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Glad to be of help. About half of the Tudor style houses built in America have no half-timbering or interior beams or any of that stuff. They were built to sort of mimic or echo the shape of medieval houses. They just have a pleasing shape to them. Many were decorated in a Colonial revival style inside. Colonial was HOT in the 20's and 30's if you look at home and women's magazines of the period.
A "Period House" of the "English Cottage" persuasion. The designers were seeking to evoke a cozy, slightly more conventional, and definitely less intellectually demanding look than Arts & Crafts bungalows, which were fading from fashion in the late twenties. They, in turn, had been a reaction from the very florid and ornamental (some would say historically unhinged) late Victorian styles that fizzled around 1900. And so on and so on.
Interesting. So what does this all mean for interior decor -- i.e., what would the interior of a period house of the english cottage persuasion look like? The previous owner had floral and velvet, metallic flocked wallpaper everywhere, with long, yellowed, floor to ceiling drapes. We did away with all that, but my windows are still bare. Thanks!
Most of today's magazines, books and websites don't show how people REALLY furnished their homes. They show what the rich and the avant garde were doing, not what regular folks put into their living rooms.
Magazines of the period often showed chintz, the "Williamsburg" look, a sort of English country house look. You can get good ideas from watching some movies from the period, more particularily light weight comedic films. People watched them and were influenced by what they saw on the screen just as they are now, and what was on screen reflected what people liked at the time, same as now.
I enjoy reading old home decorating and women's magazines from the 20's through the 50's. I don't find them as often as I used to.
Here's a site from the Minnesota Historical Society that's fun. You can type into the box whatever you're looking for, like "living rooms", "kitchens", ballgames, etc., then put in the years you want it to search through. It will then pop up with photos that fit what you're looking for.
I've got a few pictures of late 20's and 1930's rooms in one of my WEBSHOTS albums. There are several copies of ads there.
I have what I would consider a "Tudor-ish" house (mid 1920s), with some arts and crafts and colonial features. It is all brick, with no stucco or half timbering, it has a slate roof with steep roof lines, rounded front door, very tall stone chimney and ornamental wrought iron. There are no beams at all inside. Some of the baseboards and window and door frames are stained dark, while all of the crown molding and some of the baseboards are painted white (not sure if this was originally stained and then painted or painted later- would they have painted the crown molding white and stained the baseboards?).
I will try to post some pictures later on.
For sure Tudorish. I could show you picture after picture of houses from 20's and 30's....all brick or brick and stucco, no timbering, steep roof lines, rounded doorways, tall chimney, often right up the front. I always liked them.
As for the contrasting crown and baseboard....I haven't seen such an example, but houses belong to individuals who each put their own stamp on a place. It may be original, or not, dunno. It's certainly practical.
They also call them "Stockbroker Tudor's" due to the Stock market boom and housing boom of the 20's
Your house is really great example.
I have a 1928 Tudor much like yours and simply love it's unique style. It's a mishmash of Colonial, Bungalow, and a hint of Craftsman. Mine is cedar shingled, not brick, but they're are a ton of different styles of Tudors, all very unique.
I enjoy looking at the old 20's magazines too! I've had a really hard time finding photographs of everyday interiors of the 20's - most are overdone in the magazines. Old Movies sound like a cool place to look, thanks for the ideas.
I have some really cool "better homes and gardens" and "Delineator" Delineator Mags are very graphical and cool, showing amazing garb and ads from the 20's.
Not Tudor properly, but rather English cottage revival, as characterized by the steep double pediments facing the street, the battered (angled) inset chimney, the fenestration and the corbeled surrounds.
True Tudor Revivial would have utilized four or five point arches, some timbering, and faux details expressing braced frame construction.
Lovely house, and thanks for sharing it with us.
I call mine a Cotswold Cottage (not sure, spewey if that is accurate, however)
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Rachel37...do you have any interior photos to share? Our houses look very similar on the exterior. Mine has brown brick. Mine is also severely "remuddled" inside. I am trying to find pictures of others' tudorish homes to see what direction we should go in as we begin undoing the damage.
I think we may have communicated already about my kitchen, but I will post some additional shots of what I have done with mine so far . . . .
