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Pete

I was looking at this griddle its pure cast iron. Take a gander --

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D6TWJH...colid=GCMPWJH3ZB0Q&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

 

[petek]

Jon. Just read the review on that,, One person says that you can only use the grill side because the griddle side is flat against the glass.. but it won't work with the griddle side up, because not enough contact against the glass.. Suppose you can always try it. I've read about other cast iron ones that won't work because of the design keeping the surface too far off the glass.

 

[combo52]

Cookware For Induction Cooktops

Generally does not need to be all that flat, A lot of my pans are old and warped and they cook just as well, I can actually raise one side of a pan over 1/2" off the cooktop and it still boils just as fast on the raised side that is not touching the glass.

 

The thing you need to be careful about is there is an overheat sensor under the center of the cooking area and if the pan is not in pretty good contact you can overheat the pan more easily if you boil it dry.

 

John 

 

Photo #1, flat on CT, #2 raised 3/8" at 12 o'clock, #3 whole pan on a sheet of 1/4" thick pyroceram glass.

 

[askolover]

Love it!

If I were going with electric I'd take that range too.  I'm also hesitant with SS branded things since the Maytag/Samsung Neptune fiasco but that's certainly a nice range.  My house isn't wired for electric range and there really isn't a spare slot in the fuse box so I'll stick with the Duxtop portable cooktop unless I'm doing a large meal and then I'll use the 5 gas burners.  My dream kitchen will have two stoves...gas on one side and induction on the other.

 

[norgeway]

Im not giving up my

Aluminum cookware , Ill stick to vintage.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Jon, do the surface unit controls have timers in them? My 1800 watt Vollrath unit has the timer so I often bring something up to cooking temperature on the 3000 watt Cook Tek unit and then move it to the lower wattage one, set the energy level and the timer and let it tend itself.  It's only taken 60 something years since Hotpoint offered timed termination of surface cooking for it to reappear. 

 

[combo52]

Timed Surface Burners

Hi Tom, Don't forget that Kelvinator Electric ranges also had timed surface elements, I just worked on a 1971 40"one the other week.

 

Samsung Reliability ?

 

This is a big question, We have found that there is not as much difference in reliability of cooking appliances, I generally tell my customers to uy pretty much any Gas or Electric CT they like as there is not that much difference and most never get repaired anyway.

 

It becomes a little less clear with a range, GEs build quality is still a lot better than any other other domestic range and SS is very poor about suppling parts after a few years so who knows whether this will be a great choice.

 

One thing I will do in life is to buy performance over reliability whether in an automobile or appliances, That is why I will never have a SQ TL washer or a Maytag DC washer in my personal laundry the Mts can live in the museum, after all appliances and cars can be repaired once in a while.

 

John L.

 

[jetcone]

Sometimes you get a real FIND on ebay!

Since my new Range hemorrhaged on most of my vintage cookware that left me with 3 pots. Not enough if you are a serious cook. One of the things jettisoned was my clam steamer after 40 years! On Ole Cape Cod that is a MUST!! 

So off shopping I went , saw nice stuff at IKEA , ungodly nice stuff at All Clad made of pure Unobtanium , Calphalon has nice stuff too.   But noodling ebay I found this baby! I got wind because as you saw above Im still using my 35+ year old Fagor pressure cooker and found out Fagor America and Spain have closed their doors. So their cookers will be on fire sale. Such high quality I never worry about durability, in 35 years I have only replaced a gasket once! And I found out too a little secret, it seems Fagor was not a manufacturer, their cookers seem to turn up in the Magefesa line sold at Macy's and BBB. It seems to me that Fagor was a rebranded Magefesa. So with that in mind I found this cooker/steamer for the ridiculous price of $36! And because so many of  you are terrified of pressure cookers it is brand spanking new. 

 

I'm testing my theory as I just purchased a new gasket for my 35+ cooker from Magefesa, lets see if it fits when it arrives. My bet is it will fit. I will post when I get it. 

 

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Happy Cookers All

My 35+ Fagor super cooker humming along side the new Fagor Steamer. 

 

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Tom

I don't know if this unit has timed burners, I will dig out the manual again and peruse. My Miele did but it was difficult to program I never got it quite right.

 

 

 

[brisnat81]

Its ok Jon, Michael cant program the timer on the Miele induction either, it must just be an age thing, it takes 3 button presses for me

 

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Brisnat81

FOUND SLAPPED AND DAZED in a garden in BRISBANE !!!

 

 

[tomturbomatic]

John, I never had exposure to Kelvinator ranges other than my grandmother's bol mid 50s model which I saw twice at 8 and 12 years old in Milwaukee. I am still amazed at how she went from using a coal range in cold weather and a kerosene stove in the summer kitchen to using that Kelvinator when she did not speak English. I guess the youngest daughter explained things to her like the words for the heats. When we were there, my mom did the cooking and did not have any trouble using the electric range when she cooked with gas at home.

There was another range with a timer for the "giant 2100 watt 8" surface unit" and the deep well, both ovens and the appliance outlet, but it was part of the start/stop feature of the clock. It was a Coolerator from Duluth, MN and the ad made much of ITT's (International Telephone and Telegraph's) merger and the features that brought to Coolerator ranges. That was on a 1952 model shown in an ad in a December, 1951 BH&G. It was quite a nice range with 7 push button heats. Has anyone ever seen a Coolerator range?

 

[bigalsf]

Thank you Ralph & Jon for the replies. The inability to use radiant heat in the top oven may be a deal breaker, but we'll have to see (he's the cook, not I )

Jon I will check with you in a few months to get your feedback on the ovens performance. Have fun and bon apetite!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Westinghouse Sort Of Had Timed Surface Units in 1941

I was going through some old range manuals last night and made a discovery. In 1941, Westinghouse ranges had unusual names for the models. At the top of the line were the Emperor, Regent and Commander. There was a round dial under the surface unit switch that functioned more like Frigidaire's auto-switch heat control for their Thermizer unit. Frigidaire's Thermizer heat control had a timed portion of the control for HIGH heat after which it switched to SIMMER, I think, to finish cooking.

The Westinghouse Single Set Switch offered a several possibilities in its automatic switching to a lower heat. For most cooking operations, the pan of food was placed on the unit and the surface unit switch was set to SIMMER. Then the Single Set Switch was set to the length of time the unit needed to operate on HIGH before switching to SIMMER. It would then operate on that heat until manually shut off.

If used with the Economy Cooker, the surface unit switch was set to LOW and the Single Set Switch was set to the full 30 minutes to make sure the lower wattage unit had enough time to bring the 5 quart pan to a boil on HIGH before switching to LOW, the heat setting used to finish all cooking in the Economy Cooker. A third sort of strange way of using the feature was to leave the surface unit switch in the OFF position and just use the Single Set Switch. They give the example of cooking dried fruit. The surface unit switch is left in the OFF position and the Single Set Switch was set for 30 minutes. This caused the surface unit to operate on the MEDIUM HIGH for the selected time and then switch to OFF, using the stored heat in the element to finish cooking. Westinghouse was a strong proponent of cooking with the current off using the stored heat in the unit.

I guess that this feature was a casualty of the war. It was available on two surface units of the Emperor and one surface unit and the Economy Cooker on the Regent and one surface unit on the Commander. Maybe it was too complicated.