Induction adapter plates (for tightwads / "sensible" people)

[Mr Gus]

I may have covered this elsewhere, but due to silly money "inertia" kept my purse closed tight..

https://www.bialetti.com/it_en/piattello-induzione.html (£22 on Amaz--)

Sometime ago I was looking for a converter for my bialetti (aluminium) in order not to junk needlessly good, otherwise viable kit.

Yes, we could argue loss of efficiency in transfer etc, (and you lot will ) the branded converter was an eyewatering 3x what I paid for the pot new, ..onna deal obviously at around £22 mark

Suffice to say whilst washing soft plastic for recycling yesterday I got my plastics drying bag out to wham some conservatory heat & hasten the process, the bags were hooked onto my now dusty bialetti espresso maker which I glare at now & again.

Looked around today, found this, agreeable price, considering all the fecking analon we possess a try before you repurpose effort is needed.

£6 instore

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/ikea-365-g ... -50175276/

Anyone got one to comment on it? i'm busting for a non wbs cuppa caffeine goop now & again.

[Stinsy]

I may have covered this elsewhere, but due to silly money "inertia" kept my purse closed tight..

https://www.bialetti.com/it_en/piattello-induzione.html (£22 on Amaz--)

Sometime ago I was looking for a converter for my bialetti (aluminium) in order not to junk needlessly good, otherwise viable kit.

Yes, we could argue loss of efficiency in transfer etc, (and you lot will ) the branded converter was an eyewatering 3x what I paid for the pot new, ..onna deal obviously at around £22 mark

Suffice to say whilst washing soft plastic for recycling yesterday I got my plastics drying bag out to wham some conservatory heat & hasten the process, the bags were hooked onto my now dusty bialetti espresso maker which I glare at now & again.

Looked around today, found this, agreeable price, considering all the fecking analon we possess a try before you repurpose effort is needed.

£6 instore

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/ikea-365-g ... -50175276/

Anyone got one to comment on it? i'm busting for a non wbs cuppa caffeine goop now & again.

IMO this is a waste of money! Just get some nice cast-iron pans. The cooking experience is so much nicer than aluminium and they last forever and used ones can be picked up cheaply.

[Mr Gus]

Cast iron is generally too heavy for the wife, she loves her analon of which we have 2+ sets ..so £6 as an experiment "get you by" might be the solution to thin out but save some (we have 4 induction capable now, just counted) but the bialetti & the bialetti crepe pan i'd be pished to lose.

I did have a full set of le creuset but sold it onward at a handsome profit, i'd spend too many hours cursing its non dishwasher capability & long cooking stains ...so flogged on my "aga years" kit & rack I miss the old orange fry pan especially.

With the other forms of cooking a large chunk of pans are outmoded regardless of induction capable or not, so this is a bialetti saver (2 items) in principle & to be able to assess keep & go of other kit, like my big stock pots & analons the wife has butchered (knife marks)

Plus the walk in larder doesn't have room for pan hangers that hold the weight of a dozen cast iron bad boys (really bad if they come down) & the wife & I are short arses so they have to be lower level.

[Gareth J]

You just need a ferrous thing. For your bialetti, a stout steel or cast iron disc will work. You could make it yourself out of some scrap with little more than a vise, hacksaw and file. An old induction compatible pan base could be a sensible source. Or you can buy laser cut discs from eBay. But yea, if the IKEA on works, why not!

[Andy]

The Ikea thing is made of silicon so won't heat up at all on an induction hob. It's made to stick to the bottom of cookware that works on an induction hob.

[Moxi]

Mr Gus,

Andy is correct this is a pot stand or base to protect worksurfaces from a hot pan, you need an induction hob adapter plate and they are all around the 20 quid range but as others have said you can make your own from anything ferrous just make sure its flat and no sharp edged to scratch the hob surface or cut fingers. The cost of the finished products is usually because they are made from stainless, have a ground edge profile and a lifting attachment for a handle.

I have contemplated one of the many offerings from Amazon simply because some of our pan bases are a bit on the small side and the wife gets very annoyed when the hob alarms to tell her the pan isn't centred, for my part I think the hob is quite ballsey, I haven't felt sufficiently empowered to correct in her on anything in all the years we have been married.........

Moxi

[Mr Gus]

Bugger, must have skim read ...damn, re-checking ikea for alternatives they have nothing, ah well cheers ladsl

Back to web trawling I go, ..tempted just to cut up an ikea saucepan at this rate!

[Gareth J]

Plenty of laser cut steel disc options on eBay. Won't break the bank but, without welding a handle on, might be a bit fingertip burny to pick up when hot.

[Windbag]

Induction pans don't have to be heavy. Enamel works, as does a lot stainless,but not all.

Test: if it holds a magnet it works on an induction hob.