Cooker / Induction Hob isolation

[SpecialK]

Assuming the induction hob has touch sensitive buttons you will need a switch to clean the hob, otherwise it will beep in error....

 

[echoes]

I've had to isolate cookers in a hurry twice:
1. Old belling electric cooker in a student friend's house: one of the hob elements started to catastrophically self destruct;
2. Fat fire in a grill I left on and shut the oven door.

Both these incidents needed the power disconnecting pretty quickly to prevent major damage or a house fire, and on both occasions there was a big red 'cooker' switch nearby. Neither incident caused an automatic disconnection.

 

[securespark]

I'm beginning to wonder if it's one of these hangovers from older regulations, which still gets passed down the generations.

I can't find any specific reference to it in BS7671

Yeah, I think that's in the 14th. I'll have a sniff and let you know.