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Thank you, Juno. After reading what Beverly had to say, and your take on it, I wish I could "test drive" the stove before committing myself. LOL! When we were thinking of buying a car, we rented that model for a short trip. But I doubt they rent stoves....

I do love the self-cleaning feature on my current stove. I don't use it very often, actually don't use the oven very often either, but when it needs to be cleaned, I really love it.

When I had a houseful of people, I had a curious assortment of pots and pans according to purpose. Now that they're all moved away, DH thought I should have a nice set of matching ones. I'll admit, I do like them and they hang on a potrack over the stove. But for some things, there is nothing like a cast-iron Dutch oven or spider.

Joanne, Are there any stores in your area that do cooking Demos and possible have a glass top. That's where I got my first try on one. They were selling the pots but I was more interested in the stove they were using. The chef let me try a few things on the stove as a come-on to selling his pots. It was one of these things where he was telling his audience how great the pots were neglecting to say that good food also comes from a good cook not just a good pot. Juno

That's an idea I'll look into. You mean, if I get the bestest pots and buy the bestest recipe books and the bestest stove, I'll still be a lousy cook??? Reminds me of the guy with the broken arm, who asked his doctor if he would be able to play the violin when the cast came off. Doc said yes, and guy said, that's great! I've always wanted to be able to play the violin.

You're welcome, and of course the usual caveat "YMMV" (Your Mileage May Vary) applies here.

My older DD absolutely *loves* the gas cook-top which came with their house 10 years ago, and I would never even consider having gas. Different strokes for different folks.

Beverly

Probably not, but you might find a dealer with a money-back-if-you're not-completely-satisfied policy, and try one out for 30 days???

I love the self-cleaning feature, but the "convection" fan at the back takes up about 2" of otherwise useable space, so I can no longer put two cookie sheets in lengthwise, one above the other but to opposite sides and have two batches baking at the same time (we bake a lot of cookies for the holidays). I have yet to discover anything which cooks better using the convecction feature, I wish I had omitted that.

My pots and pans are the complete set of copper-bottom Revereware we received as a wedding present from my folks 47 years ag, and I've never felt the need to replace them.

Beverly

Ya' know, Columbus got kicked in the arse for telling that one to the natives....

;-)

Beverly, "Doctor, Doctor, it hurts when I do [this]...."

Hmmmm, could try that. Of course, I'm also looking for the lowest price

-- can't help that, it's genetic.

No problem there - my toaster oven has convection for when I feel I

*have* to have it. Never had it before.....

What? No dents, no dings, no burned through bottoms? I used to have Revereware. There was the time two of the kids decided to make fudge in the microwave -- with my big saucepan...... sparks flew! Or so I was told when I found the pan with the melted handle.....

You know, the problem is that you heard those jokes when they came out. Like I did.

I have a Whirlpool glasstop stove, however it doesn't have the convection part in the oven. I love my glasstop stove! And yes, I have had those aggravating boil overs with sugars and such, grrrrrr. But I find a razor blade with some of the glasstop cleaner smeared across the boil over does wonders to get it up. It doesn't take too much effort to get the stain up. A plus to the having a glasstop stove is when not in use they provide extra countertop space!!

I never bothered with convection. Didn't want it, didn't get it. I agree it doesn't seem very necessary to me. Maybe I'm just an old dog not willing to learn new tricks. My DD with the Frigidaire has it and never uses it. She does have a fast heating high heat burner,that's a nice feature, she also has a burner that can be adjusted to a large or small pot and a 5th keep warm burner, I like that too. I never had a set of matching pots. I started out married life with a lot of hand-me-downs and progressed from there. One of my large soup pots is DH's mother's big Revere that's about 60 years old.It's far superior to anything Revere makes now. A few years back DH bought me a Revere sauce pan, it's thin and wobbles all over the stove. I took that one to my cottage for occasional use.Most of my pots out there are about

50 years old. MY mom gave them to me when she splurged on new ones.She was sorry she parted with them and I never offered to return them. That wasn't nice, but she always said they were not pretty and didn't want them. Oh, Joanne even the worst cooks can improve. DH learned to do a good job cooking when I was laid up this winter and was cook or don't eat. Should I say don't give up , then duck and run. Juno

ROTFLMAO!!! You owe me a monitor.

