Induction Cooker

Keep_pedalling

Just moved into a house with a Neff IH with no knobs and although the maximum setting is 9 it has half way steps so 18 settings in total.

Albermarle

kimwp said:

Thank you everyone! I went for it in the end - a clearance offer on AO meant that delivery, unpack and removal of the old cooker was £745 and the manual gave me confidence that there are at least half settings, as the Neff described above has. A survey of family and the posts above gave me confidence that 18 settings would be more than enough. There were only two cheaper ones and they didn't have some other features I wanted. The cheapest was £540, so the £150 one bought by a poster above was a good deal!

Presume you are aware that a new electric oven and induction hob will need to be hard wired into a 'cooker circuit' . It can not just be plugged in with a standard 13A plug.
You will need an electrician to do this . A small job if the cooker circuit is already there and OK. A bigger job if not. 

DullGreyGuy

Albermarle said:

kimwp said:

Thank you everyone! I went for it in the end - a clearance offer on AO meant that delivery, unpack and removal of the old cooker was £745 and the manual gave me confidence that there are at least half settings, as the Neff described above has. A survey of family and the posts above gave me confidence that 18 settings would be more than enough. There were only two cheaper ones and they didn't have some other features I wanted. The cheapest was £540, so the £150 one bought by a poster above was a good deal!

Presume you are aware that a new electric oven and induction hob will need to be hard wired into a 'cooker circuit' . It can not just be plugged in with a standard 13A plug.

Some induction hobs can work on a 13amp plug but they are really underpowered. The one a poster the other day said they were looking at was a 4 ring 13amp model but the company itself pointed out you can only realistically use 2 rings at the same time to cook. 


Ours has 9 steps with half points so 17 (no 0.5 or 9.5) plus Boost and Boost+ and Keep Warm (which has 3 levels but you cannot control that) so 20 options in total or 22 if you count the keep warm sub levels. 

The half points is an optional thing and you have to go into the setup menu to enable it though! The other hob we were looking at when we got this had the same but also had 4 temperatures you could set, rather than power levels, so could set a pan to 95C rather than power 4 if you wanted to keep something just off the boil. 

kimwp

Albermarle said:

kimwp said:

Thank you everyone! I went for it in the end - a clearance offer on AO meant that delivery, unpack and removal of the old cooker was £745 and the manual gave me confidence that there are at least half settings, as the Neff described above has. A survey of family and the posts above gave me confidence that 18 settings would be more than enough. There were only two cheaper ones and they didn't have some other features I wanted. The cheapest was £540, so the £150 one bought by a poster above was a good deal!

Presume you are aware that a new electric oven and induction hob will need to be hard wired into a 'cooker circuit' . It can not just be plugged in with a standard 13A plug.
You will need an electrician to do this . A small job if the cooker circuit is already there and OK. A bigger job if not. 

I wasn't aware yesterday, but it's next on the list to sort. The wall is tiled so it's going to be a pain.

Definitely a good thing to highlight, thank you.

Checklist before delivery-
- have isolation switch installed
- call AO to add installation service
- remove (part of?) lower cupboard as new cooker is wider (no 50cm induction cookers)
- remove (part of?) upper cupboard for the 65cm heat zone requirement 
Clear path to area (pile of washing and bins in passageway)

People have mentioned a requirement for a vent, but I'm wondering if this is a requirement for a fitted hob.

Albermarle

kimwp said:

Albermarle said:

kimwp said:

Thank you everyone! I went for it in the end - a clearance offer on AO meant that delivery, unpack and removal of the old cooker was £745 and the manual gave me confidence that there are at least half settings, as the Neff described above has. A survey of family and the posts above gave me confidence that 18 settings would be more than enough. There were only two cheaper ones and they didn't have some other features I wanted. The cheapest was £540, so the £150 one bought by a poster above was a good deal!

Presume you are aware that a new electric oven and induction hob will need to be hard wired into a 'cooker circuit' . It can not just be plugged in with a standard 13A plug.
You will need an electrician to do this . A small job if the cooker circuit is already there and OK. A bigger job if not. 

I wasn't aware yesterday, but it's next on the list to sort. The wall is tiled so it's going to be a pain.

Definitely a good thing to highlight, thank you.

Checklist before delivery-
- have isolation switch installed
- call AO to add installation service
- remove (part of?) lower cupboard as new cooker is wider (no 50cm induction cookers)
- remove (part of?) upper cupboard for the 65cm heat zone requirement 
Clear path to area (pile of washing and bins in passageway)

People have mentioned a requirement for a vent, but I'm wondering if this is a requirement for a fitted hob.

The previous poster correctly said that it is actually possible to have induction hobs and ovens, run off standard plugs.
However most will not be designed to do that, and in the case of the induction hob, it would limit its performance significantly.
However for general info a fan oven can work fine using a normal plug, as long as it comes with one ( I know because I have one) . You need to delve into the details of the product description and somewhere it will tell you if it comes with standard plug, or needs hard wiring to a cooker circuit. 

