Induction Stoves for Cooking

Induction stove is now preferred in most of the kitchens for cooking instead of LPG stoves. The availability of LPG cylinders is in scarcity because of the unavailability of petrol and crude oil. The government has also reduced the number of cylinders in subsidized rate for a family; this leads home makers to prefer induction stoves. Gas stoves consume fuel and and only 40 percent of the heat generated is used for cooking while 60 percent of heat generated is wasted. Induction stoves heat with electromagnetic field and not filament for heating by using electromagnetic field for heating, the consumption of current is considerably low while using filament and passing current through it to make it heat will consume a large amount of power.

Advantages:

1. Advantage of using induction stove is the possibility of fire accident is low;

2. The kitchen area will not become warm since there is no fire involved in heating.

3. Vessels made of copper or ferrous can be used for cooking which gets heated quickly without loss of energy while aluminum vessels cannot be used since they do not spread heat uniformly.

Disadvantages:

1. The only disadvantage of induction stove is only ferrous or copper vessels which have a flat bottom can be used for cooking since flat bottoms serves heat uniformly. Using curve bottom vessels will too don’t serve heat uniformly.