Game on, Tru!! Fantastic, man! I've been off the board for a while but decided to stop in for a look. Glad to see it installed and fired up. Good call on avoiding the shipping charge.
You can definitely cook on the hybrid. If you remove the center trinket, you can boil water fairly easy. I've cooked spaghetti sauce, stew, soup, and heated bunches of stuffs on mine so don't hold back! I'm kind of a prude when it comes to junking my stove up... a little splash of food and BAM! there's another impossible blemish... but the more I do it, the more I'm starting to like it that way, too!
That's a great looking stove. Going into spring, I bet there's a part of you looking forward to fall already.