I HATE electric stoves.

I've been waiting 25 f'ing minutes for a large pot of water to boil for my lasagna noodles...
(Rant over)

 

Electric stoves are better than nothing.....but that's all they are better than.

 

Thanks, I got very frustrated waiting for the water,...finally broke the lasagna noodles in half and used a smaller pot...it's in the oven now
Chef John recipe....

 

That's way too long. Is the element plugged in fully? Is the element OK, not damaged?

 

This was very large enamel pot, I changed over to a heavy bottom s/s and it finally boiled...(still not happy with electric stoves)

 

We're the fourth owner of a house built in '64. I suspect the electric range top original, or at least very old.

 

When I was much younger, sometime in the early seventies, my mother bought an electric stove with the very early ceramic? smooth-top? unexposed burner rings. Those burners took forever to just to get hot, much less hot enough to boil water, and they took a long to time 'cool' down. If you needed to "boil, then reduce to a simmer" you needed to have a second burner going for the simmering.

Ours isn't ^ this bad.

Edit: We do have a gas pipe in the wall separating the kitchen and living room. That's something we're keeping in mind should we ever do a serious kitchen remodel. And of course over the summer we bought a brand new elec oven (and seriously need a new range top).

 

Stove is a ceramic top from 2001, so, we are planning on selling the place very soon and moving so I guess I'll "suffer" through it...
Electric ovens make great sense, but personally nothing beats a gas cooktop.

 

I

LIKE

it!

 

That looks very similar to my Whirlpool. The radiant top heats up pretty quickly, the warming burner is surprisingly useful, and mine is convection, as well. We didn't have propane when we bought it.