Portable Cooktops

[Anonymous No.10803186]

I have no fume hood in my kitchen so I'm looking for a portable cooktop/burner I can use outside for searing steaks and pan frying and other messy shit. The problem is there's barely any reviews or discussions online that I can research for these things. Anyone use one of these?

[Anonymous No.10803588]

>>10803186
you sound like a faggot trying to start a meme cooking youtube page

[Anonymous No.10803593]

Electric or gas.

If you must go electric, go induction. I see many there. Any other electric range will suck. But dont yo electric. Use gas. The cheapest would be a propane camping stove. I recommend butane though because it's easy to transport and set up, it's pretty safe and its powerful enough to sear. Walmart has a Coleman with a starter (if there's no starter you just use matches or a lighter) and it's less than $20. If not go propane, but that means a separate tank which is connected by a small pipe. With butane the tank lies inside the burner.

[Anonymous No.10803701]

>>10803186
How the fuck do you not have a hood in your kitchen? I’m pretty sure that’s a violation of a bunch of codes.

[Anonymous No.10803719]

>>10803186
I have a shitty hood that just vents above your head as a you cook (read: fucking nowhere). Just open your kitchen window you pussy.

[Anonymous No.10803729]

>>10803593
I strongly disagree. Butane is pretty shit tier heating. Induction is better. Liquid propane is betterest. But it really lies in the burner processing the gas. LP can pump out insane amounts of BTU, but is limited by the device that is using it.

>>10803701
>a violation of a bunch of codes
Wut?
Stay at the shallow end.

[Anonymous No.10803738]

>>10803588
Or, if you could fucking read, I sound like someone trying to cook food outside. Not my fault the buzzfeed faggots happen to use these too.
>>10803593
Thanks
>>10803701
I have a microwave that blows air above my stove but nothing that sucks the air up and out.
>>10803719
Have to turn off A/C and open kitchen window in the middle of summer while smoking up my house vs just leaving my A/C on while keeping 100% of the smoke, smell, and mess outside.

[Anonymous No.10803748]

>>10803701
>>10803729
>Wut?
>Stay at the shallow end.
That wasn't very kind, sorry.
Fire Department requires different ventilation and fire suppression systems for different heat sources. An electric or gas oven will need less ventilation (and fire suppression) requirements than an open flame stove. An open fryer will need even more.
Induction requires the least amount of ventilation. Mostly none. And mostly no fire suppression.
I'm using the term "mostly" because I know it changes state to state, country to country.
In my state no ventilation or fire suppression is necessary.

[Anonymous No.10803756]

>>10803748
>In my state no ventilation or fire suppression is necessary.
*for induction

>>10803738
>Have to turn off A/C
I hear you. I use my slow cooker and rice cooker outside in the summer. Also my gas grill. Hate heating up the house. You can buy the cheapo butane burners. They work. I'd go for an induction burner. They can crank out more heat.

[Anonymous No.10803766]

>>10803756
Ya I wasn't sure if I could get more heat out of a gas burner or induction burner. Haven't been able to find stuff online about that.

[Anonymous No.10804073]

>>10803766
https://importfood.com/products/thai-cookware/item/extremely-powerful-thai-gas-burner-with-stand
Unfortunately out of stock, but definitely look at BTU. They're right in saying a Wolf range will put out ~10,000 BTU. It might be a home range version, but that's pretty high. I have Southrange 8 burner in my prep kitchen that puts out 60,000 BTU. It will warp a dry cast-aluminum pan in a minute. Dangerous.
Check temps.
I like induction for home or ventless because you can set a temp. Recovery time is the issue, the time it takes it to recover from putting cold/room temp product into the cook surface to getting back to the temp it was set at.
Drunk, sorry: Say a fryer is set at 350F, and you drop 1 pound of frozen french fries into it. That drops the temp of the oil. How long does it take for the oil to get back to the 350F you have it set at? = recovery time.

