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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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    My dad did his National Service as a cook house corporal in the 1950’s his cooking is based on the thought that when it’s brown it’s cooked and when it black it’s ########.

    These days the advice is to “Go for gold”


    Regards cooker switches with a socket outlet, they are a traditional piece of equipment from a time when they were the only socket in the kitchen, carefully positioned above the cooker so that the flex of the appliance plugged in trailed across the hot plates and you couldn’t get to the switch when the chip pan was on fire. They are legacy items, but still serve a a purpose in that if the cooker circuit is on a different RCD to the kitchen socket circuit and there is a fault that trips the socket RCD there is still a socket in the kitchen that works.


    Life would go on without them, but we still keep fitting them.


    Andy
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    My dad did his National Service as a cook house corporal in the 1950’s his cooking is based on the thought that when it’s brown it’s cooked and when it black it’s ########.

    These days the advice is to “Go for gold”


    Regards cooker switches with a socket outlet, they are a traditional piece of equipment from a time when they were the only socket in the kitchen, carefully positioned above the cooker so that the flex of the appliance plugged in trailed across the hot plates and you couldn’t get to the switch when the chip pan was on fire. They are legacy items, but still serve a a purpose in that if the cooker circuit is on a different RCD to the kitchen socket circuit and there is a fault that trips the socket RCD there is still a socket in the kitchen that works.


    Life would go on without them, but we still keep fitting them.


    Andy
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