Thermador's Freedom Induction
Last February, I wrote a post about an induction cooktop from Gaggenau I'd seen in Germany the previous month. Gaggenau calls it Full Surface Induction and I was completely blown away by it when I saw it for the first time. Full Surface Induction dispensed with the idea of burners all together and turned the entire cooktop surface into a cooking zone. The appliance could sense the size of the pot resting on it and only activated the induction coils beneath that particular pot.
I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it with my personal eyes. When I wrote that submit almost a year-and-a-1/2 in the past I summed it all up with a lament approximately how that generation wasn't heading across the Atlantic any time soon.
It turns out I was incorrect approximately that, Gaggenau's Full Surface Induction will be to be had in North America in August of this 12 months.
In the meantime, last January, my friend and colleague Susan Serra wrote a post about Thermador's new Freedom Induction cooktop. Thermador is a sister brand to Gaggenau and next month, the Thermador Freedom Induction will make its North American debut.
When I became at Bosch/ Thermador/ Gaggenau's new facility in Irvine, CA closing week I saw the prototype of this Thermador cooktop and I met the man who designed it. I admit it, I'm a geek on the subject of appliances, induction cooktops particularly. As amazing as Gaggenau's Full Surface Induction is, Thermador's Freedom Induction is even extra so. Thermador's Freedom Induction has a 6.Five" full-coloration screen in order to educate you how to use the appliance basically.
Here's a video displaying the person at the back of this innovation, Malte Peters, and an early model of this equipment. The cooktop he's describing has a clear glass floor, so you can see the numerous, many induction coils that stay underneath it. These smaller coils are how Freedom Induction works.
All contemporary induction coils activate when they sense ferrous metal. Ordinarily, these coils are the size and shape of a conventional, round burner. Freedom Induction allows a user to place odd-sized pots and pans anywhere on its surface and it'll accommodate up to five pots at a time and a user can control each of those pots individually.
What's extra is that anyone can circulate a pot to every other role and transfer the cooking settings to the new position. It's progressive and this video of the unique Gaggenau Full Surface Induction explains how this era works higher than I can.
Induction cooktops make so much experience I can slightly stand it. They are significantly greater efficient than every other cooking technology available. They have the same stage of control that gasoline does but without the radiant warmness and wasted electricity that accompanies gas. And not like a traditional electric powered cooktop, the burners and cooking surface in no way get warm, so they're infinitely more secure in homes with kids or the aged.
So if you're on the fence about induction, buy yourself a set of All-Clad cookware and go for it. I have never met anyone who'd made the switch to induction who regretted it. There are a wide variety of models available from Bosch , Thermador and Gaggenau and if you have any questions about this technology, please shoot me an e-mail. I'm somewhat a zealot when it comes to this stuff and I'll answer all questions gladly.