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Electric cooker switches

Arran Cameron
I hope that this doesn't come across as a daft question...


Why do most electric cooker switches have an in-built socket? Do analogous cooker switches exist in other countries that use different types of mains sockets?


I used to think that the socket was for plugging in a gas cooker electric ignition, but there is no real reason for having a separate circuit from the ring main for this.
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    David Strachan:

    I`ve always understood it was for occasional use of a kettle. At a time when sockets were few, i.e. one per household or one on ground floor and one on first floor. It made sense to fit this scoket by incorporating it to a cooker circuit. That`s why we diversify the kettle to 5amp because it aint running for long.


    Now a washer or dryer is a whole new ball of wax and best not allowed.




    A cooker switch with an in-built 5A socket for a kettle might have been acceptable in the mid 20th century, but I find cooker switches with in-built 13A sockets where the socket can be used at the same time as the cooker as a very dubious design. I have never seen a cooker switch designed in a way that enables either the cooker or the socket to be switched on, but not both at the same time. 



     

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    David Strachan:

    I`ve always understood it was for occasional use of a kettle. At a time when sockets were few, i.e. one per household or one on ground floor and one on first floor. It made sense to fit this scoket by incorporating it to a cooker circuit. That`s why we diversify the kettle to 5amp because it aint running for long.


    Now a washer or dryer is a whole new ball of wax and best not allowed.




    A cooker switch with an in-built 5A socket for a kettle might have been acceptable in the mid 20th century, but I find cooker switches with in-built 13A sockets where the socket can be used at the same time as the cooker as a very dubious design. I have never seen a cooker switch designed in a way that enables either the cooker or the socket to be switched on, but not both at the same time. 



     

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