[Greenbuilding] Induction cooking

[elitalking]

Typo of one letter and the meainng of the sentence is completely opposite.  Corrected sentence  is, "My wife  started out a little skeptical, but is NOW a believer.
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From: "elitalking" <elitalking at rockbridge.net>
To: "Green Building" <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Induction cooking


> Induction stoves are great.  I learned about them from this list.  My wife 
> started out a little skeptical, but is now a believer.  We are moving 
> towards grid tied photovoltaic.  The most efficient cooking is microwave. It 
> heats the water first which is the food.  The ceramic or glass container is 
> heated by conduction from the food.   We do not use plastic.  However, some 
> foods like stir fried vegetables, boiled foods or some bread baking do not 
> work in microwave.  Foods that require a lot of boiling or frying go to 
> induction stove top.  Foods that require baking go to Brevell Oven.  This 
> used a typical heat element, but it is smaller than typical oven.  The 
> controls are very precise for heating temp and time.  It is big enough for 
> almost all we cook.  The big Thanksgiving Turkey is the only dinner event it 
> could not handle.  However, we discovered that we cut the Turkey up and it 
> is able to cook half the Turkey which is more than enough for our 
> traditionally glutinous meal.  It is the least efficient of three.  However, 
> it's smaller size and superior control makes it far more efficient than the 
> traditional range, gas or electric.
> 
> 
> 
> Benjamin Pratt writes:
> 
> In my case, with a house that I've tried to tighten-up, but which is
> still somewhat leaky--I don't exhaust any of the heat from my gas
> stove. So it's very efficient--any energy that does not cook the food,
> helps to heat the house.
> 
> 
> 
> My comment:
> 
> The inefficient appliance that produces waste heat is only a benefit during 
> the heating season.  In the summer it is an additional liability for comfort 
> or cooling cost of removing that heat.
> 
> 
> Eli
> 
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