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The portable ones are often touch-only.

• dtgriscom 5y ago
  Guess: touch panels are cheaper, more reliable and more compact than physical knobs.
• happymellon 5y ago
  People are not replacing gas stoves with portable induction, surely.
  • technobabbler 5y ago
    FWIW the portable ones are great when you live in cheap apartments with shitty stoves. One of the few good investments I made in college...
    • happymellon 5y ago
      I have a portable induction for the vehicle, if I am camping in an emergancy it works great to boil water extremely fast. Though, as a student, if I lived in an apartment with a gas hob I don't know if I would have bought a portable induction unit to replace it.
      • technobabbler 5y ago
        How did you power it from the vehicle? Not from the 12V outlet, right? Don't those stoves draw hundreds of watts?