<p>Notice how pans have a tendency to “dance around” on the smooth surface electric stove tops when hot? Can that be prevented?</p>
<p>I’ve actually never had that happen… ever. Not at my house nor at my parents nor at my boyfriends… we all have smooth surface electric stoves… and I do a lot of cooking. I don’t know much about this but maybe it’s something to do with the type of pan? Or the stove itself?</p>
<p>My pans that have more rounded bottoms dance. I owned them before I had a smooth surface stove and am slowly changing them out.</p>
<p>I’ve had a smooth electric cooktop for quite a few years. Once you build up some “crud” on the surface of the stove (or the bottom of your pans) it won’t happen so much. ;)</p>
<p>I wonder if the bottoms of the pots are not perfectly flat?</p>
<p>Mine don’t do this - but I have induction - which is a glass surface, but involves a high powered electro magnet under the pots. My pots are fairly new also. They don’t move unless I slide them on parchment paper over the burner. (which you can do with induction because it is amazing)</p>
<p>Yes, it seems to happen only with pans that have rounded edges. Maybe it’s time to switch pans! Thanks, all.</p>
<p>My mom’s trusty old revere ware used to dance about her stove. I have heavier, flatter cookware and mine doesn’t budge.</p>
<p>Moisture on the bottom of the pan will cause the pan to dance.</p>
<p>We recently invested in a lovely new large nonstick frypan. It is Callophon, with glass lid. My husband mentioned that it seems to wobble on our smooth top range. (We’ve had this stove 17 years… can’t remember having other problems.) The pan looks like it has a flat bottom, but it does have rounded edges.</p>
<p>My flat Thermadore glass cook top came with instructions to only use flat bottom pans. I gave all my old Revere Ware to my son and used my new stove as an excuse to add to my small collection of All-clad. They work beautifully.</p>
<p>I tell you, I think it’s barbaric to use pans with rounded edges, barbaric, I tell you. Aren’t we civilized in this country?? Why can’t we be more like the European nations than third world countries?</p>
<p>Someone missing their E&P fix :)?</p>
<p>Ah, busdriver, I see I have a small following…;)</p>
<p>Hey, I miss you guys already.</p>
<p>But don’t worry, something else is already being started up, so you don’t have to go without your fix for long.</p>
<p>I just wish someone in my house knew how to use a pan. With any sort of surface :(</p>
<p>Yep, Revere Ware and ceramic top flat cooking surfaces don’t mix. The copper bottoms tend to warp with minor misuse of extreme heat and cold. I think Revere Ware was designed for the old-fashioned electric stoves with coils.</p>
<p>busdriver, At least your pans won’t get dirty! My kid can cook in a pan but he doesn’t know how to WASH it!</p>
<p>Good Lord, you can get your kid to cook in a pan? How the heck did you do that? Mine only know how to wash it (when forced), but I’d be much happier if they knew what to do with it. I have completely failed as a mother in many ways, I fear!</p>
<p>I think smooth top stoves are an abomination. :D</p>
<p>I too have Revere Ware that dances, not all of the pots, but one or two. They are 30 plus years old and not completely flat anymore.</p>
<p>One remedy is to wedge the pan handle under an adjacent kettle’s handle. It anchors the pan in place.</p>
<p>I absolutely LOVE my smooth top range. </p>
<p>To be truthful, I cook more in the microwave above it, but that flat range surface can be a wonderful immense place for setting down the hot microwaved dish.</p>
<p>When I do cook on the stove, any mess is easily cleaned up. The old electric stove burners always looked dirty even though I didnt’ really use it as much as most folks.</p>