[Anonymous No.10805724]

>>10803186
You would rather buy a $200+ stovetop than a $10 box fan to blow the smoke out? Are you legitimately retarded?

[Anonymous No.10805740]

if you go for induction get a 1800 watt

for outdoor use i'd go propane.. i have a 3 burner camp chef and it's the tits (pic related)

[Anonymous No.10805745]

>>10805740
it's 30 000 btu per burner btw

[Anonymous No.10805750]

>>10803186
If it's electric it will be worthless for searing. Not powerful enough.

Get a propane burner.

[Anonymous No.10805761]

>>10805750
induction is great for searing

[Anonymous No.10805771]

>>10803701
I don't have a hood, its fucking annoying, but it was a converted basement apartment and the kitchen is atleast next to my door

[Anonymous No.10805800]

>>10805761
It might be passable, but why settle? Gas is cheaper, can be used anywhere without long, unsafe, extension cords, and is far more powerful.

Assuming 100% efficency the most power you'll get out of a North American wall outlet is about 6000 btu. In Europe, or elsewhere with 240, you might get about 10k.

Even a cheap, low-end, camping type propane burner is three times that powerful. A "turkey fryer" sort is 10 times that. A nicer one would be even higher. Here's mine doing blackened catfish. 220,000 BTU.

[Anonymous No.10805815]

>>10805800
post the finished product otherwise we all know it's charcoal

[Anonymous No.10806300]

>>10805761
do you have a range or a portable cooktop? And did you have any problems with overheating? My main concern is that an induction cooktop won't be able to maintain searing temperature without overheating.

[Anonymous No.10806325]

>>10805740
Considering getting a single burner. I see people boiling gallons of liquid in these so I'm glad I won't have to worry about not getting enough heat.

[Anonymous No.10806353]

>>10805815
I don't have a finished product pic, sorry. Cooking time is only 45 seconds per side. It doesn't even look "black". Most people fail when they try to cook blackened fish because their heat source isn't powerful enough. they end up burning the food to fuck and back. When done properly the pan is so hot that the fish doesn't actually ever touch the pan. It skates across on a layer of vapor (liedenfrost effect) the whole time. Sadly, most people end up with a charred mess when blackening because of that. It's counter-intuitive, but if the pan isn't hot enough then it sticks and burns.

Lemme look, I might have a pic after the fish was flipped showing one side cooked.

[Anonymous No.10806392]

>>10806353
Here's a pic, post-flip. Flash was on in this photo so you can see the cooked side of the fish and the vapor from the liedenfrost effect.

That's what the fish would look like when served.

[Anonymous No.10806459]

>>10803186
My fume hood doesn't vent outside. I still smoke up the house nearly every day in the winter. I just open a window and turn on a ceiling fan. In the summer, I cook outside.

I don't recommend an induction top. Get a regular heating coil top since it will be more versatile for you.

[Anonymous No.10806799]

>>10806325
You can get a 110,000 BTU single burner for @ $40 on the internet. That's what I use for steaks and burgers with cast iron, and stir frys with a wok. It will get the cast iron white hot. Also brew 10 gallons of all grain beer with it.

[Anonymous No.10806850]

>>10803186
For me? It's the playstation 3.

[Anonymous No.10807065]

Buy one with a "auto shut-off" and induction. I don't have either.
Yesterday I went to bed and left a hot-plate like pic* on for 10 houres and it is a pain to clean.
BTW. After my mistake I found out Teflon can survive 200c? for a long time without any damage.

[Anonymous No.10807086]

>>10803186
Soy

[Anonymous No.10807111]

>>10807086
Asking for second best products does not make OP "soy".
Blue pill addiction makes men "soy".

[Anonymous No.10807384]

>>10807111
>that 19 year old boomer fresh off the boat from reddit

[Anonymous No.10807400]

>>10803593
keep in mind induction doesn't work on certain kinds of pans