Cooking With Gas Means Range in the Kitchen

The stove in your kitchen is often the town piece, since most of what we eat is cooked rather than raw. That appliance, when it is powered by gas or wood, is commonly referred to as a range. Very few of us do our daily cooking over a wood fire, so we use a gas flame or an galvanic burner. (An spirited use of the word burner, don't you think?)

[b]Gas Cooktop[/b]

My grandmother was many things, but a good cook was not one of them. She fried everything so it genuinely did not matter what type of stove she had. My mom on the other hand was a great cook (don't know where she learned???) and she cooked on gas.

I have to assume that is where my love affair with the gas range began. The scent of the spectacular, foods she prepared, permanently filled the house. I still remember coming in from the snow and finding a big pot of chili or home-made chicken soup on the range. Bread would be rising on the rack above the burners, using the moist heat to help the yeast raise to perfection.

The power of a gas range is in the immediate heat and the extreme control of how much heat you, as the cook, want to apply. Electricity simply does not provide the same level of control or consistency for the direct heating that is done on top of the cooking surface. With a gas cook top, you have faultless and absolute control by the turning of the dial. With the modern ranges, that range of temperature and application of vigor is very large.

The home ranges that have use the professional range as their model, give you the expansive ability to cook 'like the pro's' in your home. There is nothing quite like standing in front of a range that spans 48 to 60 inches of dedicated cooking space in your kitchen. And there is a commanding feel to the heavy irons upon which you place your stock pots that will simmer for days or the omelet pan that will goods the exquisite Denver omelets for breakfast.

It is a confident feeling to know that you can control the exact whole of heat you want to use when you want to 'burn' sugar for the Brunt Sugar Cake that you are paramount for serving. It is also something extra when no one else can figure out how to do burnt sugar and get that magic flavor.

I write back that I might somewhat, in fact, be under the work on of childhood memories, but I do like cooking on gas. So give me a gas range any day of the week, year or lifetime.

Cooking With Gas Means Range in the Kitchen