooking, they’re definitely a good route. Ordinary coil stoves are fine to cook on too (I did for decades) but don’t meet the need for upper-class signalling in the way that induction does.
minus-squareRaxiel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months ago Ordinary coil stoves are fine to cook on too It’s not their effectiveness that’s in question, just their efficiency. Obviously the conversion of electricity > heat is always the same (100%) but induction is better at getting more of that heat into the food rather than the surroundings.
For home heating and cooking, they’re definitely a good route.
Ordinary coil stoves are fine to cook on too (I did for decades) but don’t meet the need for upper-class signalling in the way that induction does.
It’s not their effectiveness that’s in question, just their efficiency.
Obviously the conversion of electricity > heat is always the same (100%) but induction is better at getting more of that heat into the food rather than the surroundings.