"Boron Elgar" > wrote in message
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> 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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Agreement from another longtime smoothtop user. I have never seen a range
that turns
itself off if a pot is the "incorrect" (Perhaps the OP could reference the
model with this
quirk so folks could avoid it.) and my range top is as clean as it was the
day it was installed.
Now, if someone spilled a sugary substance on the top and heated it over and
over instead
of wiping it off when cold, it might be a challenge to clean. However, most
people clean their spills up
ASAP no matter the range type.
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