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New hob - breaking my heart...

  • 03-11-2008 4:43pm
    #1
    bonkey
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    Myself and Mrs. bonkey are shortly buying an apartment. It has a nice kitchen...with a more-or-less brand-new induction hob which we're really looking forward to.

    But...

    I discovered yesterday that my pans (Le Pentole) obviously changed the metal they were made of sometime since being designed. The newer base should work on induction (i.e. a magnet will stick to it), and the older base apparently won't (i.e. non-magnetic).

    I'm gutted.

    I love the pans, so the solution will be to buy a new set of the same ones...but there's something just wrong about replacing a perfectly good pan with what is effectively the same one again.


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  • #2
    Minder
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    Buy an induction adaptor plate - but it seems like a cheap and nasty solution. It might be cheaper to change the hob rather than buy a full set of new pans.


  • #3
    bonkey
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    Minder wrote: »
    Buy an induction adaptor plate - but it seems like a cheap and nasty solution.
    Thought about it....but I don't think so. Maybe, short-term, if I'm stuck.

    I've heard mixed comments about how well they work....anyone any experience?
    It might be cheaper to change the hob rather than buy a full set of new pans.

    Thought about that too...

    I've currently got 6 of this particular range. 1 of those will work. Of the other 5, I can live without 2, leaving me only three to replace....the three I most use :( That'll come in somewhere about 600-750 CHF (say 500 EUR max.) which is certainly less then the cost of the hob.

    Compared to the overall price of buying the new place....its peanuts. Still an expense I could live without, but hey...once its done, its done, right?


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