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Old 05-19-2014, 05:41 PM
 
Location: North Texas
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Gas fumes are really bad for you. Just buy a new electric stove as the elements are brand new and won't take as long to heat up as your old ones.
Wow. All of this is so, so wrong.
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Old 05-19-2014, 09:49 PM
 
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Piling on, but...if you and/or wife REALLY want gas, you'll have to move. "Gas range" was a HUGE issue for us in choosing a home, FWIW. It's not just "heats up faster", it's also "when it's off, it's OFF" unlike traditional electric which takes forever to cool down.

Now, if it's only about cooking and moving isn't a realistic option, then, as other posters have noted, you could consider induction. Induction ranges are far more common in many other countries, you can read about them here, among other places: Induction cooking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The ten second summary - induction cooking uses a magnetic field to cause the cooking vessel itself to heat up. One advantage is that it reduces the danger of burns since the cooktop itself doesn't heat up (other than heat transferred from the hot cooking vessel), it has the same "instant response" of gas, and is IIRC very efficient. Drawbacks are that you are generally limited to using only cookware that a magnet would stick to (stainless steel and cast iron, for example, no anodized aluminum) and if you ever put a sheet of aluminum foil over an induction cooktop and turn it on by accident, you'll have a huge mess.

I'll also note that even if you had a gas line coming to your house, unless your kitchen is "plumbed for gas" already running a new gas line into the kitchen is a major PITA if your house is on a slab, as most are in DFW (BigDGeek is fortunate to live in one of the limited areas where pier&beam is more common).

Good luck.

(PS to BigDGeek - what would your dream gas range be? Thermador, Wolf, Viking, Dacor?

One of my best friends is a plumber, he runs gas lines through attics and down interior walls all the time. Nearly all slab homes with gas have gas lines in the attic not in or under the slab.
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Old 05-19-2014, 09:55 PM
 
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Gas fumes are really bad for you. Just buy a new electric stove as the elements are brand new and won't take as long to heat up as your old ones.
Errr what? A properly functioning natural gas stove (CH4) gives of a triffle CO and water vapor. BTW blue flames = good, yellow = bad.
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Old 05-19-2014, 10:14 PM
 
Location: Southlake. Don't judge me.
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One of my best friends is a plumber, he runs gas lines through attics and down interior walls all the time. Nearly all slab homes with gas have gas lines in the attic not in or under the slab.
And if the cooktop is on an island, as it was at several of the homes I looked at...??
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Old 05-19-2014, 10:38 PM
 
Location: Southlake. Don't judge me.
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Errr what? A properly functioning natural gas stove (CH4) gives of a triffle CO and water vapor. BTW blue flames = good, yellow = bad.
Yeah, that post was one of those "err..WHAT?" sort of things.
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Old 05-19-2014, 10:50 PM
 
Location: Funky town
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Gas fumes are really bad for you. Just buy a new electric stove as the elements are brand new and won't take as long to heat up as your old ones.
You are kidding, right?!!!!
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Old 05-19-2014, 11:24 PM
 
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And if the cooktop is on an island, as it was at several of the homes I looked at...??
More or less game over.
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Old 05-20-2014, 12:43 AM
 
Location: Earth
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I should of been more clear and quoted the OP but my opinion is the same. "Wifey" could use a new stove and propane is not a good alternative for cooking inside. I think it's already been said anyway.

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Old 05-20-2014, 06:31 AM
 
Location: Colleyville
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And if the cooktop is on an island, as it was at several of the homes I looked at...??
I would say if the cooktop is on an island, it depends what your budget and threshold are for a kitchen remodel rather than just switching out appliances The market being what it is right now, I can't cross a home off my list if it checks all the other boxes for something that can be remodeled *fairly* easily. That being said, if it was a total impossibility to run gas lines, we would pass on the house. that's my .02 as someone who just had this discussion with our realtor yesterday
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