New Hot Plate goes hi-tech

A high tech hot plate with both speed and safety in mind.

Kids heading off to college who don’t want to spend all their money at the college commissary may want to check out this HiTech hot plate, known as the Fagor Portable Induction Cookstop.

Both Stylish and Safe

The Cookstop is more energy efficient and heats up faster than conventional coil hot plate models. But contrary to those coil models, the Fagor Induction Cookstop doesn’t heat the air around the heating element, thereby keeping inadvertent skin burns to a minimum (not to mention dorm room fires due to forgetting to turn it off).
Safe to the touch, the Cookstop needs a magnetic connection to heat.

The Cookstop needs a magnetic connection with posts and pans in order to complete a circuit and heat up the dish, so simply taking off the pot or pan will cause the Cookstop to simply pause in heating until the circuit is once again closed.
In addition to its safety features, the Cookstop heats far quicker. According to one reviewer, the Cookstop violently boiled a full post of water in under 5 minutes. But speed and safety aren’t just their only features, as the Fagor Portable Induction Cookstop has give different heating levels.
Cost is $200