Thanks to the technical progress the life of housewives has become much easier and more comfortable. Especially it concerns questions of cooking. Today, household appliances stores are full of various equipment: cooking surfaces of various modifications, ovens, combines, and much more.
Gas cooktops use special consumer love. They have the highest technical characteristics and can work both from natural gas from stationary communications and from balloon gas. This allows you to transfer the hob and install it anywhere in a short time. However, to ensure that the gas hob has met all expectations, it should be properly selected. What to look for when choosing?
Construction
First of all, it is worth choosing the design of this kitchen equipment. The hob can be together with the oven or separately from it.
In the first case, from an ordinary gas cooker, the hob differs in size, which is more compact.
Material
Next, you should pay attention to the material from which the panel is made. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages, so it is worthwhile to approach this issue very carefully.
So glass ceramics costs equipment more, but does not make the panel better, because with a point impact( falling of a spoon or cover) or cold water on a hot surface, the panel bursts. Enamel surfaces are one of the most common and durable, but require careful care. Also particularly strong are aluminum alloys.
Mirror hobs can decorate any kitchen and make an original touch in the interior, but they quickly lose their appearance due to scratches that quickly appear during operation. The optimum properties and characteristics are provided by gas cooking surfaces made of stainless steel.
Burners
After selecting the material from which the cooking surface is made, you need to determine the number of burners and their appearance. On sale there are panels not only with a standard set of hotplates( 2 or 4), but even with one or three and six. And the burners themselves differ today in the degree and method of supplying the gas.
The most effective of all is a burner with three modes of gas supply. There are as many as three rows of holes through which gas enters, and this allows the tanks to be heated more evenly. Modern technologies offer a very wide range of burners: triangular, oval, rotatable.
All gas hobs are equipped with grills. They can be individual for each burner or for the entire cooking surface as a whole.
Gas supply
The gas and flame supply control system is one of the most important selection parameters. The flame is adjusted both manually and electronically.
Modern gas hobs also have many other functions, but they often just make the technique more expensive. Therefore, you need to think several times, but do you need these attributes or you can do without them.