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My thoughts are that a lot of us prefer the type of cooking we grew up with because that's what we're familiar with and used to.. I grew up with electric and when we lived in a place with gas, I burned a lot of food because I was used to a delay in the burner getting hot, whereas gas is instantaneous. You definitely need to adapt your cooking style! Since then, we've built 3 homes and I always opted for electric, even when we had natural gas in the house.
While I love my current electric cooktop, the upkeep is brutal, as it has a glossy, almost mirror finish. I personally found the gas burners a bear to keep looking clean and have always been a little nervous with gas. Love my electric ovens with convection.
I had electric goring up and in the first several places I rented. Then we rented a place with a gas stove and was sold. OUr next rental had electric and I did nto like it anymore, then when we bought our first house, it also had electric. As soon as practical I crawled under the house and put in gas lines o switch to gas.
OTOH electric ovens are considerably better. Gas ovens do not brown things well and they produce excessive moisture. THe ideal is a gas stove with an electric oven. A convection oven is even better.
An acquaintance stepped away from the fry pan to take a brief phone call, the pan caught fire, the house burned down. She was preparing a holiday meal. Some holiday.
Someone recently just died in my area from lighting himself on fire with gas -- not sure how it happened but he was 26 and the assumption is that he caught his clothing on the flame.
If you've never heard of a gas explosion, you've been pretty sheltered.
Neither of those ad anything to do with the stove. Most gas explosions have to do with the municipal lines that run through a property. That means that you may not even have gas lines in your house, but you can still be victim to a gas explosion.
I can cook on either gas or electric with no trouble. Electric is cleaner, but gas gives you more variation in heat. I don't have a strong preference. Would like to experience an induction stove.
I grew up with gas ranges and I remember the flame bursting out whenever you turned it on. I've always viewed gas as being unsafe.
The gas cooktop we have now does that same thing with one of the burners.
I don't like gas and would have preferred electric, but that's what came with the house.
You can arrange to get rid of the gas stove (assuming you own the house) and put in an electric one. It involves closing off the gas line to the stove, then putting a plug in that can handle the needs of the electric stove.
Neither of those ad anything to do with the stove. Most gas explosions have to do with the municipal lines that run through a property. That means that you may not even have gas lines in your house, but you can still be victim to a gas explosion.
Electrical fires happen all the time too.
So what if it's the line or the stove? If you have gas, you have the possibility of an explosion. And electrical fires are easier to put out. They don't usually take down an entire city block. I don't HAVE a gas line, so I wont HAVE an explosion taking out my neighborhood.
The point was, the person I was responding to had never heard of it. Which is just silly in this day and age.
So what if it's the line or the stove? If you have gas, you have the possibility of an explosion. And electrical fires are easier to put out. They don't usually take down an entire city block. I don't HAVE a gas line, so I wont HAVE an explosion taking out my neighborhood.
The point was, the person I was responding to had never heard of it. Which is just silly in this day and age.
My point was eve if you DON'T have gas in your house, you can still be victim of a gas explosion. The municipal lines run underground even if they don't run to your house.
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