Uh OH! my glass top stove

[redhen]

The ONLY thing that i really like about the glass is its sooooo easy to clean your stove and keep it nice looking...

 

[aubreynoramarie]

We ended up getting a really really expensive ceramic top stove for free from my boyfriends brother when he moved, but to be perfectly honest, i hate he stupid thing and would rather spend a few hundred bucks on a crappy electric stove.

 

[SillyChicken]

yes you can get the glass replaced. You may find it cheaper to get a new stove.

We use a canner on our flat top all the time. (it won't bother me if it breaks, cause I want to switch to a gas stove too).

 

[bakerjw]

We don't have gas where I live so we bought a high end electric with the controls at the front. My DW is visually impaired so the controls up front are a necessity.

We haven't had a lick of trouble with it since we've owned it. And for canning it is perfect. I bought a new pressure canner this year and can put it on a small eye and regulate the pressure perfectly. Once set I read a book until the timer runs out. The canner sits completely over the eye and since it is the kind with a pressure gauge where there is no steam being released it stays comfortable in the kitchen.

We did have a cast iron skillet crack on our stove but the top was ok. Although I've never been a fan of older electric stoves I do love ours and would never go back to gas.

 

[sgtmom52]

I love my gas (propane) stove! We live in the woods and when we lost power for 2 days last week due to an early snow storm we could still cook on the stove by light the burners with a match ~ try that with your glass top electric stoves! I think that you get much better temperature control on the gas burners too.

 

[Marcymom3]

We don't have gas at our house. After learning to cook on a gas stove and having it in our houses before this one, I got spoiled. Learning to adjust your method to electric isn't easy! Our current stove has ceramic top. It is a pain to keep clean and we do not use our cast iron pans on it.
Other than that, it hasn't given me any trouble and so far has lasted as long as any others I've had. (I probably just jinxed myself! and right before Thanksgiving...eeek!) As others have said, I use my canner on it without any problems and try not to slide anything.

I don't know what we will get when it goes up. The whole idea of going back to the spiral burners turns me off but would love to be able to use my cast iron again. Still can't stop thinking about a nice double ovened, six burner restaurant type stove....

Thanks for the warning about using a cracked surface. Who knew?!

 

[EweSheep]

I love my electric stove, hated the gas stoves....due to gas leaks, not a pleasant thing to go thru. I love my propane grill outside and no leak worries there outside!

My sister had a glass top stove, and so does my mom and one of theirs cracked and it is never again! It cost as much as a new stove so they had to go out and buy another electric coil stove.

However I still LOVE my gas water heater and will NOT change it to electric. Whenever the power is out, the water heater still going however once we make that change from that hot water heater to the tankless water heater, it needs electric to start up...that would be a real piece of work when we need hot water on power outages.

Only once since I lived here, we had no power for three days......or a week, I can not remember but remembered the ice bags we had to use LOL! But the hot water heater was a life saveer for us that wants hot showers. Thank God it was during the summer.

 

[LegginMF12]

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The last 2 stoves we bought came with the conversion kits for propane. It's just a matter of changing out the orifices, it takes 5 minutes. The Big Guy "changed" out the ones on our last stove. I went to make roast chicken and called to ask if he really changed the one for the oven. I had flames shooting clear to the top of the oven box. It was kinda pretty with the oven door closed. I asked him if we could put the stove in the living room until we get the wood burning stove.

 

[EweSheep]

 

[LoveMyFeatherBabies]

I got rid of my glass top stove because you aren't supposed to use pots and pans that are more than a couple inches in diameter bigger than the circle burner. That being said, that makes canning on them really dangerous and I can't live without that...so I got an older stove that has been good and faithful when canning (=