Kitchen Appliances
Induction Cooktops
Wattage and preset-menu counts get the headlines, but what decides whether an induction cooktop is still working in year two is duller: a cooling fan that stops it overheating, surge protection for an unstable line, and a brand that will actually service the coil when it dies.
Induction cooktop reviews
How to choose an induction cooktop in India
The induction aisle is a wattage and preset-menu shouting match - 1800W, 2000W, “8 Indian menus”, “auto idli”. Almost none of it predicts whether the cooktop survives. Most Indian cooking sits between 1200 and 1800 watts, and nobody who owns one uses the preset menus; they pick a power level by hand. What separates a cooktop you still use in year three from one that throws an E6 error and dies by month eight is duller, and it isn’t on the box: whether there’s a cooling fan to shed heat under a long cooking session, whether the board can take a voltage surge, and whether the coil can be serviced when it fails.
That last part matters more than buyers expect, because this is a high-failure category - the recent reviews on almost every model are full of boards dying in months, fans seizing and control panels going dark. So we weight a real service network and the handful of models with genuine multi-year owner track records over the spec sheet, and we keep the true-induction-versus-infrared distinction front and centre, because the two are sold under the same search and cook nothing alike.