Hobs and Cooking Areas

Hobs and Cooking Areas

Excessive heat can damage Solid Surface worktops, this does not mean that you can’t put a baking tray full of cakes down on your worktop. What it means is that things with lots of heat in them (such as pans straight off the hob or casserole pots straight from the oven) should not be put straight on to the worktops. The choices are to either fit a set of Hot Rods to the worktop of put the hot items on a trivet to protect the worktops.

Splashbacks Behind Hobs

It is important that pans being heated on hobs and flames from underneath pans do not directly contact your solid surface as it will scorch the surface and in extreme cases may cause joints to fail. For this reason we recommend that designers leave 50mm behind an electric Hob and 125mm behind a gas hob. This guidance is not a compulsory rule it is just a recommendation. The important thing is to ensure that the users do not push their pans all the way back to the upstand and they ensure that flames do not play onto the back splash.

Recessed Hobs

The new fashion for recessed hobs is no problem, in fact we achieve excellent results. CNC machining of solid surface is very accurate and we aim to achieve a 0.5mm gap around the flange. Again the users must take care to ensure that pans on the hob do not contact the worktop.