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How To Choose Cooktop

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The different types of cooktops

There are three main types of cooktops to choose from:Gas cooktops

Ideal if you’re after instant heat control.

Pros

  • Provides visual feedback when you raise and lower the flame.Cooktop Repair Services Airdrie
  • Variety of designs and finishes, including enamel, glass and stainless steel as well as enamel or cast iron trivets.
  • If you love to cook stir-fries, many come with a specially designed burner for woks.
  • Some rectangular cooktops with five or six burners have an oblong shaped burner to use with a grill or hotplate for barbecuing.

Cons

  • Cast iron trivets can be bulky and difficult to clean.
  • While they’re more stylish, glass and stainless steel finishes require more effort when cleaning.

Before buying, check that mains gas is available where you live. If it isn’t and you’re still set on a gas cooktop, then you can use bottled LPG with many models, but keep in mind this is more expensive than mains gas.

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Ceramic cooktops

Worth considering if you’re after a sleek and stylish design.

Pros

  • They have a continuous surface with few to no dirt traps, so they’re easy to clean.
  • They are particularly useful for cooking foods that require very low temperatures, such as melting chocolate.

Cons

  • Not as instantly controllable as gas.
  • Slower to respond to changes in the temperature setting.
  • Spills can bake on, so you need to wipe them up quickly and there’s often no lip around the edge of the cooktop to contain spills.
  • The ceramic glass holds heat, so you’d need to take care with delicate foods and be careful once it’s switched off. Many come with residual-heat warning lights that stay on until the surface reaches a safe temperature.

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Induction cooktops

For superior performance and stylish design look no further than an induction cooktop. Induction works via a magnetic field that essentially turns your cookware into the heating element.

Pros

  • Fastest cooking method and just as controllable as gas.
  • Very quick to heat up
  • Responds instantly to temperature changes
  • Food is cooked via the heat of the cookware, not from the cooktop itself so the cooktop doesn’t get hot.

Cons

  • Generally more expensive than ceramic or gas cooktops.
  • You can only use certain types of cookware that are compatible with induction. Suitable cookware needs to have a ferrous base.

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Radiant coil and solid hotplate cooktops

Ceramic and induction are by far the two main types of electric cooktops but there are two cheaper options – radiant coil and solid hotplate. However, they aren’t as widely available.

Radiant coil cooktops utilise a coil element to heat the cookware. The coils can be a hassle to clean. Some can be unplugged and removed while others have a hinge so you can lift them for easier access to the drip trays underneath.

Solid hotplate cooktops have a solid metal disk for each hotplate that’s slower than all other types of cooktops to heat up and extremely slow to cool down. This also makes them the least controllable.

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