- Sales Rank: #17936 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Color: Black
- Brand: SPT
- Model: SR-964TB
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.48" h x
14.17" w x
11.81" l,
4.50 pounds
Features
- Touch-sensitive led panel with control lock
- Dual functions: cook and warm
- Up to 8-hour timer
- Automatic pan detection
- 7 power settings (100-300-500-700-900-1100-1300w) and 13 keep warm settings (100-120-140-160-180-190-210-230-250-280-300-350-390-degree f)
Micro-Induction Cooktop provides the best in cooktop performance, safety and efficiency. Induction heats as electricity flows through a coil to produce a magnetic field under the ceramic plate. When a ferromagnetic cookware is placed on the ceramic surface, currents are induced in the cookware and instant heat is generated due to the resistance of the pan. Heat is generated to the pan only and no heat is lost. As there are no open flames, inductions are safer to use than conventional burners. Once cookware is removed, all molecular activity ceases and heating is stopped immediately.
* The 2 lowest power settings cannot be actually achieved, but are "simulated":
100W = 500W intermittently heat for 2 seconds and stop for 8 seconds.
300W = 500W intermittently heat for 6 seconds and stop for 4 seconds.
Specifications
Input voltage: 120V / 60Hz
Power consumption: 1300W
Dimension (W x D x H): 11.81 x 14.17 x 2.48 in.
Net weight: 4.5lbs
Gross weight: 5lbs
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
A good value
By Max
My kitchen range is due for replacement. Before I decide on the purchase of a major appliance, I need to know how well I like induction cooking.I bought this little device so I could try electromagnetic induction cooking as an everyday experience. I'm very impressed at how well this cooktop performs. When cooking power is reduced, the response is immediate, as with a gas flame. The 1300 watt maximum is adequate for every need. A higher power burner may bring temps up more quickly but this is faster than gas or electric resistance.The range of power and temperature selections is adequate for every use, with the possible exception of very low temp operations such as melting chocolate or butter (haven't tried it, so don't know; but 100W, the lowest setting, is high enough to brew a pot of espresso, so it might be too powerful to simply warm without cooking).Cooks with a large collection of non-ferrous cookware may be disappointed but all my stovetop pots and pans are cast iron and stainless steel.My only complaint is that the plastic membrane that covers the control panel has developed a few blisters--or maybe that is a shipping cover that I'm supposed to remove(?)
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
False advertisement - no temperature control - no low power
By Frank M
The description states 7 power settings (100-300-500-700-900-1100-1300w) and 13 keep warm settings (100-120-140-160-180-190-210-230-250-280-300-350-390-degree f). I tested this unit with 2 different power meters and found the actual power to be ( 530 - 650 - 770 - 900 - 1000 - 1100 - 1250w). Even the lowest setting of 100w ( 530 actual watts) boiled 3 quarts of water in a 4 quart pot significantly and 1 pint of water in a 1 quart pot violently. Setting the unit at 180° F produced even more extreme boiling and power measured 630w (continuous). Reducing the temperature one position down to 160°F reduced power by 60% to 240w average (630w @ 36% on-time) and the temperature slowly dropped to around 150° F.This means there is no way to make this cooktop simmer without standing at the controls and switching between the 160° F and 180° F settings every few seconds. When I tried to cook barley soup, which normally takes 2 hours of simmer, even after 3 hours at the 160° F setting the barley was not soft. Had I used the 180° F setting the pot would've boiled dry in just a matter of minutes. To finish the soup I had to stand at the cooktop for a half-hour switching between 160° F and 180° F to prevent boil over.The manual doesn't actually state that this unit has a temperature sensor although the fault codes do list half a dozen codes for sensor errors. To see if it actually did measure the pot temperature, I lowered the temperature setting to 100° F at the end of the barley soup test ( without ever removing the pot) and measured 180 W average ( 630 W at 28% on-time). Later with a cold pot the power was still 180 W average. It was also 180 W average at 120°F and 140°F settings.The manual states that the temperature settings are only good to plus or minus 20°F, depending upon the size of the pot and the amount of food in it. This along with my measurements of constant power regardless of the actual temperature show that the on board microcomputer doesn't actually measure temperature but adjusts power based on a lookup table derived during prototype testing.If there was an actual temperature sensor which was malfunctioning then one of the half-dozen fault codes would have registered. If the sensor had come loose it would've drawn 630 W continuous at each of the 100° F, 120° F, 140° F, 160° F settings that I tested while it was waiting for the sensor to reach set temperature. When I tested the 100° F setting immediately after the barley soup cooking the entire base of the unit was over 100° so the cooktop should have drawn 0 W.I have returned this unit as my previous $10 1000 W countertop burner plugged into a light dimmer was far easier to cook with.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Impressive
By romur1
It took one pint of 40°F water to a rolling boil in 3 min 20 secs. On my natural gas stove it took 4 min 50 secs to reach the same rolling boil. Calculating the cost of electricity to natural gas by converting both unit costs to btu's, the induction cooktop cost 35.5% less to use than natural gas to do the same job.
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