Some more Kettle Thoughts (including; Microwaving Water!)

Yep. There's a video out there that this one is a follow-up to. It's also like a week late. Anyway, here's the original video:
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[@TechnologyConnextras]

You might be able to tell that I intended this to go on the main channel. Through a combination of just... not being very happy with it, other stuff getting in the way, and sheer laziness it's ended up on this channel. Hooray!

[@CryptoRoast_0]

We forgive you ❤

[@dang495]

I demand a heat pump kettle!

[@buzzknudson5675]

Climate towns video on gas stoves may be interesting if you haven't already seen it

[@timteecvhn]

I wanna say towards the part where you mentioned some people using spoons, I think they might've meant by wooden/non-metal ones. (tho why you'd do that still when there are other options such as just a simple wooden stirring stick or anything wooden that is properly sealed to be safe from contaminating the water, idk.)

[@gormster]

I think it’s a good follow up from the main video, so it feels like it belongs here. I’m glad you included the alternate take with the coffee makers - I’m sure a lot of my fellow Australians (we also are a bit nuts for coffee, you might have heard) were thinking “ok but… what do you use to boil the water for coffee”. Unlike the US, dedicated coffee machines are not common here - the most common tool we use for making coffee at home is a plunger, which I believe you call “French press” (fancy!). And yeah, of course, that needs a kettle to boil the water first. I guess because tea is also a common drink we just use the same tool for both? Only the very dedicated have an actual coffee machine, and it’s almost universally making espresso, not filter. (Yes, your knock-off Nespresso from Aldi is still making espresso, even if it’s not the best quality product.)

[@mjlagrone]

The reason I had an electric kettle in college had nothing to do with tea and everything to do with ramen. :D

[@quassin443]

Exactly!

[@mcorrade]

exactly

[@bknesheim]

And instant coffee.

[@TheChrisSimpson]

Honestly, this is what I associate them with... I've never owned one but everyone I knew who did, used them for ramen lol. Also makes me wonder if there's some cultural carryover, again personal bias here but most of the people I've known who owned one were also from an immigrant family from a country that DID use them (China, Japan, and UK immigrant friends of mine had them basically, tea drinking countries)

[@redsquirrelftw]

That tends to be what I use mine for the most tbh. Or when I feel fancy and want to use the french press instead of the coffee machine.

[@petervanderwaart1138]

Mythbusters looked into superheated water in microwaves. They concluded the big risk was when water was heated to boiling, forgotten and allowed to cool, and heated again. The boiling got rid of dissolved gases which made for good nucleation.

[@JallenMeodia]

That makes sense. Make a cup, forget about it. Think "oh that's going to be cold now" and then instantly reheat it.

[@LoneEagle2061]

I believe I read an article in New Scientist on the subject, which suggested a different mechanism. The problem is suggested to be nucleation rather than gas. When the water is first boiled the vessel’s surface imperfections provide nucleation sites in almost any practical situation; however as the water cools the seed bubbles at these nucleation sites may collapse and the “scratch” is filled with water, preventing it from acting as a nucleation site for the second boiling. The best way to induce an eruption is apparently to add sugar to the beverage after this (don’t try this at home) as that introduces vast numbers of nucleation sites in a ver compressed time frame… One of the suggested methods for ensuring that your vulnerable skin, and particularly your face and eyes, are not in the path of such an eruption is simply to sharply tap the vessel on a hard surface such as the microwave’s platter. Bubbles are weird…

[@petervanderwaart1138]

@@LoneEagle2061 The Mythbusters were guessing, after all. The real solution is quite interesting.

[@hastypete2]

@@LoneEagle2061 I've done this at home inadvertently. I thought it was odd that the water spontaneously boiled when I put the sugar in. Didn't think much of it.

[@gnic76]

It can happen just by having the microwave run a bit longer than is needed. Turntables in microwaves help, as it agitates the water slightly while being nuked. Bumping the vessel the water is in before taking it out can also release the air if its in a locked state.

[@asdlkfians]

The sound from (some) of your cookware on your induction burner is a defect in your cookware. It happens when you have a pan or pot with multiple laminated layers of metal. In cheaper cookware, those layers can become (slightly) separated (at microscopic scale). The sound is the two layers of metal vibrating against each other where they are separated. You can test this with cheap vs expensive cookware, or, simply a single-metal solid cookware like a cast iron pan or grittle or a simple piece of plate steel. Pro tip: you can use your non-induction cookware on an induction stove by simply putting a 1mm thick silicone mat with a 1/8 to 1/4 inch steel plate or cast iron plate/dish, then put your other cookware on top.

[@Okand2]

The manual that came with my induction stove had a line in it mentioning that this could happen.

[@chippercorgi2247]

Thanks for explaining this! I recently got an induction stove and found *some* of my cookware (obtained randomly fro different sources) made a horrific screeching noise. I'd worked out that it was the cookware and not the duxtop that was causing the trouble.... but it's nice to know the actual cause!

[@adriankoch964]

@@chippercorgi2247Noise can also happen if your old cookware is not perfectly flat at the bottom. Using them on gas stoves or torturing hot pans by rapidly cooling them down with cold water does that (this can also cause non-stick pans to delaminate over time).

[@chippercorgi2247]

@@adriankoch964 thanks for the extra info! The pot and pan I bought are brand new, but I appreciate the advice on how to take care of my cookware all the same :-) I actually returned the first induction cooktop I bought 'cause I thought *it* was the source of the noise... I feel like there's room for a technology connections style "how to induction cook" type video.

[@pietervanzyl732]

@@adriankoch964 Thank you for the info. Been using my pots mostly on gas, but I do some times use it on my induction plate when I run out of gas. Had no problem luckily thus far in 10 years of use.

[@JoBroProducitons]

The second half of this video watching you slowly spiral into madness was really funny. Thanks for sharing!

[@ColinHuth]

The Alec says “intended for the main channel“ but the not-yet-flowing lava lamp screams “it’s Connextras time, baby”

[@confuseatronica]

hah good spot- video lava lamp forensics

[@nightbringar7558]

The script he read from was intended to be on the main channel but I think only a very limited portion of the recording was done for the main channel

[@matthewparker9276]

He filmed it, and was happy with it, but then saw the lava lamp wasn't flowing, so realised it had to go on the second channel.

[@ololh4xx]

i think the lamp might be onto something, this time - the Alec sometimes gets confused ... its a human model, mind you

[@PWN_Nation]

Damn you...can't un-see it now...lol

[@channelsixtysix066]

_"That humming, hissing, or buzzing sound is probably not coming from your induction cooktop but from your cookware. Heavy, single-piece cast iron skillets and Dutch ovens are less prone to being noisy than multi-ply stainless steel pans and pots."_ - Home Cook World

[@jrpstonecarver]

We have a bunch of Ikea cookware and it never rattled on our old induction cooktop. But I am sure some will. I've read that warning somewhere as well. Well made stuff will probably avoid the issue. I want to get back to an induction cooktop as soon as possible. It will be years, sadly, but someday. The more conventional electric burners are just awful to use, and I have zero desire to include a gas stove in my home. I know people love them, but the exhaust gasses are simply unacceptable.

[@dstinnettmusic]

@@jrpstonecarver good electric stove or induction for everything. Cheap electric is the worst and gas is mid-tier stove experience

[@TheMrAlien]

Yep. This seems to be the answer. On my induction cooktop my cast iron skillets don't make the noise but my frypans and pots with attached bases do. It seems to me the ossilating magnetic feilds vibrating the variouse joints against each other on pans with attached bases. I have an aluminum pot with a metal base full of holes that the aluminium is cast into and it's the cheapest and noisest of all my pots, it sound like every one of the holes is vibrating agains the aluminum just enough to make noise but not fall off.

[@MikeLeitner]

Yes it’s not the induction cooktop, the IKEA cheap cookware here in Germany does the same.

[@wobblysauce]

Bingo.

[@seleenshadowpaw3012]

The noise you hear with the pots is probably just harmonic vibration. The bases are usually made up out of different stuff, and over time the composites can seperate or misalign due to heat stress. From then on out, your pot will pretty much literally work as an amplifier for the induction frequency you blast into it.

[@frostypickle]

Stainless has bad thermal conductivity so it typically is layered with aluminum or something else on the bottom with higher thermal conductivity. The induction cookware is being vibrated so the mismatch in material can be a problem.

