Product review (5 stars): Excellent Induction Cooktop
Love love love this cooktop. Induction is so much more performant than gas. I have been using induction cooktops in Europe for years and I will never go back to gas.  For the uninitiated, It just takes a little time and patience to learn how to use the controls. It is super easy and logical. Turn on on the cooktop, press the burner/area you want to engage, press the power level and it works beautifully! When you want to lower or raise the heat, just make sure you have engaged whichever burner you want to control (the control panel shows a simple line under the active burner) and press the power you want.

I love this Bosch cooktop because it has 18 heat settings, heat raises in half increments from 1 to 9, so you can really control the heat levels really well.  I LOVE the timer. Again, it is just a matter of making sure you have highlighted the corresponding burner you want the timer to work for. Then press the Timer twice and use the numbers on the cooktop to set the number of minutes you want the burner to cook for and it goes! Again, what is great about the timer is that when the time is up, the burner shuts itself off, so for pasta and rice and things like that. You know it won't keep going!

I love the big zone area, it heats whatever size pan/griddle you place on it. It can even heat two separate pans at once (although they cook on the same heat level you have set). I love the fact that the rest of the cooktop stays cool and I love how I feel more confident to let my young teens cook on because there are no flames to worry about if they happen to lean over the unit or reach across, etc.
It is not hard to place the pan on the burner and if the number blinks that means the pan is either too small or is not sitting property. Yes, you do need pans that work on an induction cooktop, i.e. any Le Creuset, stainless steel, etc.  But I bought some pans at Target and they work beautifully - you just need to read the packaging to make sure it says they work on induction.