Is there any other modded way to smelt items as fast as possible without using an Induction/overclocked Electric Furnace? The only other option I can think about at the moment is the Infernal Furnace from TC3, as long as it has three Arcane Bellows.
Fast smelting without IC2?
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use multiple thermal expansion furnaces. Three for four of them should do it and it would be smaller than the Infernal Furnace. Also, the Infernal Furnace uses aura and produces flux. So to use it in actual production for smelting mass amount of ore from a quarry will produce negative side effects (wisps).
For mass smelting I use 8 powered furnaces, just because it is exactly how many are needed for one autharchic gate.
minium stone + charcoal will smelt 7 items at once. Instantly. 
What everyone said really, multiple powered furnaces. Good to see that there's something that IC2 still beats other mods at
If you use Mekanism there are smeltery blocks that can smelt 3, 5, and 7 blocks at a time respectively and can be upgraded for speed increases.
What everyone said really, multiple powered furnaces. Good to see that there's something that IC2 still beats other mods at
IC2 beats mods at speed then? Then it really is true, I guess half of us forumers are the type that sit around a furnace waiting fr it to finish rather than making automation to refill and transfer its product.
It's about as fast as a normal furnace, the only difference being that it smelts 9 items at once (and plays this steamy sound).
I have an automated induction furnace, thank you very much. Anyway, even when it is automated, you then have to find something else to do in the meantime.
By the way, what mod adds a steam oven? Is it just a furnace that runs off steam?
if it cooks 9 items at once(not 9 slot buffer) it can be quite useful then.
its another reailcraft multiblock
If you have access to a crapton of sand, the induction smelter is actually pretty darn quick all things considered.... since it skips the pulverizer step and cooks 1 ore directly into 2 bars. It goes faster then a powered furnace as well.... so 2 at once faster then furnace and doesnt need the maceration/pulverizer step...
I'm an IC2 person and i always use Rotory Macerator and Induction Furnace... but i was actually quite pleased to see the induction smelter, also the way it works allows you to get a greater yeild on some ores if your choice because of the rich slag you get. Normally i'll use the rich slag for neather ores because 1 nether ore = 3 normal ore if u use rich slag which then gives u 2 extra bars...
Anyways, thats my advice, mess around with the induction smelter a bit
I'm an IC2 person and i always use Rotory Macerator and Induction Furnace... but i was actually quite pleased to see the induction smelter, also the way it works allows you to get a greater yeild on some ores if your choice because of the rich slag you get. Normally i'll use the rich slag for neather ores because 1 nether ore = 3 normal ore if u use rich slag which then gives u 2 extra bars...
Anyways, thats my advice, mess around with the induction smelter a bit
The steam oven cooks 9 items at once. If you convert the steam requirement into MJ it's basically the same cost as a powered furnace cooking 9 items. It takes ~3x longer to cook its items than a powered furnace. However, if you cook 9 items that means on average the steam oven is 3x faster. Also, it uses the same amount of steam per operation regardless of whether there's 1 item being cooked or 9, so it's actually kinda energy inefficient unless you're using all the slots. The cheaper smelt values for most food items in the powered furnace also mean that the powered furnace is the tool of choice for food (and cactus green).
Steam oven is currently bugged in FTB 1.4.7 and if you put in 6 stacks it actually cooks 2 from each stack (12 at once). CovertJag did say this was fixed in a later version tho.
As with most things, parallel processing is faster than serial processing. For pure speed choose whatever machine you want to use, then build lots of them. It is also fastest to make them non-specific. So don't setup one for Iron, one for Copper, one for Gold, etc. Instead just have them all accept everything you put into a specific chest, then control what goes into that chest. This way if they are busy auto-smelting the input from your mining operation, but you need two stacks of glass immediately, you can just drop glass into the first two spots in the chest and it will start pushing that out to the machines as soon as it can, eventually processing glass in most or all of them at the same time This is especially fast if you have enough machines to keep ahead of your mining system so there is no backup in each machine unless it is because you just dropped a bunch of stuff into the system manually.
Right?? The only time Ive ever had to sit and wait for such a thing was when I first started out. Even then its hopper/chest->smelt->chest while im off caving again for more starter mats. If youre sitting waiting for something to smelt, youve done something poorly.
I did some simple math when I first joined this forum because this question was asked. People saying how speed is the best because it gets it done faster, when in reality, speed of the smelting itself is only relevant for a very short time in the very beginning stages. After that, its not. A single Pulv can ustain the ore output of ~1.3 fully powered quarry without even needing a backend cache system. Hell, after a single 64^3 quarry, you will have ore long enough from one pulv to last you for days. Days that could still be gathering more from quarry.
tldr: there is absolutely zero need for speed in even a semi efficient ore processing system.
well he asked for the fastest way, not the most efficient..
Steam Ovens are pretty good, they aren't super fast but still much faster and with a small tank to store steam you can add several of those and use them even with a very small boiler.