Benefits and Drawbacks of Induction Cooking

Benefits of Induction Cooking:

Induction cooking is getting huge response among people worldwide due to it’s exotic advantageous features. Unlike usual burners, the induction cooktops can provide you a better experience in bringing temperature accuracy as well as power saving in your kitchen environment. The prime benefits of induction cooking include:

• Faster Cooking process:

The most blatant reason for choosing induction cooking process is the faster cooking service offered by the induction cooktops. You do not need to wait long for the pan being heated before cooking. The digital temperature controlling mechanism heats up the pan within a spur of the moment.

Especially, if you are a working parent, then it could offer you a great help. Moreover, this faster cooking process is very helpful for the restaurants, where the customers do not want to wait longer after giving orders.

• Quick & Efficient Temperature Adjustment:

Undoubtedly, temperature adjustment is the most influencing reason why the chefs and cooks prefer induction cooking. An induction cooktop can reach a very high and accurate temperature within a few seconds; unlike the usual gas burners. Therefore, you don’t need to wait longer for cooking foods or boiling water. This process saves your cooking time to a great extent.

• Energy Efficiency – Zero Heat Loss:

In the normal cooking process with gas burners, a huge amount of heat becomes wasted; as this heat is transmitted to the surrounding environment through air. This makes the kitchen environment hot. In case of induction cooking process, the heat is transferred directly through the electromagnetic field created by the coil placed inside the induction cooktop.

When an induction-ready cookware is placed above the cooktop, that pan can absorb the entire amount of energy in a direct way. As no other surface or medium gets in contact with that induction stovetop except the induction-ready cookware, no heat is transferred or wasted otherwise.

• Eco-Friendly:

Induction cooking not only benefits you and your family but also saves the environment. Recently, consciousness towards saving energy as well as the environment has got a huge positive response in North America and other countries of the world in a rapid way. The domestic appliance industry has stepped into this revolution and producing Energy efficient cooking utensils under reasonable price ranges.

Induction cooking applies energy-efficient technology that wastes no/least amount of heat during cooking unlike the conventional gas burners, where much heat is escaped through air and side portions of the cookware.

• Safety Features:

Safety is another big issue for choosing induction cooking process. Especially, if you have young children in your house, they often feel curious to touch things, even cooktops in the kitchen. An induction cooktop is totally safe for you and your kid, as it always remains cool. Therefore, there is no risk of burning hands/fingers, even if someone touches the induction burner.

• Minimizes Health Risk:

The induction cooktops, stovetops or burners apply electromagnetic energy only. In the induction cooking process, it is not needed to burn gas. Moreover, induction compatible cookware, like, pots, pans, skillets, etc. prevent food blackening that cuts down the risk of cancer up to a great extent. Therefore, this induction cooking process is totally safe and beneficial to health.

• Easy to Clean:

Who loves cleaning after cooking? However, you need to clean the cooktop whether you like it or not. Unlike the usual burners, a standard induction cooktop is easy to clean, as it bears a glass built ceramic finish. In this cooking process, only the induction pan gets heated, not the cooktop. Hence, you don’t need to wait for a long time for the temperature getting down, as the induction burner always remains cool.

On the other hand, if you use the usual burners, like, gas ranges or electric cooktops, you cannot touch the burner right after cooking due to extreme heat. Therefore, the induction cooking process can save your time and energy for cleaning purpose.

Drawbacks of Induction Cooking:

Induction technology has some drawbacks.

• Needs Special Cookware:

If you choose the induction cooking process, then it is mandatory for you to use the special cooking utensils that bear induction ready feature. As an induction cooktop works through the electromagnetic fields only, it requires induction compatible cookware, like pots, pans, and skillets to transmit the heat evenly to the cooking items. Therefore, the usual cookware without induction mechanism – such as aluminum cookware, steel cookware, copper cookware, glass cookware, Pyrex cookware, etc. – cannot cook with an induction cooktop. The induction cooktop compatible cookware utensils are pricier than usual pans/pots.

• Noise:

Despite being a safe process, the electromagnetic coils that are used inside an induction burner produce great heat. This excess heat becomes trapped inside the burner and gets dissipated through the application of a fan that produces some noise. Otherwise, in some cases, a “ticking” noise is generated from the induction coil during power cycling.

• Lack of Charring Effect:

The cooks or chefs may require a nice charring effect over the food, especially while cooking steaks. But in the induction cooking process char is not created, as no open flame is generated by the induction cooktops.