I'm looking for a new stove top. The kind I want is where the entire surface is smooth glass & no visible burners. I want the one where it actually gets hot and doesn't rely on the pot/pan to be made of magnetic material to heat up. I'm looking just for the cook top not the stove portion. I'd like one with no knobs on top....kind of defeats the "ease of cleaning" feature. And I'd like one with a lot of power. I don't want to wait an hour for water to boil. If someone has something similar to this that they have used and can recommend I"d be grateful to you for a shot out. Maybe a little off topic but if you knew me, you'd know home repair would be a large part of the change out from one cook top to another. So, any advice, help, suggestions or general comments on the smooth stove top would be appreciated. Thanks Bonnie

The ones with touch controls are pretty expensive. I just put the knobs in the dishwasher. The top is not really all that easy to clean. First you use a razor blade to scrape, then you use abrasive cream. But it's still not possible to get it back to new looking condition. While you do not need ferrous metal pans you do need pans with thick flat bottoms otherwise the pan doesn't sit flat after it heats up and the heat transfer is poor. Thin stainless steel pans won't work. I've been using marble coated cast aluminium pans but the higher end Analon pans work fine (not the el-cheapo versions sold at discount department stores). I now buy Korean made pots and pans at the Asian market which are about 1/4 the cost of Analon or Circulon. Amazon: "korean marble pan." There are some cooktop models that have a 4500 watt burner (they are about $1000), but most top out at 2500 watts. For example, JENN-AIR JEC4430BS has a 4500W burner. I've replaced mechanical controls on my glass...

Can anyone recommend a Glasstop stove? Not the right name I'm sure but....

Nov 15, 2013 21 Replies

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krw 12 years ago

Glass is a ceramic. ;-)

Some are "infrared". A gimmick, IMO.

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Harry K 12 years ago

I have the stove type and for sure am not a "pristine kitchen" dtype. But for easeof cleaning give me the smooth glasstop over any of the gas or elec trics with the old type coils/burners. Spash of 409 and a bit of work with a 'scratchy' and it is like new again. Doesn't take more than a minute to tal.

Perhaps your "constant cleaning" is a bit of an exaggeration.

Harry K

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