Glass top range teardown

Joe Grand wrote:I just replaced my glass top stove for $600.00 & you said the top replacement is $475?! WOW.

Those tops are *really* heavy, difficult to ship without breaking, and they're different for practically every model of stove.

I thought they'd be worth it clean-up-wise when I replaced my really old oven, but having now lived with one for 15 years, I'm not convinced it would be my first choice. That said, I wanted a convection oven and I wanted the burner controls on the front of the stove like a gas stove usually has so I wouldn't have to reach over a hot burner to adjust it. My choices were *extremely* limited and who knows if I could even finds such a thing today without going to gas - which has its own pros and cons.

I'm seeing this as one more example of "planned obsolescence" -  not as bad as some examples I could name, but bad enough when you consider the embodied energy involved. How does it compare to a rocket stove? I don't know how much embodied energy is in fire bricks, but for the mud parts it's low, and at least fire bricks turn into "dirt" when they die.

saving the glass top & the door glass & the insulation for future project.