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by dminvs 1773 days ago
The fact that I was able to continue feeding my family hot food in the freezing cold 72-hour blackout in Texas! Big plus.

Electric or induction will never win me over unless I somehow end up in a house with a Powerwall.

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I went through the same TX freeze shitstorm too. Not a fun time.

I have a cheap 1500w portable induction cooktop I used for this exact purpose. On the lowest setting, it only pulls ~300W AC, so you can run it on the smallest of generators or portable power stations without any problems.

I have a 12,500W generator as well that could easily run my main induction range, but I reserved loading on this for making sure the furnace blower was moving. Didn't want to play games with fuel supply at the time.