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Posted by cshenk on April 17, 2008, 1:51 pm
"Terry" wrote
> Anone wish they had not bought one?
Many people find they do not like them but some do. What I notice is
cooking shows never use them.
They are supposed to be a bit more energy efficient (so I gather) but they
can be damaged ralatively easily and you have to have super perfect pots and
pans (very flat bottomed) to get a proper heating out of them.
I use cast iron pans and several kettles on my gas range. I'd have to
change my cooking style (pots etc) too much to want to ever think of getting
a glass top range. I actually turned down an apartment once because it was
all spiffy glass top stuff. Took a different place for 50$ more a month
with a real stove <g>. Thats just _my_ opinion though. I cook alot.
Posted by Walter R. on April 17, 2008, 9:46 pm
We used to have an electric stainless steel cooktop with spiral burners.
Then we got fancy and replaced the spirals with glass. It took us one week
to realize that there is no advantage whatsoever to glass tops, except that
they have that "modern look".
Glass top burners are high maintenance and expensive to replace. They do not
heat as fast and efficiently as spiral elements. Just like so much else in
life today: We make life unnecessarily complicated and our decisions are
driven by appearance rather than by substance.
After one week, we took out the glass burners and put our old spirals back
in. Spirals are self-cleaning and require no maintenance, period. We saved
the glass burners for the time when we sell the house and can impress
prospective buyers with their modern look.
--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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> Anone wish they had not bought one?
Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on April 17, 2008, 9:56 pm
> Anone wish they had not bought one?
Most everyone I know that has/had one. Look pretty and they go down hill
from there. Easily broken, fussy about the cookware used.
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