If you've wondering how much heat it outputs, ad states 1800W
a standard GE 6" calrod burner is ~1325 W; 8" is ~2350 W.
1800W is about 6000 BTU. a standard cooktop gas burner is 3000-5000 BTU
Yeah it'll do fine so long as the vessel on it has some iron in the base. All they did with the wattage was make it the typical max of 15A that many household circuits can handle, x 120V.
That may be the peak consumption but in tests people have done, some stay around 1400W to do things like heat water to a boil, but do it more efficiently than an electric burner (yet there is a DOE study that disputes the efficiency difference, showing both to be nearly equal). Then again they probably didn't use the same model of cooktop.
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a standard GE 6" calrod burner is ~1325 W; 8" is ~2350 W.
1800W is about 6000 BTU. a standard cooktop gas burner is 3000-5000 BTU
That may be the peak consumption but in tests people have done, some stay around 1400W to do things like heat water to a boil, but do it more efficiently than an electric burner (yet there is a DOE study that disputes the efficiency difference, showing both to be nearly equal). Then again they probably didn't use the same model of cooktop.
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