ceramic hob pain

[stevebuk]

we just had our new kitchen fitted and we decided on a nice new black ceramic hob for it, bloody thing shows up every damn mark and you just cant get it clean, Mr Muscle is crap, and several other brands too, i have just ordered a hob scraper to get rid of potato water that spilled over, it just wont budge, so what do you use on yours, assuming you have one of course.. :twisted:

 

[Paul Chapman]

We clean ours with Hob Brite (Tesco stocks it). It's really good. Any burnt on stuff we scrape off with a Stanley paint scraper. Had ours for a few years and still looks almost as good as new.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Karl]

Agree with Paul - a scraper for burnt on stuff (LV do a nice one.....) and Hob Brite for cleaning.

Cheers

Karl

 

[adidat]

scraper and fairy liquid dose the job, i cant stand the noise though sends shivers up my spine

adidat

 

[DIY Stew]

Hob Brite for me too.

Stew

 

[moppetsdad]

We also use hob brite But if you grease the top edge of a pan with butter it should stop the pan boiling over I know for a fact it works with pasta but haven't tried it with spuds Seems strange I know but trust me it works, give it ago!

 

[misterfish]

This was always a problem with ceramic hobs, but a scraper and Hob Brite (plus a bit of elbow grease) would clean it all up nicely. Although it's not any consolation we now don't have the problem as we use an induction hob where the actual ceramic surface doesn't get as spills don't get burnt on and are easily wiped up even when hot.

Misterfish

 

[RogerS]

Interesting. What spuds do you use as when ours boil over, hot water shifts it.

 

[Digit]

My wife's had enough and given up on electric, I've just installed her a gas hob, much quicker response to heat adjustment and in about a month nothing has boiled over.

Roy.

 

[henton49er]

My wife's had enough and given up on electric, I've just installed her a gas hob, much quicker response to heat adjustment and in about a month nothing has boiled over.

Roy.

We have a Bosch induction hob. It will boil water faster than a kettle and is instantly adjustable. Its only problem is that, as with all induction hobs, it does not work on aluminium pans - they must be steel (as it relies on magnetism as a heat source).

Mike

 

[Digit]

My wife suffers badly from arthritis in her hands and as such only uses the lighter weight pans so induction types are out.
We considered the idea before I installed the gas hob, but her said NO!

Roy.

 

[stevebuk]

looks like Hob Brite it is then, thanks chaps..

 

[stevebuk]

Interesting. What spuds do you use as when ours boil over, hot water shifts it.

looks like you use inferior spuds to us then Roger..

 

[Lons]

Steve
We've had a black hob for a number of years now and I'd endorse what the others have said (though I did get a vast improvement recently by polishing it with my ros / sheepskin mop and a hard surface polish). I was polishing the worktops and got carried away :lol:

One word of caution though - being glass, they can over time suffer from micro sctatches in the surface if your missus is like mine and slides pans accross the thing instead of lifting them :x and of course the more scratched, the more difficult to keep clean!

Bob

 

[bugbear]

My wife's had enough and given up on electric, I've just installed her a gas hob, much quicker response to heat adjustment and in about a month nothing has boiled over.

Roy.

We have a Bosch induction hob. It will boil water faster than a kettle and is instantly adjustable. Its only problem is that, as with all induction hobs, it does not work on aluminium pans - they must be steel (as it relies on magnetism as a heat source).

Mike

Would it work with copper pans, should one be able to afford them?

BugBear

 

[henton49er]

Bugbear,

Doesn't work with our expensive copper pans from France; these have to go on our Stanley range cooker.

Mike.

 

[wobblycogs]

Bit late I know but we use Hob Brite too. Our hob is about 8 years old and I don't believe there is a single scratch in the surface (yet). We aren't particularly careful about scraping pans over it either.

I believe you can get copper and aluminium pans that have steel wire embedded in the base so that they can be used on induction hobs.

 

[Jonzjob]

Induction hobs need ferruos metal pans, or you can get a steel plate that sits on the hob and gets hot for using non ferrous jobbies. Seems to knacker the idea of instant heat and the hob getting hot though???

A good friend of ours dropped their pressure cooker on theirs and cracked the glass and it's a stand alone cooker/oven/grill :shock: Now they have to but a complete new cooker because a new hob is as expensive as the cooker!

Ours is GPL (well it is France and they now are members of OTAN ?)

 

[stevebuk]

happy to report the hob brite worked on its own as the scraper hasn't turned up yet, look forward to a lovely black hob for the future..

 

[whiskywill]

scraper and fairy liquid dose the job, i cant stand the noise though sends shivers up my spine

Noisy Fairy Liquid! What next? :mrgreen: