yes, I would. prefer it actually.

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Anonymous wrote:No Gas is a deal breaker for me. I have avoided many houses just because they don't offer gas cooktop. It is not easy to cook properly with Electric cooktop. Breads are not great when cooked on electric and many recipes even not feasible with Electric cooktop. The Gas cooktop is very easy to cook any kind of the food in the world. I would go last mile to keep house with Gas cooktop.

When this question was posted 10+ years ago, I'd have said yes, it's a dealbreaker. Now I'm thinking that as our various gas appliances and boiler break, I'm ready to switch to all-electric and geothermal. I see not everyone agrees, though.

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no no no. If you are a cook, all-electric is a deal killer.

Not true. At all. I've managed just fine.

We lived in an all electric house for 10 years. I thought I would miss having a gas stove, but I didn't, at all. Our electric heat pump and furnace were just fine, same with the hot water heater. In fact, I preferred the electric hot water heater. Our current one is gas and it SUCKS.

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Anonymous wrote:No Gas is a deal breaker for me. I have avoided many houses just because they don't offer gas cooktop. It is not easy to cook properly with Electric cooktop. Breads are not great when cooked on electric and many recipes even not feasible with Electric cooktop. The Gas cooktop is very easy to cook any kind of the food in the world. I would go last mile to keep house with Gas cooktop.

When this question was posted 10+ years ago, I'd have said yes, it's a dealbreaker. Now I'm thinking that as our various gas appliances and boiler break, I'm ready to switch to all-electric and geothermal. I see not everyone agrees, though.

https://wapo.st/3FZFTMS

no no no. If you are a cook, all-electric is a deal killer.

I am a cook, actually. My current range is about two years old, so I won't be switching to induction anytime soon (the greenest appliance is the one you already own, unless it's a refrigerator more than a decade old), but if professional chefs can cope, so can I.

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Anonymous wrote:No Gas is a deal breaker for me. I have avoided many houses just because they don't offer gas cooktop. It is not easy to cook properly with Electric cooktop. Breads are not great when cooked on electric and many recipes even not feasible with Electric cooktop. The Gas cooktop is very easy to cook any kind of the food in the world. I would go last mile to keep house with Gas cooktop.

When this question was posted 10+ years ago, I'd have said yes, it's a dealbreaker. Now I'm thinking that as our various gas appliances and boiler break, I'm ready to switch to all-electric and geothermal. I see not everyone agrees, though.

https://wapo.st/3FZFTMS

no no no. If you are a cook, all-electric is a deal killer.

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Anonymous wrote:This forum is completely clueless about the impact of fossil energy ressources to the environment (global warming). We replaced our gas heating and heat with geothermal energy. European countries support the exit out of fossil fuels. In some countries it's even forbidden to install an new oil or gas heating system. People here are completely ignorant.

I'm surprised I had to scroll so far to see this point being made.

Given that this post started 10 years ago, we shouldn't be surprised by the early responses. When I first started reading, I too was shocked that it seemed that no one was paying attention to the environmental impacts and kept mentioning how awful electric stoves were and no one was considering induction. So I looked at the date and saw someone resurrected this from 10 years ago. We are down to just a gas water heater in our house, after switching to an induction stove and heat pump from radiators.

Anonymous wrote:only problem that I see - power outages

My gas does not work when the power is out. When a house is heated by gas it takes electricity to blow that heat around. nearly All modern stoves have a electronic pilot light due to safty concerns. If your stove is very very old or if you have very very expensive french oven then your stove won't work by design when the power is out.

I do have gas and I like it, my only concern if my house were all electric is a house can be hard to heat when it gets really cold. I do have a cabin in the blue ridge and we have propane, but that is crazy expensive so we have electric heat. We do have a wood pellett stove, as the electric is not adequate when the temps drop very low. That stove lets out a TON of heat and heats the entire house. Might not be an issue these days here with global warming. WE do have a very spoiled feature, we have a gas line run out to our grill and never have to get propane tanks. I absolutly love that, but this is not a necessary luxury.

As far as cooking that's NBD, you can always buy an induction range. Those are great! My next range will be induction and we will rip out our gas.

Anonymous wrote:No Gas is a deal breaker for me. I have avoided many houses just because they don't offer gas cooktop. It is not easy to cook properly with Electric cooktop. Breads are not great when cooked on electric and many recipes even not feasible with Electric cooktop. The Gas cooktop is very easy to cook any kind of the food in the world. I would go last mile to keep house with Gas cooktop.

When this question was posted 10+ years ago, I'd have said yes, it's a dealbreaker. Now I'm thinking that as our various gas appliances and boiler break, I'm ready to switch to all-electric and geothermal. I see not everyone agrees, though.

https://wapo.st/3FZFTMS

Anonymous wrote:This forum is completely clueless about the impact of fossil energy ressources to the environment (global warming). We replaced our gas heating and heat with geothermal energy. European countries support the exit out of fossil fuels. In some countries it's even forbidden to install an new oil or gas heating system. People here are completely ignorant.

I'm surprised I had to scroll so far to see this point being made.

Anonymous wrote:No Gas is a deal breaker for me. I have avoided many houses just because they don't offer gas cooktop. It is not easy to cook properly with Electric cooktop. Breads are not great when cooked on electric and many recipes even not feasible with Electric cooktop. The Gas cooktop is very easy to cook any kind of the food in the world. I would go last mile to keep house with Gas cooktop.

Why did you resurrect a thread from 2013 to say this?

Seeing as gas is bad for your health, yes. Get an induction stove, that's the only thing that matters.

Get solar and some back-up batteries and there is power for the fridge and a few outlets that will still run in the event of an outage.

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Anonymous wrote:only problem that I see - power outages

But the good part about electric, is no risks related to the gas leaks, and explosions.

yeah,
but when I can't get my first cup of coffee in the morning and have to drive to the nearest Starbucks half asleep - last think I care is gas explosion
Seriously, there are risk everywhere, so gas in the house just one of them

At first, I was thinking, whoa, yeah, that would be a huge problem if we switched from gas, but then I realized my coffee grinder needs electricity anyway, so I guess I'd be just as stuck for coffee in a power outage even if though I can still boil water.

You can get solar panels and a gas generator.

Anonymous wrote:A house we're considering is all electric. I would definitely prefer a gas stove, gas fireplace, and gas heat, but would this be a deal breaker? We've never lived in an all-electric house so I don't know how big a deal it is.

No. Can't depend on just one source.