Fitting an electric induction cooker

[guest67442]

Hi everyone

This may be a stupid question but we have a lovely induction range cooker in our house in the UK. We spent a lot of time and money on it and feel we have the 'perfect' cooker for us.

The question is, before we even get to the point where we consider the hassle, cost and other shipping implications, is it even possible to wire in a cooker like that into an Australian household?

I know you can take certain domestic appliances (change the plugs or just run through an adapter), but is it even possible to install an item like this where it needs to be hard wired into the electrics with it's own circuit and switch etc?

Thanks in advance :-)

[fleabo]

I am sure it is possible.

[Eera]

Yes, absolutely - we're on the verge of buying an induction range as well once the kitchen designer finishes up.

Incidentally, if you think that you'd want one further down the line over here, compare prices and seriously look at importing one from the UK; the one we are after is $8000 here, and you put an order in at the shop and they send it from the UK. Go directly to the UK for it and it's $3300 including transport fees, import tax and GST.

We wondered about the Australian compliance thing and warrenty and have found out from the company themselves that while you lose the 2 year local warrenty, you get a 1 year international one, and according to a sparky who we hit up about installing it, depending on state you only need compliance plate if you're onselling it (different for gas ranges though), and that he honestly wouldn't look for one anyway.

[Bobbsy]

Out of curiosity, what cooker is it that is quoted at $8000? I've just been browsing induction cook tops at various stores and the most expensive I've found was a Bosch at around $3300 (so probably less after you negotiate). Most were substantially less than that.

[Eera]

We are after a specific model with various criteria that it has to have two ovens, five or more burners and the OH has to like it, so yes, $8k standard price, though you can pick it up for $6.5k when they have a sale but it's still twice as much. We get the same with the matching rangehoods - 110cm ones are hard to find anyway, $1800 here, $700 from the UK, so we're doing a bulk buy and shipping over.