Cookers - Gas or Electric?

[Kingy]

As title, I'm looking at buying an oven, as my brother has decided he wants a double oven, and I hadn't realised the amount of choice available in terms of fuel. We've got all Gas atm, but the one I'm looking at is an Electric oven, with a Gas Hob.

Which is best and why?

 

[K.C. Leblanc]

I've always found gas hobs best for most things, they're much more responsive then electric. I always find with electric (particularly solid metal hotplates) that you have to be able to see into the future to use them.

As for ovens electric fan ovens heat up quickly have a much more even temperature then any other sort.

 

[doopydug]

Fan assisted electric oven gives a more even and thorough cook which is why you often have to reduce cooking times.

Dual fuel (gas hob/elec oven) is by far the most popular choice because of this and as a result, its very rare to find manufacturers producing gas ovens these days.

Also, if you have a power outage, you can still have hot food and likewise if you have a gas problem

 

[Glaucus]

electric fan assisted double oven and gas hob. accept no substitutes.
I can't understand why in this day and age, people still by electric hob.

 

[james.miller]

As title, I'm looking at buying an oven, as my brother has decided he wants a double oven, and I hadn't realised the amount of choice available in terms of fuel. We've got all Gas atm, but the one I'm looking at is an Electric oven, with a Gas Hob.

Which is best and why?

from what ive been reading over the past few weeks, electric oven (fan assisted) + gan hob is the best.


electric assisted ovens are very efficiant and because of the fan have no hot or cold spots and you generally cook at a lower tempreature - 2 gas marks lower in general according to the blurb that came with my Belling all-electric oven.

electric ceramic hobs tend to be (quite a bit) slower though. induction hobs are apparently a lot better but afaik more expensive too, and both require the use of a decent set of flat-based pans. gas hobs cook quicker and easier and you can vary the temperature much quicker.

electric fan assisted double oven and gas hob. accept no substitutes.

unless you have no provisions for a gas cooker, as i found

 

[Glaucus]

unless you have no provisions for a gas cooker, as i found

surely you have gas in the house? if so spend the money and get it to the right spot.

I hate my electric hob with a passion, stupid landlord.

 

[james.miller]

yeah i have gas, just not in the kitchen lol. i hate my landlord to, but hey thats the council for you lol. tbh i just took the easy way out and got an all-electric. my hobs arent bad at all really, but i did have to get a new set of pans for it

 

[Kristoph]

Yeah, both student places I've lived in have had electric hobs.

Stupid...

Gas Hob / Fan assisted electric oven > all.

 

[Burnsy2023]

electric fan assisted double oven and gas hob. accept no substitutes.
I can't understand why in this day and age, people still by electric hob.

I would agree with you except for the fact that I've recently used both halogen and induction electric hobs and they're actually worth considering.

Electric fan oven most defiantly though.

Burnsy

 

[Glaucus]

I would agree with you except for the fact that I've recently used both halogen and induction electric hobs and they're actually worth considering.

Electric fan oven most defiantly though.

Burnsy

Haven't tried them. But surely there much more expensive than gas and probably have slightly less control.

 

[Burnsy2023]

Haven't tried them. But surely there much more expensive than gas and probably have slightly less control.

Not sure about the cost, but the control is defiantly there and they have the advantage of being a lot easier to clean, especially the halogen ones.

Edit: IIRC the induction ones are really efficient, but as to how that compares to gas I'm not sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_cooker

Burnsy

 

[Grimley]

Get Gas. That way you can cook if & when there's a power cut.

 

[Muban]

electric fan assisted double oven and gas hob. accept no substitutes.

Agreed, if you are on mains gas this would be my preference.

I can't understand why in this day and age, people still by electric hob.

Because in this day and age there are still a few million homes which are not on mains gas.

 

[Glaucus]

Because in this day and age there are still a few million homes which are not on mains gas.

I can't imagine there's any street without gas (apart from isolated houses), it's just people haven't paid to get it connected.

 

[Muban]

I can't imagine there's any street without gas (apart from isolated houses), it's just people haven't paid to get it connected.

Well there are whole villages up here that aren't on mains gas. I guess it depends on where you live.

 

[james.miller]

can we just agree that electric oven/ gas hobs are the best?

 

[Muban]

can we just agree that electric oven/ gas hobs are the best?

We already have

 

[snowdog]

I live in a medium ish town ( 60 k people) and my whole neighberhood has no gas,

I prefer electric now, I don't like the idea of gas/fire/boilers/whatever in my house. Keramic / halogen cookers f t w .


But if you have gas, go for gas, it's cheaper than the elec used for cooking.

Get Gas. That way you can cook if & when there's a power cut.

In you live in a decent place you won't get a power cut, in the last 15 years we've lived here we only had one power cut, announced before it happened, because they needed to work on the elec or something for 5 hours.

 

[singist]

Induction all the baby! you'll never look back.

More controlable than gas; mine has a timer for each hotplate and each hotplate can be set to within a few degrees and the heat drops the same as gas when turned off/down.

I can almost put my hand on the hotplate after I've taken off the saucepan too.


Well worth looking at as they are far more efficient than either electric or gas.

Quite expensive and all your cookware has to be magnetic too but wouldn't use anything else now.

Mine's made by De Dietrich (French), has a 4 hotplate hob and a fan oven than can be set to clean itself.

 

[RetiredGreyFox]

I tested Gas & Electric hobs in a laboratory for 27 years and sent all the results around the world and to magazines such as WHICH.

At one time gas was much better than electrics for control but designers got their heads together and made hobs that were just as controllable.
There even used to be an advert that went 'Cook, cook , cook, cookability, thats the beauty of gas' but electric caught up with gas.
Please check out one of my spec sheets : C60GTX

If you look at the 2nd page you will see where it says 'Controls on Max for 15 mins or when boiling' and then 'Turn down to simmer'.
This was a test where you turned on full, waited up to 15 mins for the pan of water to boil and then turn the control down so the water didn't boil over.
Every gas & electric cooker was able to turn down immediately without a boil over meaning that both gas & electric were just as controllable.
As you can see this test was done 30 times over a period of 30 days.
The only time when they did boil over was when there was something wrong with the control.
People will still argue to death that gas is more controllable than electric but it is BS.

(No doubt there are some very cheap makes out there that aren't controllable)