Yeah like a small depression for grease or liquids that seep from whatever you cook, so it doesn’t drip off the side or pool under your food and ruin the texture.
Our stove functionally has 2 ( front right and back left ) but back left is inconvenient if we ain't just putting something on to sit on its own. So we basically only have one in my eyes. So much more work to use it thanks to the oven controlls that I'll often switch to using front left despite it being too small for the pot/pan.
Take the small one and save energy (if not frying). It doesnt take much longer and the pot uses the energy more efficiently
Edit: nm dont do that if the water is not yet boiling
It in fact takes 2-3 times longer to get the water boiling in the pot on the smaller one for me. Rather change out the gas container a bit more often. Though I'm planning to just remodel the kitchen to get rid of the gas now and go induction. The gas range is slightly newer, but the furniture is 40 years old so I'd rather go new and integrated.
I know, I want it so bad already. I have a tiny portable induction stove so when I ran out of gas recently I started using that and the oldschool electric "burner" on my gas stove and it's been fine, I couldn't handle more than two hobs at the same time, but the induction literally feels faster even than the big burner on the gas, whereas the normal electric one is agonizingly slow to get things hot.
I also have a house built in the 1980s. In the former Soviet Union. Building code wasn't really a thing for single family homes, so obviously we don't have a hood. Or even anywhere to connect the hood so it could vent outside. Meaning I've been inhaling big beautiful CO2 for all my life from the gas, but also I'm thinking if I get rid of the gas then perhaps I could get by with a ventless hood, otherwise I'll have to drill a hole in the wall to get a proper vented hood.
I also have a house built in the 1980s. In the former Soviet Union. Building code wasn't really a thing for single family homes, so obviously we don't have a hood. Or even anywhere to connect the hood so it could vent outside.
I currebtly reside in a yugoslavian 1960s built house so yeah I get you. Except it does have a hole for the hold it just is not cpnnected because the apartment owner decided to put the stove in a different spot when renovating the kitchen.....
Yeah my comment was random and while im thinking through it... i didnt take the waste heat at the pot surface area over the longer time into account so im also wrong
But use the small one when the liquid is already cooking :)
I didn't really care about which burner until I saw their range, and they're quite oddly shaped.
Front right is just massive, back right is tiny, front left is normal and then back left is some weird in-between the normal and giant front right fob.
I have absolutely no idea who designed that stove, maybe it was data mined or something
my front left burner is the small one, which i need less. in reality, everyone just prefers the largest front burner on whatever range they currently have. that's it. that's all it is.
I loled, but also a child learning that things on the stove are hot after you tell them this and they don't believe you is different from intentional violence against them
Why cook at all if you're going to willingly give up the pleasure of using fire the way our ancestors did since before they were even human? You might as well just suck nutritive slurry from a nozzle.
Motherfucker, your ancestors didn't have natural gas lines that could be ignited with the flick of a switch.
If you want to use fire the way our ancestors did, you need to start by going outside, digging a hole, and then gathering firewood. If you're not doing that, then fuck off with this 'ancestors' bullshit.
I am using fire. The fire of a raging ball of plasma millions of miles wide, so hot that it evaporates surface water here on Earth, sending rains falling inland that coalesce into a mighty river flowing through massive turbines to turn the generators that power my stovetop.
My parents, grandparents, and maybe my great grandparents used gas. All my other ancestors used wood. I cook with the power of science on my induction range because I'd rather not drown in carcinogens in my own home for the sake of boiling a pot of water and I'm not a fucking troglodyte.
Electrical is both inferior and superior to gas, depending on the application.
To each their own according to preference, but for me it's induction -> gas -> halogen -> resistive coils
Nope, not me. The knob for my front left burner (Electric stovetop) inexplicably has to be pressed in after being brought back to zero to actually turn off. It doesn't have to be pressed in to turn on, and none of the knobs for the other burners have to be pressed for anything, just the front left one to turn it off. Literally everyone in the house has burned themselves because of this hidden discrepancy at least once. We do not use the front left burner.
Break the gad one so it looks like it failed on its own. Then convince the landlord that longterm the induction is better and he should install that. You can get them for quite cheap nowadays.
He's got standard models he buys to replace everything so that all of his apartments have the same appliances. I've tried to get him to upgrade when he's replaced dishwashers and washing machines, no dice. He's usually got an appliance on deck ready to go to replace the next one that dies in one of his units. Which honestly is more prepared than any other landlord I've met so hard to complain, but even harder to get him to upgrade.
I've got a home purchase in my near future, that's the real solution to this problem.
