Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Electric smooth top stove in common house?

[Virgil Huston (virgil.huston1955]

I drool over commercial kitchens with gas stoves and all that nice
stainless steel that is easy to clean. A common house needs
cleanliness over anything else. Stainless steel is the only way to
really get that. Just remember there is a reason commercial
restaurants use gas, they want control over their precision cooking
and to make the best food.
Virgil

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Beverly Jones Redekop
<beverly.jones.redekop [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you do go with gas, be mindful of the contradiction of our common house
> kitchens: we want commercial capacity (feeding large crowds) with a homey
> feel. Our kitchen is really pretty, with maple cabinets and white Corian
> countertops, but our excellent gas stove makes black marks on our huge
> pots...which streak all over our pretty counters.
>
> DO go high capacity with your stove (induction or gas) and DO go attractive
> residential with your kitchen (stainless steel restaurant counters would be
> awful)...but go for TOUGH attractive residential.  We've broken a small
> corner of the counter by the sink too, as we use massive soup pots to feed
> our happy crowds.
>
> 50/50 hindsight :-)
>
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 at 10:14 Mike Mariano <Mike [at] schemataworkshop.com> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Our community is doing meals 3 nights/week, serving around 25, with a 36"
>> wide smooth electric cooktop that's been working just fine:
>> http://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-specs/PP7036DJBB
>>
>> In our own homes, a number of us used our appliance allowance as a credit
>> toward purchasing 30" electric induction cooktops, which I would highly
>> recommend...it was out of the price range for the Common House at the time,
>> unfortunately.
>>
>> Definitely do NOT go with gas for a new building: carbon monoxide is
>> generated from burning any gas, and it's incredibly bad for indoor air
>> quality. Induction is far more energy efficient and doesn't negatively
>> affect air quality. Induction heats very quickly, doesn't bake spills and
>> such onto the ceramic cooktop surface (because it's the pan the heats up
>> and not the cooktop), and we saw it used with success at some cohousing
>> communities visited in the UK last fall.
>>
>> Mike
>> www.capitolhillurbancohousing.org
>>
>> michael mariano aia | schemata workshop
>> inc
>> architect & principal
>> 206.285.1589 <(206)%20285-1589>
>> www.schemataworkshop.com
>>
>>
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