[Sca-cooks] OOP: Stove info wanted

[Elaine Koogler]

If I had it all to do over again, I'd try to find a stove that had gas
burners on the top (easier to control and when yo turn them off, they're
really off!) and an electric oven (heat in a gas one is just 'way to
uneven...I usually have to cook everything at a lower temperature to keep
the outsides from cooking faster than the insides.)

And yes, I do like having my hood over my stove.  The original plans for our
house called for the cooktop to be on an island in the center of the
kitchen...that meant that the hood wouldn't vent to the outside.  So I moved
the stove to an outside wall where I can have a fan that's vented to the
outside.

Our stove is a GE Gas stove, and, other than occasional problems with the
oven, it's worked very well...in over 8 years, we've never had any problems
with it.

Kiri
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:21 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] OOP: Stove info wanted


> As I have moved over the years I have cooked on both gas and electric
> stoves, pretty much whatever was in the house/apartment I was currently
> living in.  I now live in my own house, with a rather old Kenmore
> electric stove/oven that has been working reasonably well, but I want to
> replace it.  Trouble is, I don't really know what's out there. I don't
> even really know what questions to ask as I shop around for a new stove!
> I can't afford to remodel the whole kitchen, so what I buy will have to
> fit into the space the old 4-burner stove vacates.  I'm assuming that's a
> pretty standard size, though of course I'll measure it and any
> replacements I consider before buying.  :-)
>
> So what are the features you can't live without, and which are a waste of
> money? Any brands that are particularly reliable? If I go with gas I think
> I'll have to hire somebody to rehook the gasline in the basement; I
> believe it was capped off after it hooked up to the dryer when a previous
> owner switched to electric.  At least as far as I can tell, I do have the
> piping in the kitchen to hook up to, it just doesn't have any gas in it
> now.  I don't have a vent/hood, and actually have only cooked on a stove
> with one at my parents.  Are they important?  My mother swears by it, but
> she doesn't like her house to smell like cooking. Peronally, I think
> that's silly, but I don't know what else a hood is supposed to be good
> for.
>
>
> Any information, horror stories, great finds, or recommendations would be
> appreciated, no matter how basic "everybody knows that" it may be.  I
> really don't know anything, and I'll be stuck with my (expensive) purchase
> for a long time, so I want to get it as right as I can.  Thanks!
>
> Sandra Kisner
> sjk3 at cornell.edu
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