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I lived in China for a decade and never once saw an electric stove.

tptacek 3y ago
I've lived in Oak Park, IL for over a decade, shopping for houses several times, and have never seen an electric stove. What's your point? What's clearly the case is that homes in China do not generally have the ultra-powered gas wok burners that restaurants do, which is what people are talking about when they talk about what's distinctive about cooking on a wok.
- fsckboy 3y ago
  woks are round (hemispherical) on the bottom, gas is better for heating that shape
  - rayiner 3y ago
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  - tptacek 3y ago
    Not even that is true! This seems like another instance of people deriving every facet of their arguments from faulty first principles. There are bowl woks and flat-bottomed woks. We're not going to get anywhere discussing this issue if we can't even agree what a wok is.
    - fsckboy 3y ago
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- schrectacular 3y ago
  My point was that in my experience they are far less common in China than in the US, as you were claiming. I guess one of us could go look up stats bit given the cost of the item and the relative affluence of the countries I seriously doubt they are close. What was your point in bringing up that they were similarly ubiquitous in both places?
culturestate 3y ago
I lived in mainland China and Hong Kong for nearly a decade and had electric induction stoves in every apartment. Anecdotal evidence is, as ever, weak evidence.
- kenned3 3y ago
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  - justin66 3y ago
    > Here's the thing, one of you is lying and it is clear which one it is. Not helpful.
  - lobocinza 3y ago
    > and not a major metropolis Probably he lived in a major metropolis. AS NYC is a major metropolis I think his anectode illustrates better.
  - dang 3y ago
    Please make your substantive points without crossing into flamewar or personal attack. Those things are not what HN is for, and destroy what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Edit: we've had to ask you this more than once before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32655788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32655788 (Aug 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256585 (Aug 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23950934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23950934 (July 2020) Worse, it looks like you've been using HN primarily to post this kind of thing. Please stop! We have to ban accounts that do that and I don't want to ban you.
- schrectacular 3y ago
  Interesting. Maybe it's a north/south thing? I was in Beijing. Or maybe it was an affluence thing? I can totally imagine an indication stove being a status symbol. But they are far from ubiquitous and common in the country overall, of that I can assure you.

I've lived in Oak Park, IL for over a decade, shopping for houses several times, and have never seen an electric stove. What's your point? What's clearly the case is that homes in China do not generally have the ultra-powered gas wok burners that restaurants do, which is what people are talking about when they talk about what's distinctive about cooking on a wok.

fsckboy 3y ago
woks are round (hemispherical) on the bottom, gas is better for heating that shape
- rayiner 3y ago
  [flagged]
- tptacek 3y ago
  Not even that is true! This seems like another instance of people deriving every facet of their arguments from faulty first principles. There are bowl woks and flat-bottomed woks. We're not going to get anywhere discussing this issue if we can't even agree what a wok is.
  - fsckboy 3y ago
    [flagged]
schrectacular 3y ago
My point was that in my experience they are far less common in China than in the US, as you were claiming. I guess one of us could go look up stats bit given the cost of the item and the relative affluence of the countries I seriously doubt they are close. What was your point in bringing up that they were similarly ubiquitous in both places?

culturestate 3y ago

I lived in mainland China and Hong Kong for nearly a decade and had electric induction stoves in every apartment. Anecdotal evidence is, as ever, weak evidence.

kenned3 3y ago
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- justin66 3y ago
  > Here's the thing, one of you is lying and it is clear which one it is. Not helpful.
- lobocinza 3y ago
  > and not a major metropolis Probably he lived in a major metropolis. AS NYC is a major metropolis I think his anectode illustrates better.
- dang 3y ago
  Please make your substantive points without crossing into flamewar or personal attack. Those things are not what HN is for, and destroy what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Edit: we've had to ask you this more than once before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32655788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32655788 (Aug 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256585 (Aug 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23950934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23950934 (July 2020) Worse, it looks like you've been using HN primarily to post this kind of thing. Please stop! We have to ban accounts that do that and I don't want to ban you.
schrectacular 3y ago
Interesting. Maybe it's a north/south thing? I was in Beijing. Or maybe it was an affluence thing? I can totally imagine an indication stove being a status symbol. But they are far from ubiquitous and common in the country overall, of that I can assure you.