[Sca-cooks] OOP: Stove info wanted

[Sandra Kisner]

>Hi!  Ok, here's my take.  I had one of those sealed-top glass things in
>one rental home.  I knew going into it that I wouldn't like it, and I
>ended up despising it.  It scratched so easily, it heated very unevenly,
>you couldn't safely use things like cast iron on it

     That pretty much takes them off the list, then.  I'm not going to give up my cast iron.

>If they do, I recommend it!  The burners aren't coils, they are
>solid cast metal fully integrated into the stovetop, so there is no drip
>pan underneath to get grungy.  They heat very evenly and quickly. The
>only disadvantage is they don't cool down quickly.  ...
>The burners come in cartridges of two, one on the left and one on the
>right, that plug in.  You can pull one cartridge out and replace it with
>a grill or griddle.  Rather than a hood, it has a down-draft system in
>the middle of the stove, which is great if you want to install it in an
>island or any other place where a hood is difficult.

     I've never seen anything like this, but it sounds like they're worth at least looking at if one does turn up.  It seems to have some nice features, especially the plug-in option.

Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu