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I really wanted to try an induction range when we remodeled our kitchen a few years ago, but my wife wanted gas. I made a deal with her that if she didn't like

I really wanted to try an induction range when we remodeled our kitchen a few years ago, but my wife wanted gas. I made a deal with her that if she didn't like the inductive, I would bring in gas and get her a gas range. I really liked the idea of the range top being a flat, solid surface, and staying relatively cool, keeping spills from baking on and making cleanup ridiculously easy. My wife tends to run hot, temperature wise, and gas ranges throw off a lot of heat into the surrounding area. The inductive range heats amazingly fast, reacts as fast as her parents gas range, and I can boil a teapot, pull it off, and immediately put my hand on the "burner". It's hot, sure, but on a gas or resistive range I'd have to go to the ER. Some people put down paper towels under pots before cooking to make cleanup easier. Cleanup has lived up to my expectations, very easy. The resistive solid surface ranges still get very hot, and a friend with one talks about how hard it is to get baked and burnt on foods off. Now with all this talk about the combustion byproducts being problematic, I'm convinced this was definitely the right choice.

derbOac 6y ago
We moved into our house a couple of years ago. It had a nice gas range that we were pleased was in the home. When we moved in, we noticed this specific "gas particulate" smell throughout the house whenever we'd use the stove. It wasn't leaking gas, but rather this smell I associated with dirty burning or something. The other times I've smelled it have been in propane space heaters for outdoors. We replaced it with an induction range and have been completely happy with it. Heats amazingly fast, no burner to burn things, no emissions in the house, we love it. I never want to own another kind of range again.
- wasdfff 6y ago
  That smell is typical with a gas range. You are supposed to run it with the vent hood on to prevent that.
  - derbOac 6y ago
    Interesting. There is a range vent hood but we could still smell it throughout the house (or at least most of it). Also, I've lived in several other places with gas ranges and never encountered that before. Maybe it was just worse with that range?
    - linsomniac 6y ago
      A friend of mine works at an architectural energy firm, and he says it's very important in designs that airflow tends towards the kitchen rather than away. They do mostly commercial, but I could see it applying to residential as well, and sounds like that situation has, even with the vent hood on, the airflow "upside down". When I was remodeling our kitchen we went with a over range microwave because there really wasn't anywhere else to put it. Those are known for fairly poor airflow. We got a KitchenAid with some of the best available airflow, 440CFM IIRC, but stand alone hoods can do much better. I still have a todo of replacing the roof vent with a larger one, so there's probably still some restriction in there that's slowing us down. You might want to look for similar.

derbOac 6y ago

We moved into our house a couple of years ago. It had a nice gas range that we were pleased was in the home. When we moved in, we noticed this specific "gas particulate" smell throughout the house whenever we'd use the stove. It wasn't leaking gas, but rather this smell I associated with dirty burning or something. The other times I've smelled it have been in propane space heaters for outdoors. We replaced it with an induction range and have been completely happy with it. Heats amazingly fast, no burner to burn things, no emissions in the house, we love it. I never want to own another kind of range again.

wasdfff 6y ago
That smell is typical with a gas range. You are supposed to run it with the vent hood on to prevent that.
- derbOac 6y ago
  Interesting. There is a range vent hood but we could still smell it throughout the house (or at least most of it). Also, I've lived in several other places with gas ranges and never encountered that before. Maybe it was just worse with that range?
  - linsomniac 6y ago
    A friend of mine works at an architectural energy firm, and he says it's very important in designs that airflow tends towards the kitchen rather than away. They do mostly commercial, but I could see it applying to residential as well, and sounds like that situation has, even with the vent hood on, the airflow "upside down". When I was remodeling our kitchen we went with a over range microwave because there really wasn't anywhere else to put it. Those are known for fairly poor airflow. We got a KitchenAid with some of the best available airflow, 440CFM IIRC, but stand alone hoods can do much better. I still have a todo of replacing the roof vent with a larger one, so there's probably still some restriction in there that's slowing us down. You might want to look for similar.