FreeBear

Albermarle said:

kimwp said:

Thank you everyone! I went for it in the end - a clearance offer on AO meant that delivery, unpack and removal of the old cooker was £745 and the manual gave me confidence that there are at least half settings, as the Neff described above has. A survey of family and the posts above gave me confidence that 18 settings would be more than enough. There were only two cheaper ones and they didn't have some other features I wanted. The cheapest was £540, so the £150 one bought by a poster above was a good deal!

Presume you are aware that a new electric oven and induction hob will need to be hard wired into a 'cooker circuit' . It can not just be plugged in with a standard 13A plug.
You will need an electrician to do this . A small job if the cooker circuit is already there and OK. A bigger job if not. 

As long as a new circuit is not required, then any competent person can wire in a cooker. It doesn't need to be an electrician (especially at the rates some of them charge).

kimwp

Albermarle said:

kimwp said:

Albermarle said:

kimwp said:

Thank you everyone! I went for it in the end - a clearance offer on AO meant that delivery, unpack and removal of the old cooker was £745 and the manual gave me confidence that there are at least half settings, as the Neff described above has. A survey of family and the posts above gave me confidence that 18 settings would be more than enough. There were only two cheaper ones and they didn't have some other features I wanted. The cheapest was £540, so the £150 one bought by a poster above was a good deal!

Presume you are aware that a new electric oven and induction hob will need to be hard wired into a 'cooker circuit' . It can not just be plugged in with a standard 13A plug.
You will need an electrician to do this . A small job if the cooker circuit is already there and OK. A bigger job if not. 

I wasn't aware yesterday, but it's next on the list to sort. The wall is tiled so it's going to be a pain.

Definitely a good thing to highlight, thank you.

Checklist before delivery-
- have isolation switch installed
- call AO to add installation service
- remove (part of?) lower cupboard as new cooker is wider (no 50cm induction cookers)
- remove (part of?) upper cupboard for the 65cm heat zone requirement 
Clear path to area (pile of washing and bins in passageway)

People have mentioned a requirement for a vent, but I'm wondering if this is a requirement for a fitted hob.

The previous poster correctly said that it is actually possible to have induction hobs and ovens, run off standard plugs.
However most will not be designed to do that, and in the case of the induction hob, it would limit its performance significantly.
However for general info a fan oven can work fine using a normal plug, as long as it comes with one ( I know because I have one) . You need to delve into the details of the product description and somewhere it will tell you if it comes with standard plug, or needs hard wiring to a cooker circuit. 

Yes, thanks, product spec states 30 amp fuse required.

kimwp

FreeBear said:

Albermarle said:

kimwp said:

Thank you everyone! I went for it in the end - a clearance offer on AO meant that delivery, unpack and removal of the old cooker was £745 and the manual gave me confidence that there are at least half settings, as the Neff described above has. A survey of family and the posts above gave me confidence that 18 settings would be more than enough. There were only two cheaper ones and they didn't have some other features I wanted. The cheapest was £540, so the £150 one bought by a poster above was a good deal!

Presume you are aware that a new electric oven and induction hob will need to be hard wired into a 'cooker circuit' . It can not just be plugged in with a standard 13A plug.
You will need an electrician to do this . A small job if the cooker circuit is already there and OK. A bigger job if not. 

As long as a new circuit is not required, then any competent person can wire in a cooker. It doesn't need to be an electrician (especially at the rates some of them charge).

What do you mean by "wire in"?

BarelySentientAI

kimwp said:

FreeBear said:

Albermarle said:

kimwp said:

Thank you everyone! I went for it in the end - a clearance offer on AO meant that delivery, unpack and removal of the old cooker was £745 and the manual gave me confidence that there are at least half settings, as the Neff described above has. A survey of family and the posts above gave me confidence that 18 settings would be more than enough. There were only two cheaper ones and they didn't have some other features I wanted. The cheapest was £540, so the £150 one bought by a poster above was a good deal!

Presume you are aware that a new electric oven and induction hob will need to be hard wired into a 'cooker circuit' . It can not just be plugged in with a standard 13A plug.
You will need an electrician to do this . A small job if the cooker circuit is already there and OK. A bigger job if not. 

As long as a new circuit is not required, then any competent person can wire in a cooker. It doesn't need to be an electrician (especially at the rates some of them charge).

What do you mean by "wire in"?

Undo the wire of the old cooker from the wall and connect the wire for the new one.

coffeehound

kimwp said:

People have mentioned a requirement for a vent, but I'm wondering if this is a requirement for a fitted hob.

Is that an extractor hood?  Some say an induction hob needs a wider hood than other hobs since the 'plume' spreads out more