induction cooker how manny watt? in mresia, I watt how much?
do the math la. then compare. so malas.

Been using Induction cooker since years ago...Just imagine you spent RM27 every mth or two for gas but using Electricty...b4 using & after is almost negligible..can't really feel it..My bill b4 & after always ~ RM80-RM120..

So go for induction.

Induction cooker is far more dangerous than gas cooker. Oh wait, both also dangerous. TS, just use charcoal and fire, far more safer and save gas n electricity.

induction no fire. How to be dangerous? 

Induction cooker is far more dangerous than gas cooker. Oh wait, both also dangerous. TS, just use charcoal and fire, far more safer and save gas n electricity.

I wonder if infra cooker is best of both world or not. Kekeke

Induction cooker uses electricity, the inside parts are made of coils and electronic parts. There have been many cases fire explosion form induction cooker. I use to work in Philips before, a lot of induction cooker comes for repair, some even burned, some exploded. Just my 2 cents. Use on ur own risk. Those induction cooker is just crap as i know whats the contains. Avoid it, just use gas. Thats more safer.

Pakai tong gas jer lah bro, lagi selamat. Jarang ader kes tong gas meletup kat rumah, lain lah kalau u letak kuali masak atas tong gas dan masak atas tong gas     

Well, It will burnt esp those cheap chinamade wan..I hv been using 3 Induction cookers so far for years...Yes the 1st 2 all chinamaded Elba & Pensonic brands din last long ~ 1 yr each..Yes burnt BUT not explode-lah..Just some electric nurining inside & gone..just like u experience on other Electrical product like TV/ Radio or even rice cooker...just abit of electric burning smell & thereafter kaput..Where got explosion wan..Dun frighten ppl-lah..

Anyway, my latest been wth me since ~ 2009...Probably also Chinamade but Jusco select brand (Haha..another cheapo)..not bad..no burnt since 2009..Nxt probably wanna an electroluc brand..

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Check it out for more info before u purchase

I heard induction cooker cost your electric a lot .

Btw charcoal still cooks the best food.

If u all still insist to buy induction cooker, i would not suggest Philips as its a piece of crap. Try Elba or some premium brands.

Read back stimix reply. Its basically did not use any electric (its like too little and can be ignore).
ok bro. Will get more premium brand. But definitely not kitchmate or bosch.

Induction cooker uses electricity, the inside parts are made of coils and electronic parts. There have been many cases fire explosion form induction cooker. I use to work in Philips before, a lot of induction cooker comes for repair, some even burned, some exploded. Just my 2 cents. Use on ur own risk. Those induction cooker is just crap as i know whats the contains. Avoid it, just use gas. Thats more safer.

branded one like kitchmate is like RM2k. Crazy. i rather buy china made.

This is the one you're referring to:


Of course lah, this is cheap low quality unit.

It will pay for itself after a few years (saving in amount of money you spend on gas and wasted time cooking on gas (slow heating = longer cooking time, cleaning of gas stove, stress caused by waiting for delivery of gas tank, money spent on aerosol insecticide to get rid of cockroach which loves the gas cooker, etc).

I heard induction cooker cost your electric a lot .

Btw charcoal still cooks the best food.

This is how an induction cooker looks like inside. Basically its just a coil with 2 boards inside. The coil is the culprit for burning usually. The coil will be heated up with 240V, similar like an iron, toaster, heater etc. The coil will heat up and heat the glass panel on top and the glass panel will boil the pan. It heats up pretty fast because of the electricity that flows throughout the coil and passes thru the glass panel. Theres a zener diode on top of the coil. The function of the diode is to detect the pan on top of the glass. With induction cooker, u cant use any normal pots, it has to be stainless steel pot only. If u use any other pot, the zener diode wont detect it and the induction cooker wont work either. Thats the knowledge i know about induction cooker

Infra red better than induction because you can use more variety of cooking pots.

I don't think induction cooker will heat up the coil. You're mistaken infrared cooker and induction cooker?

As I know you need to clear some space for the bottom to let air flow through right ?

The heat comes from the coil lah bro The coil is which heats up and heats up the glass panel. Ive been repairing the same shitty induction cooker for so long in Philips last time  There i knew that its a shit product, i mean the brand. Other brands ive heard less complaints.

The heat comes from the coil lah bro The coil is which heats up and heats up the glass panel. Ive been repairing the same shitty induction cooker for so long in Philips last time  There i knew that its a shit product, i mean the brand. Other brands ive heard less complaints.

Really?

i tot it use electromagnetic wave. No heat generated?

infrar slower than induction. Better use induction I think.

After cooking, try putting ur hand on top of the glass panel N also at the bottom, ull see how cold it is       

Really?

i tot it use electromagnetic wave. No heat generated?

After cooking, try putting ur hand on top of the glass panel N also at the bottom, ull see how cold it is       

for induction cooker, the glass panel is cool to touch. I cannot brain wat u toking about.

