[Closed] What's the pros and cons of a gas V electric hobs

Why will it be a nightmare if water over spills?

Are they really not designed for such an eventuality?

Gas is so much better to cook on imho. You get a better spread of intense heat for stuff like Woks and its easily 'turn off and onable' unlike electric which takes forever to do anything.

Also when I was younger, trying to do hot knives on electric cookers was an excercise in disappointment... 😉

Electric hob has no redeeming features

Gas, for controllability.

And, y'know, hot knives, natch

Get wi da kidz - induction is where it's at!

Controlability of gas without the clunky looking kit.

Pah, hobs don't matter - it's the [b]grill[/b] where you need gas.

gas, no contest

induction FTW

I put 2 [1 wasn't enough] induction hobs in our kitchen last Summer as they are "so much cleaner etc"
I've now been asked to take them out and get a gas range back in.

Gas, it really is the only way if you enjoy cooking, rather than just cooking to survive.

Electric hobs are *ing *!!! It really is that simple 😀

Having said that, could you not install an open spit? Just for the manliness factor?

Gas? Pffft. Haven't you lot built an outside pizza/bread oven yet?

interested to hear from Jota etc who have used induction why you want to go back to gas?

Having used both i prefer induction and think its safer too

and lets be clear old school electric are crap, everyone agrees, this is induction or gas

interested to hear from Jota etc who have used induction why you want to go back to gas?

I don't do he cooking but she tells me that she can't control the electric to the degree she can the gas, ie instant response

Electric hobs are awful.

'Oh this is up a bit high, I'll just turn it down a tad - oh nothing's happening, oh there's still nothing happening, [ten minutes later], oh now it's starting to turn down slightly, oh no it's pretty much off, I'd best turn it back up [wait another ten minutes]. Repeat ad infinitum.

I've used induction too and I still much prefer gas.

and lets be clear old school electric are crap, everyone agrees, this is induction or gas

The thing is, induction is not so very different from old school electric. The delay is still there, it's just smaller. When did you last see an induction hob in a commercial kitchen?

Induction hobs (not the crappy old electric hobs) are great. They are seemingly just as quick and responsive as gas, safer, easier to clean, more efficient and imo look smarter. There are a couple of downsides. You can't flambe/ignite the contents of the pan from the direct flame in the same way as you can with gas (Good excuse to buy a blow torch!) and your pans must be ferrous (all of them). As for the cleaning of the induction hob/glass top, just use one of those paint removers - the stanley blade type. HTH

ARACER - We install Induction into a lot of commercial kitchens.

gas is better to control and induction hobs dont respond as quickly , stay hot for ages after you switch them off and are a bugger to clean

I have electric. It's rubbish. Get gas.

The only real weakness with gas is getting a low heat for stews. I use a diffuser.

Induction hobs (not the crappy old electric hobs) are great. [b]They are seemingly just as quick and responsive as gas[/b], safer, easier to clean, more efficient and imo look smarter.

Unless they've improved dramatically in the last couple of years that's just not true.

Gas and a **** off big central wok ring.

😈

Gas hob, electric oven. I would second @ransos in that on our 6 ring cooker it's impossible to get a super low heat on all but 1 of the rings. As such for slow cook stews etc I use the oven.

The only reason you'd have electric hob is because mains gas isn't available and you don't want a calor gas tank.

Its true when I use mine.

Induction all the way, just don't be sidetracked by things like ceramic electric hobs which look similar but are as slow as a slow thing

We have an induction hob in the kitchen at work and it is pants, everyone agrees. Apart from teh lack of control it also turns itself off if there is slightest bit of boil over, leaving you to wipe the surface before you can turn it on again.

I wouldn't change from gas, it just works and is simple.

I have electric. It's rubbish. Get gas.

Gas or induction.

My last post was on the "do drugs make you stupid" thread

In these safety conscious days it's still legal to have a gas hob without a flame failure device

Flame blows out, gas continues to flow, kaboom

Dearer ones do have that feature and just bought a new hob for that very reason

Must be law for rented accomodation, wondered why when I asked which hobs had the device the salesman asked if I was a landlord (no i'm not)

So ok to blow yourself up as an owner occupier, but not your tenants

In these safety conscious days it's still legal to have a gas hob without a flame failure device

I think you can have what you want as long as it's already fitted - they can hardly come round and repo anything

gas = fire.
/case closed

I think you can have what you want as long as it's already fitted - they can hardly come round and repo anything

Think that's what I said as in you can still purchase them

Gas Hobs also have to be installed by a CORGI registered engineer using rigid pipe with shut off valve
Mine is still hooked up with a flexible pipe, said it was ok in the instructions, but only if it didn't pass anything hot like the oven

There again I'm not a landlord so who cares 🙂

Pah, hobs don't matter - it's the grill where you need gas.

This. I've got an old-style electric hob and you can cook anything on it, you just need to anticipate a bit more. But the lack of grill is a pain.

gas is better to control and induction hobs dont respond as quickly , [b]stay hot for ages after you switch them off[/b] and are a bugger to clean

Are you sure you're talking about induction? One of the advantages of induction is that the heat is generated in the pan, not the hob, so the hob only heats up due to conduction back from the pan, which is generally very little. Certainly much better than gas in this respect.

Induction responds just as quickly as gas (although usually the controls on the hob are fiddly up/down buttons rather than simple knobs). I find a flat surface quicker and easier to clean than a gas hob, and as the area around the pans stays much cooler, spillages don't get welded on quite as firmly as with gas - and are easier to clean as you're going along anyway.

We've just temporarily switched from gas to electric while the kitchen is rebuilt. Christ on a bike - I'd forgotten just how crap electric is for control. I've not used an induction but if it's anything less than as fast as gas for temperature adjustment I wouldn't consider it.

Try poaching an egg on electric.

I've used both, we currently have an induction. To be honest, the difference doesn't bother me that much to spend up for a gas installation. I overboiled a pot of tablet onto my induction hob a while back, it came off without a trace with relatively little effort. Cleaning that off a gas hob would have been fun......

Cheers for the responses.

Just to clarify i'm interested in gas V [i]induction[/i] as i know that [i]electric[/i] is painstaking.