Gas or electric hob?

cw18

squirrelchops wrote: »

Gas hob definitely. I find the heat is better distributed and you can control it better.

Electric fan oven though.

In total agreement with this.

My parents went for this in the house they bought in the late 70's - so I may be partially swayed by the fact it's what I grew up with from my teens.

My first house had a free-standing gas cooker I bought from the previous owner -- hated the oven, but I wouldn't give up the gas hob to get an electric oven as I've always used the hob more......

Had the kitchen re-done at our last house, and I went for gas hob and electric fan oven.

Current house was a new build, and one of the ticks it got (that not all properties we looked at did) was that this was the combination installed by the builders as the 'basic' kitchen package

Butterfly_Brain

While I prefer a Gas Hob and electric convector oven I have not been able to have gas because the pipework is in the wrong place . I had my kitchen remodelled last year and couldn't have it moved without tearing up a concrete floor an extra expense that I couldn't afford so I cook by electric.
It is cheaper than gas now so maybe I was right.
I find that if you are cooking on an electric ring if you keep it low when bringing to the boil and turn it off 10 mins before the end , the food carries on cooking
using the residual heat on the ring and I have no problems an added bonus is that I don't have to pay for the last 10 mins cooking time.

EssexHebridean

If it helps any regarding the cost issue, we have a gas cooker and it is the only thing here that uses gas. It currently uses under £5 per month in fuel.

When we moved from our previous rented flat when we bought this place, the landlord kindly said we could take any appliances/furniture that we would find helpful as he intended to sell the place once we'd moved out. We gladly tok the bed, washer/dryer and also the oven, even though at the time there was no gas here. A good friend of mine and her Husband were moving into their first owned home at the same time, and they DID have gas, and were in need of a cooker, so they babysat it for us for a few years until they had their kitchen done and bought a new cooker.....let me tell you, I could not WAIT to get my gas cooker back!!!

daska

First choice was always gas until I encountered an induction hob. I only have one problem with them, that's if you have to 'unlock' the controls before you can adjust the heat. But other than that it's as responsive as gas and much easier to clean!

nesssie1702

Gas every time for my hob - it's so much easier to control than electric. We're out in the sticks, so no mains gas. It's a propane cylinder that we've got outside and the 47kg one has lasted us 20 months so far......

Saying that, it's an electric fan oven that I've got.

meanmarie

Have cooked on electric most of my life and liked it ....you acclimatise to using the residual heat and turning things off earlier. Felt that I wanted a 'wok'burner when we redid kitchen last September, so was delighted when I found a 4 burner hob, one of which is a wok burner...in use not so pleased, as I discovered too late that for my large burner I sacrificed a 'simmer' burner, cannot simmer anything so end up cooking anything that needs long slow cooking in the oven...bah! Can't afford to change it after only five months, so am now facing buying a slow cooker....another 'gadget' that I have no storage or worktop space for...double bah! So will definitely be going for an induction hob whenever I replace the current one!

Marie

moodydonkey

Oh how much do I miss my gas hob, after a year in the sticks with no gas I am still burning my chopping board and leaving tea towels on my totally hateful electric one.

I can however after lots of practise do a decent fried egg on it!

As another poster pointed out the only good thing about it is the residual heat but I want on when I say on and off when I say off, not my hob doing something about that request when it decides to get round to it.

catkins

I have an electric oven and gas hob. I hate electric hobs - they are so difficult to control. They seem to take forever to heat up but then take ages to cool down.

Stayed in a cottage last year that had an electric hob and I cursed it like mad. In future I will try and get a cottage with a gas hob

Paulie'sGirl

Hiya,

Another gas hob, electric fan oven girl. The house we bought 18 months ago came with an electric hob, I can't wait to be rid of it. There's less control, it stays hot, it takes an age to warm up....

PGxx

ivylinn

scimoon wrote: »

Ive had my induction hob for about 8 yrs now before that a gas hob, and my induction was the best buy ever, it takes just about 10 seconds to heat up a pan of water, will respond from boil to simmer in a second, never gets hot on top even when cooking things, so great for when the children were young.
Long live induction:beer:

:T I couldn't go back to gas or an ordinary electric hob.