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In my neighborhood (late 20s Ford Motor boom homes), the Tudor revivals are mixed in with colonial revivals. The interiors are identical--well, stylewise. (No two Tudors seem to have the same floorplan.) The interiors are pretty much craftsmanish/typical late 20s style: coved ceilings in the public rooms, darker woodwork, oak floors. They aren't super fancy homes so the Tudorness stops at the funky arched door and they become pure 1928 inside. I've been wanting to go art deco, actually, but just haven't gotten around to it--leaks first, ya know?
The more expensive homes do have the Tudor look inside, but it wouldn't really be accurate or practical to add it to a home that didn't have it already (but it would be fun to do some). It seems around here that the larger, more expensive homes had the beams and stuff inside, not just because it was more expensive to do, but because most of these homes aren't as large as they look and that Tudor business could really cramp a room.
I think it is possible that your woodwork was always painted, but it may just as well have been stained. You may not want to go totally historically correct--if you saw the original paint color in my living room...ewwww that must have been a depressing place in the winter.
Here's my "stockbroker tudor" (in Rochester, NY), built 1928.
Half the houses in my neighborhood are tudor/cotswold revival and half are colonial revival. They mostly have similar late-20's colonial style interiors, although some of the finer examples of tudor have panelling, beamed ceilings, rough-plastering, and planked floors.
They're total Ford homes, with two-car attached garages.
I totally agree with the sentiment that any funky old style will look good. You'll be fine as long as you stay away from 50's mod or Ikea / Danish Modern / Scandanavian.
Here's our living room, decorated with castoff stuff. Two kids leave little room in the decorating budget! We ended up with a "second-hand eclectic" style...
A different angle:
Sadly, the trim and french doors were ripped out of the downstairs during a 1950's remuddling. The stark flat white paint is a gift from the previous owners, who used rollers to spread it from 5-gallon buckets that they bought at Mr. Second's...
Many of the colonial interiors of the era have ornate interior trim that was originally painted. You'd have a devil of a time stripping. Too, it will never look right because they would have used a lesser wood.
We weren't aware of this when we moved in, but the upstairs of our house is trimmed in mahogany (carelessly slathered with thick white paint, of course.) We're slowly stripping it. No lead paint, so far!
The master bedroom and nursery:
Oooh, mahogany:
I guess for decorating, I'd say just keep your eyes open. When you see something you like, buy it. Don't think you'll come back later. Either you won't, or it will be gone.
We got our buffet, some tables, chairs, etc, from garbage piles, so really keep your eyes open!


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A: I'm trying to make it half-and-half, a mix of the familiar with the long-, long-, long-gone, the places that most people wouldn't know about.
Q: Can you give me an example of a lost landmark?
A: One of the most exciting places is at 3rd and Hennepin, it's now the site of the Central Library. But it used to be the location of the Onyx Bar.
I know about it because Chuck Rowland — who was later a founder of the Mattachine Society [arguably the country's first gay rights organization] — talked about it in an early oral history interview.
He said that it was around in the 1930s, and it was a place where men could meet other men. They would wear suits — electric green suits — and lots of jewelry, all of these coded references. I would have loved to have seen that.
I kind of doubt that the Onyx was called a gay bar at the time. That's a mystery. It showed that people had a lot of dignity, even though they were relegated to these substandard places. It was apparently a total dump, like most of the places in the Gateway. But they were the only places that would knowingly and willingly accept this clientele, because they had nothing else to lose.
Q: Why the emphasis on the Gateway District?
A: The Gateway had this general atmosphere of permissiveness. It was run down and worn out, there was tons of alcohol sold, it had this carnivalesque atmosphere. It was difficult to tell who was straight and who was gay, and maybe that's one of the reasons why the Gateway made respectable people uncomfortable, and why they were embarrassed by it. The lines were blurred there, the rules didn't apply.
It's fascinating, because the city changes so dramatically all the time, it's always willfully shedding its old self. When the Gateway was demolished, all the gay bars — places like the Gay 90's, and the Brass Rail — remained as close to the border of the old neighborhood as possible.
I was also looking at the slums because the police paid more attention to the slums, and the police kept good records. Crime is a more tangible way to find queer history, through arrest records. That's why the Gateway is so helpful, because there are so many arrest records.
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A: Yes. We'll start at the flagpole in Gateway Park, and we'll weave down Nicollet and Hennepin and 1st Avenue through the old Gateway District, and point out these places that are long gone, more than 60 years. Basically it's places that no one knows about, places that took me years to find. Then we'll walk down 4th Street to City Hall.


