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I would say the main reasons to get induction are that it's faster, more efficient, heats up the room less, easier to clean, better for simmering, maybe safer with kids. The cleaner air is a side benefit.
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better for simmering
This has never been my experience.
All the induction hobs I've used are shite for simmering. And as for trying to get a proper rolling boil for cooking pasta, it's either not boiling, or boiling so much that it boils over, and it seems like using the same setting as seemed to work an hour ago now has a completely different behaviour pattern.
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What are everyone’s thoughts on gas hobs and benzene emissions?
We have an old Smeg range cooker with gas hobs, see no reason to replace it other than the recent spate of articles citing yank research linking gas cookers to high benzene emissions.
Does this only affect leaking/badly-adjusted hobs, or is this a serious issue that warrants weighing in the Smeg & getting a leccy induction hob?