"Ema Nymton" > wrote in message
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> On 8/5/2014 12:33 PM, Pico Rico wrote:
>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 2014-08-05 1:06 PM, sf wrote:
>>>
>>>> Most people don't preheat burners, but that's the solution for people
>>>> who whine that they want the instant on and off of gas. I've never
>>>> used a glass top stove, but it seems like clean up would be easy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We had one. My wife managed to break it and it was almost as much for a
>>> new top as it was was for a whole new oven. Keeping it clean was a
>>> nightmare. It may have been because we used cast iron pans on it. We
>>> like
>>> our cast iron pans, so when it came time to replace we went back to the
>>> regular electric coil elements.
>>
>> those glass tops are for people that like to dust the stove top.
>
> Well, I can not speak for everybody, but I love our ceramic glass cooktop,
> and this is the 3rd one that we have had. When we sold our house in
> Louisiana and moved into this house, they had electric and we replaced it
> with ceramic-glass.
>
> Here is what I do not understand. The ones we have had, were a breeze to
> clean, but my late mother's was not. I read that ceramic-glass cooktops
> can be composed of different amounts of ceramic and glass, so I am
> wondering if that is why ours have been so easy to keep clean, but hers
> has not. I clean ours each time we use it, maybe other people do not?

I think the one that my mom had was the same as my friend has. Neither were
easy to clean. You had to avoid any kind of boil over or spill at all costs
because it was so hard to clean off. This was the reason that my friend got
hers. Her daughter is notorious for walking away and forgetting that she
was cooking something until the smoke alarm goes off.

I do remember a flat top from the 1970's. I baby sat for someone a couple
of times and they had one. They had me heat up Campbell's soup on it. It
wasn't attached to a stove, and I think it was green in color. Although I
was rather amazed by it, I had none of the problems with it that I did with
my mom's. Then again, I think I only used it once.