Out with the old . . . In with the new!

Our all-electric house was built in 1984. Beautiful built-in Jenn-Air cook top and oven were installed at that time. When we moved in a year ago we had a repair man come out to fix the downdraft fan on the cook top. There are no parts of that era available to make that repair. Then a couple of months ago one of the burners (of course it would be the one I used most often) started malfunctioning. Researching online proved to us that the downdraft fan system has been installed in many brands of cook tops and the reviews for the Kenmore (Sears) were far better than the new Jenn-Air brand. So we purchased the Kenmore and hired an independent contractor to install it. When he came out to do the installation it was discovered that there wasn't enough power in the house (currently 30 amp) for the modern cook tops so we needed to have the house re-wired with 50 amp. . . which was something we had planned to do any way in order to get power to the shop. Seems like a fairly simple thing to do, right? Well . . . since our house has a high pitched roof it was a bit trickier getting the 2" diameter wire up and over the peak of the roof crawling through the attic . . . what a job! However the job did get done and all is well. I love my new cook top!

This is the old Jenn-Air . . .

The new Kenmore glass/ceramic top . . . cooking with electric has created a whole new learning curve for me having grown up and cooked with gas for nearly fifty years!

Life is good!