"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:43:23 -0700, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
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>>"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:
>>>> >
>>>> >> 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.
>
> My MIL's gas stove does not have a "power burner". And it takes
> forever to get a pot of water to boil on that stove. My electric glass
> top stove *does* have a power burner, and it heats water very quickly.
>
> Apparently, your gas stove is better than my MIL's stove if it has a
> power burner that works well.

My gas hob has 5 burners, one of which is a double burner. That works very
fast.


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