Yes well it looks great but alas our quality cook wear is not "ferrous" enough for it to actually work.....Guess what, I'm gonna be taken on a guided tour of all the kitchen places to buy new cook wear....we have to take a magnet with us though to make sure it sticks...........

oh the the thrills of home ownership, a tour of all things cookery, indeed will the thrills never end speaking of which, our house is on the market, had a dozen "troll's" march through today and yesterday, none intending to buy but simply "nosing" and seeing what we have as well as dirtying up our carpets we (as in "she") are looking at a much more "upmarket" dwelling which does not have gas as the cooking fuel it has instead electrickery so given that the cooktop is not to "madam's" liking, which is the best, as in fastest to heat up and fastest to cool down and what the hell is "induction" I thought thats what one underwent if one was to become a member of an employment position or as in "inducted in to the hall of fame" what happened to those red lighty ones, halogen were they???

be careful dave.          you have to have special sauspans,for induction cooking.     the boss just told me to make sure dave knows about this.

well my cooking is done outside on the barbie or in the weber or rottiserie (which is in the barbie), our inside cooktop at the moment is gas (the only way to go as far as I'm concerned but all this new fangled stuff such as induction is beyond me why the special saucepans and why the magnets???, most of our cookware is that copper bottomed gear, cost me millions, or a lot anyway, I'm not about to chuck that away, I'll replace the cooktop first what happened to the day when we bunged a snag in the frypan and turned the stove on?

Gadgets, bloody gadgets. I hope you have full pockets Basil. Technology is a wonderful thing when it works, and when you understand it. What happened to the gas burner with a saucepan on the top? So are you saying you have to saucepans with magnetic bottoms to get them hot on the new fangled stove? What will they think of next? What does the oven and griller do? Cartwheels. I prefer Dave's "kitchen". Keep it simple I reckon. That will blow the travel budget Basil. Have fun with that. Cheers Chris

Agree with all the above, Please dont keep us in suspence, What is induction cooking and why do you need the cookware

My niece has just had an induction cooktop installed in her kitchen in the last week.  Sister has one as well.

Apparently you can take a saucepan off of the hotplate and immediately put your hand where the saucepan and although the hotplate will be very warm to touch the heat has transferred from the saucepan to the cooktop and your hand won't be burnt.

I know from what my sister has installed, when you remove a saucepan from the hotplate, the hotplate instantly turns off the turns back on if the pot is replaced.

Here are a couple of links which will explain better than I can -

http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=103867&catId=100447&tid=100008&p=1&title=Test%3a+Induction+cooktops+(archived)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_cooker

yep after much searching and researching to find out what the hell it is it all boils down to simple electromagnetism high power magnets "excite" the metals in the cooking vessels which in turn heat up and cook the contents the utensils must have a high "magnetic" factor or it wont work, explaining the need to take a magnet along when prchasing cook ware put the frypan on and it completes a magnetic circuit, take it off and the circuit is broken, and it instantly ceases cooking, much like gas does and that is what attracts me to gas they have come down a hell of a lot over the course of time and now can be purchased at a litle bit more cost to a "normal" good quality cooktop, I found a couple at $1,000 for a 4 "burner" with electronic controls

Thanks for the explanation, now tell me why you need it, new technolgy is not all that it makes it out to be, , how long will it last, and how much dearer it is, sorry, guess my age is being displayed

jeeeeez basil .        i hope you have plenty of money or a friendly bank manager.            it would appear that a lot of this bull******     comes from the oh&s mob.    less accidents in the home.     when margaret done a upgrade on our kitchen=    the bosch stove cost $4200.00.   the ceramic cooktop was $1400.00 plus instulation.         you need a pilots licence to drive it.     but she does a lot of home cooking ( so how do you say no )   and this is not induction cooking.

Ours only cost $889....Has no knobs either....And being old farts we figured for safety reasons it would be good.....It does work superbly, boils water perfectly and even made Minestrone soup laST night..... A lot cheaper to run as well.

-- Edited by Basil Faulty on Monday 20th of July 2009 04:28:56 PM

they say ones born every day  ( me )  one thing i can say basil i learnt how induction cooking works.   i hope you have fun cooking with it .

sounds like the way to go for our all electric cooktop, her majesty states that new cookware is required at this stage anyway

How the hell do you boil water perfectly Bas, I can put the blackened billy on the coals and it will boil water also, Is that perfectly ?