Built-in or separate plates? Types of cooking panels, characteristics of burners and wind cabinets, principles of installation.
1- heating element,
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1,2- Model C602.855 Tekdrs from Kaiser in standard (white) and metallic design, $ 890 and $ 990, respectively
3- HSN 382A stove from Bosch with retractable trolley, $ 979
4- The inner surface of the oven in the ACM542 model from whirlpool is covered with catalytic enamel, $ 581
Electric stoves in our country so far only gas competitors. Veverops they are full hostess in the kitchen. This explains such a variety of models among "foreigners". Choosing an electric stove, you can simply be confused on the number of proposals.
It is important to prevent a common error: to leave the purchase of technology "For later" - it is possible to be in a situation of too limited choice, more precisely, the selection of the model under the holes designed by furnitureeers. Therefore, you must first determine the style of the interior, furniture design, and then purchase (or suck) the built-in technique, in accordance with the size of which the kitchen furniture will be designed and collected.
When buying an embedded slab, another question arises: whether it will be mounted traditionally, with an oven directly under the cooking panel (dependent oven), or according to the current trend, when both modules are installed at each other (independent oven allows it to be located on any convenient height)?
Finding out which type of plate ("solo" or embedded) is preferable, you can proceed to the study of the capabilities of various devices. Let's start with the built-in equipment.
Warm panel metal or glass-ceramic?
There are two types of cooking panels: metal and glass-ceramic. For the next case, the electric heating elements (burners) are located on the surface, and in the second - under it. On the same glass-ceramic manufacturers developed several completely different types of heating, from the use of which the price of the device largely depends on a large scale. In love, the metal panel will cost much cheaper glass ceramic with the simplest Tanni.However, the appearance of the enameled steel cooking panel with four cast-iron "pancas" is pretty outdated. The enabled hook so heats around the surface that the liquid overflowing through the edge is instantly accurates to enamel (try to rub it immediately - it means to risk burning). Stainless steel, which looks more effectively, has the same properties, only after it will have to care for even more carefully. Cleaning a rigid sponge will leave the grid of scratches on a stainless steel.
The glass-ceramic, which is paying more and more attention due to its high-tech qualities, looks modern and harmonizes with a kitchen of any style. It has a significant advantage over metal due to its special thermal conductivity: heat from the heating element is instantly distributed through the heating zone without going beyond its limits. Asking, wiping the fled milk around the pan, you can not be afraid of burning about the surface. But, in contrast to the metal, the glass ceramics should be protected from shocks with sharp objects (for example, the knife is the risk), since there is a risk that it will split (although when you hit the plastics, how manufacturers are assured, the material is withstanding the power of 250kg). Also, you should not put on the already preheated panel of the dishes, just removed from the refrigerator.
Some inconvenience can deliver the sputted grinding edge of the glass-ceramic panel-raised liquid, nothing will hold down, and it can shed even to the floor. The metal edging panel will also not change the situation. To get rid of the problem, it is advisable to use the dishes with high walls.
Clean the perfectly smooth glass-ceramic surface is generally easier than the metal, any means for leaving glass is suitable. But it is better to apply a special paste: it is evenly applied to the panel, they include light heating, and then removed with a soft napkin together with contaminants, while obtaining the surface not only clean, but at the same time covered with a thin layer of protective composition. To remove the suction pollution, use scrapers supplied with a product (in extreme cases of disposable razors). The only sworn enemy glass ceramics is melted sugar. It is either erased immediately until he has frozen, or heated the stove so that the sticking drop will soften again. Remember, an attempt to join the sticking sugar (jam, syrup) can end with a scolf on the surface of the panel.
