Sales of electric cooktops sizzle as LPG flameout worries families

Electric cooktop sales surge amid LPG shortages due to West Asia conflict, driving prices up and inventory down rapidly.

Amid the LPG shortage across the country owing to the war in West Asia, e-commerce platforms and retailers in major cities have seen a surge in demand for induction cooktops as people look for replacements due to the gas supply disruption.

While prices for electric cooktops have gone up, supplies largely remained available on e-commerce platforms and retail stores though the inventory is going down at a fast clip.

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Weighing in on the increase in demand, Rajendra Gandhi, Managing Director of Stovekraft, a home appliance company which owns cookware brand Pigeon, said the firm is seeing a four-fold spike in the average weekly sales of induction cooktops in e-commerce channels since the beginning of the ongoing tensions.

“We currently manufacture around two lakh units of induction cooktops at our manufacturing facility in Harohalli, Karnataka and plan to ramp this up in the coming financial year,” he said.

In Mumbai, the price of induction cooktops from various brands like Pigeon and Prestige have risen between 10% to 30% since 2024 at retail stores.