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Indiana has recently been slammed by a lot of snow. We are bracing what could be a very LARGE nasty mess tomorrow (ice). But who knows?! It seems that winter predictions swing wildly and you don't know what is happening until you look out your window.
I bring to you today...
an idea that I have for organizing your stash. I have a lot of stash (hahaha!)
What about you?
But today I'm talking about Over-dyed Threads stash. I have never had a good way to organize it until I saw an idea of storing scrapbook supplies on Pinterest in a similar way. I changed a couple of things and brain stormed and here we go! I'll let the pictures do the talking:
What about you?
But today I'm talking about Over-dyed Threads stash. I have never had a good way to organize it until I saw an idea of storing scrapbook supplies on Pinterest in a similar way. I changed a couple of things and brain stormed and here we go! I'll let the pictures do the talking:
Supplies needed:
Cut off the top of the hanging file folder with a two inch piece left from the top:
Punch some holes:
(I did 1/4 inch from end; then 1 inch from punches from the end punches)
Alphabetize by using vinyl letters and key tags:
Sort your threads and alphabetize the load them up:
Hang them in your specified box!
Hmmm....I need Classic Colorworks "Calico Kitty". All I have to do is: turn my box to the side see where the "C's" are:
and grab it out!
HOW easy is that?
So I did my whole over-dyed collection.
Save money because you can instantly see what you have.
Threads stay neat.
No tangling!
Saves space.
Go out. Do it. Today! Or really soon!
You'll thank yourself.
and you'll love me ;)
So I started a new BIG project....
It's all done in sepia/ivory tones. I'm not going to tell you what it is because I think it will be fun for you to see the picture emerge. Here's a couple of evening's worth of stitching:
I recently finished a punch needle project for a client...
and I loved how it turned out, so I started my first punch needle project.
It is:
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and Sunday saw....
Miss March jumping out of my big 'ol ironstone bowl. Sadly I hadn't had a chance to purchase some Four Leaf clovers yet...but I am soon :)
I leave you with an ink and pastel drawing of Rose Luck Pony by Miss Ellie :)
she's really getting good, I think!
How about Nashville Needlework Market?!?!?!
What are your favorites?
I am so in love with:
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(photo copyright by Shakesphere's Peddler)
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And everything from With Thy Needle and Thread...boy Brenda Hit it out of the ballpark!
Tomorrow is my LNS Market day...
barring any catastrophe with ice and snow, Mama is going to stitch all day and she's bringing her credit card! Watch out Fancy Works! ;)
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Rule change helps schools teach tribal languages
The rule allows the state Education Department to grant an annual certification to American Indian language instructors to teach tribal languages in public schools.
American Indian languages long have been recognized as an important legacy in Oklahoma, said Desa Dawson, director of world language for the Education Department.
Oklahoma has 39 federally recognized American Indian tribes, and all the American Indian languages spoken in Oklahoma are considered endangered, Dawson said.
The new rule, adopted this year under legislative rule change procedures, allows competent instructors to teach under the supervision of a regularly certified teacher.
Two Sauk language instructors from the Sac and Fox Nation are certified through the new process, Dawson said, and one applied from the Creek Nation. They join several other instructors who were approved previously or were adjunct instructors from tribes such as Choctaw, Chickasaw, Kiowa, and Osage.
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With stringent guidelines meant for beach visitors still in force at Manginapudi Beach here, no one turned up here to take a holy dip following the lunar eclipse.
The location, barely 10 km away from Machilipatnam town, was once known for a huge gathering on the very next morning of a lunar or solar eclipse. Villagers close to the beach and visitors from far and near used to turn out in large numbers to take a ritual bath in connection with lunar eclipse.
But, the special guidelines restricting entry of people to the main beach before 6 a.m., left the believers to look for an alternative way to take the ritual bath following a lunar or solar eclipse. "There was no exception on Saturday to allow the visitors or devotees who wanted to take their bath. The same policemen were on duty," Machipatnam Deputy Superintendent of Police K. Lavanya Lakshmi said. Visitors, who had made up their mind to take a holy bath on the beach, had to head towards Pedapatnam, which is very close to Manginapudi. On the other hand a good number of visitors from far away places were seen on the Manginapudi beach in the evening.
