Spending some time at my folks' place and using their glass-ceramic electric cooktop.

Let me tell you folks, once you start to get the brain nugget that gas stoves aren't that great you start to even appreciate bog-standard electric stoves.

It is so nice to be able to stir a simmering pot without the exhaust (!) flying around the pot and searing your hand a little.

And you know what? I even ran into that problem where you can't just turn the burner down because of the thermal inertia. Nearly had a pot boil over.

But upon reflection, I think I would rather get used to that then deal with the indoor air pollution. And, like I said, it is legitimately easier from a heat-on-skin perspective cook with an electric stove. That's kinda cool, actually.

@TechConnectify Yes, but induction is king.

@snazzyq I'm more excited about the potential for induction stoves with batteries in them, that way they can plug into a normal outlet, then I am about induction cooking itself.

I just... from the experience I had with my little single plug-in burner, I have enough stuff that either works poorly with induction or is really freaking loud for some reason that I think I might value the universal compatibility nature of standard electric more than the speed of induction.

@TechConnectify My induction burners definitely make some noise, but you forget about it once your pot of water boils in 90 seconds.

@snazzyq I'm not putting it past there being something wrong with my little burner, but the stuff I'm talking about was ear splitting.

Regardless, I get what you mean. But for me I think I would still classify induction as a luxury with a few compromises.

But I am a forever tortured midwesterner

@TechConnectify @snazzyq We had to stop going to our favorite hot pot restaurant because they replaced all the resistive table stoves with induction, and it's like being in a room with an army of howling banshees for me. I don't remember the exact numbers and can't seem to find the screenshot, but iirc it was an OSHA-violating dB level at something like 17-18kHz. Utter torture, because I can still hear those frequencies just fine. I hope to get induction for our house to replace our gas stove, but I'm going to need to be very picky about what we get. I'm hoping that someone like you will eventually tell everyone what causes the noise and how to avoid it!
@AGTMADCAT @TechConnectify @snazzyq this is probably something akin to the carrier frequency of a brushless DC motor (think battery power tools) or a bigger VFD (industrial stuff, EVs). It’s very much tunable at a few points in the design phase.