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Our battery completely changes that equation. Whether it's hooked up to a 120V or 240V connection, our battery charges gradually while you're not using it. Then, when you're ready to cook, it can quickly release the power it's stored up to achieve astoundingly high performance. We're talking 72,000 BTU/h. Compare that to 18,000 for the best gas stoves.

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[–] silence7 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, it's an instant-boil capability.

If they made a wok version of the stove, it would allow something equivalent to commercial-kitchen stir-fries.

The big deals for most people are:

  • the battery means you can run the stove off a 120v connection and avoid the expense of rewiring a kitchen built for gas
  • You get the ability to cook ~~for a week or so~~ during power outages
[–] poVoq 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Apparently the battery is only good for "three meals". But the idea is not bad, just overpriced a lot.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How many meals are you cooking consecutively, lol?

Edit: ah, you're talking about during outages. Still, 3 isn't bad. It would be cool if it was set up to charge off DC power, too

[–] SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

This looks like something I can put on top of my gas stove, so I could have gas as a backup still.

[–] silence7 2 points 10 months ago

That's down a lot from what was proposed earlier when they first announced

[–] thisfro 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don't know about the costs, but isn't rewiring cheaper in the long run?

[–] jadero 2 points 10 months ago

That's what I was thinking. My place isn't wired for 240v. I was initially excited. Then I saw the price and converted to Canadian dollars. It's been a while since I've priced it out, but I think it would be less expensive for me to put in 240v, get power to my shop, and buy a used electric stove. Obviously, I wouldn't have induction, but that's not something I actually care about.

[–] silence7 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not if the stove (and its battery) last for several decades. Even with the higher cost of this stove as compared with other induction stoves, it's likely a cheaper choice for 10% to 20% of US households looking to get off gas.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Show me a battery that lasts decades..

[–] silence7 -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A lot of the EV batteries are likely to last 20+ years.

[–] thisfro 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean with "last" exactly?

[–] silence7 1 points 10 months ago

I mean retain about 70% of their original capacity. Most of them seem to be holding up to that.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Blatantly untrue

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Appliances that run on higher voltages are more efficient. You may lose out on energy costs

[–] silence7 2 points 10 months ago

It's a stove, which is usually a very small chunk of household energy consumption in the US. Heating and cooling tend to be the bulk of it, and where people concentrate on efficiency.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how induction will ever be compatible with wok cooking. A huge part of it is keeping food moving by tossing it, and you would loose most of the heating by pulling the wok off the element

[–] silence7 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There are induction wok ranges for sale, and from what I can tell people are happy with them.

[–] LilNaib 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As an additional (future) option, I love the idea of creating biochar, capturing the resulting syngas, and purifying the syngas for use as a plug-and-play alternative to propane compatible with their existing cookware.

I think this is sound from ecological and social standpoints. Propane is basically a byproduct of fossil fuel refinement, and as that goes away, so too, will propane, leaving behind a ton of wasted cookware etc. including the embodied carbon in its manufacture. By replacing the propane with another gas that's a byproduct of sequestration rather than fossil emissions, we save the embodied carbon and financially incentivize sequestration, while the people with cultural attachments to gas cooking can continue on.

[–] silence7 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Syngas is wildly more poisonous than methane or propane. Going to have a tough time getting people to pipe that into their homes.

[–] LilNaib 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hence why I said to purify it, and I only mentioned propane in the context of cooking, which is virtually if not always off-grid, so no piping.

[–] silence7 1 points 10 months ago

Syngas is a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Purifying it doesn't solve the major risks associated with having a lot of carbon monoxide around

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, looks like it's dedicated curved ranges with a corresponding wok; that makes sense.

[–] JacobCoffinWrites 1 points 10 months ago

Now I'm picturing it with a switch that detects when the wok leaves the induction element and turns on a heat gun instead