hob is deemed as one of the most important electric appliances in kitchen. A favorable hob can be used effectively for over the years. However when you see the hobs with various specifications and types in the shop, you have no idea which one to choose. To help you find the most adequate coking stoves, the brief descriptions of several common hobs are presented in the following pages, together with the advantages and disadvantages of each type of hob.
Built-in VS Free-standning hobs
Firstly select either the built-in or free-standning hobs
Built-in hobs
The built-in hob has been popular in recent yearly. The valuable space of kitchen can be saved through adopting the built-in hob, and the built-in hob can be seamlessly connected with kitchen table. A design of the kitchen can accordingly be concise and high-end. The hob can be easily cleaned as it is built-in in the kitchen. Only the surface of hob shall be cleaned. The electric wire and tube of built-in hob can be hidden as to keep from the external materials. However, a premise shall be met for installing the built-in hob that the kitchen surface can open pores, or that the kitchen cupboard can match the built-in hob. Otherwise merely the free-standning hob can be installed in the kitchen. If you are moving to a new house, or renovating your kitchen, the built-in hob is the optimal choice.
Free-standning hobs
The free-standning hob is relatively conventional that less Hong Kong people are using. Hence the specifications of this free-standning hob are less to be selected. The biggest advantage of this type is the removability. It can be removed at any time conveniently. For instance the small-sized free-standning hob can be applied in the living room as the hot pot. The removal and installation of free-standning hob is easy without considering the matching with kitchen cabinet. The disadvantage of this free-standning hob is that it is hard to be cleaned. The hexahedral free-standning hob is easier to be contaminated, compared with the built-in hob merely exposing the surface of stove. It the food or soup is effused during the cooking, the surroundings of the free-standning hob shall be contaminated.
Gas hob VS Electric hob
If you want to buy a hob, it is vital for you to know which type you need. The hob can be most easily classified as gas hob or electric hob. As for the electric hob, most people select the induction cooker. For this reason, we shall mainly compare the gas hob and induction cooker. The hobs in different types shall be equipped with different burners. Each burner has its own advantages and advantages. Some hob shall merely be matched with the exclusive cooker.
Gas Hob
Hong Kong people stress the importance of Wok Qi while cooking. For this reason, the powerful gas hob has been well embraced by Hong Kong families. The gas hob adopts the open fire burner. This burner is featured with metal rack as to support the cookware in the same shape. The gas hob has been applied for years as a tradition and even presently this hob is still being applied for cooking in Hong Kong families. The gas hob has the real time heating and user-friendly properties. Additionally any cookware can be applied on this stove. The gas hob shall be your optimal choice as you have the cook wares with different cooking materials or as you high require the powerful hob for cooking (like you frequently cook the Chinese food in large amount).
Advantages
- Capable of real-time heating, highly powerful
- Flexible fire control without the fixed temperature intervals
- Easy to use
- Perfect match with cook ware containing any cooking materials
- Rapid cooling after cooking
Disadvantages
- Open fire cooking is not allowed in the open kitchen
- Requiring gas supply (petroleum gas or town gas), hence not suitable for domestic application
- Given the heater and metal rack are set on the burner, the gas hob is hard to be cleaned.
- Less efficiency in energy than electric hob
- Traditional design, lagging behind the trendy design of induction cooker
- Creating more lampblack compared with induction cooker
- Leakage of town gas
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Induction Cooker
In recent years, electric hobs have been increasingly popular. Besides the factor that open kitchen does not allow the open fire cooking, Hong Kong people’s growing concern of safety and health is perceived as a vital reason. The energy efficiency of electric hob shall reach 90% through adopting electric hob. The cooking time of electric hob shall be one third faster than that of open fire hob, saving the energy and resource. Additionally the electric charge is less expensive than that of coal gas in Hong Kong, and the electrical hobs having been rolled out in recent years are becoming increasingly intelligent. The urgent problem, lack of fire, is effectively
Advantages
- The surrounding temperature shall not be raised while cooking.
- The fireless cooking shall reduce the possibility of fire outbreak, the people cooking shall not be burned.
- The electric hob does not have the combustion process. Hence the hazardous substance shall not be generated to jeopardize the human health.
- As the surface of stove is plat, the stove is easy to be cleaned merely through using the dishcloth.
- Being highly energy-efficient; saving money; being environmental-friendly
- Easy to be installed; Immediate use after connecting the electricity
- Without the stove rack or button, being more practical in space and concise and fashionable in appearance
- Setting time for auto-fire extinguishment, without concerning the consequence of forgetting the fire extinguishment
Disadvantages
- Low controllability in fire as this type of stove has fixed temperature intervals and the fire is leveled.
- Merely the special cook wares can be used on this stove (common steel or metal pans, the majority of stainless steel pans), whereas the cookware of aluminium or ceramics cannot be used on the stove.
- Less heating area than open fire hob as the open fore shall expand to the surrounding of the pans.
- The open fire cooking is normally powerful.
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Hobs VS Range Cookers
Another factor to be considered is whether you need an individual hob or a stove with oven. This question is easy for people to decide. Most Hong Kong people are using the individual hob. And yet you still can refer to the advantages and disadvantages of various hobs.
Range cooker is popular in foreign countries. This oven integrates the hob and the oven. The range cooker is basically set on the floor like refrigerators or washing machine. The hob and the oven can be used when the power is connected. The advantage of range cooker is that it is cheaper for people to but an integrated machine than two separated machines, without considering the floor of kitchen. (The individual hob, either the built-in or free-standning hob shall cover the floor in kitchen) You do not have to worry about the distance for heat dissipation between the hob and the oven as this distance is well calculated by the manufacturer.
The disadvantages are as follow: The range cooker is limited in selection. As the size of hob is fixed, the size shall be large enough. Otherwise the multiple burners can not be simultaneously used. If you usually use the Chinese-style Wok, this Wok is too large to be flat-wise set on two burners. Additionally partial kitchens in Hong Kong have already fixed the area of table. There won’t be sufficient place for installing the range cooker.
The individual hob and the oven shall lay a solid foundation for freely selecting your desirable electric appliance. The electric appliances can be abundantly changed in matching. For instance, you may want to buy the new-style gas hob to replace the traditional hob, or the gas hob, electric hob or even the electric ceramic stove can be selected as the hob. If you select the combination of built-in hob and the built-in oven, your kitchen can be more clean and tidy, perfecting matched with your kitchen cabinet.
