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After using gas, for both cooktop and oven, my entire life I am convinced that an electric oven and gas cooktop is the way to go. Our house is all gas, but I just had a double electric oven installed in my rental property. It already has a gas cooktop.
I am now jealous of my own property! We will be moving back there within the next few years and I am looking forward to it.
I agree! Baking is easier with an electric oven and I like gas stove tops better.
I'm stuck with an electric stove and I hate it. The oven is fine for baking but for regular cooking you can hardly adjust the temperature and it takes a long time to heat up. I'm always burning things because I can't really know how hot the burner is and there is that lag after you turn it down and it doesn't GO down. To heat water takes FOREVER.
The worst thing is this stupid glass top stove where you definitely can't tell hot how it is and the entire glass top heats up. This thing is dangerous. If a bit of paper falls on the glass top it starts to smoke. One time a tiny bit of saran wrap was on the glass top and it started melting and caught fire. The smoke detector goes off a lot in this kitchen.
I'm stuck with an electric stove and I hate it. The oven is fine for baking but for regular cooking you can hardly adjust the temperature and it takes a long time to heat up. I'm always burning things because I can't really know how hot the burner is and there is that lag after you turn it down and it doesn't GO down. To heat water takes FOREVER.
The worst thing is this stupid glass top stove where you definitely can't tell hot how it is and the entire glass top heats up. This thing is dangerous. If a bit of paper falls on the glass top it starts to smoke. One time a tiny bit of saran wrap was on the glass top and it started melting and caught fire. The smoke detector goes off a lot in this kitchen.
Look into electric induction stoves. The glass is cool enough to touch once you remove the pot.
Look into electric induction stoves. The glass is cool enough to touch once you remove the pot.
Indeed. There have been previous threads here about this. There are actually three different kinds of electric stoves with glass tops, each with different characteristics. Many pros consider the induction stove to be at least equal to, if not better than gas stoves, because they are so sensitive to fine adjustments, so fast to heat and cool down, etc.
Although I would prefer a gas cook top and an electric oven, we are stuck with all electric so we live with it. Our electric stove is a glass top one and I have learned to use it with ease. it is nothing like the ones I was raised with: the contols adjust quickly. I am not sure I would ever change, even if I do like gas. I think too many people remember the days when the electric stove tops were impossible to keep at a desired temp. Those days have past. My biggest problem is a stratched surface. It seems no matter how careful I am, I have left a few marks...
Look into electric induction stoves. The glass is cool enough to touch once you remove the pot.
i hated the electric that came with my house so i switched to induction after investigating the cost associated with running gas lines to the stove area. using induction is awesome; you get the benefits of electric like a smooth-top easy clean surface and the benefits of gas like quick temperature adjustments.
i could settle for gas, but "regular" electric -- no, never, ever, ever again.
Although I would prefer a gas cook top and an electric oven, we are stuck with all electric so we live with it. Our electric stove is a glass top one and I have learned to use it with ease. it is nothing like the ones I was raised with: the contols adjust quickly. I am not sure I would ever change, even if I do like gas. I think too many people remember the days when the electric stove tops were impossible to keep at a desired temp. Those days have past. My biggest problem is a stratched surface. It seems no matter how careful I am, I have left a few marks...
I agree. I love the electric stove I have now. It's a GE Profile stainless, and it has a real quality build to it - very hefty like the stoves of yesteryear but with modern technology. It has a small top oven that I use daily for toast, pizzas and small items, and a larger convection oven that I bake bread in. The glass top has a lot of burner options, and I have learned to use it for just about anything I want to make. It is only problematic for frying, but then I don't fry, if I do I have a small fryer for that.
Even if gas were an option, I would not change at this point. And induction is far over my budget and I am happy with what I have.
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