| Model, manufacturer | PG4VQ034 ETHNO, KAISER | ZKT621LX, Zanussi. | KBT6124DIX, ARISTON (MERLONI) | ECT650CR, Gorenje. | EHS6695X, Electrolux | EI75754, Siemens. | PKN675T01, Bosch. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dependent / independent | Dependent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent |
| Type of surface | Glass ceramics | Glass ceramics | Glass ceramics | Glass ceramics | Glass ceramics | Glass ceramics | Glass ceramics |
| Control | On the brass cabinet panel | Sensory | Sensory | Sensory | Sensory | Functional display | Sensory |
| Quantity and type of burners | 4 rapid heating burners | 4 hilight zones | 4 hilight zones | 4 rapid heating burners | 4 hilight zones | 2 Induction hobs with electronic definition of the presence of dishes, the BOOST function, 2 superfast heating | 4 rapid heating burners |
| Changeable zones of heating | 1 Continuing with round and 1 with an oval expansion zone | - | 1radial zone | 1zone with 3radial contours, 1st dusty | 1 zone with double contour, 1zone with triple expanding circuit | 1 Double-kinker | 1 zone with 3radial contours, 1st dusty |
| Features | Sensors of residual heat | Sound indication, control lock, automatic shutdown | Timer, blocking, overheating protection, residual heat indicator | Timer, blocking, overheating protection, residual heat indicator | Timer with alarm clock, autofocus, boiling automatics, digital residual heat indicators for each burner, control panel lock, shutdown during fluid | 4-segment residual heat indicator | 17-speed power adjustment, boiling automation, protective shutdown, protection against children, timer with shutdown function for each burner, recording to memory for each burner |
| Finish | Design Ethno, Stainless Steel Frame | Stainless steel frame | Stainless steel frame | Grinded edges | Stainless steel frame | Stainless steel frame | Frame front profile |
| Size (VSH), mm | 48580510. | 47570500. | - | 50600510 | 43560490. | 594518600. | 50592520. |
| Country assembly | Germany | Italy | Italy | Slovenia | Germany | Germany | Germany |
| Price, | 340. | 461. | 531. | 661. | 580. | 840. | 831. |
Additional functions of new cooking panels with induction hobs: touch control, convenient display, boost heating mode, automatic recognition of the presence of dishes and determining its diameter.
Fast heating boost. When this function is activated, the power of one burner increases in 1.5rd, the second burner at this time cannot be used.
Automatic recognition of the presence of dishes. If the dishes are removed from the slab, after a certain time, the burner is turned off.
Autofocus (PDC) - automatic determination of the diameter of the dishes. Automatic power selection depending on the diameter of the dishes-improved recognition algorithm for the smallest dishes.
Korfork: time- money
Dislikes to electric stoves, it seems that people may arise due to some difficulties in cooking. If on fire it is easy to control the whole process, amplifying or losing the flame, then the electrical devices used to simply could simply respond so sensitive to the need to change the temperature. A lot of time was spent on heating and cooling the burner, which means that a lot of electricity was wondered. Until now, cast-iron burners on metal plates require the hosts of a certain skill to adapt to them, it is not possible to immediately.
I will use the optimal solution manufacturers to use more advanced types of heating. True, metal heating spirals that are hidden inside the cast iron burners are used in low-cost glass-ceramic models, but the time to heat the dishes still goes less. Electric panels with cast-iron "pancas" can be equipped with various types of burners: ordinary and rapid heating. It is easy to distinguish some of others: fast heating hobs are marked in the center with a red circle.
The choice of the type of heating among the glass-ceramic models is much wider: and nichrome spiral, and hilight, and "halogen", and "induction". Hilight hardware works with reinforced power and heats up faster than normal. Heated heating occurs due to the high-temperature spiral combined with a halogen lamp (a quartz gas-filled tube). They are distinguished by a very high heating rate, however, the Europeans came to the conclusion that the halogen glow destructively affects the retina of the eye.
The fastest method is heating induction. There is no heating element in the intake hover: heat is generated at the bottom of the dishes under the influence of an electromagnetic field, which is created using an inductor inductor. In this case, the glass-ceramic surface is almost not heated. According to professionals, this technology will be everywhere to be applied in the future, since it is the most economical electricity consumption. Induction models are still much more expensive than the rest and, moreover, require additional costs of special dishes.
