Abstract: A cooking and/or boiling utensil for bottom thermal energy application through thermal conduction or through electromagnetic induction. The container has a round horizontal section of austenitic steel, a thermal distribution plate of suitable thickness flush against the container base of a metal with a good thermal conductivity, and a ferromagnetic plate cover against the thermal distribution plate. The ferromagnetic metal plate cover has cover recesses mainly formed as radial slots. The radial slots start at the center and end inwardly of the cover collar. The sandwich unit consisting of the container base, the thermal distribution plate and the plate cover is substantially deformation-proof due to adjustment of the container thickness of the container base and the container thickness of the plate cover on one hand and the length and width of the slots and the diameter of the center on the other, during thermal energy application through thermal expansion.

Abstract: A cooking utensil for use on both gas, electric and induction stoves is provided composed of a container liner of stainless steel with a comparatively low wall thickness, a comparatively thick bottom plate of aluminum or a metal of similarly good heat-conducting properties and a bottom disc that is at least partially composed of magnetizable material disposed on the outside of the bottom plate. The bottom plate disposed on the outside bottom of the container and possibly the bottom disc disposed on the outside of the bottom plate can be attached by a commonly known hammer-press technique at an increased temperature preferably with an intermediate foil of aluminum or a material of similarly good heat-conducting properties. Particularly favorable results for cookware in terms of expansion reaction and corrosion have been achieved utilizing a bottom disc of a nickel alloy having the following composition: Ni: 50-100%; Cr: up to 6%; Mo: up to 6%; Cu: up to 14%; Mn: up to 6%; Si: up to 1.5%; C: up to 0.