dsi1 wrote:
>
> I have no doubt that modern ranges have a higher output. This is
> reasonable - back in the 50s - 60s, high temperature frying wasn't the
> style like it is these days.

Back in the 50s my parents had a stove (Moffat electric) with a burner
that would drop down into a recess and there was a special pot to insert
into it for deep frying.