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New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program (citylimits.org)
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[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

A 5 kW peak stovetop is already more power than anyone can reasonably use with the amount of space available on a standard stove. Literally the only useful thing you can do at full power is bring water to a boil, because no actual cooking can happen at full power unless your diet is carbonized food. I have a 3.5 kW stovetop and it's perfectly adequate.

After the first 15-20 minutes of cooking (bringing water to a boil while preparing some onions/garlic/sauce/seasonings) it gets very hard to keep using 1 kW. By that point you'll be leaving things on medium heat at most. I can't think of a single home-cooked meal that would require continuously drawing a full 2 kW from the stove for multiple hours, that's a truly crazy amount of energy. Even an oven at full blast won't use anywhere near 2 kW once it has reached 250 °C.