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From: seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Gas vs. electric
Message-ID: <605@mako.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Feb-85 15:27:14 EST
Article-I.D.: mako.605
Posted: Sun Feb 24 15:27:14 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Feb-85 11:50:17 EST
References: <143@magic.ARPA> <3403@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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Summary: Gas stoves are a disaster

In article <3403@alice.UUCP> jj@alice.UUCP (the bewildered teddy bear) writes:
>
>I should know better than to open my mouth, but here goes.
>
>I think the best cooktop is gas.  A GOOD electric range offers more
>maximum heat, less minimum, and it also can be regulated just as finely
>as the gas stove,

Just as finely? much *more* finely!  Gas stoves have two speeds:
OFF and BURN.  Nothing inbetween.  Electric stoves let you get the
same temperature two days in a row.  The better ones are continiously
variable.  Even the ones with descrete settings have much better
control than any gas stove.

> HOWEVER you can't use a wok,

sure you can.

> and you also have to get used to the delay due to thermal mass,
> i.e. you have to watch things more closely.

Most decent cookware is going to have significant thermal mass.
Yes woks are an exception. (and I have seen heavy cast woks, so...)

>The best oven is by far and away electric. Likewise for broiler.  I've done
>a lot of baking, and I'll take the electric every time.  

Gas broilers are a joke.

Another point to consider in oven selection is that the self-cleaning
ones have more insulation, which helps them bake better.

Something most people don't think about is that gas stoves create
lots of nice carbon monoxide for you to breath.  yum!  And they
use up oxygen.  Something to consider with today's tightly sealed
houses.

Gas belongs in furnaces and water heaters, not in stoves.

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