High-quality induction cooktop

Hello, today I had my new Lidingo kitchen in ivory white assembled and installed and now I have a Högvärdig induction cooktop. Previously, I had a ceramic cooktop. Now my question: am I allowed to use my old pots that I used for the old ceramic cooktop also for the new Högvärdig induction cooktop or do I have to buy completely new pots and pans, etc.? That would be an expensive matter since the current "old" pots are still in very good condition.

Stainless steel pans and pots work, aluminum does not. The cookware must be magnetic because the induction cooktop generates a magnetic field. Just take a magnet, wherever it sticks is okay, you can discard all the other pots.

Best regards
Nordkäppchen

Hello!

It mainly depends on the bottom of the pots and pans.

So a great, expensive stainless steel pan (Oben) from earlier, pre-induction years can indeed (Unten) have a bottom that is not suitable for induction. The tip with the magnet is absolutely correct. If the bottom is magnetic, then it works on the induction cooktop.

You can also simply put the pot on it, if it gets warm then ouch, okay, if cold, then dispose of it, give it away, or practice pot throwing.

By the way, once you have learned to love the advantages of induction, you don't care at all about having thrown good old pots into the abyss. There is no going back!

Photocat

Thank you Nordkäppchen and Fotokatze. The old pots did not pass the magnet test. Now I have to order new pots. Tonight I will cook something with the frying pans, they passed the test well!