Every year there is an event here in DC called the “Healthy Homes Fair.” It’s billed as “the largest consumer-facing home decarbonization and electrification event in the country.” The event has HVAC vendors, electric car companies, bike shops, govenment agencies and local non-profits. Last year my wife entered a drawing for a free induction cooktop & won! …and now we’ve upgraded our cooking at home from gas to electric and wrote up the experience for the folks at Electrify DC.
From the post:
Over the past few years we’ve been slowly electrifying our DC row house. Very recently we finally got to the stove. We switched out our gas range for a induction one, and it’s pretty great! It’s cliché, but the induction-uses-magnets magic is wild – it really does boil water faster. Cooking on it also heats the overall kitchen far less. I hadn’t really though about it before, but during the DC summers we’re very conscious of how our gas stove would make the whole kitchen hot. This just isn’t the case with the induction range. The heat is generated in the pot itself (magnet magic!) and the kitchen stays a lot cooler.
As I mention on the post, what really drove us to make the change was the measuring the indoor air quality of our house and seeing just how bad it was. We’re really happy to have improved that and pleasantly surprised about using the induction cooktop in general.