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

[sunlizzard.livejournal.com]

Whoa! Swappable model? Not knowing that was even possible, I've never bothered to poke around under the thing to see if it's modular. How kewl that would be! I will check.

Not that they're likely to still be made, come to think of it. Rats. For a moment there... *beams dreamily*

One of these days, I'll just get a new 4-burner unit. It doesn't appear to be set up for both gas and electric, as one sometimes sees, but even if it's only electric, I could live with it. Live better, in fact, then doing the current "burner shuffle."