What are the features that you look at when you buy a cooktop or any other kitchen appliance? The first and foremost thing is safety and then comes the user friendly nature. Until and unless a unit is safe, no doubt whatever features it provides; it is not a good choice for home owners. The same is applicable to ovens cooktops! While buying a cooktop especially electric cooktops you have to look for safety features. My old electric cooktop could not match the safety standards and hence I got a new model which has wonderful safety and flexibility features in it. The Westinghouse PHL284U is the latest cooktop in my kitchen.
After my wife luckily escaped from an accident I immediately decided to get the old one exchanged with a good electric cooktop that have the most safety standards in it. I found the Westinghouse PHL284U a suitable cooktop compared to others with its wonderful and useful safety features like right safety hobs, easy to use, indicator of hotplate zone to prevent touch of zone, sensors to detect overheating of the surface and cut power supply automatically. The old cooktop once got overheated when my wife after putting pan with food items to get cooked forgot it.
She was engaged in other household works and suddenly she was about to touch the cooktop when she remembered that the cooktop was on for long time and the food got half burnt. If she would have touched it, the hot surface would have harmed her badly.
The edges of Westinghouse PHL284U are well curved with no trims and the black color is really soothing to your kitchen surrounding. There are four heat zones. The rear zones are of 1.8 KW with booster power of 2.5 KW. And the front zones have 2.2 KW with booster power of 3.3 KW. The overall rating of this cooktop is 6.5Kw. The good looks with bottom end ceramic finish, larger size, flat design to accommodate the pas and pots over it well are other notable features of this electric cooktop.
