I’m not sure why the love of gas for stoves. (don’t cook breakfast wearing a bathrobe with big sleeves :eek:)
Electric stove, natural gas for the water heater & furnace and a propane BBQ.
I find them much more simple and intuitive - no buttons or digital readouts, just a big dial. You can change the heat level on them much faster than any electric stove I’ve seen.
Plus, I think they’re safer on a psychological level. We instinctively keep our hands away from fire, but not from glowing circles.
I grew up with an electric/electric system. I have zero experience with gas for cooking, except every so often on a grill. To be honest, gas appliances scare me because I’m not used to them. I don’t like the idea of gas or flames in the house.
I got a new stove not too long after I moved in. There’s a gas line by the stove but I had them cap it. Not interested.
Both gas here, in California, in a house built in the 1970s. I was a little scared of having gas appliances at first, since every I’d ever lived before had mainly electric.* I even bought a combination carbon monoxide / explosive gas detector because I feared gas leaks. But I eventually got used to gas appliances. And I got rid if the gas detector due to too many false alarms – any time I cooked anything with alcohol in it, like a sauce with wine in it, the alcohol vapors would set it off. (I did replace it with a regular CO alarm).
A few towns in California have actually banned gas appliances in new buildings, on the grounds that they increase air pollution more than electric ones. I had always thought it was the other way around, that burning gas for heat was more efficient than burning it to generate electricity, and then turn the electricity back into heat. But apparently California’s electric generation is clean enough now that electricity is actually the less polluting option.
*Two apartments I lived in in California had gas water heaters but everything else electric. I thought that seemed strange. If they were going to run a gas line to the building anyway then why not use it for heat and cooking too?
We’re electric/electric in Colorado.
I just remodeled the kitchen and decided not to put gas in even though it would only be a 10’ run or so. We’re at 7,500’ and gas just doesn’t perform as well up here. we lose 22% of the BTUs just due to elevation.
Gas/gas, but with a Ninja oven on the counter (electric.) Best of both worlds.
Because the heat is immediate. Turn it on and you have instant heat. Once your cooking starts to boil, turn it down and you can instantly adjust it to simmer. An electric stove doesn’t have anything like that level of control unless it is a induction cooktop, but I don’t think that’s what the OP was referring to.
Personally I have a gas stove and an electric oven but would prefer an induction stove.
Edit: If the flames are coming up the sides of the pot so your bathrobe catches fire, you aren’t doing it right.
Electric/electric here. Far north of Australia.
The apartment complex we moved into doesn’t have any gas appliances…it’s the ONLY thing that bugs me about living here. Much prefer gas stove top and oven.
My newish gas oven leaks a lot less heat than the electric oven I grew up with. Insulation has gotten a LOT better.
All electric. I believe gas and oil even for home heating will be outlawed in Quebec by 2030. Of course, we have loads of hydro power.
My son in Redmond has gas stove, electric oven and that is quite nice.
I have gas for both and used to think I’d never switch. But after using an induction stove and learning more about the environmental impact of gas stoves, I’ll gladly switch next time we remodel. Induction has all the advantages of gas with none of the disadvantages - very fine control, minimal time to heat, but easy to clean, no waste heat, and no hot surface or flame.
True for old-style electric, but not induction. Many restaurants use induction tops now.
In Australia: gas stove top and electric oven, all in one unit. I find each more convenient and easy to use than the alternative, so that’s what we chose when my wife and I renovated the kitchen. We have gas main supply here, but even away from gas mains, you can use LPG out of bottles, and that’s what my housemates and I chose about 50 years ago living away from gas mains. (One of my then housemates was even more enthusiastic about cooking in general, and cooking with gas, than me.)
Gas, gas. Convection and micro as well.
Electric/electric.
We had always had gas/gas, but when we moved to eastern Connecticut last year. almost every place we looked at was electric-only for cooking.
I’d still prefer gas, but to tell the truth, it actually didn’t take too long to get used to the electric cooktop.
Electric/electric in my current apartment. Most of my life I’ve had gas/gas but I can adapt. In many ways I prefer gas but electric isn’t a deal-breaker for me, although I am paranoid about how long the burners remain hot.
I wonder why gas/electric hybrids are more popular in Europe than in the United States, where they barely seem to exist.
I think you will find the opposite if you compare new gas to a new electric oven. Actually I feel the gas ovens now allow more exhaust then they used to (as I have always had gas till quite recently), maybe due to a CO concern, but maybe it’s model specific.
Had an apartment once with gas oven and gas stove. There was a ton of waste heat, and it made the place miserably hot in the summertime when cooking dinner. Plus the oven malfunctioned once and woofed my head with a good fireball when I opened the door; my hair started burning, but I managed to get it put out before it really got going.
Current house has electric oven and rangetop (stove). About a decade ago we replaced the conventional coil-burner rangetop with a smooth glass rangetop. So much easier to clean.
Whoa! Slow down there… not all of Quebec, just Montreal and not natural gas…yet, if ever.
The Mayor of the City of Montreal announced in May last year that she plans introduce a bylaw that would ban heating with oil by 2030 in the city proper only. It’s an effort to get Montreal closer to a carbon neutral footprint. She also indicated that this could translate into a ban on heating with gas by 2050 in future plans move away from fossil fuels.
AFAIK, she has not followed through with this plan (yet) and there are no details as to how and when this may take effect.
Our previous house had gas top/electric oven and we loved it. Unfortunately, due to venting and clearance issues in it’s current location, I could not (legally) install a gas top in our current house so we have an electric stove/oven right now. It sucks too because there is an extra outlet in the basement directly underneath.
If I ever do a major kitchen reconfiguration, I may correct this.
At the cottage, I have a old propane gas stove and oven. It still uses pilot light flames for all four burners and one in the oven. It makes me nervous so I turn off the gas whenever we’re not there. One day I’ll replace it with piezoelectric igniters!