The number of burners on the cooking panel can be different (from 1 to 6, but more often than 4) - it depends on the width of the device. 30cm width products accommodate 1- 2 burners, 60cm- 3- 4 burners. Cooling 70 and 80 cm widths of 4-5 burners, in 90-centimeters there are 5-6. The glass-ceramic panels are equipped with burners with different heating zones: with an expanding radial or expanding oval (under ukatnitsy), which allows you to put the dishes on the same burner Different diameter.
Control controls - rotary knobs-switch are either directly on the cooking surface, or on the built-in number of the individual panel. Installer-cleamental models instead of handles often use sensory control, the additional possibilities of which are as follows:
digital display of heating power of all burners; smooth adjustment of the heating level of the burner;
function of the programmable timer and alarm clock;
The blocking function (protection of the control system from inclusion and from the mode change in the cooking process is carried out by pressing multiple keys; it is necessary if there are small children in the house, convenient when cleaning the surface);
The indication of the residual time (bringing the dish until the residual heat when the heating is already turned off allows you to save electricity);
emergency inclusion of working areas;
Function recording the heating program in the device's memory.
"Good technique can not be cheap- As you know, I pay a miser twice. But for those who want to save, we advise you to compare prices using the Internet. Oven must have reliable heat insulation. It is better to buy a model of a well-known brand with a small number of functions, but guaranteed quality . When choosing a glass-ceramic cooking panel, it is not so important to pay attention to the model brand, as on the stamp of the manufacturer of the glass ceramics (we recommend the German manufacturers). To the metal and design of the built-in cooking panel and the oven have not distinguished much, it is better to prefer the product of one brand, and the one brand is better preferred simultaneously - After all, the model ranks change pretty quickly. "
Price of the hob
The cost of products varies depending on the type of surface. As for the glass-ceramic, it also plays the role of its thickness used method of heating, the number of heating zones and the presence of additional functions. The glass-ceramic models produce the German plant SHOTT and Italian Eurocera. The cooking panels are traditionally divided into eco-class samples, middle class and elite. An accuracyclass can be attributed to the products of such manufacturers of embedded equipment as Ariston, Zanussi, Candy (Italy), Kaiser, Hansa (Germany), Gorenje (Slovenia). Domestic metal panels (for example, from the Novyatka plant) are the most inexpensive. Glass-ceramic in this category is simple models with radial tanks or hilight hill without any additional functions. Price range of economy-class products - from 150 to 450.
The Wednesday class provides products from Whirlpool, Bosch (Germany), Electrolux (Sweden). The models have a hub with the expansion of the heating zones, the booster automation (until the burden of the burner is boosted in the enhanced mode, and then returns to the mode installed by the user), touch control with a programmable timer and a digital display. Depending on the number of functions and view of the burners, the cost of panels range from 450 to 750.
Categories of luxury products include a number of Siemens and AEG models (Germany), equipped with the latest technology (an increased number of burners, the presence of digital displays for each of them, memory entry, special sensors defining which burner to include), as well as Miele production panels And Gaggenau (Germany). The tougher quality control of products (not one model from the party may be checked, but all without exception), the more expensive they stand - from 800 to 1500. Such a high price is due not only to the level of electrical appliances and inherent in the function set, but also by the name of the firms manufacturer.
