I have been cursing at our old range for a while now…

We bought it used and cheap almost 10 years ago… and though it was still usable it was making it harder and harder to cook things efficiently..

Last week when I went out for some last minute shopping I stopped and looked at the ranges and just fell in love with the oven size of one… then the sales lady showed me a new one that had just come in and would be on special for boxing day… big convection oven, warming drawer, ceramic flat top and of course…  self cleaning…

She told me that I could just call her if I wanted to buy it so I didn’t have to go in… I have to admit that I was sold right there…

I talked to Simon about it and well… I called on the 26th at about 1pm and ordered it and it was delivered on Wednesday…

When I shared with Annie what I had purchased she brought up the concern of canning… but there won’t be a problem!  I can in my stock pot (which has a flat bottom) with a canning rack and even in the manual there is no mention at all about canning… and some searching on the net showed that newer models don’t have the same problems as the older ones it seems…

I did though have to buy a new cast iron pan… the one that I used all the time had a rim so it was not flat on the bottom so I went and picked up a new one… It works beautifully… the stove top heats quickly and when you put the temp down it actually goes down… (the other one had plaques that took forever to heat up and then stayed hot… so to simmer you needed to start warming another element to the temp you needed and then switch the pan over)

Anyway… to date I love it… the first thing I did was bake bread in it… and I love that I can see through the door (the other you couldn’t see through the door at all)…

and because of the convection feature the bread browned all evenly all over and baked to perfection…