Electric Hobs, talk to meh.

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Right, after finding out how high our gas bills are I've decided to get an electric hob and am after something under £200, preferably as cheap as possible but something that will last.

Any help much appreciated as I've never purchased one before.

Thank you.

Much love.
 
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I have an electric hob and I hate cooking on the thing. It doesn't matter what you set the dials to, it's either too low, or too high. There is no middle ground. I would love to be back on gas...
 
Have you worked out how much an electric hob would cost you?

Unless you go with the high quality type leccy hobs, it'll be utterly rubbish. How much do you use it? I have a full gas oven and am still on my first 19kg bottle after about 3 months.
 
I can't imagine you'll make any savings, we use a full gas oven and get through next to no gas unless we've got the central heating on.
 
I have a Hotpoint ceramic Solarglo hob and I find it superb. It's the first electric one I have used that can give different heat settings and actually work.

Not sure if they do an individual hob as mine is an all in one but highly recommend if they do.

Hotpoint solarglo
 
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Right, after finding out how high our gas bills are I've decided to get an electric hob and am after something under £200, preferably as cheap as possible but something that will last.

Any help much appreciated as I've never purchased one before.

Thank you.

Much love.
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Are you sure this is due to the gas hob and not your heating/hot water?

Seems highly unlikely the gas hob would be using more gas than the boiler.....
 
We have an electric hob Range and we're really pleased with it, bit more expensive than £200 but worth the money IMO.

Nothing beats cooking on gas hob though
 
I miss having a gas hob :(

And the only way a gas hob would be costing more than your hot water and central heating is if you are slow cooking a pot on it all day (or if you have a leak).
 
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Are you sure this is due to the gas hob and not your heating/hot water?

Seems highly unlikely the gas hob would be using more gas than the boiler.....
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unless you just cook everything in a saucepan/frying pan i cant see it being that much. most likely your hot water is on all the time and central heating. you can turn the hot water temp down on some boilers to save cash. we only have hot water on for 1-2 hours a day and thats plenty for our family.

leccy hobs are ****e unless you get an expensive one and that will cost you more than you would save anyway. gas is much better for hobs and i prefer gas ovens too.
 
Once you factor in the cost of buying and fitting an electric hob, how much are you actually saving? A gas hob doesn't use that much gas surely unless you're burning all the hobs all the time. Surely your gas bill is due to an inefficient boiler or poor insulation in your house?

Also electric hobs are terrible!
 
I've had Gas, ceramic and now an induction hob in various houses.
Ceramic are terrible.
Induction is as good as gas in fact I want nothing else now. The only pain is having no way of heating anything in the house when the electricity occasionally goes off.
 
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