Despite the liberalisation of security guidelines to attract the visitors, restriction of visitors before 6 a.m. and after 6 p.m. on the beach is still continuing to disappoint them, particularly those coming from long distance and wanting to spend their holiday here. Visitors, however, felt that a visit to the beach was best suited to the tourists during the 'visit restriction timing', before 6 a.m. and after 6 p.m. Small-time vendors and businessmen had been asking the district administration to relax the restrictions by taking adequate safety measures.


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Samsung induction range: floor model?
I happened to come upon a floor model for the discontinued Samsung FTQ307NWGX induction range -- it is at a screaming discount (less than $700) so of course I am very very tempted -- but reviews online are mixed; lots of 1 star reviews on Amazon etc. The reviews on the Samsung site are fine of course, but elsewhere people talk about reliability problems with this particular model. That and pans not fitting on the somewhat weird burner arrangement, and loud fan noise.
Opinions? I am cooking on electric coil (always have) and have had induction in the back of my mind for a while... but I don't technically NEED a new stove as mine works for what I do. The question is not whether induction is good, but whether this particular induction stove is a wise purchase given the caveats. I am frugal -- doesn't mean I can't spend money (well, usually it does, lol) but I'd rather spend it once on something that will last even if it costs a bit more.
Still... under $700 for an induction range... hard to pass up... ? Plus a few new pots and a hood to replace my white one, of course.
(My favorite cast iron pan is the right size to fit on that strangely huge front burner, by the way...)
Here is a link that might be useful: Samsung FTQ307NWGX
I went and looked at the amazon reviews out of curiosity. Sometimes the negative reviews are worthless - "the item arrived 2 days late" or "the shipping company damaged it". In this case there are only 4 reviews but 2 of them are very negative and seem detailed and realistic. On the other hand, any product you can find will have some negative reviews.
Although the price is really outstanding, I guess I would pass particularly if you don't really need a new range at this point. Given your frugality, I would say this range range is a bit of a gamble.
I havta agree with weissman as far as buying it. Looking at reiews it runs about 50-50 good versus bad, to me a pretty high ratio of "Bads". I looked at 31 reviews on Nexttag,
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Weissman, dodge59, thank you very much -- you are probably right to be cautious -- I bought it before I had a chance to see your responses. (Had to go with the kids when their schedules allowed.) At the store they assured me that their 30-day money back policy applies, and I also bought the extended warranty (I don't usually, but it seemed prudent in this case) so I am hoping that this will be a non-lemon version. If it is one of the lemons, I hope that will show up within the first couple of weeks! I am going to hedge my bets by not getting rid of my existing range right away, and there is no hurry to replace the white hood. I might not even buy any new pots quite yet since I do have some that will work on induction.
I took my biggest pot and my biggest skillet (both induction compatible) and they fit with room to spare, and the burner layout actually looks pretty good for me, so I am going to be cautiously optimistic. There is a long lag time for delivery but that is OK (we are going out of town). We shall see.
We have had the Samsung induction floor model for a little over 2 years and have cooked the past two TG turkeys on convection roast in only 2.5 hours. I also went from coiltops to the induction, so it was a little bit of a learning curve.
No problems, but we also bought the extended warranty. Got a great deal, not as good as yours, but close. It was too hard to pass it up. I think because only two people I've ever met IRL know what is induction.
I've not had any major issues with the burner layout. The only thing that's awkward is the Ikea wok that must go on the little front burner, but I don't use it that often.
Good luck! Hope your experience is as good as ours.
Hi, gsciencechick, I thought I remembered that your range was a Samsung. I'm really glad you weighed in, and that's great that yours is working so well for you! That is very reassuring. Now if I could just find a cool retro fridge we would be appliance twins. :)
Forgot to mention the dutch oven is Emerilware which I had on our wedding registry that fortunately works great, and the nonstick is Infinite Circulon which was a rebate that came with the range. It has held up well.
Also have a LeCreuset grill pan we use a lot.
That looks great, gscience, and thanks for the input, laat2!
I am taking note of cookware brands, so thanks for that, gsciencechick. I'll shop around for pots at some point. My 20-y.o. Farberware (still in great condition) and DH's even older Revere won't work. Yes, we both had sets when we got married and we each preferred our own (though they function exactly the same), so we have two full sets of cookware in our little kitchen. ha. It will actually save us space to have to get something new.
