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electric range?
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:56:20 +0000 (UTC), wrote:
>Eastward Bound > wrote:
>> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in message >...
>> >
>> > Electric coil stoves are achaic compared to other forms of electric
>> > ranges. Smoothtops generally heat faster, cool faster, and have a
>> > broader range of adjustable temperature. Halogens are "instant on"
>> > "instant off" but they do command a very high price, as does induction.
>
>> That is totally JADED! Spin spin spin. Coil is still preferable.
>> Those halloballo new designes are sensitive to the shape and bottom
>> surface of your pots and pans. On many of them they are programed to
>> turn off if you put a too large or too small pot or pan. Glass
>> surfaces are impossible to clean even with the razor blade if you cook
>> lots of sugary foods. Coil is still #1 far into the forseable future.
>
>I'm not sure where you get your views on the glass smoothtops, but
>my wife and I have a glass top in our kitchen. We use it to make
>candies and fudge, along with general cooking. It is certainly
>not hard to clean, even when drips of toffee set up on it. We
>have not had any problem using pots of any size, and the only
>ones that have a problem are ones that don't sit flat. That
>mainly means they don't heat very well, but they'd have the
>some issue on a coil. We even use old cast iron frying pans
>for bacon and eggs and the like. Basically, we do everything
>that people say causes problems with glass top stoves and have
>not had a problem. It's only been 9 years though, so maybe
>we haven't been doing it long enough to find out . . .
>
>Bill Ranck
>Blacksburg, Va.
That is about as long as I have had my glass top and I concur.
I have never had a burner turn off. I have never had any difficulty
cleaning a sugary mess or any other burned on glop. I use a scraper
with a razor blade & off it comes. A quick polish with a glass top
cream cleaner and it looks brand new.
The only pans I have had difficulty with are the inexpensive teflon
frying pans. They have a tendency to warp and no longer sit flat after
a couple of years. They are only $10-12 dollars and every 2-3 years I
get a new one. My other pots and pans, some of which I have had for
30 years, do quite well on it. Cast iron, clad stainless, aluminum,
ceramic...no difference.
Boron
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