chunkystyles , 9 months ago

This article was posted on another community yesterday. Most of the comments were about how awesome gas is and how crappy electric is.

In my adult life I’d always had electric stoves, and they were fine. Two years ago I bought a house with a gas stove and I was so excited because I love cooking and it’s supposed to be the best.

I fucking hated it. There’s so many cons to gas stoves that people never talk about and I don’t get it.

The waste heat is insane. Your pan and pot handles get hot. You can’t leave utensils in the pot or pan, they will burn. It directly heats and humidifies the air in your kitchen. It’s finicky on low heat and you can sometimes have a burner go out.

And these are just ways that gas sucks to use. I’m not even talking about health impacts.

We switched to induction and it’s definitely the best. But I’d rather have resistive electric than gas.

One benefit of electric and induction that’s a bit subtler: you can smell what you’re cooking better. With gas, there are all these hot gasses coming up around your pan that make smelling things hard.