anyone can on a glass cooktop?
 

I've heard horror stories of canners crashing through glass cooktops, although they've never been first-hand accounts. Anyone have any real-life experience?

Also, how big of a canner do you use if you do?

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Never had a problem here. Our water bath hold about 4 gallons plus the jars.
Those glass stoves are temered and can withstand a lot of abuse.

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No experience canning but I want to get into it and I do have a glass cooktop stove. I will not be using my stove with the heavy pressure cooker since everything I've read says this is a very bad idea.

So I would think to get a propane tank and a portable propane burner apparatus. Tn_Andy has a picture of said get-up on post #11 of this thread.

Whenever I get going with canning this is what I'll be using.

Hope that helps, and let us know how it works for you!

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I use the 21-1/2-Quart Pressure Cooker/Canner from Wisconsin Aluminum on my glass top Gibson stove and I've never even imagined the possibility.

I think you're safe.

If you're nervous, you could check with your stove manufacturer for the weight limit and also to learn where the supports are for the glass, but I feel quite secure with my glasstop.

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a post I just found on a cooking/canning site said to make sure that the bottom of your canner is flat, rather than slightly concave. Also said to make sure that your canner's diameter is no more than 2" larger than your burner's diameter. Both seem like good advice.

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I use it regularly on my glass cook top. My stove gets about as much use a small food service establishment, so they can take quite a bit of abuse.

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I guess what I didn't know didn't hurt me. I've been canning and using pressure cookers on my glass top stove for 8 years now. Wish you guys hadn't told me to worry.

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I would not dare. I realized what a BIG mistake I had made by replacing my worn out electric 'ring top' with a glass top, when I read I could not use cast iron pots on it.

I like a glass top though as it controls mice. Less ways in - mice tend to use appliances as 'pill boxes' against cats. I live in an old house and have had mice in my oven and stove in a previous old house.

I would be VERY interested to hear about people using cast iron and full on pressure cookers, not just water baths, on glass tops and getting away with it.

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I have a glass top range from Kenmore. I use a Presto 23 Qt. pressure canner on it with no problem. I had heard about the glass top issue and called Kenmore before shopping for my canner and was assured that as long as I got a flat bottom canner with a diameter no more than 1 inch larger than my burner that I could use it. There are times I wish I could use a larger canner but it works.

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We use a presto/rival pressure canner with no problems on our glass cooktop. We use the smaller 16 or 23 quart size, I don't remember which it is right now.

We are looking at getting a gas replacement simply becuase it takes so long to heat it up.

Other than that no problems. I would NOT use a american pressure canner or other industrial weight canner.

We also use a simple water bath canner and have no issues either.

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I have two canners running on my glass top at one time. A 21 Q and 15 Q All American. I have 5 burners and all of them are on! Never had any problems other than when I was moving and the oven was in the moving truck and a CO2 Bottle fell on the top of it! Oh well, it was time for a new stove anyway! I WOULD only use an All American Canner!

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Most of the horror stories I have heard about the canners is due to someone MOVING the canner onto or off of the cooktop.

I don't know if I have ever heard of reasonable use of a mid size canner causing a glass cooktop to break. The only way I can see this is IF the cooktop was improperly isntalled or someone dropping sometihng (the canner or a jar) on the cooktop.

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I was saying this for weight reasons with the larger canners, not because I don't like the AA's. The AA canners are the best around.

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I can't remember the website I read it on but the issue with glass tops and canners is the heat. Most electric stoves have a sensor that prevents them from getting to hot and cracking the tampered glass. Some do not but this is one reason they recommend not to.

Reason two, the recommendation to have the canner no larger than 1"-2" than the burner is because underneath the glass it is actually insulated and if you get to large a canner your sitting over the insulation and stressing the glass that way.

That's about all I know though hope that helps you understand the reasons why they say not too

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Yeah, you do have to becareful and not drop heavy pots on it.

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As I mentioned earlier, I have canned quite a few times on my glass cooktop with no problems.

Today however, after a long day of cutting firewood and weeding the half-frozen garden areas, I was trying to cut open a hard winter squash for dinner. After trying for several minutes, trying to find my husband to help me, etc., I moved the struggle to the top of the stove and I busted the glass. Oh my gosh. I almost can't believe that I just did that.

So as far as canning goes, glass cooktop good. Mortal combat with a winter squash--glass cooktop bad.

Sigh. :thumb.aspx:

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Whoops!

And other characters, I am sure.:rant:

So sorry.:23_1_22::rant:

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Ouch.. Can't wait to get rid of our and go back to propane.

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I have water bathed on my glass top, but I use the turkey burner with my AA 930 pressure canner. Advantage = heats up much faster, plus that dang canner is heavy.

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I once dropped a co2 bottle on my glass top stove while moving! I checked to see how much it would cost to get the top repaired and it was almost as much as a new stove. Happy stove hunting!

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Thanks for the sympathetic brainwaves, everyone. Even though we've been planning remodeling the kitchen and replacing the stove with a gas unit for two years, of course I feel like an absolute idiot...

I have to check out what the extent of the damage is. The top isn't shattered--just cracked. Once we get finished baking the extra-expensive winter squash I'll have to check out where the electronics on the stove are...

When I told dear husband I of course reminded him that I wasn't the one who managed to get his car caught on fire last month.... :s9: But women are evil, no? :yes:

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I have a big 5 burner glasstop double oven.

We used it to can last year with the big water bath
and huge pressure canner.

NEVER AGAIN. We scratched the glass and the stainless steel on it.

I guess if you're really careful you could do it without a problem, but I just know
that we're buying a junk stove just for canning purposes this year.