Perhaps surprisingly, electric stoves or cookers are more likely to cause house fires than gas ones. This is because they stay hot longer after you switch them off, are less obvious if they are left on, and can be harder to turn off quickly in an emergency.  Induction stoves switch off automatically if there is no pan on the stove top. This reduces one of the risks of you leaving the stove on inadvertently with no pan on. However if you fail to remove the pan, the pan will continue to be heated, posing a fire risk to anything combustible nearby, and a burn risk to the next person to enter the kitchen.  Induction hobs can still set your oil pan on fire, set fire to your tea towel or ignite your food if it boils dry.  Installing a Pippa will help reduce these risks on electric and induction stoves just as effectively as on gas ones.