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From: seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Gas vs. electric
Message-ID: <627@mako.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 14:53:35 EST
Article-I.D.: mako.627
Posted: Thu Mar  7 14:53:35 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:35:56 EST
References: <143@magic.ARPA> <3403@alice.UUCP> <605@mako.UUCP> <1018@rocksvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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Summary: 

In article <1018@rocksvax.UUCP> dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng) writes:

>>...Gas stoves have two speeds:
>>OFF and BURN.  Nothing inbetween.  Electric stoves let you get the
>>same temperature two days in a row.  The better ones are continiously
>>variable.  Even the ones with descrete settings have much better
>>control than any gas stove.
>
>Gee, each burner on my gas stove has a control which allows me to
>vary the amount of gas which is allowed out of the jet.

True, but the lowest possible setting at which the flame will stay
lit is BURN.  I lumped BURN and BURN-EVEN-FASTER together into one
catagory. sorry.  I used to vary the heat by stacking the grates
three or four high to get the pan far enough away that the food
didn't burn. I don't consider this to be an acceptable procedure.

>Seriously, I suspect that the problem is not with the gas stove, but
>with the user of the gas stove.

True, I guess I'm just picky.  I like my food cooked, not burned.
I also don't like Carbon Monoxide.


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