Wait, certain types of pots and pans don't work on glass-topped stoves? Seriously? How's that?

I wonder if these could be induction? Magnetic induction burners induce heat in steel pots. Non-ferrous pots and pans never heat on induction stove tops. But glass tops in general, new to me too.

I think my ideal stove/oven combo would be gas burners, but an electric oven. Induction burners I think I could live with.

I have a flat stovetop and all my pots and pans from my previous electric oven work just fine. I didn't have a wok then either, because I figure they only work right with flame.

There are glass-topped stoves that have a heating element under a layer of glass so everything is sealed and easy to clean - those are fine with normal pots and pans. And then there are glass-topped stoves that do some kind of magical magnetic induction woo, that stay cool until they heat up instantly, and are run by invisible elves. Those only work with steel or iron, since aluminum/pyrex/copper/other materials won't make the right kind of connection to make the elves do their thing.

Me, I'm all about the gas. It was pretty much reason #1 to buy a goddamn house already.

My parents have a glass-topped electric stove. I HATE IT LIKE BURNING.

Such a terrible stove to cook on, which doesn't bother them because the extent of Dad's cooking is the occasional pot of spaghetti.

man, i wish i had magnetic elves in my kitchen. i am getting better at the regular electric stove, though.

Gas is the only way to cook (right).

For stove top, maybe. Gas ovens suck big time, uneven heating, can't predict how long anything will take to cook.

It is for this reason that I bought a dual-fuel stove (gas range, electric oven) even though it meant heavy scrimping elsewhere in the household budget. I love cooking on that thing.

I'm wearing a magnetic elf on my head right now and....no wait...maybe it was, a magnetic elf bit my sister?....don't have a sister...hmmmm....a magnetic elf, some cilantro, and a spork walk into a bar.

a magnetic elf, some cilantro, and a spork walk into a bar.

Was one of them carrying a root?

Good god, y'all. I am relieved, annoyed and pissed off, and it's all (mostly) my own doing.

I've been stressing out about a project for the past week. It was that lovely combination of quick-turn, insanely complicated and high-priority. BUT, it fell on top of like 9 other projects with earlier and less malleable deadlines.

So anyway, I'm already a couple of days behind schedule, and way behind on unearthing the data, and then I look at the email from Big Important Person and realize I didn't even notice a handful of components to it and then I look at the email again and realize that eight or ten big pieces of it were actually tasked to someone else.

So now I'm all relieved that it's not all on me, but pissed that I spent all week stressing about trying to do it all -

And then even more pissed off because what the hell, people? None of you noticed you were assigned any part of this? Because I guarantee I never heard from anybody, and since all the pieces need to come to me (if not be generated by me) I think I might have noticed.

Man, sometimes I just don't know.