And you have just discovered the endgame of the elitist architects of the collapse of Western Civilization.
Gas or Electric??
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And you have just discovered the endgame of the elitist architects of the collapse of Western Civilization.
Ask any professional chef (which I did as my wife is one), watch any cooking show and they all use gas. Gas stoves are the 1911 of the cooking world.
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Previous owner of our house was a Com Ed (Commonwealth Edison) exec, so the house was all electric.
Aside from keeping the nice 200A service drop , I've pulled all the electric appliances out and it's now Gas heat, Gas dryer and Gas stove. Wife, who did some commercial cooking in her younger years, can't stand electric.
Our stove is a 1950's Roper with pilot lights (my grandma's). Works great. Oven and broiler are match lighted. I hate electric ignition. Snap. snap. snap.
Commercial stoves are still pilot ignition IIRC.
Aside from keeping the nice 200A service drop , I've pulled all the electric appliances out and it's now Gas heat, Gas dryer and Gas stove. Wife, who did some commercial cooking in her younger years, can't stand electric.
Our stove is a 1950's Roper with pilot lights (my grandma's). Works great. Oven and broiler are match lighted. I hate electric ignition. Snap. snap. snap.
Commercial stoves are still pilot ignition IIRC.
Our first stove was a gas. The pilot went out, and my wife lit a match to relight it and the oven exploded - putting her in the hospital with bad burns on both arms and her face. So, it's been electric ever since. The current attack on gas is just a diversion.
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Most of my life I cooked on gas stoves. But about 25 years ago we replace our old gas stove with an electric. That's what the wife wanted at the time. So that's what I have. 
Honestly, I still prefer gas.
Honestly, I still prefer gas.
Only had two houses so far. R&R the electric stove with a gas stove. Electric ignition, but no problem during a power outage. Just use a butane camping lighter. I think induction cooking is great. The only drawback is the cost to repair, as a failure usually results in a meltdown. This from 40+ years of commercial appliance repair.
We have a electric stove, but gas heat, dryer and water heater. Until this year having these gas appliances was a real money saver.
Why are LEOs and security men always pictured holding their hands like that? Are they a feared of gettin' a swift kick in the you-know where?
In this particular case they should be a fearing.
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coltle6920
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A book called "The Naked Communist" written in the late 50's forewarned us of why we are where we are today.
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Same here - installed a professional range and hood in the last three houses I've owned as the first order or business, along with the propane tank. Refuse to cook on electric.
prairieviper
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Our homestead is all electric except for the propane tank used to run the generator during a power outage. Although I grew up with gas stoves and my wife and I's first home had a gas stove, I see no difference in the quality of cooking. Maybe those having problems with cooking on electric stoves says more about the cook or the stove manufacturer than the fuel that propels it.
gjgalligan
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A true craftsman doesn't blame his tools.
SC_Mike
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len917
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Gas !! Safer now more than ever and cooks better. You can cook and heat the house when there is a blackout.
All electric house when we bought it.
Put in a LP stand by generator in 2013. At that time I replaced the 50 gallon electric water heater with a LP tankless.
Win/win. Lower electric bill, I can take a shower while the wife does laundry.
She grew up with the electric stove, so she doesn't want a gas one anyway.
Electric baseboard heat is cheap to install, but not to use. And it's not efficient.
I'd be OK with replacing the baseboard heat with minisplits (heat pumps). Plus this would give me cooling capability as well.
The issue the government and the ant-fossil fuel people doesn't want to address is that we are not set up to replace gas fired furnaces and boilers with heat pumps or electric boilers. We don't have the grid capacity to handle the demand.
Don't even get me started about replacing ICE vehicles with all electric ones!
Plus, with the drive to shutter coal and gas fired power plants, and no desire to build new nuclear plants, the generating capacity isn't going to be there.
Leave it to the government and leftists to create a problem and then DEMAND something be done to solve it.
Put in a LP stand by generator in 2013. At that time I replaced the 50 gallon electric water heater with a LP tankless.
Win/win. Lower electric bill, I can take a shower while the wife does laundry.
She grew up with the electric stove, so she doesn't want a gas one anyway.
Electric baseboard heat is cheap to install, but not to use. And it's not efficient.
I'd be OK with replacing the baseboard heat with minisplits (heat pumps). Plus this would give me cooling capability as well.
The issue the government and the ant-fossil fuel people doesn't want to address is that we are not set up to replace gas fired furnaces and boilers with heat pumps or electric boilers. We don't have the grid capacity to handle the demand.
Don't even get me started about replacing ICE vehicles with all electric ones!
Plus, with the drive to shutter coal and gas fired power plants, and no desire to build new nuclear plants, the generating capacity isn't going to be there.
Leave it to the government and leftists to create a problem and then DEMAND something be done to solve it.
9mmPatriot
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It was not that long ago that there was a huge push for natueal gas everything.
Waiting for cold-fusion kegorators to become the norm.
Waiting for cold-fusion kegorators to become the norm.
