Induction cooking is pretty freaking great — your food is extremely precisely heated using magnets instead of say, fire. Now, if you’ve got some serious cash, Thermador has a giant magnetic stove that’ll powerboost your kitchen.
The Freedom — $US4950 and arriving in July — has plenty of space for an array of pots, pans and trays. Thermador will sell a spectrum of ferromagnet-coated cookware, which can be arranged however you please, because there aren’t any preset burners like your lame old traditional stove. The Freedom also sports a touchscreen control for heat intensity and timing, which ironically operates more smoothly than most tablets. [Thermador]
Timmahh
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 12:25 PMBeen considering buying a new oven for awhile, but near five grand for the stove top alone, plus new pots and pans that will work properly, that’s a bit steep! Although I do like the idea. Considering the technology has been around for twenty years or more without any real uptake, it may take awhile for the price to come down to anything like affordable!
Richo
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 12:56 PMMagnets. How do they work?
RooBoy
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 1:02 PMMagic
Apothus
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 2:00 PMFrom my understanding stating that it uses “magnets” is rather misleading. Induction cook tops function in a manner similar to transformers. An AC field is generated by the element which then induces a field in the metal item above it. Then as a result of eddie currents generated by the electro magnetic field the pot heats up. I am a little rusty on this but i belive that is the fundamentals
spiderlama
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 2:06 PMICP reference ftw