Stoves - why do you love (or hate) yours?

[Dogmama]

I have a smooth top stove. It is my second. It doesn't keep a constant temperature. Neither did my first - that's why I got rid of it. Yesterday it went from zero to sixty and boiled over some milk. The smoke alarm went off, the dog hid, the neighbors came over ("No, I'm just cooking...") - what a hassle. Now I've got burned on crude that needs a razor to scrape off. Ugh.

So I'm getting ready to go back to the old fashioned coil type - but am not sure if they even keep an even temp anymore. Does anybody have one that they can recommend? My neighbor has a GE but it's fairly old.

Oh and get this - In searching websites I see where Sears charges extra for the power cord! Seriously???

Any recommendations would be appreciated!

[indysteel]

Any chance you can convert to gas? If and when our electric range stops working, that's what we're planning to do. I'm tempted to take a hammer to our current one.

[Crankin]

I had the smooth top stove in my last house. I hated having to use a special cleaner every time I cooked.
We have gas now, and while at first, I was afraid of it, I love it.

[shootingstar]

Smooth stove tops scare me...knowing me, I forget the stove was on!

After switching from electric to gas in the past decade, I like gas stoves alot better. I just have to babysit my cooking more carefully, since the flame is stronger.

[luvmyguys]

We have a smooth top, and it works fine - I haven't had any problems with it, but our next one will be a gas stove. The line is already back there, it's just that the house came with the smooth top.

[OakLeaf]

AFAIK any electric stove is going to do the same thing?

If you own the house it would be easy enough to put a small propane tank outside and run a line through the wall just for a stove.

[thekarens]

Gas isn't available in our neighborhood, so we have the smooth top electric stove. I suck at cooking so it doesn't matter, but I'm not a fan. I'd love to have an induction stove.

[thekarens]

Just my .02, but every GE appliance we've had has died soon after the warranty. We swore them off forever.

[ny biker]

This site consolidates reviews of many product types. Might have something useful for you.

http://www.consumersearch.com/ranges...lectric-ranges

[Dogmama]

This site consolidates reviews of many product types. Might have something useful for you.

http://www.consumersearch.com/ranges...lectric-ranges

Thank you NYB!

[DebW]

I'd had electric stoves/ovens for years, the last 2 being smooth top stoves which I liked. When I bought a house last fall it came with gas, and the oven didn't work so I went and bought a new gas range to replace it. I'm not very happy with it. The burners are somewhat big for most of my pots (I live alone so use 1-2 qt pots most of the time) and the sides of the pot rather than the bottom are heated. It takes a long time to boil water. The stove sits behind my back door and the burner knobs are on the front, creating a dangerous situation. The door knob can hit one of the burner knobs and turn on the gas without lighting the burner. I've smelled gas from this occurring a number of times, and if it happened as I was leaving the house for hours, my house might explode. I put a door stop on the hinge to limit the swing of the door but that didn't entirely solve the problem, so now I've removed the stove knob. It's for the extra-large burner that I can't use anyway unless I'm making soup in a very large pot. The oven has worked well for me, except that last fall I had mice in the house, and with the large vent holes in a gas oven, the mice could enter the oven while I had bread rising and nibble on the dough. Ugh! I'd always assumed the inside of an oven was mouse-proof, but not a gas oven! I got rid of the mice last fall, but now they seem to be back, so baking day will be challenging again. I'm thinking about getting rid of this almost-new gas stove and going to electric (but will need an electrician to install the proper outlet).

[Irulan]

I've currently got a 10 year old Kenmore flat top that works just fine. However, I'm getting the kitchen done soon and will replace it with a gas range.