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Southwestern Minnesota | I do not have experience with induction or gas ranges. I have had my electric range for more than 30 years and it is still working well (although the self-cleaning feature doesn't work all that great, now that I think about it.) However, if I was going to replace it with a new electric range, I probably wouldn't. Newer electric ranges are now required to have a safety feature to keep the burners from getting too hot. When they get to a certain temperature, they automatically turn down. This makes it very difficult to maintain a consistent high temperature for things that require longer and hotter temperatures (like frying bacon, sustaining a rolling boil to cook sweet corn, canning, etc).
My dad recently replaced his electric range with a new electric range and was very frustrated with this feature. We tried buying replacement burner plates that wouldn't do this, but they do not fit the connection very well. He talked to the appliance dealer and when an older range was traded in, he got burners from that range and replaced two units on his stovetop. Hard to say how long they will work, but for now it does.
So, keep that in mind if you are thinking about electric ranges. | |
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Conduction stove top
