"Steve Calvin" > wrote in message
s.com...
> As some of you know, I recently got a GE elect. glasstop range and I'm
> very happy with it but a question came up this morning.
>
> It's been COLD here lately (-10dF at night and yesterday got to a
> balmy high of 9dF)
>
> Anyhow, I made a pot of ham and bean soup yesterday and had no room
> for it in the fridge overnight so I put it out in our unheated garage
> overnight.
>
> I brought it in this morning, needless to say it was quite cold, and I
> got to wondering if it would be ok to put on the stove and start
> warming or not.
>
> I went on the side of safety and it's currently sitting on top of the
> gas "woodstove" warming.
>
> Would it have hurt the stove to put a metal, and very cold pot on it
> and started to mildly warm it?
>

No. Those ceramic/glass tops are very tough. Normally you put a room temp
pot on the burner at say 70f and the burner then heats to - I don't know, a
thousand degrees maybe? If the pot is 40-50 degrees colder it is a
relatively small difference.


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