Would you buy an induction hob again?

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Considering one in my kitchen re-design, so would be great to gauge any MN owners views!

Yes. Absolutely. I really love my induction hob - both for cooking and ease of cleaning.

I viewed a house today with an induction hob and it was a positive feature. I’ve been dreading having to go back to a gas hob (which pretty much every other house I’ve looked at had).

Yes, it was my first purchase for my current house.

I’m not sure I’d get one again. I don’t find mine very good for stir frying or frying bacon or steak or anything like that.

love mine! Quick to use, easy to clean and cooks evenly. Will always now install one if I ever move house!

Hell yes!

Yes, yes, yes - it's fabulous. I would never go back. It has been as transformative as getting a dishwasher - which is saying something!

In a heartbeat. The best hob EVER!

Yes. I was unsure so I put in a four ring induction hob and a two ring gas hob next to it for flexibility.
I had quite a few very good, expensive pans that didn't work on induction and had wanted a six-ring hob anyway.

Love the induction. Quick and clean and controllable.

I had an Aga which was a nightmare, I had to buy an induction hotplate for the summer months, because I couldn't stand the heat from the Aga in the summer. I loved the induction hotplate so much that I got rid of the Aga and replaced it with an induction hob and oven. I still love it.

If I ever move it will be the first thing I buy, if the house hasn't already got an induction hob (along with a dishwasher). .

Love it - so quick and easy to clean. The pans piece is a bit of a red herring unless they are really cheap. It is so quick and easy to clean, best thing we put in neww kitchen!

Yes. We have a five ring one and I love it. I tend to grill bacon/sausages though but it works great for stir fries. Finding a good wok was the hardest bit in that regard.

We live in a village with no gas though so our options were a bit limited.

Yep definitely.

We replaced our gas hob with one last year and we love it. If we move, we'll be installing one in the new place if there isn't one already.

Yes I love ours, it’s a Neff one, a linear one rather than a square one

Total convert have installed them in our current house and last and love that all they need is a wipe down.

No! We hate ours. It is easy to clean but horrid to cook on.
Our new house has no gas but we are having a dual fuel range put in and will run the hob from LPG.
I'd never have induction out of choice.

Absolutely! Would never have gas or ceramic again.
I'm panicking now that when DS goes to uni he won't know how to cook on any other type of hob and will probably burn stuff by leaving it on a ceramic one!

I had a patch where I moved around different houses for 7 months - could never get used to the induction hobs and greeted my gas hob with huge relief. But maybe it just takes more time.

One thing I love is how responsive and controllable they are. If I put mine on 9, it's like warp speed - I can really get a pan boiling fast. If I turn it down to 1, it's a slow cooker. I'm making caponata at the moment, and I'll let it sit for 4 hours on setting 1 to thicken very slowly and gently. Wonderful.

Please can the couple of people that said they don't like them explain why?

I've only used one twice when on holiday and didn't get on very well but I assumed it was the lack of instruction book and that I didn't know what I was doing.

I'm still considering getting one.

My top tip for bacon is to bake it. You get great crispy results, much better than frying it.

I always bake bacon too.

I had one once and wouldn’t be keen to run out and buy another. I found it annoying that if you had multiple pans on the top, they couldn’t all be on high heat. If you turned one up to 9, it would turn one of the others down. The constant beeping if you didn’t put a pan in the right place, or took a pan off without turning the hob off drove me mad. I also don’t really like the look of them. I much prefer the aga.

I found it annoying that if you had multiple pans on the top, they couldn’t all be on high heat. If you turned one up to 9, it would turn one of the others down.

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Mine is one of the siemens ones where the entire surface is "hob", so wherever you put a pan it works ("Flexinduction"?). And it has a massive feed from the mains so you can run all the zones at full power the whole time. Beyond that there is a boost setting where you get the power from multiple zones shoveled to one zone, but you only use that on special occasions. It fixes the issues I hear people complain about. Not cheap, though.