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4 hours ago, palo said:

I have a Max Burton ProChef-3000.

3000 watts - 220volts commercial unit NSF certified 9 inch cooking coil - approx $400 when I bought it more than a few years ago

I can take the pan off the cooktop, go the the sink, add some water, replace the pan and it continues to cook - I don't know if the power decreases when the pan is off the cooktop but it doesn't turn off and just resumes cooking.

 

As mine is an older model it does not have a temperature probe but the newer models do

 

I would add this to anyone's shopping list for a high-power induction stove for residential use or commercial use (comes with a 1 year warranty for both commercial and residential use)

 

With induction, the heat transfer can only happen when there's a pan on (or near, in the case of Vollrath's 4-series) the surface of the cooktop.  Induction cooktops generally don't heat the cooktop surface; instead they heat the pan/pot sitting on top.  This is not too dissimilar from how wireless chargers for phones work.

When you take the pan off the cooktop and go to the sink, the induction coil basically shuts down while you're away momentarily.  Then when you return the pan to the cooktop, your cooktop is smart enough to detect the pan and start transferring energy again (i.e. resume cooking).

I just realized that the $400 you were quoting is probably CAD, not USD.  I don't know what the exchange rate was a few years back on that unit.  Today's price on that unit at Amazon.com (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) is 250 USD, so that sounds like quite a nice high-power induction cooktop at that price point.  It seems like you chose well for your application :)

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4 hours ago, palo said:

I have a Max Burton ProChef-3000.

3000 watts - 220volts commercial unit NSF certified 9 inch cooking coil - approx $400 when I bought it more than a few years ago

I can take the pan off the cooktop, go the the sink, add some water, replace the pan and it continues to cook - I don't know if the power decreases when the pan is off the cooktop but it doesn't turn off and just resumes cooking.

 

As mine is an older model it does not have a temperature probe but the newer models do

 

I would add this to anyone's shopping list for a high-power induction stove for residential use or commercial use (comes with a 1 year warranty for both commercial and residential use)

 

With induction, the heat transfer can only happen when there's a pan on (or near, in the case of Vollrath's 4-series) the surface of the cooktop.  Induction cooktops generally don't heat the cooktop surface; instead they heat the pan/pot sitting on top.  This is not too dissimilar from how wireless chargers for phones work.

When you take the pan off the cooktop and go to the sink, the induction coil basically shuts down while you're away momentarily.  Then when you return the pan to the cooktop, your cooktop is smart enough to detect the pan and start transferring energy again (i.e. resume cooking).

I just realized that the $400 you were quoting is probably CAD, not USD.  I don't know what the exchange rate was a few years back on that unit.  Today's price on that unit at Amazon.com is 250 USD, so that sounds like quite a nice high-power induction cooktop at that price point.  It seems like you chose well for your application :)

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