Re: [Phys-l] Inductive cooking

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

No;  I think one of JD's references explains hysteresis loss is more  
effective than brewer Joule's loss.

bc  thought this back then, but his error was thinking steel's  
critical point was at a much lower temperature.


On 2009, Apr 05, , at 18:16, Brian Whatcott wrote:

> Not a good idea particularly, but a plausible thought.
>  In hindsight, one can imagine a magnetic steel pan carcass couples  
> more
> effectively to a driving coil as a higher lossy reactive impedance,
> providing a better opportunity to dissipate the drive into the pan  
> case.