Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Best General Electric Cooktops to Opt For and Why

Long gone are the days where one would use gas coiled cook tops. Due to various reasons, many people have been seen opting for general electric cooktops over any other manufacture. The great thing about general electric cooktops is that they are known to be much more reliable and effective in comparison to other competitors. General have a wide variety of electrical cook tops to offer. Below, we are going to take a closer look at some of the most popular ones to ever hit the market.

36" electric cooktop model PHP960SMSS This is quite a popular electric cooktop that has been known as the consumer favorite for various reasons. The great thing about this model for starters is the design color that it comes in. Both the color appearance and frame color/material is made of stainless steel. The cooking surface is made of glass ceramic along with clear metallic glass.

The cook top has five different surface areas that you can cook on. One of the surface areas is 11" which provides heating up to 3700 watts. The other heating surface areas are 6" and 8" providing heat up to 1800 watts and 3200 watts respectively. There are two surface areas that are the same at 7". These provide a heating of about 2500 watts.

30" electric cooktop model PHP900SMSS This particular cooktop model is relatively similar to the one above. The design aspect of this model is exactly the same as the previous one. The only major difference is the size. This electric top only offers four cooking surface areas that are 11", 6" and 7". The great thing about this model is that it comes fitted with a child lock as well to ensure that it is not turned on accidentally.

To increase safety, this like many other models comes custom fitted with a pan presence sensor as well. 30" electric cooktop model PP989SNSS This cooktop is quite different from the first two models explained above. For starters this one comes in a variety of colors which include stainless steel, black on black and true white. In terms of its cooking area it is similar to the previous model by only offering four different cooking stations. This model comes with six controlling knobs.

Four are naturally for the four cooking stations where as one of the other two is a timer.
30" electric cooktop model PP989TNWW This cooktop is a ribbon burner type. This model is also available in three different colors as above. The great thing about this particular model is that it is frameless. It offers four different cooking platforms that all generate a decent amount of heat. This model weighs in at roughly around 60 lb. Three of the cooking platforms that are offered are one ribbon where as one of the cooking platforms is two ribbons. This one naturally generates more heat and is used for cooking some of the larger dishes.