Mi Induction Cooker

[ebendl]

I seem to recall the peak is 1200W but hardly ever use it at full power.

Not sure I would use it to replace a kettle though.

Too slow?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Too slow?

Ag just not as practical for me personally.

But if it’s a case of scoring multifunction I can see the use case.

Haven’t timed it but would say it’s on par with my Bosch kettle for speed.

 

[mr_norris]

I just wanted to say that I was going to buy a snappy chef induction cooker until I came across this thread. Placed my order for my Mi cooker on Sunday night on the ebucks store. Should get it soon. My only complaint so far is that there was no 40% discount

 

[STORMERSFAN]

My question is.. Does it really use less electricity as advertised? Would like to invest in an induction plate.. Whether it be snappy chef.. Melleware or this one u guys are talking about

 

[Geoff.D]

My question is.. Does it really use less electricity as advertised? Would like to invest in an induction plate.. Whether it be snappy chef.. Melleware or this one u guys are talking about

Yes wastage is reduced. No waiting for a normal plate to get hot and no wastage afterwards while it gets cold. All heat energy generated is used for cooking.

 

[Snyper564]

So some questionable science bitches later.

Found that if setting temperature in the app there is the white area you cannot use so it’s either 80 or 110, guessing it’s where a second coil comes onto play.

So I pot the 18cm cast iron on the Chinese wireless magic thing and put 500ml of sunflower oil on it and set it to 80.

07:30:00 later and we got to 70 degrees.

To my surprise the piece of **** “instant” thermometer wasn’t too far off.

So it seems we are out by 10 degrees making me think the sensor itself is likely accurate but measures outside of the pan/pot and so there is a loss.

Or my thermometers are kak.

110 degrees on app and we get to 100 on the thermometers. 16:30:00 later. I proceed to moer the instant thing into the oil assuming it is now dead, but amazingly it still lives after a wash.

So far so good, 10 degrees is easily compensated for.

150 here we come. And 23 minutes from starting we sit at 130 and the instant is now more accurate after it’s near death experience.

190 on the app now maxed out and we just about edge over 170 at 30 minutes of wasting electricity for shits and giggles.

I fail to take a photo because I’m distracted by the Instant that taps out at 150 apparently.

So I turn the thing over manually all the way to 99 and give it another 5 minutes and we edge towards 175.

Granted given a bit more time it might have gotten a bit further but I think it’s proven that Big Hit’s issue with the koek that is fat might be a real issue.

Just for fun I more it over to the ceramic electric (no it’s not that dirty, it’s just a camera trick) and this happens in a minute or two.

However there is no way in hell it would have gotten to temperature from zero near as quickly as the induction would so there might be some logic in getting it up to temp with that and moving it over if you are serious about frying.

One thing is for sure, I need some of those fancy probe meat thermometers before I try this sous vide thing.

Just to add on this point, your manual thermometer is likely more curate here. The induction plate can mess with digital thermometers, I use mine for beer making and the probe moved towards the bottom of the pot and went from 67 to 47 then 80, this is a common issue

 

[Geoff.D]

I should have added in theory that is. And you also have to make sure the utensils used are suitable for induction heating.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Just to add on this point, your manual thermometer is likely more curate here. The induction plate can mess with digital thermometers, I use mine for beer making and the probe moved towards the bottom of the pot and went from 67 to 47 then 80, this is a common issue

Yeah I had a suspicion the induction itself would mess with it.

Even the analog if it’s too low in the pot and directly heated by the coil.

 

[Dolby]

Anyone know where to get one ?

Everyone says supplier out of stock, so worried that the chipset shortage has hit Xiamoi and I won't be able tog et for months

 

[backstreetboy]

Anyone know where to get one ?

Everyone says supplier out of stock, so worried that the chipset shortage has hit Xiamoi and I won't be able tog et for months

https://www.zasttra.com/products/original-xiaomi-mijia-2100w-99-grades-smart-induction-cooker-support-mihome-app-controlwhite?variant=20210375884922&sfdr_ptcid=30378_617_665477460&sfdr_hash=2d12fbcad43234b7f267ac8126266cd6

 

[pinball wizard]

Yes wastage is reduced. No waiting for a normal plate to get hot and no wastage afterwards while it gets cold. All heat energy generated is used for cooking.

So, better or worse than gas?

 

[Bighit]

So, better or worse than gas?

It's faster than gas, much faster.

 

[SauRoNZA]

So, better or worse than gas?

I find it much more granular and accurate than gas and equally fast.

Also no bottles to replace etc.

 

[Dolby]

https://www.zasttra.com/products/original-xiaomi-mijia-2100w-99-grades-smart-induction-cooker-support-mihome-app-controlwhite?variant=20210375884922&sfdr_ptcid=30378_617_665477460&sfdr_hash=2d12fbcad43234b7f267ac8126266cd6

Thanks.

Nothing local though

 

[pinball wizard]

I find it much more granular and accurate than gas and equally fast.

Also no bottles to replace etc.

Have you done a cost comparison?

 

[Dolby]

Cost aside, this may be easier for me and young twins / bottles :

@SauRoNZA am I right in saying that I can boil water in my electric kettle, and then transfer that boiled water to an induction kettle - and when it comes to night feeds, set to 37 degrees as a warm up ?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Cost aside, this may be easier for me and young twins / bottles :

@SauRoNZA am I right in saying that I can boil water in my electric kettle, and then transfer that boiled water to an induction kettle - and when it comes to night feeds, set to 37 degrees as a warm up ?

I wouldn’t bother with the kettle at all and just do it straight on the induction it takes much less time to just boil the water there.

Whether it will be that pin point accurate for low temps you’d need to confirm, but yes should be quite possible.

 

[SauRoNZA]

@Dolby lowest it goes is 40-degrees.

But this is at the sensor so likely water itself would be a bit lower.

Will have a quick test for you.

 

[Dolby]

Thanks !

Yea 40 degrees would be great as well.

Right now, we boil the kettle to kill off bacteria and with a night feed, sometimes we need to reheat ... so we sit with the switch and prematurely switch off. If it stopped at 40, that'd be magic. RIght now between them, and me / partner / nanny being at home we boil the kettle a lot of the time. This seems a good solution

 

[SauRoNZA]

Seems on power level 5 assuming my thermometer is reasonably accurate I get around 37 degrees.

Problem is you need to stir it as there is no motion in the water so I gave it a minute then stirred then another minute and stirred and then measured at the 3rd minute.

Quite honestly having raised two kids this doesn’t need to be such an exact science and was something we did by feel for many years.

Easier to figure out how long in a microwave gets the closest result and also can warm directly in the bottle then.

That being said we never used formula.