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 I just found out at age 66 why cast iron is so much better.  I asked two different millennials at WalMart and they did know either.  Maybe I am hanging around the wrong crowd but I bought this beautiful table top stove that uses induction cooking.  I had no idea what induction cooking was or even what I was buying.  I asked the two millennials and they said they never heard of induction cooking.  The stove never gets hot it uses magnetic energy to warm the pan so if you don’t have the right type of pan the stove does not work. I had no idea these things existed.  

That’s when I decided to read the directions 🙂.  Took me that long to read the whitepaper as well 🙂

None of the pans I had worked I kept getting an E1 error message on the stove, they were used to getting energy from anything like electric or gas but not magnetic.  

I have a beautiful cast iron wok I got from China with a custom wood cover and the directions said that cast iron could be used on this induction stove otherwise I had to go buy induction ready pans. 

I thought Sams club would have these induction ready pans but nothing at Sams club either.  None of the employees who were all millennials had any idea what I was talking about so I am going.  

All cast iron🙂

I have been playing around with cast iron and seeing superior qualities for cooking and once it was seasoned there seemed to be a ton of ways to cook and easy to clean with the pan getting better with every use. 

You can also use the pans as weapons or barbells try that with stainless steel pans🙂