Kitchen

[Annabellethecat66]

Ok, it's not like I cook much anymore.  However, I keep buying the Copper Chef pans.  I will be up front and say I also bought the Copper Chef Cooktop.  However, whenever I try to use those square pans on my Jenn-Aire electric cooktop....ummm...is it me?

I keep thinking I'm not the only person who can't figure out how to make the pan 'fit'!  What am I doing wrong?  Should I just give up and use the Copper Chef cooktop that's made for the pans?

Is there a trick here I'm not aware of?  I know many of you are real cooks and I'm hoping some of you have ideas or maybe you can make me feel better and say, "Annabelle....it's not just you".  Ha!  

I have a feeling I won't be getting many of the "it's not just you's".  

[mekhya]

I don't have any copper chef but I do (will have a glass stove installed soon) have a glass cooktop stove & I really hate to cook on it & i love to cook. I have trouble cooking on it & I have really good cookware including lifetime, all clad, or creuset, stain etc.

[mekhya]

Meant gas stove will soon be installed

[Kachina624]

I've used a Copper Chef square pan on my glass top stove and have discovered that it conducts heat poorly.  I made two pancakes in it.  One was perfectly brown and thoroughly cooked.  The other was pale, runny and needed additional cooking time.  I think these Gotham Steel pans are junk.

[ptagirl]

I recently bought the induction burner with the pan on Evine..have been playing with it.  I don't care that much for the burner or the pan, so far anyway. 

The pan is square and doesn't seem to heat out to the corners, although it's a nice heavy pan (maybe will work better in the oven) ...

I guess I'm not crazy about a square pan, but still plan on doing some more experimenting with different recipes.. maybe a learning curve? Or maybe what I'm used to using?...so" it's me too!"

Right now I don't think I'll  be buying anymore square induction pans in the future...

[IMW]

My dh and I both find it easier to control heat with gas it seems to get hotter. My super wanted to upgrade my 70 year old Royal Rose,which works perfectly, to a new electric stove. After using my daughters  no way.

[Annabellethecat66]

Most chefs wouldn't be caught using electric to cook with.  I have never been a great good....just OK, but even I know gas is much better than electric.

We got electric because we had to have an all electric home because gas wasn't offered out where we lived.  It still isn't.  I had to learn how to cook with it and have never liked it.

I have a lot of those copper pans from QVC but am thinking of giving them away or sending them back.  It's just not practical for me (I almost never cook anyway).

I do have that burner thingy they use with the copper chef, I might try using that thing. 

[CelticCrafter]

We had to replace our gas range last year and I absolutely hate the new one.

All the burners have a higher BTU output than the last one. 

One is the super high that lets you boil a pot of water fast.

Two are supposed to be "normal" and the fourth one is a simmer.

Even the simmer burner is only good for boiling water or burning things.

I did buy two cast iron diffuser discs and they have help some, not a lot because once they get really heated up it's back to burnt.

[SharkE]

Way I understand it those copper chef skillets are for INDUCTION stoves only. Mine just slid around on my glass top electric I gave it away.

Main reason I bought a electric cooktop is no more cleaning those dirty gas grids all the time. Food spills are a mess I used to have to take those heavy dirty grids and soak them best I could to loosen burnt sugar, etc.

W

[Tigriss]

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@IMW wrote:

My dh and I both find it easier to control heat with gas it seems to get hotter. My super wanted to upgrade my 70 year old Royal Rose,which works perfectly, to a new electric stove. After using my daughters  no way.

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I bet that is a beautiful stove!  I looked it up.  Don't get rid of it.  Your super is crazy!