Discuss “How Things Work: Magnetic Induction Cooktops”

When making dinner, do your ingredients come in microwave-ready pouches? Do you prepare dinner in 30 seconds or less? If so, then stop reading. You’re not welcome here.

To the aspiring Food Network personalities out there, I’ve got the secret to great cooking: heat. While everyone enjoys salads and no-bake cookies, there is nothing quite like a warm, well-cooked meal. Things haven’t been the same since the extra-crispy rotisserie mammoth.

In the modern kitchen, the stove has become the tool of choice for our cooking needs. Stoves have a simple goal: convert a readily available form of energy into heat and transfer it to the food. Today’s most readily available sources of energy are electricity and natural gas. But how is that heat...