So I'm walking around the flea market with a magnet, looking for cookware..

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6. Update on the induction cooking experience..

Succinct version: I love it!

Verbose mode: I particularly like the temperature control mode, it allows you to warm things without having a burnt-to-carbon layer on the bottom even if you become distracted and forget to stir for an hour or three too long.

I can actually have a couple of cups of water boiling away in the kettle and put my hand on the cooktop right next to it and it's barely warm. One cup of cold water in my room temperature moocow teakettle and ninety four seconds after I turn the power on I can pour boiling water, seriously efficient and powerful.

I found some more cookware, I have a small cast iron fry pan I got for $5 at a thrift store, that one is just about perfectly seasoned now, just wipe after cooking and it's clean. Also a large cast iron fry pan I haven't been able to season yet, it won't fit in my toaster oven so I'll have to do it somewhere else, $8 for that one. A small covered saucepan for $4.95 at Goodwill that's a bit on the thin side but the temperature control makes it more usable than it would be otherwise. I also found enameled steel cooking pots in medium and pretty big sizes with lids for a total of $2.25 along with some other stuff at a thrift store.

A large pot of water put on temperature control at 250 F makes a great way to warm and humidify my place at the same time, I keep a small fan going to circulate air so the warmth doesn't stagnate under the ceiling, I have dry skin on my hands and the humidity really helps.

Now that it's starting to warm up and I've had the AC on I can really tell the difference, cooking before would raise the temperature and make the AC noticeably work on a longer cycle, now I can't tell the difference when I'm cooking and not, the place stays much closer to the same temperature, my little microwave heats it up more.