On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 6:36:52 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:44:12 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 4/16/18 8:26 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:56:59 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:56:56 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:32:01 -0400, John H.
wrote:

Depends on the oven. We have a Samsung duo door. And trying to cook
cookies in the small cavity, they get overdone on one side. I think you
need a bigger volume to spread out the heat.

That's what we have. I don't like the Samsung because the burners on top are too hot. Even with the
dial on the lowest setting, it's very hard to get something to simmer.

I have that problem with my slick top Whirlpool but only on the small
burners. The big ones will run very low. Since I seldom simmer stuff
in a small pot it is not really a problem.

The big burners on mine are as bad as the small ones. They're all too damn hot.

I have actually been pretty happy with the Whirlpool cook top and I
got the inside Centex price on it (like 100 bucks) NIB.


When we redid the kitchen, we replaced the crappy GE gastop with a
KitchenAid with five burners, all of which seem to "simmer" a pot
properly. The GE was too hot on each of its four burners to simmer.
Fortunately, the twin GE ovens we still have work properly. One of them
is a convection oven, too, but I've never tried that feature.

I never had that much luck "simmering" on a gas stove. (we always had
gas in DC) Simply the nature of an open flame creates a hot spot. A
very heavy pan mitigates that a bit but it is hard to beat the wide
flat surface of a slick top electric when used with the right pan.
This ends up being more like a crock pot.
The main advantage of gas is when you are using high heat and the
ability to control the heat almost instantly.

The newer stovetops have improved on their simmer abilities. The flame is lower, and they even have a feature that will re-light them automatically if the flame goes out. We're going with a Dacor on our remodel. The large burner is 18,000 BTU for boiling water or getting something screaming hot.