The William cooktop

[Robatoy]

As there are quite a few woodworkers here involved with kitchens, here's a new toy:

[Larry Jaques]

(but less than a Pagani Zonda)

-- If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. -- Samuel Butler

[allen476]

commercial, they should have spent another $5 and at least finished the top of the cabinets. (Hint: Look at the top of the cabinet under the cook-top.)

Allen

[Leon]

[Han]

Robatoy wrote in news:b7a5c998-8d59-4536-9b5a- [e-mail]:

such as an induction system. Maar, potjandorie, Rob!! Where is there more info than the Youtube video? Such as how much and where to buy?

[Lew Hodgett]

----------------------------- Wonder how do you burn pepper skins?

Lew

[Steve Turner]

We like to crisp up tortillas for our fajitas over an open flame by plopping them onto a grate over one of the burners on our gas stove and moving them around and flipping them with a pair of tongs.

[Swingman]

It appears "concept only" at this stage of the game.

Although no self respecting coonass would cook on an electric stove, that one did pique my interest.

After all, we do like cooking gadgets, and that appears to the Mother of them ALL. ;)

[Robatoy]

Niet zo ongeduldig! Wait 5 years and they will go the way of plasma TV. The pricing is up against that phenomenon called: "Screw that, too rich for my blood, a $ 500.00 unit looks just as nice and when do WE ever need 21 different pots and pans." Or this old chestnut: "Too much can go wrong." Once the tooling matrixes and silkscreens are paid for (no biggie IME) they have to be able to sell them. I expect an expensive, but short, honeymoon, then a serious price drop IF the thing even gets out of the gate. You can charge only SO much for 'cool' for only SO long. My guess? $ 3500.00 initially.

[Steve Turner]

How about a similar concept, but with a honeycomb of little gas burners? Probably be a BITCH to clean though...

[Robatoy]

I use a Benzomatic hand held burner on a hose off a slightly fatter tankette of butane. I hit the pepper from all angles, quickly and evenly. The meat of the pepper doesn't even stand a chance to warm up much. You can tell when the skin is burnt when it stops crackling. The burnt skin rinses off under the tap (which is turned ON...I mention this specifically as there always a few who take issue with justabout anything in here) sometimes a potato-cleaning brush makes it go quicker. I have one of those in my pan drawer specifically for that purpose. Been doing this for years and years, thousands of peppers.

pepper then gets sliced into slabettes and quickly/lightly saut=E9ed in some hot olive oil and put on home-made bread with some course salt sprinkled on the peppers. Who needs meat? (Okay, *I* do.)

[Swingman]

Agreed ... but lot's folks don't seem to blink at $3.5k these days for a cooktop. Current kitchen job has a 48" Capital gas range being installed that is twice that.

(I was tempted to send them the video last night to see it "The William" might be of interest in lieu of the Capital ... I just want to play with it.) ;)

[krw]

The range we're looking at is a bit over $2500 but it'll cost around $1000 to get gas to it (the propane tank is on the opposite end of the house). We're debating whether it's worth it, or just stay with an electric range, also $2500. $3500 isn't out of sight, though I'd be afraid of its reliability around lightning.

[J. Clarke]

Propane torch of course.

[Han]

Steve Turner wrote in news:i5duhq$2qi$2 @news.eternal-september.org:

Gas burners are self cleaning ...

[Han]

Swingman wrote in news:odydneE19fx5GefRnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

Go for it, Karl!!

[Swingman]

LOL ... it was tempting. But, there have been too many changes on this job already (there is a high dollar "designer" who's whims must be appeased, despite the impossibility thereof), and the range is purchased.

AAMOF, I'm picking up the vent liner and motor blower on Monday in preparation for building the vent hood cabinet, which is going to be a PITA ... I HATE the idea of building a frameless Euro style cabinet enclosing that kind of baggage, but it's all the rage, donchaknow!

It's always something ...

[Han]

Swingman wrote in news:TKmdnS8rJrE4C- fRnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

In 2002 we redid the kitchen (kitchenlet, since it is really small), and the GE stove + microwave with exhaust had to be vented by going up in the cabinet above, then through the ceiling to the outside. We never have enough real suction there and it's noisy as hell!

[Swingman]

I fully expect this to be the case with regard to noise, as it is

1200cfm inline blower. Wish I had a tape recording of the conversation regarding using an exterior blower instead, which the "designer" poo poohed. :(

[Han]

Swingman wrote in news:tMCdnUSs75miB-fRnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

I discussed a different fan (and larger duct) with the coinstruction artists, but no luck .