A method for controlling the operation of a set of inductors of an induction cooking hob, said inductors being distributed in a two-dimensional array in a cooking surface of said induction cooking hob, and each inductor being powered by an inverter powering device, said inductors forming means of heating a container and means of detecting the presence of a container, characterized in that said method comprises at least the following steps: - acquiring an input signal setting all of the heating zones of said cooking surface to an identical determined heating setpoint value, wherein each heating zone is determined on a case-by-case basis by the position and size of a container placed on the cooking surface and covering a subset of inductors; - detecting at least one heating zone composed of a subset of inductors covered at least partially by a container; - controlling said at least one heating zone detected with said identical heating setpoint value applied to all of the heating zones of said cooking surface; - adding a new container onto said cooking surface; - detecting at least one new heating zone on said cooking surface composed of a subset of inductors covered at least partially by said new container; - controlling said at least one new heating zone detected with said identical heating setpoint value applied to all of the heating zones (Z1, Z2) of said cooking surface; - acquiring an input signal setting each heating zone (Z1, Z2) of said cooking surface to a heating setpoint value assigned independently from the other heating zones (Z1, Z2) of said cooking surface; and - controlling said heating zones (Z1, Z2) detected with said previous identical heating setpoint value, said heating setpoint value assigned by default to each heating zone (Z1, Z2) is that of the previous operating mode in which all of the heating zones (Z1, Z2) are controlled with an identical heating setpoint value. - acquiring an input signal setting all of the heating zones of said cooking surface to an identical determined heating setpoint value, wherein each heating zone is determined on a case-by-case basis by the position and size of a container placed on the cooking surface and covering a subset of inductors; - detecting at least one heating zone composed of a subset of inductors covered at least partially by a container; - controlling said at least one heating zone detected with said identical heating setpoint value applied to all of the heating zones of said cooking surface; - adding a new container onto said cooking surface; - detecting at least one new heating zone on said cooking surface composed of a subset of inductors covered at least partially by said new container; - controlling said at least one new heating zone detected with said identical heating setpoint value applied to all of the heating zones (Z1, Z2) of said cooking surface; - acquiring an input signal setting each heating zone (Z1, Z2) of said cooking surface to a heating setpoint value assigned independently from the other heating zones (Z1, Z2) of said cooking surface; and - controlling said heating zones (Z1, Z2) detected with said previous identical heating setpoint value, said heating setpoint value assigned by default to each heating zone (Z1, Z2) is that of the previous operating mode in which all of the heating zones (Z1, Z2) are controlled with an identical heating setpoint value.