Favourite Burner?

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Front left. The left side burners are the same size. The right front is for soup and things that take a lot of heat because of the liquid. The right rear is a simmer burner that we pretty much only use for heating pasta sauce. If we still had toddlers at home, all cooking on the stovetop would be done on the back burners. It's gas, not electric. We had an electric stove and clothes dryer when we moved in here. The house was also configured for gas, so we disposed of the electric units and installed gas ones. They paid for themselves in ten months. That also freed up two 50A and two 30A circuits, as both the electric units were 220. One leg of the 50A I ran direct to the microwave oven. I broke out the two 30A circuits and ran them down the wall of the garage in conduit. They terminate in a 220 outlet and two 4-gang 110 outlets that are on different phases.

Speaking of toddlers at home...when it just my oldest and me and she was toddler to pre-school age we lived in an apartment.  It had the worst setup on a small sized range I have ever seen.  It was electric and the controls were push buttons on the front if the unit itself.  I was really good about turning handles in so that she couldn't reach them but there was no way to stop her from having access to those buttons.

One day the smoke alarm went off and black smoke with little flakes of black ash started wafted through the apt.  She had put her little comb and brush set on a front burner (which she could barely reach) and punched buttons till she managed to burn the hair care items.

I suppose safety rules hadn't figured out that instance of asking for trouble.