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I used gas for 20 years, then induction for 10.

Induction wins everywhere (reproducibility of heat, speed to heat, ease of cleaning...)

The only thing I miss a tiny bit from gas is the ability to tilt a pan to have oil gather in a puddle to deep fry something small.

Other than that everytime I use gas I long for induction.



I had induction for nearly a decade and am now back on gas. I miss the ease of cleaning that induction offers, and the efficiency for things like boiling water. [1]

But if you use woks or other vessels that do not entirely touch the stovetop surface, gas is better. I made fried rice the other day on my gas stove, and it was a completely different experience than induction. The sides of the wok just heat up so much more than with induction.

Of course, it's a huge pain to clean all the tiny grains of rice that drop onto the stovetop. I wish kitchens had dual stovetops, with maybe 2 gas burners and the rest induction. But I've never seen a home like that; even high-end homes have either a nice gas range or an induction ranges.

fun fact: Menlo Park recently outlawed gas for new constructions. I imagine most folks will go to induction, which has previously been relatively rare here.

1: https://www.pcrichard.com/library/blogArticle/induction-vs-g...


Bosch for example has a modular system where you can mix and match technologies. They have a 6 kW gas burner available in it [1] which can be matched up with a nice induction top [2].

[1] https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/PRA326B70E [2] https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/PXY675DE3E


I have had the opposite experience with speed to heat.

I also like the ability to modulate heat very quickly by raising, lowering, or tilting the pan.


I've had direct on coil and behind glass induction, and vastly prefer gas. I get way more heat, like far too much at max, on the gas stove, which is a good thing because I can actually control the level of heat output, rather than just the length of the oscillations between on/off on the induction stove. I have a few steel pans and a few cast irons, and for all of them the gas stove heats more evenly, offers finer control of the heat level, and can reach a much higher heat faster than any of the three induction stoves I've had the pleasure of renting over the years, some brand new. Gas ovens are better too, all the electric ovens I've had ran cold relative to the indicated temp, which meant changing cooking times and temps, and had a pretty embarrassing broil setting compared to what you have on gas (a proper inferno)

Sure, you have to take off the grates to clean, but after you spend those 10 seconds to remove the grates its no harder wiping crusted food off of a flat steel surface than a flat glass one.


Induction sucks at making you have reasonable utility bills though.


I don't know. I pay <50€ of electricity bills every month for an appartment and family of 4.

I do not remember paying much less before induction, but I do not remember.

This is not a big issue for me, though


+1 for induction. Gas heats up the handles pretty fast, too.


And not only handles, on a summer day the kitchen can become warm pretty fast when cooking with gas. Assuming no AC of course.




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