This is a bit of a strange scenario. I have a new induction stove. Yesterday, I was heating water on the induction stove with the sous vide going, trying to get to my target temperature. While I was tightening the sous-vide against the sidewall of the pot, metal from the sous-vide contacted the pot and I immediately heard a loud pop. The stove stopped working and tripped the breaker. I smelled that electric burning smell. Now the stove is giving an error indicating the control board is shot.
Is this coincidental, or is there some way that the sous-vide messed with the magnetism and the induction stove?
by kevinhcraig
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We’re you seriously using the stove with the sous vide? 💀
It may be related, look up grounding a pot on an induction stove. I’m guessing the body of the sous vide is grounded in case there’s contact with any of the electrical components inside. Once it touched the pot, it could have grounded the induction effect overloading the burner.
Ask the electrical engineers. I think you made a boo boo
I’ll go out on a limb and suggest a possibility. If the stove is not properly grounded, the SV metal shroud touching the pot could introduce an induced ground current path. That in turn might blow a control board fuse, diodes, or other component.
This is just a guess, it could just be a coincidence.
Fascinating.
Is it a Samsung stove by chance?
Been doing the same for years, as my kitchen is tiny and the only place to set the pot is over the induction plate. No issues so far.
I’ve done the induction sous vide stick combo many times before and never had an issue.
I can’t say for certain I’ve touched the sous vide metal to the pot, but I’ve never actively tried not to so I’m sure it’s happened, and never had an issue.
My stove has a glass top so i don’t see current passing through to the stove.
You plugged in a 110v heater coil directly above a 220v induction coil. I’m not sure what broke or exactly why, but I’m also not shocked that something bad happened.