"Steve Calvin" > wrote in message
...
> Nyssa wrote:
>> Luckily we did a "dry run" before my garden started putting
>> out, because neither of my BWB canners (pint and quart sizes)
>> or my 22qt pressure canner would work on her beautiful new
>> stovetop.
>>
>
> You give no specifics. If it's a flat bottom pressure cooker I can't
> imagine why it wouldn't work. Heat is heat, no matter what source it comes
> from. The only reason I can see that it wouldn't work is that the bottom
> had some serious shape differentials which caused extremely poor heat
> transfer. But that's a known condition of flat tops.
>
> Mine *cranks* out heat. I defy any flat bottom unit to not
> severely boil on high.

> Steve

Yesterday I was reading that if you put a magnet on the bottom of your pan
and it won't stick, then it won't work on these stoves.

A magnet would not stick to my copper or caphalon pans. I think my Kirkland
non-stick caphalon-type pots are aluminum; the magnet will not stick. The
magnet sticks to all my new stainless steel pans. Both of my
canning/pressure cookers which are probably aluminum (I thought the smallest
WAS stainless steel) , the magnet does not stick.
Dee