G vs E

[stoutfellow]

Gas vs. Electricity, that is.

I understand that, for a stovetop, electricity has advantages over gas. There are the obvious safety issues (though, of course, electricity isn't completely safe either); also, at least at present, gas is considerably more expensive than electricity.

Still, I occasionally wish for a gas range. The big advantage of gas over electricity, here, is fineness of control. With an electric burner, you do not control the temperature directly; you control the rate of energy flow into the burner, which (over time) affects its temperature, which (over time) affects the temperature of the thing being cooked. With a gas burner, your control over the temperature is more direct, and more immediately visible. I miss that kind of control.

But there's another issue. If you have a gas stove, and you decide to make scrambled eggs and cheese for lunch, and you put the skillet on the front burner, and you put a lump of butter into the skillet, and you turn on the back burner...

you will not spend five minutes waiting for the butter to melt before realizing your mistake.

Ratznfratzl stove.

Yes, I know it was my fault.
Yes, I know I'm grumbling a lot lately.
I'll get over it eventually.

Comments

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

Although I too, prefer gas to electric, what I really yearn for is one of those entirely flat cooking surfaces, which can, for all I care, be heated by squirrels waving tiny-little candelabra about. But then, I've a Thing about cleaning :-)

On the plus side of electric, if you accidently turn the gas on without engaging the little clicky-lighter-thinggummy (because it is an old stove) and then some time later turn on the burner next to it, you don't remove your eyebrows and most of your hair in the subsequent fireball.

Just sayin', that's all.