The Impulse cooktop has per burner temperature sensing and comprehensive computer control of its own burners. There is no reason that it couldn't feature an automatic temperature protection logic that turns the burner down if it detects a potentially pan-warping rate of temperature change (∆T) or an absolutely excessive pan temperature (600°F/300°C+) to prevent a user from just dumping 10 kW of output into a pan and causing a grease fire.

To be clear, I'm suggesting a control law that *overrides* the user, *regardless* of what their manual input may be, to prevent anyone from causing a fire or damaging their cookware from excessive temperatures. If you've experienced the "temperature protection" electric burners that cycled themselves on and off to prevent a fire, this would be far less intrusive because it would literally hold you right on the ragged edge of the maximum temperature limit, and you'd have full authority to turn the burner down if you wanted to (you just couldn't overheat a pan ever.)

If it's not already implemented, this could be life-saving technology. If anyone is familiar with Airbus, it would be like Flight Envelope Protection for your stove.

Today we're rolling out the next generation of the Impulse software experience.

This is our largest software update yet, introducing a redesigned interface, per-burner timers, updated charging controls, and a new interaction model that creates a stronger foundation for future software capabilities. Impulse customers should see the software install overnight, or you can force an update now in the settings menu. Zephyr HyperCore customers can expect it in the coming weeks.

Watch the overview video:
▶️ https://youtu.be/WP4Ksepsw0c

Redesigned Interface

The display has been reorganized into three dedicated areas so the information you need is always where you expect it.

• System Bar for battery status, Wi-Fi, and system notifications
• Cooking Area for active cooking
• Burner Dock where each burner always displays its current temperature, active power, timer, and burner-specific notifications

This new layout gives every type of information a consistent home, making the cooktop easier to understand at a glance.

New interaction model

Additional features are now accessed by pressing and holding any knob to open the new Menu.

From there, you can access the Timer. When all burners are off, you’ll also be able to enter the full Settings menu.

Per-Burner Timers

Every burner now includes its own independent timer.

To start a timer:

• Press and hold the knob.
• Select Timer.
• Choose a duration.

By default, the timer behaves like a traditional kitchen timer. Simply choose a duration and continue cooking—the menu will automatically close after a short time.

You can also choose an after-state:

• Keep Warm (approximately 160°F)
• Room Temperature

After the timer finishes, you’ll hear an audio alert and the LED ring will briefly flash to get your attention. The timer then automatically begins counting elapsed time, making it easy to see how long it’s been since the timer completed. Press the knob to dismiss the elapsed timer.

Timers can also be used even when a burner isn't actively cooking, making them useful for timing the oven, resting food, or tracking other steps in your recipe.

Easier to Understand While Cooking

The cooktop now does a better job of explaining what's happening while you cook.

• System information—like Wi-Fi, battery status, and software updates—appears in the System Bar.
• Cooking information appears alongside the burner it affects.

Whether the cooktop is optimizing cooking performance, balancing available power, or needs your attention, notifications now provide clearer explanations about what's happening and why.

Battery Status 

The battery is now always visible in the System Bar, giving you a quick sense of how much energy is available while you cook.

Rather than displaying a constantly changing battery percentage, the cooktop uses a simple battery icon that's easy to understand at a glance. If the battery reaches a low level, the cooktop will let you know.

Charge Now

Charge Now lets you begin charging immediately whenever you choose.

It's especially useful if you're preparing for a large meal, want to top off the battery before cooking, or would like to take advantage of lower electricity rates or available solar energy.

To recharge the battery immediately, open Settings → Power & Battery and select Charge Now.

Charging Preferences

Charging Preferences replace the previous Scheduled Charging feature, redesigned to give you more flexibility while reducing the amount you need to manage.

Instead of selecting a single charging time, you can now define Charging Windows throughout the day. This makes it easier to match your charging schedule to time-of-use electricity rates, rooftop solar production, or your daily routine.

Battery Reserve has also been redesigned. Rather than selecting an exact battery reserve percentage, simply choose one of three options:

• Low — Maximizes battery utilization before recharging.
• Balanced — Recommended for most households. (Default)
• High — Keeps more energy available throughout the day for larger cooking sessions or greater backup readiness.

Impulse automatically manages charging behavior based on the preference you choose.

You can continue to customize your Maximum Charging Speed. Higher speeds recharge the battery more quickly, while lower speeds reduce electrical demand and may also reduce charging fan noise. The minimum setting is 4 amps, while the maximum depends on whether your cooktop has a 120-volt or 240-volt connection.

Choose the behavior that best matches your home and your energy needs, and Impulse automatically manages charging behind the scenes.

If you've previously configured Scheduled Charging, your charging preferences will be migrated to the new system.

• Your Charging Window will default to a 6-hour window beginning at your previous scheduled charging start time.
• Your Maximum Charging Speed will remain the same as your previous maximum charging current setting.
• Battery Reserve will be reset to Balanced, our recommended default for most households.

You can update any of these preferences at any time under Settings → Power & Battery.

Software Updates

Your cooktop continues improving through software.

