a woman who would never find a flame that cooked an egg quite as well

[meliss]

Hi, does it mean the woman was unable to adjust the gas burner quite well? Thank you.
"Natasha held back her hair as she lit a cigarette from the hot plate her father had, twelve years earlier, purchased secondhand from a woman who would never find a flame that cooked an egg quite as well." (A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra)

 

[bhaisahab]

It would seem to mean that, after selling the electric hotplate to Natasha's father, the woman was unable to find a gas cooker that cooked an egg as well as the hotplate had.