The emergence of fundamentally new types of technology not only expands people's capabilities, but also makes it take to deal with it. This also applies to plates using induction effect. It is important to know which dishes can and need to put on such foci, what are the suitable materials.
Features and requirements for dishes
Induction plates are surrounded by a huge number of myths. Often you can hear that they have such negative points:
- Consume a huge amount of current;
- Publish a strong hum and crackle;
- Prepare food too slow compared to traditional options.
But in fact, all this is not right. Induction kitchen appliances has a number of important practical advantages, and the bulk of misunderstandings is associated with errors during operation. One of them is just incorrect selection of kitchen inventory. The heating principle in this form of foci implies heat transfer to the dishes with the help of induced electrical vortex pulses.
The frequency of oscillations in this case is 20-100 kHz.
The difference between individual inductive plates is associated with such factors:
- type of control board;
- features of the electrical part;
- other structural features;
- quantity;
- embedding format in furniture;
- a set of heating elements.
Engineers diligently care that only the dishes are put on the stove, which is suitable for them. It is necessarily provided for automatics, which recognizes suitable and unsuitable containers. As soon as the dishes are cleaned from the surface of the cooking panel, heating stops immediately. But the dishes itself for induction slabs differs from the usual the fact that more stringent requirements are presented to it.
Only the appropriate containers allow them to realize all the advantages of the ultra-modern method of heating food.
In technical descriptions it is noted that products made from certain materials can be used for inductive focus:
- cast-iron;
- made of stainless steel grades;
- Made of ferrous metal with enamel layer and flat bottom.
It is important to note that the magnetic field does not cause any harm to enamel coatings. But it should be borne in mind that special utensils are considered safer than enameled species. If the same pan is shifted relative to the middle of the heating surface or less in diameter than the burner, then the special dishes creates a dangerous electromagnetic field within a radius of 0.12 m, and enameled - within a radius of 0.2 m. It is noted that it is the induced field potentially It may harm the central nervous system.
As a result of long research, experts found that Modern induction plates are safer than previously thought . Within dangerous radii, the radiation level (if good-free vehicles are used) has become many times less than the limits permissible. So it is only necessary to avoid buying at all old models of induction plates - and then you can safely choose the containers at your discretion.
Most often they say that you need a dishes having an induction sign. It is performed in the form of a row of loops and is replaced (sometimes only duplicated) verbal notation.
In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to 3 important components when choosing a kitchen utensils for an induction surface:
- lack of obvious deformations;
- Completely level;
- The exact covering of the acting part of the burner (with placement in the middle of it).
Induction's inscription must be present on the bottom of the dishes, and in its documentation. But if there are no special designations, anyway can sometimes use tanks. You need to check them with a magnet. Those products to which magnet attracts are accurately distinguished by ferromagnetic characteristics. It will not be exactly possible to apply such types:
- glass;
- ceramic;
- aluminum;
- made of brass;
- Made from copper vessels.
Varieties
Often the induction plates put frying pan. They are distinguished by each other:
- applied material;
- general diameter;
- bowl depth;
- geometry;
- handle designs;
- The presence or absence of a non-stick coating.
Most skillers have a round shape. The lid for them can be made from transparent or impenetrable materials. The non-stick coating is mainly made of polytetrafluoroethylene (more known as Teflon). In addition to frying pan, pots are very often used.
The width of the pan affects how convenient to mix its contents and how quickly the liquid will be evaporated from the surface. Modest portions are prepared using a saucepan with a capacity of 1-3 liters. Products with a volume from 3 to 5 l are used to prepare soups and cereals, pasta and dumplings. The largest copies (with a capacity of over 5 liters) help boil the compotes, salting cucumbers or tomatoes, make jam.
It is important to pay attention to the fact that such a kind of saucepan, as cauldron, cannot be used on the induction plate - it is not suitable for such an application.
In some cases, buckets and milkmen are used. These vessels allow you to quickly heat or even boil the small amount of water, milk and other liquids. Of course, it is impossible not to mention the kitchen ketties - they work well on the induction plate. Shota (a kind of hybrid pan and high frying pan) applies when you need to stew food. It is also convenient to prepare thickened soups.
Double bottom saucepan designed for making porridge. The gap separating the two bottoms from each other is filled with water. Such a solution makes it possible to exclude the burning of products. As a result, the taste of food becomes gentle, pleasant, as if using a Russian oven. Steamers and nanovarski are also used quite often; They are divided into the lower capacity filled with water, and on the grille or baskets for products.
The difference between natives and steamers is to arrange the tiers and in different steam supply systems. Special pots for pasta are equipped with a special container in which there are holes. Before the start of preparation, the inner container is put into the outer, pour water. As soon as the readiness comes, the inner part is lifted, pouring fluid.
Forms and sizes
Universal rule: dishes less than the burner, you can use the diameter. But the capacity of the larger diameter is categorically impossible. With proper selection of dimensions, it is possible to provide additional savings to 10-20%. It should be borne in mind that the larger the volume of heated dishes, the smaller the specific costs of electricity will be. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully select the volume of the dishes so as not to warm up too much nor too little.
