Conventional electric ranges: the phase-out begins?

[joeekaitis]

 

Frigidaire's USA website has a link to the Electrolux USA site and vice-versa.  Electrolux no longer offers conventional electric ranges to US customers.  Just induction, gas and dual fuel in that order:

 

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www.electrolux.com

 

It's just one slightly upscale brand for now, and there might be others who've discontinued electric range,  but only time will tell if it's the beginning of an industry-wide trend.

 

[parunner58]

If this may be the trend. I will need to start saving up to replace my 15 Calphalon Professional cookware pieces. There are all aluminum and don't work on induction.

 

[petek]

For sure the trend is towards front controls but I think it's going to be quite a few more years before induction even equals conventional electrics. Still not seeing them promoted very much in stores, almost the opposite, where maybe one lonely model is hidden among the conventional stoves. Ask the salesperson do you have an induction stove and it takes them a minute of hemming and hawing trying to remember if they do or not and where it might be. Or else it's a newb part time sales person and they say "whats that".

 

[combo52]

Conventional electric range is going away

I don't think you'll see this anytime soon, while induction ranges are selling like crazy. A large percentage of their sales are coming from people switching away from gas. The biggest hit is going to be falling sales of gas ranges.

In any case you're not going to see conventional gas or electric ranges disappear in most people's lifetime here.

You may see significant changes in gas ranges to make them more efficient, a mechanical vent damper on the ovens is in the works, also overheat protection on the burners like all electric ranges have now will probably come to gas ranges. Both of these things are going to make gas ranges much more expensive and further reduce Their sales percentage.

John

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Seems like it will just make sense for electric ranges to totally become flat-top models, and if it's cheaper for the industry to stay with conventional electrics that one fluke you see of induction taking over then it just may be...

I noticed brass being worked into gas burner designs, so if it lends itself to a newfound improvement over previous designs then why not?

There are still some cooks who prefer cooking with gas enough that I think at least as far as cooktops go, at least I think that design will stay...

But ovens, electric seems to be used the most, therefore the dual-fuel design surely reflects what the separate wall oven tends to be, as electric there is what more homeowners seemed to drive fewer to no gas ovens being made designed for wall installation where electric has long been greatly preferred...

Though with gas cooking being banned, as what we'd discussed, not all the attention should be directed towards the stovetop as seemingly the ovens (recently had a broiler fire which melted a portion of a burner knob over my oven as I took a flaming pan out of it, even dousing it with baking soda) will come next...

-- Dave

 

[circlew]

There are some people who can not use an induction appliance due to it interfering with a medical device they use.

Controls on the front of electric ranges were very common in the 1940's and earlier. They moved to the back to make them more difficult for small children to accidentally (or intentionally) turn on.

My sister's kitchen has a gas cooktop and electric oven.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well the idea of burner controls being placed back over the oven makes me leery of those burners going back to being tampered with and/or accidentally turned on...

Had no idea of induction interfering with medical devices much like how a microwave is dangerous for people who have heart pacemakers...

Of which it should be in those considerations that conventional electrics with rear-mounted controls should really not get phased out just for the sake of personal safety!

-- Dave

 

[neptunebob]

Why a damper for gas oven?

Doesn't there have to be some air flow to support the combustion?

 

[tomturbomatic]

A damper to close when the oven burner cycles off to hold the heat in.

 

[askolover]

Pacemakers have come a long way with shielding built into them now. Some of them can even go thru MRI machines.

 

[ozzie908]

Askolover

In order for a pacemaker to become affected by an induction hob don't they have to be very close to it as in 6 inches away? Sure I read that somewhere. If thats the case you would have to iie on the stovetop to have any affect and if you do that you have to ask why????

 

[combo52]

Pacemakers and induction cooktops

Apparently, older pacemakers, and maybe older induction cooktops who knows if there's a change there or not could cause some sort of interference.

My mother got a pacemaker more than 15 years ago and she loved cooking on my induction cooktop which is 36 years old now. She noticed after the pacemaker was installed that she could feel something in her chest when she was using the induction cooktop so she started using the conventional electric cooktop also in the kitchen instead.

I don't know how typical this problem is. It didn't hurt her. It just made a funny feeling For her.

In any event, I don't think they're gonna stop making regular electric ranges anytime soon. The coil top ranges are definitely less popular, which is kind of a shame as they worked very well and we're a little more rugged for people who didn't take care of the glass top models.

John

 

[carolina128]

At the very least, there will still be some conventional electric ranges available to landlords who don’t want to have to deal with the (real or imagined) hassle of dealing with tenant service calls that turn out to be related to pots and pans.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Yes I can imagine how it may take time to acquire the comparable cookware, unless the manufacturers can quickly conjure up the right pots and pans...

I lived in an apartment with a coil-top, so a range being the most-often used appliance was one we could count on always working...

Or in that simplicity of configuration could always get a burned out burner (including the ones in the oven) replaced...

Don't know how well something g that only existed as a one-time one-branded Corning cook-top could be in such multitudes...

-- Dave

 

[petek]

One other possible reason why a multitude of people have shied away from them is that for years their has been the myth that induction stoves need "SPECIAL" pot and pans or "Magnetic" pot and pans instead of your everyday stainless steel or cast iron pots and pans.And they don't inquire any further so it becomes just a nope not getting one. Yes people are that dumb as we've seen lately.

 

[circlew]

Pete, much stainless steel is non-magnetic, such as Revere Ware. And of course anything aluminum is not. Stainless cookware needs to be the "tri-ply" (magnetic core encased in SS) for it to be compatible.