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Re:New research: natural gas appliances emit much more metha... by katbyte on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:12PM (#30213301)
In what ways does an induction cooktop underperform compared to gas? It dumps more heat into the pan and less waste heat into the room, doesn’t produce any combustion byproducts, can be dialled into a specific temp, including very low simmering ones, and is safer as there is no hot element or open flame.
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Re:New research: natural gas appliances emit much more metha... by alexvoda on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:46AM (#30220486)
Induction, while great in many ways, has plenty of disadvantages:

- potential incompatibility with existing cookware

- many induction stoves achieve lower levels of heat through TDM (turning on and off at max heat) which is horrible

- incompatibility with curved bottom cookware like a wok

- lack of knobs

- annoying beeping

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Re:New research: natural gas appliances emit much more metha... by katbyte on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:40AM (#30229817)
3 of these have to do with the induction cooktop chosen, not induction. And the other two with the type of cookware. But yes woks are not really compatible with induction, but then they also are not the best with coil or residential gas cooktops either.
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