Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!lpm From: lpm@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Gas vs. Electric Message-ID: <22813@lanl.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 13:46:44 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.22813 Posted: Mon Mar 4 13:46:44 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 04:04:10 EST Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Distribution: net Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 19 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.