Sujata Sterno 4 Burner Stainless Steel Gas Stove — 2 mm SS Body, SABAF Valve, 9 Year Warranty

BULLET POINTS

🔩 2 mm Thick Glossy Stainless Steel Body – A single pressed 2 mm steel top, roughly double the thickness of the 2 mm bodies used on entry-level steel stoves. It resists denting under a loaded 5-litre cooker and keeps its shine instead of clouding over.

🇮🇹 SABAF Italian Gas Valve – The valve is the part that fails first on most stoves. Sujata fits SABAF valves across the Sterno range for a longer service life and smoother, more repeatable flame control at low settings.

🔥 5G Designed Forged Brass Burners – Forged brass, not cast alloy. The 5G direct-flame profile is built for Indian-style cooking, where the flame needs to reach the base of a kadai rather than spread out under a flat pan.

🛡️ 9 Years Warranty on the Complete Product – Not just the valve or the burner: the complete product. Only service visit charges are payable after the first 2 years.

📏 750 × 480 × 70 mm Footprint – A 70 mm profile that sits low on the platform and reads almost like a built-in hob, with a 480 mm depth that clears most standard Indian kitchen counters.

🔄 360° Rotating Brass Gas Nozzle – The inlet swivels a full circle, so the hose can come in from the left, right or behind. No wrestling with a cylinder that is on the wrong side of the platform.

⚙️ LPG and PNG Compatible – Ships with a complimentary set of conversion jets. If your building shifts to piped gas, the stove converts instead of getting replaced.

🍲 Strong and Stable Pan Supports – Sized to hold a heavy-bottomed kadai, a 5-litre pressure cooker and a tawa without rocking, which matters when four burners are running for a Sunday lunch.

✅ ISI Marked to IS 4246 – Certified under BIS licence CM/L 8530070478, the Indian safety standard for domestic LPG gas stoves.

📦 What's in the Box – 1 × Sujata Sterno 4 Burner Stainless Steel Gas Stove (SSCT 4B ST 81) · 1 × set of conversion jets for LPG to PNG · 1 × user manual cum warranty card. Warranty: 9 years on the complete product (service visit charges payable after 2 years). Country of origin: 🔴 confirm from carton Legal Metrology declaration before publish.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

The stove that stops being a decision

You have replaced a gas stove before. Usually not because the steel gave up — because a valve started sticking, or a burner cap warped, or the whole thing began to look tired two years in. Meanwhile the cooker is on one burner, the sambar on another, rice on the third and someone wants chai on the fourth, and the stove has to just work through all of it.

The Sujata Sterno SSCT 4B ST 81 is built around that reality. Two millimetres of glossy stainless steel, an Italian SABAF valve, forged brass burners, and a nine-year warranty on the complete product — Sujata's way of saying they expect it to still be here in 2035.

At a Glance

• Model: Sujata Sterno SSCT 4B ST 81
• Burners: 4, forged brass, 5G direct-flame design
• Body: 2 mm thick glossy stainless steel
• Gas valve: SABAF (Italian)
• Gas inlet: 360° rotating brass nozzle
• Product dimensions: 750 mm (L) × 480 mm (W) × 70 mm (H)
• Fuel: LPG and PNG — conversion jets included
• Certification: ISI marked to IS 4246, BIS licence CM/L 8530070478
• Warranty: 9 years on the complete product (service visit charges payable after 2 years)

Why does a 2 mm stainless steel body matter?

A 2 mm steel top is roughly twice as thick as the 1.0–1.2 mm sheet used on most budget four-burner steel stoves, which is what stops it flexing when you set a full pressure cooker down on one corner. Thin steel tops develop a slight bow over time — you notice it when a pan will not sit flat, or when the burner ring starts to look slightly off-centre.

The Sterno's top is a single pressed panel with a glossy finish rather than a matt one, so wiped-up spills leave less of a shadow. There are no separate glued-on plates around the burners where oil can creep in and set. After a bagara baingan or a proper mutton fry, you wipe once with a damp cloth and it is done.

Within Sujata's own steel range, this 2 mm build is shared with the Robusto series; the Majestic series uses a thinner 1.2 mm matt body.

What does the SABAF valve actually change?

The valve is the mechanical part you use most — every knob turn goes through it — and it is the component most likely to stiffen or start leaking on a cheap stove. Sujata fits Italian SABAF valves across the Sterno range, which is why the nine-year warranty is offered on the complete product rather than on the body alone.

The practical difference shows at the low end of the range. A worn valve gives you a coarse jump from a working flame to almost-out, which makes anything slow — a kadha, a slow-reduced kheer, a filter coffee decoction sitting on the smallest burner — a matter of guesswork. A SABAF valve gives you finer, more repeatable travel through that bottom third of the dial, and it stays that way for years rather than months.

Are the burners suitable for Indian cooking?

Yes — the Sterno uses forged brass burners with Sujata's 5G direct-flame design, which drives the flame toward the base of the vessel instead of fanning it outward. That direct-flame profile is the right one for Indian utensils, where a round-bottomed kadai or a deep patila needs heat concentrated under the centre rather than spread across a flat disc.

Forged brass also matters over time. Brass tolerates repeated heating and cooling cycles better than pressed alloy caps, which is where you usually see the first signs of a stove ageing — a burner that starts running yellow at the tips or refuses to seat flush after cleaning.

Burner size configuration for this specific model is being confirmed against the carton — see the Publisher Verification section. Do not publish a jumbo/big/small breakdown until that is done.

Will it fit my kitchen platform?

The SSCT 4B ST 81 measures 750 mm wide, 480 mm deep and 70 mm high, which suits a standard Indian kitchen platform depth of 600 mm with clearance in front and behind. The 70 mm height is the number worth noticing — it sits low enough to read almost like a built-in hob, without any of the slab cutting a real hob needs.

Measure your platform width first. If you have less than 750 mm of clear run, the 3-burner Sterno is 780 mm wide but only 400 mm deep, and the 2-burner is 630 × 360 mm. Leave a little breathing room on either side for the hose and for the pan handles that inevitably stick out.

LPG today, PNG tomorrow — does it convert?

Yes. The Sterno ships with a complimentary set of conversion jets, so the same stove runs on cylinder LPG now and on piped natural gas later. Piped gas is expanding fast across Indian cities, and a stove without a conversion path becomes a throwaway the day your building switches over.

The 360° rotating brass nozzle helps here too. Whether the cylinder sits to the left, the connection comes from a wall point behind, or the piped line arrives from the right, the inlet swivels to meet it. Get the actual conversion done by an authorised technician — it is a jet swap plus a leak check, not a DIY job.

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