Induction Hob

Hiya John.

What is the electrical loading of the proposed Induction hob, and do you have a dedicated circuit to connect it into, if found necessary.

In addition do you know your Incoming Electrical supply contracted Potencia, or Service capacity  ? 

LeckyLes 

Stick to gas much cheaper 

We used to use gas in UK, but our house here is all electric, so we do have an induction hob. I would never now, from choice, return to gas; this is cleaner, as easy to control as gas was, and extremely efficient.  I would not, however, want a standard ceramic hob.

One point to consider is that you will have to throw out all your existing pans and buy new, as you cannot successfully or efficiently use any that have been used on gas on a ceramic surface, which needs 100% contact. Any pan which has been used on gas will have distortions, possibly invisible, but they will be there. This will reduce the efficiency of cooking. Also they will have to be iron/steel, aluminium cannot be used, nor ‘pyrex’ type glass.

Don’t buy purely on the basis of price, quite often the more expensive manufacturers re more expensive for a reason and it’s usually down to quality of components and build standards.

I say all the above with the benefit of many years in the quality kitchen/bathroom design world.

all wired the same but you will need to buy all new pots & pans etc as they have to be the special induction type

Joncon, from personal experience the induction hob is not the way to go.  It might be easy to clean but the electrical side of things may be a problem.

Ours in the UK needed 12mm cable because of the current draw.  Most Spanish supplies will not support this, which is why most folk stick with gas.  It could need a whole new supply for which you pay more per Kw/hr.

Don't be tempted to get one that goes into a normal socket.  We had one which had 4 'rings' but no matter what you turn on, it lowers the others down to stay within the capacity of the socket the net effect being it was virtually impossible to cook anything. So we ditched that and went for the wired-in version.

With the more robust UK supply, it still draws nearly as much current as a conventional electric hob.

As others have mentioned none of your existing pots and pans will work on an induction hob. Every one must have a steel base.

The cost of upgrading to a set of decent pans is not inconsiderable, as we found out!!

My best advice would be to stick with the gas hob and put up with the bottle changing unless you are lucky enough to have natural gas.

If we move, we will go back to gas, but at least we can keep the pans!!

Thanks for that sort of had an idea that Induction could cause us a problem with the upgrade required on the wiring .

I think it might end up a gas replacement but just a quick question does halogen require alteration to the supply there is a 2.5 mm cable connection to the existing electric oven which doesn’t need any where near that so wondering if that would suffice.

Just a bit nervous about leaving the gas bottle in place when we’re not there 

Cheers for the reply good advice 👍

Hi  Joncon

A 2.5mm cable will be nowhere near adequate for a proper built in hob. It will draw anything up up to 40 amps. Spanish supplies simply don't do that.

A 3kW supply to your house will give you only 13 amps.

It would operate the plug-in type I originally mentioned, but again, don't go that way, you will not be happy.

John, without confirming the details requested in my earlier reply, you are not going to recieve a definate and reliable answer to your question,  but good luck with your project.

LeckyLes 

I like to think my replies are accurate based on available information and personal experience.

I also was an electrical engineer.