Does anyone have experience with an IKEA induction cooktop?

I have therefore chosen a hob with a slider so that I can select each level directly.

But Ikea doesn’t have anything like that, do they?

Best regards
Section Chief

But take a close look at the cooktops. For example, Smaklig has it. The product description then states: "Control panel with touch control and slider to regulate the heat. The desired temperature can also be selected directly by pressing."

Hello boss!

Ours is already a good 2 years old and is the Framtid HIN4S - no longer available at IKEA. Despite the two years, the surface still looks good. Of course, there are already one or two scratches, we just use it.



The operation is simple and actually trouble-free. Sometimes you have to tap the touch panel again with wet fingers, but it always does what you want. We have retired the electric kettle and got an alessi whistling kettle. Hot water is made ultra-fast with it, always on P with booster.

With our field you can select the levels directly, as mentioned, simple and good!

Cleaning is usually easy and trouble-free as well.

fotokatze

Photocat, does your cooktop also have a slider?

regards
Section Chief

The entire surface has a slider, which you can recognize by the 4 horizontal lines with the levels. The successor is Högvärdig.

I always pay attention and wipe the pot bottom once more with a cloth before I place the pot on the surface, and still I already have another scratch on the glass. But that can happen with any glass-ceramic cooktop, whether induction or classic.

Fotokatze, does your cooktop also have a slider?

Regards
Section Chief

So, Chief,

I'm not quite sure what you mean. The cooktop has 10 levels arranged in a horizontal line for each cooking zone: 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-P. You can tap directly on 6, then you have level 6. So you don't have to drag, push, slide your finger from left to right—starting from 0 until you reach the desired level. You can see which cooking level is selected on the respective seven-segment display. I hope I was able to explain it like this. But if you are very interested, I’d be happy to take a photo and post it in the forum. On the left, there is also a main switch on the cooktop, which of course has to be on for it to work. Just tap it once.

The IKEA expert has already explained it too!

Again about the scratches. I don't find it bad at all. We have really heavy and large pots and pans, with diameters up to 34 cm. So it can't always be avoided that a grain rubs somewhere between the cooktop and pot when sliding, shaking the pan, or turning the pot. Still, the cooktop isn't very sensitive. After two years, it's no longer like new out of the box, but it doesn’t look wrecked. I have no problem with the appearance!

By the way, we recently discovered canning. When I recently heard that most diced Italian tomatoes actually mainly contain Chinese tomatoes—because if one processing step of food takes place, for example, in Italy, the product can be called Italian diced tomatoes...—we simply used our large 34 cm pot for canning 8 pieces of 0.5l Weck jars filled with tomato pulp. It worked perfectly with the cooktop.

I put an electronic thermometer with an external probe in the cooking water and watched closely. We wanted to reach the "canning temperature" of 80° moderately quickly, so we started at level 8. It took about 10 minutes to bring the huge pot to 80°. From 80°, first reduced to level 6. The cooktop then held 80° very well. After about 10 minutes, it gradually rose to 81°, then I reduced to level 5. Then it quickly stabilized again around 79° / 80° to go over 81° again after another 10 minutes. For the last 10 minutes, we kept 80° well at level 4. Then 8 jars of canned tomato pulp were done, guaranteed with Italian tomatoes!

Meanwhile, we also canned two batches of chunky apple compote for 35 minutes at 90°. Worked just as well.

We are very satisfied with how fine and precise the cooktop can be adjusted.

The 80 to 200 € for a special electric canning pot can be completely saved; instead, you buy a 34 cm diameter tall pot that can hold 2 x 4 stacked 0.5l Weck jars. Then you can still use the pot for other things and have one less useless item standing around that you rarely need.

fotokatze