Induction hob
Aldi have a single ring induction cooker hob available from later this week and I wondered whether it would be a useful additional cooker particularly when in France when some cooking could be done outside using the external power point. At £29.99 it seems to be a bargain having five preset cooking programmes, a three hour timer, touch sensitive buttons and automatic detection of pan suitability. The write up doesn't give any power consumption figures so I would have to check this in store before purchase. Does anyone have any thoughts and comments? We've never cooked using an induction hob.
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The one I found on their site for that money was online only. However, it did have power consumption figures. You could select anything from 200 to 2000 watts in 200 increments. So would be very suitable on that basis. No idea about if our pans would work though.
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I love my induction hob in fact I started with a single which is now for caravan use and got a double for the house. They do not work with copper bottomed pans or with aluminum. Stainless Steel and cast iron are both fine. Mine will bring water to the boil and keep it there on the 120 setting I rather think the highest settings would be too much for EHU but never use them anyway unless in a huge rush to boil water. The only slight minus I have found is the lowest setting can be a little fast for some things watch the milk! But there is a heat deflector you can buy if you need it. They are easy to clean too and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend. Be careful if you wear a pacemaker though some brands are not compatible! But from what I gathered you would have to stay within a few inches for a long time for any ill effect but worth checking out. Someone wanted a warning put on all makes in case. But to me it would make more sense for the pacemaker to have the warning as not all pacemakers are affected!
My double induction hob came from Andrew James can't remember where the single one came from uktvdirect possibly.
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We have induction at home. I love gas but hate cleaning the rings. When we refitted the kitchen 5 years ago we went for the induction, as controllable and responsive as gas, doddle to wipe over but can be scratched! If you remove a pan it turns itself off if its not returned quickly. But that's not the way to control it 😉. But great if you happen to forget. Stays very cool to the touch at all times once pan removed another huge plus. Biggest drawback is the type of pan required, it must be magnetic, so need to check out your pans! Whenever I have my eye on a pan I use the magnet on my phone case 😉. If it doesn't stick its no use. Can't help on amps/watts beyond my pay grade 😂😂😂
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Steve, I am sure that I have seen an advertisement for a cast iron disc to sit below your copper bottomed pans. That was intended to heat up & transfer the heat to the pan sitting on top.
How effective, or SAFE {!} it might be was not mentioned !!
The safety bit comes when you lift the pan away you must lift off the 'Plate' as well or it would continue heating.
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When we re-fitted our kitchen the full replacement pans cost 3 times the cost of the induction hob. The old copper bottoms are packed away incase we ever move and have gas again.
But, would thoroughly recommend cooking with induction.
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When we re-fitted our kitchen the full replacement pans cost 3 times the cost of the induction hob. The old copper bottoms are packed away incase we ever move and have gas again.
But, would thoroughly recommend cooking with induction.
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And other forms of stirring but they are great really. 
