Electric stove. How to choose?

Electric stove is an integral part of almost any kitchen. Various manufacturers of home appliances for many years are developing more advanced models. A huge variety of this technology in the modern market involves certain difficulties associated with the choice of a suitable model. In order to determine how to choose an electric stove suitable for your kitchen, and not overpay for advertised, but often unnecessary functions, it is worth following some tips.

First of all, when purchasing a slab you need to ask yourself some questions, about what and how often do you intend to cook? What functions will the purchased plate, interior or its immediate functional tasks perform? The answer to these simple questions is guaranteed to save you from unnecessary financial costs.

To begin with, the electric cooker must match the dimensions of the kitchen. To date, there are devices with the ability to adjust them for the height of the serving table. Dimensions of the hob vary from 50 to 90 centimeters. The most proven traditional cooking hobs are made of enamel. Low cost, good strength cause a fairly high popularity of this type of plates in the population. But it has some drawbacks: enamel is quite difficult to clean from various traces, formed during cooking, after some time it may appear scratches and chips.

In turn, the electric cooker on the basis of the glass-ceramic panel is practically devoid of such drawbacks. Typically, these slabs are equipped with an electronic type control, while observing simple rules it is fairly easy to keep clean. Glass ceramics has a high margin of safety, but at the same time has a low coefficient of strength characteristics with respect to point impacts. Simply put, it is not necessary to hang different kitchen utensils over it, because, for example, a knife falling with a rib can easily split it. Since the materials that all companies use to manufacture glass-ceramic panels are essentially the same and are supplied from France, Germany or the US, there is no point in spending huge money on super-expensive plates. It should be remembered that the quality of the hob relatively cheap plate is no different from the most expensive samples, and in this case it is not worth overpaying.

A modern electric cooker based on a glass-ceramic panel allows you to safely and quickly cook food using various utensils in this process. The heating zones of such boards allow using not only a round dish, but also an oval shape, and the expansion zone allows the possibility of adjusting to a pan, or a large pan.

Electric stove with oven

The presence of an oven very often plays a decisive role when choosing an electric cooker. There are varieties of ovens, which are divided into static, as well as multifunctional. The static version of the oven is traditional, but definitely obsolete. Despite its cheapness, if you expect quite a lot of dishes to cook in the oven, you better not save and buy a stove with a multi-function oven. The principal difference from a static oven is the use of convection properties, that is, the distribution of hot air through the internal area of the entire oven in a uniform manner. This device will allow you to prepare tasty and very useful food and, undoubtedly, will fully allow to realize all your culinary abilities and talents.

Practically in any specialized store, as well as in the online store, there is a huge range of electric plates of the most famous brands: Beko, Elektrolux, Ariston, Indesit, Hansa. To all electric plates purchased in stores, a warranty card from the manufacturer is enclosed.