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I'm curious why they don't work together. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it seems to say cast iron should work fine. I have no personal experience with an ind
by checker 15y ago
I'm curious why they don't work together. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it seems to say cast iron should work fine. I have no personal experience with an induction range.
- tptacek 15y agoI'm assuming he's saying that because cast iron pans are extremely heavy, and because on a conventional cooktop you can be rough with them (you kind of have to be in order to, for instance, saute on one). Induction burners will shatter if you slam a cast iron pan onto one.
- kondro 15y agoYou really shouldn't be slamming anything into anything. You don't have to be that careful with tempered or borosilicate-style glass.
- tptacek 15y agoDave Arnold seems to think they shatter regularly.
- kondro 15y agoTetsuya of http://www.tetsuyas.com/ http://www.tetsuyas.com/, considered one of the top chef's in the world, seems to love them.
- tptacek 15y agoNot at all surprised if we're both right.
- Natsu 15y agoTempered glass is something I've dealt with extensively. Harsh temperature changes can break it, but slamming cookware against it won't break tempered glass. All the edges and corners should be hidden, so it's not like you're going to be able to whack the corner where it's weak. A tempered piece of glass is under stress, which concentrates along the edges and at the corners. That makes them into weak points. The flat side? You can hit that all day with a shovel. That said, things like scratches can weaken it. So I wouldn't be surprised if some combination of scuffing up the surface & big temperature changes were enough to blow one up. And yes, tempered glass blows up, it doesn't just crumble. Like I said, it's under stress, so it goes flying, just like the pieces of a balloon do when it's popped.