Can Someone Please Help Me With My Gas Range Oven and Stove?!


Question:

Can Someone Please Help Me With My Gas Range Oven and Stove?

It is a Kenmore.. Thats all I know.. It is a gas range..It cooks sooo fast.. The oven is either to hot or not hot enough.. I put itmes on low on the stove and it stops cooking.. The high is too high and the lower high which seems like it should be medium is too high.. I have had electric my whole life... Any tips or tricks to cooking on this type of stove.. HElP please.. I just bruned my meat.. was cooking fine then bammm got super hot and sigh..burnned chicken fryed steak..


Answers:
Cooking with a gas range is much better than cooking with electricity, but you have to learn how. Pay no attention to the markings on the dial that say "medium" and so forth. Look at the flame. You will soon learn what a big flame looks like. Also be aware that gas is super-responsive: turn it on, it's there; turn if off, it's gone. There is none of this warm-up or coast down like you get with electric. Look at the flame; soon you will love it!

The oven ought to obey the thermostat, though. Have you compared it against a thermometer?

Invest in an oven thermometer so that you can figure the difference and adjust accordingly.
As to the stove top, you say "it stops cooking". Do you mean the flame goes out? If so, turn it up a bit and keep an eye on it, unless there is something wrong with it, you just need to get used to it.
If the problems continue and if the range is new I would call your repairman.

sounds like you need to get the thermostat checked or get a new thermostat fitted, check with the installer or your gas company

Since it is a gas range/oven, the best way to cook on it is to set the flame to your liking, not just setting it by the settings themselves as far as the oven, just watch your foods at your settings, then adjust them til you get used to gas now...

Changing from electricity to gas or the other way around is always tricky.
Sometime ago I shifted and had to adapt to a older electric.
It is a learning curve, to get the feel of your new oven.
My suggestion would be to get a oven thermometer and the guidelines
My cookbooks all refer to a setting as Gas Marks 1-10
So a No 8 chicken (4-6 people) cooks at180C (350F)(Gas Mark 4) for about 11/2 hours




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