Hob buying guide

When you get distracted from the cooking, our induction hobs will stop your pans from boiling over and making a mess. There's a hob for every household with our induction, gas and ceramic range.

Hob types & styles

Before purchasing a hob, you need to consider your available fuel type and how you intend to use your hob.

- Induction: heat is generated via a magnetic field, only when it detects the presence of a pan it then spreads heat uniformly across the entire surface, ensuring you get excellent results with every dish you prepare, all while making energy savings and being easy to clean.
- Ceramic: offers a stylish design for efficient cooking and easy cleaning. Similar to induction hobs in their sleek look, and are a great option for homes that want total control with stylish flair but don’t require the additional hob tech available with induction.
- Gas: a well known and consistent option for precision cooking, our gas hobs help you achieve freedom and precision in the kitchen.
- Electric Solid Plate: a great budget-friendly option for delicious results.

Hotpoint hob technology

Experience the shine you can count on with our CleanProtect induction hobs, the easiest to clean using just water! The innovative CleanProtect coating resists halos and marks and is 5 times more resistant to chipping. Simplified cleaning with water* saves 6 bottle of detergent a year**. Hotpoint’s induction hob range offers fail-proof tech. My Menu's four automatic functions - melting, boiling, keep warm, slow cooking - prevent pans from boiling over overboiling or burning. Gas hobs feature Direct Flame Technology, which delivers a powerful blue flame vertically through tiny holes, so no heat is wasted around the sides of the pan, saving 20% in time and energy.

*Compared to Hotpoint’s non-coated standard hobs
**Saving calculated in a period of 1 year, considering 11.4 ml of generic degreaser (equivalent to 6 sprays) used 8 times a week; bottle capacity 750 ml

Features built for your lifestyle

Choosing the right hob depends on how you like your cooking experience to be. Cooking on gas offers a precise and powerful heat, and benefits from options including wok burners, for healthy stir fries in minutes as well as precise flame control, and flame failure devices for peace of mind if the flame goes out.

Induction hobs offer easy touch controls, child locks, flexible zones and easy cleaning. Ceramic hobs offer a Double Ring Zone - allowing you to heat in just five seconds and the Oval Zone, an area that can be used as a single zone, or a double zone, for your largest pots, pans, griddles and fish kettles.