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At 03:38 PM 6/22/2006, Lynda wrote:

> ........Also, as I said, electric is cleaner.  Burning gas is a dirty 
> business and
> your walls and ceiling will attest to that.  I, personally, hate having to
> clean the gas guck off ceilings and walls and inside the vents, 
> etc.  ..............

It that's the case you need to adjust or have someone adjust the burn.  I 
have never had to clean gas residue off walls, vents, anything else.
And for the record I learned to cook on an electric range and happily used 
that until I moved as a 30 y/o adult to housing where the provided range 
was propane.  Believe me, I've never looked back, and I've done a whale of 
a lot of cooking and canning since then; at one time there were about 20 of 
us to cook for.

> And, I
> personally, like being able to actually have a burner that will do a real
> simmer for things like Noni's old-fashioned, traditional spaghetti sauce. 
> ............

I can simmer anything I wish, in any amount, in as large or as small a pan 
as I wish.  Never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to.  Maybe an 
adjustment again?

And canning on an electric range just plain is a drag, if possible at 
all.  Always having to find the optimum size pan and number of jars that 
would actually work........ugh.  I never had an electric that was up to 
that task (admittedly never had one of the superduper pooperscooper types.).

And one thing I still like about my oven with a pilot: it's a never-fail 
place for making cheese and raising doughs, warming plates, whatever.  It 
turns making yogurt and other fermentations (daily tasks around here) into 
routines are hasslefree.

Susan Jane, in Maine, who was sure glad to hear from Bev again!  Welcome back!