GUANGZHOU, China, June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- "I felt it was inconvenient and inefficient to cook with an induction cooker before, but it is actually more cost-efficient than cooking with gas, and also provides delicious meals without cooking fumes on hot days, making it a clean and economical cooking tool," Ms. Zhang who bought a Midea induction cooker recently said. Induction cookers, with their invisible flame, are accepted by more and more Vietnamese families due their clean, energy-saving and environment-friendly features.
Differing from traditional fire or fireless conduction heating, induction cookers use electromagnetic induction to heat without open fire, thus being safe and sanitary. Yet they haven't been fully accepted in Vietnam currently, mainly because people think implicitly that it isn't cost-efficient to cook with them.
Actually the use of clean and safe energy is important for everyone. The kitchen uses the most energy in a household and heating food is the most common way of consuming energy in daily life. Vietnamese families generally use traditional combustible materials like wood, coal and gas for heating with a heating efficiency of 40%~70% and bad safety and pollution. With the exhaustion of global energies and increasing prices of coal and oil in international markets, this also affects costs in the kitchen energy use. Under this situation, changing traditional heating modes to using the more economical, efficient and safer induction cooker will be a new trend.
According to Ms. Zhang, "Gas fees are increasing, about 329,000 Dongs / 12kg bottle which can serve about two months, about 1,828 Dongs is the average used per day. But the cost is only 1,467 Dongs daily with an induction cooker providing mild and strong fire, saving much money."
"Midea's new generation of induction cookers has eight functions on the operation panel: Mild fire, Strong fire, Stew, Fry, Cook, Hot Pot, Braise and Boil. Cooking demands can be met easily through power adjustment, such as stewing with mild fire and frying with strong fire," a Midea (Vietnam) senior manager said. Vietnam is changing its cooking tools, but without corresponding brands the market cannot support demand. Expensive Western, Japanese and Korean products and other lesser known brands with low price and quality cannot effectively meet demands of common families. "Induction cookers are already widespread in Western countries. We hope to popularize new induction cookers in Vietnamese home for Vietnamese families in a short time".
