In article >,
jmcquown > wrote:
>Gas is not always an option. There are no gas lines run to where I
>live. Everything is strictly electric.
>
>It takes a while if you're used to gas cooking to get used to electric
>cooking. There is no problem with the stove or the cookware... IMNO
>he's just not used to the stove.

Funny related story - we've always had gas cooktops at our home.
Summer vacation this year, we stayed in a cabin with a small electric
stovetop. Early the first morning there, the 15 year comes into
the bedroom asking where the lighter is so he can make breakfast.

Half asleep, I mumble "picnic basket". A few moments later,
"I can't get it to light." I wake a bit more, realize what's happening
and go and explain to him how the electric cooktop works...

--Mark
<regular lurker...>