I've never used an induction stove, although I did have one demonstrating when I was rebuilding my house after the fire. I've become totally devoted to a gas stove with cast iron, carbon steel pans, and for a few things stainless steel pots. Nothing else seems as good.
Of course with all of the NG problems in Germany, the induction stove might be the way to go in case you can't get the gas.
induction is awful... click click click buzzzzz click click... i managed to almost destroy one enameled pot's enamelling with the element turned to full with nothing in it, so hot it melted the silica glass coating
gas > infrared > resistive > induction
induction has its uses but the problem of changing its voltage and the shitty solenoid switching that it requires and i'm pretty sure it is actually less efficient than both resistive and irfrared (halogen)
i have a carbon element silica tube heater... it's so frickin hot, if i turned it sideways i could fry eggs on it with a pyrex frypan
so, if you can't have gas, halogen is next best, everything else is really shit and annoying and unintuitive and inefficient
i don't even understand why they don't just have simple quartz/carbon like the old school heat lights, and you just need a good thick carbon coating on a steel pot bottom to absorb it and reflectors under neath it should be amazing... infrared permissive coating maybe so it doesn't look so bright but honestly the amount of heat that comes out of one of the foot long vertical carbon coils of my IR heater i don't understand why they don't use these with heavy pyrex pots for cooking, it would work perfectly, even the heat would penetrate directly into the opaque objects in your pot, instead of slow conduction and convection processes... maybe not so great for boiling, that probably is where gas is king
honestly though, there is not one type of electric cooking device i can honestly say that i like except maybe for grillers and again, those should be carbon quartz elements, they are so frickin hot lol
must be some reason why carbon coils in vacuum quartz tubes aren't used, but they would work so well i'm sure
I don't know anyone with a gas stove here. Wood stoves/ovens are more common.