Got ar ....Last time I checked that philips model , I turn below and see that's a fan underneath it and sign to saying you need to let air through.

This is how an induction cooker looks like inside. Basically its just a coil with 2 boards inside. The coil is the culprit for burning usually. The coil will be heated up with 240V, similar like an iron, toaster, heater etc. The coil will heat up and heat the glass panel on top and the glass panel will boil the pan. It heats up pretty fast because of the electricity that flows throughout the coil and passes thru the glass panel. Theres a zener diode on top of the coil. The function of the diode is to detect the pan on top of the glass. With induction cooker, u cant use any normal pots, it has to be stainless steel pot only. If u use any other pot, the zener diode wont detect it and the induction cooker wont work either. Thats the knowledge i know about induction cooker

Aisey bro, ive repaired more than 150 induction cookers. I know how they work exactly Its heat generated from the coils then to the glass panels. After cooking, the glass panel and the unit will be freaking hot.

An induction cooker transfers electrical energy by induction from a coil of wire into a pot made of material which must be electrically conductive and ferromagnetic. The heat generated is analogous to the unwanted heat dissipated in an electric transformer; most of the heat is due to resistive heating like a transformer's copper losses and eddy currents and the rest is analogous to a transformer's other iron losses.
A coil of wire is mounted under the cooking surface, and a large alternating current is passed through it. The current creates a changing magnetic field. When an electrically conductive pot is brought close to the cooking surface, the magnetic field induces an electrical current, called an "eddy current", in the pot. The eddy current, flowing through the electrical resistance, causes electrical power to be dissipated as heat; the pot gets hot and heats its contents by heat conduction.
The cooking surface is made of a material which is a poor heat conductor, so only minimal heat is transferred from the pot to the cooking surface (and thus wasted). In normal operation the cooking surface stays cool enough to touch without injury after the cooking vessel is removed.
Some energy will be dissipated wastefully by the current flowing through the resistance of the coil; wasted energy is minimised by the geometry of the design and by the coil having low resistance. The cooking vessel is typically made from stainless steel or iron, which is much less conductive. The pot is also ferromagnetic. Since the increased magnetic permeability of the material decreases the skin depth, the resistance will be further increased. The copper coil, on the other hand, is made from wire known as litz wire, which is a bundle of many tiny wires in parallel. The coil has many turns, while the bottom of the pot effectively forms a single shorted turn. This forms a transformer that steps down the voltage and steps up the current. The resistance of the pot, as viewed from the primary coil, appears larger. That, in turn, means that most of the energy becomes heat in the high-resistance steel, while the driving coil stays cool.
The reasons iron or steel cookware work on an induction cooker but aluminium or copper do not is because of the materials' permeability and resistivity.[8] Aluminium or copper cookware is more conductive and the skin depth in these materials is larger since they are nonmagnetic. Not only do these materials have lower resistivity than steel, the current flows in a thicker layer in the metal and so encounters less resistance and produces less heat. The induction cooker will not work efficiently with such pots. With iron or steel cookware, some heat is also generated due to the ferromagnetic material's magnetic hysteresis. This is a smaller component of the total heat generated.[9] The differences in hysteresis losses are a much smaller effect.
The heat that can be produced in a pot is a function of the surface resistance. A higher surface resistance produces more heat for similar currents. This is a "figure of merit" that can be used to rank the suitability of a material for induction heating. The surface resistance in a thick metal conductor is proportional to the resistivity divided by the skin depth. Where the thickness is less than the skin depth, the actual thickness can be used to calculate surface resistance.[8] Some common materials are listed in this table.

You're so wrong!!! The coil doesn't heat up. The AC current in the coil cause high frequency changing magnetic field in the cookware and this changing magnetic field created heat in the cookware itself. Try sitting on an induction cooker (if you are a guy) and turn it on, believe me your balls will still be uncooked like part of this egg:

You're so wrong!!! The coil doesn't heat up. The AC current in the coil cause high frequency changing magnetic field in the cookware and this changing magnetic field created heat in the cookware itself. Try sitting on an induction cooker (if you are a guy) and turn it on, believe me your balls will still be uncooked like part of this egg:

Hahahaha, the magnetic part yes i agree. That fires up the pot to get heated. But the glass will still be hot after cooking.

Somehow, i would say cooking using charcoal provides the best taste to the food ure cooking. Nothing beats it. Just go classic cooking larrrr

Somehow, i would say cooking using charcoal provides the best taste to the food ure cooking. Nothing beats it. Just go classic cooking larrrr

aiya, you dun scare people la. Induction is safe la adui.

