On Thu 02 Mar 2006 03:59:28p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Peter
Aitken?

> "Dee Randall" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> "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.

That's true, as long as you have no induction elements in your cooktop.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
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