As seen from rec.food.equipment, on
Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:44:08 -0400, "Ellen" > wrote:

>
>"Jeff" > wrote in message
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>> As seen from rec.food.equipment, on
>>
>> Now, how do you expect to look professional and impress your friends if
>> you're going to let your cookbooks get dusty? You've never seen a
>> lawyer let those (fake) law books that are always on floor-to-ceiling
>> shelves right behind the big desk get dusty, have you? You can't afford
>> to, either!
>
>hahaha ---



>you can always tell the cookbooks and recipies I use - they are
>always full of splatters and fingerprints :-)

That's what they're *suposed* to look like.

>> > Unfortunately I have this wretched thermadore stove (talk about a
>> >big mistake in stove purchases) and two of the burners are"normal"
>> >gas burners and the other two have this "turn on/turn off" feature
>> >for lower settings which took me about 2 days to learn to hate.
>>
>> Is it one of those "burner with a brain" thingies that supposedly
>> senses the temperature of your cookware and adjusts itself
>> accordingly?
>
>No it is one of those incredibly annoying burners that turns on and off
>at intervals and when it is ready to turn on then it sparks a bunch of
>times before it does.

<blink>

I've never heard of that "feature" before. I think I might learn to
hate it, too.

You got me curious enough to go visit the Thermador website,
<http://www.thermador.com>. The gastops main page in particular
suggests they are selling themselves as very snooty/modern/fashionable.
Did you get one of the star burner models, or one of the conventional
ones? Glancing through an owner's book for some of their conventional
models, I noticed that the so-called ExtraLow burners do not work in
the event of a power failure. Tsk-tsk. The burners have removeable caps
like mine, but the burner holes (which are located in the base) must
still be poked out with a paper clip or some such to clean them. What's
the point of removeable caps, then? There's a diagram in the owner's
book for some of the star burner models that shows that they put the
burner holes in the caps, so at least the caps may be soaked and
scrubbed out to clean the holes.

<shrug> I guess to keep your pressure cooker at the first ring
indicator (and maybe the second one, too), you might as well use one of
these burners and let it turn on and off. Better than having to turn it
on and off yourself, manually.

Jeff