ᐅ Switching to induction cooking – how has your experience been?

Hello everyone,

Our kitchen for the house is planned, and all appliances have been selected.

So far, I have only cooked on a regular electric ceramic cooktop and will now switch to induction.

We have chosen the Siemens ez977kzy1e as our cooktop. However, I wonder if it’s really that easy to switch after 20 years of using an electric cooktop.

What concerns me most is the often mentioned “buzzing” sound on the cooktop and the lack of residual heat when you turn the cooktop off 😀

How did you experience your switch? Has anyone possibly even gone back to electric? And how long did it take you to get used to it?

So, we adapted very quickly.
I really don’t know what you mean by sums, and I find having no residual heat very practical. You don’t burn yourself.

What we find absolutely terrible is the touch control. In our new kitchen, we will have rotary knobs again.

Induction cooking is great – you’ll never want to go back to anything else! If touch controls feel too fiddly, Neff offers a clever solution with a removable rotary knob (called a "Twist Pad"). Since Neff and Siemens share the same design except for this control method, you might want to take a look at both.

We have individual induction cooktops from the Swedish retailer in our temporary kitchen, and I was quite surprised by HOW loud they are. I hope the final cooktop will be at least a bit quieter (it’s a Bora). During a brief test at the kitchen showroom, you could still hear it. Well, we’ll see how it is when simmering something for hours.

But so far, I really like the cooking experience. Combined with the new pots, it heats up super fast, and I don’t mind that it cools down quickly afterward (and my partner tends to place things on the residual heat without thinking 🙄, so this is actually better).

New pots were overdue anyway.

You learn to cook differently, and then it becomes fun.

My mother nagged me for weeks, complaining about whether she could use them.

Now she doesn’t want to exchange them anymore.

Hello,
Induction cooking is great; once you try it, you won’t want anything else. It behaves somewhat like a gas stove. When needed, it can deliver very high power, which can also be quickly reduced just as fast.

Yes, at full power the pots can start to hum because of the induced currents in the base of the cookware. But it’s not really disturbing and, at least for us, it only happens in “burst” mode.

Important: check if all your pots and pans are induction-compatible. We had to part with two of our favorite roasting pans.

Best regards,

Andreas