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From: lpm@lanl.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Gas vs. Electric
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 13:46:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  4 13:46:44 1985
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Some comments on the subject of gas vs. electric --

There seem to be lots of comments to the effect that there are no self-
cleaning gas ovens, only electric ones.  I have a self-cleaning gas
oven made by Caloric, and it cleans itself very well.  I was not aware
that this feature was hard to find in a gas oven.

The oven also has an excellent broiler -- much better than the gas
broiler I used to have, and better than the only electric one I have
used.

I have a friend who said that he had ruined the top of his gas range
by using a wok.  To see if this would happen to my range, I borrowed his
wok, put in lots of water, and boiled it.  Indeed, the finish darkened,
and I could not clean off the darkening.  Perhaps it is my particular
finish, since the darkening occurs to some extent with normal use, but
it was accelerated by the wok.  Electric ranges are not the only ones
affected by woks.