I Love My New Stove!
Posted by Stephen on
January 19, 2007
If you recall, a couple weeks ago I had my stove go up in flames. My house smelled like smoke and my stove was in my front yard. I was days away from heading to CES and I needed a new stove. Luckily, SEARS was having a warehouse sale so I went down to have a look. I’d never shopped for a stove before, but I knew what I liked cooking on.
I eventually settled on this Kenmore unit which was on sale for about $200 off. It’s got a nice flat top ceramic cooking surface, touch screen clock panel, and dual size elements that allow you to turn the front two burners from small burners to big burners by turning the dial the opposite direction. Most importantly though, this oven was not a SELF CLEANING OVEN. My last oven went up in flames because I chose to be lazy and use it for the first time. There’s some bad JuJu behind that feature so I just said no this time.
The flat ceramic cooking surface is just AWESOME! I’ve been cooking on it for the last week, and I’ve never had stove that heated up immediately, cooked evenly on all burners, and allowed me to use the cook top as a work surface for prep. It’s really nice. If you ever need to buy a stove, get one with a ceramic cook top. It’s worth it! The only thing I’m worried about is scratching it or cracking it. I’m pretty good at flipping my food in the pan so I’ll need to be more careful putting it down. I think I might have to start posting pictures of my creations again. I’m inspired to cook lots again.
I would think you’d have to hit it pretty hard to crack it. I have a heavy cast iron frying pan and even that is hard pressed to damage a ceramic top.
That makes me feel better, but I don’t think I’m going to try whacking it to test that theory
I was going to use my oven’s self-cleaner. I think I still will. My stove is like 2 years old! Gas! I like it.
If I had a gas stove when it went up, I wouldn’t be around :O
I remember hearding about the various ways the stovetops cook and what is the best.
Ceramic top (like Stephen’s) works the best due to its ability to heat evenly.
Followed by the old style electric ones (the coiled?) but they pluse the heat to what it is cooking.
The Gas tops are the ones that don’t heat evenly due to the structure of the flames they make.
I want a ceramic cook top like stephen’s sometimes they also have a ‘warm’ing section without having to use either of the 4 burners.
Did you get a convection oven at all? I want one of those when I move out.
I didn’t want to spend $2K for the stove I really wanted, knowing that I would move to a new house in the next couple years. The one I really wanted had dual ovens, both convection AND the ceramic top with the heating element.
This one is already such a huge improvement over what I’ve used before. I cooked on the ceramic top once and loved it, so I knew that my next stove would have to have it.
I just got a Kenmore ceramic stove top at the bump and dent sears store in Delaware. Paid about 750.00 and it had all the bells and whistles, conv. oven, lock top, etc. nice bisque color. However I have been told that you can’t just use your old pots and pans on it. I have stainless steal pots I’ve had for well over 20 years that still look new. I tried cooking with one and it left a little grease (maybe) mark on the stove top, looks like it may rub out is this normal? I want to cook on it but I’m afraid I’m using the wrong hardware on it. I packed my cast iron away thinking I could not use that but I see no one has had that problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
You can polish it right out with the included polish. If you didn’t get some, you can buy it from the store. It’s in the manual, and apparently, returns it to good as new. I haven’t put much thought into my cookware. I just use what’s at hand. Hope that helps.
thats a hot lookin stove ….pun intended
Not as hot as the last one. That one was “ON FIRE”… Literally…
Couldn’t help but notice the location of the fire extinguisher. Premium counter-top real estate, prioritized among all your cooking spices, even. Ready to go now, huh? Heh.
Nice stove, too. Cool.
Hehe I didn’t notice that. I guess Stephen doesn’t trust is New Oven
He’s been scarred for life!
This is like your first time commenting isn’t it Shawn? Nice!
Yeah, I’ve always had the fire extinguisher close by. You never know what might happen. Mainly, I have it just in case the GF burns something. It’s scary sometimes.
Unfortunately, when I needed it this time, there was no way to shoot it where it needed to go. I should have just given it a squirt anyway for fun.
i hope the fire alarm is somewhere close by as well…
I’ve got two. It saved my bacon because I wouldn’t have known the stove was on fire if it didn’t go off.
I think I have the same stove!
10 months later. do you still like the ceramic top stove? considering one but scared of the negatives that i’ve heard.
It has been surprisingly resillient. It heats evenly and quickly, and I love the fact that I can put stuff there when I’m not using it. I put my ingredients there when I do prep.