A new gas range, that is! Our old one, after 30 years of service, finally blew the bottom baking coil the other night when my wife was trying to bake a scrumptious white pizza she made. After an hour the temp was still at 225 F, so we knew it wasn’t going to be helping us out anymore.
While, yes, we could have repaired that coil (new ones are about $65 + the time to install it), we
knew we’d need a new range sooner than later and it seemed to be rather prophetic, so we took the hint, went to Menards, and got a Whirlpool model WFG361LV in “silver” which means half silver, half black.
AND IT’S GAS! Glory and trumpets! I’ve lusted after gas stoves ever since I found out how nice they are to cook with vs. electric and have always said some day I’d get one. Despite my wife’s trepidations about learning to cook on a gas appliance, I encouraged her and finally won her heart in the matter and we got the shiny beast with the help of my father and hooked her up 2 nights ago.
And boy, what a difference! Like I had mentioned to Yolanda, anything newer than 30 years old would be an improvement, but this is a huge difference. Even, gentle cooking, no harsh or weird temperatures, and the instant-on, instant-off wonders of gas. I haven’t really done much cooking with it yet, but the pizzas tonight turned out wonderfully, and that’s a good starter.
Hopefully the next time we replace a major appliance it will be because we’ve decided to do so versus being forced, but in this case, I think it’s turned out to be a win-win all around.
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