Beverly

In a pinch, I have used a flat spatula blade, too.

Oh, I agree, mine is great for sorting mail.... ;-}

Beverly

That puts new light on a childhood memory: we warned one another that one must never pick out a splinter with a brass pin, as brass would give you blood poisoning. I've always thought that that was because to get a needle, you had to go to your mother, and she would sterilize it and use antiseptic. But the rumor *could* have been started by a kid with a nickel allergy.

Brass pins were always nickel-plated. Which makes it hard to tell my remaining brass pins from my stainless-steel pins. But I don't use either, because glass-head pins work better with my Grabbit.

This was supposed to be an off-topic post -- how did I get back to sewing?

Joy Beeson

Hey, we share the same DNA! I almost never buy anything unless it's "on sale", and I've been known (much to my DDs' dismay) to haggle. Keep in mind, if you buy one "for testing purposes" and then return it, you can always decide to buy another *somewhere else* if you decide you like it, and wait for the best deal(er). You might take a look at Costco, they have a really generous return policy.

I never said that! Mine have suffered the usual array of boiling dry, overheating, and have a lovely assortment of dings, but they are still functional, and so are in use every day. The only pot I every completely ruined was a pressure cooker in my first year of marriage: I was cooking potatoes and failed to add *any* water. After 12 minutes, I put the cooker in the sink to run water over it to release the pressure and cracked the porcelain in the sink. Rental unit, DH had to replace the sink before we left a year later.

Wow, that's an experiment I've never tried. I have melted more than a few plastic containers, though.

Beverly

As long as your sure those little red lights on the cook surface are off. Juno

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I absolutely love my glass top electric stove, and would never get anything else again.. I have been using it for years, and love it the same as I did the first day it was installed... Yes, the glass top takes a bit longer to heat up, but electric cooking heat takes awhile to build up anyway (unlike gas cooking, which is "instant" on ). The ease of cleaning and the clean appearance of the stove when it is not in use are my "deal makers".

You can use any pots and pans, as long as they have a completely flat bottom.. Pans whose bottoms are elevated, warped, or rounded in any manner will not work at all well with the glass top. I use soft scrub to clean my glass top, and it works great. My top looks like gray granite.. This top does not seem to stain the way the original corning ware glass cooktops did years ago.

One more thing, in a small kitchen you can use the glass top as extra counter space when it is cool.. I use mine frequently when I am making sandwiches to lay the bread out on, etc.

hth, me

When I would have found the pan with the melted handle, sparks would have flown without even using the microwave.. and I would have "experimented" a bit myself with a hickory switch.

me

Twenty-five years and four houses ago, when I got a smooth-top stove because the kitchen was tiny, the instructions said the pans had to have completely smooth, flat bases. I invested in a set of Corning Ware pots, and am still using them, even though I now cook with gas. The only metals I kept were my 30 qt heavy aluminum stockpot - which is still pretty smooth on the bottom, a cast-iron skillet which nowadays is only used occasionally, and a stainless lined copper clad skillet which I bought about 15 years ago.

I have since added to my Corning Ware collection simply because it is so convenient, going as it does from freezer to oven to stove top to microwave to dishwasher without complaint. Of course, I don't know if the new stuff is as good - mine is nearly all more than twenty years old.

My only complaint about the glass top stove was that it had to be cleaned daily. No exceptions. No "let it slide until tomorrow". OTOH,it was extremely easy to clean except when I let the jam boil over or something, in which case I did indeed have to get out the razor blade as soon as the stove top was cool enough to handle.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Indeed! And it's a good idea to make sure the grandchildren are aware of the propensity to use the surface for "other than cooking".

Beverly