Looking for a Very Large Cooking Plate

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Hi,

I’m looking for a single cooking plate like this , but with a much larger diameter. The diameter should at least be 30-35 cm, but I strongly prefer 45+ cm. Everything in Amazon is around 20cm.

Do I have a chance, or there is a technical limitation here?

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Are you looking for something that can handle a pot/pan of 40cm? That's pretty large. I suspect you are getting into the commercial realm at that point. At that level price and power requirements will likely increase. Power consumption may be significantly higher and also the construction quality enhanced to support cookware of that size and weight. Did you try restaurant/catering supply?

I like to cook on a wok with very high heat. Since my house doesn't have a commercial hood and exhaust system, I used to do it outdoors with a large propane burner. Not sure if that idea could would work for your application or not.

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Thanks. We already have the propane burner. I am wondering if there is any chance of having the same thing but with electricity as power source :/

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Many of those hot plates just don't put out enough heat for large pots.

I used one for distilling around 5L from a 30L solution, well actually I attempted to use it, it could hardly put any heat in. I switched bad to a gas ring afterwards.

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You need to go industrial/professional and with this, you won’t get a cooking toy thing like a ceramic hob - you’ll need induction or, as mentioned before, gas.

The technical limitation would be the power requirements for a larger, more powerful hob.

This 28cm one needs 400V.

Smaller induction hobs can take bigger pans but the heat won’t go to the edges so well.

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26cm 280 CHF

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"Suitable for cooking pots and pans with 12-26cm Ø" :<

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Get a smaller diameter but deeper pot?

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I have similar one from CASO, TC 3500 Thermo Control

I bought as I need it from time to time. Few things:

  • you can for sure use bigger pots than 28 cm
  • it works ok if you are boiling etc, but not if you are frying, as the coil is smaller diameter, ca 25cm? Or, let’s say, it depends on the thickness of the pot/pan bottom
  • it doesn’t work with smaller pots
  • the maximum power is on the verge of usual/older Swiss wiring!!!

I am all the time searching for an induction with bigger coil but outside of the very expensive/specialized professional equipment I didn’t find anything. Sadly I cannot justify it (yet)

if you are in a hurry, you can borrow mine to test it, I am in Luzern.

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OP's plate linked appears to use 2kW. Increasing the hot area from 20cm to 35cm diameter would triple the area. An ordinary plug behind a 10A fuse with 230V produces up to 2.3kW, not enough to go significantly larger than 20cm without reducing max output per area.

With 16A (the fuse for my oven as well as a 2nd one for the dishwasher socket/plug) and 230V the limit is 3.7kW. Not sure what 400V (for higher output) would require (thicker cables?), but it's unlikely to be inexpensive.

ETA:

nejc's plate produces 3.5kW, that may be the limit for normal household wiring (unless more recently built homes allow for higher output? No idea).

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I've seen an ad recently for a normal-looking cooktop that allowed the pan to be placed anywhere on the normally looking 60x60cm glass-ceramic top. I didn't memorize any details, but a quick Google suggests it may have been for "Siemens Vollinduktion". Expect it to be eyewateringly expensive though, and the output is probably still limited to 3.7kW

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Flexform Induction Plates should do that.

In any case, 400V is a must.

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No, cable thickness depends on current, not voltage, so 16A 230V uses the same wire as 16A 400V.

However, it uses two phases (230V P-N, 400V P1-P2)

Tom

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I’ve used these propane burners before for cooking outdoors for sixty people (this exact model). They can be used for 120Kg pots!

30L is nothing for them.

I know Italians you use them for cooking down tomatoes to make passata to feed the whole village all winter.

60 Euros (from Greece) with a quick google! But you can buy them in other places.

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