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One of my favourite features (if you could call it a feature) of gas stoves is that you can immediately tell if it's on or not. It's a lot easier to accidental
by toomanybeersies 6y ago
One of my favourite features (if you could call it a feature) of gas stoves is that you can immediately tell if it's on or not.
It's a lot easier to accidentally melt a plastic chopping board onto an electric stove than a gas one, and much harder to clean off when you do.
- atorodius 6y agoI don’t get why stoves don’t have some more obvious visual indicator for this. Could imagine a circle of red LEDs around each stove.
- lazyasciiart 6y agoThey do https://www.subzero-wolf.com/assistance/answers/induction-cooktop-hot-surface-indicator https://www.subzero-wolf.com/assistance/answers/induction-co...
- jwr 6y ago> much harder to clean off when you do That's only true for the type of electric stove that is still (bizarrely) popular in the US, with exposed spiral heaters. At least in the EU electric stoves are all glass. And many of them are induction heaters, which means your plastic chopping board wouldn't even notice being on the heater.
- xxs 6y agoInduction hobs tend use 3 phase lanes 230v/400v, around 7kW. The US suffers from low voltage mains. It'd take around 60A to get 7kV. OTOH, leaving a plastic (PP or some other thermoplastic) board on non-induction glass heater top would smear in a horrific way, close to impossible to clear it. The heaters do have LED illumination, though.
- Reelin 6y agoResidential power in the US is universally (to the best of my knowledge) three pole single phase 60 Hz 240V. The (common) wall outlets are certainly 120V, but large appliances are 240V. (A typical electric dryer is ~5kW at just over 20A.) As long as I'm ackchyuallying, I'll also point out that radiant cooktops don't have LEDs in them (at least I've never come across one like that). The red light (which I assume you're referring to) is just what happens when the element in an infrared heater (space heater, toaster, etc) gets hot.
- rini17 6y agoParent is writing about induction, not radiant. In either case, they usually have additional indicator of residual heat after the heater is turned off. But yes, that's likely not a LED either.
- vel0city 6y agoA cooktop in the US would be using 240V single-phase power. 7,000W / 240V = 29.167A. Three legs come into the house, two hots and center tap neutral. Either hot to the neutral = 120V. Either hot to the other hot = 240V.
- Reelin 6y agoI'm not sure where you got that idea? Radiant and induction cooktops are by far the most common here in my experience. Cleaning melted plastic off of the vast majority of surfaces, including glass, is hardly easy.