Few cooking surfaces clean up as easily as the one on the HIS8055U: a flat sheet of ceramic glass with nothing to lift. This 800 Series induction range is 30 inches wide and carries a 3.9 cu ft electric convection oven. Easy cleanup is exactly why many owners pick it.
The flip side is that the glass is the appliance. When it cracks, the cooktop has to stop working until the top is replaced, and that is a safety matter, not a looks matter. The other thing owners meet is pan detection, since induction only heats cookware that a magnet grips firmly.
The oven runs on its own electronics, so an element or sensor issue there has no connection to the cooktop. During a visit we look over the glass for hairline cracks first, and then test which of your pans the zones recognize.
No. Stop using the cooktop and turn it off at the breaker. Spilled liquid can reach the electronics under a cracked top, which makes it an electrical hazard.
Those a magnet grips firmly on the base. Aluminum, copper and most glass cookware will not heat on induction at all, no matter how good the pan is.
No. The two halves run on separate electronics and are tested separately, so an element or sensor issue in the oven does not take the cooktop out, and a cracked glass top does not stop the oven.
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