[Magdalen] Oatmeal time

[Marion Thompson]

Induction is a different type and very much more expensive.  So not all 
glass tops are induction.  Mine certainly isn't.

Marion, a pilgrim
On 11/18/2014 5:04 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
> On 18/11/2014 18:33, Marion Thompson wrote:
>> I LOVE my solid top stove!!!!!!!!!!!!! (No gas in Whitevale unless I 
>> went to propane)  I had the old electric burners for a million years 
>> and cooking was a trial. Easy enough to move the porridge pot off the 
>> burner if it really matters.  Not sure why your stove would continue 
>> cooking for at least 10 minutes; that is not my experience.
>
> I am surprised as well.  I thought those glass hobs cooked by 
> induction (which is why you need a dead flat base to your pans) and as 
> soon as the power goes off so does the induction effect. Any residual 
> cooking after that comes from the heat of the pan, as it would on a 
> gas stove.
>
> Having been used to gas I now have in my new apartment an electric hob 
> with solid plates which take an age to heat up.  I thought I had given 
> those up when I was ordained and now I have to get used to the darn 
> things again as I don't do enough cooking to make it worth replacing 
> with a more responsive hob.
>
> Roger
>