Is My Cookware Compatible with a Flat Top Stove?

[MomToEli]

For those of you with flat top stoves, is all of our cookware compatible? Does the brand of stove matter?

Thanks! I have a host asking ...

 

[katie0128]

Use and Care for both Executive and SS says...
"Cookware may be used on a glass or ceramic cooktop, electric coil, gas burner range."
The SS also can be used on an induction (magnetic) range.
HTH!

 

[cmdtrgd]

Mine works great on a Kenmore ceramic flat top!

 

[JAE]

And because it won't warp over time it will always stay flat on the flat cooktop. Can't wait to get more cookware.

 

[chefkugler]

The executive won't work on the magnetic range. I had a customer who tried it with my pan at a show and was upset that it didn't work. I was sad too. Lost the sale.

 

[MomToEli]

The executive won't work on the magnetic range. I had a customer who tried it with my pan at a show and was upset that it didn't work. I was sad too. Lost the sale.

What is the magnetic range? I'm really out of touch with appliances these days

Didn't work how? Like didn't heat up? Arched?

And have you checked if the SS will?

 

[chefann]

Magnetic, or induction, cooktops are high-end. They use magnets to create heat. The pans used on an induction cooktop must be magnetic. Aluminum is not magnetic, which is why neither the Prof or Exec cookware will work on one.This has been another useless fact from the brain of Ann.

 

[katie0128]

What do you read to learn all of your, um, interesting facts?

 

[chefann]

I really don't know. I watch more TV than is probably good for me. I have several food reference books here that I have read, including one by Alton Brown about equipment you need in your kitchen - that may be where I read about induction cooktops.

 

[JAE]

You must have a very good memory, Ann. You answer so fast that it doesn't seem you could look things up that fast. Did you get all A's in school?

 

[chefann]

Yeah. And my college GPA was higher than HS. But I graduated 17th in each class.

 

[JAE]

Well I probably graduated 30 ish in my high school class. There were only 67 ish in my graduating class. I have no idea what number I was in college, but I made the deans list my last two semesters before student teaching. I was pretty happy about that. The certificate went on the frig.

 

[katie0128]

Yeah. And my college GPA was higher than HS. But I graduated 17th in each class.

Nerd!

 

[PC_CPR]

What I do know about my ceramic cooktop is that you cannot use glass cookware on it. I had a saucepan that was Pyrex, I think, that had to go when I got my new stove. The heavier the pots/pan's bottom is the better with a ceramic cooktop.

 

[chefmelody]

Ahh, I was actually wondering about this! You learn something new every day. I never knew what an induction stove was... now I do!