Tell me about your induction stove!

[dstig1]

I considered induction but was a bit ahead of the curve on those so went gas and no regrets. The air quality stuff is indeed leftist propaganda, and you can tell by how it suddenly started to appear at the same time as the leftists ramped up the war on fossil fuels. But here is the key, gas or otherwise: ALL stoves need ventilation to the exterior. If you have it and use it, you will be far better off in all cases as all open cooking processes generate fumes, some more than others. This is very important for indoor air quality.

So don't forget exterior ventilation with your induction stove, and watch to make sure in case you need make-up air for it with higher cfm exhausts. That was also something that was harder to do when i built than it is now. I ended up rolling my own system to help ensure our woodstove doesn't backdraft due to the stove hood. There are 3 things in our house that are not sealed: stove hood, clothes dryer and Master bath fan (well 4 if you count the woodstove...). If you run all 3 at once when sealed up in the winter, odds are you will get backdrafting and it SUX! The make up air opens a damper and runs the furnace fan to draw in exterior air to help compensate. Even then, with the wrong weather patterns it can rarely back draft...

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Make-up air is only required if you have combustion appliances in the house.

 

[ning]

Make-up air is only required if you have combustion appliances in the house.

hey some of us flambe EVERYTHING

 

[HawkinsHollow]

I considered induction but was a bit ahead of the curve on those so went gas and no regrets. The air quality stuff is indeed leftist propaganda, and you can tell by how it suddenly started to appear at the same time as the leftists ramped up the war on fossil fuels. But here is the key, gas or otherwise: ALL stoves need ventilation to the exterior. If you have it and use it, you will be far better off in all cases as all open cooking processes generate fumes, some more than others. This is very important for indoor air quality.

So don't forget exterior ventilation with your induction stove, and watch to make sure in case you need make-up air for it with higher cfm exhausts. That was also something that was harder to do when i built than it is now. I ended up rolling my own system to help ensure our woodstove doesn't backdraft due to the stove hood. There are 3 things in our house that are not sealed: stove hood, clothes dryer and Master bath fan (well 4 if you count the woodstove...). If you run all 3 at once when sealed up in the winter, odds are you will get backdrafting and it SUX! The make up air opens a damper and runs the furnace fan to draw in exterior air to help compensate. Even then, with the wrong weather patterns it can rarely back draft...

Our house definitely has an exterior vented range hood, I couldn't live without it. I don't know how people have kitchens without them, just makes no sense. I will be adding 3 more bathroom vents to the house and the new addition is much tighter than the old. But the old space has been tightened up a little but too. So this is something I am going to have to watch. I was considering adding outside combustion air for the wood stove then I reinstall it in the new living room.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yeah, I think you posted this in another thread and that might have been why I started doing research on it. And I am glad I did. My wife has respiratory issues, we have a child, etc. It just doesn't seem like the risk is worth the reward. Also it sounds like an induction stove is superior in many ways. It kind of sucks because I paid to have the gas line run to the stove location already. But a small price to pay for the benefits

Visiting a friend and noticed he had a small 2 burner gas cooktop next to his full size induction cooktop.

He said power isn't that reliable where he is and the 2 burner gas complimented the everyday induction...

Maybe running a gas line is forward thinking?

 

[lman]

I didn't want to get a LP tank just to run a stove. I don't need gas for my geothermal heat. No natural gas lines around here. My induction works good, no complaints.

 

[ultrarunner]

Make-up air is only required if you have combustion appliances in the house.

SF apartment was almost lost which was built with a fireplace...

The electric clothes dryer pulled the fireplace flames into the living room...

 

[KennyG]

Even without combustion appliances, houses will need makeup are because of the "stack effect" that promotes leakage out of the upper areas and results in negative pressure in the lower areas. My house is two story with basement and is pretty well insulated and sealed with newer windows. I have a u-bend (trapped) air makeup tube in the basement and in cold weather I get a noticeable inflow of air. The only air use is the water heater. Everything else has outside air intakes.

