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Comments (14)The idea of double stacking the grates is brilliant, no extra stuff needed (though you will lose use of the now-naked burner for the duration.) However, the little cast-iron flame tamer laid on top of the existing grate may do the trick equally well. (Always did for me.) And it does double duty, when not in use taming flame, as a counter-top trivet. Cost is usally less than $10. For prolonged, very low temp simmers you might find the double-grate plus flame tamer to be the way to go. In those cases it's not likely you'll be using every burner, so the temporary loss of one hob won't be critical. Another possibility would be to figure a way to raise the grate up to some level between 1X to 2X its height. Simple little bits or bars of iron or steel might do the trick once you discover the optimal height for the kind of simmering you want to do. L....See MoreCooktop cut out wiggle room
Comments (2)Yes and no. I have been through this exercise many-many times in the past few weeks and checked one too many installation instructions. :-) If you have the exact model numbers, you can check what kind of allowance they have. Normally, it is ~1/16". When a cooktop is said to be, say, 30", it can be anywhere between 28" to 31". I was shocked when I saw that the cut out for Fagor's 28" cooktop is less than 24". The lip itself may or may not provide enough support. If the appliance is not installed correctly, it voids the warranty. You can do a preplanned cut out only if you know the exact specs for the existing and the future cooktop, IMO....See More15 inch induction cooktop too small for 2 people
Comments (9)>>>". . . two burner 15 inch cooktop and use a portable induction cooktop when we need the third burner. . . Has anybody done this?"<<< Yes, and I can see the attraction of the minimalist kitchen idea, but I'm inclined to agree with palimpsest and Helen, at least without knowing more about your situation. Initially, you would have to completely replace the countertop if you downsize to a 15" cooktop. OTOH, it might be possible (and relatively inexpensive) to have the contractor cut the existing countertop in place. For example, if you chose to replace your 24" Bosch electric with, say, a Wolf 24" induction cooktop, the countertop subcontractor would only need to shave the edges of the cutout, making it ½" wider (side to side) and ¼" deeper (front to back). But maybe your countertop is made of something which cannot be cut in place? Maybe your current electric cooktop was flush mounted into the countertop? Do your aesthetic preferences (or the local real estate market) require everything to be precisely and exactly centered within a thousandth of a millimeter, meaning that that the countertop must be taken offsite to a computerized cutter which can precisely shave the edges of the existing cutout? OTOH, even with a 24" cooktop, you still might want to look into getting a portable induction cooker (PIC) and maybe also consider a electric griddle or fry pan, as well. While it seems to me that Delray33483's opinion on portable induction cookers (PICs) being a "PITA to use and not being as high-powered as you think" is true for many of the cheapest models, it is not true for all PICs. It seems to me that there are four main complaints about inexpensive PICs: (a) cheap ones have very small burners with induction fields that may only be 4 or 5 inches in diameter (not so good for larger pots and pans); (b) cheap electronics that offer only a few and very widely spaced heat settings that give poor control over any cooking other than boiling water; (c) they have very crude cycling of heat control (called "pulse width modulation" or PWM) which makes simmering difficult or impossible (i.e., at lower settings, cheaper PICs give a couple seconds of furious boiling alternating with a few seconds of absolute stillness); and (d) many folks find cheap units to be annoyingly noisy. There are better PICs without these problems, but they tend to be expensive. If you haven't researched PICs much, yet, you might want to check out [this gardenweb thread from a few years ago[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/portable-induction-cooktop-and-cookware-dsvw-vd~2324992), and have look at some of the blogs at CenturyLife.org which have a pretty realistic appraisal of PICs (maybe start here for those blogs.) There are still trade-offs with a good PIC, but they will be trade-offs rather than outright negatives. For example, going down from a 24" inch induction cooktop to a 15" unit (sometimes called a "domino"), you lose one of the smaller burners which might well be a 6 inch 1800 watt induction burner. That's pretty much what you get with a good PIC. If you chose, say, a Vollrath 59500 model, you would get a burner with 100 power settings which is finer control --- if and when you need it --- than you would get with a Wolf (10 power settings) or a Miele (17 burner power settings) 24" cooktop. You would get excellent PWM, good temperature control settings (an option not available on any 24" induction cooktop I currently know of), and timer control of the burner. AFAIK, the Miele 24" induction cooktop is the only 24" cooktop offering a burner timer control feature. That quality comes at a pretty hefty price -- at around $500, it pretty much eats up the savings of a 15" domino unit over a 24" cooktop. Whether and to what extent those trade-offs matter is very much YMMV, As for finding folks with a minimlaist cooktop and supplemental devices, I've mostly seen them in videos and blogs on tiny houses here in North America. I am specifically recalling a post here from several years ago where the poster (from Seattle, IIRC) decided to rent out their big house while downsizing themselves into the "in-law apartment" on their property. Sorry, I can't find that link --- I'm having trouble at the moment with google etc. insisting that I need to have thousands of ad$ for shopping instead of information. Might be my ISP jumping free of net neutrality. $%#@! There are even several Chowhounders who have converted entirely to portable induction cookers (abbreviated "PICs") as have the folks at Centurylife.org. The arrangement you describe is also something that is becoming more common in some of the fancier small homes on the other side of the Pacific in Japan and Hong Kong. I might also note that my Japanese and HK acquaintances with two burner cooktops all seem to have, in addition to a PIC, an array of stowable specialty countertop electrics such as rice cookers, electric pressure cookers, electric yakatori grills, breadmakers etc. Some friends from New Zealand also have paired their small cooktop with a Thermomix countertop appliance. 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