Zealux Kitchen Appliance

Zealux Induction cooker

There have been a great many trends in cooking and catering in general over the last 30 to 40 years. Indeed if we are honest there have been loads of trends in cooking philosophy in the last few millennia but what I really mean is that ever since the era of mass communication and new trends tend to emerge on a fairly regular basis.

However the interesting thing and the common thread to all of this is that no matter how known you all trendy (for want of a better description) the new styles or techniques are. The one thing they all have in common is that all of them have their roots firmly in tradition and in the past.

Traditionally cook tops or hobs are all broadly considered to effectively into two basic types. Firstly there are electrically powered cookers and the there are gas powered cookers. Again, this is very much a simplification in that in reality there are several very different methods of electronic heating. A lot of these actually have very little in common with each other the only main connecting theme is that they are powered by electricity.

As has been mentioned by the topical off the article cooking is the application of heat to food and in its simplest sentence this is provided by putting a saucepan or container on an electrical or gas hob (or inside an oven) and then heating the container or whole cooking vessel itself. This then transfers the heat to the food and the end result is that the food is cooked.

However there is a third method of cooking that is completely different from all other cooking technologies. This does not involve generating heat which is then transferred to the cooking vessel. It makes the cooking vessel itself the original generate two of the cooking heat. It is called cooking by induction.

In its simplest, the element of an induction cooker is a powerful, high frequency electromagnet with the electromagnetism generated by electronics in the element underneath the ceramic surface of the unit.

When a good-sized piece of magnetic material such as a cast iron casserole dish or a skillet is placed in the magnetic field at the element is generating, the field transfers by way of a process known as induction energy into that metal container.

He transferred energy causes the cooking vessel to heat up and become hot. By controlling the variables in the strength of the electromagnetic field we can then control the amount of heat being generated in the cooking vessel itself.

The really neat thing about this is that these variables can be changed virtually instantaneously.

So basically what induction cooking does “in a nutshell” is provide the Caterer or chef with the versatility and overall usefulness often only provided by an electrically powered cooker with the immediacy that is normally only associated with gas cooking.

This makes it a very useful technique to use Patti is quite considerably environmentally friendly. This makes it a powerful technique for any forward thinking caterer.