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Induction is the newest cooking technology to come around in some time! Induction offers all of the benefits of gas cooking, with none of the drawbacks!

The secret of induction has actually been around in scientific laboratories for some time, but for other uses besides cooking. Excite a magnetic material with a magnetic field and you get heat. As long as you use cookware with a magnetic property, such as steel, iron or other magnetic material, the induction cooktop will transfer energy directly into the material and not into space or the surrounding cooktop. Some of the key advantages are:

FASTER - because energy is directly transferred within the pan metal, induction heating is extremely fast - even faster than gas!

SAFER - because there is no open flame, red-hot coil or other radiant heat source to ignite fumes or flammable materials. This also helps prevent burns in the kitchen.

CLEANER - because with no grates or carbon build-up to worry about, clean up is a breeze. Just use a damp cloth and wipe over the smooth, easy-to-clean ceramic glass surface.

COOLER - because gas ranges produce unused heat that goes into your kitchen, increasing your cooling costs. With induction, almost no wasted heat is produced since all the heat is being generated within the pan itself.

CHEAPER - because 90% of every dollar you spend on energy goes right into the pan! Gas delivers 55% of the energy you pay for to the pan and traditional electric about 65%. Plus, when you remove the pan from the induction surface, the unit immediately goes into standby mode, using virtually no energy whatsoever.

EVEN HEATING - because the magnetic material within the cookware heats at the same level uniformly, there can be no hot spots. The electronic monitoring pan maximizer feature allows maximum heating of any induction compatible pan. Even the least expensive pan will receive the same amount of heat energy from the Cooktek^tm cooktop.

Combine the physics with good technology as Cooktek^tm has and you get a great cooktop. Their temperature control microprocessor, just beneath the glass, allows you to set the temperature you wish to cook at. It monitors at 120 times per second and cycles itself on and off to maintain the desired temperature. Hands free cooking!