Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "The Genius of Induction Cooktops u0026 Why It Matters!" video.
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We've been using induction hobs for about 12 or so years where I live in the UK, before that we used electric hobs, as for the noise he was talking about, ours only does that if you're cooking 3 or 4 pans at the same time and at a high heating setting, cooking 1 or 2 pans on an average setting is quite quiet.
For me, the biggest selling point going induction hob is if you're going renewable with solar panels on your house and a decent size battery setup, you could more or less reduce the bill to nothing on cooking on the hob.
On another note, since Putin invaded Ukraine, during the summer last year, we did a lot of insulating in the house to reduce how much we need to use heating, anyway, to our surprise, we managed to reduce it so much that we hardly ever need to use heating at all and as long as the temp is 0c-5c and above, we don't need any heating at all and it still feels comfortable inside and even when it's lower than that, you don't need as much heating as it last longer.
Basically, all we really use gas for is for the shower and hot water and there are options to move to electric on that.
Say what we want about Putin but he's helping to kill gas use a lot sooner than expected and mainly because of how expensive it is to transport LNG and as we know, pipelines are dependent on location, so basically, we're going out of our way to push everything to electric as that fits in nicely with renewable energy.
Also, if you do go induction, cooking tends to be quicker, so you have to adapt a little by cooking things for less and for some reason, at least in the UK, they don't tell you on the package how many mins to set it for induction, but it's usually a few mins less than what it says, depending on what you are cooking, but overtime, you get used to it and it becomes second nature.
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