Well, we can’t have everything, can we?
There’s some meme going around that talks about how ‘you know you are an adult when you have a favorite burner on your stove’. I do. It’s the front right. It’s where my cast iron skillet lives and every morning I make myself a little bacon and usually an egg. With this new stove, I wondered if I just wasn’t paying attention because the bacon burned quickly, the egg finished so fast and was often blackened, and the middle of my griddle would start to smoke.
I chalked it up to being inattentive at first, then I really started to wonder after I noticed that the burner took for-EH-ver to cool down. Last night I did some experimenting. (The photo is a re-creation from this morning.)
On ‘Lo‘, two cups of water is at a brisk bubble at 3 minutes and a full boil at 3 1/2 – just like it is on ‘High’. What? Some internet sleuthing tells me that it’s the burner switch – it isn’t cycling on and off like a normal burner – it’s just turning on the electricity full bore and then going out for cigarettes, not caring one whit about the damage it’s leaving behind.
So. This stove is on a 30-day warranty. We could take it back and get a different one, or we could try to replace the switch, or I could learn to live on sandwiches for the rest of my life.
Deborah says
Things like this are quite an annoyance.
Kristi says
Grrrr. Why can’t things work like they’re supposed to work? I say, take it back.
Brad says
Ugh. I say take it back too, even though it’s a bother. You use that too much to try to Lauren it.