[@Zcooger]

Basicaly a resonance box (or cyllinder).

[@janthran]

i was thinking about how easily those ikea screws come loose and whether that could also be a factor

[@gnif]

It's not the pot... it's the load on the device. Induction heaters use a coil of wire to create an inductive field, it's 1/2 of a transformer. Just like any transformer they vibrate at the operational frequency, which becomes amplified with larger loads, you normally hear this as a 50Hz hum on common wall wort transformers or lighting ballasts. What can happen though, as the device ages the laminations the tranformer core is made up of can separate and start to rattle against each other, when this happens they make the EXACT sound you hear in this video, it's completely harmless, just annoying. High quality transformers will have a solid core, or will pot the core with lacquer, cheaper ones (like here) just press fit and clamp it together which causes them to get noisy in short order when loaded up. The larger pots are a big load, and when he first put on the largest pot it would have been the tripping point to cause the delamination to occur, at which point, it's there forever. The reason the kettle is not making the noise anymore is likely because the unit has simply been moved/jiggled and it's not quite setting it off anymore.

[@Maradiaga23]

I microwaved water for tea and instant coffee for years and never had a single issue, it took around 3 minutes for mine to heat the water enough for my taste. I then bought an electric kettle after visiting my sister and her boyfriend in the UK and seeing how convenient it looked and haven't looked back.

[@Martcapt]

I love how much off the rails this was. Never thought I'd be watching a grown man look perplexed at a mini stove top and find it entertaining! Absolutely brilliant!

[@fnorgen]

Sometimes you just know that you are dealing with a disgruntled machine spirit that's only acting up to spite you.

[@mrtechie6810]

It's not a stove -- which is a large unit that stands on the floor. It's called a cooktop or "burner".

[@Martcapt]

@@mrtechie6810 get a life

[@collin4555]

"If you're overloading a circuit, and a breaker trips, they're just doing its job" Oh don't worry, I reserve my resentment for the nonsensical circuit layout, the breaker is of course my hero in the scenario

[@BeezyKing99]

also cause more damage to the breaker over time, repeated tripping can pit the contacts to the point it's no longer usable.

[@RobertHancock1]

Bigger concern is from repeatedly overheating wiring or outlets on the circuit. The breaker is rated to interrupt brutal short circuits of 10,000 amps or more, a few trips at double the rated amperage is not likely to upset it much.

[@shadowtheimpure]

@@BeezyKing99 Replacement breakers are extremely cheap, even from name brand manufacturers. If your breaker wears out, replacing it is extremely easy.

[@jen204]

Unless it's an !@#$^ AFCI in which case tripping just means you need an older circuit breaker. OK, a bit flippant, but AFCI would make for an interesting Technology Connections.

[@DuncanPrice]

I'm glad I stumbled across this... i gave a lecture at a scientific meeting at Easter 2023 on "how much does it cost to make a cup of tea.." I measured the energy consumption of an electric kettle (two actually) and compared the cost of this with using a gas hob (I measured the fuel consumption using a smart meter), microwave oven, induction hob and infrared hob. Gas was the cheapest as the cost of natural gas per kWhr is 1/3rd that of electricity. An electric kettle was the most efficient in terms of energy usage and also the quickest. Microwave heating was the slowest and least efficient due to the losses in converting electrical energy into microwave power and then losses in the oven cavity itself. As someone who used to live and work in the US I found your presentation fascinating. The video of my talk is on KZbin if anyone cares to look it up.

[@camiledionne-west6233]

I’m in Vietnam. My cooktop has one glass ceramic burner and one induction. Love the induction and only use the other one when I need two pots. ( and given I have both an electric kettle, and rice cooker, that’s almost never) Not having induction when I return to Canada is one of the things I’ll miss most when I finally move back.

[@jordanhazen7761]

My sister-in-law has a custom Frankenstein cooktop with two induction elements, one traditional curly-que resistive element, and two propane gas burners. Living off-grid, with all power coming via inverter/battery bank from solar, wind, and occasionally a backup propane generator, they use induction almost exclusively for most of the year, but balance it with propane in winter, when solar production is way down, and some extra "waste" heat indoors is welcome. The resistive element was meant for non-compatible cookware, but almost all that's since been replaced, so it's rarely used at all.

[@EntropicTroponin]

About the noise: when you use a pot on gas the bottom may warp slightly due to uneven heating. This may cause the pot to vibrate slightly on top of the stove generating the noise you hear. Cheaper cookware may be warped straight out of the factory. The general advice I've heard is: don't use your induction cookware on gas, or you may not be able to go back.

[@ToolkiT73UK]

Agree, the same effect can happen with cheap pans on the highest mode on induction too.. we replaced a few for this reason.. if the bottom is too thin it can warp.. on induction a warped bottom will vibrate and be noisy...

[@TheRich464]

Sometimes the resonance can be mitigated with keeping the lid on.

[@Embassy_of_Jupiter]

I don't buy that, it sounds like coil whine, not glass on pot noises. I think the electricals are suffering for some reason

[@AshrakAhmed]

Most multitop cookware (cheaper variety to save manufacturing cost) usually has sandwiched ferrous metal layer to make it work on IH. It could be simple issue of the metal layer is not as tightly integrated/bonded? When the magnet starts to resonance at certain frequency maybe it start to vibrate and make noise? Maybe if you test the same pot on a different IH stove or different metal pot in this one we might get a clear picture. PLus anyone else who has the same IKEA pots maybe able shed some lights.

[@fritzit]

@@Embassy_of_Jupiter My (non-cheap) induction cooktop also makes this kind of noise (mic didn't pick it up very well it seems), and the manual even says that some cookware does, and it's not a defect and nothing to worry about.

[@YourLordMobius]

"we just don't drink tea here" No, we toss it in the harbor OR we put a ton of sugar in it and refrigerate it.

[@lethauntic]

I always thought tea tasted like dirty water

[@bcubed72]

Hey! It wasn't us! It was them savage Red Indians...ask anybody! (Yes, they dressed up in "redface" to attempt to fool the Brits. Nobody really bought it.)

[@Lishtenbird]

@@lethauntic Are you sure you weren't served dirty water under the guise of tea?

[@erink476]

One still has to brew the tea before one ices it, though, and sugar dissolves more easily in hot water. I have heard that many of you prefer homemade iced tea, so I feel like there would still be a regular need to boil water in the traditionally iced tea drinking parts? I have dabbled in attempting homemade iced tea myself in the warmer months, but bottled stuff comes in peach flavour and teabags don't, plus I keep accidentally overbrewing it, because the large amount of milk I typically put in hot tea covers up a lot of bitterness.

[@bcubed72]

@@erink476 Yeah, boil the water, brew the tea, ice it. Ideally, sweeten to taste, because it takes forever to get sugar to dissolve in cold tea! So you boil the water. Exception was a "sun tea" fad in my childhood, so...late 70s? Just let it steep facing the sun for a few hours. Seem to recall it took a lot more tea bags for the same effect...what did I know; I was a kid! I wasn't the one making it.

[@jamiej3776]

from 10:00 to 15:00 is my favorite part of this video thank you for including it

[@moonsvc]

my favourite ♥

[@wanderingearthmagnet]

Excellent approach, excellent scripting, and excellent performance. It is refreshing how you anticipate questions related to your episodes and cover those as well. Keep up the great work!

[@ryangeddes7277]

Tell a British person their neighbour doesn't have a kettle and I'm pretty sure they'd immediately go buy their neighbour a kettle.

[@Elkott]

Can confirm, when I first moved into my flat money was tight and the nice elderly couple next door gave me their spare

[@judebrown4103]

Yep, we're all electric and used to have frequent power cuts. Our neighbours had a gas hob and would invite us to heat an enormous stove top kettle which we would bring to the boil, run home and wrap in every tea towel and oven mit we had to keep it warm for as long as possible so we'd have plenty of hot water for tea to get us through the outage. No-one ever worried about what we'd eat! 😂

[@smeghead0]

living in the UK, my flat got burnt out by arsonists, not only did the hostel i stay at have a Kettle already in, i got one as part of a home starter kit when i finally got a new place.

