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If you try to do exactly what you were doing on the gas stove in the same way, you will have a bad time, but my and many other people's experience is that a dec
by topaz0 4y ago
If you try to do exactly what you were doing on the gas stove in the same way, you will have a bad time, but my and many other people's experience is that a decent electric stove is perfectly capable of making good food once you figure out how to use it. Electric stoves in general can heat faster than gas, and in my experience heat more evenly (no hot spots), so you don't need the crutch of a copper bottom to conduct that heat across the surface. It's certainly true that there are a lot of crappy cheap electric stoves out there that are not nice to cook with, but there are also plenty of crappy gas stoves that don't work well too. There's a ton of propaganda out there about how cooking with gas is better (much of it funded by the gas producers and distributors), but it doesn't hold up well under inspection.
You are right that most people in new york have gas, but new york is an outlier in that -- one of only five states that are majority gas. Most of Tucker Carlson's audience have electric stoves.
- annexrichmond 4y ago[flagged]
- topaz0 4y agoTo be clear, I used to believe the gas stove propaganda myself. I too, like GP, had the feeling that gas was self-evidently better than electric, and that it wasn't possible to have an argument about it. Then I tried being open-minded about it and found the arguments for electric (and my experiences, once I gave it a chance) to be very convincing.
- kelipso 4y ago[flagged]
- whiddershins 4y agoThe person you are responding to managed to work Tucker Carlson into the convo so obviously knows precisely what is propaganda and what is objective fact. All rational and educated modern chefs understand that copper bottom pans are just a crutch, because Mother Jones said so.
- whiddershins 4y agoIt’s not propaganda. I’ve cooked on all sorts of stoves. Electric is way worse than gas. It’s not even up for reasonable debate.
- topaz0 4y agoHere's some reading about how much propaganda there has been for gas in the last century or so: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-convinced-americans-to-love-gas-stoves/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/how-the-foss...
- kibwen 4y agoHave you used an induction stove before? It's better than gas, and it's not even close (and yes, I have a gas range). Note that induction is not the same thing as resistive.
- dmix 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoPlease don't cross into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html