OT Do you prefer Gas or Electric Stove?

[Hoopguru]

I understand that gas stoves may be banned?
Ive had both and by far my gas stove is much better to cook on.

They should ban the Internet before the fucking gas stove!
Just an old mans point of view....lol

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

This old man's view is as gassy as he is.....when we did a kitchen remodel 6 years we switched to a gas stove and we love it. The house already had a gas furnace, gas fireplace and hot water heater. I wish they had put in a gas stove (and gas dryer hook up) when they built the place. But if/when the power goes out, we always have heat, hot water and the ability to cook. From a purely selfish stand point, that's a big deal. They can ban them tomorrow, we're all set.

 

[Chris Craig]

I have always used an electric.

 

[crandc]

I have electric stove and gas oven. Would have preferred electric oven, they are easier to find and cost less. I am so used to electric I burned rice when using someone else's gas stove.

 

[RR7]

Gas for sure. I hate cooking on electric stovetops

 

[yankeesince59]

No contest for me...electric. But more importantly, it's essential to have premium cookware, otherwise, neither works as intended.

Just recently upgraded our kitchen and our electric stove also has an air fryer or convection feature built in...VERY useful.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Gas is fine with me. But so is electric. Just depends on what I'm used to.

I like glass cook tops for the simplicity in cleaning.

 

[Shaboid]

Either are fine as long as it's a quality stove top. I have one burner that I can just never get right. 1-2 is a nice simmer but if you go half a a turn past it goes straight to a vigorous boil. So annoying.

 

[yankeesince59]

Either are fine as long as it's a quality stove top. I have one burner that I can just never get right. 1-2 is a nice simmer but if you go half a a turn past it goes straight to a vigorous boil. So annoying.

I know what you're talking about, and luckily for me, mine has both a large and small "coil" for each "burner" with controls for each, which makes it a lot easier to moderate the temp.

 

[Natebishop3]

Gas is apparently really unhealthy for you. I never had gas until the house we moved into recently, and after I read about all the toxic shit it puts in the air, I went out and bought a new electric stove.

 

[bigbailes]

When we bought our house 4 years ago it was brand new and only had the electric hookup. Went around the corner, literally 4 houses away, same builder and no gas option. Have only ever had electric but was hoping to have gas because it seems easier to control the temps the few times I have cooked on it. I don't mind our glass cooktop but it takes forever to boil water and then takes forever to cool back down, plus the stains are damn near impossible to get off.

 

[crandc]

I have a black glass cooktop. I use stove cleaner from Safeway, standard brand, works fine. My stove gets a lot of use.

 

[donkiez]

We have gas and I have always like gas better, until I took the dog for a walk and came home to the whole house smelling like gas. I had bumped the burner knob before I left and was gone almost an hour. Ever since then I have been hyper paranoid about my gas burners and have to obsessively check them before I leave the house. It got me thinking about apartment complexes that have gas stoves and how it would just take one person to mess up and blow up a section of the place. I'm kind of surprised that is not more of a problem.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

We have gas and I have always like gas better, until I took the dog for a walk and came home to the whole house smelling like gas. I had bumped the burner knob before I left and was gone almost an hour. Ever since then I have been hyper paranoid about my gas burners and have to obsessively check them before I leave the house. It got me thinking about apartment complexes that have gas stoves and how it would just take one person to mess up and blow up a section of the place. I'm kind of surprised that is not more of a problem.

Bingo. This is a problem we have had also. We have learned to pay close attention but it still happens......now I'm always checking whenever I wander into the kitchen.

 

[riverman]

I love my glass top electric stove and oven but I have a coleman camping stove for blackouts that works great and a propane burner on my BBQ unit so all is covered...I hate gas stove tops indoors for gas leaks and most of all...grease traps around the burners...I like how easily I can clean my glass top and how if you leave it on it just acts like a space heater. The glasstop also keeps my cookware from getting gross on the bottom or being hard to clean. One of the burners has finally burned out on the glass top but I get by fine with just the other 3. I will have to replace it in a couple years more than likely. I have a rice cooker and air fryer so messing up rice is impossible with a good rice cooker. I highly recommend getting one if you eat much rice. I quit making rice on the stove top decades ago.

 

[stampedehero]

I have Electric at my primary home and Gas at the Shore house.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

They should make solar stoves.

 

[Phatguysrule]

They should make solar stoves.

Nuclear is more reliable than solar...

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Nuclear is more reliable than solar...

Now you're just being silly.

 

[illmatic99]

i can't understand why anyone would want electric after having cooked with gas if they actually use the stoves every day. everything is so much faster, heat distribution is excellent if you have the right kinda pots/pans.

even cleaning is such a hassle with glass/induction cooktops if you actually cook stuff.

 

[riverman]

They should make solar stoves.

So in Oregon you could at least cook 3 months out of the year?

 

[riverman]

i can't understand why anyone would want electric after having cooked with gas if they actually use the stoves every day. everything is so much faster, heat distribution is excellent if you have the right kinda pots/pans.

even cleaning is such a hassle with glass/induction cooktops if you actually cook stuff.

completely disagree...having good cookware distributes heat evenly and cleaning isn't even comparable in my view. We cook at home almost all the time and I've got several cooking stoves, woodstoves, propane, and electric...the electric is the kitchen go to unless power is out or it's too hot out to cook inside. The propane is on my deck or my camping stove if I want to bring it indoors. I have two outdoor wood cookers as well that aree a pain in the ass to cook with but work in a pinch.

 

[crandc]

I cook constantly and my glass top electric stove works fine. I do have very high quality cookware.