On Thu, 2 Nov 1995 reglee@smartt.com wrote:

Did nobody get this story? 

Nobody read C7?

Must have missed chapter 7 if you posted it before. Minor quibble: I 
think 15 minutes is too long for the burner. Surely even solid disk 
burners would be cool enough to touch after 15 minutes. Maybe a few 
minutes?

If you asking that question, you read chapter seven. 

In Japan, 99% of the time, heating is provided by gas (either natural gas 
or methane), and thus the burner is a natural gas design, consisting of a 
ring style flame with pots/saucepas/woks/etc on a series of cast iron 
or steel 'half arches', often glazed. These remain hot for quite some time.

Other burner types are the spiral electric, which remain hot enough to 
burn for about 25 minutes, if they have been used at full temperature. 
There is the solid disk burner, which remain hot almost as long and the 
flat ceramic hob, which remain hot for about 30 minutes, but has warning 
lights to tell you this. (These are the best type of hob, easy to clean, 
fast to heat up, electrically controlled for timed shutoff... I own one, 
so I guess I'm partial, but I've used them all)

Also, 'I was boiling water not fifteen minutes ago' could mean she 
started to boil water fifteen minutes ago, or was boiling water fifteen 
minutes ago, it does not neccesarily imply that she stopped boiling water 
at that time. (O.K., that's a nit-pick.. )



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