[@andrew_koala2974]

A PERSON is a gender-less CORPORATE fiction created in the 15th Century for the purpose of conducting COMMERCE It is a DEAD entity - and as ALL DEAD entities [CORPUS] have a name written in the ALL CAPS iteration = The PERSON im -PERSON - ates the living soul 'Man' and uses a name that sounds the same - except it is written in ALL CAPS - a PERSON is a DEAD entity. The PERSON has a FIRST NAME / LAST NAME / SURNAME - in ALL CAPS The Living Soul has a 'Given Name and Family Name -in Mixed Case Letters - You have to learn and distinguish the difference between the two. 500+ years of indoctrination and brainwashing has been successful upon the uneducated peasantry - So successful that modern day peasants cannot avoid using the word PERSON. No one is born a PERSON --- One is born one of two kinds of Man ... Man or WoMan (incorrectly written these days as Woman) Collectively known as ManKind -- Even the Word FeMale has the word Male in it. Note that CORPORATIONS are DEAD entities - and also have the CORPORATE {Legal} name in ALL CAPS === But the ZOMBIES do not notice it. When you start paying attention to detail - you will notice that all your COMMERCIAL instruments use the name of the STRAW-MAN - CORPORATE FICTION ALL CAPS PERSON NAME - All 'Private' instruments use the Mixed Case Letters. Take notice of CORPORATE {Legal} names being written in ALL CAPS APPLE - SONY TOYOTA - BOEING - AIRBUS - ARMY - NAVY - TESLA - HOLLYWOOD - and so on. All written in ALL CAPS - The ZOMBIE sheeple are blind and cannot see what they actually L00KING at. The word CORPORATION derives from the {Latin} CORPUS => meaning CORPSE / DEAD / BODY Which is how we derive the term > BODY CORPORATE < Had you studied law for over 20 years you would have learned these things -- which are quite obvious to those who are conscious and have a fully functioning brain. -- The truth is hidden in plain sight. Also know that people do not have 'children' - They have Sons and Daughters ' Children ' is pure legal terminology -- Not understanding Legal English is how you/people are screwed in COURT Explain to me how many types of English there are. I know before you even answer that you do not have a clue Next question - Can the DEAD speak to the Living ? Do you know the difference between someone and some body ? Explain the difference and write an essay on the meaning and significance of 'One' In your essay explain the meaning of SOL - SOLO - Soul and the connection between them. The arabic language equivalent is RA Guillermo Marconi beautifully combined arabic with Latin to give us words that are now common in many languages - - two words in particular -- What are those words ? COMMENT REFERENCE: Ryan Geddes.2022061420122

[@SEELE-ONE]

Back in the day, you could tell who was a spy merely by looking at their kitchen

[@serenity1378]

"In the UK, where having a kettle is practically a requirement of citizenship" you're not wrong. Even if you don't drink tea or coffee, you're expected to have one to prepare drinks for your guests.

[@fredbloggs5902]

Entertaining guests involves providing beverages they enjoy!... ...who knew?

[@ridanann]

Hot chocolate exists and it was the rage before tea and coffee in this particular region. going by what we think of as tea and coffee today arguably tea has been enjoyed the world over for thousands of years particularly Chinese tea is what popular in Britain and Ireland hot chocolate however at this boom period enjoyed popularity across the entire continent of Europe first you get the Coco did you get the money then you finish your Scarface impression without assuming the sexual preferences of the person you're talking to lol.

[@serenity1378]

@@ridanann To be fair I'm diabetic so I don't often think about hot chocolate! But you're right, that's also a popular drink.

[@Jayce_Alexander]

I have a kettle but no guests :(

[@jordyboy62]

@@ridanann what monster has hot chocolate with boiled water. You should heat up milk for hot chocolate, which I use a microwave for or can be done on a hob.

[@charliesimpson2974]

Near the end of the vid you said something along the lines of being surprised at how much energy the gas stove wasted. As I watched the shots of the larger pot on the gas burner and the flames were slightly wider than the pot, I was reminded of something I learned as a child. A science teacher (maybe?) told us that when the blue flames are larger then the pot/pan above the burner, the energy is being wasted. I watched my mom shooting blue flame up the sides of her pans and told her what I had learned, and she turned down the burner.

[@smileyeagle1021]

Induction is the way of the future and I appreciate you bringing so much attention to them.

[@francoisbouchard9488]

The thing I find fascinating about Alec's videos is he takes everyday, one might say 'mundane', household items and somehow makes compelling viewing out of them. He makes us realize that we're surrounded by far more sophisticated technology than many of us appreciate. Of course, his knack for dry humor and irony helps a lot. Thank you Alec!

[@andersjjensen]

I thought he was British, at first, precisely because of the humour :P

[@TodorKatsarski]

I never thought videos about kettles would make me excited (well, not exactly "never" :D)

[@adriankoch964]

Most of those everyday, mundane things stand atop an enormous pyramid of human achievements and very innovative ideas that came together to allow these mundane things happen. What we see every day is just the flat top of this pyramid, not the sharp gradient of previous generations with less sophisticated technology. Looking at and comparing to other countries helps a lot in uncovering the corners of this pyramid. For example in Japan it is extremely common (even in cities!) to use kerosene burners to heat up your home indoors. Which is INSANE once you consider the smell and severe health impact of gas contamination, especially when you know that they pretty early on the market with very reputable manufacturers of Split-AC/Heatpumps.

[@HalkerVeil]

I've never seen anyone make kettles so interesting. I could watch this guy talk about phone books and not regret the time I spent learning about something nobody uses anymore.

[@EldeNova]

Don't tempt him!

[@boogieknee3781]

I prefer the phone book to dialling the operator....or using a website. It also contains occasional jokes,made decades ago by nasty parents. Michael and Isaac,from the hunt family,and Mr.Card.....first name .....?Valentine😸

[@generalsteam1120]

that is what I thought when he did the toaster videos

[@boogieknee3781]

@@generalsteam1120 We watched the toaster episode whilst in a bath for added excitement.😸🤗 Being French,we raised a glass to "melba"(never in the field of weak jokes did anybody make puns as bad as these 3 in 1 sentence)

[@stephendavies923]

Excellent work and congratulations on your patience.

[@julienelson8162]

You are SO believable, approachable, sometimes mysteriously fallible (like all of us are), and DELIGHTFUL! I discovered you last night, and haven’t stopped. Love your presentations, reviews, and honesty. Your site is fantastic! I love your content, as well, which is very “approachable” while being technically informative - a rare combination in today’s world. Thank you, and don’t stop. Again, love, love, love your site!

[@fintux]

By the magic of living in Europe, hybrid stovetops with two induction and two glass ceramic burners are already a thing :P Although they are quite rare, and usually are found in "entry level induction stovetops".

[@Gammaduster]

Also another advantage I find having one is if the power goes out, the gas burners will still work, and when the gas bottle is empty, the induction still works for the time of getting a new bottle

[@jonathanodude6660]

@@Gammaduster bottle??

[@upnorthandpersonal]

@@jonathanodude6660 Propane gas bottles. Natural gas piped to the home isn't common everywhere.

[@daboo444]

@@jonathanodude6660 yup, countryside folks are using gas cans/bottles, when they are empty you drive to local gas station or specialized place and exchange it for a fill one. In my country one bottle has around 11kg of gas.

[@Esablaka]

@@upnorthandpersonal Very common in large parts of europe. Gas stoves exist and there are quite a lot of gas heaters (that's a significant chunk of most of europes gas usage. NOT electricity production) so having gas piped into homes is quite common in quite a few countries here. Gas tanks are EXTREMELY uncommon. Either gas piped into the homes or electric stoves and heaters. The only gas appliances that might be connected to a bottle instead of a proper piped line are outside grills and some stuff for clearing weeds off pathways outside etc..

[@apAvocado]

I ALWAYS learn something new from Alec. Didn’t realize that using the gas stove so much was adding bad stuff to our air. I’ll use the vent hood always from now on.

[@larryadams9565]

I have learned a lot from your videos. You do a great job and telling us your failures has been great too. The learning or telling us how and why it failed. Thank you for doing these videos. Hope you make a living doing these. We fount you because we’re terrified of what will happen this winter. Gasoline $4+ a gallon. Last year the propane heater kept putting fumes into the air and got sick. Called for repair 5 times. Bought Two new ones. Each time took weeks for the plumber and ended up ants got into pressure control on out side tank and was causing fluctuations in pressure. Spent a lot of time in bed with heating blankets. So learning what we can use for heat. Your info on Coleman lanterns and Hurricane lamps was so good and well done. I am going to get more batteries and led lights. Also small solar panels. I do have propane in canisters. Old lanterns etc. but will concentrate on batteries. Don’t let complainers stop you.!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@MrJamesonStyles]

As for whether we need faster kettles... well, my favorite feature of the electric kettle is that it shuts itself off. I put it on, walk away and do something else, and after some arbitrary amount of time has passed, I go back and make tea. Can't do that with stovetop.

