[Sca-cooks] OP: Help! Electric Stove Trouble

[Saint Phlip]

Simplify life. Go to your home warranty people, and tell them the
stove doesn't work right, and if they want to prove it does, THEY can
come up with a manual to prove it does.

On Dec 21, 2007 9:21 PM, Mary + Doug Piero Carey
<mary.doug at pierocarey.info> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have moved into a new house.  I have been cooking with gas for almost
> 30 years, but this house has an electric stove.  What's more, it is a
> glass top electric, on which the vast majority of my pots & pans cannot
> be used.  <whimper>  Especially my beloved cast iron, according to the
> manufacturer.  <sob>  This is particularly bad, since the dratted thing
> seems to have NO ability to maintain a stable temperature, but keeps on
> fluctuating up & down.  <insert your choicest expletives>  WAY up &
> down.  The cast iron would mitigate that somewhat, but I tried it (very
> carefully) 3 times & can already see the damage to the glass.
>
> The previous owners left us every manual for every appliance, EXCEPT the
> bluidy stove.  The company website denies the existence of this model
> number, and their researchers inform us that the manual is no longer
> available.  I really want one, so I can try to figure out whether this
> fluctuation is outside of the normal performance range.  If so, my home
> warranty might pay for repair or replacement.  I hope it may be
> malfunctioning - I have a friend with a different glasstopper, and while
> I dislike it, it certainly doesn't behave like mine.
>
> So, I appeal to you, my brother & sister cooks.  Does anyone have a
> Frigidaire Elite Model number REGC39 BN *2 ? It was built by White
> Industries in Dublin, Ohio.  Would you be willing to make me a copy of
> your manual?  I would be more than happy to pay for the copying & the
> shipping.  Or, if you would trust me with it, I would make a copy & mail
> it right back to you.  Or if anyone knows of a purveyor of old appliance
> manuals, I would be most grateful.
>
> Your hopeful,
>
> Mary Piero Carey  aka Lady Maria
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