I hate this smooth-top range.

[grasswire]

I would never buy one. The burner used the most often doesn't stay fully on! It goes on and off, on and off so getting a pan of water to a boil takes forever.

And oh! If something burps out of the pan, it's not easy to clean off.

And gee! If you have a pan that isn't totally flat on the bottom, it rocks back and forth, back and forth.

Who thought of these contraptions?

[Phentex]

1. Never seemed practical to me but I thought the sell

was supposed to be the easy clean-up?

I need flame. I need to SEE how high and low the heat is so I can tell what I am about to burn. :)

[Warpy]

6. I can cook on an electric stove but I don't like it

and when something burps out of a pot and onto another unit, PU.

I've never had a smooth top but I think I'd avoid them like the plague. Besides, they'd never work with a wok, not that a regular electric stove has ever worked particularly well.

I do like electric ovens, though.

[yellerpup]

2. People who don't cook must have designed them.

I had one when we lived in NC and didn't enjoy it, either. I liked using the oven for baking; for baking electric ranges are okay. Cooking with gas is like painting a picture while cooking with electric is like painting by numbers. My sympathy!

[The empressof all]

3. I kind of love my glass top

I don't cook that much anymore so I can totally understand why you don't like it. I'd prefer gas myself.

I don't have any problems with cleaning it. I wipe up spills quickly and use bon ami to get any tough stuff.

[Lars39]

4. My sil cleans hers with some kind of gooey type glass cleaner and

a one-sided safety blade. I like my iron skillet too much to even consider that type of stove.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Is yours an induction top or a conduction top?

You easily tell. The induction top will stay cool to the touch unless there is a pan on it. The conduction top (just like old fashioned electric ranges) gets burning hot when on.

[housewolf]

7. I lived with one for a while a few years ago

I didn't care for it, either. Really don't see the point.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. My daughter and my son both have one and we have one in our kitchen at work.

I can cook on them, but I much prefer a gas burner.

[flamin lib]

9. I absolutely love mine.

It is infinitely adjustable so I can set a simmer by counting the number of bubbles/minute, it IS easy to clean, if something boils over I clean it up with a cotton towel and it uses both radiant and conductive heat so it's fast to heat up. If a pot boils dry or if I remove a pot without cutting the heat it shuts down before overheating.

I've had gas in the past and the only thing gas does better is initial heat up.

[Lugnut]

10. I like my flat top.

The burners heat up very quickly but it's a pain in the butt to clean. I picked up a scratchy pad made for glass tops and a cleaner and scraper. Eventually one of them works to get the cooked-on stuff off.

The glass top replaced a cast iron burner model that burned out last year and those burners were slow to heat up but also slow to cool down. I burned a few things in the process of getting used to adjusting the glass top but I find it to be more versatile than the cast iron. I'd really rather have a gas stove but it would have to be LP since there are no gas lines installed here.

[EFerrari]

11. I hated the one in my condo. So glad Rosie has a gas stove here.

The heat was inconsistent, the pots rocked and made noise and it was a pain to clean. It looked really nice but I didn't care very much about that. Give me this old gas stove any day. lol

[SalviaBlue]

12. I have one. I would have preferred gas

but my house is not plumbed for gas cooking. The cost to change the gas pipes to a larger size was prohibitive. So my choice was between the coil burners and the flat top.

I love how clean I can keep the glass top but the burner heat variations are a pain. They do go on and off constantly. And it is very hard to keep the heat low enough... high is not so much of a problem.

I had a set of Caphalon pans that I thought were really flat and unwarped but they did not sit totally flat. My mom, who had a glass top, presented me with what she said was a totally necessary accompaniment to my new stove... a rubber mallet. You have to pound the pans so that they are concave rather than convex. It works.

[Lucinda]

13. I love the induction cooking but am not a fan of the glass

Not too hard to clean - but it shows everything. If I build again I may rethink induction.

[Vinca]

14. It took me a long time to get used to cooking on mine, but eventually

I had come to love it. Not so much now. A burner thingy died and the cost to replace it is so much it isn't worth it for the now old range. I think I'll be going back to the easy to pop in and out element kind of stove.