I would say if getting an induction cooker look at how fast you can control it. With a knob easy, you see milk about to boil over and you simply turn it down/off and you get instant response no need to lift the pan, but some touch controls are simply too slow, you need to select ring, then multi presses to turn down once one has removed oven gloves as the touch controls with not work with gloves on. Also bend down to child/wheel chair height, can you still see the display, best seems to be knobs, touch control was so you can clean easy, but with induction it is easy to clean anyway stuff does not get baked on.
I do see the safety aspect of using an induction hob, mine has a max temperature after which it turns down, then off, and child locks which the children love to set as wife has not learnt how to disable it, and no red hot surface. But not all induction hobs have the safety features, and there is nothing to stop you taking the cooker with you when you move and new residents fitting a halogen hob, and my mother had to have the induction hob removed due to her pace maker and a halogen one fitted instead.
So if you don't want an induction hob tell the LABC you have a pace maker so can't use induction hobs.
P.S. when her pace maker was changed they said she could now use an induction hob, seems the old pace maker did not comply with regs, on EMC not the cooker.
