"Dee Randall" > wrote in message
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>
> "Steve Calvin" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Nyssa wrote:
>>> Luckily we did a "dry run" before my garden started putting
>>> out, because neither of my BWB canners (pint and quart sizes)
>>> or my 22qt pressure canner would work on her beautiful new
>>> stovetop.
>>>
>>
>> You give no specifics. If it's a flat bottom pressure cooker I can't
>> imagine why it wouldn't work. Heat is heat, no matter what source it
>> comes from. The only reason I can see that it wouldn't work is that the
>> bottom had some serious shape differentials which caused extremely poor
>> heat transfer. But that's a known condition of flat tops.
>>
>> Mine *cranks* out heat. I defy any flat bottom unit to not
>> severely boil on high.
>
>> Steve
>
> Yesterday I was reading that if you put a magnet on the bottom of your pan
> and it won't stick, then it won't work on these stoves.
>
> A magnet would not stick to my copper or caphalon pans. I think my
> Kirkland non-stick caphalon-type pots are aluminum; the magnet will not
> stick. The magnet sticks to all my new stainless steel pans. Both of my
> canning/pressure cookers which are probably aluminum (I thought the
> smallest WAS stainless steel) , the magnet does not stick.
> Dee
>

Magnets have no relevance at all to flat top ranges. Some stainless is
non-magnetic.


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