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Electric cooker switches

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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0 Legh Richardson over 6 years ago

Andrew Jewsbury:

There may also be wizard circuitry which might be able to distinguish a pan from a spoon.

The induction hob I have automatically detects the lack of a pan and switches the hob off - so a very large spoon may fool the system, but normally you'd be OK.

- Andy.

Ok, that sounds pretty safe. So lets say we have two induction hot plates that were left on through lack of activity next to each other on flexes and the cook decides to place one on top of each other, inverted.....

What might happen then?

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0 Legh Richardson over 6 years ago

Andrew Jewsbury:

There may also be wizard circuitry which might be able to distinguish a pan from a spoon.

The induction hob I have automatically detects the lack of a pan and switches the hob off - so a very large spoon may fool the system, but normally you'd be OK.

- Andy.

Ok, that sounds pretty safe. So lets say we have two induction hot plates that were left on through lack of activity next to each other on flexes and the cook decides to place one on top of each other, inverted.....

What might happen then?

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