Cost to swap out electric stove with a one

elrasho

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The electric stove in my house is rubbish, takes ages to cook things on. So I want to swap it out with a gas cooker. Two problems to this:

1) The electric stove is built in the kitchen worktop
2) The washing machine is directly under the electric stove

I'll have to get someone in to do this for me, but was wondering if anyone else has done something similar and have a rough estimate of cost? I've budgeted £500 for a decent gas stove. Then there's the cost of piping gas into the kitchen and installing the gas stove. Also where the heck could I put the washing machine!? Some people on my road have theres in the garage but my garage has no water pipes so I think it's gonna be really expensive to do that :(

EDIT: Can a mod change the title to read with a gas one please
 
Induction jobs are weird!!

They only work with your pans on. So like you have food in your pan, heats up, cooks it, but you can pull the pan off the stove and touch it with your hand and it won't be hot. I'm not clever enough to understand them, but they're cool.
 
Smigly said:
Induction jobs are weird!!

They only work with your pans on. So like you have food in your pan, heats up, cooks it, but you can pull the pan off the stove and touch it with your hand and it won't be hot. I'm not clever enough to understand them, but they're cool.
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But are they more powerful than standard electric stove? Electric ones take way too long to cook my food
 
Smigly said:
Induction jobs are weird!!

They only work with your pans on. So like you have food in your pan, heats up, cooks it, but you can pull the pan off the stove and touch it with your hand and it won't be hot. I'm not clever enough to understand them, but they're cool.
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It will be hot if you've had the pan on for long enough because the pan will heat up the glass, but you're right, essentially you can turn it to full and touch the hob and it won't hurt.

The way they work: magnetics (and magic). Basically a current is induced in the pan causing it to heat up (simple explanation).
 
cheechm said:
It will be hot if you've had the pan on for long enough because the pan will heat up the glass, but you're right, essentially you can turn it to full and touch the hob and it won't hurt.

The way they work: magnetics (and magic). Basically a current is induced in the pan causing it to heat up (simple explanation).
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What about if you have a lot of iron in your blood, or are Magneto? Will that cause me to be burned by an induction hob?


This is important.
 
Yeah you have to buy specific pans for them. They're no more expensive and some of your normal pans you already own will work with them, but I've noticed on pans now when you're buying them that some have a tag saying induction on them.
 
"An induction cooker is faster and more energy-efficient than a traditional electric cooking surface. It allows instant control of cooking energy similar to gas burners. "

From the gospel of Wikipedia.
 
I have an induction hob. Quite nice. Heats up as fast as any hob I've ever tried, really. (Including gas.)
 
So can I convert my normal electric oven to induction. My current one has what looks like steel rings and they heat up and go red.
 
your problem isnt that you have electric, it's that you have the worst possible type of electric.

I used to swear that gas was the only way until I moved in somewhere with a very powerful halogen glass topped hob, and I find its heat and control not that much different to the gas at my old place...certainly gets very hot very quickly and allows for subtle changes nicely :)

Induction is meant to be better again but ive not tried it.

No you can't "convert" yours, you need to replace it with an induction one, but they aren't cheap.
 
would need to see what your current one is like? If it is just a surface top one like that, it's the same and could just be swapped in theory
 
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