carrylex@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Uhm who buys gas stoves anymore in the first place? Electric stoves are cleaner, more efficient (e.g. induction cooking) and don’t cause random house explosions.
Is this an US only thing because gas is so cheap there?
I have a very naive question that I’m hoping somebody can help with
Are there electric stoves that maintain temperature? Mine just turns on and off at different rates, so it can be difficult to work with
That’s the only reason I would want a gas stove. A gas oven would drive me crazy for like 5 different reasons
Are there electric stoves that maintain temperature? Mine just turns on and off at different rates, so it can be difficult to work with
That’s the my only gripe with electrical stoves. There many good reasons against gas stoves but keeping a steady temperature and cooking with woks are nearly impossible on any other kind of stove I know.
Yes, there are induction stoves.
These use magnets (how do they even work?) to heat the pan directly, instead of heating an element which then conducts heat into the pan. Since they don’t rely on resistive heating, they can actually be controlled in a much more precise manner. Maybe under the hood this actually involves cycling of the heat, but the result is something that for all intents and purposes “maintains temperature” You can only use pans made of certain metals, which is the main drawback besides expense. No aluminum
I think it’s only really old stoves that have gas ovens (at least around here). In these you’d put in a metal sheet or a brick to regulate heat. Newer gas stoves come with electric ovens. Electric cookers are okay, but you have to cook with them five minutes in the future. And induction ones seemed too quantized to me, like they switch on and off all the time
I think any modern stove will work that way.
Something that helps mitigate it is using pots and pans with more thermal mass. Cast iron is great for that. I know not everybody wants to deal with it so really any pots or pans that are on the thicker side will be better.
I notice it a lot more when I’m forced to use the dirt cheap thin non stick pans.
Having a gas stove myself I can tell you there are only 2 temperatures to hot and way to hot. There is no low and medium so what you will end up doing is cycling the heat in and off yourself all the time.
Further there are many different electric stoves. From the old just an electric heater over infrared based to induction based. Due to having a lot of different homes in my life I have cooked with everything and all electric stoves are way easier and maintain heat way better than a gas stove and you can have low and medium heat.
My gas stove has one really big burner for when you need extra heat, and one really small burner for super low heat. It’s pretty nifty.
Being cheap is a big part of it.
But also, gas is a superior cooking medium to any but the most high quality electric cooktops. Gas is instantly responsive, whereas induction heating elements take time to cool off and heat up.
When I was younger living in apartments, I had some really shitty electric stoves. Terrible consistency, hotspots, took forever to heat up and stayed hot for ages.
In vancouver people love them even though gas is expensive as fuck here. I have a single portable burner that can use cans or hose connect to gas plumbing that I use once every two years to cook with a wok but other than that even my electric coil stove is preferred but I miss the induction stove from my old place and the absolute sorcery that it was.
Oh yeah, just remembered the US has the issue with their 110v, not the best for a stove and they may need to run new cables and stuff to support one or have to have a built in battery in the stove.
technology connections has two great videos on the topic youtu.be/CVLLNjSLJTQ
I think it’s pretty common to have 240v outlets in the kitchen for exactly this reason. Same with electric clothes dryers.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If you search on the internet there is a whole ass culture war for keeping the gas stoves alive by the fossil fuel industry