Thermal Cooking FAQ
- the inner pot needs to be at least 80% full of food or water. Air is a poor conductor of heat so a pot filled with air instead of food will likely not have enough thermal mass to retain the heat to cook the food
Thermal Cooking FAQ
November 4, 2008 at 12:12 am
Hi there,
Can the inner pot be used on an induction cooker to heat up ??
November 4, 2008 at 9:04 am
Not all thermal cookers are made the same. Of the four different branded commercial thermal cookers I have only the Thermos brand passed the induction test where a magnet was able to stick and hold to the bottom of the inner pot.
The clad bottom on the Thermos inner pots are conductive and should transfer the heat to the rest of the pot. For some reason though, only the clad bottom of the inner pot is magnetic. I thought all stainless steel pots would be magnetic but I was wrong and found that out when testing the other cookers inner pots. Evidently the stainless steel which is used to make the inner pots have a high nickel content which makes them non-magnetic. Thermos by adding the clad bottom to their pots avoids the problem and should allow it to work with induction type stoves.