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Spending some time at my folks' place and using their glass-ceramic electric cooktop.
Let me tell you folks, once you start to get the brain nugget that gas stoves aren't that great you start to even appreciate bog-standard electric stoves.
It is so nice to be able to stir a simmering pot without the exhaust (!) flying around the pot and searing your hand a little.
And you know what? I even ran into that problem where you can't just turn the burner down because of the thermal inertia. Nearly had a pot boil over.
But upon reflection, I think I would rather get used to that then deal with the indoor air pollution. And, like I said, it is legitimately easier from a heat-on-skin perspective cook with an electric stove. That's kinda cool, actually.
@TechConnectify It's almost like the "gas is better" crowd never adapted to ceramic top stoves. They're a world better than exposed coil stoves.
"Exposed coil stove" - i had to look that up, never seen it except on ancient stuff from just after WW2. Here (Norway) it used to be mostly "enclosed" hot plates (horrible to clean, but no "drip pan"), then ceramic (easy to clean, a bit more responsive), and now it's mostly inductive.
What is the purpose of adding a battery to a stove, @TechConnectify ? Wouldn't that limit how long you can cook, increase the price, and add a failure point?
@kyrsjo putting a battery in the stove would provide an energy buffer to allow it to produce more heat energy than it can draw from the wall.
This is important for electrification, as homes with gas stoves do not have a circuit run for an electric range and adding one is expensive. Putting a battery in the stove allows it to dump 5 kW into a pot to bring it to a boil in ~5 min and then pull 1.5 kW from the wall over 20 minutes to recharge that battery.
@kyrsjo admittedly, I have mixed feelings about the idea because I don't exactly like "more batteries in more things!" But the truth is that even when cooking a pretty complex meal, on average, you only need about a kilowatt of energy from a stove.
The only reason we wire up our ranges to pull ~10 kW is so that all burners can run at the same time, which rarely ever happens and never sustainedly.
@kyrsjo The battery can also provide some other benefits though. For instance, allow you to cook a meal when there is a power outage or also just shift demand away from peak times without affecting your ability to cook.
That's generally the pro of more batteries in more things, but like I said I have mixed feelings about it. That sort of thing feels more appropriate to manage on the grid-side, but to make an induction stove more attainable I dig it.
@TechConnectify
Yeah, i have the same feeling about grid batteries in general, that they should mostly be installed, maintained, and financed by the grid operators, not by random people on their homes...