Mostly because induction stove tops, except at the most expensive price point, don't have knobs, only touch panels. Also, they usually turn themselves off if they don't detect something they can induce a current in. But really though, despite the lack of knobs, I love my induction range and would never willingly go back to conventional or gas for my kitchen.
The front right is tiny and weak. My soup merely laughs at the thought, however front left is sacred and all consuming. Shall I simply warm or buuuuuuuuuuuurn.
I just bought a new range, and I will admit that I actually created a digital model of the candidates and evaluated which range layout was superior via Monte Carlo simulation of pot placement and BTU based heating times.
There was a Bosh I really wanted, but the centre burner was the strongest element and that layout was overall less effective when combined with a 12” cast iron, meaning one of the two had to be on a lower power burner. If I want to make pork chops in my skillet, a delicious fettuccini in a pot, a cream based sauce in my saucier pan, and cook up some French beans in a fry pan, the Bosh would have taken like 30% longer to prepare due to the boiling time of the water (I no longer remember the exact times).
Bosh please rethink your 30” gas range centre burner layout. It is most efficient for soup making or meat searing, but soup making is very rarely constrained by heating time (low and slow wins) and searing meat is usually accompanied by sides, so the smaller edge burners are less effective.
I find it curious this is the case. I always assumed i like left front burner because i’m left handed. but why wouldn’t right handed people prefer the right hand burner? do you leave the handle crossing through the whole thing?
Hold the pan with the left hand (handle on the left) and do the precise work (moving and flipping stuff) with the right hand. Why would a left handed person prefer the left burner?
I've lived in enough places, with enough different kitchens and stoves, that it really depends on the layout. Some stoves have bigger burners on the right or the left (whether electric or gas). Some have the stove too close on one side to an inconvenient wall or the outlet you have a countertop appliance plugged into, and that determines preference.
I prefer the center, on my current setup. It's tied for the biggest burner with front right, but the center gets the best ventilation, I like for the handles not to hang over the edge, and I use either hand to hold the handle (flip with my right, or stir with my right while holding with my left). Two handled pots benefit from the symmetry, too.
But that's my current setup. I've had preferences for different sides with different stoves.
I prefer left burner as a right handed person. Not too sure why. Maybe because I lift pans with my left hand typically, so the handle is over the counter instead of the rest of the stove.
Front right wil place the pan handle near the left burner if you’re righty. On the other hand, if it’s a free standing range with no countertop, the pan handle becomes a danger if using the left burner.
Personally, I prefer the back burners, starting from the left, so the vapors/smoke are better contained by the range hood.
I thought I hated the stove at my new place because it’s a glass top, but I found out it has inductive coils and the front left burner has a small and wide setting. My front left burner beats ass.
Mine has 4 large induction ‘burners’ that automatically adapt to the size of the pan. It also has physical knobs on the front of the cabinet so no touch-screen controls that suck and take up space, leaving more space for the burners. It’s frikkin awesome. I can fit 4 large pots on there no problem.
I used to have a 5 burner gas stove but you could only realistically fit 3 pots on there and that was if there was at least a small one so this is a huge upgrade.
depends on target temperature, and how much gradient from internal to external temperature is acceptable. high heat will cook the outside much faster than the inside, which is fine for something like rare steak with a seared outside and relatively low core temp, but cooking chicken the same way will have the outside completely dry and charred by the time the core gets where it needs to be. lower heat gives more time for heat to spread all the way through, so the difference between core temp and surface temp is less
I rarely need the biggest burner, and the gas valves only go so low (to avoid accidental extinguishing) so i tend to use smaller ones. Full chat on the biggest one will incinerate most food!
Bigger pot, bigger burner. Smaller pot, smaller burner. It's not complicated -- just use the one that best matches the size of the cookware you're using.
My stove is just a platform for my 2 burner induction hotplate. Way more efficient and faster than the radiative heat burners on the stove, though I'll use then occasionally for large pots or stone bowls.
My cat likes to chill right of the stove. Damn right I prefer left mow; it only takes a little burnt tail to get you to stop using the right altogether. (He's ok btw, cat fur is weirdly fire retardant.)
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Blasphemous tripe! front right is better and you can never change my mind!
Quality shitpost for once. I need to fight by your side.
My front left is a simmer burner, while my front right is a quickboil. Of those, right quickboil wins for sure.
However, my long middle burner is for a cast iron griddle, so I can make grilled cheese and pancakes without a pan. That burner wins, hands down.
Edit: looks almost just like this one, but mine isnt a GE, and my griddle has a liquid collection area on one side.
