Love the oven, hate the hob (Smeg UK60CMFX1)

Member Name: historywitch

Product:	Smeg UK60CMFX1
Date:	21/03/07 (224 review reads)
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Advantages: Oven very flexible, has many uses

Disadvantages: hob high maintenance, scratched easily

We recently refitted our kitchen and chose this oven as we liked the idea of ceramic hobs and also a multi-functional oven. The oven fulfils all of our expectations and as someone who enjoys cooking I love the flexibility it gives me . I only had one minor annoyance and thats the fact that the stay clean liners tend to flap a little when the fan option is enable. They also dont do a very good job of protecting the sides and top of the oven, the hardest bits for me to clean!!
The ceramic hobs I am less pleased with, within one month they had a scratch (from a small piece of something on the bottom of a pan when it was slid from one hob to another) and it shows quite clearly on the polished surface. The surface itself is not easy to clean, a scraper was supplied but became dull quickly. It has also got some other permanent dull marks around the hob circles, we cant quite work out what is causing them, but they certainly look unsightly.
It also necessitates the purchase of certain cleaning chemicals to keep it in top condition which are expensive and not easily available.
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Summary: Can I swap the hobs for gas?