Suggestions for chapatis & smooth top electric cook ranges !!

We have the smooth-top just because of the wipe clean feature.. so easy to
clean.. can use the the wire rack on top of the smooth cooktop..for the rotis..
.. set the temp to Highest and it will work.. We have the
GE touch button cooktop . it is really easy to clean..
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We are using smooth top electric cook range.
We found it better than conventional 'coil' range because cleaning is much easier.
Also we use wire rack on smooth top electric cook range and it works great.
But a friend told me if one of the stoves in smooth range break down, you have to change all stoves. Not sure if that's true.

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I have a smooth top cook range and I feel that it may not be the right option for indian cooking. If anything spills, it gets messy immediately and we cannot clean it right away as the surface is hot.
I am not able to use a wire rack for rotis and resorted to using tava.
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Use the same wire rack upside down to reduce the distance of top from suraface. We do that and succesfully make very good rotis.
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With Kenmore smooth-top and rotis puff up fine using wire rack. The auto-shut off happens frequently, but it comes back up equally fast. Shouldn't be a big problem.
I was most impressed by the easy cleanup part :)
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At least two kinds of smooth top ranges.
One uses conductivity - you must have high-quality (so that the bottoms stay perfectly flat even at high heat) conductive-metal pots and pans, and they must be in contact with the surface.
The other kind uses what are basically halogen light bulbs, and I'd think that kind would work very similarly to electric coil
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The grill type of thing can be placed on stovetop to make rotis ! This is how I do it , I too have Kenmore smooth -top electric range..
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If you're going to buy a new range, have you considered having gas for cooking? If you already have the line upto your house for water heating, you could have a line pulled to your kitchen. I've gotten it done twice. And I can tell you, for Indian cooking nothing is better than gas! And it costs far less to use than electricity.
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I too bought a kenmore smooth top stove and chucked my coil range.
I can make perfect Phulkas on the smooth top using a wire rack ..
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