Our range top is not working. After turning it on, it turns itself off in a few seconds. At first, the malfunction was intermittent, but now it happens every time on every burner.
It's an induction range, which we really like, but it's too smart for its own good. When we first got the range, it came with a set of pots, and the skillet had a battery with it. We wondered what in the world that was for. It turns out that the skillet can talk to the internet, and then the internet talks to the stove and tells it how to cycle. We have never used that because we refuse to hook our appliances to the internet. (Although I realize that there could be many advantages to that. I basically don't like the idea of being hacked through my stove.)
Another thing the fancy cooktop does is turn off the burner when there's not a pot on it. We really like that safety feature, but now it does it even when a pot is on it. I think one of its computer circuits has gone haywire.
The repairman is scheduled for tomorrow and hopefully will be able to easily fix the problem. In the meantime, for someone who is not into cooking, I'm surprised to find the non-working cooking top very inconvenient. But the oven works, as do the microwave and crockpot, so we are very blessed that this isn't really a problem. Just a minor annoyance.
BTW, did you notice in my descriptions about our stove, I used range, stove, and cooktop interchangeably. Maybe everyone but me is clear about those terms, but in case not, basically here is what they mean. A cooktop is self-explanatory. The top of the appliance that you cook on. A range includes both a cooktop and oven. A stove can refer to just the cooktop or the cooktop and oven together. Stove and range are often used interchangeably. On our range, only the cooktop is malfunctioning. Or I guess I could also say, on our range, only the stove is malfunctioning. There, did that clear everything up? 😉
When I sat down here to write, I had in mind to touch on a few things that have been going on around here. But apparently, I had more to say about the range/stove/cooktop than I realized. So the pictures of the coal miners memorial will have to wait for another day.
Until next time...
