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Karmacat

CBC, thats a lot of kitchen woes for one woman! Hope you can get things sorted soon.

Betterthan, induction yes, thats the one I'm aiming for. I was in Curry's up on Merseyside t'other day, and saw a Zanussi gas oven and induction hob for £460, and I'm sure there are cheaper too. I really, really want that wipe clean surface, like I've never wanted anything in the kitchen before :rotfl:

I can't imagine you in a rental! Totes in for Christmas.

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Karmacat wrote: »

CBC, thats a lot of kitchen woes for one woman! Hope you can get things sorted soon.

Betterthan, induction yes, thats the one I'm aiming for. I was in Curry's up on Merseyside t'other day, and saw a Zanussi gas oven and induction hob for £460, and I'm sure there are cheaper too. I really, really want that wipe clean surface, like I've never wanted anything in the kitchen before :rotfl:

Thank you:T. To be honest, I quite enjoy the challenge:rotfl:

I'm with you on the wipe-clean surface:T. As for one of your previous posts, if you're a bad person then so am I and probably millions of others too;)


Just a word of caution about induction hobs. Yes, they're really good but only certain pans will 'work' on them. Check first if yours will, unless you plan to invest in a new set.

Cheery_Daff

Don't blame you for wanting wipe clean - our cooker is an absolute nuisance to clean :eek: (I mostly just don't bother :rotfl: ) We have no mains gas here either, but we do have a large LPG tank - we have an electric oven and a gas hob and I figure that should one of them break we'll at least be able to cook SOMETHING :rotfl:

Karmacat

Hi Cheery I don't usually bother cleaning either, but there comes a point where an ... aroma ... sometimes of burnt stuff, sometimes something else, becomes an issue.

CBC, I'm only a bad person in the sense of being a baaaaaaaaad person, with intentional misspelling and clutches of emoticons around it, implying that I mean no such thing

Right, I need to move off this chair. my light won't go out, because I've discovered the Advent Comps Over £100 thread https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/75119715#Comment_75119715 and I need to know where I'm up to :rotfl: but I definitely need to get going.

Thank you lovely peeps :kisses3:

Goldiegirl

We had our kitchen refitted 16 years ago, and up until that time I'd only ever used gas for cooking.

I had decided that I wanted an electric oven, but I was still intending having a gas hob.

The salesman recommended an induction hob, and I was very dubious about the idea. They let me play on an induction hob that they had set up in the showroom, and I was very impressed with it, so decided to go ahead with induction.

I had an AEG induction hob, and it served me very well, until it died on it's 15th birthday. (well almost to the day). I went out and bought another AEG, and it's better than the old one. From memory, it cost about £400, this was about a year ago.

One thing to consider is, are your pans suitable for induction. I think they have to have a magnetic bottom. When I originally got my first induction hob, I also had to get new pans.

Apart from that point, I con't think of any drawbacks to induction.

rtandon27

:o:o

I must admit a flat top that wipes up easily is a boon given the naturally untidy tendencies of my OH who does most of the cooking these days!

When I'm feeling like a 'real' hob, I trek outside to the bbq which has a hob on the side and does amazing stir-fries!

(Cooking outside in the snow can be fun - just make sure you've salted the path to the bbq so you don't slip with dinner in your hands! - and also fingerless gloves and a toque are useful :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:)

Karmacat

Ooh, the thing about what the pans are made of had come up, but I hadn't thought it through ... drat, my stainless steel pans aren't of the quality that will enable them for an induction hob (just tried them with a fridge magnet, they didn't pass the test). Cast iron, yes, but I can't lift cast iron regularly. Definitely going to have to do a lot of research, and hten have a good think. Thanks for all the input!

gallygirl

Also if you enjoy doing stir fries then induction hobs are no good. They are however very easy to keep clean!

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Karmacat wrote: »

CBC, I'm only a bad person in the sense of being a baaaaaaaaad person, with intentional misspelling and clutches of emoticons around it, implying that I mean no such thing

I had realised that, KC. I may be old but I'm not totally senile yet.


I was merely trying to give a bit of reassurance after you'd mentioned in several posts about having cleaning/non-cleaning issues with your hob. You're definitely not alone in that. My error was mentioning your baaaaaaaaad person reference. I should think before I type and hope that doesn't make me a baaaaaaaaad person;)


Have a good day:beer:

Karmacat

Oops, CBC! No senility implied, I guarantee! I'll join you on thinking before posting, often enough - we can leap around the fields near you, going "I'm baaaaaaaaa, I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" wearing woolly jumpers (self image as Shaun the Sheep there :rotfl:). You have a good day too :kisses3:

Gally, my preconceptions about having an induction hob have been shattered! I don't particularly do stir fries at the moment, but I'd like to, for sure.

A modern gas hob might be easier - I've seen a few where *each* gas ring has its own support, and the metal seems to be much less dense than what's sported by my current hob. That might be easier to clean. I can't quite go with a barbecue in the snow like RT :rotfl: