/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17579575]

who else is stuck with one of these? coping tips?

[Anonymous No.17579577]

>>17579575
Is that induction? Ive heard horrible things

[Anonymous No.17579579]

>being a renter
lol you little bitch ha ha just use it and shut your ungrateful mouth

[Anonymous No.17579583]

>>17579577
no, just regular electric

[Anonymous No.17579768]

>>17579575
It could be worse, though not by much.
Just be thankful that you don't have electric coil, that is truly the worst of the cooking options.
Gas>Induction>ceramic glass>resistance coil
Ceramic glass is the same as resistance coil, except more energy efficient, easier to clean and most of the time even quicker. The difference between ceramic and resistance is actually a noticable improvement, surprisingly.

[Anonymous No.17579776]

>>17579575
>cooking at high heat
>lift up pan
>a fire spawns out of no where
how does this happen?

[Anonymous No.17579804]

Time to do some more grilling or smoking outside in your yard.

[Anonymous No.17579805]

>>17579575
>coping tips?
Stop being a fucking pussy

[Anonymous No.17579812]

>>17579776
electricity is fake, it's just fire. it's all fire. you were not supposed to find out

[Anonymous No.17579817]

>>17579804
>renter
>yard
kek

[Anonymous No.17579863]

>>17579575
>coping tips?
buy a single portable gas burner. A turbo one you can stirfry one

[Anonymous No.17579894]

>>17579768
I actually prefer coil, because at least coil is user servicible.
Also coil doesn't chip and break if you drop a cast iron pot on it.

[Anonymous No.17579927]

>>17579894
>because at least coil is user servicible.
To be fair I only ever used one coil stove, but that burned through in such a way that it was unsalvageable later. Fair point about ceramic breaking easier though, especially with anything heavy. It still will withstand a lot of abuse if it's somewhat decent glass.

[Anonymous No.17579944]

>>17579575
How about you stop taking the retarded opinions of a fast food board as fact

[Anonymous No.17579949]

>>17579579
>T. Lives in mommy's basement

[Anonymous No.17579952]

>>17579575
There's nothing wrong with these. I hardly notice any difference from induction or gas.

[Anonymous No.17579978]

>>17579575
It takes about 1 minute before temp changes kick in, longer for higher temps, so you have to re-time your cooking accordingly. Once turned off, burners stay hot for 10+ minutes and you have to find somewhere else to put stuff if you don't want it to keep cooking.
If recipe says, "cook on med-high for 10 minutes, then lower heat to medium," you'll want to lower the heat at 8:30-9:00 minutes in. However, unless you're using all the burners for other stuff, you can have have a separate burner hottened up, ready for a pan transfer.
They're nice because you have more flat space to put things if you're short on counter space; of course, only if you're not using all the burners.
And ofc they clean up the easiest of all the stovetop options.

[Anonymous No.17579987]

>>17579894
yeah idk whats wrong with coil

[Anonymous No.17579992]

>>17579768
i've never used a ceramic stove that was better than a properly functioning coil stove and i've used amazing gas stoves and gas stoves that are measurably worse than coil stoves (i'm looking at you, 8000btu)
i feel like the vast majority of people on here who complain about coil stoves just haven't used one that works properly

[Anonymous No.17579993]

Coil renter fag here
god it sucks
it sucsk
why does it suck so bad
I had a ceramic stove as kid, and then when that house foreclsoed and we moved to another one it had an old gas stove, which was my favorite to cook on, and now this shit.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ALL LANDLORDS SHOULD DIE
BY BEING COOKED ALIVE
ON COIL STOVES

[Anonymous No.17580001]

>>17579992
>i feel like the vast majority of people on here who complain about coil stoves just haven't used one that works properly
You know that is certainly possible, because my sample size is 1 (except for maybe some random flat during holidays occasionally) I wouldn't know any better.
All that I can say is that the ones I used were absolutely shit. Gas can vary a lot too, I agree, everyone who ever used a camping stove knows that but I feel like most gas stoves I have ever used were pretty decent.
Honestly I would prefer induction over gas if it didn't cuck me with wok usage so much.

[Anonymous No.17580044]

>>17579987
It has many downsides compared to open flame and induction, but most of these are also shared with the closed ceramic cooktops.

[Anonymous No.17580045]

>>17579575
>>17579583
Gas>glass>electric>Induction
Glass top is IR. It has an extremely consistent temperature and the two major drawbacks are (1) it takes longer to preheat and (2) shifty; warped pans don't heat evenly (eggs your pans need flat bottoms)
The only people I've ever met that don't like glass are impatient retards that don't correctly pre heat and almost always cook at too high a temperature.
Oh, lazy fucks don't clean them, which also causes problems, which is ironic because they are stupid easy to maintain.

Tl;Dr the only people who dislike glass too are lazy fucks who suck at cooking.

[Anonymous No.17580047]

>>17579894
Coils usually only need replacing because they're not protected by the ceramic top.

It's not impossible to replace a ceramic top either, just a bit more expensive and time consuming.

I'd rather have a ceramic top electric just for the ease of cleaning compared to coils.

[Anonymous No.17580052]

>>17580045
>Oh, lazy fucks don't clean them, which also causes problems, which is ironic because they are stupid easy to maintain.
See, that's one of the biggest downsides to glass: anything that spills over instantly gets cooked onto the element and will never come off.
At least with coil some of it will fall between the wire and you can clean it out later. and if the element ever gets to the point where you can't clean it then at the very least you can replace it.

[Anonymous No.17580054]

>>17580047
>It's not impossible to replace a ceramic top either
The problem is you have to replace the entire top and can't simply maintain individual elements. that's too much cost and too much hassle.
Hell

[Anonymous No.17580057]

>>17579575
Learn to cook. You should be able to handle less than ideal situations.

Only advice I can really give is buy an electric kettle because glasstops are dismal at boiling water. You’re better off boiling in a kettle, pouring into a pot, and then having the stovetop continue the boil instead of bringing it to a boil.

[Anonymous No.17580061]

i feel like disdain for coil comes from big ceramic propaganda simply because theyre too easy to service
i know people daily driving coil stoves from the 50s

[Anonymous No.17580063]

>>17580052
what the fuck are you talking about, you just scrape it off. its easy as fuck

[Anonymous No.17580070]

>>17580001
my camping stove has 30k btu hobs

[Anonymous No.17580078]

>>17580063
If only it were that easy.

[Anonymous No.17580084]

>>17580078
yes, yes it is. what kind of a mess are you making?

[Anonymous No.17580093]

>>17579575
I hated electric coils but these things are almost as bad to clean. My main burner is basically worn off/congealed on the finish and it gets harder and harder to clean.

[Anonymous No.17580094]

>>17580084
It is not. I have tried scrapers. I have tried the polishing compound that came with the stove. Hasn't made a dent.

[Anonymous No.17580097]

>>17580094
you fucked up, that's not normal

[Anonymous No.17580102]

real advice?
embrace being a non stick pleb
or buy a camping propane stove

[Anonymous No.17580103]

>>17580097
It's entirely too normal, which is why glass tops suck.

[Anonymous No.17580105]

>>17579949
Nah not everyone's a wet behind the ears zoom zoom like you.

[Anonymous No.17580110]

>>17580103
Nah man.
Not even that anon. But I’ve dealt with glasstops before.
I can’t imagine what the actual fuck you managed to do that made burned material inseparable from fucking GLASS.

[Anonymous No.17580113]

>>17580103
I have been cooking on glass for 20 years and never had that problem.

[Anonymous No.17580126]

>>17580052
You probably got some sugary mess on the stovetop like tomato sauce or syrup. Once it cools its melded to the glass, the only way to get it off is to chip it out and then you are left with a giant potmark where the stain used to be.
I just make sure to wipe the glass top with a wet rag while its still hot to get off anything from a sauce with sugar that may have spilled, before it hardens.

[Anonymous No.17580196]

>>17580103
I bought a glass top 2 years ago and some retards like yourself warned me about that, but as long as you clean it up quickly, or wait and scrape it off with a razer, it has caused no problems for me.

I much prefer my glass top to my coil top that I was replacing.

[Anonymous No.17580205]

>>17579575
>>17579583
I found taking the pan off the heat when lowering heat temps and then putting it back works better than doing nothing. Less burning food accidents.
Also, switch to a higher heat setting slightly earlier than the recipe suggests. Like, 30secs.
Definitely not a silver bullet, but it is coping.

[Anonymous No.17580208]

>>17579575
>>17579952
>>17579978
>>17580063
>>17580084
>>17580113
>>17580196
glasschads, will we ever stop winning?

[Anonymous No.17580209]

>>17580126
i recently moved into a place with a cooktop with stuck on crud. i ended up getting it off with a combination of the surface cleaner and a razorblade. was tedious, but worth the 20 minutes.

[Anonymous No.17580221]

>>17579575
Buy a decent single cooker induction top, something with fine level adjustments and continuous heating, to do most of your cooking on.
It's what I do. I also got an old gas cooker but gas is rather expensive these days so I got induction.

[Anonymous No.17580227]

>>17580094
>>17580097
You just use some water and really fine sandpaper. Like 2000-5000 grit

[Anonymous No.17581074]

>>17580126
That sounds like a nightmare for a beer brewer not paying attention. Boilovers are great.

[Anonymous No.17581244]

>>17579575
Also, you're only supposed to used stainless-bottomed pans on these.
Rough (cast iron, stoneware) will ofc scratch it.
Aluminum & copper supposedly leave streaks if you get the temp too high (I never knew what this was, is it actually molten metal?).
That sort of narrows your options because unless you want to go full-on stainless a la this guy >>17575351 it can be hard to find a non-stick pan which also has a stainless bottom. I've used pic related, kek made by Buzzfeed if you can blieve it.

[Anonymous No.17582611]

>>17580052
Just leave the burner on high till it turns to ash, then it wipes right off

[Anonymous No.17582649]

>>17580097
Yes it is. Glass top electric stoves are all terribile. They're shittier, higher-maintenance, lower durability coil stoves.

[Anonymous No.17582715]

Thay sucks, OP. I cooked on one once and it was awful, Holy shit. Why are they a thing? Are they for people who don't really cook or know how to cook?

[Anonymous No.17582736]

>>17579993
one of the few good things about moving back in with my parents was I get to use their stove. sweet natural-gas-fueled blue flame baby. now I can tilt the pan over the flame just enough to ignite the alcohol if I'm cooking with it for a big wow

[Anonymous No.17582747]

>>17580205
I do these things as well. But one thing I have never been able to deal with is that my pans always get too hot in the center and not hot enough near the edges. On gas I see people lift up their pan and tilt it, rotating it so the flame passes over the edge, getting it hot... there is no way to do this for me

[Anonymous No.17582774]

>>17579987
a couple advantages the flat top ones have over coil:

1) on a coil stove you have to level the coils individually, as opposed to just leveling the stove once for the glass top

2) coils can occasionally pop out of their sockets from moving heavy pots around on them. ive had this happen many times on my shit tier coil stove, apart from the scary sparks i've had dishes ruined by the heat being accidentally cut by this and me not realizing

>>17579575
i have a coil stove but for electric stoves in general, thermal control is a lot easier with thinner pots. get aluminum-clad stainless steel, or revere ware, or anodized aluminium, NOT tri-ply.

[Anonymous No.17582808]

>>17582747
A nicer 5-ply pan would probably transfer heat better to the edges of your pans.

Or copper if you want to go that route.

[Anonymous No.17582826]

>>17579575
32 year old renter here, some pro tips:
-Flush trash down the toilet to save trips to the dumpster.
-If a lightbulb dies in your aparment just steal one from a fixture in the hallway.
-If the hallway gets too dirty just spray paint a cock on the wall so they have to repaint everything.
-Run a cinderblock brick in the shared laundrey machines so they have to replace them with new machines.

[Anonymous No.17582827]

>>17582808
I want to be able to use all the nice pans that gas stove niggas get to use, it's not fucking fair

[Anonymous No.17582835]

>>17582826
rentoids like you are the reason I never do anything nice for any of my tenants

[Anonymous No.17582854]

>>17582835
No one cares because even if renters were great you would never do shit besides the bare minimum.

Landlords are the ultimate jews.

Sometimes I sneak into random apartment complexes and break windows in shared areas.

[Anonymous No.17582864]

>>17579812
>you were not supposed to find out
why? what does it matter?

[Anonymous No.17582865]

>>17582854
>if you shit on the floor where you live, someone eventually has to clean it
this is why you live in squalor, not because of evil landlords

[Anonymous No.17582873]

>>17579944
>>17579949
>>17579952
>>17580061
>>17580102
>>17580208
Good morning sirs

[Anonymous No.17582877]

how is coil or glass top with cast iron pans?

[Anonymous No.17582884]

>>17582877
shit, the pan gets too hot in the center and ruins the seasoning

[Anonymous No.17582885]

>>17582865
I make 140,000$ usd a year.
I dont live in squalor.
I still think vandalism is hilarious and am going to go fuck up a public restroom in 10 mins.

[Anonymous No.17582912]

>>17582885
Based

[Anonymous No.17582915]

They're bad. Use yours until you're familiar with its quirks.

[Anonymous No.17582924]

>>17579575
I rented a place with one of those useless pieces of crap. I just used pic related for a whole year until I got a new place with a gas stove. Fuck electric ranges. They piss me off so much I just want to blow up every factory making them. God fucking damn it. Whatever retarded nigger who came up with electric stoves is getting his penis flayed with acid for eternity in hell.

[Anonymous No.17582934]

>>17582885
My hero

[Anonymous No.17582960]

>>17580061
Holy shit! They open? Damn, I could have used that info when I lived with one for like five years.

I popped off the housing and vacuumed the hole, trying to get most the shit that fell in there. I'm retarded. Well, I'm sure the cockroaches loved it.

[Anonymous No.17583029]

>>17582960
They almost never come with an instruction manual, and half the time they do they eventually end up redirecting you to replace them with a gas stove.

[Anonymous No.17583096]

>>17579768
coil is better
all of these flat tops always have some kind of gay "smart" feature where they turn the burner off if it doesn't "detect" a pan on it for safety
it always ends up malfunctioning and you can't barely fucking cook

[Anonymous No.17583111]

>>17582885
>I still think vandalism is hilarious
You might appreciate this then - when I was in high school I would go to hotel parking lots at night with a can of spray paint and write shit on people's car.
The idea was very funny to me because I figured most of them were travelers who would have to leave in the morning and they'd be forced to drive down the road with NEEDLEDICK sprayed across the side of their car.
I also used to wonder what they thought about their stroke of fate. Like if they saw their car and just wondered "why me?" not realizing it was totally random.

[Anonymous No.17583115]

>>17583096
Holy fuck I KNEW I wasn't crazy, my LG flat top does this weird thing where it clicks on and clicks off for pan detection, and it ends up consistently fucking up my cooking temps. So annoying to keep a proper temp in ANY style of pan, cast iron, non-stick, or otherwise.

[Anonymous No.17583120]

>>17583115
I have an LG and it just goes, i can have it turned on without a pan on and it'll just sit there for 10+ mins being hot as fuck

Even feels hot from like 3-4 feet away.

[Anonymous No.17583134]

>>17583111
Me and my friends used to go binning, if there was a wheelie bin out on the street you’d grab the handle and hold on while the driver took off and then let go when you were going fast enough for it to hit the curb and take off. To be fair we did it on the weekend and bin night was on Tuesday so it’s their fault for leaving it out for almost a week

[Anonymous No.17583141]

>>17579776
This is gas, right?

[Anonymous No.17583144]

>>17580052
Yes, but, imagine that shit spilling on your gas or coil cooktops.
Now you don't have to clean your glasstop, you have to clean every nook, cranny, crevice and everything in between.

[Anonymous No.17583151]

>>17583111
Hahahaha

[Anonymous No.17583190]

>>17582885
>32
>earns 140K
>still rents
Shiggy diggy

[Anonymous No.17583209]

>>17583190
Anything below $300k a year and you should be eating lentils instead of meat.

[Anonymous No.17583213]

>>17583144
Comes with the turf. I would rather subjugate myself to the extra cleaning if it means my food is more evenly and thoroughly cooked. Is flat top easier to clean? AbsoLUTELY. It's primarily the only real convenience of them. They all have their pros and cons, but there is just no question, coil/gas is leagues above flat top stoves.

[Anonymous No.17583218]

>>17583209
I recognize that reference!
I see you coming a mile away, Mr. Bloomberg.

[Anonymous No.17583219]

>>17583213
Am I the only one who didn't have issues with cooking evenness?
I had gas stovetops, and the only redeeming features were: quick temperature changes and the ability to function without electricity.
That's it. My glass top is very even.

[Anonymous No.17583221]

Usually takes two passes with barkeeper's friend before I can get some of the carbon off the glass

[Anonymous No.17583232]

>>17583219
That could depend on your cookware as well. Do you use primarily stainless steel and/or enameled cast iron pans/pots? Those work exceptionally well on flat tops, as their heat retention is quite phenomenal on those surfaces. Everything else I've tested though ends up being a guessing game it seems like, non-stick pans always seem very notorious for mixed results.

[Anonymous No.17583294]

>>17583209
You'd probably be paying the same for a mortgage that you are for rent though

[Anonymous No.17583313]

>>17579978
Pretty much this. When changing temperatures, having another burner pre-heated to the appropriate temperature (higher or lower) is sometimes necessary.

[Anonymous No.17583331]

I would cast zac efron as charlie sheen and timothy chalomet as bruno mars in the hollywood rendition of the 2005 new years eve balld rop

[Anonymous No.17583340]

>>17583294
at least with a mortgage you are building equity
with rent you're just paying someone else's mortgage

[Anonymous No.17583377]

>>17583340
Maybe, maybe not.
In some places, the property taxes and condo/strata/hoa fees are more than one months rent for the same type of place.

[Anonymous No.17583473]

>>17579575
Can you play Pong on that thing?

[Anonymous No.17583511]

>>17580045
>spend my life on old style coil stoves at home
>gas at work
>just moved to a new apartment with a glass top stove

>turn on coil stove
>it puts a specific amount of energy into the coil based on what setting you put it on
>heating is consistent, reliable, and easy to manage

>turn on gas stove
>can literally be frying in seconds
>perfect heat control
>amazing for everything

>glass top
>has some stupid temperature sensor that tries to manage instead of just outputting a specific amount of energy, because it has to protect the glass top
>my thin pans will simply not be heated on medium or low, period, it will briefly flicker on then turn off
>my cast iron will get unreasonably hot no matter what setting it is on, simply being on is enough for it to eventually char anything, even on simmer/low it'll burn shit that I could walk away from to use the restroom on a gas or coil stove
>any spillage immediately fuses to the glass top and is a massive pain to clean up

Glass tops are just shit. I just fucking hate them so much. The only advantage they have over exposed coil is that you don't have to periodically pull them apart and clean them, but I'll take having to spend half an hour every six months to get a consistent, reliablly functioning stove over the absolute bullshit that is my new glass top cycling on and off constantly when I try and cook pancakes

[Anonymous No.17583791]

I have never used a gas stove... what are they like?

[Anonymous No.17583844]

>>17583340
The equity meme is a boomer trap. You get hosed in utilities and upkeep and still have to pay mr.shekelberg his due. Its even worse if you get fucked over with a HOA or end up in a suburb.
The only reasons to own a home are privacy, customization and land use.

[Anonymous No.17583992]

>>17583144
Until this post I never realized americans still use stovetops with exposed coils. Must be a bitch to clean.

[Anonymous No.17584007]

>>17583791
like cooking over a campfire

[Anonymous No.17584010]

>>17583992
That's why many of them prefer glass top electric, way easier to maintain. I've only seen hot plate style burners in europe.

[Anonymous No.17584014]

>>17584007
A campfire with extremely tight control over the flame. You can instantly dial in a needed temp with a good gas hob.

[Anonymous No.17584102]

>>17582934
this is what they were watching

[Anonymous No.17584106]

>>17582960
Might be very instructive if you look up the model number and track down the user manual from the manuf's website and read it. I don't mean that sarcastically, either; you'd learn a lot about basics of cooking temperature, how high/low to place the oven racks based on what you're cooking, etc.

[Anonymous No.17584112]

>>17583115
I think the clicking is it just turning the burner on & off over & over. That's how glasstops work to maintain constant temp: several times every minute they click on for a few seconds, then off again. At least, that's how mine works. Yours may also have a sensor, but I've never heard of those (mine's pretty old).

[Anonymous No.17584125]

>>17584112
Mine is 2 years old and does exactly what you described, no pan sensor.

Also, heats my pans very evenly, that dude probably just has shitty pans

[Anonymous No.17584163]

>>17582774
>leveling individual coils
>accidentally pulling coils out when sliding heavy pots
Huh?

[Anonymous No.17584175]

Whats with this constant seethe about induction stoves
I have one and its doing its job

[Anonymous No.17584212]

>>17584163
Not him, but I could see a coil slowly working loose over time on an old, beat up stovetop. Then, one day you move a heavy pot sideways and its bottom edge bumps the loose coil from the side. Its inertia does the rest.

[Anonymous No.17584215]

>>17584175
It's mostly idiots who don't have the proper cookware to go with it.

[Anonymous No.17584219]

>>17583844
i used to believe this when rent was cheap now i wish i had gotten into the housing market earlier

[Anonymous No.17584271]

>>17584219
don't fret anon; you can still get into the glasstop/induction stovetop market before they nerf the gas ovens

[Anonymous No.17584273]

>>17584271
i bought a house with a coil stove so i should be set for life now

[Anonymous No.17584421]

>>17583844
Imagine not owning your own property

[Anonymous No.17584545]

>>17579992
>i feel like the vast majority of people on here who complain about coil stoves just haven't used one that works properly
yeah I sure haven't, this is probably true because most people who use coils are renterfags like me where the option with the lowest possible cost is always chosen

[Anonymous No.17584554]

>doesn't work with your shitty non gas stove
not my problem

[Anonymous No.17584567]

>>17579583
Use heavy and big pots and pans. This keeps heat more constant, so you don’t get burning during the duty cycles.
>>17579768
From my experience, induction is better than electric because induction actually lets you turn things on to middle settings. I’ve also never cracked glass surfaces, but I cook with grace, and don’t act like a barbarian in a home kitchen. You wouldn’t crack things if you just moved like you knew how to control your body.

Gas is even better because you get the distance factor, you can use the shape of the flame to surround things, and you can use non-ferrous cookware.

[Anonymous No.17584673]

Realistically how easily do these break? Do they always smash entirely if you drop something on them or can they just chip?

[Anonymous No.17584678]

>>17584175
This isn't about induction, this about electric glass top

Induction glass top is something else entirely.

[Anonymous No.17584682]

>>17582835
most his stuff is psychotic but sometimes washing machines are filled with mold and they still don't get replaced.

[Anonymous No.17584691]

>>17582835
Serves you right for hoarding property you're not directly using.

[Anonymous No.17584701]

>>17584673

[Anonymous No.17584752]

>>17583120
Electrics can get hot as fuck, can be better than cheap gas for steak.

t. electric copelet

[Anonymous No.17584814]

>>17584701
looks like there's an automatic shutoff to prevent house fires. imagine how that would have played out with gas

[Anonymous No.17584817]

>>17583120
my frigidaire is the same way

[Anonymous No.17584833]

>>17584814
It'd have been stopped on the way down by the metal coverings on top of the gas piece.
And anon would have been extra retarded for leaving gas unattended while drunk.

[Anonymous No.17584852]

>>17584701
what does a pressure cooker explosion have to do with glass top durability?

It's not like a gas stove would fair any better

[Anonymous No.17584856]

>>17584701
i did cook condensed milk several times and it was caramel every single time, one time it was partially slightly burnt throughout the caramel because it was heated for slightly too long
retard in picrel didn't get that he did it too long and probably at a too high temperature all the time
maybe there was no water in the cooking pot anymore which would make it even worse

[Anonymous No.17584893]

>>17583511
Your stove had a bad sensor. You probably also don't know how to preheat and cook too hot especially if you can--hurrr de durrr--"cook in secods" on a gas range.

[Anonymous No.17584901]

>>17583992
These are nice. Glass heats more evenly though.

[Anonymous No.17585538]

>>17584901
>Glass heats more evenly
dumbest thing posted itt so far

[Anonymous No.17585741]

Yeah the house I bought couple years ago came with a brand new on. The front left burner already fucked up. Would stay on even when it was off, had to change the dial for 30$. I just don't trust my wife using the cast iron on it. Would prefer gas but right now all the appliances match black stainless so don't really want to have to run gas and fork out the cash for another one. Also they don't stay "on" they pulse like if you have medium selected it will go 100% then turn off for 30 seconds or whatever.

[Anonymous No.17586374]

>>17583511
this on/off shit was driving me crazy trying to make candy. I could watch the temperature on the thermometer go up and down every time the element clicked on or off. I fucking hate this piece of shit and I hate the place I'm living. joke's on them though I'm growing a mold forest in the shower and it's probably in the walls by now.

[Anonymous No.17586470]

>>17584163
i have leveled the coils because otherwise oil pools up on one side of the pan and whatever is cooking on the high side of the pan either chars or doesn't make good enough thermal contact to cook quickly (because it's not in enough oil / water / sauce). rotating the pan frequently mitigates this somewhat but it isn't a perfect solution. for example if i'm using the other burners, my range of motion is too limited for this.

i should maybe mention that one of the coils is about 15 degrees off from level without leveling it. this stove is a real piece of shit, bottom of the line model but i can cook great stuff on it because i have made it precise.

>>17584212
exactly this; it happens about once every three months on mine. pots full of water (for stock, noodles, blanching) and cast iron are the usual suspects.

if this stuff doesn't happen to you, good for you, you have a nicer coil stove than me or you cook less.

[Anonymous No.17586610]

>>17582864

[Anonymous No.17586861]

>>17579575
buy a portable induction unit

[Anonymous No.17587424]

>>17580052
Have you tried barkeepers friend or have an actual man try to buff it off? I've only ever used shitty ceramic top stoves and had plenty of spillovers but never once has there been a mess that just never came off outside of one bad accident with hot oil.

[Anonymous No.17587861]

I don't mind resistance coil, they are not responsive but after a while you learn to think 20-30s ahead when setting temperatures and it basically works out the same.

[Anonymous No.17587864]

>>17579575
Buy a portable propane burner.
The issue is using them indoors is kind of dangerous because the gasses don't completely burn, so make sure you're cooking when the kitchen is well ventilated. I heard that just using the range vent isn't really enough so you have to have like the windows open too and shit.

[Anonymous No.17587891]

>>17584893
I cook for a living windowlicker. The problem is that any cheap glass top stove has a bad sensor, and if you are shelling out for a fancy ass stove why the fuck would you not get induction or gas? Glass tops are just pointless.

And yes, I can put a thin non-stick pan on my element at work, crank the gas burner, toss in some oil, and it's ready for product to start cooking in under a minute. If your gas burner isn't dinky you can literally have it blazing hot super quick and then just step down the intensity as you add the food. How the fuck do you think fast fast-casual restaurants can get your food out in under ten minutes?

>t. actually did saute in a restaurant for years

[Anonymous No.17588275]

>>17579579
what other choice do I have man, can't afford a house in this dogshit market

[Anonymous No.17588375]

>>17583219
There’s a huge variance in quality of different kinds of heating. It’s just that landlords will always choose the absolute cheapest models of each type, so unless you’re a homeowner you’re not likely to see the high end stuff. I run with a gas burner but my neighbour has a quite nice electric coil that is shockingly good with mid-range temps (which is usually the weak spot for coil stoves)

[Anonymous No.17588662]

>>17579575
Aren't electric stoves really inefficient?

[Anonymous No.17588692]

>>17588662
no

[Anonymous No.17588811]

>>17587891
>t. actually did saute in a restaurant for years
literally means nothing in this discussion. I have had so much poorly cooked food from restaurants, if someone tells me they cook professionally I don't count that as giving them any authority whatsoever. Just like I don't consider a 10-year veteran of Dunkin Donuts to be an expert on coffee.

What matters is whether they can cook food correctly, and by your own admission you struggle with that

[Anonymous No.17589156]

>>17585538
You have to be 18 to post here.

[Anonymous No.17589173]

>>17587891
>I am line cook at a restaurant
>I only cook hot and fast
>fuck preheating
80 iq confirmed. Basically you suck at making anything but hamburgers and only ever used one glass top with a bad sensor.

[Anonymous No.17589200]

>>17579579
Imagine being so insecure about your tiny dick, shitty childhood, and shittier personality that you have to be toxic to people who don't have the same physical possessions you have.

The worst part? You know I'm right and anything you say or think about it after this point is just a cope.

[Anonymous No.17589204]

>>17579894
Gas>coil>everything else. No debate.

[Anonymous No.17589211]

>>17589200
for all you know he is also a rentoid and is just pretending to be a snob to get (you)s

don't forget what website we're on. I lie constantly and troll people I agree with all the time

[Anonymous No.17590824]

>>17579579
>mfw lazy jewish landlord hasn't renovated in 20 years so I get a gas stove
Even when I'm losing, I'm winning

[Anonymous No.17590829]

Cooking with anything less than fire is hell. There is no coping.

[Anonymous No.17591248]

>>17588275
Just get a better job

[Anonymous No.17591271]

>>17591248
>landlord are working class
>wageslaves aren't
kek

[Anonymous No.17591705]

>>17579575
My house is currently undergoing repairs and I'm stuck at my grandmother's house and she has one of these.
There was a gas stove where I was staying to evacuate from Hurricane Ida in rural Mississippi, but the place was filthy, there were bugs everywhere, and the house was literally falling apart at every corner. It was horrible.
If I had to chose and electric stove or go back to rural Mississippi, I would take electric stove and clean kitchen any day of the year.

[Anonymous No.17591721]

>>17591705
so true king. my moms house had a very nice gas stove, but my stepdad would molest and rape me. whereas at dad's house he had a glass top, not as good, but I was safe. would choose that glass top any day over being raped

[Anonymous No.17593254]

>>17579993
Care to elaborate on the problems of coil stoves poorfag anon? Where I live gas stoves are the norm all over the country.

[Anonymous No.17593263]

If you use gas, please make sure things are ventilated. Not doing so causes a small but measurable reduction in intelligence over a long period of time

[Anonymous No.17593265]

>>17579768
I'd take a coil stove over a glass top electric given the choice. I've never used a glass top that didn't take an insanely long time to heat a pan and have dogshit output overall. At least with coil you get direct conduction from the heat element to the pan so even though it's shit, it doesn't take 10 fucking years to cook anything.

Of course induction for all its drawbacks is better than either and gas mogs them all.

[Anonymous No.17593287]

>>17593265
>I've never used a glass top that didn't take an insanely long time to heat a pan and have dogshit output overall
my glass top heats it reasonably quick, but the trade-off is it's very uneven and hard to predict how hot things will get for any given setting

[Anonymous No.17593333]

>>17593265
You're not the first to say that, maybe my old coil was just unreasonably shit, but by comparison to that one I prefer my ceramic one a lot. It's quicker to heat up and more energy efficient, the only annoying thing is some "smart" heat cycling that sometimes fucks shit up. I would much prefer if it just pumped as much energy into the pan as I told it to.
The only real dealbreaker in my opinion are capacitive buttons. My ceramic stove has physical buttons and honestly I wouldn't have bought it if it had capacitive buttons. I had those on a ceramic stove at my parents house when I was little and I will never ever go back to that shitshow.
And obviously gas is better, but if you are in the EU you get dicked down by gazprom and taxes as well as prices are only going to increase over time.

[Anonymous No.17593732]

>tfw 3rd world
>gas is the norm but people cream themselves over induction and switch as soon as they can afford to
To be fair the fanciest gas cooker you can easily get here is only like $200. Induction goes up to >$1000.

[Anonymous No.17593735]

The stove really doesn't matter. You just have to get used to it that's all. Same with ovens.

[Anonymous No.17593811]

>>17593735
Nigger there are real actual tangible differences between an open flame, a surface that gets hot that you put pans on top of, and a magnetic field generator that heats up your cookware directly but only certain materials.

If I want to char some peppers or cook for during a power outage, only one of those will do the trick.

[Anonymous No.17593825]

>>17593811
>char some peppers or cook for during a power outage
How often do you do that honestly? Generations of housewife have coocked on shitty stoves and did alright.

[Anonymous No.17593838]

>>17593825
The fact that you can manage with any of them with enough effort doesn't mean the differences don't matter. Those were just done specific examples, but if you actually cook decently often, even the little differences in how a stove works for you are going to matter. I cook a lot so I don't want to deal with the shitty issues you get using an electric coil stove. I did it for years when I was renting, I know it's possible, but I didn't fucking enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.17593997]

Induction is by far the best outside of gas-stove, it's pure copium that people think they suck.

[Anonymous No.17594022]

>>17593825
Charring peppers and tomatoes happens all the time. Or if you want to make naan. Or if you want to heat up tortillas over the flame. Or use aluminum cookware. Or, using any sort of wok or round bottom pan, or any earthenware.
Actually, just tilting the pot/pan (e.g. when basting) or moving it around a lot doesn't work well on an induction stovetop.

[Anonymous No.17594151]

>>17593811
charring food on direct gas flame is gross