[Sca-cooks] OOP: Stove info wanted

[Kim Schab]

Actually there are stoves out know with a special low
simmer burner (okay it goes higher too, but it goes
REALLY low) and with a higher output kinda high octane
burner too for fast boil...kinda cool.

Al
--- lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au wrote:
> >The thing I despise about gas stoves is the
> inability
> >to simmer anything. long slow cooking just isn't an
> option.
>
> Whoa! What kind of gas stoves do you Ozzies have? I
> feel your pain,
> but at least here in the USA i've never had this
> sort of problem. I
> always been able to adjust the flame on the gas
> stoves i've used with
> pretty good control. Is your problem a bug or a
> "feature"? Most of us
> on list are from the US, and maybe Australian stoves
> are different
> from ours - and i'm sure all of us Americans
> advocating gas use
> really different stoves from each other.
>
> SNIP
> >Mind you, I
> >haven't been able to cook rice on my current stove
> at all
> >as it is gas and only seems to have the options of
> boil
> >fast or boil slow.
>
> I cook lots of rice on my gas stoves (and in thin
> Revereware and
> Farberware pans without burning). I suspect that
> perhaps there's some
> sort of design flaw with yours or else the gas ring
> is clogged.
>
> I know that there are differences between my 16 year
> old Coleman
> propane stove and a new one - apparently mine cooks
> hotter -
> sometimes designers hamstring function when trying
> to make things
> "safer". Now i'm having problems with my Coleman (i
> haven't kept it
> as clean as i should have) and i really don't want
> one of those new
> stoves that takes FOREVER to boil water.
>
> Anahita
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