[@keiyakins]

And if you really must have tea ready the instant you wake up, the Brits solved that decades ago with the teasmade. It's an alarm clock with an electric kettle that it turns on a few minutes before waking you.

[@RayquaSr.]

I could watch a full 10 minute video of just him going around the house and testing everything pot and pan with an induction heater and being perplexed by the results.

[@whyyoulidl]

+1 😆

[@DreamOfDirge]

Filling hot water bottles, making hot chocolate, pot noodle, some pastas yep us brits only use it for tea 😆

[@kennethkline7702]

I've been using these a lot more now. Thanks to you!

[@vulpes5809]

These "boring" videos are remarkably relaxing, and some of the best content on KZbin. You're doing a fantastic job with your channel, to the point that even the overflow is must watch media. Keep up the great work Alec, you're awesome

[@Volodimar]

Unintentional ASMR

[@fredtaylor9792]

The relaxing atmosphere of this channel is the reason I watch it.

[@mycatistypingthis5450]

I've had a bottle supercooled when I forgot it outside the tent. I unscrewed the top in the morning, and the three nerd of us looked in awe at the crystals forming and filling the bottle. That was until we remembered we were hung over and this was all of our remaining water. That doesn't really add much to the discussion, but the discussion of supercritical water made me thing of other supercritical water.

[@Ewr42]

My mom insists on leaving water bottles in the freezer drawer(even though it's a single door fridge and it gets pretty cold all throughout, even a vanilla extract froze when they put it just a step higher on the door) so almost everytime I take out water to drink, it freezes before I can even open it which is why I hide a couple water bottles down in the fridge behind stuff, so I can actually drink water instead of an ice slurry(when I get lucky, sometimes they just freeze completely)

[@DrakonIL]

I had a bottle of water in my car that supercooled. I got in, picked it up, went "sweet, cold water for my drive to work," put it down, and when I buckled my seat belt and grabbed the bottle again it was frozen. And I missed all the good part :(

[@chemistrykrang8065]

I'm going to be that guy - supercritical is a different thing. You mean supercooled.

[@boogieknee3781]

Buy 2 bottles of water. BOTH carbonated. Drink number one....refill with tapwater. Label it.....FLATWATER. .....place both into the freezer. Bottle number2 won't freeze but number1 will. ...step outside and get 2 friends to open both bottles simultaneously whilst you film them doing so. .....(focus on the bottles) ....playback the reaction.....and post it on KZbin.

[@whyyoulidl]

Only just seen this. Who needs new year celebrations when all we need do is curl up with a big mug of the UK's finest cuppa tea and watch this 😄 Happy new year one and all...

[@cliffmorgan31]

We have a high end GE 4 burner glass top induction cook top we have had since circa 1991. We LOVE it! It has been completely trouble free, heats everything rapidly on quality induction compatible cookware, and is used regularly/frequently for our domestic cooking needs. That being said, we use an electric kettle daily for coffee. It is convenient since it has several preset temperatures that are very convenient.

[@davedoe6445]

I own an induction range I can confirm that different cookware makes ringing noises under various conditions. It's really not that bad once you get used to it. It does seem that more dense/heavy pots are less prone to it, probably because they dampen the high frequency vibration.

[@ssriverss]

Ours seems to get really loud when the bottom of the pot/pan or cooktop is wet...

[@krisavi]

@@ssriverss water drops start to boil, expand and try to escape as steam

[@williamganley4739]

I wonder if the ringing pots and pans are due to the construction technique. I've seen cookware made with separate cores to distribute heat better but the layers might not be properly bonded together. I have two separate induction cooktops but only one pot that works on them. I also use cast iron skillets and none of them make any noise. I would be interested to find out if these layered pots were the culprit.

[@Naptime875]

According to Designer Appliances the noise is from mixed metal pots that may have less iron content than ideal.

[@fivish]

The hob has a fan running which is the noise you can hear.

[@le_brainfreeze]

For the cookwear weirdness I can confirm: Usually cheaper cookwear tends to emit more of a buzz on an induction cooktop. It seems to be connected to the way it's cast / otherwise manufactured. Interestingly enough with my purchase of an induction cooktop I've upgraded some of my pots since the old ones weren't compatbile. I chose somewhat more expensive ones and while they still buzz a little, it's not even close to what's shown here and to what I've heard at other people's houses. Interestingly enough, other pots (really old ones, inherited from my grandmother) are mostly quiet. Seems like they just don't make 'em like they used to.

[@Caristria]

I can confirm too. I have one cheap and one expensiv set of Pots, a cast iron and wrought iron pan and 2 ceramic "coated" pans. The cheaper pots and pans are making that sound too while with the expensiv ones its hardly noticable. Maybe it has something to do with the thickness of the bottom and walls.

[@Mikael.Andersen]

from Denmark here, where induction is much more common. can confirm, its a matter of cookware construction. the induction / magnetic field will vibrate the cookware in a very high pitch humm because its flipping the magnetic field constantly. in some unfortunate designs of cookware. that dosen't just introduce heat but also slight vibrations. you can sometimes feel it when touching the top parts (thats not hot yet) of the pots and pans. the reason really old stuff usually works great is because the old cookware is made out of slabs of iron/steel. and not thinner bottom or aluminium or both.

[@calmeilles]

I'd guess that it was an inferior lamination of the bottom of the pots. It's done for more even heat spreading and it's very unlikely that the kettle was laminated as hot spots wouldn't matter for just boiling water.

[@Volodimar]

I can guess that it's mostly about thickness of steel.

[@Preske]

@@Caristria I have the exact opposite. Our Tefal pots are making the noise, while our cheapish pans don't.

[@lukeclifton4392]

As an induction cooktop user… I can say the noise is related directly to the cookware. More so the quality of the cookware and the bond between the base of the cookware and the top of the pot/pan itself. The noise is the two different types a metal reacting at different frequencies, but using a cheap single piece pan will not produce those noises, just the clicking as it heats up… as it’s a single piece of metal. But don’t let this put anyone off getting induction… it’s brilliant!

[@crnchyclustr7600]

You bring up many valid points in this video that I never even considered about the first video thank you

[@brucebrown6249]

My only IKEA pan does "scream" when set directly on my induction burner. Most likely caused by resonance or perhaps the magnetic core is not perfectly bonded to the stainless exterior. The fix for this is a silicon mat (similar to a silpat) Works great to get rid of the sound. Just make sure not to use temperature mode as the mat insulates the pan and it may overheat. For non-induction cookware they make magnetic bases (some with handles, some without) that you put on your burner then put your cookware on. But then again you loose efficiency due to heat escaping up the sides of your cookware.

[@BCThunderthud]

My OXO kettle was annoyingly loud on the stove too.

[@jasonreed7522]

The scream is definitely a result of the cookware being multiple layers stamped/"glued" together interacting with the high frequency oscillations of the induction stove. (Ideally you have 1 homogenous hunk of iton to induce eddy currents in and you get mostly even heating as high frequency AC pulses the heat too fast to notice) but the laminated pot is probably having weird AC expansion/contraction which makes the scream and then the pot shape resonates and projects the sound up into the room.

[@renakunisaki]

I wonder if an especially cheap/worn out pot could shake itself apart?

[@athf226]

As a point in favor of the "we don't drink that much [hot] tea" point, I'm currently living in Japan, and despite having a *lower* AC mains voltage than the US, there are still a significant amount of people who use kettles here. Probably because of, you know, tea.

[@0Clewi0]

Around the last 20 years the kettles on the family house have likely been used for cooking first, instant coffee second, tea third. And consuming more tea than coffee in the country overall mostly comes down to cost. Just looking at a map the only countries on western Europe that drink more tea than coffee are on the british isles.

[@2Cerealbox]

A significant amount or everyone? Because if its merely a lot, then that actually implies that the time difference is still a major factor. If its nearly the same as Europe, then yeah - its about how much tea they drink.

