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For me, this is a really interesting thread. The cooktop is either built into a niche with limited counter space next to it, or placed on the island, where it can sometimes splatter while cooking steaks, but then the guests, who always watch during cooking, can enjoy that as well. Both options seem to be trending.

Neither option would be practical for me. We have a very ordinary kitchen with a completely different layout for over 15 years now. It’s probably considered old-fashioned by now, but I still don’t quite see the purpose of these newer layouts.

However, the kitchens do look really nice and I genuinely like them.

Climbee schrieb:

What’s really great about induction is that only the area where a pot or pan is placed heats up. I now have really tiny pots with diameters of 10 or 12cm (4 or 5 inches) for boiling eggs, melting chocolate, and so on. I don’t need anything bigger, and induction won’t heat more than that.

I could be wrong, but what I find less ideal about your supposed advantage is that the area of the induction cooktop not covered by your tiny pot emits questionable amounts of magnetic radiation (towards you).

annab377 schrieb:

I might be mistaken, but in my opinion, the not-so-great part of your supposed advantage is that the area your tiny pot doesn’t cover on the induction cooktop emits questionable amounts of magnetic radiation (towards you)

Many (like our cooktop once we get it) only "heat" the area where the pot is placed.
With older models, the whole cooking zone heats up regardless of the size of the pot.

It’s comparable to a light bulb: electricity flows in, heats the filament, which glows, and electricity flows out.

What you should keep in mind with induction is that you shouldn’t wear a pacemaker, watches, necklaces, rings, or similar items on your body because they can attract the magnetic fields. (Magnet )

I’m not particularly worried about it. Aluminum foil hat theorists, experts, amateurs, or kitchen pros—everyone tells you something different.
Cordless home phones or microwaves are in every household and emit radiation just like an induction cooktop.

Just my two cents...

BTW: Back2Topic

No one should ever drive an electric car from you. There are radiation emissions affecting the body, as if you were lying in a room with induction fields and being exposed at full strength for 24 hours straight...

RawPauke schrieb:

Cordless Home Phones

Not a conspiracy theorist here either (but I do use a gas stove), however: the dose makes the poison. The radiation from any kind of cordless phone is by far not enough to "hard boil your proverbial eggs." And that is exactly what induction does.

MayrCh schrieb:

to cook your proverbial eggs hard. And that’s exactly what induction does.

True - this happens quite often at our place for breakfast