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.

What I got from my family were: glass pots, anything with a bowed out or ridged bottom that wouldn't sit right on the glass, and cast-iron. Possibly they were overly cautious about breakage? I don't know. Free pots for me, I didn't ask a lot of questions. I do know they have glass-topped electric stoves, not magnetic induction.

I have a magnetic induction countertop elvish device and it's pretty awesome in August for not heating up the kitchen. I get a lot of satisfaction from knowing that I am cooking with magnetism, mostly. So sci-fi.

How do they work as far as heating food satisfactorily and evenly. From what I've heard about 90% as good as gas. Is that your experience?

It's a long time since I had a gas stove, so I don't think I can make a direct comparison, but I haven't had any problems with uneven heating. And mine can be set to maintain a specific temperature (rather than being set to high, medium, or low) which is nice for deep frying, or simmering something a long time.

So how are the glass pots going to work for you, -t?