[@wich1]

Actually, from my experience many Japanese use the kettle much more for non-tea purposes than for making tea. Most of it is boiling water to tip into a pan for cooking and besides that hot water for instant noodles, instant miso soup and the likes and finally hot beverages like instant coffee, hand drip coffee (surprisingly popular in Japan), and yes tea.

[@Adderkleet]

@@0Clewi0 without factoring in instant coffee (which needs boiling water), that doesn't mean much. Of course, I am Irish and drink multiple mugs of tea daily.

[@kasuraga]

I think one of the reasons they're used more in japan is space.

[@theturkman86]

I would definitely be interested in a full video on induction cook tops!

[@mikei8547]

Friends brought my parents an electric kettle back from Canada in the 1970s. We've had and used them ever since. They're freaking brilliant. And yeah, I use mine to make coffee in my French press.

[@erickschusterdeoliveira2662]

"yeah the starting temperature is probably about 20 ºC even though I didn't test it, let's roll with it" that's some engineer thinking right there

[@renakunisaki]

"it feels like about room temperature" close enough, ship it!

[@Zraknul]

Sounds more like software development. We'll just patch it later if people realize the bug.

[@gubjorggisladottir3525]

My family has an Electric kettle... but none of us drink tea. Nor do we drink coffee. My daughter likes instant noodles very much and uses the kettle to heat the water for them. When I was a child we used the electric tea kettle to boil water for making coffee and to boil eggs. (Never at the same time)

[@Ben-mi8fj]

Yes. I do not drink tea myself but i always had an electric kettle. In the begining for instant coffee, now for pour over coffee. I also use water from the kettle when cooking pasta. A little bit of water in the pot and boiling the rest in a kettle. My parents use their electric kettle multiplie times daily and do have one with 3000w. Actually i do not remember to have ever boiled water on a stove, just to use it outside a pot.

[@JohnRunyon]

I have often considered getting a kettle just for ramen.

[@Josh_Fredman]

Egg Coffee you say...I am intrigued!

[@volundrfrey896]

I use my kettle a bit for tea, but mostly to preheat water. It saves a decent amount of time when making pasta, or boiling potatoes.

[@Zestric]

That's what I didn't really understand about the main video. The thought that you need a kettle mostly (or even only) for tea is weird. One thing is that a lot of people drink coffee, which you also need hot water for and secondly I'm pretty sure the main use for kettles in all of europe is to make hot water to boil eggs, pasta, potatoes, ... because you don't want to wait for what feels like an hour for your pasta pan to boil on the stove.

[@ncooty]

Such a dear and endearing man.

[@LandoHitman]

I LOVE the tangent at the end of this video.

[@Black3ternity]

The sound is from high frequency oscillations. Dirt under the pot, an uneven surface because it's laminated in the inside or sometimes it's just a tiny bit of deflection because the base heats up. An older pan I had was "warping" the bottom so it could rock ever so slightly. When I pressed it on one side it made a real racket. The "resting" position was fine though. Edit: Regarding the Skillet you can't use on the induction stove: You can buy horrendous steel plates that act as a Transfer-Medium between your induction stove and incompatible cookware. They waste energy for sure - but you could calculate how much compared to the gas burner. Would be interested in that when you dive into the Induction video. You basically convert your induction plate to a radiation style plate with a big hunk o' metal that gets hot and transfers into the pan.

[@blackwhattack]

I think it's water on the surface of the induction stove.

[@letsgoballistic]

Yeah from what I understand you need a perfectly flat base for induction to work (silently) and if you've used the same cookware on both induction and gas you risk ever so slightly bending the base of the pots due to the more uneven heating up of a gas burner. Now I'm only a one sample size "experiment" but at least in my house that seems to be true since only the bans previously used with gas made that noise on an induction stove.

[@christianstorms3950]

Those adapter plates are horrend indeed. Bought one so my mother could use her trusty steampot. Here's the catch: Somehow those damn things become even hotter than the actual induction pot would. The transfer from the hot adapter plate to the cooking ware is bad and slow, the very hot adapter plate keeps resting on the glas of the stovetop. The stovetop has a overheat alarm and shuts off. Couldn't even keep a crepe pan hot for 10 minutes, let alone a steampot for an hour.

[@mastakazam5094]

About the induction stoves ringing with a load: as you know, the induction coils produce a magnetic field to induce a (heating) electric current in the metallic cookware ... That electric current will also produce a magenetic field which then reacts with the electrically charged induction coil. If the induction coil isn't entirely and perfectly snug and secure then it can vibrate as a result of the duelling fields. As for your red kettle: I think the other cookware with the large flat bottoms makes them more ideal for having the reactive magnetic field, while the lower angle and rounded sides of the red kettle are more permissive for the electric current and magnetic field to distribute more evenly around the whole kettle, so its reactive field on the induction coil is much weaker.

[@pascal2085]

The "(heating) electric current" is called eddy current.

[@fivish]

Its the fan making the noise!

[@RAFMnBgaming]

@@fivish i think he was talking about the extra rattleing.

[@mastakazam5094]

@@fivish the internal fan makes the 'humming' sound, but there is an additional 'ringing' sound which ideally should not be happening

[@mastakazam5094]

@@pascal2085 ah yes thank you ^^

[@robertpierce1981]

I have a new appreciation for this channel after seeing this video.

[@aph42]

Many modern gas ranges these days use an electric oven rather than a gas one. I really like the induction cooktop. Just bought it about a year ago, and it's been great. It was also a good excuse to upgrade all of the cookware save for the cast iron skillets and dutch ovens. I wish I'd done it earlier. There are several types of induction compatible cookware: some are fully clad with magnetic material all on the outside (these tend to be more expensive) and some have an encapsulated steel disc bonded to the bottom. I think the Ikea induction-compatible pans use the encapsulated discs. I find that type to not work as well, and tend to make more of that kind of noise, but I've only had a couple to try. At the highest settings, the clad pans make noise too.

[@xTheUnderscorex]

Another point about microwave heating of water is that the minimum level on a kettle could easily have you heating twice the amount of water needed to make a single cuppa, whereas a microwave won't have any waste beyond its own

[@jimmym3352]

I always use the microwave for my tea. I only drink tea on my weekends, but I do drink it. Plus I don't go all the way to boiling, I prefer it a little less. 1:26for a cup of tea for me.

[@MarkUKInsects]

Tea made with water boiled in the Microwave just doesn't taste right.

[@NoOne-ef7yu]

Another advantage is that kettles tend to accumulate lime scale (which then ends up in your tea) Microwaving your water will avoid that problem. Still, I like my kettle.

[@comlitbeta7532]

@@MarkUKInsects i am almost certain that you can't tell the difference in a double blind test

[@jrevillug]

The flat-bottomed kettles allow you to boil a single mug of water, though the auto-stop doesn't work very well with so little water. Really quick to boil too.

[@mrclown7469]

The "we don't drink tea" argument misses one huge point. I'm Australian, and I've honestly never had a cup of tea in my life. In fact the vast majority of people here prefer coffee to tea. Yet we all own kettles and use them every day. Why? Because over 75% of cups of coffee brewed in Australia (and NZ) are instant coffee. I will concede it may be a case of chicken or the egg. Since kettles are already ubiquitous in Australia perhaps instant coffee is the path of least resistance to making a cup of coffee. You could also argue that the reason kettles are ubiquitous in Australia is because of the historical colonial British influence of tea drinking. But the assertion that kettle ownership is solely due to tea consumption really doesn't hold up in modern times in countries that aren't Britain. Yes, Americans don't drink tea, but not everyone in "kettle owning countries" drinks tea. Americans having an aversion to instant coffee plays a huge part in their aversion to kettles.

[@JaidenJimenez86]

I said this in the other video, but may as well raise the point again, that a lot of 'instant' foods require you to pour over boiling water (cup noodles, packet mixes, powdered soups, etc). Although I guess you could just pour cold water then nuke them? idk. Americans preferring fresh coffee over instant is a bit of a surprise though, the country that gave us the TV dinner.

[@grahamleiper1538]

Scottish, can't stand tea. Instant coffee, cup soups, ramen noodles, and heating water quickly for pasta all good reasons to have a kettle.

[@L83467]

yes, i was thinking the same thing

[@mwwoggy]

@@JaidenJimenez86 totally agree with you and MrClown on your points, I just have to ask: is having a pot of coffee that's been standing on a heating element for the last hour or so still considered "fresh"? 😄

[@caboose202ful]

Also Australian, don't drink tea. But I still have a wide variety of teas in my house to offer guests. Tea is definitely 'a thing' here, at least on the East coast.