Were warm up 2 liters of water more economical than heating 2 containers of 1 liters.
Connoisseurs Therefore, they advise you to choose not separate specimens, but entire sets. They allow you to confidently solve a variety of tasks. The selection should be carried out taking into account the composition of families and culinary preferences.
Separate attention deserves such a topic as the size of a pan. Normally, they are measured in the bottom, but along the upper face. It is all such information that always lead in the description in stores. Therefore, by typing with a frying pan with a diameter of 25 cm, you can not doubt that the lid will have exactly the same envelope. As for the bottom, then it is classified as:
- small pans with a bottom diameter of 14.5 cm;
- 18 cm width products fall into the middle group;
- Copies of dishes width 22.5 cm (exactly the dimensions of the burners are as follows.
However, in real life everything is somewhat more complicated. Plates of a modern sample may have oval and rectangular burners. For them, you will have to pick up specific dishes. Spherical voks having a small flat bottom, due to the large size of the walls, as if ousting another dishes, will limit its use.
Otherwise, the magnitude of the pan and the pan must be chosen based on their own needs and preferences.
Materials
As already mentioned, the dishes for the induction slab should be made strictly from ferromagnetic materials. The most common options are:
- steel;
- cast iron;
- The combination of steel and aluminum.
Copper tableware for cooking on the induction plate is not suitable. Clean aluminum dishes for induction plates are impossible. But if the bottom is made of ferromagnetic material, and the non-ferrous metal is used only for walls and covers, then the situation changes. True, this somewhat slows down the heating of the vessel as a whole. The advantage of aluminum is that it is durable and easy. The oxide film formed during contact with air eliminates the penetration of toxic metal into the prepared products.
Aluminum structures are quite cheap and spend warmly.
If there is a ferromagnetic bottom, you can use even glass dishes. It allows you to continuously control the cooking process. Chemical neutrality glass makes it possible to eliminate the harmful effects on the products. Stylish stylish glass teapots with ferromagnetic bases are quite widespread. Such products make many firms.
But a more familiar decision still remains cast iron dishes. Magnetic properties of cast iron are quite sufficient to solve basic culinary tasks. The main thing is that the bottom is completely even and did not have the slightest mechanical defects. Without a full docking pan or saucepan with cooking structures, nothing can be achieved. Problems can only deliver the serious mass of cast iron tanks, to hold that it is difficult.
Enameled products also find quite wide use. But that they worked perfectly on the induction surface, you will have to properly select the metal layer on the walls and the bottom. Exactly the same requirement is put forward in relation to stainless steel vessels. They differ in the following characteristics:
- It is not bad to clean from the remaining food;
- Pretty light;
- It is very expensive.
Review manufacturers
Getting acquainted with the dishes for induction plates, it is necessary to pay attention not only to the best practical characteristics. A concrete brand is of great importance, under which this product is made. The rating of optimal samples includes products Brand Rondell. . This company applies cast iron and stainless steel. Rondell's utensils are characterized by ideal food warming and is not susceptible to oxidation. Rondell offers a long warranty on its products.
Stainless cookware has a warranty period of 3 years. At the same time, everything that is made of cast iron has a warranty period of 25 years.
Rondell's corporate approach implies cast iron coating from the inside and outside the special enamel. As the developers declare, these products are suitable for any plates. They were originally designed with the calculation of washing in a dishwasher. Delivery set includes detailed instructions and recipes book. The lack of only one is a solid price.
Among the dishes are popular Brand Tefal. For induction slabs suitable Series Ingenio Expertise . All the kitchen utensils included in this series are equipped with removable handles. The manufacturer declares that similar products can be easily put in the oven, on the desktop, in the refrigerator, in the kitchen cabinet.
Tefal Ingenio is positioned as an excellent option for improving culinary skills. From the inside the patented coating of Titanium Excellence, preventing burning food. The titanium layer helps to eliminate the harmful effect when touched by a metal cutlery. It also reduces the danger of mechanical deformities of a different kind.
Compared with previous versions, service life Tefal Ingenio. declared much more - from 10 to 12 years. A special device provides accurate temperature indication. The series includes three sets. In them in different configurations include:
- pans with a diameter of 22 and 26 cm;
- Casserole 24 cm in the context;
- bucket diameter 16 cm;
- wok and bucket.
Good results, judging by consumer estimates, gives cookware brands Kukmara. . This company produces brazier and frying pan, skewers and saucepans, masters and hussy. Branded policy implies the use of granite coating providing excellent non-stick properties. The production of dishes is deployed at the Kukmorsky plant in Tatarstan, in honor of the enterprise and the trademark is named.
For the manufacture of kitchen utensils, cast aluminum is used there. It is very thick - the walls can reach 0.6 cm. This property allows you to achieve long-term operation of the kitchen inventory. The coating applied to it from the inside is supplied by the leading German manufacturer - WEILBURGER COATINGS GMBH . The composition is applied in 5 layers.
