gas or electric cooker?

jennifer56

My gas cooker is coming to the end of its usefull life (it needs cleaned:eek:) and I am going to replace it.

The thing is, with what? Do I get another gas cooker or do I get an electric cooker?

All the wiring is in place for an electric cooker so I don't need to get the house rewired or anything like that.

In fact it boils down to what is more economic to use, gas or electric? or would the cost difference be the same?

I used to have an electric cooker when I first got married (no gas ) and always wanted to go back to a gas cooker as we had one when I was growing up, so got a gas cooker in this house because it had gas and we left the electric cooker in our old house when we sold it.

I don't really do all that much cooking now, there is only 2 of us, but with all this new legislation coming out about gas and ventilation, our kitchen is cold because of the the dirty great big ventilation hole for our heating.

We used to not bother closing the kitchen door, it opens into our lounge, now we have to.

I just wonder if I would have to put another hole in our outside wall at some time in the future.

The only good side to having a gas cooker is that unlike the gas heating you can put it on and get heat during a power cut:T although you need a match to light the gas rings:rotfl:

So what are the pros and cons between gas and electric cookers?

Jennifer

Andy_WSM

jennifer56 wrote: »

I don't really do all that much cooking now, there is only 2 of us,

There isn't a lot of money to be saved on fuel then, so I'd be looking at the cheapest option to buy (initial outlay) - which I think is probably an electric oven.

simongregson

In my experience gas ovens and hobs break less. However my MIL swears that electric is best for baking.

Personally I'd rather have an electric oven and gas hobs.

It's swings and roundabouts I guess

markharding557

I would go with gas cheaper to run.
heat produced from electricity costs three times more than gas unless you cook on e7

flower24

I'm not sure, but don't get a cheap one we have got the cheapest electric oven possible and it is carp! Wishing we got gas now. We can only use one shelf at a time in the oven so if we're being lazy and having pizzas or something for tea we have to eat seperately :mad: cheap though we only use £3/4 electric a week.