Comments | beckyzoole: More stove squee

beckyzoole

More stove squee

Apr 29, 2007 17:19

I am cooking chicken in the oven, and risi-bisi on the stovetop. I did not have to lie down on the floor to light the oven! The oven heated up in just minutes! It sheds very little heat -- the door is still cool to the touch, and so is the stovetop (where I'm not cooking on it). I was able to precisely control the heat on the stovetop, and I won't ( Read more... )

house, food, preciousssss

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curiouswombat April 30 2007, 18:42:38 UTC

Is a smooth-top the same as our 'ceramic' hobs?

You sound just like I did when I got my ceramic topped cooker - it is the bottom one on this page.

I love the instant and controllable heat, and the instant heat in the fan oven etc. so much.

beckyzoole April 30 2007, 19:51:52 UTC

Yes, that's it! We call ceramic top "smooth-top".

Here's a is picture of my new precious, only in bisque.

curiouswombat April 30 2007, 20:30:30 UTC

Very similar - but yours looks to have a pot-drawer under the oven (which my mother's has), but no seperate grill (is that broiler in Amerenglish? The thing you put things under to brown them, or to make toast or whatever).

Mine has a combined grill/small oven, so that I can cook things at two different oven temperatures at the same time if I need to.

Do you have grill in the top of your main oven?

Hee - the LJ powers that be see us as lots of teens discussing teen type things, and in fact we are an awful lot of 30 - 50+ ladies discussing the differences in household appliances! I was discussing the wonders of my combined washer/tumble drier with someone a couple of days ago, and discovered that they are unusual in America and, it looks like, a lot more expensive. And to us a kettle automatically means an electric one, but doesn't seem to to some of my American friends - and again yours look much more expensive.

If they were putting adverts for reasonably prices household goods on LJ nobody would have been complaining!!

beckyzoole April 30 2007, 20:40:09 UTC

If they were putting adverts for reasonably prices household goods on LJ nobody would have been complaining!!

I think you're right! :-)

Yes, the grill is in the top of the main oven, and we do call it a broiler. :-) It would have been more expensive to get a separate one, and I'm not used to having it anyway so I don't miss it. (My old gas range had a separate grill, but the door was so feeelthy and the tray so rusty, I never used it.)

I wondered about the website you pointed me to -- what is the difference in the UK between a "cooker" and a "range"? Both look like "ranges" to me.

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