New cooker nightmare

[JeffFaFa]

Not sure if this is the right place but ive just bought a new cooker with ceramic hob. My last cooker broke down and it was really knackered. It was an old tricity bendix number purchased second hand 10 years ago with coil hobs and cooked things quickly on its 2 working hobs, except in one pot that i bought from asdas i believe stainless steel where water would never boil in it and i presumed it was due to faulty cooker.

So new cooker with ceramic hob (not induction) i thought would be fab compared to old one but its not..... The hobs take such a long time to heat anything and my asda pot still wont boil! it took me 45 mins to cook a pot of pasta! which came out all stuck together am i doing something wrong? the manual says not to use alluminium pots yet all my other pots are alluminium im sure, they seem to work i.e they will boil all be it still slowly but left marks on the cooker, this one asda pot those just wont heat! i want to buy all new pots but what ones, who would of thought pots and pans could cause such a dilema

You need special pots with the right sort of bottoms....I don't know which though. This is one reason I have avoided ceramic hobs...gas for me please"

You do need pans with very flat bottoms. Apart from quite cheap pans, they usually have a flat plate welded to the bottom, which might look like stainless, copper or aluminium.

The flat plate is to make good contact with the electric hotplate or ceramic surface.

Gas hobs it doesn't matter as the flame will touch anyway.

thanks both pots i have the ones in the set and the one i bought from asda that never boils have a bit on the bottom, i was going to buy tefal pots in the hope they will be better but dont want to waste £50 if they are not. Very confused lol

I have a ceramic hob, and have ordinary stainless steel saucepans I bought in Sainsbury's sale one Christmas, a lot like this. They are nothing special, but are flat on the base, and they work fine with the two different ceramic hobs we've had.