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Alan Holbrook[_5_] Alan Holbrook[_5_] is offline
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Default Induction hobs and stainless cookware

dsi1 > wrote in
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> OTOH, they got induction units
> that work with all metals in Asia. That's cool. Beats the heck out of
> me why we're so backwards in cooking technology in the states. That's
> not right!


Can you give us a source or references for that statement? Since the
definition of induction cooking is use of a magnetic field to excite metal
and produce heat, it would seem that use of non-magnetic metal cookware,
like aluminum, is a contradiction.