In’s & Out’s of the Thaden Family

Well folks here she is.  The wicked twin of Electric Sex. I’d like ya’ll to meet Gas-Similation.

It’s a pretty good range. So far! It’s been almost 20 years since I last cooked with gas and today’s experience was good. It’s funny, for our first meal it was Darryl’s (aka, great hot sandwiches). Dinner for tomorrow will be chicken marsala, steamed broccoli, and penne pasta. I’m gonna work on reducing the marsala wine to make it thick and syrupy. Anyway, back to the range. It’s a Whirlpool Gold (GFG471LVS) model that we’re testing for Whirlpool. We have to make sure that we have answers to the questions they have when that time comes. What I like so far is that the broiler does phenomenal and I love the cast iron grates. To me, cast iron cookware has a history of durability and longevity. With cast iron grates I feel the same connection with the cookware. It’s funny how much faster things heat up on the cooktop with gas versus a ceran top/coil top. The onions I was sauteeing released so much stuff in the air that Margaret’s eyes were stinging for awhile.

One thing I do miss from our old Kitchenaid range is the ‘easy convection converter.’  Say you wanted to bake something at 350, you’d input that temperature into the converter and the time and it’d adjust the heat to about 300 or 325 degrees. Very nice, but since I have experience using my own temperature range for convection cooking I feel confident in my abilities.

What else?  Oh yea, Margaret always wants to help, because she’s sweet like that (Plus I think it’s because it keeps her mittens off of her camera, addiction anyone?!?!?).  See below.

See what I mean?  Just kidding. I asked her to put the small gas line adapter thing into the range, but I put 2 layers of sealant tape on the thing and the range kept shedding it off. So I had to fix my mistake. That’s what that picture is. Luckily where Margaret came in handy was when we were getting the range into the kitchen. As ya’ll know, our kitchen is friggin’ huge, so we had plenty of space to maneuver the range into position. With me crawling from behind the range minutes later, we were ready to fire up the range…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………until I realized that it wasn’t level (CRAP!!!). Had to pull the damn thing out and throw some tile behind the range, because when a certain someone decided to tile the kitchen they ran out of backer board for the floor in that corner leaving a nice 1/4″ plus difference from being level. So, with all that done we got the range in place and then fired her up. Oh yea, I checked the lines for gas leakages. I had to throw the monkey grip to them to make sure they weren’t going to leak. It took a bit for the burners to set ablaze, but they did (per the instructions).

So overall the Gas-Similation and Electric Sex are tied for superiority of the kitchen, but E.S. (as we like to call her) has height in her favor. To finish off this post here are some more pictures. Check out the cool blue display from the range. NICE!!!!!!!!!!

I’m out!

Tags: appliances, cooking, house stuff