Dozens of public housing apartments will get plug-in induction ranges as part of the initiative, which aims to eventually shift 10,000 NYCHA homes off the use of polluting fossil fuel appliances.
How long can you run them before they run out of juice, though? I’m not sure I’d want to have “range” (pun intended) anxiety making Thanksgiving dinner.
This one, as an example, has a 5 kWh battery. Having seen it in action it’ll run itself for several hours unplugged. Pretty much indefinitely if charging.
Remember, while induction ranges typically have high power ratings (10+ kW), they aren’t actually running the whole time. They use a decent amount of power for the initial heat up, or if youre running all of the burners on high trying to boil several large pots of water, but realistically that’s not how you use a range.
Once the oven is up to temperature, it just kinda oscillates on and off, using comparatively little energy. Induction burners rarely run on full power because if you’ve ever cooked with induction you know you’ll burn…everything… on high - they can really dump heat into a pan.
Actively cooking a big dinner with multiple burners, you may average about 2 kW. With 1 kW coming in from the wall, that gives you about 5 hours of sustained peak cook time.
A 5 kW peak stovetop is already more power than anyone can reasonably use with the amount of space available on a standard stove. Literally the only useful thing you can do at full power is bring water to a boil, because no actual cooking can happen at full power unless your diet is carbonized food. I have a 3.5 kW stovetop and it’s perfectly adequate.
After the first 15-20 minutes of cooking (bringing water to a boil while preparing some onions/garlic/sauce/seasonings) it gets very hard to keep using 1 kW. By that point you’ll be leaving things on medium heat at most. I can’t think of a single home-cooked meal that would require continuously drawing a full 2 kW from the stove for multiple hours, that’s a truly crazy amount of energy. Even an oven at full blast won’t use anywhere near 2 kW once it has reached 250 °C.
We have a glass top 240v resistive heating range and it won’t run all 5 burners on high. The rear is a dual with burner (like for a rectangle skillet). I’m not sure you can run that and the full size burner on high at the same time. One of them won’t heat up.
However the number of times of run into this in 10 years is maybe 3. It’s not really a problem and pretty easy to stagger things and simmer or keep parts of a meal warm in an oven or toaster oven.
I have a 6-burner induction range and the burners are paired (front+back), if you set any front-back pair to high they only do like a 75% (which is still more than enough to burn your food). If you really need 3 things cooking on high you just do them across the 3 zones and you’re fine. I’ve basically never needed to use this knowledge.
How long can you run them before they run out of juice, though?
They run by either an electrical outlet or by battery. Another article stated the battery backup for its induction oven was one hour. Hardly worth being a feature.
Congratulations! Now run the piping for gas to every apartment in a major city. Do it for the same budget as battery induction cooktops. Then we’ll talk.
How long can you run them before they run out of juice, though? I’m not sure I’d want to have “range” (pun intended) anxiety making Thanksgiving dinner.
You know, I’m not sure.
But “range” anxiety gave me a giggle so thanks for that.
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This one, as an example, has a 5 kWh battery. Having seen it in action it’ll run itself for several hours unplugged. Pretty much indefinitely if charging.
Remember, while induction ranges typically have high power ratings (10+ kW), they aren’t actually running the whole time. They use a decent amount of power for the initial heat up, or if youre running all of the burners on high trying to boil several large pots of water, but realistically that’s not how you use a range.
Once the oven is up to temperature, it just kinda oscillates on and off, using comparatively little energy. Induction burners rarely run on full power because if you’ve ever cooked with induction you know you’ll burn…everything… on high - they can really dump heat into a pan.
Actively cooking a big dinner with multiple burners, you may average about 2 kW. With 1 kW coming in from the wall, that gives you about 5 hours of sustained peak cook time.
A 5 kW peak stovetop is already more power than anyone can reasonably use with the amount of space available on a standard stove. Literally the only useful thing you can do at full power is bring water to a boil, because no actual cooking can happen at full power unless your diet is carbonized food. I have a 3.5 kW stovetop and it’s perfectly adequate.
After the first 15-20 minutes of cooking (bringing water to a boil while preparing some onions/garlic/sauce/seasonings) it gets very hard to keep using 1 kW. By that point you’ll be leaving things on medium heat at most. I can’t think of a single home-cooked meal that would require continuously drawing a full 2 kW from the stove for multiple hours, that’s a truly crazy amount of energy. Even an oven at full blast won’t use anywhere near 2 kW once it has reached 250 °C.
We have a glass top 240v resistive heating range and it won’t run all 5 burners on high. The rear is a dual with burner (like for a rectangle skillet). I’m not sure you can run that and the full size burner on high at the same time. One of them won’t heat up.
However the number of times of run into this in 10 years is maybe 3. It’s not really a problem and pretty easy to stagger things and simmer or keep parts of a meal warm in an oven or toaster oven.
I have a 6-burner induction range and the burners are paired (front+back), if you set any front-back pair to high they only do like a 75% (which is still more than enough to burn your food). If you really need 3 things cooking on high you just do them across the 3 zones and you’re fine. I’ve basically never needed to use this knowledge.
however capacity and wear they have? Battery science is pretty curved.
They run by either an electrical outlet or by battery. Another article stated the battery backup for its induction oven was one hour. Hardly worth being a feature.
One hour of being able to cook in the midst of a 12+ hour blackout can make a world of difference to hungry people.
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I wouldn’t assume the pumps moving that gas would keep working for an extended outage. If an outage lasts that long, it’s usually over a big area.
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In the last 15 years, my electricity has been out for 10+ DAYS three different times. Gas doesn’t stop.
In fact, 2 out of 3 homes in the neighborhood have Kohler style natural gas whole house generators.
There’s plenty of reasons to hate gas, but that ain’t one.
They should’ve run the electricity wires next to the gas wires, i.e. buried.
Surely someone’s got an example of natural gas service failing during an electric outage?
The reason you were down voted was in the first paragraph of the article - including breakdowns that can last for months at a time
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Congratulations! Now run the piping for gas to every apartment in a major city. Do it for the same budget as battery induction cooktops. Then we’ll talk.
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