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California is investing a half-billion dollars to decarbonize homes for low-income households
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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Will they replace cheap aluminum cookware?
Is that that common in the US? In Europe, you have to dig deeply in some shady discount shops to find aluminium pots.
So, one of several reasons America didn't really adopt induction cooktops en masse until recently has been cookware. There were like 50 years there of trendy cookware, none of which is suitable for induction stoves. Just off the top of my head, you had:
It's only been within the last couple decades that most off the shelf cookware has had an iron plate bonded to the bottom to make them induction compatible regardless of their interior surfaces. This, along with the consistently low price of natural gas in the United States, has kept gas stoves relevant.
Read the headline.
My first set was aluminum, and I got it from IKEA
God damn Sweeds giving us Alzheimers
When I got an induction range, my nice All-Clad brand pots didn't work because they were mostly aluminum. That's not a cheap brand either.
They’ve since changed and All Clad works on induction.
Do you have a link? I'm seeing that only their cast iron collection is compatible.
All-Clad’s D3® Stainless, D5® Stainless Brushed, and Copper Core® are examples of collections that are engineered to deliver precise results on induction cooktops, thanks to their bonded stainless steel construction with a magnetic stainless exterior.
https://www.all-clad.com/blog/post/best-pans-for-induction-cooktop
Oh dang, that was a recent change then. I've had this range since before COVID, and I want to say they were D7 pans, but I don't really remember. It had a brushed exterior, and the magnet didn't stick to it at all.
Some grades of stainless steel is not magentic.
I use Allclad D3 l. It works just fine on induction
That sucks but I just got an induction and it is by far the best stove I've ever had. I can't believe people like gas to it's such garbage
Even a crappy Gas range is infinitely better than the shitty electric coil ranges. And that's what 99.9% of people have to compare. Most people have never used an induction range before.
I grew up cooking on an electric coil and recently now have access to a gas stove, and overall I find the gas stove has more downsides compared to the old electric coil. Technology Connections did a good video on the advantages of resistive coil stoves as well.
Yeah, my partner's mother has a professional grade gas range/ovens in her home kitchen, so he was wanting gas until I introduced him to induction. Now he's turned into an induction evangelist, haha.
I found out about induction because I got a soup pot back in the early 2000s that was marked on the bottom as induction capable, so I looked up wtf that meant, and wanted one ever since. My induction range came with a convection oven, which I've also wanted for forever, and that has an air fryer mode.
I only give it an 8/10 tho because it has touch buttons instead of knobs, so it doesn't always recognize my finger, but a drip of sauce will sometimes trigger it. Next time I'll find one with knobs.
Mine also has the convection oven with air fryer mode but I don't think it works all that great. That or air fryers aren't that great. I dunno, it's my only experience with air fryers
Oh, dang. This is also my only experience with air fryers, but mine works great. Never had crispier potatoes come out of my oven before.
I would still rather have a shitty coil one than use gas. Maybe if we had some regulations that required proper ventilation with gas stoves I'd feel better but that only seems to be the case in smart states like California