January 22, 2005

Margi Lowry

(with a hard "g," remember)

has an opinion about electric stoves.

And she is correct. My electric stove has two virtues: 1) it has a little shelf in front that swings out (and it damned well better, since the burners are all squished together in a teensy row and I can only use 2-3 of them at a time), and 2) it looks like something out of the 1960s, and therefore goes really well with my retro-house.

I'd trade that to be able to cook effectively. In a lot of instances where the heat has to be changed quickly I need to use two burners, setting one to the high temp and one to the low temp so I can just switch the pot over from one to the other.

And there's only one burner that's big enough for most of my pots and pans, and that really gets hot.

Still, the whole matter is a damned high-quality problem, considering all that's going on in the world right now.

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1 Electric stovetops are the devil's tool. They take too long to heat up and too long to cool down. In order to achieve real control you've got to use multiple burners and transfer from one burner to another. Electric ovens on the other hand are just great. But I love my Jenn-Air. Gas cooktop. Convection oven. Simply the greatest.

Posted by: Dave Schuler at January 23, 2005 09:01 AM (OLr4c)

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