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[Yellow_or_black?]

I have an induction hob in my house (bit like this Bosch hob) from the previous owners. I've never used one before, and there aren't any instructions.

I've searched the Bosch website for a manual to no avail. How do these work?!

I've pressed the power on, which produces a dash by each hob diagram in the controls section. I keep pressing on the + by the hob bit I want, and obviously I increase the number (what's a medium heat?) to let's say 5, and it flashes. Then after a minute or so, the hob just switches itself off. I've tried this with and without a pan on the relevant section. When a pan is on the section, there's this regular sort-of thumping sound which stops when I take the pan off.

Help! I'm starving

Edited by Yellow_or_black?, 27 January 2008 - 07:44 PM.

[james141]

I have an induction hob in my house (bit like this Bosch hob) from the previous owners. I've never used one before, and there aren't any instructions.

I've searched the Bosch website for a manual to no avail. How do these work?!

I've pressed the power on, which produces a dash by each hob diagram in the controls section. I keep pressing on the + by the hob bit I want, and obviously I increase the number (what's a medium heat?) to let's say 5, and it flashes. Then after a minute or so, the hob just switches itself off. I've tried this with and without a pan on the relevant section. When a pan is on the section, there's this regular sort-of thumping sound which stops when I take the pan off.

Help! I'm starving

IIRC you have to use special pans with a bit on the base which the hob detects

Edited by james141, 27 January 2008 - 07:48 PM.

[Yellow_or_black?]

IIRC you have to use special pans with a bit on the base which the hob detects

Thanks Did a search on the net, and found a pan at home which is suitable, and it's now working!

I hate the things - they totally freak me out!

Edited by Yellow_or_black?, 27 January 2008 - 07:55 PM.

[james141]

IIRC you have to use special pans with a bit on the base which the hob detects

Thanks Did a search on the net, and found a pan at home which is suitable, and it's now working!

I hate the things - they totally freak me out!

Only reason I know is a mate has one and I was equally stumped as you!!

Seems like a bit of a crap invention to me!

[XXX]

Can you not download a manual from Bosch website?? Or ring them?? Don't think you need "special" pans, just one that are OK on induction hobs (will usually say so on the base). Or get a take-away in....................

[Yellow_or_black?]

Only reason I know is a mate has one and I was equally stumped as you!!

Seems like a bit of a crap invention to me!

Thanks James! Pan-fried sea bass is mmm...

Yeah - I'd replace it if I wasn't moving. Apparently if you can attach a fridge magnet to the base of the pan, it's ok since it can be magnetised by the hob. Luckily I had a stainless steel pan...and a fridge magnet

[Winstar]

I can help here I've just spent the last 6 months figuring out how to use the one that was left in my girlfriends new house. Firstly as said above you may as well throw away all your pans as next to no normal pans work well on them, the thumping you can feel is the magnetic pulses that create the heat so you need pans that work with this. If it's like the one I use it's a clever little thing that'll know when a pan is on the ring and also if it's the right material and will only work if it is. As for cooking it's pretty much as controlable as gas once you get used to what level heat each number is and has the bonus of boiling water faster than the kettle at full power. One thing though as the induction only heats the metal at the flat bottom of the pan Wok's don't work very well, I've got round this buy using a 30cm thick bottomed skillet that can get hot enough to stir fry and also sears stakes pretty well. Hope that helps Rob

[Yellow_or_black?]

Thanks honey

[wierdjam]

Induction Rocks....

Instruction Manual

Click on service, then instruction manual

Enter PIE646T01E

Then you have the manual....

OR for more specific instructions you got to look underneath the appliance if you can, eg remove drawer underneath, then do a handstand and read the rating plate, look for Enr: ......

Only Ferro Magnetic pans will work with flat bases, as has been said woks are pants. Cast iron griddles are great.

Try using the P mode (POWER) it uses the the corresponding rear/front's power output and concentrates it on the one your using, boils water in half a minute.....

Any Q's let me know.

Regards

Jamie

Bosch & Siemens Appliance Engineer

[Yellow_or_black?]

Oooh - how cool is that, thank you I think you have to be logged in to follow the link - I got a message saying 'No correct login'. Don't worry though, I got the hob/pan combination to work, and I'm selling the house anyway! Thank you so much for searching it out though - I couldn't find a 'Manuals' section anywhere on the Bosch site. I wondered what the 'P' was for! Will put it to use tonight... Thanks again

[wierdjam]

interesting, it seems to be time based....

BSH Appliance Care

Bottom Left should ay instruction manual download >follow that link then do my last post.

HTH

Jamie

[JG]

Induction is indeed the best thing since slice bread. Had them in france for over 10 years. Currently have a 4kW one that will boil a full pan of water in under a minute. Induction works by exciting the Irons in certain steels (hence the need for new pans). The whole point being that the hob doesn't get hot without a pan on it. the glass also cools very fast once you take a hot pan off the hob. 10 times better than gas and a million times better than ceramic.

Edited by JG, 29 January 2008 - 08:22 AM.

[smithers]

they are totally cool - our old one was great - 4 normal rings plus an extra large one for wokking! very star trek and the heat level went to 12 - that's 2 better than 10 ... (was over £2k though so don't just throw them away! you may be able to sell for a few quid if it was a good one... )

[cheeky_chops]

parents have an induction and it does my head in. No control - either full bore, retina melting heat or not hot enough to melt ice cream Gas all the way

[JG]

parents have an induction and it does my head in. No control - either full bore, retina melting heat or not hot enough to melt ice cream

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[Winstar]

parents have an induction and it does my head in. No control - either full bore, retina melting heat or not hot enough to melt ice cream

Gas all the way

takes a while to figure out how hot each setting is with each pan.

But it's still only got 20 or so power settings so will never beat the analogue control of gas, what do they use in top resturants? it ain't induction.

[cheeky_chops]

parents have an induction and it does my head in. No control - either full bore, retina melting heat or not hot enough to melt ice cream

User error

They live in Spain so i am not there often enough to be too bothered!!