Electric or Gas hob?

[Wilson]

That sounds really rubbish; jam doesn't even get that hot and if it won't reach setting point for jam it would never get a pot of oil hot enough to crisp a chip.

(note to self: check that proposed high-tech induction hob doesn't have same stupid feature)

i thought you had to have special induction hob saucepans for the induction hobs, maybe i got told wrong..

anyway gas is the best

 

[girasol]

I've had to light cigarrettes off electric hobs, it took forever, by the time it got lit I didn't feel like smoking anymore (as if , but you know what I mean, I lost the will to live I had to wait for so long).

I don't like electric hobs/ovens - I'm not entirely sure why, I even got into my head that food tasted with gas fire tastes better. Don't know if it's a true fact or just a myth though.

 

[RaverDrew]

electric because I can't stand the smell of gas

 

[trashpony]

Gas. Or it would be if I could find some fucker to fit the bloody thing

 

[fortyplus]

i thought you had to have special induction hob saucepans for the induction hobs, maybe i got told wrong..

anyway gas is the best

they have to be magnetic, so aluminium or copper won't work but stainless steel and iron will apparently. so long as my black iron pans work.

 

[kittyP]

Only gas!! Hate electric hobs!

You can only control the temperature of your cooking with gas. Electric takes too long to adjust to the setting you have changed it to and by that time you have often ruined what you are cooking.

Pah!

 

[Xanadu]

I feel exactly the same about gas and electric as I do about playing the piano versus playing the guitar. With gas (and guitar) I feel like I'm interacting directly with the food I'm cooking (or sounds I'm playing), but with electric (and piano) I feel like there is this layer of abstraction dictating the actions between me and the food.

[/wanky weirdness]

 

[moose]

I voted for gas, but having just received a fucking massive utilities bill, I'll be cooking on a few burning twigs in the garden in future.

 

[Wilson]

they have to be magnetic, so aluminium or copper won't work but stainless steel and iron will apparently. so long as my black iron pans work.

oh i see, sounds good if its gonna be safer

 

[wiskey]

we've got a fucking induction touch screen cooker and i'm missing cooking on gas so much.

 

[wiskey]

i thought you had to have special induction hob saucepans for the induction hobs, maybe i got told wrong..

yes you do after we managed to work the touch screen we couldnt work out why it instantly turned itself off. we tried every pan we had and eventually the oldest one (the only original one from when i went to uni) worked.

so the next day we had to go to ikea and but new ones - which look EXACTLY the same as the old non-induction ikea ones we had so i keep having to tip stuff from the one that doesnt work to the one that does.

its pants. we had to buy a crap frying pan cos none of the decent ones we own work.

the landlords notes say 'use crueset' but picking the damn things up would do my back in.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Does anyone remember the gas ads with Raymond Blanc back in the late 80s? "It's ze controllable eat ov gaz".

He's right, it's gas all the way.

 

[Wilson]

what i suggest you do is paint the handles on the non-induction saucepans so you dont get them mixed up, either that or recycle them

 

[wiskey]

what i suggest you do is paint the handles on the non-induction saucepans so you dont get them mixed up, either that or recycle them

we've sorted out a system

sort of

 

[pembrokestephen]

Gas. Or it would be if I could find some fucker to fit the bloody thing

New hob? Replacing old hob?

If so, it's a bayonet fitting, not much different from changing a light bulb. The gas people will tell you it's rocket science, only harder because it's more like decommissioning a nuclear power station while on roller skates, but that's more about business development than customer service...

 

[cybertect]

Gas every time. Suffered with an electric hob for three years in our last place and I never want to repeat the experience.

ANYONE WHO LIGHTS A FAG OFF MY HOB, LET ALONE IN MY KITCHEN WILL BE SHOT!

You have working hobs round the house that aren't in your kitchen?

 

[Roadkill]

Electric.

I'm singularly unimpressed with the gas hob in my place in London. It's too bloody fierce. Even using the smallest ring on the lowest setting you can barely simmer anything without it boiling its head off, and the bigger rings ... well Plus, I thought gas hobs were meant to be much more capable of fine adjustment than electric ones. Mine isn't: it's either a raging inferno or it's not on at all.

Even my old crappy six-power-setting electric cooker was better.

 

[EastEnder]

Electric.

I'm singularly unimpressed with the gas hob in my place in London. It's too bloody fierce. Even using the smallest ring on the lowest setting you can barely simmer anything without it boiling its head off, and the bigger rings ... well Plus, I thought gas hobs were meant to be much more capable of fine adjustment than electric ones. Mine isn't: it's either a raging inferno or it's not on at all.

Even my old crappy six-power-setting electric cooker was better.

Wuss.

Gas = fire = manly = hear me roar <beats chest>

You're a big girl.

 

[Cobbles]

gas, obviously.

are there any good reasons to have an electric one?

The only reason not to have a gas hob is if there's no supply to the property......

THE worst implement is the "incandescent" electric hob - I haven't got round to chucking mine out yet (not my choice it was in the kitchen when I moved in) and it's hopeless - slow to heat up and virtually uncontrollable.

 

[fortyplus]

when it comes to real cooking, you can't beat wood. Just not terribly practical in London as you need half a forest every day. And you have to sit by the fire feeding it wood while the spit turns and basting it all the time, and timing is entirely hit and miss so dinner is served when it's ready. But it was the best roast chicken I've ever eaten.

 

[Roadkill]

Wuss.

Gas = fire = manly = hear me roar <beats chest>

You're a big girl.

I must be.

I don't like my soup or baked beans to start boiling furiously in the time it takes me to get some toast ready.

 

[wiskey]

lol you just need a better toaster roadie