Glass Cooktops - How Fragile are they?

Electric cooktops suck in general. They crack, scratch, and are almost impossible to control heat wise. Started making a roux in the oven so I don't use the shitty cooktop. Luckily we switch to gas in a week.

Had a glass countertop in an apartment while our house was being rebuilt. Hated it. Ceramic skillet didn't work well on it, cast iron scratched it. If anything boils over it's a real pain to buff out. Didn't crack it thank goodness but it was not "like new" when we moved out.

My mom is planning on replacing her stove this year and is going with a gas stove and an electric oven. I did not know they made those but apparently more people are doing this.

I have a glass top Maytag range that came with my house when I bought it and I don't have any real complaints other than it's not gas. I cook with cast iron pots all the time and haven't had any issues.

Mom and Dad had one in AR. I learned what a PITA the black glass is to keep really clean.

Every meal with any kind of grease/butter/oil, every tiny splatter showed.

I learned a routine of soapy sponge, water sponge, dry sponge, water sponge again, dry sponge, buff with fine cloth to keep it looking good. This was after EVERY use!

If you are planning to keep the glass looking good it's gonna be a LOT of manual labor. It did look almost brand new when we sold the house though.

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She's considering a cooktop with exposed coils. That seems very old school.

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Advise her to not get an old school exposed coil cooktop if she cooks in quantity. They just don't hold up well with the weight of pots full of whatever she plans to cook.

I cook in large quantities very often and my pots with the food in them often weigh in excess of 25 pounds, and that is not a good thing for those old style stoves.

They are not nearly as nice as gas but at the end of the day they are not as bad as some described above. Have to have flat plans is the biggest thing. If the pans are not perfectly flat they don’t conduct heat well. Never broke one in about a decade of use but as others have said it is glass so don’t slam stuff on it. They are not that hard to keep clean either thought it was funny people bitching about having to clean up grease after every use. I mean who leaves grease and a mess on their dirty stuff?

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Also, this cleans the glass very well and ours stays spotless. We only have to use it occasionally.

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Keep one of these handy along with glass stove top cleaner

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Keep one of these handy along with glass stove top cleaner

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Yeah we used that on the reg with the old regular cooktop. For some reason we haven’t had to use it on the new induction one. It gets heavy use too.

I had a Thermador glass induction hob in my last home. I was pissed when I bought the house that the previous owner hadn't put gas in there. I gave it a chance and loved it - most of my cooking vessels are either Cast iron, enameled cast iron or SS, so no issues on that front. Induction very easy to clean because burners don't get hot enough to boil or cook food to the surface, whereas this is a problem with regular coil electric glass hobs. Current house I have a nice DCS gas stove, and I suppose I would take it over the glass induction, but its very close.