Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!fortune!brower From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: Gas vs. electric Message-ID: <5086@fortune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 18:49:44 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.5086 Posted: Fri Mar 8 18:49:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 04:59:51 EST References: <143@magic.ARPA> <3403@alice.UUCP> <605@mako.UUCP> <1018@rocksvax.UUCP> <627@mako.UUCP> Reply-To: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard brower) Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 15 Summary: I'm afraid that I just don't understand these people who can't adjust the gas flame on a stove. The stove that I use has to be more than 30 years old and adjusts from just a little wisp of a flame barely bigger than the pilot, which might burn something in a week or two, up through many increments to a roaring blast which gets water boiling in a hurry. I know that newer gas stoves are not nearly as nice, but have managed to adjust their flames to the desired heat as well (although they don't have the heavy cast iron plates that mine has to spread the heat out). On the other hand, I've never found an electric hot plate (or cooktop) that was worth the tin it was made out of. -- Richard A. Brower Fortune Systems {ihnp4,ucbvax!amd,hpda,sri-unix,harpo}!fortune!brower