The electric stove — convenient and useful way to cook food. However that who has got used to gas rings can be difficult to accustom with subtleties and features of electric stoves. Cooking on them has the nuances which need to be considered.
It is required to you
- Metal ware with flat bottom.
Instruction
1. The electric stove, unlike gas, heats the ware put on it all surface of ring. Therefore it is very important that all pans, stewpans, frying pans and other ware which you use when cooking was with flat bottom. Therefore for electric stoves cauldrons and frying pans are not suitable for pilaf. Because of their convex bottom the electric ring gets warm unevenly so the plate can deteriorate, and the food will be cooked much worse.
2. Also the ware size is not less important. It has to as it is possible to correspond more precisely to the size of that ring on which you put it. If the difference is no more than a centimeter, it is admissible. However it is worth remembering that in ware whose diameter is a little less than ring, the food will be quicker cooked and if it is more — that more slowly.
3. Normal pig-iron "pancakes" slowly heat up and slowly cool down. Do not put ware on the ring made red-hot at all. Switch off it and wait a little until it ceases to shine. However this property can be applied with benefit. If the dish which you cook is required to weary on slow fire, then it is possible to heat strongly pig-iron ring, and then just to switch off it and to leave gradually to cool down. If food, on the contrary, demands fast fire, then it is better to warm plate in advance and to put pan or frying pan on already hot "pancake". And surely switch off heating in advance before the dish is ready.
4. The glass-ceramic surface of plate has own features. It heats up and cooled much quicker, than cast iron therefore it will be much easier for the hostess who has got used to gas to accustom with glass ceramics. However such surface is even more exacting to ware. Do not use aluminum and copper pans — these metals easily interact with glass ceramics and leave marks of which then it is very difficult to get rid. At the bottom too it is better not to put the enameled pan with chips on such ring in order to avoid scratches.
5. Try not to pour salt or sugar on the hot glass-ceramic panel and not to spill water. Because of them it can crack.
6. If you have plate with induction rings, then ware from heat-resistant glass will remain on it cold. Only metal ware from ferromagnetic alloys is suitable for induction plates. It is possible to check it simple magnet — if it is attracted to your pan, so it is good. The induction plate heats up even quicker, than normal therefore you watch closely porridge, soup or other food inclined "to run away" when boiling.