Marble components are complemented by particles of mineral ceramics. Thanks to the selection of spraying, the highest reliability and durability is ensured. The applied non-stick coating corresponds not only to the Russian quality standard, but also to the regulations adopted in the EU and the United States.
The manufacturer declares that the characteristics of the finished dishes are also brought into line with world regulations.
Continue overview Brands Utensils for inductive plates appropriate on the example of products Woll . According to the manufacturer itself, its products are optimally suitable for beginners of fans culinary, and for solid chefs. Good German products are created using the latest technologies. Production is 100% concentrated in an enterprise alone, where very strict quality control is carried out. However, the technological process of manual production itself (without any automated stamping) inspires confidence. Woll developers offered a unique aluminum alloy alloy covering a reliable non-stick coating.
Thanks to this layer, you can cook deliciously any dish. At the same time, it is reduced to the limit of consumption of fats and oils. Therefore, food is much healthier than when using other designs. The Woll range includes:
- buckets;
- pans;
- Silksry and many other varieties of dishes.
From Russian trademarks attractive "Gourmet" in the market since 1991. This brand is the intellectual property of the enterprise. "VSMPO-COOKING" . The use of high-grade stainless steel allowed to create no less high-quality dishes than the one that promotes the legendary "Chateter".
All surfaces of the "Gourmet" products are completely smooth and smooth.
It is also worth paying attention to the following parameters:
- Quite a thick bottom;
- high-quality assembly;
- The ability to prepare food without adding water (if its own juice is highlighted enough);
- the suitability of the dishes for wind cabinets (due to the absence of plastics);
- A wide choice (the range of the Russian enterprise includes pots of up to 8 liters).
How to choose?
But whatever the famous brand of the manufacturer of a set of dishes, the choice of a set on it does not end. Other considerations play a very big role. Moderly desire to check the ferromagnetic properties of dishes. To test less objects with a magnet or less often to search for a special sample labeling, you can first rate the appearance. Ferromagnetic saucepan, for example, looks more massive than an ordinary sample. You can also determine the truth and for the price - high-quality utensils for induction plates are not cheaply selling. Experts advise also to think about the size of kitchen accessories. They must be suitable for at least one of the burners. But to learn the material used to create the walls is not too important. It is enough in practice the presence of magnetic properties at the bottom.
What is much more important, this is the thickness of the bottom. It is best if it is 2-6 mm. Thin thin metal layers will bend and deformed. Thicatles are badly warmed up and in addition too heavy. If you need to make food as quickly as possible (for example, going throughout the mornings to work), the best option will be the dishes, which has a height less than the width.
Terms of Use
Induction plates can be used even for making coffee in jazv. However, in this case, the adapter will have to apply (sometimes it is called, depending on the source, overlay or adapter). Without special adapters, you can use only dishes with a bottom of 0.12 m. On separate induction plates are allowed to put even dishes with a width of 0.09 m.
However, the final instructions on this account can be found only in technical documentation. Unacceptable:
- apply dishes with sloping edges and with mechanical damage;
- put on the induction slab overlooking heavy tanks;
- To allow inaccurability to handle cast-iron accessories.
Care
The main recommendations for the care of dishes for induction foci are very simple. It is necessary to evaluate all means for sanitary and environmental safety. It is best to wash the dishes with your hands, and not trust this manipulation of the dishwasher. Powdered formulations should be used with caution.
Abrasive particles sometimes damage the surface strongly (especially bad if the dishes are made of aluminum or has a Teflon coating).
Experts advise:
- use for washing only hot water;
- soak pre-dishes in water for softening the upper layer of dirt;
- Fight with fat with the help of a vinegar additive;
- Wash at first less contaminated dishes, and then more clogged;
- Do not pour cold water into hot dishes (and on the contrary);
- Minimize the use of steel brushes or rigid washcloths, as well as metal scrapers.
Alternatives using adapters
Thanks to the flat disk installed between the stove and dishes, it will be possible to use even the most ordinary dishes on the induction plate. Including pan, coffee makers, frying pan. The inductance disk in thickness reaches 3-6 mm. It is always a multi-layered product. Such an accessory replaces ferromagnetic bottom.
If it is used, you can use tanks from ordinary and heat-resistant glass, ceramics of all varieties, tight clay, aluminum, copper.
When selecting adapters, they think about the overall thickness, the structure of the layers, the external color, diameter (with the calculation of 80% of the surface to capture the bottom of the dishes), the presence of a removable handle (provides additional convenience).
Review reviews
Very good assessments of consumers giverates Rondell. With most induction plates, it works perfectly. Even high price is fully justified. Not bad reviews arrive at Thomas products. As an alternative advise to consider usually WOLL or Czech brand Tescoma.
But Tefal products are rated somewhat less enthusiastic. Zepter products are high-quality, but sometimes unreasonably roads. Also in consumer demand ratings consistently include brands such as Baf, Hackman, Lodge.
On how to choose the appropriate dishes for induction slabs, see the video below.