chapotraphouse

My partner insisted on a gas stove despite my protests in our last two places because of the "control". The few times we used electric or induction cookers on vacation she would get really frustrated.

Cut to our current place that just came with an electric cooker with no option for gas. A few months in and she's got no complaints and even comments on how it's not that different once you get used to it.

The learning curve is real, and some people will push back at first, but if forced to, I'm pretty sure every single person can figure out cooking just as well with electric.

okay but how else am I supposed to light my ciggies or feel like a chef

I use an induction stove top. It gets hot faster than gas.

I rly wanna get an induction hob but costs money :(

Also wanna get rid of my gas boiler but also costs money :(

UK homes suck gas everything. I love needing to have a carbon monoxide alarm in my home for pointless fossil fuel shit

idk I gotta say I have no scientific basis for this but there's just something that feels different about cooking on an open flame.

Like for example I just could not imagine cooking with a wok or making kebabs on anything but actual fire.

Gas stoves never really got popular where I live. Been cooking on a electric stove all my life, not induction. Have had to use a gas stove in cabin conditions and the chance of accidentally leaving the gas on and such always freaks me out. Also I dislike having to fiddle with the flame, electric is far more predictable.

Have raised a family aka cooked a lot for a few decades with an old school electric stove just fine, have also worked in kitchens and bakeries that had similar stoves. Very much a cooking person myself.

I think it's just what you get used to.

I open with a "who need they Chamussy ate" joke and y'all turn it into a struggle session, shaking my smdh.

It's a tiny bit treat-brained to want a methane pipe going into each individual housing unit for greater ease in small-batch cooking. But if a gas stove is really what you want, I don't see why that can't be solved with

methane and methane accessories.

I prefer gas, apparently that choice wasn't as independent as I thought

so there's a chef...

named "Chamussy"...

talking about flexibility...

It was impossible to sear on my old electric stove. If there was a way to have controllable fire heat without gas, I'd use it.

Really wish I could get a half gas half induction cooktop. They both have their pros and cons. However the pollution con of gas can be remedied with proper ventilation

I've had both over the last few years, and while the cooking experience is not all that different tbh, the one thing that bugs me about my current glass-top electric stove is that the surface is so flat that my ever-so-slightly warped carbon steel pan doesn't sit flat and rocks all over the place and doesn't heat evenly. I've basically been unable to use it since moving here, and it's my favorite pan. :(

But if I had my choice, I'd ofc go induction, but between the other two I'd still go electric, just for the fumes alone. But I'll probably be way less hot on the idea of glass-tops in the future, that's for sure.

I've never used induction, is it that bad?

they won me over 🥹