Gas or electric cooker - which do you prefer?

I've learned to adjust so when I turn the stove off the potatoes aren't done but when I get them later they are... 👍

Edit: It's a power thing. The longer I leave the stove on the more I have to run the AC to cool it off; depending on the season of course.... 🤑
 
I used to always say I wanted electric ovens and gas cooktops, but now I find that I prefer the electric cooktop as well.

I use it like an Aga - if I need to rapidly go from boiling to simmering, I set the pot over one burner and set it to high, and just when it’s about to boil, I set a second burner to medium, and when I need the pot to stop boiling, I just slide it over to the medium burner, then turn the high one off and finish cooking there.

It’s a rare day I’m ever using more than two burners, so I always have two to spare, and if I need to simmer something for a long time…into the oven at a medium temp (around 300F seems to work) to finish simmering in there.
 
karadekoolaid said:
There's no control with electric. You can turn it down and it takes 5 minutes. You can turn it off, and it still takes 5 minutes.
Well, nothing to be done because that's what I've got. I just pull stuff off the hob when I don't need the heat.
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What sort of electric? Only asking because the induction hob I’m using (with it’s annoying 🤬beeping noises) is very responsive compared to the electric hot plate/ring things on my student oven many years ago.
 
karadekoolaid said:
220 volts. No induction hob here (yet), but it might be a good idea to invest in one.
Course, that would also mean buying the adequate cookwear as well...
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I was surprised how many of my pans were already compatible, yours might be too?!

They can also be surprisingly inexpensive. Ikeas are bargain prices and the nice Bosch one the kitchen fitters put in my son’s place was £280.

They also said they’re much of a muchness but I don’t know how true that is 🤷‍♀️
 
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Okay, I'm the guy/engineer that bought the induction hob and then proceeded to immediately take the cover and dead front off my electrical panel. That means I've access to main wires/bus coming in and all "electrically hot" connections distributing power in the house. "Don't try this at home folks!"

So, proceeded with an out of the tap pot of measured water and turned it on full and started a timer also having a thermometer in the pot. BP for water in that place, Nevada, was 208°F. Went to the panel and with my electrical meter measured the amps in the circuit. Did the same thing, after cooling the pot, with the resistance burner and found the induction hob to be twice as effective as contemporary means. Done... 🤑
 
Barriehie said:
Okay, I'm the guy/engineer that bought the induction hob and then proceeded to immediately take the cover and dead front off my electrical panel. That means I've access to main wires/bus coming in and all "electrically hot" connections distributing power in the house. "Don't try this at home folks!"

So, proceeded with an out of the tap pot of measured water and turned it on full and started a timer also having a thermometer in the pot. BP for water in that place, Nevada, was 208°F. Went to the panel and with my electrical meter measured the amps in the circuit. Did the same thing, after cooling the pot, with the resistance burner and found the induction hob to be twice as effective as contemporary means. Done... 🤑
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So in English it done good 😂
 
I lived for a year in an apartment that was all electric. I loved that each room had a built-in (wall) electric heater. So I only heated the room that I was in at the time. BUT cooking stunk! Hated electric stove/oven.
 
Gas, big bottles.
These days you can get them at a lot of petrol stations. They are returnables.
I run on solar and no other power source (plus the country has big power problems with some areas only getting 3 hours of power every day)
Oven is on gas as well.
I would prefer electric for the oven, but it's no option.

Cooking is gas, wood and charcoal
 
I had propane tanks for years before my community got natural gas lines installed. I HATED propane. To dang expensive, had to monitor all my cooking, and hot water to be sure to reorder/fill tiny tanks before they ran out. It felt like I had two space shuttle tanks next to my house waiting to explode.
 
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msmofet said:
I had propane tanks for years before my community got natural gas lines installed. I HATED propane. To dang expensive, had to monitor all my cooking, and hot water to be sure to reorder/fill tiny tanks before they ran out. It felt like I had two space shuttle tanks next to my house waiting to explode.
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Propane is fairly popular here - this area, the default is all-electric, so people will have a propane tank installed for an alternate heat source and for a gas cooktop sometimes.

It’s funny how some years, electric is dirt cheap and gas is expensive, then it’s fuel oil that’s cheap and electric is too costly, then it changes again.
 
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