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It's easy to say "don't ever slide a pan with a rough bottom on the glass" or "don't ever drop a heavy pan". Until you make a mistake or have an accident. So, because I misjudged how hot or slippery a pan's handle is, I am to be punished by having to replace the big broken sheet of glass?
Personally I would prefer to have a stove that is more mistake-tolerant than that. You can do pretty much anything to the old Cal-Rods and they will take it. If you line the little cups under them with tinfoil and replace it every so often, the cleaning problem becomes nonexistent, too.
My glass top stove uses induction heat. Stuff doesn't burn on the glass and the surface doesn't heat up.
You can literally pull a pan of boiling water off the burner and put your hand on it.
It's easy to say "don't ever slide a pan with a rough bottom on the glass" or "don't ever drop a heavy pan". Until you make a mistake or have an accident. So, because I misjudged how hot or slippery a pan's handle is, I am to be punished by having to replace the big broken sheet of glass?
Personally I would prefer to have a stove that is more mistake-tolerant than that. You can do pretty much anything to the old Cal-Rods and they will take it. If you line the little cups under them with tinfoil and replace it every so often, the cleaning problem becomes nonexistent, too.
Yah. I think most of us would like to cook with gas (except my best friend whose housecoat sleeve caught fire when she reached over the front burner to pick up something on the back burner and she couldn't get the belt untied and suffered burns from which she died 3 days later). That was a bad thing, but I don't think it happens that often, and I actually do like cooking with gas.
But gas is not available everywhere, so lots and lots of us have to make do with electricity.
First thing is gas stoves can be set up to use Propane that is available everywhere.
I have used stoves fueled by gas, natural and propane, naphtha (Colman Fuel), wood and/or coal, Cal-rod and flat plate electric. Of all of these I really liked the wood/coal stove because the entire cast iron top heated up and I could control the cooking by where I placed the pot or pan. Another advantage was the stove heated the kitchen which soon became the only warm room in the house in an upstate NY winter. This was over 55 years ago.
I now use a glass top electric and like it very much since I learned to work with the long delay time in the heat. I clean mine by scraping with a sharp knife or single edge razor followed by class to stove cleaner.
I have used stoves fueled by gas, natural and propane, naphtha (Colman Fuel), wood and/or coal, Cal-rod and flat plate electric. Of all of these I really liked the wood/coal stove because the entire cast iron top heated up and I could control the cooking by where I placed the pot or pan. Another advantage was the stove heated the kitchen which soon became the only warm room in the house in an upstate NY winter. This was over 55 years ago.
I've used lots of those, too, and was extremely thankful one Christmas day when we arrived back home from picking up our daughter at the airport and found the ice had brought the electricity to the whole town down. At the time, we had a flat top wood stove in the living room and heated the house with it, so we heated up leftover chili, which became our Christmas dinner that year. We were cozy and warm. Wish I still had that stove.
I've used my large cast iron skillet on my glass top about 5 times a week for the past 5 years with no problems. Just don't go slamming it around and you won't have any problems. The glass is tougher than you might think.
I use my cast iron on my glass cooktop also. I love how easy it is to wipe clean. You just have to be a bit careful, and never turn it on before wiping up any spills, because if they bake on its harder to clean.
We have a glass top gas stove. It's a PITA to clean because the metal heat racks sit on top and you have to wipe and polish the whole thing each time otherwise you end up with wipe marks and the like. Thankfully the cleaning lady takes care of this once every other week but we still wipe it down if it gets messy.
I already told my wife when we replace the unit I am going to get one that either has the large racks that come off in 1 or 2 pieces and is either stainless or something else. The glass is terrible but if you don't cook often then sure it looks great, unfortunately we cook daily.
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