Electromagnetic Exposure with Induction Cooktops
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Comments (2)Yes, not only can you cook a meal on an induction stovetop, you can perform cool "magic". It's way fun!!!!...See Moreinduction cooktop noise and pets?
Comments (35)I bought a Duxbury double burner induction cooktop off from Amazon to use temporarily while trying to find a cooktop that will fit into the cutout in our granite countertop. My dogs would run and yelp when I turned it on. I would immediately put them outside, because I have to cook. It only took a few times before I discovered that it was setting off their pet safe collar and zapping them. Poor babies! I don’t usually keep the collars on them in the house anyway, but we occasionally have cows in the barn behind our house and they run over there to feast on cow pattie’s. ughhh We are a busy house with kids in and out and adults coming and going, so it makes it a challenge when they really need the collars to keep them contained to our yard. Do you suppose all induction cooktops do this? Incredibly scary to think pets are being shocked if they have containment collars on in range. Has anyone noticed this besides the high pitch noise? I hear that, but it does not really bother me....See MoreAre induction cooktops safe?
Comments (7)This is something that gets discussed to death every six months or so. First thing to know is that there can be both wheat and chaff in the discussions that turn up in searches. The "wheat" in this discussion is some research that: (a) Tests with old-style "unipolar" pacemakers found some detectable interaction but no disruption when those pacemakers were implanted on the left side of the heart and the recipient was very close to an off-center pan on an induction burner in operation, (i.e., when somebody with one of those pacemakers has his or her chest virtually across the top of the pan or with the chest against the front of the stove while using a front burner). Other pacemakers and defibrillators seem unaffected (so far, anyway); (b) Some generalized concerns arising from having yet another device with electro-magnetic fields in daily use (i.e., adding to the proliferating array of electronics that include tvs, bluetooth and wi-fi transmissions, computers, cell phones, RFID, implants on products, garage openers, loudspeakers, smart watches, and many, many other modern devices, not to mention the proliferation of use of medical devices including x-rays, CAT scanners, MRI, etc. and not to mention electro-magnetic fields from all the wiring many of us now have in our houses); and (c) a few unusual people who reportedly display truly extraordinarily high sensitivity to electro-magnetic fields. For the legitimate scientific references on these subjects, you can start with the links collected at http://theinductionsite.com/radiation.php. This is mainly the stuff of risk assessment and your own personal sensitivity to risk. For some folks, even the possibility of any risk, at all, is absolutely unacceptable. Others won't consider risks that seem insignificant to them. An example of this is with dishwashers. According to the National Fire Protection Association, residential dishwasher failures have been responsible for something between 900 and 1200 fire incidents per year and anywhere from 6 to 50 burn injuries per year over the last couple of decades. Some folks will look those statistics with a reaction like, "OMG, 1200 fires a year! I'm never, ever going to have another dishwasher in my home ever again. Those things ought to be banned." Other folks will look at the same statistics with a reaction like "There must be 90+ million households with dishwashers and .00000016% catch fire? That risk is too inifinitesimally small to be a concern to me.") A lot of the risk assessment on induction is in this vein. So read the references and decide for yourself how you feel. Be warned that general searching will turn up a lot of the chaff that I mentioned at the outset. This is noise from all sorts of "I heard from the Internet that somebody somewhere is an expert who said or believes that induction is bad because ..." To put it simply, an undiscriminating search will turn up a lot of half baked and/or outright crack-pot ideas that get passed on to folks as scientific truth and fears of mega-corporate conspiracies to hide the supposed truths from a vulnerable public. Theories and discussions assert ill-informed variations on theories including the following. Induction creates ionizing radiation --- which is not so --- and ionizing radiation is akin to exposure to unshielded nuclear waste (which will give you cancer if you get too much of it). Induction (instead or in addition) also creates non-ionizing radiation because it uses uncontained microwaves (again, not so, but supposedly irradiates you and destroy all nutrients in your food). You can get electrocuted using metal utensils with a pan on an induction cooker (absolute nonsense). Nobody with a pace makers can use induction because induction stove use electro-magnets, they must produce horrendously strong magnetic fields that are as bad or worse than an MRI. Induction fields are so strong they will destroy the pacemakers of anybody in the room and probably the house. Every electric cook stove (not just induction) generates magnetic fields as do a lot of other kitchen appliances because they have transformers and/or electric motors (such as toasters, mixers, blenders and food processors) but induction is just one more long term toxic thing so we all should limit ourselves to raw food prepared with hand tools. Etc., etc. etc. At some point, I'm sure we're going to see posts proclaiming that steel knives are poisoning us by leaching toxic metals into our food and what we really need for a true paleo diet is to chip our own blades out of locally sourced obsdian. :>) You get the idea how people can be unnecessarily alarmed by internet blather. Kas mentioned previous discussions here. If you are interested you could check out these threads which turned up in a quick search (I'm sure there are lots more on this, tho): http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2340686/inductionsafe-with-metal-implant-in-hand http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2327907/your-input-on-this-research-study-re-induction-safety http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2317940/induction-and-health-issues http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2251887/hazards-of-induction-stoves http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2693554/gas-or-induction http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2257715/reducing-emf-dangers http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2693554/gas-or-induction http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2347148/scientists-concerns-about-induction-and-gas-cooktops http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2342757/pacemaker-practical-info-needed...See MoreDecision Time: induction range vs. induction cooktop with oven below
Comments (30)dsgulbas, are you arguing that Wolf is a commercial quality range??? I hope you understand that the Wolf commercial range company is NOT the one you are advocating. The Wolf brand name was purchased by a refrigeration company that has never produced a commercial range. The original Wolf stove company operates out of California and produces commercial stoves but has no relationship whatsoever to SubZero. Here is their website: http://www.wolfequipment.com/Wolf/Products/subcat.aspx?brand=Wolf&cid=1&scid=38 SubZero/Wolf gas stoves are not commercial quality and don't even have open burners, they are very good stoves but first and foremost are prime examples of kitchen jewelery. SubZero/Wolf ranges may be heavy but they are not long lasting. Try to get a Wolf gas range porcelain oven interior fixed after the warranty expires and you'll soon find out they are essentially disposable items. Been there done that. I will never defend Samsung as I've had bad experiences with them too but I don't see Wolf being any more (or even as) reliable than GE, Electrolux, Bosch and a few others that are sold in less exclusive stores....See Morekaseki
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