Tasty Bytes Spring 2019

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It is Safe?

Induction cooking has

One of the benefits is

been around since 1900

precisely controlled

but has gotten hot

temperature which can

recently, no pun intended.

prevent boil-overs and

Induction cooking uses

reduce the risk of over- or

electric currents to directly

under-cooking. Since the

heat pots and pans

stove-tops use an

through magnetic

electromagnet to heat the

induction. Instead of using

pan it automatically

thermal conduction which

adjusts the heat to the size

is what happens when a

of the pan, meaning fewer

gas or electric element

accidental burns. There

transfers heat from a

are myriad websites that

burner to a pot or pan. It

state the electromagnetic

boils water up to 50

field created by these

percent faster than gas or

stove-tops will cause

electric and maintains a

cancer. This myth is related

consistent and precise

to people living under

temperature. The surface

powerlines in the 1980s,

stays relatively cool so

since then thousands of

spills, splatters and

studies have been done

occasional boil-overs don't

and show no connection to

burn onto the cooktop,

cancer.

making clean-up quick and easy. If you’re doing any type of stove-top cooking, you should use induction cooking.

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INDUCTION

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