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.