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> What does that mean?! No gas range?! Please, god, no. Serious question: why is that a problem? Most modern apartment buildings here in Warsaw, Poland are bu
by jwr 9y ago
> What does that mean?! No gas range?! Please, god, no.
Serious question: why is that a problem?
Most modern apartment buildings here in Warsaw, Poland are built without gas. Nobody has problems with it: in fact, people would rather not have a potentially dangerous gas infrastructure in their building. I've been cooking on electric for more than 10 years now and would never think of switching back.
Why would you want to have gas?
- astebbin 9y agoGas allows for more precise and responsive heat control per burner. To the average homeowner, this doesn’t make much of a difference, but I understand it to be of great importance for professional chefs and passionate hobbyists.
- zaarn 9y agoI'm not sure on that. Our electric heating can control the heating very precisely and hold the boiler at a specific temperature within the tolerance of the temperature gauge. The heatpump and gas burner that are external are much different beasts as they require some windups and unlike a solid heating rod you can't flip them on and off rather rapidly (about once every 5 minutes). An induction heater should also be able to heat a pot much more precisely than a gas burner (again down to instrument precision if it has one)
- asah 9y agoI cook 2-3 times per day: electric/induction isn't even close to gas. I even get annoyed by less powerful gas. FYI this is a common sentiment among people who cook. I'm not some master chef or anything and don't get excited by $5000 appliances. Has is simply better. I'd sooner consider moving to a house without heat, A/C, parking etc - than one without gas (and if fact have). Even broadband can usually be added for enough money. But gas stoves are really hard to retrofit, and camp stoves are ghetto and unstable/dangerous esp with heavy dishes.
- ghaff 9y agoI actually had propane put in for my stovetop during a remodel a while back. I much prefer cooking on a good gas stovetop. More responsive and more high end output.
- Eric_WVGG 9y agoElectric ranges are indeed a joke to any semi-serious chef... right up until the relatively recent advent of inductive ranges. While still rare in the US, they are attainable, and really cool. Er, hot.
- posterboy 9y ago> Please, god, no. Won't anyone think of the passionate hobbyists... Professiinals not withstanding, this seems involuntarily comical.
- walshemj 9y agoFrom experience in the UK Its a lot better cost wise for heating etc - the reason developers and landlords like all electric is they can save on having to properly have the gas equipment inspected
- cmrdporcupine 9y agoIt's better cost wise for heating for now. Gas prices have been at a historic low for the last decade or two. That doesn't mean it will stay that way. And it emits CO2. In areas with cheap and clean electric heat (like, say, Quebec with its massive hydroelectric sources and relatively cheap electricity) electric heat really isn't bad at all. And it's potentially more future proof for the addition of renewable electricity sources later.
- walshemj 9y agoUp to a point Lord Copper - I live in a UK country who's highest point is 200 ft above sea-level - so well just drown all those valleys in Scotland and Wales for hydro them.