[@judebrown4103]

Love this follow up Alex, your face was a picture when things didn't quite happen as they had previously. You dealt with it very smoothly I thought... 😆👍

[@Ignisan_66]

As someone who drinks a lot a black tea, (I'm not Bri'ish BTW), microwaving water for tea is just blasphemy to me.

[@user-ne3ze4zz7r]

On the topic of those hybrid cooktops, in my opinion, after growing up with one, they are a classic example of "sounds good, doesn't work". Basically since the induction side is so much better than conventional, you end up just using the induction side of the stove and the conventional side hardly gets used. Shortly after getting it we regretted not just going full induction. Just my 2 cents on the topic!

[@seabream]

It sort of depends on your application. We have classic Vision pots from the 70s and 80s (the ones made of glass doped with lithium and a few other things that improve heat transfer and other cooking relevant properties) that we use for hot pot (if you're not familiar with the dish, you have a pot of broth and a bunch of ingredients, usually in small pieces, that you cook yourself as you want to eat it. Being able to see where the stuff you put in is (vs the stuff one of the other three people you're sharing the pot with is) is useful enough that I don't see us easily giving that up. That said, our kitchen has the cooktop in an island we sit around separate from the oven, so that may not be applicable to other arrangements. Of course for that use case, the heat demand isn't huge, so we could use a stand alone plug-in single hot plate unit, but that doesn't work for wok cooking the way the higher power curly electric elements in the main cooktop would. And for the kind of wok cooking we do, smoothtop isn't ideal because of the pan movements. All the induction cooktops I've been able to find are ceramic smoothtop ones, which might be inherent in the design, unfortunately. We likely will get some induction when it comes time to replace the cooktop, but it probably won't be the only type we put in even if, as another commenter did, we end up needing to get two separate two plate units side by side.

[@martinpata2899]

It really depends on what you cook or what tools you have, for example, you will never use a wok with induction. Maybe you can get a separate gas stove but buying gas tubes(don't know ho they are really called) isnt that fun. Stills I am all for fire right now

[@ChaosTherum]

@@martinpata2899 The best option for a wok is really a wood fired stove outside. Gas is second best.

[@martinpata2899]

@@ChaosTherum i truly don't use the wok that much so when I am using wood fire or coal is usually for an asado

[@jonc4403]

But that's not what anybody would want. The way to go would be induction on one side, gas on the other. Resistance electric is just crap.

[@ValkyrieTiara]

British inability to comprehend how much tea we don't drink will never cease to amuse and perplex me.

[@donotlendbookstome7923]

I’m a Canadian, and it blows my mind that Americans don’t use electric kettles. How do you make instant coffee? Instant oatmeal? Instant ramen? Lipton Cuppa Soup? Unclog your drains? (These questions are rhetorical, I know the answers are “gross”, “microwave”, “you’re going to get scurvy”, “that’s not even food!”, and “why don’t you weirdos have garbage disposals!?!”, but it still absolutely blows my mind.)

[@lejuanca]

@@donotlendbookstome7923 im still wondering why you guys dont have garbage disposals...

[@Mrduck319]

In fact the sole purpose of a microwave is to heat water

[@jenkinseric2]

I watched this when it came out. last week I bought a kettle at a garage sale and made an adapter to plug it in to 240 volts. It started boiling almost immediately. I plan on one day doing some timed, controlled tests.

[@JamesTM]

My parents are arguing about whether they should install a properly vented stove hood. So I'm very much looking forward to that video on gas stoves and air quality. Maybe it'll help me finally push them into installing the vent.

[@Alexlfm]

It’s required by code in CA for a reason. Unvented gas appliances (both stove and fireplaces) are HORRIBLE for your health. While they technically won’t kill you (the only real requirement of national codes) it’s certainly not good for your health. They produce large amount of NoX and can significantly alter oxygen and nitrogen levels and cause cardiovascular and lung issues on top of increase risks for other issues and cancers.

[@fredericksiu4434]

While gas stoves probably introduce an additive amount of particles to alter air quality, as an induction user over the last 10 years with a wide variety of items cooked (random sampling of usual items : scrambled/fried eggs, steaks, asian porridge), basically anything that will produce some amount of smoke will trigger my Air Quality sensors, with scrambled eggs being the lowest at around 50 AQI, and a full on 2.25 min steak sear (30 sec each side and 15 sec for the small sides + flip/hesitation time) at setting 9 (max without boost induction (US/NA)) tilting the sensor at 350 AQI+ . This is with a full fan running (vents to kitchen window) and both breeze windows open, creating a good directional flow. It will usually take around 30mins - 60 mins to get back down to normal (green AQI levels) after a steak, and 10-15 mins after frying an egg.

[@rowanrobinson]

You should vent externally regardless of the cook top.

[@ettaz]

I have a gas stove and always planned to put in a vent, but it took me 5 years to get around to it. I'm also a smoker (yuck, I know) so I don't really care that much about air quality. Tell your parents that their kitchen will be cleaner! Every time I fried anything, small sticky droplets would coat the upper cabinets nearest to the stove. It is really tough to clean, especially if you have a cheaply made WHITE kitchen, the degreaser I had to use ruined the finish of my cabinets. Since I put in the vent hood, it's become almost unnoticeable

[@jeffstanley4593]

It is just common sense to "vent" away from you or why vent? Duhhh.

[@cfredtmbg]

In the US here. Just a few days ago my office was planning out what kitchen supplies and appliances we would need in our new office space. Someone asked for an electric kettle, and my boss said, "what's that?" A bunch of us, myself included, have one and we love them, but a good 1/3 of the office didn't even know what they were.

[@a1white]

oh wow. to someone in the UK, that is like someone saying "I don't know what a TV is" or something. So odd haha

[@thelistener4101]

ah yes, the magic of cookware shall always leave us baffled.

[@andrewkiw]

I don't drink tea (or coffee) and I use our electric jug most mornings, for my Weet-Bix. Just set the jug boiling while I get the rest ready and it's about boiled/hot enough when I'm ready (230/240 volt land here). Also been known to use it for things like instant mashed spud (just add hot water and stir)

[@toffvs]

I rarely use my electric kettle for tea: I use it when cooking, which makes everything faster AND more energy efficient! (I typically boil 1 litre in the kettle and heat the rest on my stove). NB: Please PUT THE LID on your pot! I also have to add that you have an excellent channel! Best wishes from Sweden (Land of coffee addicts and 230 Volts)!

[@stephensaunders01]

I visited the UK several years ago and discovered the electric kettle for the first time and fell in love. When I got back to the states I immediately bought one for me, for my mom and for my sister. I think they are AMAZING! I use them for tea, my French Press and for instant oatmeal, grits, etc. Its very handy!

[@davidparsons97]

The most common use I've noticed in the UK isn't actually tea. It's often instant coffee.

[@GaryKeepItSimple]

@@davidparsons97 1 tea + 1 coffee in our UK house.

[@waqasahmed939]

My dad uses it for boiling a kettle, and filling up the rest of the bucket with cold water, for his car It's quite a bit warmer than the tap when using the "warm" thing. We ended up taking a kettle and toaster to Pakistan too, for when we wanted a more English-y tea. Mum makes tea on the hob in the proper Pakistani way, which admittedly it's a heck of a lot nicer but I don't have that kind of time in the morning Or at least, I didn't, until I worked from home

[@eviemoody]

I’m a big fan of my induction cooktop and old fashioned kettle. It’s quick, and more importantly, very energy efficient. I’m one of those weird Americans who drinks tea all day every day. Also, I know it’s off topic but your vids recently inspired me to get a lava lamp for my place. I had one many years ago and had forgotten how much I enjoyed it. Having it next to me also makes your videos more immersive lol.

[@dianeleone1634]

I like how you explained kettles & that thingy.

[@Galerak1]

"In the UK, where having a kettle is practically a requirement of citizenship..." you're not wrong 😂😂 Also, boiling water in your microwave is a great way of cleaning all those 'spatter' accidents off the sides and roof of the darn thing. A cup of water boiled for a few minutes and that gunk just wipes away easy as pie 👍

[@wychowanek90]

Actually my conventional oven has this so called auto-clean which makes you pour water straight on the bottom your oven and let it heat it for some time. It's surprisingly effective though since even without mechanical help the water that is left at the end is sometimes surprisingly nasty due to fat, oil and other goodies.

