Can I use my cast iron cookware on a glass top stove? Mostly I just want to use my skillets. Wife says NOOO! But I’m thinking I have heard it can be done. Anyone have first hand experience?

Just don't slide it around the surface.

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We do it all the time. Not sure why there’s a “No” answer. Stove is not new and neither are the cast iron pans and both seem to still work.

If you don't mind scratching it up, go ahead. If it were me, I'd try to ruin that stove asap so I could get a gas stove.

Some kind of urban legend I think about not using cast iron on glass top

Wife won't let me. I think she's more afraid of dropping the hot pan and shattering the glass top.

Wife cook's with them on ours she said no at frist but found out it works fine. She also uses the smoke alarm as a timer that works good also.

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We have a glass top and only own cast iron pans. They get slid around all the time and there isn't a scratch on the glass top. You my be able to scratch glass with a broke piece of cast iron with a edge, but not with a fry pan from what I have seen. The first day we got the stove my wife was cooking with cast iron on it.

If you can't get it scratched up with cast iron pans, try a hammer.

Or a grinder!

For the record, I had a glass top for many years. We moved and now use a gas stove. I can't believe l suffered so long with that glass top! Cooking is much more efficient with gas. Much faster heating up and regulating the heat. I'll never go back to electric, if I can help it!

I do all the time. French fry in my dutch oven too on the glass top.
I slide them on the top too..

The wife uses one on the glass top. Says ya just have to wait on it a little to get hot.

Whirlpool purchased 7-19-2004. Been using cast iron pretty much everyday since then like 17 years!!!

If the cast iron pan is perfectly flat on the bottom, go for it. If it has a ring around the bottom that holds it up a 1/16" or so off the glass then they don't cook so well. You need the flat bottom sitting right on the glass to get good heat transfer. We use fry pans and Dutch oven regularly. As others have said just don't go sliding it around, pick it up to move it and what ever you do don't drop the cast iron lid on the stove top.

Yes. You can use it. Better to pick it up and move it than slide it. Wife uses hers all the time.

I have a gas stove at home and love it. I have an electric stove at camp and hate it. There is a glass top/electric stove at a customers house where I spend the winter in New Jersey and I hate that as well.

There is nothing better than cooking with gas.

Watch any cooking show, you never see the better chefs cooking with anything but gas.

We have a glass top stove and have used cast iron pans on it at least a few days every week , for over 9 years, without any issues.

Keith

I do all the cooking, but wife won't let me use cast iron on our glass top. Worst stove I've ever used. Hate it.