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Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 week agoGas also sends most of the energy from burning straight into the air so you heat the kitchen more than heating the food
Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 week agoGas also sends most of the energy from burning straight into the air so you heat the kitchen more than heating the food
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 week ago
True, or at least a significant portion of it.
Hot air rises. Flames make hot air. Hot air rises against the pot and warms the pot. All’s good. Except there’s more hot air than the surface of the pot can cool, so it flows up against the pot and around the sides like bubbles would if the pot was underwater.
Annoying result is the metal fixtures on the sides of the pot get dangerously hot, much more so than the pot surface itself. When I rinse a hot pot the pot surface creates a little ‘hiss’, the bolts that hold on the handle create some real steam.
Induction doesn’t have that problem, as the heat is focused on the coil’s near field within an inch or so of the cooktop surface.