"You can choose a technique better in large stores where you can compare different models. By buying a cooking panel, you need to pay attention to the size and location of the konfork- Think whether it will be convenient for them to cook on them. Selecting the oven, you need not only to inspect the devices, but also try, Easy to, for example, the door of the oven windows opens. The opponents should not "ride" on enamel, and lighting - to be aimed into the eye. Knabero functions for everyone different approach is important to evaluate their own needs in order not to overpay for what you do not You will use. Those who have not yet been able to cook very well, but it wishes to learn this, will help the model with the built-in recipe book. Avt for security (control lock, cooling door) to pay attention to all, especially those who have small children "
Heavy Cabinet: Inside and Outside
The number of electric ovens functions is directly related to its device: in the inner chamber there are lower and upper heating elements, grill. Many models also come with a fan with its own heating element ("3D hot air") or without it (convector). The fan mixes the air inside the chamber to avoid temperature drops at different levels, that is, the separation of heated air on a very hot above and less hot below. The inclusion of various systems in various combinations and temperature modes provides activation of a set of functions (usually the upper / bottom heat, large variond, small variond, "3D hot air", grill with convection, fast heating, defrosting, pizza mode). Moreover, manufacturers can give functions of different commercial names.As practice shows, such a control panel is most comfortable in operation, on which two knobs that control the temperature and time are combined with the button starting function. Exceptionally, the push button is sinful with excessive complication. To be easier to use a wide range of functions, manufacturers try to apply universal symbolism on the display or Russify control.
The size of the camera oven and the door glass has an individual model. Doors themselves are folding, swing and retractable. The device with a swollen door (left-or right-hand) is suitable for installation at the chest level, but it will be uncomfortable for the user with a standard installation. In the end, the case is preferable or retractable (which, when opening, puts forward the nurses) the door. The extending trolley system of the oven is a patent of Bosch and Siemens companies, and it is equipped with models of only these firms.
Manually remove manually, the occupation is not very comfortable, and unsafe. A successful innovation that helped solve this task, telescopic guides for nominations. It is better to immediately equip your oven by such guides in order not to overpay for their installation and not waste time, waiting for the order. Maximum requires three pairs of guides, rarely, when in the process of cooking in the oven, more than three opposes are placed simultaneously.
Usually, 2- 3 bars are supplied with the oven cabinet, 1- 3 lattices. If the model provides for the use of the functions of a rotating spit and thermoshop, then it is already equipped with them. The thermal capacity is a convenient device for those who bake meat (due to the presence of this device, the instrument can be programmed to stop working on achieving a certain temperature inside the piece of meat). True, according to the reason, the thermoshope cannot be used in conjunction with the function of the rotating grill: the cord wounds on the spit and will interfere with its movement.
| Model | Zanussi Zob 343 x | Ariston FB 21 (WH) | ELECTROLUX EOB 6620X. | Kaiser EHK 2.834 TEKD | AEG B41001M. | Bosch Hen 334550. | Siemens He 784570. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dependent / independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Dependent | Independent | Dependent | Independent |
| Control | Mechanical | Mechanical | Electronic, timer | Electronic, programmer | Electronic, programmer | Electronic (display) | Electronic (Sym Control) |
| Functions | 4 heating modes, including grill | 4 heating modes, including grill | 8 heating modes (hot air; pizza mode; bulk turbo grill; infrared grill) | 8 heating modes, including grill | 14 heating intensity steps, bofunction (Cooking at low temperatures) | 9 heating modes, in t. Grill, convection | 8 types of heating, as well as the "heated dishes" mode |
| Type of cleaning | Easy cleansing enamel | Easy cleansing enamel | Easy cleansing enamel | Catalytic enamel | Easy Clean Midwater Enamel | EcoClean cleaning system | ActiveClean cleaning system, Aktivkat filter |
| Features | Folding grill | Spit | Thermosphere, spit, 5 levels of installation of the opposes | Spit, door with double glass (removable door, as well as inner glass) | Convection, Fat Fatter, Mechanical Door Lock, ISOFRONT Plus Security System | Fully glass door with thermal glass, retractable cart, "Protection of children" | Fully glass door, retractable trolley, electronic book recipes |
| Color | Stainless steel | White / brown | Stainless steel | Stainless steel | Stainless steel | Stainless steel | Stainless steel |
| Size (VSH), mm | 600600560. | 600600550. | 600560550. | 600600560. | 600590550. | 600560550. | 600600550. |
| Set | 1 baking lattice | 2 Night, grille | 2 Night, grille | 3 enameled bends, lattice, frame with a fork for a spit | 3 Night, lattice, telescopic guides | - | - |
| Country | Italy | Italy | Sweden | Germany | Germany | Germany | Germany |
| Price, | 230. | 240. | 470. | 500. | 665. | 730. | 1220. |
Self-cleaning oven
In modern models of wind wardrobes, self-cleaning from fat, accumulated on the walls of the camera, is envisaged. Thus, the need to use rigid chemicals is eliminated. Of course, no self-cleaning is able to save us from care to care for the camera of the oven, but it will help minimize efforts to remove the ashes from there.
