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I would be all for moving off gas-stoves, but can we acknowledge that the alternatives really suck if you like cooking ? I want to be part of the s
by screye 4y ago
I would be all for moving off gas-stoves, but can we acknowledge that the alternatives really suck if you like cooking ?
I want to be part of the solution, so here are few things that alternatives need to figure out before I move off gas:
Easy problems:
1. No more cycling-induction/electric stoves. I do not want my food alternating between burning & sitting around.
2. A power setting where low-to-medium aren't only kind of burning your food.
3. Off means off. I don't want my food cooking for 5 more minutes after I turn the stove off.
4. Kitchen ranges having high quality broilers to make up for the lack of a charring mechanism on alternative ranges.
Hard problems:
1. Being able to change the shape of the surface element to trace the shape of the pan. I cook with a wok, and all non-gas-ranges only heat the very center. If I can use a wok to fix the shape of the coil into a bowl, then I can ensure even heating even in a wok. (It's a spring coil, the shape should be mechanically adjustable).
2. Can the good ones be competitive on prices with top gas ranges ?
I really dislike electric stoves, they have the worst of all worlds. Induction stoves: I could live with, but the good ones are too expensive to be a reasonable alternative for most people. There are additional good reasons to switch as seen from this[1] video.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54
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Final caveat for tropical countries. Here, windows are always open. Houses often lack a gas connection, and instead have a gas-cylinder supplied to the house. So the pollution & removal-of-gas benefits do not apply.
The cooking culture often relies on instantaneous fire to give certain staple flavors. They rely on curved pot shapes for cooking techniques & and the price differentials hurt a lot more when you're a poor country.
Gas stoves sound a lot less evil in these tropical circumstances and this is the region where a majority of the world's population lives.
- alliao 4y agototally, given good sensor and control it's achievable. I've seen commercial grade equipment for wok (shaped) and even claypot (they really need to make a 220v one for where I am https://www.siroca.co.jp/product/kamadosandenki/ https://www.siroca.co.jp/product/kamadosandenki/ ) hmm a bed of magnets to hug the bottom of pans with flexible induction coils beneath would work, and to clean just pop the magnetic layer into dishwasher time for a kickstarter?