Electric cooktops - please enlighten me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:running a new gas line to the street? WTF?? i've never heard anyone say they weren't buying a house because it didn't have a gas stove. Silly.

I would likely not consider a house that didn't have gas in this area, given the ubiquity of neighborhoods with gas. If I did it would certainly come with a significant discount. As one PP suggested, people in towns where gas isn't prevalent often have home-sized propane tanks. That might be an alternative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:running a new gas line to the street? WTF?? i've never heard anyone say they weren't buying a house because it didn't have a gas stove. Silly.

I would likely not consider a house that didn't have gas in this area, given the ubiquity of neighborhoods with gas. If I did it would certainly come with a significant discount. As one PP suggested, people in towns where gas isn't prevalent often have home-sized propane tanks. That might be an alternative.

+1 I wouldn't buy a house without gas in the kitchen let alone to the neighborhood but I am used to a certain price point.

[Anonymous]

Silly nonsense. People who would actually not buy a house b/c the stove is electric. I bet these are the same people with sparkly clean Vikings. You'll be fine with electric and without induction and I'm a chef.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Silly nonsense. People who would actually not buy a house b/c the stove is electric. I bet these are the same people with sparkly clean Vikings. You'll be fine with electric and without induction and I'm a chef.

what kind of chef

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Huh. Gas stove and a bathtub are my two dealbreakers. I wouldn't even rent in a place without those.

[Anonymous]

People think they like gas because they heard that other people do, and so it makes them feel superior. Who cares. Both heat up your food. Electric boils water faster. Someday gas will be outdated again, just as it was in the 80s-90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People think they like gas because they heard that other people do, and so it makes them feel superior. Who cares. Both heat up your food. Electric boils water faster. Someday gas will be outdated again, just as it was in the 80s-90s.

Disagree. I've cooked with electric for decades. My husband and I just hate it. We're buying a house with gas and we can't wait. Electric stove wasn't a total deal breaker in our new house search, but it was really up there. If the house didn't have gas, it really had to have been otherwise perfect and a huge bargain for us to seriously consider it.

[Anonymous]

I have a 15 year old GE profile glass cooktop. I clean it with toothpaste. The thing won't die and the temperature settings work perfectly. I don't understand the comment about rice catching fire when spilled.

My children cook [live here and home for summer from college]. Watching one of my son's make fried rice and another an omelette immediately erased my thoughts on getting a cute stainless gas stove.

Then we have them flopping pancake batter and cooking bacon for friends...

cleaning - like wiping a mirror with windex only use water and toothpaste after getting off food particles with soapy rag

gas -see link
http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-a-Gas-Stove-Clean

They are all home and it took me 2 minutes to clean up pasta sauce residue after their clean-up.

My plan is to get new counters and the gas stove when the house hits the market- no one will touch them but me - plywood on an island over the sellable granite or marble!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 15 year old GE profile glass cooktop. I clean it with toothpaste. The thing won't die and the temperature settings work perfectly. I don't understand the comment about rice catching fire when spilled.

My children cook [live here and home for summer from college]. Watching one of my son's make fried rice and another an omelette immediately erased my thoughts on getting a cute stainless gas stove.

Then we have them flopping pancake batter and cooking bacon for friends...

cleaning - like wiping a mirror with windex only use water and toothpaste after getting off food particles with soapy rag

gas -see link
http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-a-Gas-Stove-Clean

They are all home and it took me 2 minutes to clean up pasta sauce residue after their clean-up.

My plan is to get new counters and the gas stove when the house hits the market- no one will touch them but me - plywood on an island over the sellable granite or marble!

Thats the most disgusting stove I have seen. Who doesn't clean up after every cooking gross.

[Anonymous]

I have one of those tiny 1950s brick homes in Alexandria that when the kitchen was redone in the 1970s they put an electric (WHITE!) glass top. It was awful.

We redid the kitchen and ran a gas line (in the house, not on the street - how much would that cost?) and put in a gas stove.

The newer gas stoves are even better than the ones I grew up with - boil water faster, cook with even temps, etc.

I cook 6 nights a week and take food quite seriously. Electric is survivable but not idea. I would be curious about induction though - which might be better than gas, I just don't know.