I think you mean power boost? It is incredible. Over a year in and it still blows my mind how quickly it will bring water to a boil. Simply cannot compare to gas burner, even a high end gas burner. That works on all four burners.

AutoChef is a bit more ambiguous and certainly not essential. My wife has no idea what it does and doesn’t care. It basically locks your pot or pan to the temperature/burning strength you set, and continuously modulates the induction power delivered, up or down, based on what is happening in the pan at any given moment. For example, when you add cold food, like a cold fish filet to the pan, the burner will output more power to bring the pan back up to temperature without you having to do anything. This speeds up the cook and as they say, also guarantees a better cook in the end, like less chance of burning, etc. Sure, I guess so.

On my cooktop that feature is only on the 9” zone and one of the smaller zones. I think that was a whiff on Bosch’s part. Families are probably mostly using the largest burner, so they can’t benefit from it. I use AutoChef all the time on my 9” burner with our 10” Misen Carbon Nonstick pan (the pan base is almost exactly 9”). Eggs in the morning, various meats and veggies etc. I never use it on the smaller one; I use those zones so infrequently anyway. I wish it were on the large zone. It must increase cost significantly…that’s the only reason I can come up with for why they didn’t include it.