On the side burner, what's the distance between the flame and the pot bottom? For e.g., does it boil a pot of water faster than on an electric stove?
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The distance from the burner holes to the top of the grid is about 1 inch. On high, the flames will most certainly be in full contact with the pot and spread around the sides of a smaller one. If you find that the Low setting is still too hot, set the burner on High and continue turning the knob slowly towards the off setting and you can get it turned down to a simmer. Just keep an eye on it as it is easily blown out at this lower setting. This burner provides an extremely hot flame and if set properly, will boil water very quickly. I prefer it to the flat top ceramic range in the kitchen and use this burner almost every day for various purposes. REW. The distance from the burner holes to the top of the grid is about 1 inch. On high, the flames will most certainly be in full contact with the pot and spread around the sides of a smaller one. If you find that the Low setting is still too hot, set the burner on High and continue turning the knob slowly towards the off setting and you can get it turned down to a simmer. Just keep an eye on it as it is easily blown out at this lower setting. This burner provides an extremely hot flame and if set properly, will boil water very quickly. I prefer it to the flat top ceramic range in the kitchen... » Read More The distance from the burner holes to the top of the grid is about 1 inch. On high, the flames will most certainly be in full contact with the pot and spread around the sides of a smaller one. If you find that the Low setting is still too hot, set the burner on High and continue turning the knob slowly towards the off setting and you can get it turned down to a simmer. Just keep an eye on it as it is easily blown out at this lower setting. This burner provides an extremely hot flame and if set properly, will boil water very quickly. I prefer it to the flat top ceramic range in the kitchen and use this burner almost every day for various purposes. REW. « Show Less
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Mine doesn't work, couldn't get the screw on the shelf to support it properly
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The distance from the burner holes to the top of the grid is about 1 inch. On high, the flames will most certainly be in full contact with the pot and spread around the sides of a smaller one. If you find that the Low setting is still too hot, set the burner on High and continue turning the knob slowly towards the off setting and you can get it turned down to a simmer. Just keep an eye on it as it is easily blown out at this lower setting. This burner provides an extremely hot flame and if set properly, will boil water very quickly. I prefer it to the flat top ceramic range in the kitchen and use this burner almost every day for various purposes. REW.
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I just measured it with a square. It bows up 1/8 inch in the middle even when cool. Then warps more as it is heated. I didn't find that to be a big problem however on my glass top stove. BTW, here is a trick. Most of my pots are flat bottomed and I do have a ceramic cooktop. I have some copper bottom pots that are not flat on the bottom which do not work well, but use a trick to get them to work faster. If you wet the bottom of the pan before you put it on the stove the water will turn to steam and efficently transfer heat from the cooktop surface to the bottom of the pan. The steam condenses on the bottom of the pan and then drips back to the cooktop surface to boil away again.
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Hi Carol... probably not... the diameter of the pot should not exceed the diameter of the burner/heating element. Same applies to electric stove. While it may heat the pot, it will take forever and eventually you may burn out the heating element.
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We have the two burner version of this, a 1300W and 500W burner. Both will boil water, and the 1300W burner does it quickly, even with a 6 quart pot of water we use to boil pasta. At 1300W for the single burner, I would think it should do the job for you.
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I use mine only to brew beer outside on a gas burner, My burner is like one that is used on a turkey oil cooker. I don't think it would fit real good on am electric burner on a range top due to it's large size. But since it does have a clad bottom the heat should transfer well anyway. To see how it would fit cut you a string Half the width of the pot. With your burner cool to the touch and off. Hold one end of the string in the center of the burner, Pivot the other end of the string around the burner in a circle motion. This will show you how much the pot will over hang your burner or if it will even fit on your range top. You would want to center the pot on the burner for best results.
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An inch is good for boiling water. For cooking about four inches helps to control the heat better. This is an awesome stove. You will love it.
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I bought this tea kettle and I use mine on an electric range. I don't turn the burner up past #5 as it could burn the bottom of the pot if the coil gets too hot. I did burn up my previous one when I turned on the heat under it and it had no water in it. That's why I bought the Cuisinart from Amazon. Hope this helps you make your decision. I love mine.
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If you read my review, you know that I have two of them now. The old one I fixed...well I make it work. The new one works just fine. I use pots much larger than the diameter of the burner but also use a chef's pan and a three quart sauce pan. When using much larger pots, then entire burner heats its 'footprint' on the bottom of the pot. Usually, when a burner is not doing this, the burner itself has gone bad. So, technically I said yes to your question. However, a very large pot should not be used on this device. A very large pot holds too much water and ingredients and the weight alone will eventually cause damage to this device. I wish you the best. HJ
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The measurement has already been answered I see but I will add that it is in my opinion not deep enough to cook anything that will produce fat drippings or any other juices otherwise it would surely leak over the sides onto the bottom of your stove.
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Jim, the bottom of this pot is 6 inches. It fit's perfect on the small burner of my electric stove. It is somewhatrounded it does a beautiful job cooking it is very energy efficient.
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Never happened to me. Only problem was heavy weight which I knew before buying. Never ever even came close to burning. I did find out that it took almost no power to keep the pot on a very low simmer/boil. It was #2 on my stove that goes from #1-#9. I turn on high to brown/sautee steak pieces and onion. I then turn on 6 to bring up to boil and then way way down to #1 or usually #2 to cook for 4-5 hours ( dried beans ). Hope this helps
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The bottom of the pots are 5", 6-1/2", 8-1/4" & 8-1/2". The largest pot (dutch oven) is bigger but I don't have it handy to measure. I hadn't heard the pot had to match the size of the burner. I'll have to check that out as I bought an induction hot plate so only have one size burner.
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I have a glass top electric range and found my newest Revere kettle (made in China) is a "bomb". It is made so none of the copper bottom touches the burner surface resulting in a disappointing time to boil water. I had a larger Revere made in Korea that was a gem, but over the years the whistling lid and opening devise failed and were not available for replacing. As a result I junked my Revere kettles and purchased the most attractive and cheapest kettle I could find at B J's, now I boil water in nothing flat, (quickly).
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The distance between the top of the oven rack in its lowest position and the top burners is 4 inches. The following answer is more complete.
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I found that this cook top was slower than the electric burners on my electric range. I tried to return it, but the manufacturer made it impossible to return. I ended up giving it away to a thrift shop in case someone else might have some use for it. I tried heating water in my 2 qt induction ready pot. I never bothered to put on a larger pot, since the cooktop failed on such an easy task.
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Hi, not sure what you mean by basic cooking? I think that this cooker has a wide range of heat output, from a very low flame to wok cooking with super high heat. The flame can be just an inch high, or it can be about 8 inches from the burner. I mainly use it for wok cooking, which in general needs a much higher BTU than what my indoor range can provide, and there is no issue of smoke outside. So I hope this answers your question. My only gripe with this burner, super sooty a lot of incomplete burning of the propane. But besides that it is a very good burner.
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Not sure, it's definitely long enough to go around the stove. I don't know how tall the burner sits off the table top. The screen is about 5 1/2" high, shoo if the pot sits higher than that then it won't properly block the wind. The bottom of the pan needs to sit below the top of the screen.