Induction Pan Sizes: How Critical??
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Comments (19)Definitely need to stir porridges with MB units. Ran an experiment this morning with cooking oatmeal in a small, 1 qt saucepan (5" diameter magnetic base). The MB had trouble with low heat settings with the small saucepan. At a "2" setting, the small pan would intermittently boil furiously in a torodial pattern and then shut down, boil, shut down, etc. A "3" setting was manageable with frequent stirring. With the previous experiment with the 2 qt sauce pan, the small bubbles started out in a ring shaped band, but quickly spread across the whole bottom and gave an very even boiling. Did not think to look with smaller pan this am, but note the cooking description above. I agree that overnight in a crockpot is much the better way to cook steel cut oats. I was only experimenting because of amck's posting. I use my MB for pretty much the same reasons you do and for "cooking stations" at some large parties. Sounds like Tuesday Morning could be a good deal. We used to have one in the nearest big town (actually, our state's largest city), but they pulled out a year ago. Apparently, our market area was deemed too small for the turnover they wanted....See Moreoversized pans on induction
Comments (24)What about spanning 2 hobs with say a griddle or roasting pan? We do this regularly. We have a Le Creuset rectangular griddle which we place so it's over the center hob and the large lower right hob. The area between the two hobs definitely doesn't heat as well but conduction does get it hot enough eventually. We only cook pancakes this way and so far it works for us. BTW, we experienced the same phenomenon with our two gas burner stove in our old kitchen so we haven't had to change our cooking style griddle wise. :) We have a de Dietrich 309x purchased from Salon Blue Ridge in NC (We are in IL) and I HIGHLY recommend them. It has 1 11" hob, 2 9" hobs and 2 smaller hobs (don't remember the size) I have a 14" AC Saute pan that I regularly use. I heat it really hot, put the oil in and get it too smoking and swirl it round so that the hot oil heats the pan. This is fine for stir fry but for saute I keep meat with the thicker parts toward the center of the pan and the thinner pieces/parts/ edges towards the outside. So far this works well. I do believe that there are induction cooktops in the pipeline, not at all sure of the release date, that will bridge two hobs so griddles will get hot all over. The owner of the induction site (www.theinductionsite.com) is a font of information. OK I just checked the site and the LG LCE30845 Induction Unit has a bridge element Here is a link that might be useful: LG Bridge Induction cooktop...See MoreInduction - maximum pan size?
Comments (4)I saw this only after I responded to a similar question at the end of the other thread on "Induction Question." http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/appl/msg0708501023840.html?24613 I'll just summarize. You can move large pans onto small hobs just as you can on any other kind of stove. And, you will have the same kinds of considerations that you have when putting a large pan on a small burner or any other kind of stove. Obviously, a small burner puts out less heat that a large one, so performance drops off in that sense. You should be able to avoid one problem that occurs with oversize pans on radiant smoothtops, Oversize pans on smoothtop radiant burners can confuse the sensors that regulate heat cycling and result in large pans not being able to boil water or result in taking an extremely long time to bring water to a boil. Induction does not use those kinds of sensors. See this link for a more detailed recent disucssion of this subject: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/appl/msg0708501023840.html?24613...See MoreHow finicky are Samung induction ranges about pan placement?
Comments (8)chac_mool: I get your point and agree with you for day to day cooking. I may not have explained my point as clearly as it might have been explained. I have cooked on some older model induction stoves and cooktops before but never thought to test out this particular thing which is not about getting max power from all four burners but, rather, about simply using all four burners with largish pots. Maybe my question sounded like some of the questions we have seen here where somebody wants to ask about running all four burners wide open. Say, running four woks or four massive pots of pasta! I did not mean to ask a "max power" question. What I am trying to get is a sense of is the stove's ability to handle four largish pans at one time. A typical example for me would be having couple of stockpots simmering on the back burners while I run two largish frying pans on the two front burners. This is something I do numbers of times per year when I am cooking for largish events that I host. I recognize that using smallish saucepans on the small back burners would be preferrable for the best efficiency, but sometimes i just need to use four large pans. For the suggestion on "reversing the diagonal," northcarolina's Samsung FTQ range has been replaced by the NE697 & 695 in Samsung's line up of induction ranges. The new ones are the models available to me. The new models have more conventional burner layouts than the FTQ models. Northcarolina: I forgot that the FTQ's large burer is that large. Thanks for taking the time to run the other tests. Glad to hear the stove is working so well for you. The "hassle free" 30 day-return policy is something that Best Buy initiated earlier this year for all products including appliances. It sounds like the message is clearly understood at your local store. At mine, it seems that there may be a need for education becuase I was given three three different stories: (a) the policy is hassle free returns, period; (b) induction stoves can be a problem because it is easy to scratch them in use or hauling and that can mean the store won't take it back; and (c) the induction stoves are all special order items -- they only have a floor model in the store and the actual purchase has to be ordered from a regional warehouse --- and the policy does not apply to special orders. Its probably a good thing that I'm taking my time about this....See MoreMy4thGarden
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