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Consumers should align their stove choice with their family's cooking requirements to find the ideal fit.
1. Selecting an Ideal Induction Stove for Your Family
Consumers should align their stove choice with their family's cooking requirements to find the ideal fit.
For those seeking a stove for travel or home gatherings, it's recommended to use a single induction cooker - compact, lightweight, easy to use, and portable. To meet the cooking needs of typical Vietnamese families (4 to 6 members), customers should opt for the double induction cooker. Families with high cooking demands can explore options like the triple induction cooker, quadruple cooker, or even five cookers. However, multi-cooking surface induction cooktops have a high total power, so consumers should carefully consider before purchasing these products.
Due to its unique instant heating and cooling mechanism, induction cooktops are unsuitable for dishes requiring long cooking times and low temperatures, such as stir-frying, frying, simmering, and stewing. For families fond of these dishes, the electric induction cooker is a suitable alternative. The electric induction cooker features an additional electric cooking zone outside the induction cooking zone, offering excellent cooking efficiency for dishes requiring low temperatures and extended cooking times.
Country of Origin
This is the primary factor consumers should consider when selecting an induction cooker. Pay attention to purchasing from reputable brands, suppliers, and distributors. Induction cookers are widely used and highly developed in Europe, making induction cookers originating from Europe superior in functionality. These cookers either have models imported entirely from Europe or use European components assembled in a third country, ensuring they meet safety, convenience, and quality criteria.
Kitchen Components
When purchasing a stove, consumers should have criteria for choosing high-quality stoves based on glass quality and stove functions. Currently, there are primarily three types of stoves on the market:
- Shott Ceran glass imported from Germany. This is ceramic-coated glass with high scratch resistance, good load-bearing capacity, heat resistance up to 900 °C, and can withstand heat shocks of 600 ~ 800 °C.
- Next is K+ glass, a French brand. This is also a type of glass with impact resistance and heat resistance, but with low scratch resistance.
- Lastly, there is regular toughened glass; this type of glass is prone to scratches, has poor heat resistance, and may crack when the temperature rises too high. Users should avoid purchasing stoves with this type of glass as it has low durability.
The components of the best stoves should be imported from countries with strengths in electronic components such as Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain, Sweden, ... Modern stoves will be equipped with Induction Zoneless technology, which automatically recognizes the pot base, saving energy. In addition, Auto Protect functions will automatically cut off heat when overloaded, protecting the power grid and the health of users.
Touch control panel: Some European stove models have a shared control panel for 2~3 stoves, such as Bosch induction stoves imported from Spain. This minimalist design brings elegance to the kitchen, but the operation may be slightly complex. When switching from a gas stove to using a Bosch induction stove, it takes some time to get used to it. Customers can use induction stoves with a separate control panel for each stove. When one of the stoves is damaged, users can still use the remaining stoves without worrying about interruptions in cooking. Some induction stoves have ultra-sensitive touch control panels that can recognize controls even when wet.
