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I've recently switched to an electrical stove, and there's something that bugs the living daylights out of me. Namely, heat transference.

The elements are metal, and so are the pans. Neither of these is particularly pliable, which means that there's very little actual surface contact between the two, so there's probably a hell of a lot of heat loss.

So my question is, is there anything to help with that, like some sort of soft, heat-conductive pad that goes between the two to help with heat transference {for the computer-wise, basically thermal paste, except in solid form}.

Or anything else that works, really.

Regards,

Quinch
Never heard of many folks worrying about that kinda stuff. If the elements are touching the bottom of the pan..not too much heat is going to be lost. Have you got any good cookware? That should help more than anything. Making sure the pan construction contains one of our two best available heat conducting metals i.e. copper or aluminum. I have a giant high dollar All Clad brand SS stew/bean/chili pot which has a waffle bottom made of Aluminum. Its a cooking marvel. lol Cast iron is tolerable but not as good as the other two. Solid SS has terrible conductive properties. Now the cats meow is hard anodized aluminum. That is what the big boys and girls use. They tend to be proud of those when you go to buy one. Kindly keeps us posted as event's unfold themselves. Thanks.