Mastering gas stoves for stewing
"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 21:46:38 -0700, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
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>> "Doris Night" > wrote in message
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>> > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 01:20:32 +0100, Janet > wrote:
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>> >> I've had a stove with a glasstop hob for 12 years with no problem,
>> >>fast heating, very responsive, tough, clean.
>> >
>> > My glasstop stove has a burner labelled "power element". It will boil
>> > a liter of water in about 90 seconds. Since I only steam (not boil)
>> > vegetables, I can get a lot of stuff cooked in relatively little time.
>> >
>> > Compare this to my MIL's gas stove. Put a pot of potatoes on to boil,
>> > (no steaming in that house, no, things cook faster when they are
>> > boiled) you'll be waiting for half an hour for the water to even get
>> > hot.
>> >
>> > Every Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving I get ****ed off about this.
>> >
>> > Doris
>>
>> I don't find that to be true with the power burner at all, water boils
>> quickly.
>>
> That's what she's saying. Her power burner is smokin' and her MIL's
> gas stove takes forever to do anything.
She said her glasstop stove cooks quickly, but her MIL's gas stove takes a
half hour to boil water, I said my gas stove boils water quickly on the
power burner.
Cheri
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