[@Anvilshock]

I'm sure your magnetron and all the other electricals and electronics in the microwave that do end up getting somepf that steam every time really enjoy it.

[@wychowanek90]

@@Anvilshock oh I didn't clarify. It's the "normal" oven where you put a turkey or something, not the microwave. My bad

[@Anvilshock]

@@wychowanek90 That's why I replied to OP's comment, not yours.

[@DerekSmit]

Once a while I put a glass with some vinegar in the microwave and blast it for 5 minutes. After you can wipe the microwave clean in seconds.

[@2lturbo]

On the point of combination hobs: typically you’d upgrade to induction when upgrading your whole kitchen. The cost of replacing your existing non-induction cookware is a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of a new kitchen.

[@Mike__B]

True, and the reality is you can in fact get comparably priced products too it's just the number of choices that are available at each price point that differs between heating types.

[@Mike__B]

@@OKuusava Well they technically can be flattened if you really wanted them to work (assuming their sensitive to magnetic fields) but yeah, time for new cookware!

[@d3nza482]

That's a bit like "reasoning out" that a purchase of new living room furniture makes sense cause it is a "drop in the ocean" compared to the cost of a new 8k TV and sound system. Also, saying ceramic glasstop like it's a singular thing is a bit like saying "American stoves". Or "European bread" or something. Magnetic induction, infrared, halogen, electric resistance - all of those are flavors of stoves with a flat ceramic surface. All having very much different in operation and drawbacks. Except for electric resistance. It's the same old "power through the wire" - except far more efficiently than with the old coiled heaters. Induction cooktops ARE 10-15 percentage points more efficient than electric resistance ones - but only when it comes to speed of boiling the water. Which is NOT how we cook our food. If all you're ever cooking is an egg that needs to be runny - great. If you're doing actual cooking, induction either loses to OR is equal in efficiency to electric resistance ceramic cooktops. Which need neither new cookware NOR all them fancy lectric thingamajigs prone to going buzzy and breaky.

[@CarthagoMike]

Thank you for the clarification! As a European, I was utterly confused about 'microwaving water'.

[@Mattstech12]

The ability to select a set temperature on the induction cooktop was also very nice. That's my biggest advantage of gas stoves to me - control of temperature. There's usually too much time delay in electric stoves for me. But the induction one is what I like to use when possible. My ex was careless and ran the gas stove too hot near the induction one...and it melted. I've been too lazy to replaced it yet. I guess I should do that.

[@stephensnell5707]

You prune,electric cookers ALSO have temperature selection as well

[@BrentFreyEsq]

9:15 It's not just for continuous loads, but also for cord-and-plug loads on a circuit where there are 2 or more receptacles, any individual cord-and-plug load cannot be more than 12A (note that a duplex is considered 2 receptacles). If you're interested, see NEC 210.21(B)(2) for more precise info. Similar idea, just different application. Thanks for the great content!

[@poiu477]

what if you split it into two separate single plugs?

[@cygwin0235]

I thought that resistive loads also get the 20% deraring according to the NEC. I don't have the book to search at the moment.

[@ashtonhoward5582]

@@poiu477 still one circuit.

[@poiu477]

@@ashtonhoward5582 ah I see, it would have to be a single plug on it's OWN circuit, correct?

[@eDoc2020]

The NEC doesn't really apply to portable loads.

[@or2kr]

11:08 the way we solved this was by just putting two two burner Miele ProLine stoves (no touch was a requirement) next to each other, one induction, the other ceramic. And sure enough, the induction one gets used the most except for incompatible stuff and shuffling around the pans and pots when cooking a lot just works fine, no idea why this isn't available in just one part. Oh btw, heating a pot of water by dumping 2.7kW of induction into it is fun :P

[@jackporter1614]

2x induction and 1 conventional burners are very common here in Korea and we chose one when we remodeled, but induction has turned out to be just so convenient that we almost never use the conventional burner.

[@danielch6662]

Otto, same in my house. The ceramic one just takes forever. Induction stovetops are just crazy fast. However, as much as I am dependent on them now, they suck at simmering. Especially anything in a pan. Because at a low enough setting, they can't bring the power that low. So they do this thing where they turn on for 3 seconds, off for 12, and repeat. Trouble is, during these 3 seconds, the contents boils, bubbles pop, out onto the counter, the wall, etc. That's the main reason we have one ceramic cooker.

[@guillaumegaudin694]

@@danielch6662 I was going to comment the same.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@danielch6662 That is interesting indeed.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

@@danielch6662 Exactly why, when I remodel (as the old stove is... er... showing its age) I'm likely to re-engineer something of an island with an oven and the dual-type "burner" arrangements... The ceramics are just as good for slow-simmering and braising as they can be for high/rolling boils... SO the plan would be back-ceramics where I only have to futz with them occasionally and mostly let them simmer or steep... AND induction up front because it's conveniently FAST as hell... AND I collect and keep up old cast iron anyways, so there's practically nothing incompatible in my kitchen... I do have one or two pieces of Pyrex cooking and lab-ware (Class B or C) but those aren't exactly for food... ;o)

[@voltare2amstereo]

10a @240v is standard for electric plug in jugs in Australia. Gives between 2200 and 2500 watts depending on the grid voltage. Regularly at 245-250 during the day when everyone's solar is generating

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

When i used the microwave to heat water (as I do frequently visiting people, because when they offer coffee I ask if they have tea and usually they have a tea bag and no kettle…cause yeah, America). But in the microwave I just heat it to warm, not boiling. A tea bag will steap fine in warm/hot water and you can drink it without waiting for it to cool from super hot. I’ve heated up water in the microwave for all kinds of things without any explosive issue. I’ve splattered myself more with stovetop kettles. But I certainly have used the microwave when I needed pretty hot water, but not necessarily visibly fully boiling to get the intended result of having heated up said water.

[@vulpes5809]

Even your cast offs are some of the most pleasant, comforting videos on KZbin.

[@esaeo]

The sound to me seems like metal on metal rather than metal on glass, so I would think that maybe the construction of the pot has a laminated base and the layers therein are not as fused together allowing them to strike each other as the wave of induction is uneven across them as it propagates through the metals.

[@peperillon]

Hello i do have the same sound with fancy coockware. To my experience you can find an alignement that optimise that sound.

[@moviebod]

Thanks for the tips about co2. I have half heartedly tried to keep it down, but will now make more of an effort.

[@klausm5460]

And so a nerdy video about ways to boil water turns into comedy award material. Still chuckling after enough time to make tea.

[@DarinMcGrew]

I didn't realize that a coffee press was "some other exotic way" to make coffee. :) I do use a stovetop kettle with my coffee press though. One advantage of a stovetop kettle over an electric kettle is that the stovetop kettle works when I go camping. And speaking of circuits "shared in nonsensical ways", we used to live in an old duplex unit that had fuses, and only 3 circuits for the entire 2BR unit: one for the kitchen and living room outlets, one for the bedrooms and bathroom, and one for the lights. It had a gas stove, so as long as we didn't run our microwave oven at the same time we ran our portable dishwasher, we were fine. Actually, the microwave and the dishwasher could run together, but they didn't leave any capacity for the refrigerator compressor if it came on. And did I mention that there was no exhaust vent for the stove, because the kitchen window opened and that was considered sufficient when the place was built? :o

[@dorvinion]

The stovetop kettle also works when the power is off, if you have gas of course. That said, I microwave my coffee water for the press. Once you know the necessary time its quite repeatable.

[@renakunisaki]

Was this in a place where winter is a thing? Were you expected to just leave the window open while cooking even when it's -40°?

[@DarinMcGrew]

If you're familiar with gardening zones, it was near the border of zones 9b and 10a. That means the winter low was usually around 25F. Winter there is a 2-3 month period when it might actually rain.

[@SubTroppo]

I was surprised at the standard of brewed coffee was when I first went to the US forty years ago. I can drink bad tea, but bad coffee is a different matter entirely. If it is still the same keep up with the press!

[@strawberyyicecreamdream216]

Anything outside of drip coffee is atypical. Most American coffee consumers use drip machines.

[@Dinnye01]

That's a normal sound for Ikea double plated cookware. They have an inbetween induction sensitive layer (aluminium-iron-aluminium) and they sing on induction stoves. Have been using one since 7 years.