I had that same stove at a rental and almost signed another year just for that dope ass stove LMAO love the center griddle
Liquid collection area??
Where all the juices slorp off to so chef can have a little lap-lap-lap if they're getting a bit tired.
Boak
Mmm seared tongue. Delicious.
Yeah like a small depression for grease or liquids that seep from whatever you cook, so it doesn’t drip off the side or pool under your food and ruin the texture.
Ah ok that's so much better than it sounded, thanks!
Yeah they put quick boil on my right. Easy win. My left I’ve noticed takes a lot more time to get to temp
You can have my spatula.
And my tongs!
And my mini meat axe!
You carry the fate of us all, little one. If this is indeed the will of the comment chain, then the fediverse will see it done.
Front Right is King, it's where The Pan lives. The Pan is the heart of the meal. I am The Man I Am because of The Pan!
Agreed, my combustion compatriot.
Front right you fucking small time chump.
Tbf I only say this because my shitty apartment stove only has one large burner and it's the front right.
Our stove functionally has 2 ( front right and back left ) but back left is inconvenient if we ain't just putting something on to sit on its own. So we basically only have one in my eyes. So much more work to use it thanks to the oven controlls that I'll often switch to using front left despite it being too small for the pot/pan.
Take the small one and save energy (if not frying). It doesnt take much longer and the pot uses the energy more efficiently Edit: nm dont do that if the water is not yet boiling
It in fact takes 2-3 times longer to get the water boiling in the pot on the smaller one for me. Rather change out the gas container a bit more often. Though I'm planning to just remodel the kitchen to get rid of the gas now and go induction. The gas range is slightly newer, but the furniture is 40 years old so I'd rather go new and integrated.
Correct choice. I duction is just the best.
I know, I want it so bad already. I have a tiny portable induction stove so when I ran out of gas recently I started using that and the oldschool electric "burner" on my gas stove and it's been fine, I couldn't handle more than two hobs at the same time, but the induction literally feels faster even than the big burner on the gas, whereas the normal electric one is agonizingly slow to get things hot.
I also have a house built in the 1980s. In the former Soviet Union. Building code wasn't really a thing for single family homes, so obviously we don't have a hood. Or even anywhere to connect the hood so it could vent outside. Meaning I've been inhaling big beautiful CO2 for all my life from the gas, but also I'm thinking if I get rid of the gas then perhaps I could get by with a ventless hood, otherwise I'll have to drill a hole in the wall to get a proper vented hood.
I currebtly reside in a yugoslavian 1960s built house so yeah I get you. Except it does have a hole for the hold it just is not cpnnected because the apartment owner decided to put the stove in a different spot when renovating the kitchen.....
Nice, induction
Your math isn't mathing.
If the burner sticks out from under the pot that's a bunch of heat going not into the pot.
Sure, but what's that got to do with this discussion, where no one mentioned doing that?
Yeah my comment was random and while im thinking through it... i didnt take the waste heat at the pot surface area over the longer time into account so im also wrong But use the small one when the liquid is already cooking :)
Front-right rules ….. because that’s the big one, with MOAH POWAH!!!!
I use front right. It is the superior side.
Ok... but why are we invading Poland now?
I said front-right not alt-right. I may be odd but i'm not a monster.
I know, but reading right, front and superior on a sane comment felt funny
Dont say words you cant take back
sorry, bud. that's the high power position on my stove
I'm not happy with it, either. but it's what it is.
if it makes you feel any better, the front left is the large diameter position. similar power but not packed as densely, so doesn't work on a 10" pan
We'll let this slide
Front right all the way! Probably my preference because I'm left-handed, but also my front left burner doesn't even work.
My front right is the smallest one so it never gets used because it's useless. Unless you are just trying to keep something warm then it can work
My partner is neurospicy and uses the front left.
I didn't really care about which burner until I saw their range, and they're quite oddly shaped.
Front right is just massive, back right is tiny, front left is normal and then back left is some weird in-between the normal and giant front right fob.
I have absolutely no idea who designed that stove, maybe it was data mined or something
But needless to say, the front left it was
Complete insanity, see me on the front right
FRONT RIGHT SUPREMACY!!!!
always!
Fascist.
Back right burner so the steam and fumes have more of a chance to get whooshed into the extractor fan
With those puny rear burners?!
my front left burner is the small one, which i need less. in reality, everyone just prefers the largest front burner on whatever range they currently have. that's it. that's all it is.
Paranoid parent gang uses the rear burners for safety!!
