I didnβt have a gas stove until I was in my late 40βs. I will not willingly go back to conventional electric. Gas stoves are better. Finer control, faster temp changes (esp. when decreasing).
Iβd be willing to try an induction stove. Theyβre rare in the US, but my limited experience with them was positive. Not quite as nice as a gas stove, but miles better than an conventional electric range, and good enough that the easier cleaning would tip me over.
You mention propeganda; itβs odd that the only propeganda I encounter is the anti-gas kind. Itβs non-stop on NPR and social media. I havenβt heard or read a single pro-gas piece.
Edit: I think you were only talking about induction, so I changed some phrasing.
Gas stoves are better. Finer control, faster temp changes (esp. when decreasing).
Gas stoves are better in some ways, but βfiner controlβ is debatable. If you turn the knob from 0 to 10, itβs obvious that the energy output is non-linear. On my stove the flame has like 50% of its increase between level 2 and 3 or 4. You also have a more narrow range of heat with gas. That is, the lowest setting has to be high enough that the flame does not blow out, so the min heat is higher than the min level on electric. Electric also gets hotter than gas on the high end.
With electric you get precise control. Power level 5 gives exactly half the heat energy that 10 gives; power level 6 is exactly triple the heat of power level 2. You donβt get that precision with gas. You can only eye-ball it which means harder to get reproduceable results.
You probably meant to say gas gives you /immediate/ control. Conventional electric is quite slow, but induction is fast.
Maybe itβs a brand or quality difference; I can pretty finely control the flame on our range.
βControlβ is the ability to adjust to a desired temp with fine accuracy, right? I can see the flame, and observe changes more rapidly, with gas. Isnβt this finer-grained control?
A common residential electric range outputs a max 7,000 BTUs. A common gas stove outputs max 18,000 BTUs. Electric stoves are not hotter on the high end.
βControlβ is the ability to adjust to a desired temp with fine accuracy, right? I can see the flame, and observe changes more rapidly, with gas. Isnβt this finer-grained control?
Youβre eye-balling it, so you have good control over what your eyeball sees, but then that mental image has to lead to a judgement. Imagine if you were doing a scientific experiment where you need reproducible results and the amount of heat energy were important to the experiment. Would you write in the scientific paper βthe flame looked like about 1cm with each sample testedβ? You could meter the gas but the heat losses are higher as the flame grows because youβre heating increasingly more of the air around the pan.
A common residential electric range outputs a max 7,000 BTUs. A common gas stove outputs max 18,000 BTUs. Electric stoves are not hotter on the high end.
Gas stoves probably lose half their energy by heating the air all around the pot so you have to account for that. With electric much more of the BTUs actually make it to the food (esp. induction). When I search around, articles out in the wild are all over the placeβ¦ some saying electric coils get hotter than gas and some saying the contrary. One article concurs with you, saying a gas burner reaches 1950Β°C and electric 900Β°C. I donβt see any articles mentioning electric burners that get into the four figures among those that actually give temperature figures so perhaps youβre right. But itβs worth noting that a pot of water boils faster on electric than gas.
I havenβt heard or read a single pro-gas piece.
Right-wing media apparently. Not American, but from what I gather if you watch NPR, youβre a communist and a homosexual. So that means you wonβt be watching real American media like Fox News.
Stuff like this from a member of congress:
βIβll NEVER give up my gas stove. If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!β
https://twitter.com/RonnyJacksonTX/status/1612839703018934274?t=ptxUxaAhqE1ax8FwY15cyA
GF was a professional cook for 15 years, still prefers our induction stove to the gas stoves she worked on all this time.
Yeah, I can believe I could learn to prefer induction. Theyβre just incredibly rare in residential US homes, which is where I live, and what the article was about.
The only place Iβve encountered an induction stove was in the EU, where - I gather - theyβre more common.
This here shows where the propaganda appears: