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So which do you prefer? Gas or Electric?

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For what purposes: cooking? heating? In the New England area, gas is pretty much a requirement for heating in homes. Why you ask? If you have electric heating and you lose power in a snow storm (assuming you don't have a generator) guess what? You have no heat for your home and that is how people, especially the elderly, die in those conditions which is tragic.
 
Electric oven, but gas hob. I find gas more controllable when using pans, but electric for baking. I guess it's what you're used to though. :)
 
I've gotten much better results with gas, particularly with the stove.
 
for cooking, electricity has nothing over gas.
i get really irritated whenever i have to cook on electricity. first it takes ages to heat up, then everything turns to charcoal in a split-second.
gas actually does what you want it to, whether its heating up or cooling down.
 
Yeah if you bake in an electric over for about an hour at 350 it can take a few hours to fully cool down. I find that it's not as accurate even heating as gas either. for cooking electric sucks. I have those stupid coil ones in the stove in my apartment and they take forever to heat up and some don't work right. With gas you can see a flame and see when it's on low or high or medium, with electric you have to trust the knob. High heat you can see because the coils get red hot.

The only thing I like about electric is the drawer where gas stoves have their broiler. I never like the gas broiler *never used it much, but for experienced cooks its better) but I do like the electric broiler (coil on top) better.
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One thing that I do like about not having gas is that your home can't blow up from a gas leak.

One time I turned on the wrong knob on the electric range, went to turn on the front one and turned on the back one by mistake and I had a cover over the coils that burned. With gas you can instantly see the flame.
 
hylas said:
i get really irritated whenever i have to cook on electricity. first it takes ages to heat up, then everything turns to charcoal in a split-second.
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lol - you've said exactly what I was just about to say. ;)

We had gas back home and I managed fine - then I move into this apartment I'm in now and it's an electric oven. The oven itself is not so annoying as the hobs for saucepans. It's terrible. :mad:

I remember one of the first times I tried heating something up on the hob after being used to gas....


Five minutes.

Nothing.

Turn heat up.

Leave kitchen for a while.

Ten minutes.

Nothing.

Turn heat up.

Leave kitchen for a while.

Fifteen minutes.

OUT OF CONTROL, FROTHING, BOILING OVER THE EDGE, SPILLING ALL OVER THE ENTIRE OVEN! :eek:

Turn heat down. :(

Clear up mess. :cry:


(but I've got the knack of it now) (patience) :lol:
 
I have used a variety and currently have a ceramic top electric which cures the "fore ever to heat up" complaint. That thing becomes molten lava in about four seconds. However being ceramic it does not cool as readily. SO I simply remove things from the heat quite a bit to regulate.

Any anyone suffers from uneven heat then you can go a great long way towards fixing that if you will spend some money on quality cookware.

The final quality I like about the ceramic is that the surface is completely flat like glass. This is as clean a kitchen as you can have.

But for overall control everyone is spot on with a gas range top or hob as it were. Best by far and makes average cookware perform better.

Oh and BTW gas heated dryers kick the ass off electric any day of the week.
 
Beachguyj said:
For cooking I prefer a gas stove , but I've never seen one in south Florida.
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i perfer electric im always afraid i will blow myself up with gas lol and i have seen gas stoves in south florida in really old houses but never in a newer house
 
chub23lauderdale said:
i perfer electric im always afraid i will blow myself up with gas lol and i have seen gas stoves in south florida in really old houses but never in a newer house
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I am not afraid of gas in that way by normal use. But if a worker outside hits a gas line by mistake your house can explode. They actually put a smell into gas in case of a leak because it is an odorless gas.

A reason that you don't see many gas stoves is that we don't need gas lines to heat out houses in the winter. My apartment doesn't have heat at all. Last year I just needed a space heater for a few days, this year it's been much milder.
 
I've used both electric and gas stoves for many years.

I can definitely say I prefer a gas stove. When it's on, it's on and when it's off, it's off.

We had gas stove and heat in Atlanta. There was no gas bill, it was included in the rent. Probably because the winters are relatively mild, or at least short.

I remember on unusually cold mornings going downstairs after getting ready for work and turning on the gas stove and opening the door all the way. It was nice and toasty while I made coffee. :D

Now, with this electric stove, I sure as hell couldn't afford to do such a thing.
Besides, the electric oven w/ the door open would just turn into a small version of the Sun and burn the crap out of me if I got anywhere near it.

Not like the toasty, flowing warmth of gas flames.
 
I have a definite preference for gas in just about everything.

My home is heated by a natural gas furnace.

My clothes dryer, water heater, and stove are natural gas.

All of the pro-gas statements apply. When the electric power is interrupted, I still have hot water, and some heat (although the house does get somewhat cold because the blower on the furnace is electric). I can still cook without electricity. This was great when the electric power was off for a week following a severe ice storm many years ago. I was able to "tough it out" in my own home.

As a man who cooks a lot, I love to cook on a gas stove because it is what I know. My mother had a gas stove at home.

On the other hand, I also have an aunt who is an excellent cook, and she swears by her electric ranges. It's all a matter of preference, and what you either learned on, or got used to.....
 
for a dutch oven....there is nothing like gas....
 
Gas stove.
Or as you Brits would say, gas hob.
Or as you Yanks would say, gas range.

But gas every time.
 
Definitely prefer gas...pretty much for all the reasons previously stated.

I had a gas clothes dryer many years ago, and it turned out to be the best dryer I ever had. The clothes came out much softer and with far less wrinkles than with my current (and newer) electric dryer.

My niece has one of those ceramic top stoves. I thought it looked great and seemed like it would be a breeze to clean. On Thanksgiving I brought over a huge pot of green beans and the home-made turkey gravy for our gathering. I set them on the stove and turned the control to "medium". I turned around to visit with family and when I went back 5 minutes later to check on things, both pots were boiling over and running down the cabinets to the floor! I will never have one of those!!
 
Electric for cleaning, gas for cooking, fan-forced electric for ovens.

Gas hobs make it easy to flambe too.

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At first I thought this thread was about cars.

But I prefer gas. We have a gas stove at home. When I was in California, the stove was electric...and it DID take forever for everything :/
 
Gas all the way, you couldn't give me an electric cook top.
 
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