Can you tell me about your induction hob please.

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We need a new hob wired for electric and also have a gas connection. Can you tell me about your induction hob please, like gas for speed and how controllable it is but never looks clean. Cooked on ceramic before takes ages to boil but much easier to clean so hoping induction is the best of both worlds.

Carolspatula yes

Mine is a 10 year old Neff
and I love it

We have had both gas and induction in new kitchen refurbs. Our induction hob is amazing and we will never go back to gas.

Induction is super-quick, safer, and so much easier to clean. We cook a lot, and most times it is just a wipe down with a damp cloth then dry with a bit of kitchen roll. Every 6 months or so I use an induction hob cleaner. Takes a couple of minutes at most.

In comparison, our gas hobs were a PITA. The enamelled grid-like parts that supported the pans could go in the dishwasher, but the various aluminium and iron rings couldn’t. These were the areas that ended up with permanent burnt-on residue.

Make sure you get an electrician in first. There are two types of electric induction hob (and electric oven). One plugs into a normal 13A socket, the other needs to be hard-wired and requires specific higher current cabling into your property.

In my experience, only the hard-wired ones that deliver the extra power are worth looking at. The plug in versions do not deliver enough power to outperform gas.

Yes - any cast iron seems to.

Question! (looking into getting one this spring)
If some pans which say they're compatible aren't - how do you know which one's are good?

Can anyone suggest a brand to avoid for example?

Brabantia and some Ikea didn't work - or they only work on a ring that fits their base and they heat slowly. Buy your pans from Lakeland as they guarantee satisfaction. Cast iron isn't recommended as it's likely to scratch the glass surface as you move it and/or cause the glass to chip/crack but it works fine.

We have a le Creuset stainless steel set and a random IKEA 365 one. All work fine and I can’t say I’ve noticed a difference in performance.
We also have an amazing le creuset griddle pan with a metal circle on the base. It’s the only thing we have bought specifically for the induction hob and would definitely recommend. We found it in an outlet.

I love my induction hob I had no idea what one was, it was recommended by our kitchen designer when we got a new kitchen fitted. I bought my induction pans from TK Maxx which weren't too budget busting. I second being careful not to drag pans across!

Love mine! So efficient too!

Love ours. So easy to clean! Heats and cools in seconds.

Only thing was we bought British. There is a design fault and so had to put a support under it else the touch screen didn't work.

It's a belling. We have marble work tops so £££ - not impressed with belling- good job dp is handy and fixed it.

We bought our first one as it was safer with a child around as the top working area don't get as hot .They are fantastic.
On moving I had to get used to gas again.Itus annoying to clean and having things on a low simmer us impossible without a heat diffuser mat.
We are having the kitchen done this year and an induction hob is going in.
Any pan that is magnetic will work and stove top kettles are defiantly faster and save even more space in a little kitchen.

OhWifey have you still got your manual? It was in there, you can reduce volume of the beeps or just turn them off.
I love Bosch appliances but they are very smug

Our Neff induction hob is fantastic; super quick to heat, as others have said and a breeze to keep clean. It came with a set of pans which really do work faster than similar looking stainless steel pans we already had, so something about them is different.

I have a beko one. I love it and it's easy to clean, but be aware not all induction compatable pans are equal. I bought a big 30 cm frying pan to use on the largest ring but it didnt work on it but was fine on a smaller ring,but then cooking pancakes it only cooked the middle and left a good 3cm raw at the edge. Thought is was my hob that was faulty. Got a Dunelm 30cm frying pan and that worked fine on the big ring.
What annoys me is you can't use the big or middle rinds for small pans, so the wok with a very small base can't be used at the same time as a milk pan as only 1 small ring. So I have to make sure I use the right sized pans.
On the whole though I love it now I'm used to it's quirks

I have one in the flat I now rent out, I miss it!!

My new place has gas and I’d switch it out for induction in a heartbeat.

Only thing that took getting used to was boiled eggs oddly enough. Because the hob heats up so damn fast I found myself undercooking them initially.
Not a gripe just an observation, I genuinely can’t fault induction.

Thanks for tips about pans :)

The hob we're looking at having (because it's being 'thrown in free' with the kitchen. Magnet.) is an AEG 80cm 5 ring one.

Any chance anyone here has an AEG?
Is it ok?
Will my elderly mother cope with it??!
Anything i should know?

SO many questions!

Happy with my AEG cooker. Mine has a knob for each ring as well as buttons so we tend to use the knobs.

Moved into our new house recently bad I actually loathe mine! None of my pans work efficiently but that’s easily rectifiable. I also find it really difficult to control the temperatures of the hobs, something that was so simple with my gas cooker.
What I do like is that it is easy to wipe clean .

*but not bad, grrr!

I love it! Incredible to cooking and I clean it with a cream cleaner and kitchen roll and it still looks shiny and brand new.

I was always a gas devote. Bought up with it and lived with it for years in my first home and bought a bloody great gas range when we moved again into a cottage.

Then moved into a place with a normal electric ceramic hob and was all prepared to hate it and WOW. Loved it. No more farting about with rings and bits and pieces to clean. Total 360 turn around.

Now stuck back with a tiny gas cooker again at the mo. Hating it. I recon i'll like an induction. Got elderly mother living with me who's known nothing but gas all her life and is very resistant to change. Wont be easy but it's got to be done ...

I love the induction. We use cast iron and analon pans. Brilliant. Would never go back to gas. Even my mum agrees.

Im 62 and was "a gas cooker/hob is best " person. Until we went on holiday in a self catering cottage with a touch induction hob.
Im a total convert, I love everything about it and look admiringly at its cleanliness every day. I had one fitted asap when we got home.
I also really enjoyed throwing out all of my unmatched pots and pans and buying new ones.