all american 921 canner question

[mamafish9]

Hi mamas,

I know some of you have this canner, and I have a question - how does the bottom look? I've read that it isn't flat. (I have a flat top stove). Is it ridged, or concave? Do any of you use it on a flat top stove? I'm prepared to risk the unlikely even of my cooktop cracking, I just want to make sure it will heat properly.

Rumor has it that I am getting this splendiferous canner for my birthday , and I want to make sure it will work on my stove!

[mamadelbosque]

We have it (or at least one of them, not sure exaclty what model), and it is flat on the bottom. I think the reason they don't recommend it for flat stoves is cause' of the cracking of the glass issue with weight... We use ours outside on a propane camping stove.

[lmonter]

It's mostly flat. It does have some inset embossing on the bottom that has the mfr info or something, but that's nothing spectacular. The very edges do the curve-up thing to the walls like most pots/pans/skillets, but again, nothing out of the ordinary.

Yes, I've been using it on my glass flat top stove for... 3 years now? I kept asking my engineer hubby about cracking the stove top, but he said it's not a problem, blah blah blah. So if it breaks, I can blame it all on him and then we can get a gas range.

That said, I have a dual burner on one of the spaces on my stove top. Like a donut - a big one and a little one. If you need the little one, you just use that half of the knob, if you need both/the big one, you use the other half of the knob. So my "big" burner is pretty decent sized. Either 10" or 12", I forget. Anyway, my canners just barely go over the footprint of the burner, rather than being inches off like it would be with a smaller burner.

[mamafish9]

Originally Posted by lmonter

That said, I have a dual burner on one of the spaces on my stove top. Like a donut - a big one and a little one. If you need the little one, you just use that half of the knob, if you need both/the big one, you use the other half of the knob. So my "big" burner is pretty decent sized. Either 10" or 12", I forget. Anyway, my canners just barely go over the footprint of the burner, rather than being inches off like it would be with a smaller burner.

I have one of those dual burners, but it's only 10", so I think the canner would still hang over by a couple of inches. But I think any canner would, and I want a really safe pressure canner...

Thanks mamas, helpful info!