Dont make this a turf war
Hell yes! Back left gang! Stops any fat splashes if you're frying, too. Love my back left burner.
Kids learn real quick when they mess with the stove. If you hide it from them, how will they ever learn?
Dont mess with this kid
Definitely growing up to be a cop.
I loled, but also a child learning that things on the stove are hot after you tell them this and they don't believe you is different from intentional violence against them
Oh I was fully jesting. I've a heap of kids and would never hit them.
Burnt child flees fire, as we say in sweden (bränt barn skyr elden).
get electrical, motherfucker
Why cook at all if you're going to willingly give up the pleasure of using fire the way our ancestors did since before they were even human? You might as well just suck nutritive slurry from a nozzle.
Motherfucker, your ancestors didn't have natural gas lines that could be ignited with the flick of a switch.
If you want to use fire the way our ancestors did, you need to start by going outside, digging a hole, and then gathering firewood. If you're not doing that, then fuck off with this 'ancestors' bullshit.
I do it like the real gangsters and burn dried cow poop to cook over
I am using fire. The fire of a raging ball of plasma millions of miles wide, so hot that it evaporates surface water here on Earth, sending rains falling inland that coalesce into a mighty river flowing through massive turbines to turn the generators that power my stovetop.
My parents, grandparents, and maybe my great grandparents used gas. All my other ancestors used wood. I cook with the power of science on my induction range because I'd rather not drown in carcinogens in my own home for the sake of boiling a pot of water and I'm not a fucking troglodyte.
Electrical is both inferior and superior to gas, depending on the application. To each their own according to preference, but for me it's induction -> gas -> halogen -> resistive coils
Nope, not me. The knob for my front left burner (Electric stovetop) inexplicably has to be pressed in after being brought back to zero to actually turn off. It doesn't have to be pressed in to turn on, and none of the knobs for the other burners have to be pressed for anything, just the front left one to turn it off. Literally everyone in the house has burned themselves because of this hidden discrepancy at least once. We do not use the front left burner.
The front left burner has rejected you and your heretic family
Upgrade to an induction stovetop and the issue disappears.
I'll tell my landlord to get right on that!
Break the gad one so it looks like it failed on its own. Then convince the landlord that longterm the induction is better and he should install that. You can get them for quite cheap nowadays.
He's got standard models he buys to replace everything so that all of his apartments have the same appliances. I've tried to get him to upgrade when he's replaced dishwashers and washing machines, no dice. He's usually got an appliance on deck ready to go to replace the next one that dies in one of his units. Which honestly is more prepared than any other landlord I've met so hard to complain, but even harder to get him to upgrade.
I've got a home purchase in my near future, that's the real solution to this problem.
Yeah props for preparedness but yeah that sucks. Convince him to start stocking new stuff so it slowly gets replaced
But induction also leaves you no choice on burner supremacy. Why do they all have weird non-grid burner arrangements and only one large burner?
My front-right is supreme because it’s the only large one. Even if I secretly joined the front-left ascendancy
And that tiny summer burner behind it is unusable because the tiny pot would disappear behind the larger one
Mostly because induction stove tops, except at the most expensive price point, don't have knobs, only touch panels. Also, they usually turn themselves off if they don't detect something they can induce a current in. But really though, despite the lack of knobs, I love my induction range and would never willingly go back to conventional or gas for my kitchen.
Luv me 'duction 'ob. Ate tuchscreen. Simple as.
Yeah that is what I meant. Lack of knobs can be annoying but it's so much easier to clean.
Front right!
The front right is tiny and weak. My soup merely laughs at the thought, however front left is sacred and all consuming. Shall I simply warm or buuuuuuuuuuuurn.
Front left determines thy fate.
'Rotate to a different burner each time' crew assemble, handles in
Front left is for the frying pans (stir fries and saucy stuff).
Front right is for the small pots (rice, noodles).
Back right is for the large pots (stews, soups).
And back left is to put down the lids while cooking.
This is my method. This guy cooks.
I mean, if you have Play from Kid 'n Play agreeing with you, then I'm in.
I though it was just me seeing him 😃
Hmmm....
My kitchen setup favours front right. The sacred triangle is best served by it.
I just bought a new range, and I will admit that I actually created a digital model of the candidates and evaluated which range layout was superior via Monte Carlo simulation of pot placement and BTU based heating times.
There was a Bosh I really wanted, but the centre burner was the strongest element and that layout was overall less effective when combined with a 12” cast iron, meaning one of the two had to be on a lower power burner. If I want to make pork chops in my skillet, a delicious fettuccini in a pot, a cream based sauce in my saucier pan, and cook up some French beans in a fry pan, the Bosh would have taken like 30% longer to prepare due to the boiling time of the water (I no longer remember the exact times).
