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?

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Steve

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"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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Peter Aitken

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Peter Aitken wrote:

> "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.
>
>

ok thanks Peter. I kind of thought that it'd be ok even though it was
probably around 0dF but didn't figure I'd chance it... this time ;-)

Thanks for the reply.

--
Steve

Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.