Friends I know, check out several stores, do Consumer reports, weigh each advantage and disadvantage.
I thought they might be right.
Our induction stove top, which always was emotionally challenged at the best of times, decided only two of three burners should work. The one in the Nest* is ceramic.
I decided to do the thoughtful way of shopping even though I thought that the ceramic one in the Nest had the advantage of always turning on and off something the induction one did not. There were moments I believed it wanted some kind of cooking rain dance or magical chant to cook my meal.
I went into where we buy all our appliances. I listened carefully to the clerk explain, less use of electricity and a timer on the induction. A couple of safety features were appealing if and when a small child (never has there been a small child in the flat in four years, but there might be) sounded good.
It wasn't a matter of price. And he threw in an induction stove top Italian coffee pot. Prior to that my old Italian coffee pot was useless except in The Nest's ceramic top.
I bought the induction.
The installer had a hard time with the wiring and space, not the stove top's fault. This is a 400-year-old house, although the wiring is under ten years.
He broke the dishwasher's door under the stove stop which we discovered the next time we opened the dishwasher, which although a new and a top brand name never dried properly.
My perfectly tin-lined copper pot I bought at the vide grenier will not work on the new stove top. It can go to The Nest.
It is NOT the stove top's fault that I misread which on switch button operated which burner.
This morning I discovered my favorite tiny fry pan won't work.
My goal is to have a stove top that you put a pan on with food in it, the food cooks, you shut the burner off and eat the food.
Instead, I am checking the internet to determine which magical dances, chances and herbs will make the new stove top do the same.
I am going back to my old method of shopping: in, I want, you have it, but it I buy it, if you don't I'm outta there in minutes.
It was my mistake and I'll live with it or maybe -- hmmm -- seems like every thing that goes wrong in the US is Russia's fault.
When my stove top annoys me, I will blame Putin.
*The Nest is the 18 sq. meter studio I bought for my retirement home and is perfectly set up for me. However, when I married Rick is was much too small so we rent a flat two doors down and we use the Nest as a guest room.
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I thought I was the only one who had problems with induction cooktops. My induction cooktop burns the bottoms of my pans and even the insides with a bluish orangy color. Took new pans back to store to complain and salesperson told me I use too high of a heat. I guess using setting 4 out of 9 is too high? I think my induction cooktop hates me.
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