hxe@rayssd.UUCP (03/14/85)
To put to rest once and for all the question of whether there is
such a thing as a self-cleaning gas range, I submit this from the
Raytheon Manager's Newsletter (Caloric is a Raytheon subsidiary):
"Caloric Corp. has added a microwave oven cooking center
and two double-decker ranges to its Prestige self-cleaning
gas range line. All three units are equipped with a lower,
self-cleaning gas oven that has a 3.73 cubic-foot cavity -
the industry's largest.
"Caloric's new self-cleaning gas and electric ranges are
exceeding sales forecasts."
So not only are they out there, but people must like them because
they're buying them up!
I, personally, prefer cooking with gas to cooking with electricity
any day. Most of the cooking I do requires *immediate* control over
temperature changes (e.g., scalding milk without lifting a heavy pot
off the stove to remove it from the heat); electric ranges just
aren't that responsive. Besides, the heat is infinitely variable,
which makes me feel like I'm in control, not the stove.
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--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe
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I don't think my company *has* an opinion, so the ones in this
article are obviously my own.
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