Does anyone know if a smooth top stove can handle the weight of heavy
pans? I have a 22 qt pressure canner used for pressure canning and hot
water bath canning as well as a couple large stock pots. I'm wondering
if these pans would crack the surface.

"Serendipity" > wrote in message
...
> Does anyone know if a smooth top stove can handle the weight of heavy
> pans? I have a 22 qt pressure canner used for pressure canning and hot
> water bath canning as well as a couple large stock pots. I'm wondering if
> these pans would crack the surface.


With modern smoothtops, yes. I can't say for older ones. We have a smoothtop
and regularly use a 25 quart canner (non-pressure) and the largest le
Creuset Dutch oven with no problems. You don;t want to drop them of course!


--
Peter Aitken
Visit my recipe and kitchen myths page at www.pgacon.com/cooking.htm

In article >, Serendipity
> wrote:

> Does anyone know if a smooth top stove can handle the weight of heavy
> pans? I have a 22 qt pressure canner used for pressure canning and hot
> water bath canning as well as a couple large stock pots. I'm wondering
> if these pans would crack the surface.

Check with the manufacturer or your instruction manual if you already
own the stove. I will have a traditional coil electric range next time
around (if they're still around to be had!).
I'd be extremely leery of using the pressure canner on a smooth-top
range.
--
-Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> 5/8/05.
"Are we going to measure, or are we going to cook?" -Food Critic Mimi Sheraton

Serendipity > wrote:
> Does anyone know if a smooth top stove can handle the weight of heavy
> pans? I have a 22 qt pressure canner used for pressure canning and hot
> water bath canning as well as a couple large stock pots. I'm wondering
> if these pans would crack the surface.

No problem on mine. Lots of folks seem overly cautious
with the new smooth tops. The old cramic models from
the 1970s could be fragile, but these new ones are not
like that at all. We use big canners, pressure cookers,
large pots, cast iron, whatever. No trouble in 10 years
of (ab)use.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

On Thu 19 May 2005 10:00:15a, Melba's Jammin' wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> In article >, Serendipity
> > wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if a smooth top stove can handle the weight of heavy
>> pans? I have a 22 qt pressure canner used for pressure canning and hot
>> water bath canning as well as a couple large stock pots. I'm wondering
>> if these pans would crack the surface.
>
> Check with the manufacturer or your instruction manual if you already
> own the stove. I will have a traditional coil electric range next time
> around (if they're still around to be had!).
> I'd be extremely leery of using the pressure canner on a smooth-top
> range.

GE approves the use of water bath and pressure canners.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

On Thu, 19 May 2005 12:00:15 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>In article >, Serendipity
> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if a smooth top stove can handle the weight of heavy
>> pans? I have a 22 qt pressure canner used for pressure canning and hot
>> water bath canning as well as a couple large stock pots. I'm wondering
>> if these pans would crack the surface.
>
>Check with the manufacturer or your instruction manual if you already
>own the stove. I will have a traditional coil electric range next time
>around (if they're still around to be had!).
>I'd be extremely leery of using the pressure canner on a smooth-top
>range.

Do you have the smooth top and not like it?

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

In article >,
(Curly Sue) wrote:

> On Thu, 19 May 2005 12:00:15 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> > wrote:
> >Check with the manufacturer or your instruction manual if you
> >already own the stove. I will have a traditional coil electric
> >range next time around (if they're still around to be had!). I'd be
> >extremely leery of using the pressure canner on a smooth-top range.

> Do you have the smooth top and not like it?
>
> Sue(tm)
> Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

I do not. My stove is a 20-year old (something like that) GE.
--
-Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> 5/8/05.
"Are we going to measure, or are we going to cook?" -Food Critic Mimi Sheraton

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article >, Serendipity
> > wrote:
>
>
>>Does anyone know if a smooth top stove can handle the weight of heavy
>>pans? I have a 22 qt pressure canner used for pressure canning and hot
>>water bath canning as well as a couple large stock pots. I'm wondering
>>if these pans would crack the surface.
>
>
> Check with the manufacturer or your instruction manual if you already
> own the stove. I will have a traditional coil electric range next time
> around (if they're still around to be had!).
> I'd be extremely leery of using the pressure canner on a smooth-top
> range.

DH found a great deal for a smooth top and made arrangements to pick it
up tonight *without* asking me first. He spilled the beans yesterday.
He wanted to surprise me with a new stove. It's a very sweet gester on
his part I guess the worst case senerio would be to put my coil
burner stove in the garage and do the canning in there. Canning is a must!

BTW, the stove is a Fridgedair smooth top with self cleaning convection
oven and halogen front burners, all electronic. It is almost new and in
excellent condition. The previous owner passed away and the daughter is
selling off the contents of the house.

wrote:

> Serendipity > wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know if a smooth top stove can handle the weight of heavy
>>pans? I have a 22 qt pressure canner used for pressure canning and hot
>>water bath canning as well as a couple large stock pots. I'm wondering
>>if these pans would crack the surface.
>
>
> No problem on mine. Lots of folks seem overly cautious
> with the new smooth tops. The old cramic models from
> the 1970s could be fragile, but these new ones are not
> like that at all. We use big canners, pressure cookers,
> large pots, cast iron, whatever. No trouble in 10 years
> of (ab)use.
>
> Bill Ranck
> Blacksburg, Va.

Oh thanks! This stove is only about a couple of years old so hopefully
it will be ok. I'll contact the manufacturer just to be on the safe side.

> In article >, Serendipity
> > wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if a smooth top stove can handle the weight of
heavy
> > pans? I have a 22 qt pressure canner used for pressure canning and
hot
> > water bath canning as well as a couple large stock pots. I'm
wondering
> > if these pans would crack the surface.


we have a smooth top (two years old) and have had no trouble!
(except for the fact that i HATE electric cooktops!)

On Fri 20 May 2005 06:00:06a, Serendipity wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
>> In article >, Serendipity
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Does anyone know if a smooth top stove can handle the weight of heavy
>>>pans? I have a 22 qt pressure canner used for pressure canning and hot
>>>water bath canning as well as a couple large stock pots. I'm wondering
>>>if these pans would crack the surface.
>>
>>
>> Check with the manufacturer or your instruction manual if you
>> already own the stove. I will have a traditional coil electric range
>> next time around (if they're still around to be had!).
>> I'd be extremely leery of using the pressure canner on a smooth-top
>> range.
>
> DH found a great deal for a smooth top and made arrangements to pick it
> up tonight *without* asking me first. He spilled the beans yesterday.
> He wanted to surprise me with a new stove. It's a very sweet gester on
> his part I guess the worst case senerio would be to put my coil
> burner stove in the garage and do the canning in there. Canning is a
> must!
>
> BTW, the stove is a Fridgedair smooth top with self cleaning convection
> oven and halogen front burners, all electronic. It is almost new and in
> excellent condition. The previous owner passed away and the daughter is
> selling off the contents of the house.

Some years ago I had a Frigidaire smooth top and often used a water bath
canner on it with never a problem.

The objections that most manufacturers have is not usually the weight of
the pot. The problem comes when someone uses an oversize pot for
something other than boiling water or pressure cooker. Other liquids and
contents may cook at a much higher temperature and this can damage the
glass surrounding the element area.

HTH

--
Wayne Boatwright
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974