Catalytic self-cleaning implies cleaning oven during cooking. The inner walls of the device are equipped with special catalytic panels, falling on which fat is split. With the active operation of the instrument, the panel will serve about 5 years, after which they must be replaced.
A more radical way self-cleaning is pyratic. The door oven is blocked, the heating mode is turned on to 400s, and then from a sharp jump temperature to 500 ° C glass down fat flames and completely combines. Pyrolysis consumes a lot of electricity, moreover, it requires a device for a number of parameters from the instrument. The enamel layer inside the brass cabinet should be thick, and its quality is very high, otherwise the coating will quickly deteriorate from such temperatures. The door should not be heated above 85C (otherwise it can be burning), for which it is supplied with several layers of glass or between the glasses is distilled with cooling air. The outer walls of the oven also should also be heated above 80s so that the wooden furniture in contact with them does not drag. For this reason, a turbine oven cooling system is needed simple chamber winding with a thick layer of glass gambles (the method used by Italian producers) will not hold the temperature. So that the air in the kitchen is not filled with caustic smoke, it is required or a very strong exhaust, or a special catalytic filter that is additionally equipped with a device. The filter destroys the smell of smoke, but increases the cost of the oven, at least 200.
"Embedded technique makes it possible to simulate the kitchen on your own desire to achieve maximum comfort. Several tips for those who opted for a glass-ceramic hob.
Before you start cooking, wipe cold glass ceramics and remove all dirt particles so that they do not scratch the surface. Make sure the bottom of the dishes is suitable in size to the heating zone. When buying a new dishes, pay attention to the manufacturer labeling, denoting, for what type of heating this container is suitable. At room temperature, the bottom of the dishes should be slightly concave, because when heated it "grips" and completely comes into contact with the surface of the slab. It provides heating with the smallest heat loss. Do not use abrasive drugs to clean the glass ceramics.
How much is the oven?
Models worth 300 (Zanussi, Ariston), located at the lower price border of the economic class, are equipped with a standard set of functions and a conventional sound timer. The folding door of such ovens is quite strongly heated, and the facade has the simplest decoration, black, white or silver colorful coating by iron. Much more possibilities for models of the upper border of the economy class (500): stainless steel facade or color option for choosing, 1- 2 digital display, improved camera lighting (two bulbs on the sides), programmer and blocking control from children.Medium price level windows - 500-1000 (Kaiser, Electrolux, Bosch, Siemens, AEG) - have high reliability of Tannes, more thought-out doors cooling (different types of opening), a digistimim-free display, and also equipped with a thermositecta, catalytic enamel or pyrolysis function. The cost of elite techniques (Miele, Kpprsbusch, Gaggenau) can reach up to 5-8 thousand.
Fighting for independence
Usually the concept of "dependent" is applied with respect to the ovens, although in fact the cooking surface depends on the oven. It is from its control panel that the burners are turned on. It is convenient because all the handles and buttons (or sensors) are located in one place, in addition, it is so easier to clean the stove. The minus of the dependent equipment is that when the module fails, the other cannot be used. Decision problem- independent management. If the cooking panel comes out, it is possible to prepare food in the oven for the time of repair. Independent devices are not necessarily assembled at different parts of the kitchen, the traditional location above each other is acceptable for them. A large plus is the possibility if you wish to replace, for example, a metal cooking panel on the glass ceramics.
