Induction cooking, and the last gas appliance in the house
Cooking is only about 5% of the energy bill in a typical Victorian home. It is rarely the reason people switch. The reason is usually everything else gas does to your kitchen.
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The cooktop is usually what keeps the gas connection alive
Plenty of homes have already moved hot water and heating across to electricity. Then they keep paying a daily supply charge on the gas account for one appliance.
Take the cooktop out and the connection can go with it. That supply charge disappears whether you cook on it that day or not.
What changes in the kitchen
Speed
Induction puts the heat straight into the pan rather than the air around it. Water boils faster than gas, noticeably so.
Air quality
Burning gas indoors puts combustion products into the room you cook and eat in. An induction top burns nothing.
A cooler kitchen
The surface only heats where the pan sits. In a Melbourne summer that is the difference between cooking and not bothering.
Cleaning
One flat sheet of glass. No trivets to lift out, no burner caps to scrub, nothing baked into the corners.
What about the pans?
Induction needs cookware a magnet will stick to. Cast iron, carbon steel and most stainless are fine. Aluminium and copper without a magnetic base are not.
The test takes five seconds. Put a fridge magnet on the base of your favourite pan. If it grips, it works.
Most kitchens lose one or two pieces in the changeover. It is rarely the dealbreaker people expect.
- Magnetic cookware only
- Needs a dedicated circuit, which we install
- Control is by touch, not knobs
- Pairs with solar like any other electric appliance
Getting the last appliance off gas
We handle the cooktop, the circuit and the gas disconnection as one job, so you are not coordinating an electrician and a plumber yourself.
Still have questions?
Only the ones a magnet will not stick to. Cast iron, carbon steel and most stainless work as they are. Aluminium and copper without a magnetic base will not.
It needs a dedicated circuit back to the switchboard. Our electricians handle that as part of the install.
Yes. The heat goes into the pan rather than around it, so very little is wasted heating your kitchen instead of your dinner.
If the cooktop is your last gas appliance, yes, and that removes the daily supply charge. We can arrange the disconnection at the same time.
Cooktops sit outside the main rebate programs in most cases, but they are usually done alongside heating or hot water upgrades that do attract one. We will tell you where you stand before you commit.
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