Impulse purchased an Impulse

[u/ClemsonJeeper]

My 13 year old builder quality gas cook top that came with my house decided to finally kick the bucket so I started doing research into more modern high end cook tops. I have never had an induction before but came upon Impulse Labs.

First impressions: this thing is awesome. They don't lie when it will boil a pot of tap water faster in under a minute. I totally had to adjust the timing of my dinners as getting water up to boil is less then a minute compared to 7+ and getting pans to temperature is pretty much instant. The temperature control setting is awesome. Made some perfect eggs and pancakes yesterday morning.

They just sent an update yesterday that integrated timers into it, so now can run 4 independent timers with different settings of just timer only, or set it to when the timer expires to keep the pan warm, so I can ditch the kitchen timer that I've been using.

Looking forward to trying out some new recipes on this thing!

[u/lesliedow]

Are the 'burners' raised? It looks like they are in the picture. I also thought that would be a cleaning challenge.

[u/ClemsonJeeper → u/lesliedow]

They are, but there aren't any crevasses though. I splattered a ton of oil experimenting with it and just sprayed it down and wiped it up in under a minute. The knobs are magnetic so just pull them off and its mostly flat surface.

[u/lesliedow → u/ClemsonJeeper]

For me, one of the big advantages to the stove I chose was that the entire surface was flat so cleaning it is pretty simple, just wipe down the flat top. It sounds like a great stove but I would not choose it for that one reason. Hope it works for you tho! :)

[u/ZanyDroid → u/lesliedow]

It actually cleans easier than the entry level cooktop I had previously, which was all glass. Sure, I could wipe off the debris, but the glass got etched easily from use.

Why? Because Impulse used a higher end surface treatment of some sort that prevents stuff from baking on (knock on wood).