replacing a gas hob for an electric one

[sevylad]

Hi all,
I don't know if this is a valid question or not, but we(the wife and i) have seen a double range oven we really like, but it's dual fuel (gas hob and electric oven).Well i don't want to go through the rigmerole of getting gas pipes in, so my question is: can i take the gas hob off and fit an electric one.I would appreciate any answers as o'm due to pick it up in 3 days.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Why don't you just buy a range that has not only the oven but also the hob powered by electric.
Seems pointless buying a dual fuel range, if you want to avoid rigmarole
And to avoid further rigmarole, I would investigate your electrical installation to make sure provisions are in place for the cookers output and a suitable circuit is available.

 

[ericmark]

With a belling cooker with ceramic hob I looked into the idea of swapping hob for an induction hob.

However when I checked there was going to be a problem with cooling ducts and supply size.

With the ready built unit the whole stand alone unit (FSE60i) needed 32A but as a stand alone hob (Belling PBi60R) needed a 32A supply and oven needed a separate supply.
Oven 2.7kW (BI90MF) [13A]
Hob 6.96kW (All for heating areas of PBi60R) [31A]
Max supply size 32A both in fact what the house had and also max permitted by manufacturer.

Add to this ducting problems to ensure the hob did not over heat then really a non starter.

As to a range cooker in the main it is the size of cooking area which give them the advantage. But they are lagging behind in electric versions with as far as I can see no company offering an induction hob on a range cooker. With a 580mm wide induction hob needing nearly full 32A supply to have a hob wider would likely require more power than a normal house supply can provide so one would likely include a domino gas hob to take up extra width and provide the one function (Wok burner) which the electric induction ceramic hobs lack.

Although you can get 5 area hobs 700mm wide all I have seen which were electric had silly touch controls and having tried to use touch controls I would never have them now. Knob for me every time. Especially with induction as whole idea is fast response to controls and if you have to press touch controls multi times to change settings then one can't do that fast. My mother had touch controls and only way to stop pan boiling over was to move pan as took too long to turn down heat. Mine has knobs so I can turn down heat as quick with knob as with moving pan.

I will agree the speed is only something which induction can do. With other types of hob they don't cool quick anyway. So you still need to move pan.

I will admit the ceramic hobs with built in type tend to be proud of work surface, so any small spill goes onto work top. Where stand alone units tend to have a small rim around them, so small spills are retained within the hob area allowing easy cleaning of spills.

Hence we went for a stand alone unit which also has an oven at 2kW and a grill at 2.7kW which can be used together. Where with built in units often to keep within the 13A total you have to select oven or grill or the grills are much smaller.

Although our Belling does seem a great unit. It has two problems when compared with earlier Belling without induction hob.
1) No splash back included.
2) Selves have no positive stop and can easy fall out of oven.
With latter we have hair pins now to stop them from falling out. My mothers oven can have runners like used in filling cabinets holding shelve level and fixed within oven. These are not available for Belling.

Why did we get Belling! Simple at the time it was the only stand alone unit with induction hob. But will admit build quality has fallen compared with Belling bought in 1982.

 

[Taylortwocities]

my question is: can i take the gas hob off and fit an electric one.I.

The short answer is no. It would be a nightmare to do and you would invalidate any warranty with anything involved (you fire insuarance too, I would suggest!).

If you want to do it easily then buy a separate oven and separate hob but (as noted above) you can as easily just buy an all electric range cooker.

But why would you want to. A gas hob is miles better.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

But they are lagging behind in electric versions with as far as I can see no company offering an induction hob on a range cooker.

Falcon have two 1100mm cookers in their range with induction hobs.

I'm sure they can't be the only one.

With a 580mm wide induction hob needing nearly full 32A supply to have a hob wider would likely require more power than a normal house supply can provide

Total appliance ratings (with hob boost) of the 2 Falcon models are 15.6 & 17.9kW.

With other types of hob they don't cool quick anyway.

Gas does.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

But why would you want to. A gas hob is miles better.

He hasn't got a gas supply.

 

[Taylortwocities]

But why would you want to. A gas hob is miles better.

He hasn't got a gas supply.

I just knew there would be a snag. Curses .