[@martinweizenacker7129]

You sure it's not "magnetic stainless steel - aluminium - regular stainless steel" (from outside to the inside)? Pots with exposed aluminium are not really a thing (anymore).

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

@@martinweizenacker7129 I have a cast aluminum pot.

[@Vortexcube]

I wonder if Ikea cookware works better with their own induction cooktops.

[@AlexanderBurgers]

They make different noises at different power levels too. Doesn't harm anything, it's just mildly annoying.

[@paulmccoy2908]

The aluminum pot is probably meant for deep frying. Aluminum is generally not used as cookware since it is dissolved by hot, and/or salty, and/or acidic foods.

[@jenniferrodgers4048]

I’m so happy I found this part of KZbin. I’m in the technology connection fandom now

[@adriankoch964]

11:38 Electrolux makes a Hybrid Gas/Induction cooktop "Electrolux IE60H" is the model designation. I have it for a year now and it's nice. Just keep in mind that it's rather compact, so you won't be able to use a large skillet + a large pot for pasta at the same time on the same hob type, as the hobs are kinda close to each other. Especially with induction, if a skillet ist too large for the induction area (or not centered because you have a large pot on the induction hob above it, it may end up reaching into the capacitive control field and mess with your hob settings. (usually the stove detects unintended touches and starts beeping/ignoring the inputs, same when the touch field gets wet) There also exist modular 2 slot hob types for either gas/induction so you can install the gas hobs with more separation from the induction ones. One slightly annoying thing about induction hobs is that they don't like it if your pot or skillet aren't bone dry on the bottom. If you have ANY water between the skillet and the hob, the water will start boiling in there and make a lot of noise/cause vibration. It's probably the same with electric resistive cooktops that are hidden under a sheet of ceranglas, so it's not unique to induction. Also, why do electric kitchen equipment always has to have the shrillest, most annoying beep sounds? Microwaves, Induction stoves, they really need some setting to tune down those volume for the non-hearing impaired. Why does me microwaving a cup of water basically wake up everyone and their dog at night when I dial in the time, let alone beep an excruciating six times when its done?

[@tomwood5896]

Why do induction cooktops have to have stupid touch controls and beeps and the like at all. I like the user interface on my gas stove (one physical knob for each burner) so why can't they replicate that in induction form? You could even have some LED that gets brighter/bigger to show that it is hotter, for those of us used to judging how hot something will get by looking at the size of a gas flame.

[@dustojnikhummer]

@@tomwood5896 Because it "feels futuristic". Yeah, and sucks to use

[@PsRohrbaugh]

There's a difference between "have an electric kettle" and "use an electric kettle". My parents got one as a wedding gift in the 1980s and it's still in a box on a shelf in the laundry room.

[@tookitogo]

There are some brands that make modular (“domino”) stove units, half the width of a European standard 60cm (24”) stovetop (so about 30cm/12” per module). The idea is that you install multiple ones side by side, with your choice of electric, induction, gas, wok jet, teppanyaki grill, deep fryer, etc.

[@christianstorms3950]

nice. Sounds expensive, 'though.

[@fritzit]

@@christianstorms3950 It is.

[@berni8k]

We do have an Elektrolux combination cooktop with 2x induction 2x gas. Works great and cost about 500€

[@Ewr42]

sounds industrial

[@SixofQueens]

Love my electric kettle. A Cuisinart CPK-17. 6 temp presets which are reasonably accurate for a kitchen appliance (not perfect, just reasonably accurate). Makes the difference between some teas being undrinkable vs absolutely delicious!

[@sputnik4216]

The metal magnetic permeability and hysteresis characteristic of the various pots you have causes heating variables so wild and numerous you'd never trace 'em down. Also, those characteristics change with temperature! Instead, make yourself insanely happy by getting any cast iron cookware you can scrape up. That induction cooker will love you as much as you'll love it. The squeals and rings may disappear completely, or not, because I'm betting the mfg 'tuned' the oscillator freq. to be sweet for CAST IRON. ! Just my 'deduction' on the 'induction'. Great Video thanks!

[@freedomgeek2]

As an Australian I drink about 5 times more coffee than tea but I still use my kettle all the time and can't imagine life without it.

[@RonelynValor]

Thanks for leaving in your confusion with the induction plate. Professionals trip up. It's useful to remind people of that. And hey, science is about doing things and documenting your findings! :)

[@melissa7233]

Thanks for the headphone warning, but it really wasn't too bad. Also thanks for not cutting the bit with the sound of your induction cook top. I love to see influences encountering the same problems I have, esp Murphy's Law issues. It makes you so much more relatable.

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

The induction burner segment of this video reminds me of my time as an IT technician: it's broken until you bring it into our office but the moment you step through the door everything magically works. Leave the room and go around the corner and suddenly it's broken again.

[@KevinReinartz]

In my experience with induction (5 years with a 36" cooktop) the buzzing is from cheaper pans that aren't as "magnetic" as others, or the magnetic layer is farther away from the coil, or the pan is faulty. Annoying! Ikea may (should) warranty it...

[@jakass]

It still works, so it's in warranty

[@KevinReinartz]

@@jakass ikea has a 15 year guarantee that covers function, materials, and workmanship on these, they "work" but I could argue that they are not functional due to the noise. Any decent company (I consider ikea one) will honor this and swap them out to make the customer happy.

[@Green_House]

Keeping a lid on pot will drastically improve boiling times. Even keeping the lid closed on the kettle spout will help.

[@AnalogDude_]

true!

[@altosack]

I always thought that, too, but I timed it and it was nearly insignificant. It _looks_ wasteful, though!

[@jimmycake7143]

I liked the vid. lots of info I wondered about . thanks

[@martin_hansen]

One interesting aspect you did cover is the ease of boiling one cup of water. I saw a talk about making things less polluting, here the kettle was mentioned (in British context) the challenge of making the electric kettle less polluting was in the way it is used. In most cases when people want to have one cup coffee/the they boil water that could fill two cups or more, th uds wasting energy. Here the kettle with exposed heat coil differs s lot from the flat bottom one

[@SkepticalCaveman]

There exist induction adapters (basically magnetic, metal discs put between the pot/pan and the stove) that makes *any* cookware possible (including glass and ceramic) to use on a induction stove. No need to buy new cookware.

[@ludicrous6380]

I use one for my aluminium Moka pot

[@element5377]

@Christopher Grant my neighbors home burned down due to a leak behind the gas stove

[@element5377]

@@OKuusava i had a freak accident where a falling plastic cutting board (cat did it) fell into the old fashioned knob and turned the cooktop on, which started a fire by roasting the cutting board. luckily i had a $50 fire extinguisher to put out the fire.

[@AlonAltman]

It's interesting that you mention coffee makers vs kettles, because when I grew up my parents would use an electric kettle (which was common in most households) and made coffee by just adding instant coffee to boiling water. I haven't seen coffee makers at all until much later and only very well-off people seemed to have them.

[@DavidRavenMoon]

Oooh…. That’s not coffee. :(

[@TechnologyConnextras]

There's apparently a big difference between what Americans call a coffee maker and what the rest of the world does. Our plastic drip machines are $20 commodities, and a fancy one with a timer might run you $60. Now, if we're talking like an Espresso machine, then sure. That's a fancy purchase! But our good ol' fashioned 12 cup glass carafe jobbies are a cheap staple and have been since the 1970's (OK well they're cheaper now than they were back then... once upon a time a Mr. Coffee _was_ fancy!)

[@AlonAltman]

I don't drink coffee so I can't really tell the difference, but it seems these low-cost coffee machines are a pretty rare item outside North America. I do remember unsuccessfully trying to use one of those to boil water for tea...

[@zachmiller9175]

@@DavidRavenMoon bad coffee is bad coffee, some instant coffee is actually made with good coffee and tastes good, my favorite is medaglia d'oro. I usually make espresso at home but instant is so much easier than trying to brew decent coffee on a campfire.

[@nacho90000]

@@TechnologyConnextras It's not just the machine price, the price of ground bean coffee is much higher than instant coffee. here in Chile both devices cost almost the same, but instant coffee is much more popular for price, even among people who have both devices

[@davidchristensen6908]

We have one 12 cups and heats in just over 2 mins when full. The coffee make in the room will hot water just as fast as it makes coffee. What a fun video

[@Snittyguy]

Your channel is so awesome !