Plates "Solo": two in one
The plates combining the oven and the cooking panel in the metal casing gradually go into the past. Usually they are inferior by the number of features and new features of the models for the latch, so it is much cheaper. True, manufacturers of embedded technology can always offer to combine in a metal case any, dependent or independent, devices.Standard separate plates are available both with glass-ceramic cooking panels and metal, equipped with cast iron burners. The ovens of such models have a limited set of the most necessary functions. Price range: from 100-300 per device economy ("Novovyatka", Deluxe (Russia), Ariston) and 300-700 middle class (Gorenje) up to 1200 per elite plate (BOSCH).
| Model | "Novovyatka Prestige108" | Indesit k10e (w) r | Kaiser E 501.81 MKDNWS | Ardo C 60 EE F (WH) | Gorenje EC 2770 E |
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| Cooking panel | 4 cast iron burners (2 ordinary, 2 for rapid heating) | 4 cast iron burners | 4 cast iron burners, 1st fast heating | Glasskeeper, 4 zones of Hilight heating, 2Diameter 14.5 cm and 1,2kW power, 2Diameter 18cm and 1,8 kW. 4Worny power regulators of heating fields, indicating the inclusion of heating fields | Glasskeeper, 4Conorca (1C Expanding Heating Zone), War Panel Working Indicator |
| Oven | Electrometer, Grill, Spit, Electromechanical Timer, Double Glass Doors | Grill, Spit, Mechanical Timer, 3 Features, Backlight, Triple Glass Door | Grill, Spit, Catalytic Self-cleaning, Mechanical timer, backlight, Retractable drawer for dishes | Outdoor 55l, 7 modes of operation (convection, electromagrile with thermostat, upper and lower heating and their combinations, spit), adjustable thermostat, rotary switch operating mode, electronic programmer control keys, turning on the oven | Oven 60l, Ecoclean Enamel, Maximum Heating Temperature 275C, Relief Guides Ratings, Opening Indicator, Outline Indication, Sound Alert, Lighting Oven, Vertical Steam Removal, Handle For Extract Oven Grille, baking baking tray, deep baking sheet |
| Size (VSH), mm | 850600600. | 850500500. | 850500600. | 850600600. | 850600600. |
| Color | White | White | White | White | Stainless steel |
| Country | Russia | Italy | Germany | Italy | Slovenia |
| Price, | 205. | 295. | 450. | 590. | 765. |
Installation
Basic layout requirements when installing the plane-remoteness of it from the refrigerator and sinks. When installing, it is necessary to take into account the size of the purchased technology. Introduction with the embedded samples is important not to confuse the external dimensions of the device with those by which the holes in the furniture are calculated. Ovens, intended for embedding, have standard dimensions - 6060 or 9050cm with a depth of about 55 cm. However, there are also mini-ovens. The size of the cooking panels vary greatly. From several Domino panels, you can collect any combination (gas, glass ceramics, fryer, grill, extractor).
The complex electronics reacts sensitively to voltage differences, so when buying an expensive automation, it is better to put a transformer. If you have purchased an embedded technique mounted in furniture, conventionally, "forever" may be advisable to completely abandon the outlet. The model is not equipped with an electric cord, as in different cases its wire is required. For single-phase sockets (phase-land), you need a 3-wire wire. For 3-phase, commonly used in country houses and, in general, where the voltage rides, a 5-core wire is required. The thickness of the wire is calculated according to the power of the device (up to 11-19 kW). It is equal to the installation and connection of the device, a qualified wizard must be installed, since the installation of the electric stove represents a potential threat to life - the power consumption of some models exceeds 9kW, and the current of current-40a.
Installation services Most often offer home appliances stores. Also licensed installation and electrical appliances are usually owned by companies supplying kitchen furniture. You can call an electrician and from the hide. But still the most qualified, taking into account the characteristics of this device, the specialists of the company selling household appliances will produce. The minimum price of this service in Moscow is 230 rubles. (without the cost of the materials used, the wiring, sockets) for the installation of the cooking panel and 300 rubles. - Over the oven. With a competent installation and careful care, a good electric stove will serve you 20-30 years.
The editors thanks the chain of household appliances stores and the world's electronics, M-Video and Vasko.ru for help in preparing the material.