"limey" > wrote in message >
> I've used electric ranges most of my life except for a stay in an
> apartment when we were first married.
> For safety, gas smells (from additives)! Up until the last three years,
> I've always used electric ranges with conventional burners but must admit
> I'd like to ditch my smoothtop, even though it's easy to clean. I find
> it harder to regulate the heat than with any other electric range I've
> had. (so there - here starts a whole new thread on smoothtop ranges.)
>
I forgot to mention - we live beyond city gas lines so people are condemned
to large LPG tanks in the yard.

Dora