On induction hobs

When I bought the new kitchen (which in every respect apart from this one has worked out fine) – I made one major mistake and bought an integrated cooker with it. I guess this cost me £500 and is the worst cooker I have ever used.

To get the less urgent problem out of the way first – it has an awful oven. Basically if you want to make a dish with any height (a roast chicken or a casserole in a pot for example) there is only one usable shelf.

But a much worse problem is that I stupidly bought an induction hob when the cooker is only wired through a normal 13 Amp plug connection. This means that there is by no means enough power to turn on all the rings at the same time. One ring at full power uses up to 7 Amp, so if I put one on full and then try to run a second one, the hob tries to pull enough power for both, fails and starts switching the temperature on both up and down to compensate. The result of this is that you can’t have two rings on anything like full at the same time – a bit of a disaster for the keen cook.

So the situation is made worse by something I discovered today. R and I went all the way to Dundee to look at cookers in Curry’s and well that we did because we discovered that the freestanding gas cooker I had been going to buy will not fit into the slot for the integrated cooker without demolishing one of the new kitchen units. Disaster!

So all I can do for now is buy a new gas hob so that at least I can cook the vegetables for the Christmas dinner this year. How I will do the turkey is another matter…