Now we’re cooking with gas.

Our housemate was kind enough to wreck shop in the kitchen, and rip out the idiotic stove peninsula that destroyed the continuity of the space in the kitchen. Now that he’s done that, and I paid through the nose to get a gas line installed… we’re getting a gas stove on Saturday. It’s a GE JGBP30XXXX, where XXXX are numbers I don’t recall (hell, I don’t even know if the first numbers are right) – but it’s a 30″ black gas stove, with burners ranging frok 6K BTUs to 15K. Not too shabby. Sure, it’s no Wolf, say, but it’s a hell of a lot cheaper, and good enough for the cooking we’ll be doing. Hell, if we need more heat, we can just use the turkey fryer burner and the wok. That thing turns the wok white hot, and makes it almost unhandleable. I doubt if we’ll ever need more heat than that.

Still, it’ll be *great* to finally have a gas stove. A stove that’ll consistently boil water, and not get progressively colder as time passes.

Also picked up an All-Clad MC2 12″ omelette pan, as sort of a general workhorse pan, to go with the stove. Next up’s an 8″ Global chef’s knife, and a double-burner Lodge griddle/grill pan. Whee! Consumerlicious! But all that’s getting put off, at least temporarily, as bill paying has kicked my ass six ways from Sunday. Slowly, though, we shall acquire the appropriate kitchen armaments. The gas stove is gonna be such a huge step in the right direction, and fortunately, now that work’ s slower, I’ll even have some time to cook, I hope.