Bosh please rethink your 30” gas range centre burner layout. It is most efficient for soup making or meat searing, but soup making is very rarely constrained by heating time (low and slow wins) and searing meat is usually accompanied by sides, so the smaller edge burners are less effective.
I find it curious this is the case. I always assumed i like left front burner because i’m left handed. but why wouldn’t right handed people prefer the right hand burner? do you leave the handle crossing through the whole thing?
Hold the pan with the left hand (handle on the left) and do the precise work (moving and flipping stuff) with the right hand. Why would a left handed person prefer the left burner?
yes. i realized that after doing my breakfast. I assume it is because that burner tends to be the most appropriate due to its size
for me it's because the front right burner is smaller and i don't want to have to reach to the back burner
I was about to do my breakfast and realize I do grab the pan with my right hand and it’s me that leaves the handle crossing through the stove.
I've lived in enough places, with enough different kitchens and stoves, that it really depends on the layout. Some stoves have bigger burners on the right or the left (whether electric or gas). Some have the stove too close on one side to an inconvenient wall or the outlet you have a countertop appliance plugged into, and that determines preference.
I prefer the center, on my current setup. It's tied for the biggest burner with front right, but the center gets the best ventilation, I like for the handles not to hang over the edge, and I use either hand to hold the handle (flip with my right, or stir with my right while holding with my left). Two handled pots benefit from the symmetry, too.
But that's my current setup. I've had preferences for different sides with different stoves.
I prefer left burner as a right handed person. Not too sure why. Maybe because I lift pans with my left hand typically, so the handle is over the counter instead of the rest of the stove.
Front right wil place the pan handle near the left burner if you’re righty. On the other hand, if it’s a free standing range with no countertop, the pan handle becomes a danger if using the left burner.
Personally, I prefer the back burners, starting from the left, so the vapors/smoke are better contained by the range hood.
Huh? My pan handle on the right burner gets put at 4-5 o'clock. Cast iron pan is heavy, I need to use my right hand to maneuver it.
So you stir with your non-dominant and hold with your dominant?
Yes, unless whisking, actually
I thought I hated the stove at my new place because it’s a glass top, but I found out it has inductive coils and the front left burner has a small and wide setting. My front left burner beats ass.
Mine has 4 large induction ‘burners’ that automatically adapt to the size of the pan. It also has physical knobs on the front of the cabinet so no touch-screen controls that suck and take up space, leaving more space for the burners. It’s frikkin awesome. I can fit 4 large pots on there no problem.
I used to have a 5 burner gas stove but you could only realistically fit 3 pots on there and that was if there was at least a small one so this is a huge upgrade.
It's always just which ever is the biggest. They need to have two big ones the same size.
Science needs to resolve this question for both gas and electric. Is bigger always better? Or is it like how things thaw slower in hot water?
EDIT: my oven is electric guys, so I think I can go small pot, on BIG burner. But is that better? Probably.
depends on target temperature, and how much gradient from internal to external temperature is acceptable. high heat will cook the outside much faster than the inside, which is fine for something like rare steak with a seared outside and relatively low core temp, but cooking chicken the same way will have the outside completely dry and charred by the time the core gets where it needs to be. lower heat gives more time for heat to spread all the way through, so the difference between core temp and surface temp is less
Small pan, small burner. It's not that deep. Having flames licking up the side on a big burner is wasteful and more dangerous
Each size has its role.
Hey everyone! Look over here. This person cooks with only one big burner. Lol.
I rarely need the biggest burner, and the gas valves only go so low (to avoid accidental extinguishing) so i tend to use smaller ones. Full chat on the biggest one will incinerate most food!
Bigger pot, bigger burner. Smaller pot, smaller burner. It's not complicated -- just use the one that best matches the size of the cookware you're using.
My stove is just a platform for my 2 burner induction hotplate. Way more efficient and faster than the radiative heat burners on the stove, though I'll use then occasionally for large pots or stone bowls.
93% of the time, yes.
If that one goes on the fritz... your heating options devolve to 'Nuclear' and 'Bic lighter'
If only it was the big element on my stove ૮ ◞ ﻌ ◟ ა
I use the front left for single meals and the front right (big element) for meal prep
🙏praise be the lord almighty
My cat likes to chill right of the stove. Damn right I prefer left mow; it only takes a little burnt tail to get you to stop using the right altogether. (He's ok btw, cat fur is weirdly fire retardant.)