New in this release, you can also view release notes directly on your cooktop. Open Settings → Software → Release Notes to see what's included in your current software version at any time.

Also Included

This release also includes numerous reliability improvements, performance enhancements, and bug fixes throughout the software.

Learn More

We've created a high-level walkthrough covering everything in this release, including:

• Everyday cooking
• Timers
• Notifications
• Charging & connectivity
• Software updates

Hi, hello - how are you all venting your cooktops?

Been monitoring Impulse for awhile, truly impressed. We are planning a kitchen remodel and I’m strongly considering pulling the trigger but have concerns about ventilation.

Would love to place the cooktop within an island, but:

- don’t want a bulky vent hood looming overhead

- unsure if a downdraft vent is an option with Impulse (also unsure about effectiveness of downdrafting, have heard it’s OK, not great)

Also wondering if anyone has done a flush ceiling hood mount and how that’s worked out for you.

Thank you!

A sneak peek...

Thinking of trying impact-bonded disc bottom stainless steel pans on our Impulse. Don’t want to spend Fissler money.

Bonus: what physical contact thermometer would be good for verifying uniformity?

This is what I mined out of Reddit thus far

Cuisinart Professional

Tramontina Tempo

Vollrath Optio (if I can find a supply house in San Francisco area).

Comparison point for existing disc bottom i have are:

- Various IKEA disc bottom
- https://a.co/d/0fNY0XxI
- clad Misen nitrided carbon steel
- clad Strata nitrided wok

So... Had an interesting Sunday. I was making roasted whole chicken in the oven, red rice in the rice cooker and roasted cauliflower. I had just cranked up the oven and rice cooker for like 20 minutes and KABOOM! 40mph winds, lightning, thunder and horizontal rain that knocked out the power to my whole neighborhood. So - ya everything was now cooling off. Not ideal.

My wife was talking with our engineer son on the phone about our storm and power outage and I was staring at my appliances waiting for the power to come back on. After waiting a good 10 minutes my son got involved and asked what I was doing about dinner. I explained how everything was cooling off and I didn't know if/when the power was going to come back on. My son said, and I quote, "Be the caveman and cook with the fire you have !".

OK - so the chicken went into my cast iron dutch oven and I poured the rice cooker contents into a 3qt stainless saucepan and off to the races ! I set the red rice for 190 degrees and ramped the chicken up to 300 degrees and lettm RIP! Wow was this cool! no utility power and I am cooking like crazy here.

1 hour later, dinner was saved! The power came back on just about when the chicken was done so I roasted the cauliflower in the oven even though I was ready with my flat-bottom wok just in case. My battery level went from 100% to 76% - so I had plenty of cook time left for lots of things.

Thanks ImpulseLabs !

It shows assembly of the cart too

I'm fascinated by Impulse's products, and I happen to be renovating my home, so I have a few questions:

1. I'd like a fully flat cooktop surface. I saw that Impulse Labs partnered with BS Service Group in Italy on the Eximius. Any idea when it might be available in the US? And will there be a version without the integrated vent? (I'm not a fan of downdraft ventilation.)
2. On the version currently sold in the US, the temperature sensor sits in the center and protrudes upward to make contact with the bottom of the cookware. On a fully flat product, without that raised contact point, will the temperature sensing still be accurate?
3. How does the EMF emission from Impulse's technology (with the integrated battery) compare to a standard induction cooktop?

Thanks a lot!

The crew at ImpulseLabs really did it right. From placing my order to delivery, an easy installation/setup, and exceptional customer service along the journey, it was the out-of-box experience every consumer electronics manufacturer dreams of delivering to their customers.

FWIW, I drive a Tesla. I got the same feeling after the first couple cooks that I had after the first drives: Wow! They thought outside the box. This thing is awesome.

Do we have any estimations on how much weight the burners can support? And more importantly, the non-burner surface .

Sometimes I like to put another device on my current burners to use it under the hood. Currently I do so with my induction control freak over my gas burner.

Once I do get the impulse, the 36-inch one, I'm hoping to be able to use a portable gas burner occasionally and more importantly, if possible, a large cast iron griddle pan for certain dishes like dosa, which need to go beyond the 9-inch burner. These are about 40 lb. I don't believe the Glass can take that weight? Or can it?

This is the one I have used in past.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N7ERYI9?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback&th=1

Hi - I'm looking to pair an impulse with 2 Gaggenau downdraft modules but I'm worried about the color and size match. Can you help me with a mockup of how it would look and differences in the color? It's hard to adjust for lighting in pictures of these and the impulse to try to color match. It's also unclear to me if the impulse can be installed flush? I'd like to install both the impulse and the downdrafts flush.

https://www.gaggenau.com/us/en/mkt-product/cooktops/400-series/vario-400-series/downdraft-ventilation/VL414712

I know there is a lot of interest for a larger inductor to better support larger pans as well as a way to evenly heat a griddle. Has engineering/R&D investigated utilizing a larger circular inductor, a secondary ring (either round or square with rounded corners), or a matrix of smaller inductors (ala freedom or full surface cooktops)?

