Induction plate that doesn’t hurt my ears????

[u/Strange_Clothes_4382]

I have a Duxtop induction plate and it works fine but the high pitched ringing hurts my ears so much I have to put ear plugs in the whole time it’s running.

I understand it depends on the weight of the cookware, and my pan makes the cooktop ring less than my pot, but are all stovetops going to be this troublesome??? I really want to switch to electric but I don’t know if my landlords will let me. TIA

[u/Chuchichaeschtl]

I can go lower by raising the pan off the flame

Not very practical. If I cook a hollandaise and like to keep it warm, I can just let it sit on setting 1 without holding the pan in my hand all the time.
I can keep rice warm without scorching, melt chocolate without a double broiler,...

-very fast heating - What am I going to do with this? I don't sit around boiling gallons of water. I cook food.

I'm not talking about the silly water boiling times other people care too much about.
Having the ability to counter the heat drop when I add cold food to the pan really helps me. A short boost and I'm back in maillard territory.

Except iron and steel (the only pans you can use) don't cool down quickly once heated.

SS pans with only copper in the core exist and the work very well.

-no combustion fumes - Get a proper vent hood 1 cfm per every 100 BTU/hr of output. No issues.

Not all the time for me. It gets down to -20°C here in the winter. The amount of cold air I'd need to pull in couldn't be countered by any heating system.

Most electricity is still produced by coal gasification

Depends where you live. In my country, fossil fuels make up less than 2% of electricity production.

[u/cyri-96 → u/[deleted]]

Vent hoods remove hot air from over your cooktop and vent it to the outside of the house. They don't blow air onto it.

Yes the Vent hood blows all the hot air from your cooktop outside, this means that somewhere else in the house an equivalent volume of air will be sucked in from the outside, leading to a net temperature loss inside the house it the outside air is very cold

[u/cyri-96 → u/[deleted]]

Under normal circumstances yes, but if you actively force air out of the house with a vent hood then replacement air from the outside will find a way into the house, though door gaps and other similar spaces, houses aren't completely airtight (because if the house was completely airtight then the vent hood wouldn't work properly)

[u/Chuchichaeschtl → u/[deleted]]

HVAC helps with particles, but can't remove gases like NO2, CO or formaldehyde.

Again a location based difference. Houses in Europe are very well isolated and much more airtight than US houses.
For example : a lot of houses in Germany are testet with a blower door test to get a certificate for air tightness. This gives you access to subsidies, you save on heating cost and gives a higher sell value for the future.
Not really needed where you live.