To provide a cooking appliance for induction heating which can be conveniently and safely used for cooking food by being put in various kinds of nonmagnetic cooking container such as an earthen pot and which can also be used for heating the upper part of the pot.

This cooking appliance for induction heating heats the inside of a cooking container 3 by putting therein an electrically conductive magnetic metallic plate 1 and by inducing an eddy current by a high frequency magnetic field. In the magnetic metallic plate 1, a large number of through-holes 12 are formed in a manner penetrating the upper and lower faces. Nearly in the center of the magnetic metallic plate 1, a screw hole 11 is formed, and a rod like holder 2 is threadedly engaged with the screw hole 11.