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Lakshmiramarao said:
Which is the best choice to buy hobtops with autoagnition-battery operated or power? (Suits to Indian needs)
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Hobtops are not suited for Indian cuisines, the flame doesn't cover the entire bottom of the vessel and takes more time to cook and in turn more wastage of gas.

If you still want one, you wouldn't go wrong with either a Glen or Faber.
 
Also, I would suggest to stay away from Auto-ignition models. The auto mechanism starts giving trouble sooner or later. No need to complicate a simple thing as turning on the stove.

Since this thread has already been opened, I hope you wouldn't mind me asking a question of my own.

Has anyone had an experience with split
Chimneys. I am tired of the ruckus my current Kaff chimney creates and am looking for something to replace it with. I came across split chimneys while searching online, where the motor and the fan unit are mounted outside the house, just like a split AC.
So can anyone shed light on the performance of such chimneys and which brand to go for.
 
sriharsha_m said:
Hobtops are not suited for Indian cuisines, the flame doesn't cover the entire bottom of the vessel and takes more time to cook and in turn more wastage of gas.
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This.

My mom always complains about that! Can't do anything now because granite is already cut (built-in hob) and can't find anything in that size with traditional brass burners. There is Faber with it's "pseudo"-brass burners but doubt it'll work well because it doesn't look like actual brass ones.
 
Lakshmiramarao said:
Which is the best choice to buy hobtops with autoagnition-battery operated or power? (Suits to Indian needs)
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who's got the time to keep changing the batteries? i got the mains version and it's connected to inverter.

rdst_1 said:
So can anyone shed light on the performance of such chimneys and which brand to go for.
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i had demoed couple of them but didn't buy because the design was too bland for me. they were just introduced in the market back then. all the brands work the same and they are indeed a tad bit less noisy.
 
[xubz] said:
This.

My mom always complains about that! Can't do anything now because granite is already cut (built-in hob) and can't find anything in that size with traditional brass burners. There is Faber with it's "pseudo"-brass burners but doubt it'll work well because it doesn't look like actual brass ones.
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:confused:Are you talking about hybrid burner (hob with burner kind of thing) when you referenced Pseudo brass burner?

I personally have alloy burner model from Glen, apparently they are more thermal efficient and have 5 yr warranty on the burner, while the brass burners have 1 yr warranty.

https://www.glenindia.com/stainless-steel-cooktops
 
^^ All these built-in hobs are directly dumped from Europe, without giving any thoughts to Indian style of cooking. Indian cuisines demand high heat and frying. Europeans just saute or boil. Their cookware is flat and these burners evenly spread heat.

Now after a lot of feedback, some companies have started to incorporate so called ugly-looking triple-flame Indian burners. Most of the designer brands still provide only one triple ring burner because they don't look so good on the clean lines of built-ins.

Heck, the early models didn't have proper supports for Indian style round bottom cookware.

People who bought such built-ins long ago didn't have much choice. Most of them were imported models, unsuitable for Indian kitchen.
 
After doing some research it looks like one can very easily buy Hobtops which come with Indian style burners these days. Nearly everyone who has had a problem with hobs is that they weren't conducive for Indian style of cooking but that problem is taken care of by using conventional Indian style burners.
 
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