Need a new cooker, gas or induction?

DullGreyGuy

michael1234 said:

DullGreyGuy said:

JohnSwift10 said:

45 Amp.                                     .

Ok, so it won't support the most demanding cookers but is certainly better than many

The above are 2Kw burners which is probably appropriate to have a look at. Some of the more expensive option can go up to 3.5Kw on a single burner but thats really for limited applications beyond getting a very large pot of liquid to boiling quickly. 

45A is 11.25Kw maximum. Taking account of electrical diversity, that should be fine for most ovens/cookers I would have thought ?

Agree with all the comments that Induction is well worth it (and probably safer)

Do you get electrical diversity when it's all going into one device from one connection? Irrespective it is unlikely you have everything on full blast anyway. 

Certainly most cookers are asking for under 12kw so you are probably fine, the Smeg Victoria Range asks for 16.5kw though and whilst its probably not the model the OP was thinking of it was just to caveat that some do state they need more power. Some devices do also have a "low power mode" where you can cap the draw if you dont have a circuit with the full rating. 

It's not like those that are trying to run a 5 burner hob off a 13 amp fuse though which are woefully under powered if you are trying to run two or more rings on high. 

mmmmikey said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

I'm shocked by all the comments but my only experience of gas is on holiday.  At home we've never had gas, we've had induction for years, but cooking on a gas hob for the first time was like a revelation, I finally understood the saying!  It was a highlight of a holiday to be able to cook on gas.

But I haven't lived with it for cleaning and other practicalities (although when I worked as a PA doing someone's cleaning, they had a double gas oven so I cleaned their hob for the months I did that job - I was younger and relatively well so although I enjoyed it then my feelings might have been different if I'd been older) so it's interesting that everyone so far unanimously prefers induction.

I was beginning to think that I was the only one who prefers gas  

I had a mega-expensive Zanussi cooker with an induction hob which was OK but once it gone beyond economical repair (after just 4 years!) I couldn't make the switch back to gas quick enough. I can understand the attraction of induction hobs, but for me it would be gas every time. Quite apart from preferring the cooking experience, there are other benefits, such as it still works in a power cut, there's a lot less to go wrong with such a simple bit of kit and (particularly if you're on a TOU tariff (including legacy tariffs like E7)) then running costs can be much less. 

But each to their own....

Gas is certainly cheaper both to buy, run and repair. Does take more time to clean by a long way so there is an element of offset depending on how valuable your time is or how much your cleaner charges. 

I was apprehensive about moving to induction but generally I am sold, just occasionally miss an open flame for scorching peppers or such. The bit I do like is that all four of our rings are the same 3.5kw output so if I need to shuffle pans about I can confidently move one from one corner to another, set the dial to the identical value and know it will just continue cooking as was. With all our gas hobs most the burners were different sizes and so moving the pan from one to another was real guess work to keep it constant, 6pm on the big ring was about 9:30 is on the small ring or 7:45 on the medium ring etc or suddenly your nicely simmering cream sauce is boiling and on the verge of splitting. 

Never seen a gas hob with 4 identical large burners and know that induction hobs can vary by ring too but was able to fix that problem with the switch