 

[deezler]

Our house is all electric. Pain for us in power outages is we lose heating/cooling/stove, AND the well pump. No water is the worst part; once the pressure tank is low, it's hard to flush toilets etc

No generator that you can hook up? My 6500 watt Generac easily runs our well pump. Yeah it kicks hard when it starts up, but never stalls or trips.

Our house is all electric too. My biggest gripe is that our fancy heat-pump water heater doesnt like the square wave power out of my generator, so it refuses to run.

 

[deezler]

Our whirpool induction range / double-oven unit from 2015 is still going strong, no issues. Absolutely love it. Fun to show people who've never seen one how you can boil an inch of cold water in a pan in about 2 minutes flat. Has never built up any crud that required scrubbing in all 9 years now, just wipes clean every time.

My mother-in-law loves to cook and bought a big 6-burner natural gas range/oven combo. When she has 4 soups and 3 pies going, the air quality gets very, very bad without having open windows. It's not just a liberal conspiracy, lol.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Even without combustion appliances, houses will need makeup are because of the "stack effect" that promotes leakage out of the upper areas and results in negative pressure in the lower areas. My house is two story with basement and is pretty well insulated and sealed with newer windows. I have a u-bend (trapped) air makeup tube in the basement and in cold weather I get a noticeable inflow of air. The only air use is the water heater. Everything else has outside air intakes.

If you have a noticeable inflow of air that's your makeup air.

I don't understand what you mean when you say "The only air use is the water heater." The water heater is a combustion appliance.

 

[KennyG]

If you have a noticeable inflow of air that's your makeup air.

I don't understand what you mean when you say "The only air use is the water heater." The water heater is a combustion appliance.

Of course. The other combustion devices (furnace, wood stove) have outside air supply. The water heater is a very intermittent use.

 

[ericm979]

Make-up air is only required if you have combustion appliances in the house.

Current code in Oregon requires make up air if your stove vent fan is more than 400 cfm.

 

[RobertN]

No generator that you can hook up? My 6500 watt Generac easily runs our well pump. Yeah it kicks hard when it starts up, but never stalls or trips.

Our house is all electric too. My biggest gripe is that our fancy heat-pump water heater doesnt like the square wave power out of my generator, so it refuses to run.

We have an odd setup. The main house is on one panel/meter. The Granny Flat is on a second panel/meter; the well is on that meter. I have run the well and granny flat with a 6500W, but then I need a second generator for anything in the main house.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Current code in Oregon requires make up air if your stove vent fan is more than 400 cfm.

Check your code. The International Residential Code -- which Oregon has adopted -- only requires makeup air if there are combustion appliances in the house. If the house is all-electric you don't need makeup air.

 

[ultrarunner]

War on gas is real… nearby city had a ballot measure to add $3 per therm tax on gas saying we need to get fossil gas out of buildings since the outright ban proposed in 2019 failed…

 

[lman]

War on gas is real… nearby city had a ballot measure to add $3 per therm tax on gas saying we need to get fossil gas out of buildings since the outright ban proposed in 2019 failed…

No war here. We have no therms.

 

[DarkBlack]

It's not just a liberal conspiracy, lol.

It’s about certain people trying to eliminate our choice to choose between natural gas or being captive to the electric grid

 

[deezler]

It’s about certain people trying to eliminate our choice to choose between natural gas or being captive to the electric grid

Oh, don't get me wrong, I do not support energy choice mandates in any way. I should have left that sentence out of my post, haha.

Only point was that most people do not think about or understand their indoor air quality situations at all. High VOC paints, cheap furniture and carpets, chemical cleaners, combusted fossil fuels.... etc - and little to no fresh air. Has a tangible effect on human health that is rarely considered, IMO. I'll send a text to RFK jr to add it to his agenda, lol.

 

[ultrarunner]

No war here. We have no therms.

Are you all electric?

Homes are tighter now but being tighter has the potential to decrease indoor air quality.

The old 1930's Wedgewood Gas/Wood kitchen stove I have will outlast us all on quality...

The Wood side and the Gas Oven side well vented... Cook top gas burners vent to inside as there is no hood...

Has friends buy a home with Induction decades ago and pulled it for gas... she is a professional Chef and at home the Induction didn't do it for her....

My guess is WOK cooking or Asian style dishes don't transfer to Induction?