Spec me a new Induction Hob.

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Doing up the kitchen and need an electric 5 zone Induction Hob.
Was thinking of Neff but open to suggestions.
Any ideas.

Thanks.
 
Good question, I did a wee search before I posted and I thought it was the latest version of hobs, maybe not!
 
I have a induction hob - Used to have a Ceramic - Induction is much better for me - Between house purchases we rented and that had gas hob - it had been 35 yrs since we had gas and have to say we prefered electric - could have been what we had got used to.

Only trouble with Induction we had to bin all our Circulon pans for Induction pans - not cheap I can tell you.

If at all possible buy a hob with knobs on - these touch controls are pants - easy to clean but PITA to use.

Dave
 
Thank you Dave for that advice, didn't know that about the pans.
So, what's this about the pans? would our own old ones not heat up? :)
 
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please don't buy de detrich, right now I've got that off my chest I repair under warranty for Electrolux group and Beko group and have very little problems with any of there induction hobs :)
 
Ynot if your pan attracts a magnet it will work on induction personally if i was buying a ceramic type glass hob i'd get new pans anyway, also avoid aluminium one as melting point of alu is quite low and will ingrain into the glass and on induction could melt pan leaving just the biscuit (disc of metal in base to make pan work on induction) .
 
Thanks Dave thanks.

My current 4 ring hob is Belling, 25years+ and never give any bother at all.

Am I silly to go Induction for a hob?
 
Personally I'd get a decent gas hob with a nice big wok burner alongside the normal ones.
 
The chappies above have covered the main reasons that I asked the question :)

Also, I've found induction hobs to be very expensive to run. We're talking 2-3 times the cost of gas for cooking the equivalent. Of course this does depend on the individual hob and some will no doubt have much higher efficiencies than the one I had.

However yeah, gas all the way for me.
 
Thanks, electric would suite me best, its already wired for one but I we did have gas at one stage and couldn't fault it.
 
Gas would cost me an absolute fortune - I reckon in region of £1m - nearest gas line is 8 miles away.

Same as super fast BB -- they don't supply it out in sticks.

By way - mine needed it's own supply from fuse board and had to be 10mm cable - then another feed for oven. - So perhaps a Ceramic might do.

Dave
 
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