Best Chef Cooking Cooktops
Chef CHI643BA
Great customer service, Decent value for money compared to other induction cooktops – 2 years, 4 months old and it turned off while I was cooking - small issue which was quickly rectified even though it was just out of warranty -… Read more
working perfectly again. The printed circle does not indicate the actual heating zone eg, the largest is only 210mm... most makes and models seem to follow this convention though. Touch buttons are frustrating - the smallest amount of water or a lightweight object on the button area makes it beep and turns the whole cooktop off - again maybe they are all like this for safety reasons. Fans can be noisy if you run multiple hotplates or put it on max power. Its my first induction cooktop... coming from gas... these things are fast and give you great control. If you use a large diameter pan it needs to have a very heavy flat base to heat evenly. Be very careful with non stick - high heat kills them, gas was a bit more even/gentle - I've changed to heavy stainless and carbon steel pans.
The worst cook top ever – Very poor quality, the stainless steal is so thin, cleaning produces rust spots and has taken some of the finish back to bare steal, it always looks… Read more
dirty even when it's not.
The paint came off around the dials in the first couple of weeks.
Surely this is a dodgy product, yes it was cheap but it shouldn't rust with cleaning as it is a product we use everyday.
Chef Cooking 90cm Electric Cooktop CHS942
- Number of Cooktop Burners / Zones4
- Wok Burner / ZoneNo
disapointed – I bought my Chef stove top from Good Guys a few months ago... I clean it with the correct cleaner using no alternatives ... I am disappointed the… Read more
stove top has scratched and marked so quickly as I have been exceptionally careful with my cooking. It spoils the look of my renovated kitchen.
Brenda
Chef Cooking CHG954
- Price (RRP) $929
- Number of Cooktop Burners / Zones4
- Wok Burner / ZoneYes
Chef Cooking CHG642SC (60cm)
- Price (RRP) $479
- Number of Cooktop Burners / Zones4
- Wok Burner / ZoneYes
Chef Cooking CHG644SC
- Price (RRP) $629
- Number of Cooktop Burners / Zones4
- Wok Burner / ZoneYes
Chef Cooking CHC942BB
- Number of Cooktop Burners / Zones4
- Wok Burner / ZoneNo
Chef CHI644BB
- Number of Cooktop Burners / Zones4
- Wok Burner / ZoneNo
Chef Cooking 60cm 4 Zone Ceramic Cooktop CHC642BB
- Price (RRP) $499
- Number of Cooktop Burners / Zones4
- Wok Burner / ZoneNo
Chef Cooking CHI944BB
- Number of Cooktop Burners / Zones4
- Wok Burner / ZoneNo
Chef Cooking 60cm 4 Zone Ceramic Cooktop CHC644BB
- Number of Cooktop Burners / Zones4
- Wok Burner / ZoneNo
Chef Cooking 60cm Electric Cooktop CHS642WB
- Number of Cooktop Burners / Zones4
- Wok Burner / ZoneNo
Forget it, don't even bother – This stovetop / cooktop gets one star for being so easy to wipe down. I was tempted to give it a second star because it is possible to boil… Read more
water.... eventually, (yes, of course I have a lid on the pan while waiting for it to boil) but it just doesn't deserve it.
Now, what I don't like about it:
You can't deep fry on it. Why not? It has a "safety feature" which means the hotplates cycle on and off to prevent it getting too hot. And by too hot, it means the temperature you need to deep fry chips. Dims sims however, you can manage, but make sure you don't put more than a couple in there, as it'll bring the temperature down too far and the length of time it'll take to get back up will have you wishing you ordered takeout. Okay okay, maybe you can can fry up a small handful of chips if you're really patient, but if you've got a house full of hungry teenagers who want more than five chips on their plate, forget it. Pull out the gas hob from your camping gear and use that instead.
Next, large pans just don't work. As it says in the user manual, "bottom of pans and cooking zones should be the same size" and their 15cm and 18.5cm "zones" really just don't cut it for my 28cm pan. I can't even centre my 28cm pan on the back element because the control knob is in the way and although the back right and front left elements are supposedly both 1800W, the front one just doesn't get as hot, simple as that! And the small 1200W elements....what's the point? Though I guess we occasionally use one if we need to fry a single egg.
And don't bother going to the website to try to troubleshoot it, their answer for the issue "Elements / hotplates / zones cycle on & off when set on high" is that "Ice cubes are jammed between the ice maker arm and the back off (sic) the bin." Work that one out!
Hi Gillegan, Jenny from Electrolux here. We would… Read more (+1 reply)
Hi Sami, Leslie from Electrolux here. We would… Read more