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Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

This event was on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 at 2:00 pm Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.

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Question:

Can you recommend a portable induction cooktop for trying induction cooking?

— Suzanne Gmirek

Answer:

I'm not gonna recommend a specific brand of one. There are a lot of great brands that are out there for them, but what I am gonna recommend for you if you're just trying induction cooking is to not spend a ton of money and go to your local restaurant supply store. And they typically will have, um, portable cooktops. The, I use ones that have like little gas burners all the time for doing cooking demonstrations, but they also do have induction ones. Now I'm telling you to go to a restaurant supply store because they're also going to have ones that are kind of like, you know, it's an introductory, uh, you know, type, uh, cooktop basically. So you're not gonna be spending a ton of money on it. Um, and you're also going to get a good representation of what it is because professionals are basically using these all the time. So they're gonna give you a good one, but it's not gonna be like the very top end one. It's not, you're not gonna be spending like, you know, four or $500 on this. It's probably more like 80 to a hundred dollars on that and that'll kind of be a good mid, mid-range induction, um, portable cooktop to be able to go. So that's what I would do is recommend going to your local restaurant supply and seeing what they have on those.
Dan Marek

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

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