Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

If you’ve decided to remodel your kitchen, you may be thinking of adding a cooktop independent to the oven (they’re popular additions to kitchen islands), but what kind do you want? Today, you can choose from gas, electric, and induction cooktops. So, what’s the difference?

Gas cooktops are favorites among professional chefs because they start up quickly, cook evenly, and are easy to control. Many homeowners choose coil-style electric cooktops, because they are less expensive. They heat up quickly but they are slow to cool, and they can be more costly than gas cooktops to operate. Today ceramic-glass cooktops (also electric) are popular because they make cleaning easy with their smooth glass surfaces. In the last couple years, induction cooktops have gained in popularity, too, for their sleek look and safety features. Because induction technology heats the cookware and not the cooktop, it’s impossible to burn yourself on the element. Like gas cooktops, they heat quickly and offer precise control, but because the technology is still fairly new, they are more expensive than the other kinds of cooktops.

Source: Design Ideas for Kitchens