Hehehehe U wan tasty food or fast cooking?

probably the pot heated up and the heat goes to the glass.. LOL

gas is however easier to handle. induction sucks

Either you don't know how to use the induction cooker or you bough the cheap version. Many chefs also use induction cooker lah ( I saw many times on TV)... It's the skill of the person using the equipment, not the equipment's fault. I've cooked many things using induction cooker: lamb chop, steaks, grilled fish, chicken kirahi, lamb kirahi, ayam masak merah, kari kepala salmon, nasi daging, nasi ayam, nasi goreng udang, ikan siakap stim, soups, etc. For simple cooking for lunch or dinner usually it took me less than 30 minutes from chopping to finish cooking. I cook rice in microwave oven, less than 15 minutes... clean, quick and no burnt crust.

indcution can use round bottom wok or not?

Apa brand and modal? The one i have mesti chepo wan because every setting seem to have the same result.

indcution can use round bottom wok or not?

Which model you're using? I used a smaller Kenwood induction cooker before I bought the larger Vigico unit, cost nearly RM 3800 total at the time because at the same time I also bought cookwares for the induction cooker.

indcution can use round bottom wok or not?

that is true. but it is so easy to clean. because the heat takes sometimes to go down and up. so cannot get quick change in heat.
That's why I have both. can still cook nasi pattaya.

Nobody considering Vees brand?

Some cheap china brand I guess...can't even read the name >_<

Kenwood, Vigico...I'll keep those in mind.

The Kenwood unit is good even though its more expensive (RM 400+) than other single hob type induction cooker. I gave it to my brother and he is still using it after 5 years. That's how durable it is. The Vigico unit is just superb... I can go home during lunchtime (only 5 minute drive)  and cook  a meal because it heats up so fast. However, if your cooking experience is mostly using gas cooker... you'd be suprised how fast you can prepare meals for 4 persons using induction cooker. Normally, I would cook rice using microwave oven (15 minutes) and at the same time cook the main dish (chicken, lamb or fish) about 15-20 minutes. And cook either soup, tomyam or stir fry vegies using the other hob. So normally it's just half an hour of chopping and cooking.

Waaa many induction cooking peeps here. No more gas eh? BTW, how about the health rate for induction cooking?

Waaa many induction cooking peeps here. No more gas eh? BTW, how about the health rate for induction cooking?

Waaa many induction cooking peeps here. No more gas eh? BTW, how about the health rate for induction cooking?

Huh you ask us the users back? I thought you work wth Phillips b4 from yopur earlier posting 

Anyway, Induction cooker is not new tech. It's the same concept used by rice cooker, water boiler & more..The only differences, the coil of rice cooker & water boiler is covered wth another layuer of steel & this steel heated up the water/ rice. Induction is below the glass/or clay & heated up the pot on top of the clay top.

Similar tech in the upcoming imvisible charger..i.e they develop this old tech and in futur we no need wired charger liao..

luls, i knew Philips products are crap, one day itself about 30 to 40 induction cooker will come in, half the sets internally burned, cosmetic damage, glass broken, exploded, burnt to the max etc. Health wise im not sure as i have cooked anything to eat on this induction cooker as in my house we still use gas   I'm not sure about other brands and the quality of it.

luls, i knew Philips products are crap, one day itself about 30 to 40 induction cooker will come in, half the sets internally burned, cosmetic damage, glass broken, exploded, burnt to the max etc. Health wise im not sure as i have cooked anything to eat on this induction cooker as in my house we still use gas   I'm not sure about other brands and the quality of it.

but u tipu us saying induction use heater coil to cook. LOL...

Anyway, gas is old school. You should try induction. Don't let Philips brand make u scared of induction yo.

If health really affecting us, the use of older induction tech such as Rice cooker and even the normal water boiler already affecting our health since Early 20th Century    We are in 21th century now liao wor..

Well, if microwave, then probably yes bcos we hv seen how microwave work on whatever vege & meat inside the oven  ..Well I dun think magnetic wave really affecting much...Everyday also we are exposing to powerfull Earth Natural magnetic field 

Hehehe. Personally before working there i had intention to buy induction cooker but after working there n seeing the sets, i changed my mind, lulz

The Kenwood unit is good even though its more expensive (RM 400+) than other single hob type induction cooker. I gave it to my brother and he is still using it after 5 years. That's how durable it is. The Vigico unit is just superb... I can go home during lunchtime (only 5 minute drive)  and cook  a meal because it heats up so fast. However, if your cooking experience is mostly using gas cooker... you'd be suprised how fast you can prepare meals for 4 persons using induction cooker. Normally, I would cook rice using microwave oven (15 minutes) and at the same time cook the main dish (chicken, lamb or fish) about 15-20 minutes. And cook either soup, tomyam or stir fry vegies using the other hob. So normally it's just half an hour of chopping and cooking.

It's been many years since i've cook using gas. Been using pressure cookers to fry my food, multifunction, not purely a pressure cooker. Currently using Electrolux brand. So far so good

rice cooker mana use induction one. Rice cook i think use heater coil gua.
u got wrong mentality. Go buy induction now.