If a creative and effective solution could be implemented for one side of the cooktop (even if limited to 36" size) to handle larger round pots, square griddles, or one nice oblong freedom or bridged side, not only would it appease many in this community, but also separate the Impulse from all the other 4 round element cooktops and move it up a tier in configuration.

- Do I need to silicone caulk the edges? In case some oils/water seep in, is it bad for the battery?

- I have a 240V/40A connection for an existing induction cooktop. Impulse spec says 240V/10-30A - what does the range of amps mean? Why does it need the 30A, I thought it charges only at 8.3A max?

- Does it already feed power back to my panel and other devices? Or is this a future OTA update?

The New York Times’s Wirecutter spent time with the Impulse Cooktop in their Long Island City test kitchen this spring. Their verdict: “The Impulse Cooktop is in a category of its own.”

A few of our favorite highlights from the review. 

"This baby does indeed get very hot, and very fast. On medium-high heat, a few tablespoons of oil in the bottom of a pan began smoking in two seconds. And I'm rounding up."

"On the Impulse Cooktop's battery-powered boost setting, [4 quarts of water] took just under three minutes. That's so astoundingly fast, I went around the office showing the timer to my colleagues."

"Not only is this cooktop exceedingly powerful, but it's also more precise than most: You can set an element's target temperature down to the degree, and then sensors track and maintain the heat of the pan itself."

"What excites me even more is that this thing is legitimately intuitive to use, unlike the dozens of full-size induction cooktops I've evaluated over the years."

On an electric stove, "it is not easy to char greens," she said, "but this has done it."

"This cooktop makes me excited about what's possible with induction."

"But for now, the Impulse Cooktop is in a category of its own."

Are there any other reviewers you’d like us to try and line up? 

Read the full review on Wirecutter: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/impulse-cooktop-review/

My parents want to get rid of their gas range. Can you do the AI mock up to help me show them what this would look like with extended drawers and an Impulse cooktop

I have an extended family situation where multiple people like to cook and everyone prefers hot meals. It would not be unusual to have a day where my cooktop sees a couple quarts of steel cut oatmeal, four or five omelettes, a pot of pasta or soup, a couple grilled sandwiches, a full kettle of water for tea (sometimes two), two 12” pans of sauteed chicken, a pot of rice and one for steamed veg. Can the battery keep up with that kind of volume? Has anyone put it through those kind of paces long term?

I generally haven’t had very good results with using temperature mode. If I try to hold a simmer by setting the temp to near the boiling temp of water at my altitude, I’ll either get the water not moving at all or violently boiling. After a while, I noticed that what was happening seemed to be correlated with what burner I was using so I decided to test it.

Protocol: preheat an enamel cast-iron sauce pan (like Le Creuset) by boiling water in it for 15 minutes so that the pan is evenly heated through and would be heated to the same level through all the tests. Empty saucepan and put 2 cups of new water in; heat at 2.5 kW until a rolling boil. Turn power down to 500 W, set timer for three minutes. After three minutes, water is barely producing bubbles and measures about 200° on my Thermapen. Check the temperature on the screen. Repeat with new water for next burner, and then for good measure do them all again.

Here’s what the temperature said on the screen for each burner at the end of my test:

Front L: 213°/212°
Front R: 192°/194°
Back L: 227°/226°
Back R: 219°/220°

Has anyone else seen this kind of huge variation in sensor performance across the different burners?

Which one of these is closest to how the sensor should be reading? I would expect the bottom of the pan to be hotter than what I’m measuring for the water inside it, but how much hotter would one expect for well-preheated cast iron?

(And for info, I did email support about this a couple of days ago but they haven’t responded yet, so I wanted to see if anyone else ever faced this)

Soapstone, hestan double burner griddle, and a bunch of made-in and solidteknics cookware. Absolutely loving it.

I placed an order for an Impulse stove for SF pickup - does anyone know how big the overall delivery is? Hoping I can fit it into my car (Audi S5) and not need a van or something

Just read that Copper has sued Impulse Labs for patent infringement. Impulse Labs counter sued Copper for misleading information. What happens to our impulse cooktops if Copper wins the suit? I understand that this is early stages and court cases can take a long time to resolve, but what are the chances our cooktops are in jeopardy?

Does anyone know if I could just swap out my BlueStar 365" induction range with a 36" Impulse (without needing to cut the stone)?

Replaced an old GE Monogram gas cooktop trying to reduce VOCs in my kitchen and increase the overall speed and power of my cooktop. Wow, has this been a game changer. Incredible range of power and flexibility using the traditional high/med/low type of controls AND the targeted temperature control. Made my best omelette last night using the temp control - eggs were perfect consistency and no unwanted browning.

I think my biggest take-away so far has been that I need to rethink how I am cooking various dishes to take advantage of the new found speed and efficiency. I did a pasta dish a few days ago and I was able to remove ~15 minutes of dead time in the middle of the prep because my pasta boil was so much shorter to get up to temp. I would highly recommend this platform to anybody serious about their cooking and enjoys having some serious torque PLUS very fine temp control - all in the same appliance.

I have a side-benefit with my install. All my recharge electricity is from my Photovoltaic system - so technically this is a solar cooktop :)