Induction cooktops are getting a lot of play in both advertisements and reviews. This technology is actually not new, but it's recently been seeing a revival.
Some of the basic advantages of induction cooking are:
  - The higher temperature and efficiency of the powerful burners on various induction units allow for much faster boiling for large pots of water.
  - Induction cooktops provide a very efficient transfer of energy from the cooktop to the pan.
  - Induction cooktops are easier to clean because the cooking surface does not get hot - nothing burns onto the cooking surfaces.

How Induction Cooking Works:
1. The element's electronics power a coil (the red lines) that produces a high-frequency electromagnetic field (represented by the orange lines).
2. That field penetrates the metal of the ferrous (magnetic-material) cooking vessel and sets up a circulating electric current, which generates heat.
3. The heat generated in the cooking vessel is transferred to the vessel's contents.
4.  Nothing outside the vessel is affected by the field--as soon as the pan is removed from the element, or the element turned off, heat generation stops.
There is one major point about induction: with current technology, induction cookers require that all your countertop cooking pots and pans be of a "ferrous" metal (one, such as iron, that will readily sustain a magnetic field). Materials like aluminum, copper, and pyrex are not usable on an induction cooker. You don't need top of the line products for induction cooking to work properly. Many very reasonably priced cookware lines work just as well. But if you're considering induction and have a lot invested, literally or emotionally, in non-ferrous cookware, you do need to know the facts.
On the horizon is newer technology that will apparently work with any metal cooking vessel, including copper and aluminum, but that technology--though already being used in a few units of Japanese manufacturing, is probably quite a few years away from maturity and from inclusion in most induction cookers.
 If you are interested in a new cooktop, or additional information about this technology, contact our first-rate Design and Selection Team at 603-437-2500 or email us at: info@boardwalknorth.com They would be happy to help you with all your selection needs!

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