Please report back here when you get it installed and have time to work with that Samsung induction stove.
With that large front burner, you might very well be able to do some canning, if your interests go that way. IIRC, that front burner is big enough to easily handle most of the readily available graniteware pressure canning kettles.
I have looked at this stove while searching for an induction range, but mostly on-line. A couple of things gave me pause about buying it for myself.
One is the burner layout. Gsciencechick's photo shows how this layout might work well for some people. But, in my case, during holiday seasons, when I host several large events including holiday dinners, I often have 4 big pans going at once. Gsciencechick's photo shows the Samsung's layout probably would not work for me. It may well work for others. (Thanks for the photo, by the way.)
A second thing is that this stove has the burner control touchpad on the cooktop. Many induction cooktop units (as opposed to ranges) have this kind of layout. Some poeple prefer this layout. Others are fine with it. Others, including me, personally do not care for it. I'm old enough to remember problems with cooktop surface controls on the generation of induction stoves sold in the US back in the 1980s. Cooking spills and hot baking dishes pulled from the oven and set down --- the habit of a lifetime of cooking in small kitchens --- could damage the controls. I do not know if that is still true, but maybe NorthCarolina can see what the manual says about it for the Samsung when it arrives for installation.
JWVideo, you are right about that burner layout not working for everyone. I can't see how you could have more than 2 large pans, or maybe 3, going at the same time, but I'll see if I can test it out once it's here. I do like having a large burner in front (not all induction ranges have that and it would be kind of a deal breaker for me). I'll have to be sure to cook at least one big meal while it's still in its 30-day return window. Thanks for the user manual reminder -- I just downloaded it since the floor model doesn't come with it. I don't see anything in particular about the touch pad except how to operate it.
There will be things to get used to, I'm sure of that. On the other hand I already have workarounds with my current range... like having to rotate my cookie sheets (front to back) if I want anything resembling even baking, and sauteeing using a burner that sits at a slight tilt (lol).
We also looked at Samsung and I liked the fact that it had both the steam clean and self clean cycles. We did find out that Samsung was discontinuing them and we were told no new model was being produced at this time. hhgregg did say that they had reduced their last couples one to less than $1,000.
I posted about mine - we ended up with the GE Profile. Not as low priced as we could have gotten the Samsung from Lowes but still a good deal.
I meant to add that we had to buy new cookware and I found a nice set of Emerilware at Macy's that was being discontinued. Not as expensive as All Clad by any means but it is made by them. So far so good. I'm new to induction and to convection ovens.
Check out the Cookware Forum and the Home Decorating Forum on the converstion side. We have been having a discussion there about induction cookware.
There was a different Samsung induction range on the floor next to this one (this was at Best Buy). The new one had a more conventional burner arrangement, but I didn't look very closely. It could be an alternative if it turns out that I love induction but can't work with the burners (or bought a dud). Thanks for the heads up about the cookware conversation; I'll check it out.
The good news is you purchased this item cheap and purchased the extended warranty. There were two builds of this range. The second one has a build date of June 2010 I believe. It fixes the extended fan run time of the first generation built in 2009. (if your fan runs longer than about 10 minutes after the cook top is shut off, you may need a main board replacement) I have owned two of the FTQ307's (both replaced under warranty) and just purchased a Samsung NE597N0PBSR. The NE597N0PBSR is the FTQ307 replacement model. Out of the box the NE597... right front burner did/does not work at all. The replacement range will be delivered tommorrow.
This newer model changes the stove top layout to a more conventional look, and the fan noises of the ftq307 are all but gone. The cook top power is a little lower than the FTQ307 but the oven performs about the same, with a few more features added to the oven control pad.
The cook top finger sliding control is gone. I actually liked that feature.
Thanks, riderman... I think (ha). That's a shame about your series of bad ranges. I hope your newest replacement works well. Thank you very much for the information -- joking aside, it is very helpful and I will hope that mine turns out to be OK. If not, I have the warranty at least. Delivery is in a couple of days.
