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I am putting a new kitchen in the flat we rent out. It's going to be electric. Which is the most robust and reliable type? I have not used one myself for decades
What one is most likely to survive the tenants?
Ta folks
Depends on your target market and if they like to cook. You could put in an electric plate hob and it will be durable and reliable but pants to cook on as it takes so long changing temperture. You could put in a better electric ceramic hob with glass surface but will need to pay for scratch resistance but will be better for cooking on. You could splash out on a nice induction hob which would be best to cook on but will be most expensive.
Ta
Target market is posh
Induction hobs need steel pans IIRC? And we have an alloy set
Test them with a magnet, your pans might have an encapsulated base, if it sticks it they will work with induction.
Ta
Induction hob for sure, even if it means new pans. So much easier to keep clean, arguably safer too.
It is quite extraordinary how glass hobs get treated in rented flats; people sit on them at parties and stuff. Less of a problem if they're not students though. Edinburgh Components is round the corner from you TJ and have a stock of white goods stuff at good prices (funny opening hours!).
I'm not a keen cook, but I wouldn't condemn my worst enemy to one of the plate hobs we had when we were renting. Cheapest of the cheap, I don't know what they thought we might do with a better one but they had a deposit anyway.
Induction, and go to ikea & get a set of induction pans
We have one of those glass red glowing electric job things. I don’t really like it but that’s for no good reason other than I’d rather have gas, but that’s not an option, and actually it’s pretty useful and works well. It also doubles as extra work surface as the whole thing is flat; just don’t accidentally twizzle a knob as you walk past when there’s a birthday cake plonked on it... please don’t ask me how I know this 😳😳😳
Also I’m not posh. Posh people love induction gobs because they are the most expensive and other reasons, which may or may not coincide with how they justify their Audi/Merc/BMW...
I've stayed in more than a lifetimes worth a shitey and not so shitey rented flats.
Plate hobs are student halls, bedsit, doss house and scummy flat territory.
Ceramic are OK but fairly high chance of damage as it's easy to melt stuff onto them and set fire to stuff. Also can be damaged by overenthusiastic cleaning.
Induction for the win. Best to cook on, not as easy to destroy.
Ta folks
Sounds like induction is the best bet
I have skipped the plate hob that was there before
We have a rangemaster in a semi-commercial setting. We can destroy anything, so far it's survived relatively unscathed and we're expecting to get ten years from it. Previously we had a John Lewis branded Smeg. Survived 6+ years, except for a couple of replacement knobs which where very expensive (cause it was Smeg bits I guess).