Can any Steel/Cast Iron Utensil be used in Induction Cooking?
If you currently have all Teflon or aluminum, you’ll need new cookware. Cast iron is fine on induction. Stainless is variable. I have an induction hotplate(made by Salton, $80 with a thin stainless pan included) and now use it most of the time if I only need one burner. Cooking on the coil burner feels like driving a horse and wagon compared to driving a car. Some of my stainless pans work, some don’t. Enamelled cast iron works amazingly well. If a magnet will stick to a pan, the pan will work on induction. Most cookware sold today will say that it works with induction, if it does. It’s a selling point. It’s a wonderful cooking technology. I can’t wait till I can afford a cooktop with it. I experimented. My hotplate is only 1500 watts, versus the much higher wattages you can get with a hard-wired cooktop. It boiled two cups of water in 3 minutes, versus 5 minutes on the coil burner, same pan, started cold with cold water. Some things started cooking so fast they surprised me. I wasn’t