Hi, gscience -- it came a couple of days ago. I have been testing it with my cast iron but haven't cooked much of anything yet (lots of running around town this week), so the jury is still out. The fan does seem to run for quite a while after I've had something on the cooktop (not every time though), and the large burner goes in and out when my 10" pan is on it. That pan is a hair under 9" diam on the bottom so that might be the problem, though it would be a bummer if so. Anyway, I finally caved and brought home a couple of induction-friendly pots today so I could test boiling water in something other than my poor cast iron pans (and smaller than my pressure cookers). 4 cups of water in a 2-qt pot came to a rolling boil in 3 min on High on the 6" burner -- sound about right to you? I was impressed, anyway. I bought myself a new 12" skillet, which I needed anyway, so I will test the big burner a few more times with that. Did you say your 10" grill pan works on the big burner?
I emailed Samsung today to ask if the pan detection error with the 10" pan and the fan were things that could be fixed -- if not, I'll just have to decide if it matters. I would really like to be able to use my 10" skillet on that front burner (and I can, for a few minutes anyway). There is a dent on the warming drawer that I didn't see in the store (you have to be at the right angle in the right light to see it) so that's another thing I have to think about. Tomorrow I plan to do some actual cooking -- including a chicken, as you suggested! so we'll see how that goes.
I do really like the chirpy sounds the touch pad makes. :)
I don't mean to sound lackluster; I am avoiding an emotional investment until I have all my data in place (i.e. have cooked a full meal and accurately assessed what's going on with the big burner). In other words, I am being, well, a scientific chick. :)
p.s. Does yours cycle on and off on low power settings? This one does -- though I don't really cook the kind of food where it would make a difference.
NC, thanks for the update. My Emerilware 10" fry pan will not work on the large front burner because the base is too small for the burner. However, the larger French skillet and the 10" LeCrueset grill pan work really well because they have a larger flat bottom that covers most of the burner, even though the grill pan is square. I used the grill pan tonight to cook our burgers since it was so wet out. I usually preheat the grill pan and cook on 5.
The water boiling is definitely similar. It's awesome.
Yes, it does cycle on and off on the very low settings like when I am simmering rice. It's great because I can power boost the rice to boil and then take it low immediately.
Good luck with the roasting!
OK, here we go. I don't know how useful this will be since this is a discontinued model, but maybe it will help someone looking at a similar burner arrangement. First pic is of my new pans getting seasoned. :) (Yes, I bought bacon for the sake of the pans.) I would not normally be using pans this large all at the same time, but I wanted to see how much would fit. This is a 12" skillet, 10" grill pan, and my larger pressure cooker being used as a normal pot. I don't know the capacity of the big pot but it's, well, big. The diameter of the bottom contact area is only 7" and it works just fine on the 6" burner. It's crowded but it all did work, and I could fit a 3-qt pot on the extra burner.
Next up: well, this was to show the beautiful low simmer I got about one second after lowering the heat from a rolling boil. I didn't time the boil (busy with the bacon) but it was probably about 10 min. This tall pot does partially obscure the oven controls, but at least the off-on and temp controls are on the top row so you can get to those.
Last up is more normal usage for me and you can see that there is much less crowding. This was supper: okra, butterbeans, corn. That 10" skillet is my most-used pan, and you can see that a 12" would be more appropriate for the amount of okra (hence the new skillet) but I wanted to test the 10" on that burner. It is very touchy. It stayed on long enough to cook the okra, but changing the power level or moving the pan would cause a detection error (it doesn't do that on any other burner). The shorter pressure cooker pot (holding the corn) does not block the control panel. The only other comment about this is that the butterbeans did not boil over even in the little 2-qt pot (despite years of butterbean-cooking I seem to boil them over more often than not... maybe not with induction, though).
Chicken took longer than I expected to roast on convection so I need to go read up on that... it's probably because my old oven didn't lower the temp for convection like this one does. I had coconut macaroons baking on the other two racks at the same time as the chicken at one point, and cooking was not even, vertically speaking (lowest rack was done first), but front-to-back seemed even and that is good.
The dent in the warming drawer is bigger than I thought, now that I have been down to look at it more closely. It is quite shallow and wide so not noticeable unless the light hits it right, which it does in our kitchen. It annoys me.
Jury is still out. :) I really need to be able to use my 10" skillet on that front burner.
Thanks for the info, gscience. My 10" grill pan was off and on with the big burner yesterday, sometimes fine and sometimes not detected. Wonder if your Le Creuset is a little bigger.